Seasonal Yin Yoga · Lunar Rhythms

Move with the turning of sky & season.

A slow, grounded yin practice woven to the cycles of moon, sun, and the wheel of the year — gatherings for those who remember that rest is its own medicine.

Summer Solstice Experience →
The Wheel of the Year

Season turnings. Seasonal invitations to soften.

Each solstice and equinox offers its own quality of light — a different way the body is asked to listen. The seasonal circle moves through all of them, one season at a time.

March · Equinox

Spring
Awakening

First Bloom · Yin

The body thaws. We meet emerging light with soft hip openers and the slow unfurling of winter's stored tension.

This Season
June · Solstice

Summer
Radiance

Longest Day · Yin

At the peak of solar fire we turn inward — grounding deep postures of the heart while the sun holds the sky the longest.

September · Equinox

Autumn
Release

Falling Light · Yin

The balance tips toward dark. A practice of letting go — lung and large intestine meridians, the breath of surrender.

December · Solstice

Winter
Stillness

Longest Night · Yin

The deepest dark. We honor the body's need for pause — kidney meridians, deep rest, the medicine of the inward turn.

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The Reason Beneath the Rhythm

Why seasonally.
Why with the moon.

The modern nervous system is chronically tuned for output. We sleep through the seasons rather than with them — insulated from the light that once organized our physiology, deaf to the moon's quieter pull on water, tissue, and sleep. Seasonal practice marks time the way the body already understands it — as turnings, not deadlines — meeting the fire of summer, the grief of autumn, the stillness of winter, the rising of spring. Lunar practice tracks a subtler rhythm older than any calendar: the full moon's release, the new moon's quiet beginning, cycles the body keeps carrying whether we listen or not.

— Pillar One

Of the body

The science of the long hold.

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    Parasympathetic activation. Holds of three to seven minutes signal safety to the vagus nerve, shifting the body out of chronic sympathetic arousal and into the ventral vagal state where rest and repair actually happen.
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    Fascial response. Connective tissue — the body's emotional archive — reorganizes with time, not effort. Stillness is the only tool that reaches it.
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    Heart rate variability. Repeated parasympathetic practice measurably raises HRV, one of the clearest markers of nervous-system resilience and recovery capacity.
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    Interoception. The practice rebuilds the body's ability to feel itself — the inner sense most dulled by modern life, and the one that makes regulation possible at all.
— Pillar Two

Of the season

The wisdom of the turning.

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    Circannual rhythm. Human physiology evolved with seasonal light — melatonin, cortisol, and immune function all cycle through the year. Modern life flattens these rhythms; ritual restores them.
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    Meridian intelligence. Traditional Chinese Medicine has mapped each season to specific organ meridians for more than two thousand years — the energetic channels most open and available in that window.
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    Seasonal emotion. Each turning holds a signature feeling — spring's frustration, summer's fullness, autumn's grief, winter's fear. Meeting it on the mat is how it moves through rather than settling in.
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    The wheel itself. Cultures across millennia have marked the solstices and equinoxes as thresholds. The practice is old, well-tended, and proven long before the science named it.
"The body is a seasonal instrument.
Quarterly practice is how we tune it."
The MVMT Method

A threefold arc.
A seasonal reset.

Every Heather Jade MVMT gathering follows the same deliberate architecture — three phases engineered first to bring the nervous system down, then to open precisely the meridians the season is asking about. Same arc. Different medicine, each time.

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First · 20 min

Attune

Arrival, breath, and grounded opening. The first signal to the nervous system that it is safe to land. Vagal tone begins its downshift; the body remembers how to exhale.

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II
Heart · 50 min

Release

Long-held yin postures — three to seven minutes each — targeting the specific meridians alive in this season. Fascia softens. Stored emotion surfaces. The body does what only stillness permits.

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III
Close · 20 min

Integrate

Extended savasana, somatic reflection, and the quiet setting of intention for the season ahead. Meridians open. Nervous system resettled. You leave metabolized, not depleted.

Seasonal Targeting

What opens, and when.

Spring
Equinox
Wood · Rising
Liver & Gallbladder
Body Focus Side body, inner thighs, gentle twists.
Medicine Releases stored anger. Restores clarity of vision.
This Gathering
Summer
Solstice
Fire · Peak
Heart & Small Intestine
Body Focus Shoulders, chest, arms, heart opening.
Medicine Honors joy. Tempers overexpenditure of fire.
Autumn
Equinox
Metal · Falling
Lung & Large Intestine
Body Focus Chest, upper back, shoulders, breath work.
Medicine Moves grief. Makes clean space for the new.
Winter
Solstice
Water · Deep
Kidney & Bladder
Body Focus Hips, spine, back body, deepest rest.
Medicine Meets fear. Restores the body's reserves.
Heather Jade seated in meditation
certified
yin teacher est. 2015
Meet Heather

A practice tended over two decades.

I've been on the mat for more than twenty years — long enough to feel seasons move through my body in ways I could never have planned for. Yin is what taught me to stay.

For the last ten years I've been guiding others through this slower practice — certified, studied, and still learning. My work lives at the meeting place of body and calendar: how the moon pulls, how the seasons ask different things of us, how stillness becomes its own kind of movement.

20+
Years of Practice
10
Years Teaching
RYT
Certified
Heather practicing yin yoga outdoors in dappled light Heather in seated meditation beneath juniper trees
Practice Along

Meet me on the mat.

A small library of practices — brief moments and full sessions — for the days between gatherings, or for when you just need to land somewhere quiet.

Brief practices

Shorts · 60 seconds

Full sessions

Complete Class · Yin
Full Class

A Grounding Yin Sequence

Full Class

Long Holds for Deep Release

New practices, every season

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An Invitation

"Rest is not the absence of movement —
it is where the next movement gathers."

— a reminder, for the longest day