Our philosophy: Group energy is tremendously healing
We offer small classes and workshops on Madison’s Near East Side.
All are welcome.
Our in-person yoga classes are paused until further notice.
However, Insight Yoga continues to offer online classes and workshops from the safety of your own space! See our offerings below.
Our daily classes
Sign up for online yoga to manage stress
Flow Yoga
MON: 5 to 6 pm – Insight Flow
with Jeanne
WED: 5 to 6 pm – Flow & Restore
with Ariyanna
FRI: 7 to 8 am – Energizing Flow
with Jeanne
Explore yoga poses and breathing techniques designed to counteract stress in this flowing class. This class for all levels involves long holds of poses intended to release deeply held tension. Zoom link will be emailed prior to class.
Price: $15 or use your class pass
Yin-Yang
THURS: 12pm to 1:15 p.m
with Maureen
Yin-Yang yoga will teach skills and practices to balance physical, mental and emotional health. This class will begin with an active flow to move energy, warm up and build strength and flexibility. Flow will be followed by Yin exercises to find stillness, relax deeply into the muscle tissues, tendons and deep fascia, creating a sense of energized calm. We will end the practice with a short guided meditation for mindfulness and creating homeostasis in the mind and body. Zoom link will be emailed prior to class.
Price: $15 or use your class pass
Insight Karma
2021 dates coming soon
with Ariyanna
In this upbeat flow, explore yoga poses focusing on being present through the use of movement and breathing techniques. Available to all skill levels, this class can invigorate the mind and body by building heat, flowing through poses, and build your endurance. A perfect way to start your morning. Zoom link will be emailed prior to class.
Price: Free, but registration is required
Insight Class Passes
Our class passes are valid for 6 months and priced to help keep yoga accessible to the community.
Passes can be purchased when registering for a class.
$15 for one class – $45 for five classes – $90 for 10 classes – $180 for 20 classes
For individuals who utilize Comprehensive Community Services: Please contact your provider at Insight for questions about our yoga offerings.
Saturday sampler series
Yoga for Emotional Wellness: Saturday Series
Join Insight’s yoga therapists for a special series exploring the healing aspects of yoga. In each workshop participants will learn yoga tools to enhance and support their emotional wellbeing. These all-levels workshops require no prior yoga experience and will accommodate all levels. You may want to have a mat, blanket, bolster, pillow or anything that will make you comfortable.
Yoga for Authentic Health
SATURDAY – Jan 23rd, 9:00 am to 10:30 am
with Maureen
Price: $25 per session.
Yoga for Hope & Healing
SATURDAY – Feb 27th, 10:00am-11:00am
with Nikki
Join Nikki for a gentle and nuturing body positive class as we raise awareness for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week and much needed funds to support the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA).
Email Nikki to register and submit your donation
nikki@insightmadison.com
Feel to heal online workshop
Yoga & Mindfulness for Trauma Healing
In this 4-week series we will explore how yoga postures, breathing techniques, mindfulness and meditation can help to reduce the effects of stress and trauma, bring the nervous system into balance, and increase the body’s capacity to heal. For beginning and experienced students alike, this series is for anyone interested in exploring and practicing the healing and therapeutic aspects of yoga in a safe and supportive environment.
Learn skills to:
- Develop positive tools to manage stress and anxiety
- Regulate nervous system, creating a sense of calm and ease in mind and body
- Reduce symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress.
- Reconnect with the body and rebuild a sense of safety.
- Develop and enhance the body’s ability to regulate itself.
- Increase capacity for healing
This gentle, all levels class requires no prior yoga experience and will accommodate all levels of abilities. You may want to have a mat, blanket, bolster, pillow or anything else that will make you comfortable.
Dates: February 10th-March 3rd
Time: Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Instructor: Nikki Cook, Certified Yoga Therapist
Cost: Early Bird Rate $90. Register by 1/27. After 1/27, $100 for the 4-week session. Class passes do not apply.
Holistic Healing
Yoga For Authentic Health-Series
- Review/learn pillars of wellness
- Assess your personal wellness
- Learn and identify which yogic tools resonate with you
- Learn how to create simple habits that work for YOUR mind, body and spirit
- Participate in weekly assignments to begin implementing authentic habits into your life.
Date: February 2nd- February 23rd
Time: Tuesdays, 5:00pm – 6:15 p.m.
Instructor: Maureen Grosse, Certified Yoga Therapist
Cost: $100 for the 4-week session. Class passes do not apply.
For CCS consumers: Participants will need to be approved before the first meeting. 3.5 hours ISDE.
Nourish Mind & Body
Nourish Yoga
Nourish your mind, body and spirit through the healing practice of yoga
In this 6-week series we will explore how to use yoga poses, yoga philosophy, mindfulness and mediation can help you cultivate and nurture a positive relationship with food and your body. For beginning and experienced students alike, this workshop is inclusive and open to anyone seeking to nourish their mind, body, and spirit in a safe and supportive environment.
Learn skills to:
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Heal the relationhsip with your body
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Heal your relationship with food
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Develope a sense of safety & comfort in your body
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Heal disordered eating habits
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Cultivate a nuturing internal dialogue
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Honor and appreciate your body
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Increase self-worth and self-compassion
This gentle, all levels class requires no prior yoga experience and will accommodate all levels of abilities. You may want to have a mat, blanket, bolster, pillow or anything else that will make you comfortable.
Dates: March 17th- April 28th (skip 3/31)
Time: Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
Instructor: Nikki Cook, Certified Yoga Therapist
Cost: Early Bird Rate-$121. Register by 3/10 After 3/10, $135 for the 6-week session. Class passes do not apply.
Gift cards
Insight Yoga now has gift cards
Order Insight Counseling & Wellness, LLC eGift Cards online today and give the perfect gift. Send gift cards instantly to anyone. Cards can be purchased in the following denominations:
$15 for one class – $45 for five classes – $90 for 10 classes – $180 for 20 classes
Insight stands in solidarity against racial injustice
Insight recognizes that the recent episodes of brutality against people of color are just a small part of the systemic oppression that so many people in our community endure. We at Insight remain committed to supporting lasting change in our society, starting with ourselves. We are taking time to listen, to learn, to believe, and to thoughtfully move ourselves and our community toward change. We stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. We are dedicated to healing the deep wounds of racism. We will work tirelessly to transform trauma while advocating for systemic change.
EXPERT INSTRUCTION
Meet our team
Nikki Cook
Nikki is a certified yoga therapist and holds a masters degree in education-counseling and has additional certifications in trauma-informed yoga. Nikki believes yoga truly is a practice that is for every body. In Nikki’s classes you will find a welcoming, supportive community.
Maureen Grosse
Maureen is a certified yoga therapist and wellness coach with extensive training in yoga therapy and trauma-sensitive yoga. She is also a Reiki Master and Certified Master Health and Wellness Coach. Maureen provides an inclusive environment to teach how connecting your mind, breath and body can empower you.
Lisa Hausbeck
Lisa has taught fitness for the past 19 years. She is a 200 hour registered yoga instructor who finds her work with fitness and yoga very rewarding as she helps people reach their fitness and wellness goals.
Jeanne Kolker
Jeanne, a licensed professional counselor and certified yoga therapist, has experience working with adults, teens and children. She has extensive training in yoga therapy with an emphasis on trauma, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, change-of-life issues and grief.
Ariyanna Toth
Ariyanna has always had a passion for human connection and wellness. She is a 200 hour registered yoga instructor who believes strongly in the transformational effects of movement and breath work through the practice of yoga.
HOW TO FIND US
Located in the heart of the Schenk’s Corners
Insight Yoga can be found at 2025 Atwood Avenue on Madison’s Near East Side next to MadCity Music. All of which is in the former historic Laborers’ Hall.
Parking
A limited amount of free parking can be located in the lot behind the building, just behind the little red shed and next to The Straight Thread. There is ample street parking in the area.
Bus
Insight Counseling & Wellness is located very close to the Madison Metro 3, 4, 10 and 37 lines. For more information visit: Madison Metro
Mental Health Counseling
Did you know we also can help with therapy? Insight Yoga’s partner, Insight Counseling & Wellness, is an outpatient mental health clinic headquartered above the yoga studio. The clinic is dedicated to the promotion of mental and physical well-being. Insight Counseling & Wellness is an LGBTQ-friendly, culturally competent, strengths-based and client-centered environment.
Insight Yoga
2025 Atwood Ave.
Madison, WI 53704
Phone: (608) 244-4859
Fax: (608) 244-6809
Insight Yoga is a partner of Insight Counseling and Wellness, LLC