Here’s a look at this weekend’s upcoming events. Join the BloomBars Facebook page to receive advance invites and join our community of BloomBars supporters!

Friday:

• noon:30 and Via Motive – 8:00 pm.

Saturday:

• Yoga at 10:00 am – 11:00 am
• Columbia Heights Community MarketPlace: Featuring Capoeria at 11:00 am, and freestylers & percussion at 12 pm.

Sunday:

• Pilates at 10:00 am – 11:00 am
• Volunteer Orientation, 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Please email nilanga@bloombars.com if you’d like to attend.
• African Drumming Class & Drum Circle at 1:00 – 2:00 pm.
• Note: No “Seed the Sound” on 8/22, while our host, Terrence Cunningham, is in South Africa.

Join us for some morning yoga to start your weekend right. Be at BloomBars, ready for some sun salutations, every Saturday at 10 am!

Looking for a way to start your morning off right and get in better shape?

BloomBars offers Yoga and Pilates classes every weekend. The best part? You don’t have to sign up for a gym membership and you still get small, personal classes with a certified expert!

Kethia Clairvoyant, BloomBars’ Certified Pilates and Yoga Instructor, is originally from Haiti and came to D.C. in 1996 to attend Georgetown University.

An ashtanga yoga practitioner since 2003, she developed an appreciation for mind-body centered fitness. She then also became a regular Pilates student and enthusiast in 2004, thus leading her to becoming an instructor of both

disciplines in 2006 through pHi Pilates and YogaFit.

She highly praises Pilates for its emphasis on functional movement and strengthening of the entire torso with intense concentration on the lower, intrinsic abdominal muscles.

By teaching and sharing yoga with others, Kethia sees and feels students, both novice and experienced, slowly begin to focus not only on the challenging postures but on initiating their movements with their breath. They begin to rediscover how to be centered and present, and reap some of yoga’s endless mental and physical therapeutic benefits.

• Yoga: Every Saturday at 10:00 am
• Pilates: Every Sunday at 10:00 am
• Mats: BloomBars provides mats; feel free to bring your own if you have one!
• Suggested Donation: $10

Live Classical Musicians + Licensed Massage Therapists = Bliss.

Our first ever “Massage by Mozart” session is this Tuesday at 8:00 pm!

Stop by BloomBars to release your built-up stress on the first Tuesday of every month. Relax as a licensed massage therapist works out those knots in brief seated massage sessions.

Let the soothing sounds of classical music, played by esteemed classical musicians from the Capital City Symphony, melt away your remaining troubles.

Kim Washington is leading the (seated) massage therapy team. When she’s not hosting “Soul Conversations” on WPFW-FM or “Joe’s Place” on WHUR-FM, she healing people through her gift of massage therapy. Kimberly Washington is a dynamic therapist who incorporates a balanced approach to bodywork, giving a massage that leaves her clients feeling relaxed as well as renewed.

We’re looking for more therapists with seated massage tables, and talented classical musicians. If you, or someone you know, is interested, please contact us at: info@BloomBars.com

• Date: Every First Tuesday of the month, starting Tuesday, July 6th.
• Time: 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
• Suggested Donation: Varies depending on length of massage.

Come join veteran yoga instructor Marcia Greene. Suggested Donation: $5 – $10 (Free for BloomBars volunteers). Yoga mats available.

Marcia’s practice is grounded in Hatha yoga in the Sivananda tradition:

HATHA: Hatha is a very general term that encompasses many of the physical types of yoga. Generally, if a class is described as Hatha style, it is likely to be slow-paced and gentle and provide a good introduction to the basic yoga poses. SIVANANDA: Sivananda yoga is based upon five principles:

1. Proper exercise (Asana, focusing on 12 poses in particular)

2. Proper breathing (Pranayama)

3. Proper relaxation (Savasana)

4. Proper diet (Vegetarian)

5. Positive thinking (Vedanta) and meditation (Dhyana)

Her practice will offer instruction on the First 3 principles – Asana, Pranayama & Savasana. Marcia has completed her training and accumulated the required teaching hours pursuant to the standards of the Yoga Alliance for status as a Senior/Advanced Registered Yoga Teacher (“RYT”), known in the yoga world as a “Yoga Acharya.”

Some yoga thoughts to which she subscribes:

“The primary benefits of yoga are increased strength and flexibility of both body and mind, as well as an increased sense of focus and clarity.”

“Yoga philosophy teaches that we are allocated only a certain number of breaths between our first inhalation at birth and our last exhalation at death. So the more slowly you draw each breath, the longer – and calmer – you will live.”