Workshops & Special Events
Join Us for Upcoming Workshops!
Please note that special events are priced separately from regular classes. Monthly members receive a discount.
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Relax & Create w/Roxanne Osga
Join us for an afternoon of relaxation and creativity! This event features a gentle yoga session to nurture your body, a small canvas art project to spark your creativity, and journaling to inspire reflection and mindfulness. All levels are welcome.
Saturday, January 25th 1-4 PM
$50
Please Pre-register by Tuesday, January 21stMeet Roxanne, a yoga instructor based in Petoskey, Michigan. Her yoga journey began as a personal exploration, seeking balance and mindfulness in the 90’s.
Roxanne's connection with yoga took a profound turn after she experienced a significant injury that led her to lean on her practice through the rehabilitation process. This renewed interest sparked a deep-seated desire within her to share the incredible benefits of yoga with others.
Beyond the yoga studio, Roxanne finds joy in exploring the natural beauty of Michigan, particularly in the enchanting landscapes of the Upper Peninsula. Her pastimes include waterfalling, painting, and photography.
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Candlelight Sound Bath with Chakra Meditation
Realign your energetic mind and body as you experience the resonance of each chakra in this sound bath with chakra meditation. Discover the resonance within your body as the sound waves of gongs, singing bowls, and other instruments wash over you.Relaxation, realignment, and rejuvenation await you in this atmospheric, centering practice.
Friday, January 31st
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Members: $35
Drop-in: $40 -
Friends & Family Month
Spread the self-love this February, by inviting your friends and family to join you for yoga classes!
NLY Ultimate, Zen Flex & Essential members can bring friends and family members to any classes for the month of February:
1 FREE Class to each first-time visitor to NLY!
Every guest who attends class = an entry into a prize drawing for their NLY member!
1st prize: Yoga Prop Makeover (yoga mat, bolster, block & NLY T-shirt)
2nd prize: 1 Healing Arts Session for you & 1 for a friend
3rd prize: Workshop for 2 -
Yoga for the Winter Blues
Banish the winter doldrums with a heart-opening yoga series designed to lift your spirits and warm your soul.
This practice combines empowering heart-opening poses along with insights from the Yoga Sutras, offering tools for cultivating inner light and resilience during the darker months.
Join us to move, breathe, and connect, leaving each session feeling rejuvenated and inspired.
Sundays from 10 AM - 11 AM, February 2 - March 2
$25 drop-in or $100 pre-paid for the 5 week series
$80 for the series for NLY members
All Events Take Place at Northern Life Yoga Studio & Healing Arts:
529 Court Street
Sault Ste. Marie, MI, 49783
United States (map)
Northern Life Yoga Boutique
Shop and save in our Boutique! Shop for a variety of logo activewear and yoga props. We carry Jade Yoga mats, blankets, blocks, belts and mat cleaner and Hugger Mugger bolsters in a variety of styles, colors and patterns.
Relax & Create w/Roxanne Osga
Join us for a relaxing afternoon of relaxation and creativity! This event features a gentle yoga session to nurture your body, a small canvas art project to spark your creativity, and journaling to inspire reflection and mindfulness. All levels are welcome.
Saturday, January 25th 1-4 PM
$50
Candlelight Sound Bath & Guided Meditation
Realign your energetic mind and body as you experience the resonance of each chakra in this sound bath with chakra meditation. Discover the resonance within your body as the sound waves of gongs, singing bowls, and other instruments wash over you.
Relaxation, realignment, and rejuvenation await you in this atmospheric, centering practice.
Friends & Family Month
Join us at Northern Life Yoga for Friends & Family Month!
Do you have a friend, a partner, a parent, a cousin, or anyone else you love who has always wanted to try yoga, but can never seem to find the time? This month is the time for them to come into the studio and discover all the benefits of a yoga practice alongside their favorite yogi, you!
Each guest brought by an NLY member (Ultimate Serenity, Zen Flex, & Essential membership holders) equals an additional entry for a prize drawing for that NLY member!
Prizes include a Yoga Prop Makeover, 1 Healing Arts Session for you and 1 for a friend, and a Workshop for 2!
Yoga for the Winter Blues
Banish the winter doldrums with a heart-opening yoga series designed to lift your spirits and warm your soul.
This practice combines empowering heart-opening poses along with insights from the Yoga Sutras, offering tools for cultivating inner light and resilience during the darker months.
Join us to move, breathe, and connect, leaving each session feeling rejuvenated and inspired.
Sundays from 10 AM - 11 AM, February 2nd - March 2nd
$25 drop-in or $100 pre-paid for the 5 week series
$80 for the series for NLY members
Yoga for the Winter Blues
Banish the winter doldrums with a heart-opening yoga series designed to lift your spirits and warm your soul.
This practice combines empowering heart-opening poses along with insights from the Yoga Sutras, offering tools for cultivating inner light and resilience during the darker months.
Join us to move, breathe, and connect, leaving each session feeling rejuvenated and inspired.
Sundays from 10 AM - 11 AM, February 2nd - March 2nd
$25 drop-in or $100 pre-paid for the 5 week series
$80 for the series for NLY members
Yoga for the Winter Blues
Banish the winter doldrums with a heart-opening yoga series designed to lift your spirits and warm your soul.
This practice combines empowering heart-opening poses along with insights from the Yoga Sutras, offering tools for cultivating inner light and resilience during the darker months.
Join us to move, breathe, and connect, leaving each session feeling rejuvenated and inspired.
Sundays from 10 AM - 11 AM, February 2nd - March 2nd
$25 drop-in or $100 pre-paid for the 5 week series
$80 for the series for NLY members
Yoga for the Winter Blues
Banish the winter doldrums with a heart-opening yoga series designed to lift your spirits and warm your soul.
This practice combines empowering heart-opening poses along with insights from the Yoga Sutras, offering tools for cultivating inner light and resilience during the darker months.
Join us to move, breathe, and connect, leaving each session feeling rejuvenated and inspired.
Sundays from 10 AM - 11 AM, February 2nd - March 2nd
$25 drop-in or $100 pre-paid for the 5 week series
$80 for the series for NLY members
Yoga for the Winter Blues
Banish the winter doldrums with a heart-opening yoga series designed to lift your spirits and warm your soul.
This practice combines empowering heart-opening poses along with insights from the Yoga Sutras, offering tools for cultivating inner light and resilience during the darker months.
Join us to move, breathe, and connect, leaving each session feeling rejuvenated and inspired.
Sundays from 10 AM - 11 AM, February 2nd - March 2nd
$25 drop-in or $100 pre-paid for the 5 week series
$80 for the series for NLY members
Yin & Meditation
Experience relaxation and renewal in this special Yin Yoga workshop. Through gentle, long-held poses and mindful breathwork, we’ll create space in the body and mind, letting go of what is no longer serving us and making space for the year ahead.
Let the calm and grounding practice of yin yoga guide you in cultivating focus, clarity, and inspiration as we make our way through January. Ideal for beginners and all levels, this workshop is an ideal opportunity to recommit to your intentions for the New Year.
Vision Board Workshop
Start the New Year with clarity and creativity in this inspiring Vision Board Workshop. We’ll begin with a grounding meditation to center your mind and connect with your goals for 2025. From there, you’ll channel your intentions into a hands-on crafting session to design a personalized vision board that reflects your dreams and aspirations.
Whether you’re focused on career, relationships, health, or personal growth, this workshop will help you visualize your path and set the tone for an empowered and purposeful year ahead. All materials are provided—just bring your imagination and an open heart!
Yin & Intentions
Begin the New Year with clarity and purpose in this special Yin Yoga workshop. Through gentle, long-held poses and mindful breathwork, we’ll create space in the body and mind to reflect on the past year and set meaningful intentions for the year ahead.
Let the calm and grounding practice of yin yoga guide you in cultivating focus, balance, and inspiration as you embark on your next chapter. Ideal for beginners and all levels, this workshop is your opportunity to reset, realign, and step into the New Year with intention and grace.
Yoga Nidra & Sound Bath
Similar to meditation, Yoga Nidra is a fully-guided practice of conscious awareness that may induce a sleep-like state while still being fully aware of your surroundings. Combined with Jaquie’s resonant sound bowls and gongs, this internal journey will help you check in with your emotional body, your nervous system, and your thoughts of self, helping to release tension, reduce anxiety, increase resilience, and potentially even improve your sleep.
Nourish & Thrive w/Ashley Ellis
Join Ashly Ellis after class for 15-30 minute FREE Health & Wellness group chats about the following session topics:
Impact of urgency culture in women’s health and wellness
Energize your life: strategies to reduce fatigue
Strength-training for women's health
Balanced nutrition for hormone health
Flexibility and mobility for chronic pain
Approaching women's weight loss in the New Year
Tuesday, December 3rd, 6:15-6:45 PM
January & February TBA
December Challenge
Attend 5 (or more) classes in the month of December and be entered into a drawing to win a complimentary Sound Bath!
Attend 10 (or more) classes in the month of December and be entered into a drawing to win your choice of either a complimentary 60-minute Massage with Shelly or 60-minute Reiki Session with Autumn.
Step back from the hustle and bustle of the holiday season for a chance to win some extra self-care, nourishment, and time to unwind!
This Challenge is a Member Benefit, complimentary for all membership-holding clients. If you’re not a member, but wish to participate, you can sign up to become a member today, or attend using your class passes or drop-ins.
Let your instructor know that you’d like to sign up for the December Challenge!
Sunday Sound Bath Meditation
Take time to rest and rejuvenate in this deeply healing sound bath meditation led by our resident massage therapist, Jaquie. Join us on a soulful journey towards inner peace and profound tranquility, surrounded by the healing vibrations of crystal singing bowls, gongs, and more.
Mind, Body, Spirit Trifecta! Sound Bath, Restorative & Reiki
This event offers a unique blend of three soothing practices: a restorative yoga session to gently stretch and release tension, a therapeutic sound bath to bathe you in calming frequencies, and a rejuvenating Reiki experience to balance your energy.
Align & Thrive: A Functional Anatomy Journey
Part 1: Bones & Alignment
In this session, we’ll explore the skeletal structure and how proper alignment of the bones forms the foundation for safe and effective movement.
Fall Sound Bath & Yin Yoga w/Essential Oils
Embrace the serenity of fall with our special Sound Bath & Yin Yoga workshop enhanced with the healing properties of essential oils. As the season invites us to slow down and reflect, this workshop offers the perfect opportunity to deeply relax and restore.
This nurturing experience will help you reset, find balance, and prepare for the seasonal transition with a peaceful heart and mind.
Sunday Sound Bath Meditation
Take time to rest and rejuvenate in this deeply healing sound bath meditation. Join us on a soulful journey towards inner peace and profound tranquility, surrounded by the healing vibrations of crystal singing bowls, gongs, and more.
Self-Care Extravaganza
Embrace self-care with our biannual Self-Care Extravaganza! Come join us in the studio, and experience a variety of holistic modalities to bring greater balance to your busy lives. We gather local vendors together to display their care products and to share about the services they offer, helping make self-care accessible in our community.
Enter the raffle to win self-care prize packages, and schedule abbreviated, one-on-one sessions with Northern Life Yoga practitioners in the healing modalities of Reiki and Massage.
Following our Extravaganza, join us for a 60-minute Sound Bath (register separately, seen above) to put our words into action, taking an hour out of your day to tend to your mind, body, and spirit!
Restorative & Reiki
Snuggle in for a restorative yoga class led by Allie that uses props to find gentle and relaxing stretches. During this fully-guided class, Autumn will offer the choice of hands-on or hands-off reiki, an energetic healing practice, to help guide you deeper into relaxation. Wear comfy clothes and share in the benefits of stress relief, relaxation, gentle stretching, and community!
Members: $30 Drop-in: $35
Yoga Nidra & Sound Bath
Calm your mind and body and discover deep relaxation through this guided yogic sleep practice. Similar to meditation, Yoga Nidra is a fully-guided practice of conscious awareness that may induce a sleep-like state while still being fully aware of your surroundings. Combined with Jaquie’s resonant sound bowls and gongs, this internal journey will help you check in with your emotional body, your nervous system, and your thoughts of self, helping to release tension, reduce anxiety, increase resilience, and potentially even improve your sleep.
Drop-in: $35 Members: $30
Sunday Sound Bath Meditation
Take time to rest and rejuvenate in this deeply healing sound bath meditation led by our resident massage therapist, Jaquie. Join us on a soulful journey towards inner peace and profound tranquility, surrounded by the healing vibrations of crystal singing bowls, gongs, and more.
Members: $30
Drop-in: $35
Sunday Sound Bath Meditation
Take time to rest and rejuvenate in this deeply healing sound bath meditation led by our resident massage therapist, Jaquie. Join us on a soulful journey towards inner peace and profound tranquility, surrounded by the healing vibrations of crystal singing bowls, gongs, and more.
Members: $30
Drop-in: $35
Radiance Revival Ritual
Join Allyse Amarose for a mystical meditation circle and group oracle reading. By connecting to your inner voice and reflecting on priorities, you'll leave refreshed with an open heart.
Sunday Sound Bath Meditation
Take time to rest and rejuvenate in this deeply healing sound bath meditation led by our resident massage therapist, Jaquie. Join us on a soulful journey towards inner peace and profound tranquility, surrounded by the healing vibrations of crystal singing bowls, gongs, and more.
Members: $30
Drop-in: $35
Radiance Revival Ritual
Join Allyse Amarose for a mystical meditation circle and group oracle reading. By connecting to your inner voice and reflecting on priorities, you'll leave refreshed with an open heart.
Belly Dance in honor of Sharon Kennedy
Celebrate the life of Sharon Kennedy with the upbeat movement of belly dance! We're thrilled to welcome Lola Kennedy back to Northern Life Yoga to guide an all-levels belly dance class.
Sound Bath Meditation
Close out June with Jaquie in this 90-minute Sound Bath experience. Surround yourself with the resonance of a variety of crystal sound bowls, gongs, and more. Allow Jaquie’s artistry and the sound waves she creates to wash over and through you, in a relaxing and restorative practice that reaches deep within to help you release residual tension and stress from your day.
Drop-in: $40 Members: $35
Spring into Health
Join us for this 6-week health journey as NLY collaborates with Ashly Ellis, combining her nutrition expertise with NLY instructor, Morgan Jorgensen’s physical hot yoga flow every Tuesday from 6:00 - 7:15 PM, April 2nd to May 7th.
Spring into Health
Join us for this 6-week health journey as NLY collaborates with Ashly Ellis, combining her nutrition expertise with NLY instructor, Morgan Jorgensen’s physical hot yoga flow every Tuesday from 6:00 - 7:15 PM, April 2nd to May 7th.
Sound Bath Meditation
Join Jaquie, NLY’s resident massage therapist, for this Sound Bath Meditation. With extensive training in sound, color, and light therapy as well as energetic bodywork, she will lead you on a resonant journey to peace and tranquility.
Spring into Health
Join us for this 6-week health journey as NLY collaborates with Ashly Ellis, combining her nutrition expertise with NLY instructor, Morgan Jorgensen’s physical hot yoga flow every Tuesday from 6:00 - 7:15 PM, April 2nd to May 7th.
Spring into Health
Join us for this 6-week health journey as NLY collaborates with Ashly Ellis, combining her nutrition expertise with NLY instructor, Morgan Jorgensen’s physical hot yoga flow every Tuesday from 6:00 - 7:15 PM, April 2nd to May 7th.
Spring into Health
Join us for this 6-week health journey as NLY collaborates with Ashly Ellis, combining her nutrition expertise with NLY instructor, Morgan Jorgensen’s physical hot yoga flow every Tuesday from 6:00 - 7:15 PM, April 2nd to May 7th.
Spring into Health
Join us for this 6-week health journey as NLY collaborates with Ashly Ellis, combining her nutrition expertise with NLY instructor, Morgan Jorgensen’s physical hot yoga flow every Tuesday from 6:00 - 7:15 PM, April 2nd to May 7th.
Yoga Book Club
Join Koral Fritz in a yoga book club that involves gentle movement and meditation, and follows along the chapters of the book, Heart Minded, for discussions and reflections. Each class will be led with compassion and a sense of community.
Sound Bath Healing
Lay back and relax while receiving the sounds of antique Tibetan singing bowls, alchemy quarts crystal singing bowls, and Chinese gongs. Words always fall short in describing the kind of euphoria and transformation that can be felt from a sound session. These healing vibrations will touch every cell of your physical body while balancing you energetically, spiritually and emotionally. Participants recline on a yoga mat while supported by bolsters and optional blanket and lavender eye pillow. All are welcome to experience the profound transformation into deep relaxation of this beautiful sound bath!