foundations of meditation

a 4 week meditation series

led by rajiv kapoor
tuesdays
Jan. 21-feb. 11 •​ 7-9pm

$200 series/$50 drop in
sliding scale available

*drop-ins are available for series currently in session*

{registration is also open via the link below for the next round of this offering beginning March 25th and running through April 15th}


This 4 week series is made for everyone, whether you’ve never meditated before or whether you are a long term practitioner.


The heart of meditation is a quality of attention and investigation that leads to an understanding of one’s mind, body, and heart. This understanding leads to the complete ending of suffering and an attainment of unshakable inward and outward freedom.

In this series we will explore our experience of our bodies, feelings, and mental and emotional states. By becoming more aware, we elevate our capacity to navigate life’s inevitable challenges with dignity, compassion, and grace. We will practice how to work with and transform your difficult emotions, feelings, and thoughts.

You will learn to:

  • Discover trust and find freedom as you are
  • Connect more intimately and intentionally with all of your life
  • Cultivate a wise relationship with yourself and others
  • See the truth of suffering and move beyond it

All are welcome regardless of your race, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and experience with other schools of meditation. Our time together will include talks, silent and guided meditations, mindful movement, Q&A, and reflections.

Sliding scale available - email info@ritualhouseseattle.com for more info

Rajiv Kapoor www.rajivkapoor.com


sound bath

led by Daniella white

thurs. feb. 13th 7:30-8:30p • $40

pre-registration recommended

A sound bath is an improvised concert played with the intent of releasing stress, and can facilitate energetic shifts in your mind and body to bring you into a more balanced state of being. Participants lay in a comfortable position on the floor (savasana), while Daniella plays the crystal bowls and gongs, accompanied by her vocal toning. You will be bathed in healing vibrations that help entrain your brain into a deeply relaxed state where physical, mental, and spiritual healing can take place.

please bring your own yoga mat. if you are sure you want pillows and blankets​ to make your experience cozy, please bring some from home! We have props, but the bath typically benefits from having more than we can supply for everyone.


embodied reflection

an evening of asana + journaling

led by Anne-phyfe Palmer
thurs. feb. 20 •​ 7-8:45pm •​ $40

a monthly offering led by anne-phyfe palmer. registration also open for March 20th.

In our modern lives, it is easy to lose ourselves in activity, work, or worry. We forget that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Carve out space and time to put down the habit of doing and access the state of being with this experiential monthly offering. The present moment, when we allow ourselves to fully experience it, can be magical, and open doorways to creativity, purpose, and joy.

Join Anne-Phyfe Palmer for this monthly class designed to connect you to your Self. Each session will involve movement, mindfulness meditation, and reflective writing. Please bring/have a notebook and writing utensil. All levels of yoga practice welcome.

Anne Phyfe Palmer is the founder of 8 Limbs Yoga Centers and has been teaching yoga since 1996. Three decades of study and teaching have taught her that the most important thing is presence. The many different paths of yoga and self-reflection all lead us to the wisdom of our True Self. When we can show up with curiosity and loving kindness, a deep and abiding presence emerges. This is a gift to ourselves, and to the people around us.

Anne-Phyfe is also a coach and a writer; her first book This Life of Mine: A Legacy Journal offers creative prompts to help us remember our lives, to reflect, and/or to pass the memories on to loved ones. This Family of Ours and My Baby’s Book, both keepsake journals, follow-up with offerings for new families and parents to record their experience growing families. She lives in Madison Valley and works at the Arboretum. Learn more at ​www.annephyfe.com


metta meditation + vinyasa

led by Natasha tripathi

Saturdays
march 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd
8:15am-9:30am

$40 drop in $140 series

Metta meditation, also known as loving-kindness meditation, is a Buddhist practice designed to cultivate compassion for ourselves and others by focusing on loving phrases and goodwill. Metta is both a concentration and mindfulness practice, encouraging the practitioner to enter a state of greater love and connection. It can be practiced at any time and in any place—whether seated on a meditation cushion, navigating traffic, or walking through a crowded street. In this four-week workshop, we will deepen our understanding of metta through meditation and yoga poses that open and focus on the heart space.

Drop in or series options available


one day meditation mini retreat

flowering of awareness

led by Rajiv Kapoor

march 16th 2025
10:15-5:15pm
$120

Observing a flower without memory, prior knowledge, imagination, or evaluation—giving it our complete attention—is a doorway to meditation.

When we look at a flower with judgment—“How beautiful this flower is,” or “This is a red rose,” or “I like other flowers better than this flower”—these thoughts distract us from the bare act of attention, which is meditation in itself. Awareness can only flower when we see things as they are, without evaluation. This is possible only when the mind and body are completely still, unentangled, and sensitive.

This practice applies to all aspects of our lives, including the 6 sense doorways: sound, sight, taste, sensation, smell, and thinking. Our well-being is determined by how we pay attention

Join me on this day-long retreat where we will explore the nature of awareness and practice the art of meditation together. We will focus on stilling the mind through awareness of breath and explore the mysterious nature of our bodies and minds.

Our time together will include talks, silent and guided meditations, mindful movement, Q&A, and reflections.

Sliding scale available - email Rajiv to request rajivkapoorseattle@gmail.com

Rajiv Kapoor www.rajivkapoor.com

Day-long retreat - sample schedule

10:15 - 11:30 Welcome, Opening Talk, and Meditation to arrive
11:30 - 12:00 Walking Meditation/gentle movement
12:00 - 12:40 Sitting Meditation (Guided/Silent)
12:45 - 1:45 Lunch Break
1:50 - 2:30 Sitting meditation (Guided/Silent)
2:30 - 3:00 Walking Meditation/gentle movement
3:00 - 3:40 Talk & group reflection
3:45 - 4:20 Sitting Meditation (Guided/Silent)
4:20 - 4:40 Walking Meditation/gentle movement
4:45 - 5:15 Q&A, Optional Discussion, short sit and wrap up


right side up:
an inversions workshop

with lara ederer
sat. march 22, 2025
1:30-3:30pm
$50

Please join Lara Ederer, E-RYT 500 for an all levels inversion workshop that will help demystify some of these poses and help you find some balance upside down .

This 2 hour workshop will include proper warm ups, strength and mobility drills, proper foundations, and strategic techniques to approach variations of headstand, forearm stand, and handstand. You will gain a working knowledge of the foundations of these poses to take into your own practice with safe but proven measures.

In this workshop you can expect to:

  • Build an understanding of what needs to be engaged, strengthened & lengthened as you work your way into these challenging postures.
  • Learn the technique and build skill on your way to balancing
  • Learn that sometimes taking a step back is actually taking 2 steps forward
  • Explore transitioning in and out of these asanas

kids yoga series!
(winter session)

drop off • 4-9 yr olds

8 thursdays, jan. 23 - march 20
*no class 2/20

$195 • 4-4:45p


drop off your 4-9 year old/s at ritual house from 4-4:45p on thursdays for 8 weeks!

Classes are filled with kid-friendly poses, breathing exercises, mindfulness, games, relaxation, and a lot of fun! Children will build strength, focus, and flexibility along with kindness, compassion, and self-regulation.

registration is open​. A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. To apply for a scholarship, email a brief description of why you qualify.​


family yoga series
(winter session)

sundays
feb. 2nd - march 9th
10:30-11:15am
​$150​

Family Yoga is a special bonding opportunity. Expect partner poses, breathing exercises, mindful movements, time to relax, and so much laughter! this one sells out quickly...register below!

*Cost: $150 for 1 child and 1-2 grown-ups (parents, caregivers, etc.) for the 4-week series; $30 for each additional child - email us for the sibling discount code.

A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. To apply for a scholarship, email a brief description of why you qualify.


family yoga series
(spring session)

sundays
april 6- may 18th
(no class april 20th)
10:30-11:15am
​$150​

Family Yoga is a special bonding opportunity. Expect partner poses, breathing exercises, mindful movements, time to relax, and so much laughter! this one sells out quickly...register below!

*Cost: $150 for 1 child and 1-2 grown-ups (parents, caregivers, etc.) for the 4-week series; $30 for each additional child - click ​here​ for the sibling discount code.

A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. To apply for a scholarship, email a brief description of why you qualify.


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