Classes, Groups, & Trainings
At Empowered Spaces, our class offerings are a space to learn, heal, and grow together — rooted in embodiment, relationship, and collective care. Each offering is designed to support healing, nervous system nourishment, and the practice of showing up to life with more presence and compassion.
Offerings include Trainings, Yoga, Movement & Somatic Classes, Soundhealing & Expressive Arts, Therapy Groups, and offerings For Helpers, Healers & Changemakers.
Our classes and groups are facilitated by members of the Empowered Spaces Collective. Each practitioner operates their own independent business and offers their work through our shared space. Empowered Spaces does not supervise or direct these offerings; each facilitator is responsible for their own class or group.
About Equity-Rooted Pricing at Empowered Spaces
At Empowered Spaces, we recognize that access to wellness is shaped by systemic inequity — including racism, colonialism, and economic injustice. While many of our offerings use a general equity pricing scale, we also honor that Black-led and community-specific offerings may hold more explicit pricing practices rooted in lived experience, mutual aid traditions, and cultural care. We stand behind our practitioners in designing pricing structures that reflect their values, identities, and communities. These practices are part of our shared commitment to justice, access, and collective wellbeing.
Trainings
The Whole of Yoga - A Foundational and Experiential Weekend
A Circle Yoga Shala Program — Hosted by Empowered Spaces
January 30 and 31, 2027
Session 1: Saturday 9am - 12pm
Session 2: Saturday 2pm - 5pm
Session 3: Sunday 9am - 12pm
Join Circle Yoga Shala at Empowered Spaces for a weekend of practice, exploration, and conversation about the whole of Yoga. Across three three-hour gatherings, we’ll explore foundational questions about Yoga through asana, pranayama, meditation, philosophy, guided practice, and reflection. You’re welcome to join for one session or experience the full weekend.
Curious about the full teacher training? Circle Yoga Shala’s Foundational Yoga Teacher Training — a 200-hour teacher training begins in April 2027 at Empowered Spaces. The January weekend is an opportunity to experience their approach, but attending does not require you to enroll in the teacher training.
Foundational Yoga Teacher Training — A 200-hour Teacher Training
A Circle Yoga Shala Program — Hosted by Empowered Spaces
April 2027 - October 2027
Four intensive weekends. Three master teachers. A lineage-rooted training that prepares you to teach any style with confidence, intelligence, and authentic voice.
Rather than training you in a single style, Circle Yoga Shala teaches the foundational elements that can be adapted across styles and practices. You’ll explore asana, vinyasa, pranayama, bandha, drushti, biomechanics, attention, philosophy, sequencing, and authentic teaching.
The training is for people who want to:
• deepen and sustain their own Yoga practice
• understand Yoga beyond asana
• develop the skills to teach with confidence and authenticity
• serve specific communities through Yoga
• develop an adaptable approach rather than being limited to one style
• build a stronger foundation after completing a previous teacher training
Yoga Classes
Yoga to Support Trauma & Somatic Healing
A trauma-informed, somatic practice — no experience needed. You choose what feels supportive.
Tuesdays, 9:00 - 10:00 AM
This is a gentle, trauma-informed practice designed to support connection to self and healing through the body.
Together, we’ll explore accessible movement, breath, grounding, mindfulness, and moments of stillness while honoring that every body and nervous system is different. Rather than focusing on perfect poses or pushing through discomfort, this practice invites curiosity, choice, and self-compassion.
Drawing from trauma-informed yoga, somatic awareness, and holistic approaches to recovery, we’ll practice noticing what is happening in the body and developing tools that can support greater steadiness, presence, and increased capacity for resilience—both on and off the mat.
Each practice is especially supportive for those navigating recovery, stress, trauma, or major life transitions. No yoga experience is necessary.
Too Tired for This Yoga + Sound Circle
Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Led by Ash Green LMT, CYI-300 (they/them)
Grab your pillow and join us to practice yoga exactly as you are. This offering is intended to share the healing benefits of yoga beyond asana (or posture) practice through trauma informed meditation set to the music of crystal singing bowls played to balance your chakras and space for self study & reflection. Yoga doesn’t have to be movement, and meditation doesn’t need to be silent or perfectly still. All are welcome, take what resonates for you, leave the rest.
The yoga sutras of Patañajali describes the practice of yoga as an eight limbed tree, one of those limbs is asana. Meditation, the yamas & niyamas (the practice of yoga ethics), and vichara (self reflection through drawing, free writing, poetry, crafting, dancing, singing) are all yoga practices that do not require dexterity, mobility, or rigid stillness.
Movement & Somatic Classes
Awareness Through Movement ®
Thursdays, 10:00 - 11:00AM
Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:00PM
Led by Kelly Feder GCFT (she/her), Guild Certified Feldenkrais Teacher
The Gift of Awareness Through Movement. One of the gifts of a Feldenkrais practice is broadening our capacity to know thyself. To learn, not only better movement, but better ways to think, adapt, create and be with the challenges of living a full life. Prioritizing the quality of the movement rather than the achievement of it, students engage their curiosity, let go of will and solve each puzzle in their own timing. The learning is fun, challenging and often times surprising. Slowing down and reducing your efforts, you will investigate and discover unconscious preferences and habits of action. Whether you are interested in getting rid of everyday aches and pains, improving your athletic or artistic performance or coping with a chronic health issue. FELDENKRAIS WILL EMPOWER YOU to become your own teacher. Students of the Feldenkrais Method are endlessly astounded that doing less can lead to so much more flexibility, power, spontaneity, ease, freedom, ability, joy
Soundhealing & Expressive Arts
Releasing Grief from the Body with Expressive Movement
A Monthly Offering
Led by Margie (Lewitt) Golden, LCSW (she/her)
Are you experiencing feelings of grief, loss, anxiety, or overwhelm? Sometimes, these emotions get stuck in the body, causing suffering and preventing us from moving forward. Expressive Movement uses the power of movement, breath, and sound to inspire you to release pain and suffering to connect to love, harmony, and peace in a compassionate transformation. If you participated in the previous practice with Margie, this time will be different (new poses/techniques) from what you experienced before. Each practice offers and invites a different transformation.
Somatic Yoga & Sound Healing
A Monthly Offering
Each session is an invitation to gentle journey of healing, self-discovery, and embodied connection through the integration of somatic movement and sound healing. Each gathering is designed to support your nervous system, deepen body awareness, and cultivate greater resilience, presence, and self-trust.
Together, we will explore various themes such as release, grounding, growth, integration, and alignment—moving at the pace of the body and honoring our innate capacity for healing. Through mindful movement, breath, reflection, and immersive sound experiences, participants are invited to reconnect with themselves in a supportive, and nourishing environment.
Every experience offers an opportunity to slow down and return to the wisdom that lives within.
Therapy Groups
Mondays, 6:30 - 8PM
Led by Kelly Caul, MSW, LCSW, SEP (she/her)
Quieting the Storm is a 12-week therapeutic empowerment group for teen girls in high school (an inclusive space for all teen girls). Since 2009, these sacred spaces have offered support and comfort that invites each individual to explore and reconnect with her most authentic selves as she learns valuable tools to help navigate her world. Individuals find connection with one another while working on building self-compassion, confidence, self-awareness, healthy coping strategies, and skills to develop healthy relationships.
For Helpers, Healers & Changemakers.
You spend your days holding space, showing up, and carrying what others cannot. These offerings exist because that kind of care deserves to be tended in return, not as a reward for doing enough, but as a practice of sustainability, dignity, and collective wellbeing.
What lives here is designed for the long haul. For those committed to staying in the work without abandoning themselves in the process.
Offerings designed to tend the ones who tend others.
A year-long monthly gathering series for helpers, healers, and changemakers.
A place to be held while you hold so much.
For those who are done carrying it alone.
For those who know they cannot heal in isolation.
For those committed to staying in the work for the long haul.
Guided by eight members of the Empowered Spaces collective, rooted in embodied practice, collective care, and justice. Come for one gathering or stay for the full year.
Second Fridays | Starting May 8, 2026 | 6:30–8:00 PM Central
In person in St. Louis + online
A year-long community of practice — drop in monthly or root into the full arc.