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Make the most of your October at Yoga Lab. 🎃✨
A new month is here, and October is bringing plenty of opportunities to move, connect, recharge, and have a little fun along the way. From special events and workshops to community experiences and everything in between, there’s always something happening at Yoga Lab.
Whether you're looking to deepen your practice, try something new, get stronger, slow down, or simply spend more time with your Yoga Lab community, October has something for you. 🤍
Save the calendar, mark your favorites, and make plans to join us throughout the month!
Here’s everything happening at Yoga Lab this October! 🎃🧘♀️✨
NEw strength Lab Classes!
💪 STRENGTH LAB: STRENGTH, REDEFINED.
Starting October 1st, Yoga Lab is introducing Strength Lab — a new 45-minute strength training format and the next evolution of our Surge Strength classes, previously led by Ilse.
Strength Lab is built around heavy, deliberate strength training — low reps, heavier weights, real load, and intentional movement. Using dumbbells and bodyweight, you’ll train with purpose in an energetic room designed to challenge you, build confidence, and help you get stronger.
Every class follows a consistent format so you always know what to expect:
Warm-Up + Movement Preview
Two Focused Strength Blocks
Cardio Burst
Weighted Core Finisher
Yoga Lab Cooldown + Stillness
Choose your focus throughout the week with Lower Body, Upper Body, and Full Body formats, allowing you to build strength from head to toe. Every movement includes options to modify or advance, so whether you’re new to strength training or have years of experience, you can train at your own edge.
✨ ACCESS FOR THE NEXT THREE MONTHS
For the first three months, Strength Lab will be available to Surge members, All Access members, Yoga members, and ClassPass participants, giving our community the opportunity to experience this new format.
Spots are limited, so we highly recommend booking ahead of time to reserve your spot.
45 minutes · All Levels · Dumbbells + Bodyweight
Starting October 1st, grab your heaviest weights and experience a new way to build strength at Yoga Lab.
Grab your heaviest weights. Feel the Strength. 🔥
BReast Cancer Awareness 5K & Vendor Market
🎀 Run for Her. — Breast Cancer Awareness 5K & Community Vendor Market
We’re proud to invite our Yoga Lab community to our second annual 5K, following the success of our first event supporting Blood Cancer United. We’re excited to come together once again for a meaningful morning centered around movement, community, and giving back.
This October, join us for our Breast Cancer Awareness 5K & Community Vendor Market, benefiting the Helen Knoll Foundation, an organization dedicated to breast cancer prevention and awareness.
The morning will begin with our community 5K at 8:30 AM. Whether you’re an experienced runner, a casual walker, or simply looking for a meaningful way to participate, all are welcome. Bring your friends, family, and loved ones and help us make every step count.
Following the 5K, enjoy our Community Vendor Market from 9:00 AM–12:30 PM, featuring local wellness brands, small businesses, product samples, and opportunities to connect with members of our community.
As a special thank-you for participating, every 5K participant will receive a curated gift bag from our partnering vendors. 🎁
We’re also excited to welcome LSKD as one of our event sponsors! LSKD is generously contributing a $200 gift card for a raffle open to everyone who registers for the 5K. Register for the event for your chance to win while supporting an important cause!
This event is an opportunity to come together, raise awareness, support an important cause, and celebrate the impact we can make when we move as a community.
Event Details 📅
📍 Location: Yoga Lab Millenia
1682 Metro Ave., Suite 100, Chula Vista, CA 91913
📅 Date: Saturday, October 10
⏰ Check-In: 8:00 AM
🏃 5K Start: 8:30 AM
🛍️ Community Vendor Market: 9:00 AM–12:30 PM
🎀 Entry: $10 donation to run
🎁 5K participants receive a curated gift bag
🎉 Raffle: A chance to win a $200 LSKD gift card for everyone who registers!
Can’t make the 5K? You can still support the cause by making a donation. Every contribution helps support breast cancer awareness and life-saving screenings.
Run for a cause. Raise awareness. Support your community. Make a difference.
We look forward to gathering with our Yoga Lab community on October 10 for a morning of connection, awareness, and support for a cause that matters. 💗
October’s Sound Journey: Full Body Recovery
FULL BODY RECOVERY SOUND BATH
Reset. Restore. Recharge.
Take a pause from the pace of everyday life and give yourself an evening dedicated to deep rest, relaxation, and restoration. Join us at Yoga Lab Millenia for an immersive Full Body Recovery Sound Bath designed to help you reconnect with your body, quiet your mind, and create space to simply be.
Through the soothing vibrations of sound, you’ll be invited to settle into stillness and let go of the tension you’ve been carrying. Allow the sounds to wash over you as you relax, release, and recharge — creating a restorative experience for both your body and mind. ✨
Whether you’re recovering from a busy week, feeling physically or mentally overstimulated, or simply craving an hour to slow down, this experience is an opportunity to step away from the outside world and turn your attention inward.
Come comfortable, get cozy, and give yourself permission to fully relax. No previous experience is needed — just bring yourself and an open mind.
October 16 | 7:30–8:30 PM
Yoga Lab Millenia
1685 Metro Ave, Chula Vista
$39
Spots are limited, so we recommend reserving your space ahead of time.
Reset. Restore. Recharge your body and mind. 🤍
Strength Lab Photoshoot Class
Strength Lab Photoshoot Class 📸
Join Ilse for a special Strength Lab Photoshoot Class on Saturday, October 17 at 9:30 AM. This unique class combines the focused, intentional strength training of Strength Lab with the opportunity to have your workout captured by Dos Uno Media.
Strength Lab is designed around purposeful strength training, controlled movement, and challenging resistance work. Come ready to train, move with intention, and experience the format in a new way.
For this photoshoot class, participants are asked to dress in black. Dos Uno Media will be capturing moments throughout the class, giving you the opportunity to walk away with high-quality images that showcase your strength and energy in the studio.
No modeling experience is needed—simply come ready to participate, work hard, and enjoy the experience.
Saturday, October 17 | 9:30 AM
Instructor: Ilse
Dress Code: Black
Photography: Dos Uno Media
Limited to 20 spots
Spots are limited, so we encourage you to register early and reserve your place for this special Strength Lab experience. 💪
Arm balance transitions with Ellen
✨ Step into a space of exploration, refinement, and possibility. ✨
Join us for Arm Balance Transitions with Ellen, a monthly workshop designed for practitioners who want to deepen their understanding of arm balances, inversions, transitions, and posture refinement.
This immersive experience offers the opportunity to slow down, break movements apart, and build them back together with greater awareness, strength, and intention. Together, we'll explore transitions and arm balances through targeted drills, alignment techniques, and personalized guidance.
Whether you're working toward your first arm balance, finding confidence upside down, or refining more advanced transitions, this workshop provides a supportive space to ask questions, experiment, and discover what works best for your unique body.
Each session is shaped by the students who attend, allowing us to workshop the poses and transitions you're currently navigating in your practice. Expect thoughtful instruction, hands-on support, and plenty of opportunities to explore your practice from a new perspective.
This is more than a skills workshop—it's an invitation to build confidence, refine your technique, and uncover new possibilities in your practice.
All levels are welcome. Bring the poses and transitions you're working on, an open mind, and a willingness to explore. 🧘♀️
Sunday, October 18 | 12:30–1:30 PM
With Ellen
Spots are limited—reserve your place below. ✨
Sound healing, Usui Reiki, & Breathwork journey
Your Intuition Is Calling ✨
A Reiki, Breathwork & Soundbath Workshop
When life gets loud, it can be difficult to hear what your body is trying to tell you.
Join us for a restorative afternoon designed to help you slow down, reconnect, and listen inward. Through breathwork, Reiki, sound, and intuitive practices, this workshop creates space to step away from the constant noise and reconnect with your own inner guidance.
Together, we’ll explore how to:
Regulate and reset through intentional breathwork and nervous system practices
Recognize your body’s signals and become more aware of your natural “yes,” “no,” and “not yet”
Strengthen your relationship with intuition and create more space to hear your inner voice
Release and restore through Reiki and an immersive sound bath
Take the practice with you through simple tools you can incorporate into your everyday life
This experience is about more than relaxation. It’s an invitation to pause long enough to notice what is already there—the sensations, signals, and quiet knowing that can often get lost in the pace of everyday life.
Come take a breath, settle into stillness, and give yourself permission to reconnect with yourself. No previous experience with Reiki, breathwork, or sound healing is necessary. All levels are welcome. 🤎
Sunday, October 25, 2026
4:00–6:00 PM
Yoga Lab Millenia
$50
Your intuition is calling. Give yourself the space to listen. ✨
MEet the fACILITATORS:
Vanessa Romero
Vanessa Romero is the inspiring founder of Soul Sanctuary, a collaborative vision with her co-creator, Katherine Wolff. Raised in San Diego, Vanessa’s journey has been shaped by resilience and transformation. Despite facing significant challenges, including the loss of her mother to addiction and experiences of trauma in her childhood, Vanessa has emerged as a beacon of hope and healing. From a young age, she cultivated a successful career as a hairstylist, starting at just 19 years old.
During this time, Vanessa also embarked on a powerful journey of self-discovery and healing, ultimately overcoming her own struggles with addiction. For the past decade, she has deepened her spiritual practice, becoming a certified Reiki practitioner four years ago. Vanessa is passionately dedicated to facilitating and empowering individuals on their paths to self-healing.
She believes in the importance of personalized approaches, guiding others to discover meditation practices that resonate with them and support their unique journeys.
For Vanessa, healing is a lifelong commitment and a profound journey rooted in the ultimate love of self and others. Her compassionate approach and commitment to transformation inspire those around her at Soul Sanctuary, as she helps individuals unlock their true potential and embrace their own practices of growth and renewal.
Alika Yarnell
The first time Alika was bathed in vibrations from a gong bath, her mind was transported to another dimension. Or that’s what it felt like. From then on, she was hooked on the other-worldly sounds from these high-vibe instruments. To further her practice, she earned her certifications in Sound Healing, Yin Yoga, and Yoga Nidra.
With a passion for the arts, Alika discovered sound baths help promote the grounding and clearing often needed when fostering creative projects—sometimes even providing new ideas and insights. She aims to share her growing collection of sound-healing tools to help others garner the wellness they seek: from deep relaxation to spiritual awakenings to creative ideas to emotional balancing and more.
In addition to sound healing and yoga, Alika can be found writing novels, volunteering at school book fairs, adding to her collections of mini perfume bottles and Pop Mart figurines, or hanging out with her family of three daughters, husband, and Boston Terrier.
Izzy Atkinson
Izzy Atkinson is a Pyramid Breath Method facilitator, trauma-informed coach, and space holder.
Born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Izzy moved to California in the late summer of 2024. Izzy comes from a background in corporate America, focused on leadership development and project management, alongside over a decade in fitness and movement. She also served as President of The Soul Project, a nonprofit in Boston supporting women and young girls, and has spent the last 10 years holding space for others, much of that work centered on supporting women navigating eating disorder recovery, body image challenges, and mental health struggles.
Izzy’s journey into breathwork emerged through her own healing - after years of facilitating mental health meetups in Boston and deepening her work as a coach, she began to peel back layers of her own lived experience through grief, transition, trauma, and change. It was through this process that she first experienced the power of breathwork in her own body - as a way to regulate the nervous system, process emotions, and return to a felt sense of safety within herself.
During her transition to California, Izzy completed her breathwork teacher training - a period that coincided with one of the most challenging chapters of her life to date. Breathwork became a consistent practice of support and grounding as she moved through profound grief, heartbreak, and transformation, ultimately deepening her devotion to the work.
Today, she is dedicated to holding intentional, trauma-informed space for others to do the same. Her facilitation is also shaped by her creative work, including immersive breathwork experiences that integrate music, sound, and visualizations.
Alongside breathwork, Izzy is a creative director, artist, model, and podcast host, with a lifelong devotion to expression, storytelling, and human connection.
At the heart of her work is a commitment to helping others reconnect to their authenticity, and feel safe enough to fully express who they are.
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