PITTSBURGH – Yoga in the Square is a free public community class and is part of Market Square’s fitness programming in Downtown Pittsburgh at PPG Plaza. Classes take place every Sunday until Oct. 14. The class Sunday, Sep. 14, goes from 10 to 11 a.m.
Lindsey Best, a certified recovery specialist and sound healer, is a yoga instructor working with Mindful Movements and Sound. Her class centers wellness and mindfulness in order to find grounding as a community.
Attendees should come early to reserve their spaces and should come with their own yoga mats.
“Yoga isn’t about perfection. It’s about presence,” Best says. “Every wobble, every sigh, is a part of the practice. Let go of perfection. Come back to reality.” Students put their best foot forward, relax their bodies, and silence the noise in the mind.
Later this month, Best will instruct her Mindful Movements and Sound class in Grandview Park, Sound and Yoga at Riverview Park, and Sound Bath classes at Holistic Living Company.
These yoga and sound healing courses take place throughout the city in plazas, gardens or salt caves. The environment directly impacts the healing properties of the yoga practice and sound healing.
“The physical postures are just the surface. Beneath them is a deeper practice. One of awareness, reflection, and radical honesty with ourselves,” Best says. “One of the most powerful lessons yoga has taught me is that the real work happens within.”
