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Woodstock Neighbors and beyond! Please join us on Saturday, October 10th for an Open House at our Woodstock location!

We would love for you to come see the studio, meet some of our wonderful teachers and take a FREE yoga class!

Feel free to stop in, say hi, ask some questions, meet some neighbors and strengthen our local community through connection.

If you are interested to join us for the free yoga classes, preregistration is required.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM with @mamapriya
1:00-2:00 PM with @sukhamukha

Today, September 30th is also the final day of our Woodstock promotional sales. There are several options all of which are an incredible value.

The weekly schedule is loaded with skilled teachers and variety of approaches to practice.

The Practice Space prioritizes agency in all of its students to form a practice that will cumulatively foster resilience in life. Resilience means that through good and bad times, the practice is a tether to keep you bravely grounded. We will not be able to avoid the inevitable, but we can connect to our deeper self so we can recognize our deeper needs and the needs of others.

Preregistration and more details about our Woodstock location can be found through the link in our bio.

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Thank you Portland for nominating @thepracticespace_pdx for @willametteweek best Pilates studio.

We love you Portland❣️

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Join @lovelesslearning and The Practice Space
team to celebrate Krista’s 10 year
anniversary of studio stewardship!

Sunday, July 5th // 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Laurelhrurst Park - Picnic Area E
BYO Bev, Food and Blanket!

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Summer Savings
Shared Memberships Start June 1st*

Find Your Partner Now!

Existing Members - Share Your Current Autopay Membership with a Friend for the Summer!

Not a Member? Start any Autopay Membership** Anytime in June and Share it With a Friend for 60 Days!

*Wisely choose your start date between June 1 - July 1st. Membership sharing lasts for 60 days with no extensions, suspensions or refunds on membership charges. You may only share your membership with one person.

**New memberships will automatically renew every 28 days unless you request a cancellation.�

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Happy Birthday @lil.pilates ! We are so grateful for your steady and calm presence. You are a gifted teacher with a wildly kind heart that makes everyone feel welcome and valued. Your grounding energy is a boon to everyone you interact with. You are loved and appreciated by the staff and community members of @thepracticespace_pdx .

May today and all those that follow be filled with love and steadfast joy. Happy Birthday Lily! 💗

#happybirthday
#youareloved
#thankyou

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Have you heard? It’s time to vote in @willametteweek Best of Portland Readers’ Poll! We hope you’ll
celebrate by voting for us in the health and wellness category at bop.wweek.com.

Help us reach our goal of being Port-
land’s best yoga AND Pilates studio #bestofportland2026

Vote The Practice Space for Best Yoga Studio and Best Pilates Studio in the Best of Portland Readers’ Poll by @willa-
metteweek!

Help our local business get the attention it deserves so we continue to thrive in Portland and
reach new customers. #bestofportland2026
ICYMI: Voting in @willametteweek’s Best of Portland Readers’ Poll is in full swing, and we’re hoping you’ll
vote for us in health and wellness. Voting closes on June 17, don’t forget to head over to bop.wweek.com
to vote before then! #bestofportland2026

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🎉 Saturday, May 2nd is International Pilates Day and we are celebrating with a one-day sale. 25% off Equipment 10-packs, includes Reformer and CoreAlign.

🎉 Cost: $310.50 (25% off, normally $414)
Purchase at thepracticespace.com or in-studio.

#internationalpilatesday
#onedaysale
#reformer
#corealign
#thesecretisinyourpractice

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On Friday May 1st, our studio will be participating in the national day of action to show our support for workers’ rights. We invite you to join our community for the following events:

FREE 10:30a - 11:45a Hatha Yoga with Meghan

FREE 12p - 1p Townhall Style Discussion with Meghan and Krista about May Day

1:30p Rally at South Park Blocks

3:30p March at South Park Blocks

**Normal classes will be canceled from 12p on Friday, May 1st to participate**

May Day History
In 1884, US organized labor unions demanded an eight-hour workday to begin on May 1, 1886. This led to widespread strikes across the U.S.

This year, organizers for labor and workers’ rights are calling for No Work, No School, No Shopping to highlight the growing disparity between the working and billionaire classes.

Free Yoga and Community Discussion
In solidarity with workers’ rights, The Practice Space will offer:
a free Haṭha yoga class from 10:30-11:45 a.m. led by Meghan
a townhall style discussion from 12-1p hosted by Krista and Meghan. This discussion will highlight the history of May Day and why its significance matters today. We will also discuss what a general strike entails and practical steps we can take to prepare for a larger national strike.

Why We Choose to Participate
We feel called to participate in the national day of action on May 1st because we aim to promote agency. When full-time workers cannot meet their basic needs their agency is limited. This restriction limits choices, reduces mental bandwidth due to increased stress, and constrains access to opportunities. Furthermore, the ethics of yoga are at the forefront of our decision making. Policies which reward the most privileged while harming the most vulnerable populations directly conflict with The Practice Space’s mission to promote physical autonomy and emotional resilience.

No sugar coating, this work isn’t for the faint of heart. But we do it so we can impact our world and the world beyond.

With gratitude,
The Practice Space Team

#mayday
#workersrights
#noshopping
#noschool
#nowork

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Prāṇa was given a prominent position in the early yoga texts as it was seen to be the force that energized all the faculties within the human body. Prāṇa via the breath was considered to be a direct bridge to the unchanging unified field of consciousness underlying all existence.

This unified substratum of reality was known as Brahman. As a unifying principle, it was surmised that the unchanging basis of reality must also exist within the human being and was called the inner self or ātman.

The scholar Robert Luyster suggests that “this principle of ultimate unity, finally, since it constituted the true reality of all phenomena, must constitute the true and inner reality also of man; and since the fundamental reality supporting man’s life had from pre philosophical times been identified with the breath, the presence of Brahman in man was naturally localized within his prāṇa (breath) or ātman.”

The ātman was often conceived of as the internalized sun residing within the heart (hṛdaya). Luyster notes moments in the texts which suggest that the arteries that surround the heart were thought to be a material connection to the rays of the sun; “when one proceeds through the arteries toward the heart, he also obtains the light of the sun.”

The external sun became the symbol of universal consciousness of which prāṇa was the active principle. The rays of the sun were thought to be rays of prāṇa.

We enter into our body and onto this planet through our individual breath. When our time comes to an end, we depart with our final exhale.

Every breath in between is shared in relationship with others and our environment. The value of a vision of the breath as both individual, as well as shared is that it recognizes the unique story of each individual, yet the shared breath reminds us that we coexist with the world around us.

For this very reason, the breath holds the potential to acknowledge both multiplicity and commonality, origin and apotheosis.

The importance of the breath has been obscured in much of the modern approach to yoga, but we can revitalize its role one conscious breath at a time.

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🌹We are grateful to be a resource for the Portland community.

👯We are grateful for the wonderful humans that we interact with everyday.

🧐We are grateful for the communities’ willingness, curiosity, and dedication to their practice and how it ripples outwards.

🧘🏽We are grateful to all the wonderful teachers who show up each day to share their knowledge with the community.

💫We are grateful for you!

🗳️And we, of course, would be grateful for your vote for the best Pilates and/or yoga studio.

🙏🏽Thank you friends!

#bestofportland
#willametteweek
#vote
#bestpilatesstudio
#bestyogastudio

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Free Community Class
w/ @lil.pilates
Saturday, February 21
3-4 pm

Accessibility is at the heart of what we do. That’s why it’s our mission to meet students where they’re at, providing specific containers for deeper study and FREE community classes open to everyone!

In this all levels mat class we will use the magic circle, a wonderful prop designed by Joseph Pilates himself, to find deeper activation and connection to our muscles, as well as better support and end range mobility than possible without it.

Pre-registration is required through Mindbody Online. Registration closes 24 hours before class. Drop-in attendance is not permitted for free classes.

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Dear Community Members,

For the past three months, a group of 24 Buddhist monks from the Hương Đạo Vipassana Bhavana Center in Fort Worth, TX have been walking with their dog, Aloka, 3700 km from Texas to Washington D.C. This long distance pilgrimage known as the Walk for Peace, was started by the monks to promote peace, compassion and non-violence in the US and throughout the world. They have been walking in frigid cold, some even going barefoot, to simply offer this act of kindness, generosity and inspiration. On Tuesday, their 108th day of walking, they will finally arrive in the nation’s capital.

This Wednesday, February 11th, the monks will engage in a three hour loving kindness meditation that will be livestreamed around the world on Facebook. They are hoping to have millions of people join them in collectively praying and meditating for peace. Think of that - millions of people together at the same time, focused on peace. That is true power (and power exists for transformation not dominance nor oppression).

We lovingly invite you to participate in this event with us. In solidarity with the monks and their mission, @thepracticespace_pdx will offer our studio as a location for you to come and meditate together in community.

Please come to the studio this Wednesday, any time between 1:30 - 4:30 pm.

You can join us for 3 minutes or 3 hours.
We will stream the broadcast and offer meditation spaces for all who wish to participate.

No need to register - just show up whenever you can and stay as long as you wish.

If you are unable to make it to the studio on Wednesday, please consider joining the meditation from wherever you are through the Facebook stream: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1D6zJBRDvt/, and please invite everyone you know to do so as well.

Thank you.
With love and strength,
Anne Witmer @yoginiannepdx and The Practice Space Family

#walkforpeace
#buddhistmonks
#lovingkindnessmeditation
#peace
#futurevision

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