Yoga with Shawn

Sacred Seasons Yoga Collections

The sacred seasons collections are designed for those who want to live in rhythm with nature, the body and the deeper intelligence within. Whether you step into a single class, join a four-week journey, or move through the full rhythm of all offerings, each experience invites meaningful transformation and offers access to a life that is grounded, awake, and truly lived.

Seasonal Yoga Flow Series: A Year in Rhythm

If you’ve been feeling like life is out of rhythm, like you’re always a step ahead or a step behind Seasonal Yoga Flow offers a weekly, intentional yoga practice focused on mindful movement, breathwork, and aligning with the natural rhythms of the seasons, helping you connect to your body, breath, and the world around you throughout the year.

As human beings, we are inherently aligned with the changing seasons, and our bodies and minds are naturally influenced by these cycles. Changes in light, temperature, and environmental shifts affect our physical well-being and mental clarity. As the seasons change in our busy, modern world, we can miss the opportunity to honor these shifts in energy, mood, and mental focus which can lead us to feel out of sync with ourselves and the world around us.

Each week, you’ll engage in yoga postures and breathwork that encourage grounding, focus, and flexibility—physically, emotionally, and mentally. By honoring the seasons and syncing your body with the natural world around you, you’ll feel more at ease, present, and balanced, both on and off the mat. Whether you want to deepen your connection to your body, expand your practice, or better align with natural rhythms, Seasonal Yoga Flow will guide you through the rhythms of the year. You’ll build strength, feel more grounded, and cultivate balance, all while connecting with the natural cycles that support your body, mind, and spirit.

Whether it’s your first time on the mat or you’ve been practicing for years, these classes offer space for you to connect with your body and breath, align with the natural rhythms around you, and find balance and clarity in every season.

• When: Wednesday beginning August 20, 2025
• Location: Illuminations Studio
• Time: 5:30 - 06:45 PM
• Register at Illuminations HERE

Journey Through the Celtic Wheel of the Year Yoga

If you’re someone who senses the deeper shifts that come with the changing seasons and want a practice that helps you meet those changes with intention and clarity for meaningful transformation—this journey is for you.

This series is built to help us live in alignment with our true nature. The Celtic cross-quarter holidays offer us powerful opportunities to align with the rhythms of nature and tap into our inner wisdom. By embracing these seasonal shifts, we can transform our energy and change our lives.

• At Imbolc, we can harness the power of new beginnings, practice self care and set intentions for growth and transformation.
• At Beltane, we can connect with the creative life force within us and awaken our passions.
• At Lunasa, we can celebrate our abundance and honor the sacred cycle of growth.
• At Samhain, we can open to ancestral wisdom, honor the cycles of life and death, release what no longer serves us, and invite in lasting insights and wisdom.

Through yoga, breathwork, meditation, sound healing, and self exploration, each session helps access deeper awareness and align your energy with the season at hand. By working with these natural rhythms we create space for clarity, healing, and conscious transformation.

• When: Monday and Tuesday
• Location: Illuminations Studio
• Time: Monday 7:30 - 08:45 AM
• Time: Tuesday 9:00 - 10:15 AM
• Register at Illuminations HERE

The Sacred Core Yoga

The Sacred Core series is designed to flow within the Celtic Wheel of the Year series offering focused four-week pathways that explore mythic maps and yogic principles rooted in ancient wisdom. These focused teachings make up The Sacred Core, a collection of offerings drawn from alchemy, myth, and yogic philosophy. Each series stands on its own, yet together they form a cohesive path of growth through movement, breath, and story.

• Alchemy of Becoming
  Journey through the four stages of alchemy —Negredo, Albedo, Citrinitas, and Rubedo— as a map for transformation. This series invites you to explore personal evolution through symbolic language, inner fire, and grounded practice.
• Inanna & the Sumerian Myths
  Explore the roots of civilization through the lens of the goddess Inanna: the foundation of Sumerian culture, the sacred Me, the union of Inanna and Dumuzi, and the profound teachings of descent and return.
• Four Paths to Freedom
  Dive into the Bhagavad Gita’s vision of liberation through Bhakti (devotion), Jnana (wisdom), Karma (action), and Raja (discipline). Each week offers a deep exploration of each path—its archetype, practice, and relevance for modern life.
• The Four Aims of Life (Purusharthas)
  Discover the Vedic framework for a meaningful life through Dharma (purpose), Artha (resources), Kama (pleasure), and Moksha (liberation). These sessions integrate movement, breath, and focused reflection to explore balance across all aspects of being.

Together, these four offerings form the Essentials of Transformation—practical, poetic, and grounded in the roots of our shared humanity. Drawing from myth and ancient teachings, they serve as keys to inner life, unlocking insight at the perfect moment between one season and the next.

Each series is explored through intentional yoga practice—integrating movement, breath and awareness with the themes we’re working with.

• When: Monday and Tuesday
• Location: Illuminations Studio
• Time: Monday 7:30 - 08:45 AM
• Time: Tuesday 9:00 - 10:15 AM
• Register at Illuminations HERE

Seasonal Yoga Retreats

If you’re seeking a space to experience greater depth, clarity, and connection these seasonal gatherings offer an opportunity to slow down and move with intention—through body, breath, and personal inquiry. In community we align with the turning of the seasons and draw from ancient systems of wisdom to explore what it means to live a meaningful life today. Whether we’re working with the Hero’s Journey, the alchemical process of transformation, or the cycles of nature through the Medicine Wheel, each retreat is grounded in rhythm, nature, and connection to the higher Self.

Together we explore practical and timeless tools—yogic movement, breathwork, ecopsychology, archetypes, and mythology—as a way of uncovering what is already whole within us. These weekends are a chance to listen more deeply, to connect with others, to reconnect with the steady intelligence of the body, the land, and the balance of self.

Participants leave with tools of connection to a natural sense of rooted clarity—a felt alignment between the outer world and their inner knowing. More than anything, these retreats offer the space to live in rhythm with life itself.

Attune to the earth’s intelligence and reveal your deeper inner knowing at Prairiewoods Franciscan Spirituality Center, a sacred sanctuary nestled on 70 acres of native prairie and woodland in the heart of Hiawatha, Iowa.

For more information visit: Prairiewoods.org at HERE

Sessions across these offerings are designed for all levels of experience.

Offerings

Descent into the Darkness – Embracing the Shadow

As the wheel of the year turns and we move towards Samhain, I invite you to embark on a transformative 8-week yoga journey. This series is designed to guide you inward, helping you explore the hidden aspects of yourself in a safe and nurturing space.

Each week, we will delve deeper into the shadow self, using grounding practices, meditation, and chakra work to uncover, confront, and integrate these hidden parts of ourselves.

This journey mirrors the natural descent into the darker half of the year, preparing us for the transformation and rebirth that Samhain represents.

1. Rooting Down – Connecting with the Earth: Establish a strong foundation with Root Chakra work and grounding practices.
2. Exploring the Shadow – Uncovering Hidden Parts: Begin the shadow work by gently exploring your subconscious.
3. Embracing the Dark – The Power of Stillness: Find comfort in stillness and darkness with restorative yoga and breath work.
4. Transformation through the Fire – Facing Fears: Tap into your inner strength with Solar Plexus Chakra practices that help you meet fear with courage.
5. The Alchemy of the Soul – Integrating the Shadow: Acknowledge and accept every part of yourself as you move toward wholeness.
6. Sacred Darkness – Ritual and Reflection: Honor this season of introspection with guided ritual, ceremony, and reflection.
7. The Veil Thins – Connecting with Ancestral Wisdom: Listen inward and connect with ancestral guidance as we move toward Samhain.
8. Rebirth – Letting Go: Release old patterns and emotions, creating space for renewal.

This 8-week series is perfect for anyone seeking greater physical strength, deeper self-awareness, vitality, or spiritual transformation. Whether you are new to yoga or a seasoned practitioner, this journey offers an opportunity to align with the cycles of nature and your own inner wisdom.

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• When: Begins September 08
• Location: Illuminations Studio
• Time: Monday 7:30 - 08:45 AM
• Time: Tuesday 9:00 - 10:15 AM
• Register at Illuminations HERE

Seasonal Flow: A Year in Rhythm

Join Shawn Wednesday evenings at Illuminations Studio for a weekly yoga practice that brings strength, presence, and awareness into rhythm with the seasons.

Are you living in balance with the seasons?

The natural world is always shifting—light, temperature, and energy rise and fall with each season. Our bodies and minds respond to these cycles and naturally crave their rhythm, yet in our busy modern lives we often overlook them, leaving us unbalanced, disconnected, and out of sync.

Seasonal Flow invites you to align with these rhythms through mindful yoga practice. By moving with the energy of each season, you’ll discover steadiness, presence, and clarity both on and off the mat.

Each week, we’ll explore gentle alignment, flowing movement, and focused breathwork designed to support balance, ease, and awareness. This evening practice creates space to restore at the end of your day while connecting to the larger cycles of nature.

• When: Wednesday
• Location: Illuminations Studio (Cherry Building, Cedar Rapids)
• Time: 5:30 – 6:45 PM
• Register at Illuminations HERE

Seasonal Flow follows the arc of the year, helping you stay nourished in winter, expansive in spring, vibrant in summer, and reflective in autumn. Whether you’re new to yoga or a longtime practitioner, these classes offer an accessible, steady rhythm to support your body, mind, and spirit.

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About

Meet Shawn

Integrative Yoga Instructor | Healer | Nature Lover | Lifelong Learner

Shawn’s journey with yoga began over 30 years ago, drawn by the need to heal the body and mind. Decades of yoga practice, a deep connection to nature, and an ongoing commitment to self-discovery - alongside the transformative work of overcoming childhood trauma, addiction, and the challenges of CPTSD - have shaped his approach to healing and teaching. Classes combine movement, mindfulness, and ancient wisdom, drawing from Hindu, Celtic, Buddhist, and Jungian traditions, offering a safe and supportive space where you can cultivate inner balance, healing, clarity, and a deeper sense of purpose.

• 200-hour Anusara Yoga Certification
  Studied and mentored with nationally recognized Anusara teachers.
• 200-hour TriYoga Teacher Training (In Progress)
  Specializing in breath-led movement, spinal waves, and meditative flow.
• Trauma Recovery Yoga (TRY) and trauma awareness trainings
  Integration of trauma sensitive practices.
• Jungian Psychology
  Focusing on archetypes, shadow work, and integration.
• Ecopsychology & Nature-Based Healing
  Trainings in nature-based healing practices, grounded in the rhythms of the natural world.
• Pranayama (Breath and Energy Work)
  Extensive training in breath and energy techniques
• Sound Healing
  Years of vocal training and sound healing techniques
• TCTSY Practitioner
  Ongoing participant in the Trauma Center’s Trauma-Sensitive Yoga program, founded by Bessel Van Der Kolk (author of The Body Keeps the Score)
• Three year yoga mentorship
  Extensive work integrating and refining various philosophies of yoga, breathwork, trauma recovery and self discovery, this mentorship provided clarity and direction in the continued development of a holistic approach to teaching and healing.

Shawn is committed to the belief that true well-being comes from alignment with the body, our unique identity and the inherent potential that resides in all of us. This alignment is about integrating the different parts of ourselves: the physical body, the ego-self, shaped by our experiences, and the higher witness-self that offers clarity and guidance. By bringing all of these into balance, we unlock our full potential for healing, growth and purpose. Classes offer a blend of accessible movement, breathwork, and mindfulness, designed to foster strength, resilience, self-awareness, and authenticity. Drawing from ancient physical practices, mythological teachings, and seasonal rhythms, his approach supports transformation, healing, and growth.

Whether it’s your first time on the mat or you’ve been practicing for decades, join a space where you can authentically connect with yourself and the deeper currents of life. Embrace growth, build resilience, and walk with others on a path of healing that cultivates strength, clarity and purpose - all while moving toward deeper awareness and genuine peace.

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