What's on offer

Practices for real bodies, real brains and real life.

Our classes use movement, mindfulness, creativity, challenge and play to build skills people can carry into everyday life. Some classes are quiet. Some are loud. Some ask you to rest, and some ask you to discover how strong you are.

Different practices. One Life Support System underneath them.

Times and booking live on the schedule. This page is for working out what you actually want to walk into.

Kids + Teens

Move. Play. Practice courage. Make something weird.

Welcome to the YinjaVerse

The Yoga Mouth Life Support System is the basis of all of our Yinjas classes. Students learn and grow with this mindful mental wellness system, and families get support to use it at home: practical, customized ways to help manage big behaviors associated with autism, developmental delays, emotional dysregulation, ADHD and trauma, and to look after themselves as a family.

Every Yinja starts with A for Awareness, the center of the mindfulness universe and the first skill you need to get started. Kids become wellness warriors and grow with the Yinja Codes, and families take home practice pages to keep going together: a feelings wheel, an awareness walk, check-ins and a sixty-second family breathing challenge.

Practice videos to try at home The science behind it, at Yoga Mouth

Yinjas Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Learn to fall down and get back up.

Yinjas combines real Brazilian Jiu Jitsu training with evidence-informed mindfulness and social-emotional practice. Kids build body awareness, boundaries, self-control, confidence and the discipline to continue when something is difficult.

Students learn enough real technique to scrimmage and compete if they choose. Progress is earned through practice, training hours and demonstrated readiness — not loyalty to an instructor.

Every Yinjas class is built on the Yoga Mouth Life Support System, so the same mindful tools kids practice on the mat come home with them.

This is warrior training for the whole person: strong bodies, aware minds and the courage to recover after mistakes.

A cartoon Yinja with a mohawk and rainbow headband, sitting cross-legged in a black gi, eyes closed

Kids Mindfulness & Movement

A calm mind is a strong mind.

Kids explore what is happening inside their bodies and practice what to do with that information. Breath, movement, stillness, games, art and a lot of shaking it out help children build awareness before they become overwhelmed.

It starts where the YinjaVerse starts: A is for Awareness. Three deep breaths, then sixty seconds of breathing together, then a check-in. How do you feel now? What did you notice? What changed?

No expectation of perfect behavior or perfect stillness. The goal is not to eliminate big feelings. The goal is to develop enough awareness, support and practice to move through them.

Grown-Ups

Rest your brain. Challenge your body. Reconnect with real life.

Adult BJJ & Self-Defense

Train hard. Practice awareness. Learn to recover.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu develops physical skill, boundaries, adaptability and the ability to remain present under pressure. Mat Lab is built for women, families, adults with disabilities and hobbyists as much as competitors.

You will be challenged. You will be supported while it happens. No ego-based hierarchy and no undying loyalty required.

Women's Classes

Train hard somewhere that was actually built for you.

Women-only mat time and fitness, coached by women. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and self-defense fundamentals, strength work, and the option to build up to the mixed classes whenever you want to, or never.

There are no women-owned BJJ gyms in this region, which is exactly why these classes exist. You will be challenged and you will be held up while it happens. No hierarchy, no ego, no proving yourself to anyone at the door.

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Yoga & Meditation

Forget everything you thought you knew about yoga.

Sangha House integrates yogic psychology with modern mindfulness science at the public-health level.

Yoga is not a performance, a body type or a brand identity. It is a practice of awareness, discipline, connection and intentional action.

Come explore real life with the body you actually have and a warrior’s willingness to practice.

Group Fitness & Strength

Get strong in a room full of people who want that for you.

Strength is physical, mental and collective. Train your body while practicing awareness, persistence, recovery and the ability to remain connected under stress.

No wellness performance. No proving that you already belong. Come build strength with us.

Meditation & Sound Spa

Take the trash out before you crash out.

Meditation creates space to notice what your mind and body are carrying. Guided rest, sound and stillness give your nervous system an opportunity to shift gears.

You do not have to clear your mind or be “good” at meditating. You only have to practice noticing. The gong helps.

Families

Practice together so it works at home too.

Family Classes & Fun Nights

Practice together so it works at home too.

Children do not build regulation skills alone. Families practice shared language, co-regulation, boundaries, recovery and restorative problem-solving through movement, games, art and mindful play.

Families take home the same practice pages the kids use in class, from a feelings wheel to an awareness walk, so the practice keeps going around the kitchen table.

The point is not that everyone behaves. The point is that everyone practices.

Music

Make a noise on purpose.

Group music at the Club: drumming, singing, instruments passed around, and the occasional coach with a guitar. No lessons, no recital, no talent required.

Rhythm is a regulation practice as much as a creative one. Playing together does something to a room full of people that talking about feelings does not.

Art

Make something weird.

Hands-on making for all ages: painting, drawing, collage, printing and whatever else has turned up that week. Some of what gets made ends up on the walls here, which is the point.

Art at the Club is not a craft hour to keep kids busy. It is a way to practice attention, take a risk on something and be fine with how it turns out.

Adaptive Programs

Different brains. Different bodies. Different communication. Same right to belong.

Two cartoon Yinjas: one in a red gi holding a white cane, one in a purple gi in a wheelchair, waving

Yinjas Across the Spectrum

Different brains. Different bodies. Different communication. Same right to belong.

Adaptive mindful movement and SEL for children with disabilities and higher support needs, designed to preserve participation, dignity, meaningful challenge and connection.

Our specialty is not “accommodating” people. It is building programs that were inclusive from the first draft. We partner with the Maryland School for the Blind and the Down Syndrome Association of Maryland, and we work with families directly on adaptations.

Like every Yinjas class, it is built on the Yoga Mouth Life Support System, and families get support to use it at home in ways that fit their child.

Tell us what your child needs and we will work it out with you.

Ready when you are.

Every class is on the live schedule with times and spaces left. Drop in for $10 or join for $50 a month.

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