Circle Yoga Cooperative Seva Saturday

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Seva Saturday - May 2024

Take your yoga off the mat for this volunteer clean-up event with the Little Falls Watershed Alliance. This kicks off the first of our Seva Saturdays—Seva means “selfless service” in Sanskrit—where we gather volunteers from Circle Yoga to work on service projects with local organizations in the community. Bring your friends and family!

For this inaugural Seva Saturday, we'll volunteer with the Little Falls Watershed Alliance, which is coordinating several groups to clean up the whole watershed on May 11. Our group will be working on the Willett Branch of the Little Falls Watershed and the Capital Crescent Trail. We'll park at the Bethesda Pool parking lot. If you'd like to carpool from Circle Yoga, arrive at the studio by 8:30am to share a ride. If you're meeting us there, arrive at the Bethesda Pool parking lot by 9:00am. We'll share introductions and a stretch or two before breaking up into work groups.

Our volunteer work will wrap up around 12:00pm. We'll have a cooler of beverages and do a short check in exploring what it means to take our yoga off the mat. This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with others in the Circle Yoga community, learn more about our neighbors and neighborhoods and discover ways we can offer support.

Please wear boots and clothing that can get muddy. Gloves and bags will be provided; bring grabbers if you have them. Children 8 and up, accompanied by an adult, are welcome. Volunteer hours with Little Falls Watershed Alliance are approved for MCPS SSL hours.

This event is hosted by Kellie Finn, Circle Yoga teacher and board member, and Ruby Carmen, Circle Yoga board member and a long-time student at the studio. Questions? Contact Kellie Finn at gorfop@gmail.com.

Kellie Finn

Kellie Finn is immensely grateful for her New England upbringing, family, friends, sunshine, good jokes, moon gazing, night walks, ocean breezes, lingering hugs, fresh vegetables, road trips, adjectives, and an ever growing boot collection. She has been studying yoga since a volunteer summer at Omega in 1991, and teaching classes/working privately as a Yoga Therapist since September 2001, after two years of volunteer service and study at Kripalu Institute. She is a recent transplant to the DC area where she serves as a Clinic Supervisor at Maryland University of Integrative Health's Yoga Therapy Program, writes, and continues her private practice exploring how the practices and philosophy of yoga can heal trauma and guide individuals into a life of communal empowerment.

Kellie's alignment based classes are infused with humor, philosophy, poetry, self-inquiry, ethical explorations, education, and tools for carrying the practices of yoga off the mat. She teaches postures in layers with consistent encouragement to listen to the brilliance of one's own body / being. She believes that the practices of yoga offer us the opportunity to connect to the Grace within ourselves such that we can move as far as possible beyond our own being to cultivate connection in the world without losing recognition of Grace. She looks forward to seeing you on the mat!