Name: Intro to Budokon
Start: 2025-12-13T11:00:00-05:00
Location: Horizon House Yoga

Introducing Budokon: Balancing the Waters Within 🌊
This Budokon-inspired vinyasa class serves as an introduction to the Budokon practice, offering a welcoming entry point into its signature blend of strength, mobility, and mindful discipline. It’s a journey into the element of water — the realm of emotion, creativity, and connection. Designed to balance and awaken the second chakra (Svadhisthana), this class invites you to explore movement as art, discipline, and self-expression.
Budokon, meaning “the way of the warrior spirit,” blends the fluidity of yoga with the precision of martial arts and the primal intelligence of animal locomotion. In this introductory experience, you’ll learn the foundational principles of moving with control and grace, cultivating both stability and adaptability. Finding strength that flows rather than resists ✨
Through dynamic transitions, grounded breathwork, and circular mobility sequences, you’ll explore the dance between masculine and feminine energies, effort and surrender, form and freedom ☯ The emphasis is not just on the shapes we make, but on the spaces between them, the fluid transitions where true embodiment lives.
Rooted in nature’s wisdom 🍃 this practice reminds us that just like rivers carve their path through stone, our consistent, mindful movement can reshape the inner landscape, in turn, freeing emotional blockages, finding deepening presence, and reconnecting us to the pulse of life itself 🌄
Come ready to sweat, flow, and awaken the warrior and yogi within. You will leave feeling balanced, expressive, and alive.
This flow is credited to Melayne Shayne, wife of Cameron Shayne and creator of the Budokon flow.