Education & Events
Discover. Explore. Grow. Join events, workshops, and trainings with your BeFriend Yoga Community.
Kitty Yoga at Hunter’s Kitten Lounge
May 16, 10-11a • $20
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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.
Yoga for Longevity
May 17, 9a-3p • $75
To register, contact:
amanda@af-yoga.com | 520-591-8783
New to yoga? Been practicing awhile but want to know more, practice more safely, or add yoga philosophy to your life? This class is for you!
• Learn how your yoga practice can evolve at any age.
• Learn common yoga misalignments and optimum ways to avoid them.
• Cultivate the knowledge & confidence to join any yoga class and keep your unique body safe & well.
• Through story telling & history, explore yoga philosophy and how it applies to your everday life!
Lead by: Amanda Freed (AF Yoga)
Guest Teacher: BeFriend Yoga’s Melissa C.
Balancing the Energy Within: a weekend at Aravaipa Canyon Ranch
Janury 15, 2027 3p – January 18, 2027 11a • $735 early bird, paid in full by June 1, 2026 | $835, paid in full after June 1, but before October 1, 2026
To register, contact: Pam at
ainofea42@gmail.com | 520-481.8626
Join Pamela and Melissa for an experiential weekend, exploring energy within the body in various forms and modalities. The weekends training will cover Thai Yoga Massage (level 1), Reiki (level 1) and Qigong and Yoga Nidra as energy practices. Your weekend includes:
• Shared lodging (sorry, no private spaces available).
• All meals (welcome dinner on Friday, January 15; breakfast, lunch and dinner Saturday and Sunday; breakfast on Monday, January 18).
• Certification in Thai Yoga Massage Level 1.
• Certification in Reiki Level 1.
• All practices & materials.
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.
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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
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