Join us Friday afternoons for two contemplative activities specifically curated to help you reconnect with your body and feel refreshed. Drop in to any class. All are open to the public.

Sound Baths (12:30-1:30pm): A meditative sonic experience that eases stress and cultivates rest. Participants sit or lie comfortably while absorbing gentle vibrations from instruments such as chimes, drums, and singing bowls. Led alternately by Karianne Michele, Selena Cozart, and Waverly Davis.

Yoga (1:45-2:45pm): A general yoga practice open to all skill levels. Move through guided, fixed postures that link movement and breath to attain balance in mind and body, while building strength, balance, and deepening mindfulness. Led by Allie Redshaw.

Instructors

Selena Cozart

Selena Cozart has a PhD in Education as well as extensive expertise in facilitating dialogue and community engagement in the service of equity and justice. She offers a “Sound Healing for Leaders” program that supports the qualities of clarity, emotional intelligence, resilience, and the ability to lead with intention and empathy by offering employees the opportunity to experience personalized sound healing sessions designed to enhance leadership effectiveness, reduce stress, and increase overall well-being.

Waverly Davis

Waverly Davis (she/her) is a trauma-informed facilitator, space holder, and multidimensional mother. Her work weaves together sacred space, sound, and somatics and has supported thousands of people around the world in living with more presence. She has studied plant medicine facilitation and space holding with indigenous Mexican medicine woman Azalea Montaño-Kemp. She’s a graduate of Linda Thai’s Certificate in Somatic Embodiment and Regulation Strategies and Charlotte James’ Psychedelic Liberation Training program (now called New Old Ways), focused on decolonization and collective liberation. She has participated in many indigenous-led plant medicine ceremonies, most recently with indigenous elders from the Kuntanawa and Huni Kuni peoples of the Brazilian Amazon. 

Karianne Michele

Karianne Michelle is founder of Lofti which hosts holistic professional wellbeing workshops, based on her 15 years in the creative industry. These workshops seek to create an experience that blends communication best practices with meditation techniques to promote compassionate connection. She has a degree in music and has studied the meditative art of sound baths, which use music and sound vibrations to help release stress and expand consciousness. She also has studied and practices yoga, Qigong, and Reiki.

Allie Redshaw

Allie Redshaw is a Yoga Alliance certified registered yoga teacher with a passion for inclusion & disability advocacy. In addition to facilitating yoga, she is a professional chef (of Sumac Supper Club) and a competitive paraclimber with Team USA. She began practicing yoga as a modality of healing and recovery from a traumatic kitchen injury that resulted in the amputation of her right hand. She was pregnant during this tremendous loss, and the passive movement and adaptations of a consistent yogic practice helped her find a home in her body again. She believes that breathing together and creating shapes with our bodies cultivates the most authentic connection with others and empowers us to support the humanness  of one another. She currently facilitates movement at Hot Yoga Charlottesville as well as the Contemplative Sciences Center at UVA and is a Lululemon Ambassador. She most recently started a non-profit called Adapting Together where two limb different athletes and her are creating community for women with disabilities and bringing them into communal spaces to practice yoga.