Events + Workshops
Henna Making
with Sejal S
December 16 — $45
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Lift Yoga Alpharetta
Join Sejal to dive into the art of henna from the history and meaning to mixing your own fresh henna paste, rolling cones, practice application to walking through practice of basic shapes to a complete design on your own hand. Take home tips and tricks of the trade and practice worksheets along with your henna kit to practice your new skills more at home.
Sejal learned the art of Henna in an intensive immersive course in India and had a short stint as a professional design artist for weddings.
$45 investment includes expertise, instruction and all materials
How the Grinch Found Yoga
with Kember
December 17 — $40
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Lift Yoga Alpharetta
Create your own Vision Board and boost your creativity, motivation, and inner power to harness everything you dream of. Kember will share her own wild stories of manifestations and past vision board experiences.
No experience is needed, come as you are. Supplies are provided, but please bring extra magazines you may have lying around!
Vision Board Workshop
with Kember
January 6 — $40
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Lift Yoga Alpharetta
Create your own Vision Board and boost your creativity, motivation, and inner power to harness everything you dream of. Kember will share her own wild stories of manifestations and past vision board experiences.
No experience is needed, come as you are. Supplies are provided, but please bring extra magazines you may have lying around!
Intro to Yoga: 4-Part Series
with Kristin C
Four Weeks — $99
1/14, 1/21, 2/28, 2/4
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Lift Yoga Johns Creek
BONUS: FREE ONE-MONTH UNLIMITED CLASS MEMBERSHIP* to Lift Yoga. As you gain confidence in your practice, you’ll be able to explore all the great classes Lift has to offer!
*Free month only available to new students not currently on a monthly recurring plan.
De-Stress and Rest
with Holly B
January 20 — $40
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Lift Yoga Alpharetta
In Yogic traditions and Traditional Chinese Medicine, the movement of prana or chi (energy) is vital to having a balanced mind, body, and spirit. During a 60-minute session of guided self-massage, using a combination of tools, Holly will guide you through various acupressure points to move stale or stagnant energy through the body to reduce stress and help return your energy to a state of balance. To further encourage the integration of the self-massage, there will be 30 minutes of restorative yoga. During these fully supported, restful poses, the parasympathetic nervous system will be stimulated promoting relaxation, slowing your heart rate and breath, while nurturing your body with increased blood flow to all your vital organs.
This opportunity to reduce stress, promote rest, and nudge your body toward a healing state is one you do not want to miss. Space will be limited to 15 students so be sure to register asap!
Meditation + Pranayama Teacher Training
with Akasha Searcey
January 19-21, 2024 — $350
Friday: 4:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Saturday-Sunday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Location: Lift Yoga Johns Creek
Prana is life force, life energy. It is everywhere; within us and all around us. “Breath is king of mind.” -BKS Iyengar
Join us for a deep dive into various practices. This workshop is for the teacher or the advanced student that wants to cultivate a depth of knowledge beyond asana. Learn all about the anatomy and physiology of breath as well as advanced breath technique practices to up level your health, awareness and consciousness. We will use breath, mantra and more to dive deep into the practice of meditation. Understanding the power of these practices and their effect on the entire physical body and its energy systems.
Required books: Light on Pranayama BKS Iyengar, Wherever You Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
About the Instructor:
Student of life, teacher of light. Devoted to the exploration of what it means to be human and present, to every single day of your life. She harnesses the gifts of yoga, nutrition, mindfulness, culture, adventure, emotion and life experience, to illuminate both where we are (not where we perceive ourselves to be) and where we can be (without our self imposed limitations). This truth is what Akasha calls: your level best and she is committed to helping her clients identify, achieve, and maintain it.
An Exploration of the Subtle Body and Chakra System
with Sheila Ewers
January 26-28, 2024 — $350
Friday: 6-9 pm
Saturday-Sunday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Lift Yoga Johns Creek
Tantric Yogis believe that your body is pulsing with consciousness and energy that is particularly concentrated in 7 major centers called chakras. The word chakra translates literally to wheel or disc and indicates the swirling energy that aggregates around major nerve centers and organs in the body. These impact our physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing and become repositories for our accumulated life experience.
In this weekend intensive, we will examine the architecture of each chakra’s anatomical structure, investigate the history of the chakra system as described in ancient texts, learn to listen to our own ancient wisdom with deeper consciousness, and discover tools to steward our pranic field with greater sensitivity.
During our time, we will explore:
– Experiential exercises to energize awareness and sharpen sensitivity.
– Tools to enliven the energy body and connect to each center of psyche and soul.
– Anatomy instruction about physical systems associated with each Chakra.
– Collaborative creation implementing your new understanding.
Required Text: The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Body by Cyndi Dale
No Experience Required: This workshop is offered as part of the Lift Yoga and Body 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training but is open to all.
Total CEUs: Contact: 20 hours/ non-Contact: 2 hours (homework assignment to be submitted after completion)
Yoga & Trauma: Healing with Tantra Hatha Yoga
with Holle Black
February 16-18, 2024 — $350
Friday: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Saturday-Sunday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Lift Yoga Johns Creek
- Effects of trauma on the mind, body and nervous system
- Uses of Tantra Hatha Yoga to help heal the mind/body disconnect following trauma
- Practices of Tantra Hatha Yoga to help students and clients better understand and heal from trauma
- How trauma informed yoga is different than a “regular” studio class (language/cueing, postures, pacing, philosophies)
- How to create and teach trauma-based yoga classes to various populations and in different settings
Ayurveda: Yoga’s Sister Science
with Akasha Searcey
March 8-10, 2024 — $475
Friday: 4:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Saturday-Sunday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Location: Lift Yoga Johns Creek
Price includes two meals as part of the training.
The sister science of Yoga has so many amazing tools as well as gifts. Ayurveda is like the human handbook. When we take the time to understand the doshas and how energy moves in and within our energy bodies then we are able to begin to cultivate continual renewal in our body that allows us to reach our human potential in this lifetime. Take this workshop to do a deep dive into the practices and lifestyle that is Ayurveda. Learn how to offer Ayurvedic Marma Therapy in your classes as well as how to sequence for and celebrate the doshas. Yoga is for everyone and Ayurveda can be a lovely lighthouse to guide you home to your true nature.
Required book:Ayurveda: The Science of Self Healing: A Practical Guide
Understanding The Bhagavad Gita
with Sheila Ewers
April 6-7, 2024 — $325
Saturday-Sunday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Location: Lift Yoga Johns Creek
The Bhagavad Gita appears in the 6th Book of the Hindu Epic, Mahabharata. Written somewhere between the 5th and 2nd centuries B.C., the Gita has long been considered one of the most influential texts in the World. In a conversation between Prince Arjuna and his charioteer Krishna, universal themes such as the purpose of life, humankind’s relationship to divinity, the value of action vs. renunciation, and the timeless journey of the soul are explored in depth along with the concepts of Karma, Dharma, Bhakti and Yoga.
The text has had international influence, informing the writing of American authors like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. Mahatma Ghandi turned to the Gita for consolation during his campaign for Indian Independence, and many other prominent politicians, philosophers, psychologists and leaders have lauded both its beauty and its message for centuries. For Yoga Practitioners world-wide, understanding the Gita has become an essential part of discovering the philosophical premise that underscores the practice.
- Session 1 – Saturday 9am-1pm: Introduction, Background and Context
- Session 2 – Saturday 2-6 pm: Understanding Dharma, Karma and How to realize the Nature of the True Self through Yoga
- Session 3 – Sunday 9am-1pm: Ishvara and Bhakti: What the Gita teaches about the Nature of God and the Worship of God
- Session 4 – Sunday 2-6pm Gunas and Atman: What the Bhagavad Gita teaches about the Nature of the Universe.
**This training counts for 1 required module in the RYS300 Program and for 16 Continuing Education Hours with Yoga Alliance
Meditation and Pranayama Immersion
with Sheila Ewers
July 10-14, 2024
$1,200-$1,650 depending on room choice
Noon Wednesday to Noon Sunday
Location: Offsite, Location TBD
This five day, four night immersion at Elohee in the North Georgia Mountains is required for those students enrolled in the Johns Creek Yoga RYS300 training, but is open to all. Join us to dive deeply into consciousness as you explore your own meditation and pranayama practice and learn new techniques and skills to create a life-long relationship with Prana (the sacred life-force/energy that we often access and experience through the breath). Enrich your personal practice and develop skills to teach others. Our hope is that this experience will launch a lifetime commitment to the more subtle, and often more powerful practices of yoga.
Cost includes food, lodging, tuition and manual for 5 days/4 nights (space is limited to 10 Participants):
- Twin/ Shared Room: $1,200
- Queen/ Private Room/Shared Bath: $1,400
- Queen/Private Room/Private Bath: $1,650
About the Instructor:
Sheila Ewers is an ERYT 500 and YACEP teacher certified through Yoga Alliance. She trained at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and has been practicing and teaching for more than 20 years. In 2011, she created Blue Lotus Yoga, LLC which operated in two physical location in Johns Creek and Duluth, GA, Under Blue Lotus, she also launched a comprehensive online studio platform and developed Sweet Tea Yoga Festival in Alpharetta, GA. She is a published author and served as Yoga Editor for Natural Awakenings Atlanta Magazine from 2019 through 2021.
Today, Sheila owns and operates SEEK Yoga and Travel, a full service yoga platform designed to help students and seekers of all sorts develop tools for deepening consciousness, developing connection and living lives of joyful embodiment. Sheila holds additional certifications in Meditation, Yin Yoga, Thai Yoga, Bodywork, and Yoga Nidra and has trained with dozens of internationally known yoga and meditation teachers. She leads Yoga Teacher Training at both the 200 and 300-hour levels, hosts retreats and workshops both domestically and internationally and provides spiritual and professional coaching. As a former Professor of American literature, Sheila loves to explore the intersection between philosophy, poetry, religion, nature, and yoga and often brings that synthesis into her work. She continues to take advantage of every opportunity to train and learn and will forever consider herself a student of this ancient and beautiful practice.
Free Community Classes
Did you know that Lift offers free classes for the community multiple times a week? Grab your mat and join our amazing instructors for a complimentary class! The scheduled instructors are subject to change without notice.
The following classes are taught by our newer yoga teacher training grads. Donations are welcome.
Community Vinyasa Flow at Lift Johns Creek
Fridays at 6:00 PM
Pre-registration required due to limited class size.
Click here to register.
Community Vinyasa Flow at Lift Alpharetta
Fridays at 6:00 PM
Pre-registration required due to limited class size.
Click here to register.
Yoga at Brooke Street Park, Alpharetta
On hold until Spring 2024.
2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, GA 30009
Yoga at Newtown Park Amphitheater
On hold until Spring 2024.
3150 Old Alabama Rd, Johns Creek, GA 30022
*For outdoor classes, we strongly recommend checking our Instagram page for updates regarding weather.
Holiday cancellations will be announced on Facebook and Instagram @LiftYoga.