Winter
Transformation
See Clearly. Feel Fully. Love Wisely.
Winter 2027
Practice
The Container
Insight alone has a ceiling.
You have done the work, perhaps for years. You have sat with a skilled therapist, read the books, grasped the neuroscience. You can name your defense mechanisms in real time. And still not stop.
Understanding why you are stuck is one kind of knowing. Learning to move differently is another kind entirely. It lives in the body. It is built through repetition. It does not come from insight alone.
Winter is the season that makes this possible. The days are short, the calendar is quiet, and there is nowhere to be but here. That is exactly the condition sustained interior work requires.
It comes from sustained practice over time in a container that truly holds you. That is what this program offers.
Do you recognize yourself?
The Therapy Graduate
You have been in talk therapy for years, perhaps excellent talk therapy. The understanding of your history is real and hard-earned. Yet you still find yourself caught in the same arguments, the same anxiety loops, the same quiet distance from your own life.
Insight has not become instinct. Knowing has not become being.
You have knowledge without the corresponding skills. The next step is embodied practice, not more analysis.
The Successful but Stuck
You have built something real and impressive. By every external measure, you have made it. Yet beneath the surface runs a persistent low hum of disconnection, from your body, from genuine presence, from the deeper sense of yourself.
The wins keep coming, but they land softer, feel flatter. "Is this really it?"
External success is earned through strategy and effort. Inner aliveness requires a different kind of training entirely.
Three Phases. One Arc.
These are not separate topics. They form a sequence in which each phase builds the foundation for the next. Each phase is anchored by an intensive weekend and carried forward by Tuesday evening practice.
See Clearly
Intensive: Jan 8–10Before you can transform anything, you must see it clearly, which is harder than it sounds. Most of us live in Author Mode: the mind constantly narrating, evaluating, interpreting. This phase trains Camera Mode: simply receiving what is actually present without commentary.
Grounded in Samatha (Calm-Abiding) and Vipassana (Insight) meditation, this phase builds the stable, spacious foundation that makes clear seeing possible. The goal is equanimity: not detachment, but the genuine capacity to be with experience as it is.
Opening weekend January 8–10, followed by Tuesday sessions January 12, 19, and 26.
Feel Fully
Intensive: Feb 12–14With awareness stabilized, we move into the body, where emotion actually lives, regardless of what the mind thinks. This is the phase most healing approaches skip or skim over. Talk therapy often stays in the head. A weekend retreat rarely provides enough time for deep somatic patterns to shift.
Emotional resilience is not the absence of feeling; it is the capacity to feel fully without being overwhelmed. That capacity is trainable. This is where the training happens.
Tuesday sessions February 2 and 9, intensive weekend February 12–14, then Tuesday February 16.
Love Wisely
Intensive: Mar 5–7The first two phases transform your relationship with yourself. This phase extends that transformation into your relationships with others. Through Metta (Loving-Kindness) meditation, compassion practices, and relational healing work, you will learn the difference between genuine compassion and spiritual bypass.
People in this phase often describe a quiet, unexpected lightness, not because anything external changed, but because they stopped carrying so much.
Tuesday sessions February 23 and March 2, closing weekend March 5–7.
Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.
Three Intensive Weekends
Friday 6–9 pm | Saturday 12–8 pm | Sunday 12–6 pm. Extended time away from daily pace, creating depth that weekly sessions alone cannot reach. Each weekend includes mindful movement, somatic practice, meditation, and group process.
January 8–10 · February 12–14 · March 5–7
Eight Tuesday Gatherings
6:00–8:00 pm | In-Person + Zoom. Not lectures, two hours of guided practice, thematic exploration, live Q&A, and honest group reflection. Recordings provided.
Jan 12, 19, 26 · Feb 2, 9, 16, 23 · Mar 2
Unlimited Studio Access
Your full Lynden Yoga Collective membership is included for the nine weeks of the program: mindful flows, restorative yoga, pilates, and more.
Value: $300–$450
Personalized Mentorship
Direct access throughout the program. Led by Kyle Kloostra, E-RYT 500, with 300-hour advanced certification and Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification trained under Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.
Value: $700+
What this is.
What it isn't.
- ✕Not group therapy. No diagnosis, no clinical treatment, no substitute for professional mental health care if you need it.
- ✕Not a yoga retreat. Physical practices are tools, not the goal.
- ✕Not a quick fix. This program requires full participation and genuine willingness to show up for yourself.
- ◯A living community. A small, committed group doing real inner work side by side, witnessing growth, practicing the courage to be seen.
- ◯An embodied practice. Transformation happens through repeated, felt experience in the body. This gives you the sustained container to make change that actually sticks.
- ◯A return to yourself. Beneath the roles you play and the story you carry, there is something intact. This work clears what has covered that over.
In their own words.
A challenge, and a real learning opportunity.
Stan C.
Program participant
Life changing.
Asha T.
Program participant
The support from the teacher and the other students was incredible.
Carrie J.
Program participant
Six practices. One integrated life.
Each skill is taught progressively across the nine weeks, not introduced once and abandoned, but layered, deepened, and made genuinely yours through repetition and community.
Samatha Meditation
The practice of calm-abiding. A stable, settled quality of attention, the kind of inner stillness that makes everything else in this program possible. Not forced calm, but genuine groundedness that holds even in difficulty.
Vipassana Meditation
Insight meditation, learning to observe the actual texture of experience as it arises and passes. Thoughts, sensations, emotions: seen clearly, without being swept away. The foundational seeing practice of the Theravada tradition.
RAIN Meditation
A structured practice for working with difficult emotions: Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture. RAIN turns toward the hard stuff rather than away, and teaches your nervous system that you can meet what arises without being undone.
Metta Meditation
Loving-kindness practice, the deliberate cultivation of goodwill toward yourself, toward those you love, toward difficult people, and toward all beings. Metta is not a feeling you wait for. It is a skill you develop.
Somatic Experiencing
The body keeps the score, and it also holds the path through. Somatic work trains you to track sensation, discharge stuck energy, and process emotion at the level where it actually lives. This is the bridge between insight and lasting change.
Mindful Relating
Presence is not just a solo practice. Mindful Relating brings everything learned inward into contact with others, learning to listen without preparing your response, to speak from sensation rather than strategy.
Every date, before you commit.
Nine weeks. Three intensive weekends and eight Tuesday evenings. All in-person sessions at 408 Front Street, Suite 101, Lynden.
Every tier. Full access.
Total program value: $2,000–$2,400+ · All tiers include all three intensives, Tuesday gatherings, studio membership, materials and mentorship
For those facing genuine financial hardship. Requires a brief statement of need and commitment to full participation.
Apply for This SpotFull access and community. The standard path into the program.
Reserve Your SpotFor those who can invest generously to help build the future of this work at Lynden Yoga Collective.
Choose This TierAll tiers include
- Three intensive weekends
- Eight Tuesday gatherings
- Unlimited studio membership (9 weeks)
- All course materials
- Personal mentorship access
- Session recordings
- Intentionally small cohort
Your spot is waiting.
This is an intentionally small cohort. Open the application below, reach out directly, or book a free 15-minute call to discuss fit or apply for a supported spot.
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"Your wiser, more embodied self is not waiting somewhere in the future."
The conditions for it to emerge begin January 8. An intentionally small cohort. Three phases. One arc.