Music Fest and Yoga

Looking for something to do this weekend? Head on over to the 4th Annual Centennial Village Music Fest - featuring Alluem Yoga!!! It's a big weekend! In honor of National Yoga Month, free classes are going on nationwide, such as the free classes Alluem Yoga will be giving at Music Fest outside at Lincoln School on Centennial Ave!

Saturday, September 18th

Adult Flow with Gina - 5:30-6:30pm

Kids Yoga with Karen - 5:30-6:30pm

Not local to the Cranford area? Check out yogamonth.org for an event near you!

Back to School Yoga

Barnes & Noble @ School featuring Alluem Yoga of Cranford, NJ!

Barnes & Noble Menlo Park brings you B&N @ School Open House! Local educators and administrators are invited to join us in the debut celebration of the new B&N @ School department. Come see all of the great new products featured in the brand new aisles! Enjoy games, storytimes, raffles, entertainment, author talks, and yoga for students and teachers! This event, going on all weekend, is free to the public!

September 11th - Join Karen for Yoga for Students at 1pm! All ages welcome! Learn the benefits of yoga for students through the use of stories, games, breath work, and playful yoga poses!

September 12th - Join Gina for Yoga for Educators at 6pm! Learn the benefits of yoga for teachers and support staff! The new school year is a great time to develop your yoga practice, or introduce yourself for the first time, as a way to help you manage and deal with the pressures of the school year. Find more joy in doing what you love, educating today's youth, and equip yourself with additional tools and knowledge for helping your students achieve.

Click here for directions to Barnes & Noble, Menlo Park

Alluem Kids Movie Night

Join the Alluem Kids for Movie Night

Friday, August 27th from 7:30-9:30pm

Featuring Disney's Mulan

Drop the kids off at Alluem and enjoy two hours to yourself on a Friday night!!!

Your kids will enjoy an enlightening Chinese-folktale that celebrates honor, courage, and the importance of family!

$10 entry fee

100% of the proceeds go to Off the Mat into the World Global Seva Challenge.

Entry fee includes snack, drink, and a chance to win prizes!

You do NOT have to be a registered student to attend. ALL CHILDREN ARE WELCOME!

Sign up online at www.alluemyoga.com - workshops tab

Please make your donation at the door. Thank you!

Sing Yoga

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Sing Yoga and Alluem Yoga Join Voices

This past Sunday after a wonderful Flow Donation Based class with Clarissa Alliano, Alluem Families joined their voices with Sing Yoga for a family kirtan. With the beautifully talented lead, Nancy Corrigan, Sing Yoga of Staten Island, is an all ages folk-chant sing-a-long musical project designed to raise money for the Bal Ashram Orphanage. The Bal Ashram is a safe home for children who have no means to further their lives. They are provided with love and care, yoga, meditation, and an education. At these donation based events, Sing Yoga raises money for the abandoned children of the ashram in Varanasi, India so that the children will one day be able to thrive. Baba Harihar Ramji (Babaji), Guru of the SonoMa Ashram in Sonoma, CA, envisioned this safe place as an inspiration for many - not only the children themselves, but also the surrounding communities, as well as the yoga communities abroad. People from all over the globe have visited the ashram to support, share their talents and gifts, and simply practice seva. People such as Sing Yoga and the Alluem Families that came out to the studio this past Sunday, are also able to practice seva from their own home towns thanks to Babaji. We have been touched by his mission, his teachings, and his kind heart.

Along with the money raised this weekend, Alluem Yoga will be sending the children of the Ashram drawings and mandalas (being created in the picture below) as well as a generous donation of 55 new picture books from Barnes & Noble to help build the library of the ashram. The Alluem Kids were inspired by the bright faces of the children's pictures they were shown and learned of their culture by hearing what a day in the life of an ashram child is like - from waking up at 4am to meditate to going to school and playing games just like themselves. And while the Bal Ashram is a beautiful, safe, and nurturing environment, all realized how lucky they are to have families and home to call their own. One of the 4 yr old's main concern - "Do the children had enough food to eat?" Their hearts are huge.

Thank you, Sing Yoga, for bringing us the gift of sound, togetherness, love, and light. And thank you to all the families who came out to support. Your generous offerings are ever so appreciated. Blessings to you all!

Welcome Alluem Yoga!!!!

Join us this weekend at Alluem Yoga! New to the Cranford, NJ scene at 347 Lincoln Avenue East, otherwise known as The Historic Droescher's Mill on the Rahway River, is one of the most beautiful historical buildings you may ever stepped foot in. It's naturalistic feel emits peace and serenity unlike any other stand alone yoga studio I've seen. And not to be partial since I'm one of them, but the teachers who will be instructing at this studio are all simply amazing human beings. Owner, Gina Pachkowski, has truly pulled together a great group to help create a supportive and nurturing environment for all of the future students!

The Open House begins tonight from 5-8pm with a Free Chair Yoga class from 6-7pm with Eileen Michie. Tomorrow the building will be open to view from 10am-2pm with a free Vinyasa Flow style class from 10-11am with Gina. Sunday will be open the same hours with a free Kid's Yoga class from 10-10:45am with me!. So stop by whenever you can this weekend to tour the studio, meet the teachers, and to take a free class!