
EVENTS
At Uptown, we offer a variety of opportunities to deepen your practice. If you are looking to learn more, workshops, retreats and teacher training will take you to the next level. Common misconception is that you must have an advanced physical practice to join. No pre-requisite is required, just a willingness to learn.

Arm Balances for Beginners
with Emilee Hamilton
Sunday, July 13, 2025
1-3pm, Austin Ranch Studio
Join Emilee to explore a variety of arm balances and gain techniques to approach them with greater confidence. Find your inner strength, tap into courage, and reconnect to a sense of childlike playfulness. Leave your ego at the door and get ready to have some fun!
Warm up with a vinyasa flow designed to fire up your core, build strength, open shoulders, and inspire courage. Dive deep into form, gaze and core strength in order to take flight. Hone in on building strength and maximizing technique in order to find greater confidence while on your hands. Receive detailed instruction, hands on assistance, and even use props to explore the arm balances themselves.
No experience is necessary - just come with a playful attitude!
This workshop is part of our Yoga Summer School -6 Workshop Series. Purchase alone or as part of the series.
Purchase: "Summer School -$100" (3 Summer School Workshops for the price of 2!) or “Arm Balance-$50”

Engaging the Bandhas: Core Foundation
with Uptown Staff
Saturday, July 19, 2025
2-4pm, Uptown Studio
Whether your looking to press into a handstand, or to maintain a healthy yoga practice until you're 105, it's all about the Bandhas! In Sanskrit, "Bandha" means to lock, hold, or tighten. When practiced with the breath, bandhas enable you to hold postures longer and safer.
Join Naomi for this workshop to learn how to engage and maintain strength in the pelvic floor and the deepest abdominal muscles - the Mula Bandha and the Udiyana Bandha. These core activation techniques are key to finding stability in our internal muscular structure, which is beneficial in supporting and protecting the spine and highly effective to maintaining lightness in postures.
Working with the breath to ignite this internal power, we will explore how to activate the bandhas, keep the lumbar spine safe, as well as how to find lightness during various "float-through" transitions and and balance in basic arm balances like Crow, Firefly, and Scale pose.
This workshop is part of our Yoga Summer School -6 Workshop Series. Purchase alone or as part of the series.
Purchase: "Summer School -$100" (3 Summer School workshops for the price of 2!) or “Bandhas-$50”

Sound Bath
with Jenn Usherr
Friday, July 25, 2025
7:30-8:30pm, Uptown Studio
The July New Moon will open us to creativity, self-expression, and new beginnings with a sense of ease and support! Come experience a state of deep relaxation and peace and open to the ease of this new moon energy. Jenn will offer a restful meditation with an amazing sound journey, guided by the sacred sounds of crystal bowls and gongs.
Sound healing is based on the principle that vibrations change consciousness. This practice is known by ancient traditions to “tune the soul”. The healing vibrations pass through our bodies, opening blockages, helping you center and connect with the divine within. Using sound as a meditation helps eliminate the chatter of the thinking mind, allowing for a deep connection to self. It is within this connection that everything slips away, and we come into a state of deep peace opening to that inner wisdom.
Bring your yoga mat and feel free to bring your own blanket, pillow, cushions, or eye covering for added comfort.
Cost $40
Purchase: “Sound Bath -$40”

Yoga Inversions: Foundations of Going Upside Down
with Emilee Hamilton
Sunday, Aug 3, 2025
1-3pm, Austin Ranch Studio
Want to explore a new perspective of yoga? Join Emilee for an introduction on how to invert (go upside down into yoga poses) safely and steadily. Get a step by step approach, learn alternatives, variations, and the reasons why being upside down can be good for your body and mind.
Gain confidence in the foundations of Headstand so that you feel empowered to plug into this dynamic, yet calming posture, then explore the similarities to Forearm Balance and Handstand.
Dedicated instruction, techniques and helpful tips go a long way in gaining the strength and confidence to get your toes off the ground. We will warm up key muscle groups and use the wall while learning the foundations to put our feet up in the sky.
This workshop is part of our Yoga Summer School -6 Workshop Series. Purchase alone or as part of the series.
Purchase: "Summer School -$100" (3 Summer School workshops for the price of 2!) or “Headstand -$50”