Education & Events

Chai & Chat
February 28, 10:15-11:15a • donation
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Chai & Chat is a relaxed, community-focused gathering where we explore yoga practices and ideas through guided conversation. You’ll deepen your understanding of yoga as a lifelong practice and how it can support you in everyday life.
This month, Jacquelyn will guide our discussion on how imagery and sound shape your yoga experience. No prior yoga experience. Please bring your own mug; we’ll provide tea bags, hot water, and comfortable seating.

Kitty Yoga at Hunter’s Kitten Lounge
March 1, 5-6p • $20
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Next one is 3/1/2026, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Unwind, stretch, and connect with adorable rescue kitties. Studies show that cats purr between 25 and 150 hertz, a frequency that can help lower stress, ease pain, and potentially support the healing of bones and joints in people.
Unwind stretch, and connect with adorable rescue kitties. Studies show that cats purr between 25 and 150 hertz, a frequency that can help lower stress, ease pain, and potentially support the healing of bones and joints in people.

Spring Equinox: Cacao Ceremony
March 21, 10:30am – noon • $30
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Join GG & Melissa for a Spring Equinox cacao Ceremony designed to nurture body, mind, and spirit.
- calming meditation to steady the breath and quiet the mind for a spacious inner landscape.
- ceremonial cacao, exploring its history and its reflective, heart-opening qualities.
- restorative yoga to release tension and restore balance, inviting a sense of renewal to unfold within.
- crystal bowl sound bath to harmonize the nervous system and lift the heart.
Welcome spring’s energy with clarity, grounding, and renewed intention.
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Advanced Training & Certification
Professional Yoga Education with Depth & Integrity
For students and teachers who feel called to go deeper, BeFriend Yoga offers advanced study grounded in lineage, context, and embodied understanding.
Melissa offers advanced educational pathways as a YACEP (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider) and in intentional partnership with Radiant Spirit Yoga, founded by Pam Wilson. Radiant Spirit Yoga serves as BeFriend Yoga’s teacher training partner, offering comprehensive and heart-centered certification pathways that honor yoga’s sacred lineage, integrate trauma-sensitive methodology, and preserve the depth of yoga as both philosophy and living energetic practice.
Within the Radiant Spirit Teacher Training program, Melissa frequently serves as co-facilitator. Together, she and Pam Wilson offer a training experience that integrates philosophical depth, trauma awareness, energetic understanding, and embodied science.
Whether you are just beginning your teaching journey or expanding into philosophy-centered, trauma-informed, or bodywork modalities, these programs are designed to cultivate confident, embodied, and ethical leadership.


Radiant Spirit Yoga

BeFriend Yoga
Deepen Your Practice & Teaching
Yoga Teacher Training with Radiant Spirit Yoga
Join Pam and Melissa for Yoga Alliance-approved 200-hour and 300-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings through Radiant Spirit Yoga, our primary teacher training partner.
Focus areas include:
• Living your yoga
• Trauma-informed methodology
• Accessible yoga methodology
• Nervous system regulation in practice
• Functional anatomy
• Somatic & embodiment-based teaching
• Ethical, repsonsible space holding
Next Training begins January 9th, 2027
Certifications & Specialized Training (Melissa)
In addition to her work with Radiant Spirit Yoga, Melissa offers certifications and YACEP-certified continuing education opportunities designed to deepen the practice of teachers, healers, and movement professionals.
Focus areas include:
• Yoga history & philosophy
• Accessible & inclusive yoga methologies
• Intelligent use of props for autonomy & sustainability
• Functional yoga anatomy
• Pranayama
• Restorative yoga
• Foundations of Yin yoga
• Usui Reiki / Holy Fire III (Reiki Master)
Certifications & Specialized Training (Pam)
Pam Wilson, founder of Radiant Spirit Yoga, offers certifications and YACEP-certified continuing education workshops designed to deepen teaching, embodiment, and trauma-informed practice.
Focus areas include:
• Trauma-sensitive yoga
• Somatic & Embodiment-Based Teaching
• Mindfulness / meditation practices
• Yoga Nidra
• Yin Yoga levels 1 & 2
• Mythology in Motion
• Thai Yoga Massage
• The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Exploration
