Farm to Yoga

Event Details & Ticket Prices

9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.; $35 day-pass including a farm tour, yoga, lunch and more (Children under the age of 10 are FREE with purchase of one day-pass.) If there is rain on May 30 the event will be held on May 31.

Find out more about Farm to Yoga on Facebook or at the Yoga Buzz site & purchase your  tickets via eventbrite!

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A First Crack at Yoga

Physical exertion punctuated last weekend. Jogging through a sun-soaked park, dancing down Cherokee Street and working our Taste & Tour event–these activities, as well as the approach of Farm to Yoga at EarthDance, created a boisterous tornado that made last Sunday’s initial foray into yoga serendipitous. An instructor and friend led our private family session (sister easing into poses on the left, dad and myself, both first-timers, struggling a bit on the right) in my sister’s living room.

When it finally dawned on me that physical struggle was antithetical to the practice, the pace of inhalation and exhalation became more synergistic. Locate your breath in your feet and feel it move from the tips of your toes, up your calves, through your knees and hamstrings, sacrum, up the spine, neck, shoulders, slowing at the forehead, and washing back through you like a waterfall. This kind of meditation required an allowance of mindfulness that, too often, preoccupations with our to-do’s and self-criticism prevent us from achieving that melts-you-into-the-moment presence.

Admittedly, I drifted a bit as one murky question floated (whatever thoughts manage to cling to your skull can only float) into focus: how would this activity feel on the farm, enveloped by its tranquil landscape?  The inherent, immediate ease of the place lends EarthDance’s campus to yoga. Ultimately, we hope Farm to Yoga will create an experience for people that connects them to the farm beyond its function as a space for food production. A sustainable lifestyle encompasses more than our relationship to food and the environment.

Farm to Yoga: Free Community Yoga, Leveled Up

Turbulent feelings in the wake of Michael Brown’s death inspired us to host weekly free community yoga sessions on the farm last year from late Summer – early Fall. Moreover, the sessions also realized a long-held goal of ours to offer people more hands-on opportunities to celebrate physical and mental health and wellness at EarthDance. Farm to Yoga, as an organized, collaborative event developed with Yoga Buzz and Whole Foods Market Galleria, is realizing our plan to 1. show people that of that, like learning farm skills, yoga engages us in an utterly peaceful, rejuvenating way with the land, ourselves, and each other and 2. increase community partnerships.

Thank You to our friends at Yoga Buzz, including  instructor (and EarthDance Apprentice!) Nate Wolff, and Whole Foods Market Galleria, for transforming the St. Louis into a healthier, more interconnected community.

The Joy of Collaboration

The missions of Yoga Buzz, Whole Foods, and EarthDance marry so well that developing Farm to Yoga has been a truly joyful process. We share a passion for localized community building and the vision of a sustainable future in which the world values imagination and diversity. We are committed to increasing people’s access to participating in healthier lifestyles, from education about good, slow food, to enjoying (and hopefully growing and sharing!) the food itself, to understanding the connections between physical and environmental health and sustainable living.

You can read more about Whole Foods’ Core Values, Yoga Buzz’s philosophy, and our mission and vision.