Equinox Wellness Festival

Uniting the local wellness community to celebrate the arrival of autumn

Saturday, 9/21

1:00 pm

Energize to Stabilize

Camille McCarroll

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Class info

In this class we will move through a vigorous vinyasa flow while paying attention to detail. Then we slow down with meditation and breath work to feel not only energized but calm and stable physically and mentally!

About the Instructor(s)

Camille McCarroll

Camille McCarroll has been teaching yoga in and around the Baltimore area since 2006. As a senior yoga teacher and trainer, she continues to study with her primary teacher Cyndi Lee to bring strength, stability, and clarity to her students.

@camiekarma

2:00 pm

Let's Breathe: Combining the Power of Breathwork with Yoga Postures

Michelle Stafford

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Class info

Join us for a fun and beginner-friendly class that combines gentle yoga postures with a variety of breathing exercises. Perfect for all levels, this session is designed to help you find balance, release tension, and connect mind and body in a joyful way.

About the Instructor(s)

Michelle Stafford

With over 20 years of experience, Michelle Stafford is a yoga teacher who believes in meeting people where they are on their wellness journey. Her teaching blends the wisdom of yoga with strength training and the Feldenkrais method, creating a dynamic practice rooted in knowledge, intuition, and spontaneity. Each session is designed to help participants move and feel better in their bodies, no matter where they start.

3:00 pm

Vinyasa Yoga + Scent Therapy

Marissa Walch

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Sonal Shah

Class info

Flowing yoga practice creatively designed to feel and embrace the whole body on our mats. Sequencing will be designed to creatively move from one pose to the other infused with scent therapy from The Om Room using high grade essential oils where we will breathe and create energy as we move. At the end of class, Sonal from The Om Room will help us fall into ultimate relaxation with more aromatherapy. Everyone is welcome.

About the Instructor(s)

Marissa Walch

Marissa Walch, Best of Baltimore winner, is a full-time, certified fitness, yoga and wellness professional based in the Maryland area and has a large virtual audience. Marissa is a 500-hour registered yoga instructor, certified personal trainer and group exercise instructor leading a variety of classes and provides personal training to clients. Marissa leads local and international yoga retreats, teaching large scale events and creates corporate wellness programs. She’s also proud to partner with Pure Raw Juice as their leading Fueled Athlete, lululemon Baltimore ambassador and partnering with many other businesses and brands in the area. She hopes to inspire everyone she meets with her passion for wellness and to live well.

@marissawalch

Sonal Shah

Sonal Shah believes in the power of scent and ancient ritual to transform one’s mood. She created The Om Room in her D.C. apartment and her mission is to help individuals transform their moods and create easy, everyday self-care rituals through a line of aromatherapy and energy-healing goods, all rooted in Ancient wisdom.

4:00 pm

Mindful Muscle Release

Jason Williams

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Class info

Using meditation, trigger points, self massage, and stretching to release muscle tension and release weaving in reiki healing. Perfect way to shift and open space in your body and mind to invite healing.

About the Instructor(s)

Jason Williams

Jason has been in the health and wellness industry since 2002. As a former college track athlete, his focus is integrating mind body techniques using fitness, pilates, barre, reiki and meditation. He has created programs for pilates barre teacher training, written articles for mindbodygreen, Pilates style magazine, prevention health and more. As well as Pilates Anytime instructor and Balance Body educator. Jason has written four kids health and wellness books, "The Adventures of Frankie Fitness". He currently teaches and trains in Baltimore, Md and does travel teaching in Miami, California, Charleston, Chicago and more.‍

@charmcitypt

Sunday, 9/22

9:00 am

Power Yoga

A higher intensity, power vinyasa class that flows primarily breath to movement.

Claire Knudsen

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Class info

A higher intensity, power vinyasa class that flows primarily breath to movement. You will have time to flow on your own throughout class as a way to grow your individual practice, and class will include core strengthening and a peak posture to allow additional playtime on your mat. You can expect to leave feeling challenged, empowered and sweaty.

About the Instructor(s)

Claire Knudsen

Claire Knudsen is a 200 hour RYT and fitness professional. A group fitness veteran, she built her fitness career in the Baltimore area, teaching at Merritt Clubs and CorePower Yoga for the last six years before moving to Delaware where she is the owner and founder of, Soleil Studio, a boutique fitness studio and smoothie bar opening this fall in Lewes Beach, Delaware.

10:00 am

Fall Equinox Flow + Ancient Smoke Cleansing

A special yoga experience with the ancient ritual of smoke-cleansing

Marissa Walch

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Sonal Shah

Class info

Vinyasa Yoga class creatively designed to wake up the body and embrace the fall equinox together on our mats. Sequencing will be designed to detox the body through safe and effective movements available to all levels and with modifications offered. We will take our time to heat the body, move through a juicy flow. At the end of class, Sonal from The Om Room will help us let go of any negative and blocked energy through the ancient ritual of smoke-cleansing. All levels of yoga are welcome!

About the Instructor(s)

Marissa Walch

@marissawalch

Sonal Shah

11:00 am

FLOW with Taylor Lee Yoga

Taylor Kaulius

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Class info

What would it be like to unburden your mind and feel free in your body? Taylor Kaulius will guide you through a fluid practice that builds through repetition and linking of breath and movement. Each posture will melt into the next, getting us into a moving meditation that challenges the body and leaves your mind and heart at ease.

About the Instructor(s)

Taylor Kaulius

I'm Taylor Kaulius - a yoga teacher + a girl mama (best job ever!) + a whole lot more. When I'm on my mat, I feel more like me. The layers of motherhood + business owner + wife unravel, and I'm able to come home to myself through the teachings of yoga and the power of a moving meditation. Through my teaching, through this practice - I hope to help you feel a little more like you when you leave your mat. Already whole, already worthy. As you are.

12:00 pm

A Guided Sound Bath Experience

Bri Alexander Wellness

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Class info

An invitation to rest and recharge for the new season. Join us as we celebrate the Fall Equinox with soothing sounds, frequencies, and vibrations.

About the Instructor(s)

Bri Alexander Wellness

Bri Alexander Sound & Energy Healing Practitioner - Bri is on a mission to empower the community through sound meditation, energy work, and movement. She offers different forms of sound healing and is trained in various modalities including mindfulness meditation, Yin yoga, Reiki, and somatic movement. Her goal is to highlight holistic alternatives that help manage everyday stress.

6pm

James Nasty

Ecstatic Dance

DJ Who

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