Restorative Yoga

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Dates
Wednesday 09/17/2025 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday 09/24/2025 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday 10/01/2025 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday 10/08/2025 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday 10/15/2025 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday 10/22/2025 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday 10/29/2025 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday 11/05/2025 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday 11/12/2025 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday 11/19/2025 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Wednesday 11/26/2025 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Restorative Yoga encourages deep relaxation, allowing the body and mind to restore and rejuvenate. It cultivates calm and increases well-being, helping the body rest, heal, and restore balance. Appropriate for all levels, this yoga style is practiced at a slow pace holding poses for longer periods using props like yoga blocks, blankets, and bolsters to enhance the relaxing and effortless experience.

Restorative Yoga is a practice that emphasizes the meditative aspect of yoga—the union of body, mind, and breath. Relaxing music is played throughout the class.



Allison Caras

Allison Caras, PhD, has been on the yoga path for about 20 years and believes she has only begun to scratch the surface. She approaches the practice with humility, reverence and a playful curiosity and offers classes in the same way. Students are provided with space and time to tap into the present, explore, and challenge themselves. 

Allison is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT500) with Yoga Alliance. She completed the 200-hour yoga teacher training at Yoga District in Washington, DC, and the 300-hour yoga teacher and yoga therapy foundations training here at Beloved Yoga. She also holds a PhD in Spanish Applied Linguistics from Georgetown University and went on to teach at The George Washington University. During the pandemic, she decided to leave academia and start her own company to promote workday wellness and self-care practices to teachers, professional organizations and corporations. Although she left language teaching and linguistic research behind, she is still passionate about languages and how they can foster human connection and self-reflection. 

Alyson Maclatchy

Aly believes that yoga wakes us up! Yoga invites us to embrace ourselves as whole beings while encouraging us to refine; always. It is the way we engage with everything that informs and empowers the way we live. She also believes deeply in the medicine inherent in the natural world that is accessible by simply paying attention.

Aly received her 200 hour certification through Frog Lotus International Yoga School under Vidya Heisel. She completed a 72 hour anatomy intensive from the Anatomy School for Yoga Teachers in New York under Jason Brown. Aly will always consider herself first and foremost a student of yoga and of being a teacher of yoga. She attends classes, workshops, intensives, and trainings whenever possible. Her teaching continues to be influenced by teachers like Marni Sclaroff, Tara Judelle, Elena Brower, Tiffany Cruikshank, and Darren Rhodes.

As a teacher, Aly intends to create a safe space that encourages practitioners to have an experience of themselves. Her classes are intelligently sequenced and infused with intention, breath awareness, body alignment, and lots of smiles.

You will most likely find Aly in the woods, dancing, studying “green witcheries”, meditating, or being a goofball with her son, Tommy. Visit Aly online at www.gratefullyrooted.com.

Amy Pulupa

My yoga journey began in 2002 when I walked into my first Anusara class. Stepping onto the mat instantly felt like home. Since then, I have spent a lot of free time exploring and practicing. In 2019, the stars aligned and I completed my 200-hour YTT at Beloved Yoga in Reston, Va under the mentorship of Maryam Ovissi.

My classes emphasize the importance of practicing continual awareness to create a union of mind and body through movement and breath. I believe that yoga is designed for everyone, and is a system that can be used to shape and strengthen not only the body but more importantly, to enhance the mind and create a better quality of life.


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