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Sangeeta Vallabhan

Sangeeta Vallabhan’s All-Access Monthly

Sangeeta’s classes begin with philosophy structured for you to get the most out of your practice. The themes are chosen to be relevant to the students and to provide a point of comfortable and challenging  inquiry. A well balanced vinyasa practice will follow, and there is always ample time for deep rest and a calm conclusion to practice.

Included in your membership:

2 Live Classes Per Week
  • 7 day replays for all live classes
  • Classes are typically held twice per week on Tuesdays, 8-9am and Thursdays, 12-1pm EST
  • Live class times subject to change based on your teacher’s schedule and availability
Monthly themes
  • January | ahimsa

Ahimsa means non harming. It's original meaning of not harming has a disruptive quality to it. As a practice, the practitioner is working towards disrupting harm in as many ways as possible. Within their own life, the beings in their life and in their community.

  • February | pranayama

Pranayama practices more focus on the inhales and exhales, and sometimes breath retention. This kind of focused breath work can slow us down and sometimes help stimulate the rest and digest signals in our body. Other practices can be quite challenging and involve a lot of control.

  • March | discernment

Discernment is important within a yoga practice. Paying careful attention to who you study with, what you do in your practice and how it affects you. Discernment can allow us to be aware when something is worthwhile or not.

  • April | svadhyaya

Svadhyaya involves studying yoga philosophy and scripture, and noticing the ways it can illuminate your life. As we move through different experiences and times in our lives, our level of maturity and engagement with the teachings will influence how we see things.

  • May | savasana

Savasana allows for stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system. The part of your nervous system that signals rest and digestion. The same part that allows you to feel calm, rested and that your practice felt restorative.

  • June | action

Yoga is action. This might conjure up an image of a challenging pose or a hard class. But no. This is about constantly doing things to challenge norms, especially unjust ones. To challenge others by not being afraid to speak up.

  • July | revolution
A yoga practice is about a revolution. A personal one. That revolution enables us to serve what needs to change or evolve in our world and our community. It keeps us energized, strong and clear.

  • Sangeeta Vallabhan Standard Membership

    $75.00 / month
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  • Sangeeta Vallabhan Community Membership

    $50.00 / month
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About tiered pricing:

We believe in honoring the value of teaching and offering a practice that is accessible. Our tiered pricing system is self-determined. In deciding which price feels most appropriate to you, consider your social location (proximity to power and privilege), so that we can collectively move towards equity. If you are relatively stable financially, please pay the standard price. If you need to pay less for any reason, we encourage you to pay the community price.

Sangeeta Vallabhan

ERYT

A solid commitment to diversity, anti-racism, quality teaching and finding a path forward regarding cultural appropriation is the reason I joined The Connective. This cohort of movement professionals are caring, passionate and hardworking; they are the reason I stay. It’s a special thing to work with a group of teachers who are truly united in their values. I believe it is what keeps all our fires lit.

I’ve been teaching since 2003, and after some traumatic experiences, my teaching moved in a direction of being more understanding and trauma informed. Everyone experiences trauma, and everyone responds differently. It goes without saying there is trauma in the room of any group class. I wanted my teaching to gain the depth that is necessary to truly be a sensitive and empathetic teacher. Teachers take many forms, and I’ve been lucky to have had some skilled gems guide my path.

My classes are vinyasa practices, with an emphasis on breath and philosophy. Monthly themes are set up to give the students inspiration to work with as they move and breathe. As a practitioner, I’ve always found the most moving practices include much more than asana. I aim to offer that to my students, even as we interact virtually. To deal with the chaos of the world, we wind down for at least ten minutes at the end of each class.

(Photo credit: Marguerite Seger)

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It’s a good day to hear a discussion on Anti Cap It’s a good day to hear a discussion on Anti Capitalist, Anti Racist Yoga with Avita Bansee and @francescacervero on the @thementorsessions podcast. 🎧

Thank you Avita for sharing your brilliance, and Francesca for the compelling interview questions.

Head over to @thementorsessions or tap the link in our bio @theconnectivecoop for a listen.

#antiracist #anticapitalist #anticapitalism #antiracistyoga #cooperativebusiness #workerowned
TOMORROW you’re invited to join us for a free co TOMORROW you’re invited to join us for a free community class with @bex.naj.yoga
 
What’s a pelvis anyway?

Your 3D Pelvis
On Zoom 
Saturday, June 4th
1-2:15pm EST
48-hour replay available if you can’t attend live
 
Bex will lead a mini workshop on the pelvis. Through a brief anatomy lesson, somatic movement, and āsana, we’ll explore all of the choice-making our pelvises give us in movement.
 
Head to our links and click on MONTHLY COMMUNITY CLASS. You must sign up to attend! 
 
See you there✨
 
#community #communityclass #yogacoop #smallbusiness #workerowned #teacherowned #pelvis #somatics
You are invited to join us this Saturday, June 4th You are invited to join us this Saturday, June 4th, for a free community class with @bex.naj.yoga
 
Live-streamed on Zoom
Your 3D Pelvis
Saturday, June 4th
1-2:15pm EST
48-hour replay available if you can’t attend live
 
So what’s a pelvis anyway? How many bones does it have? What’s better for back health, tucking or tilting? Join Bex for our June community class as she leads a mini workshop on the pelvis. Through a brief anatomy lesson, somatic movement, and āsana, we’ll explore all of the choice-making our pelvises give us in movement.

To join us, head over to our and sign up! To attend LIVE or receive the recording, you must sign up. Head to our links and click on MONTHLY COMMUNITY CLASS.
 
#community #communityclass #yogacoop #smallbusiness #workerowned #teacherowned
TOMORROW join us for a free community class with J TOMORROW join us for a free community class with Jocelyn @seadreamyoga
 
LIVE on Zoom
Saturday, May 28th
10-11 AM EST
48-hour replay available if you can’t attend live
 
In this class, you will learn practical tools to access your restorative parasympathetic nervous system and strengthen yourself physically and mentally. We’ll practice conditioning exercises, soft tissue massage, pranayam (breath work), and restorative postures.

Class will begin and close with self-inquiry so you can witness the effects of your practice. We’ll move in creative, exploratory ways to feel good and renew our inner resources.

Head to our links and click on MONTHLY COMMUNITY CLASS to sign up! 

See you there🌸
 
#community #communityclass #yogacoop #smallbusiness #workerowned #teacherowned #restorativeyoga #parasympatheticnervoussystem #selfmassage
You are invited to join us this Saturday, May 28th You are invited to join us this Saturday, May 28th, for a free community class with @seadreamyoga

Live-streamed on Zoom
Saturday, May 28th
10-11am EST
48-hour replay available if you can’t attend live
 
Join our May community class to learn practical tools that will allow you to access your restorative parasympathetic nervous system and strengthen yourself physically and mentally. We’ll practice conditioning exercises, soft tissue massage, pranayam (breath work), and restorative postures.

Class will begin and close with self-inquiry so you can witness the effects of your practice. We’ll move in creative, exploratory ways to feel good and renew our inner resources.
 
To attend LIVE or receive the recording, you must sign UP. Head to our links and click on MONTHLY COMMUNITY CLASS.
 
#community #communityclass #yogacoop #smallbusiness #workerowned #teacherowned
Repost from @thepracticecoalition Come join @the Repost from @thepracticecoalition 

Come join @thepracticecoalition for their upcoming panel Healing Our Collective Trauma. Some of our teacher-owners are involved! @sangeetavallabhan is the founder @yogitones is an officer @yogawithavita is one of the panelists! The Practice Coalition is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing yoga for trauma for survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Head over to @thepracticecoalition to read more and sign up!

#repost #traumainformedyoga #thepracticecoalition #healingfromcollectivetrauma #healingpractices #honoringindigenousrootsofyoga
#buildingresilience #yogacommunity #yogadiversity
As the weather warms, what seeds am I planting for As the weather warms, what seeds am I planting for future growth? What do I wish to harvest?
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Beginning last fall, my intensive somatic studies started up again after a two-year pandemic hiatus. While I’m thrilled to be back in the Body-Mind Centering classroom, learning in a way that deeply serves me so that I may better serve my students and clients, I’m noticing that I’m in an interesting and somewhat uncomfortable place in my teaching. Somatics have long been a compliment to my yoga practice, an inroad for balancing the outer forms of yoga āsana, prāṇāyāma, chanting, and seated meditation with granular tools for valuing and investigating the inner transformative experiences of these practices. And sometimes, I feel itchy to be further along than where I am, impatient to know what my teaching will look like and how it will transform as I become a practicing Somatic Movement Educator. I’m almost there, but I’m not there yet. 
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So I am cultivating seeds of patience. The patience to be where I am now, in sometimes uncomfortable inquiry, without rushing into where I will be, in five or ten or fifteen years. I am sowing the seeds of my best teaching, and they may not fully blossom for a long time, because learning to become my most skilled and sensitive teaching self is a process, the fruit of the conversation among my students and me and my own practice now. And even when these seeds do blossom, as both yoga philosophy and somatics have taught me, is there really anywhere to get to anyway? What does it matter if I’m only looking ahead and not invested in the present moment? 
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Join Bex for Ecstatic Chill, a slow flow, yin, and restorative practice which takes place on Sunday evenings on or around the new moon.  Only on the Connective platform.
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Written by Rebekah Nagy
@bex.naj.yoga

#yogasana #yogaasana #yogateaching #somatics #bmc #somaticmovement
You are invited to join us this Saturday, April 23 You are invited to join us this Saturday, April 23, from 11am-12pm EST for a free community class with @gailberry

Rebalance - not your typical Pilates class
Saturday, April 23
11am-12pm EST
48-hour replay available if you can’t attend live

Hustle culture must die. For some, the beliefs of late-stage capitalism permeate many aspects of our lives–even the way we take care of our bodies (or don’t). Embrace rest. Embrace softness. This is not your typical Pilates Mat class. In order to counterbalance vigorous activity, recovery is crucial. Move your body and explore sensations by utilizing pre-Pilates, some contemporary Pilates, and myofascial release techniques. 

This free community class is appropriate for all levels and will focus on the lower body and feet–areas of the body vital for balance. Props are strongly recommended.

Recommended props: 
* a pair of Franklin Balls (or soft density balls)
* Soft foam roller
* Light resistance band
* Yoga blocks

To join us, head over to our and sign up! To attend LIVE or receive the recording, you must sign UP. Head to our links and click on MONTHLY COMMUNITY CLASS.

#communityclass #yogacoop #smallbusiness #teacherowned #pilates #pilatesmat #pilatesbody #everybodyisapilatesbody
You are invited to join us this Saturday, April 23 You are invited to join us this Saturday, April 23, 11am-12pm EST for a free community class with @gailberry

Rebalance - not your typical Pilates class
Saturday, April 23
11am-12pm EST
48-hour replay available if you can’t attend live

Hustle culture must die. For some, the beliefs of late-stage capitalism permeate many aspects of our lives–even the way we take care of our bodies (or don’t). Embrace rest. Embrace softness. This is not your typical Pilates Mat class. In order to counterbalance vigorous activity, recovery is crucial. Move your body and explore sensations by utilizing pre-Pilates, some contemporary Pilates, and myofascial release techniques. 

This free community class is appropriate for all levels and will focus on the lower body and feet–areas of the body vital for balance. Props are strongly recommended.

Recommended props: 
2 Franklin Balls (or soft density balls) 
Soft foam roller
Light resistance band
Yoga blocks

To join us, head over to our and sign up! To attend LIVE or receive the recording, you must sign UP. Head to our links and click on MONTHLY COMMUNITY CLASS.

#communityclass #yogacoop #smallbusiness #teacherowned #pilates #pilatesmat #pilatesbody #everybodyisapilatesbody
During the onset of the Pandemic, a group of like- During the onset of the Pandemic, a group of like-minded individuals from different walks of life, diverse gender identities, different teaching styles, yet sharing some of the same hopes and ideals, came together with hopes of starting a conversation on changing the wellness industry a whole. 

The overlapping theme we all shared was this idea of "change ."

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Today, the wellness industry promotes a lack of diversity, transparency, accessibility, and the continued colonization of yoga. Although improving, these instances and others need to be acknowledged and addressed for the wellness industry to support its diverse population. 

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We the Connective formed to elevate the idea that teachers of many different mixed healing modalities could develop a business model built around change that is Cooperative owned and geared towards this goal. Barak Obama once said that "change is not easy but always possible." 
Change can include supporting our teachers to make a living wage and something as simple as building racial equity. 
What Does change look like for you?

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As mentioned before, at The Connective, teacher owners support each other. The structure supports our individual and collective success, and we take action to support and include the students in that success. 

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An essential part of this structure is fundraising. The Connective first began accepting donations via Patreon and Paypal; with the help of these platforms and our community, we built a new online platform where we can now accept donations on our website. Your donation helps us continue our work serving our community and fulfilling our mission of making yoga, Pilates, and fitness financially available to our growing community. We are grateful for your support and belief in our work. Your funding makes a difference for us, but your presence in our community is where the actual value lies. If you share our visions, you share our success

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For those wishing to support the Connective via a monthly subscription or a single, one-time donation

visit theconnectivecoop.com donations page or check for the link in our BIO 🙏
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