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Dates
Sunday 04/27/2025 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Pricing
$0.00 Community Hike - April 2025
Originally scheduled for March 16, our community hike has been postponed until Sunday, April 27.
Join Anne, Eloise, and other Circle Yoga friends for an afternoon hike in Rock Creek Park. We'll be mostly on unpaved trails with moderate elevation gain. In addition to hiking and chatting, we'll practice a few minutes of walking meditation together and finish with a little bit of yoga (no yoga experience or mat needed).
This is a free community hike for students, teachers, staff, and friends of Circle Yoga. Please sign up in advance if you'd like to come, and feel free to bring your family or a friend! Furry friends are also welcome if they are friendly and leashed.
Please bring your own water bottle, and wear closed toed shoes. We look forward to seeing you on the trail!
Location: We'll meet at the community gardens on Horse Stable Road, which is at the intersection of Oregon Ave NW and Northampton St NW. We'll gather between 1:00 and 1:15pm, and we'll start our hike at 1:15pm. There is parking at the community gardens, but if no spaces are available, you can park on the other side of Oregon Avenue, on Northampton Street NW. Our meeting point is about 1.5 miles from Circle Yoga. If you need a ride from the studio, contact us.
Rain plan: If it's drizzling, we'll still plan to hike but if it's more extreme weather we'll cancel. Be sure to sign up in advance so that we can email you if plans change. If the weather is questionable, we'll make a call by 11:00am and send an update by email.
Anne Kennedy
More than 18 years ago, Anne called her mom to report that she was leaving her desk job to train as a yoga teacher. There was dead silence and a lot of worry on the other end. Today, Anne has a job that she never could have dreamed up. As the Executive Director at Circle Yoga Cooperative, she gets to spend her work hours at a mission-driven, cooperative business, where she is barefoot most of the time. She loves working side by side with a such a talented and committed group of teachers and staff. After a 5-year break from teaching weekly classes at the studio, Anne is back on Tuesday mornings at 10:30am.
Eloise Russo
Eloise began practicing yoga in the early 2000s as a way to soften and unwind while training for a marathon. As yoga became a more integral part of her life, and marathon running faded into the background, she wanted to deepen her practice and joined Circle Yoga's teacher training in 2017. Eloise later completed restorative yoga teacher training with Jillian Pransky at Kripalu, meditation teacher training with Tracee Stanley, yoga for active aging through YogaWorks, and a 600-hour Ayurveda health counselor training through Shakti School focused on holistic health and healing. Eloise is drawn to the more restorative and yin aspects of yoga and teaches the practices that have been most supportive and healing for her. Eloise serves as the Director of Finance at Circle Yoga, and is also a positive psychology coach.