Yoga
Mary is a registered yoga teacher with a foundation in the Viniyoga tradition, a holistic, breath-centered, flowing practice that believes in adapting practice to fit the whole person.
Mary discovered her interest in yoga during her high school years in the mid-nineties, oddly with an article in Seventeen magazine. She even incorporated it into her college degree in Psychology. After years of contemplation and dabbling in many lineages, she pursued her first 200-hour teacher training certification in Seattle, WA under yoga therapist Tracy Weber at Whole Life Yoga (2009) and after 15 years of teaching + many more years of study, in 2024 co-founded a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with her master teacher Tara Cindy Sherman, launching Yojita Yoga Teacher Training.
Mary offers a holistic practice that, time and setting permitted, includes asana (postures), pranayama (breathwork), meditation, mantra, ritual, and more, when given time. It ideally caters to each individual’s lifestyle, goals, and body. Her 300 hour advanced training (2017) was multi-lineage at Yoga Center Retreat (formerly Yoga Center of Minneapolis), followed by a deep dive into Nada Yoga (Yoga of Sound 200 hour training, 2020) at Nada Yoga School in Rishikesh, India. Mary does her best to take requests from students, bring humor, warmth, friendliness, and a drive towards a more balanced, peaceful, and refreshed state of body and mind.
Virtual Yoga
Saturday morning 10:30 am CST – Slow Flow, Mantra & Meditation
Suggested donation – $5-20
Paypal || Venmo @marybuemusic || Zelle ~ marybue@gmail.com
WINTER/SPRING 2025 DATES:
March 15, 22, April 5, 12, 26
Join from anywhere in the world that has internet for a 60-minute movement & meditation class from the comfort of your own home on select Saturday mornings at 10:30am CST. These practices will include a low-intensity flowing sequence, mantras for peace and protection, breathwork, meditation, savasana & sonic blessings serenade. Can’t wait to practice with you! Beginners always welcome. You can practice with your camera on or off.
If you can’t make Saturday morning virtual classes, Mary records these sessions and shares them with her subscribers on Patreon at the $5/month level. 100+ classes plus music, musings, and exclusive content ever-available when you join! Check out Mary’s Patreon here.
Join Mary online for four 45-minute virtual yoga sessions over the course of 4 weeks in April/May. We will discuss and create a personalized yoga program for you including multiple yogic limbs: asana (postures and flowing sequences), pranayama (conscious seated breathwork), meditation, self-reflection, art practice, journaling, mantra/sound, ritual/ceremony, and more. Designed to fit into your life and with your life, allow Mary’s support and encouragment to cheer-lead you into a daily practice that inspires creativity, compassion, vitality, and well-being.
These four sessions will take place over zoom between April and May 2025 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays (afternoon & evening.)
These sessions are non-refundable, however if you have to miss a scheduled session, Mary will record a small practice for you.
Can’t wait to connect!
Workshops + Series
Goddesses of Venus ~ Spring Renewal Ceremony
w/ Tara Cindy Sherman & Mary Bue
Svälja Whole Being Yoga ~ Rose Studio on Sunday, March 30th 1-4pm
Register for Goddesses of Venus
In this workshop, we will explore
Overview of the Ancient Summerian Goddess Inanna & Hindu Goddess Lakshmi and their connection to Venus as the Morning Star
Gentle Viniyoga & Shakti Flow
Multiple types of mantra including a chant for the planet Venus
108 Rounds of Lakshmi's Gayatri Mantra and Rose Ceremony
Yoga Nidra with Goddess Meditation
In this workshop on the auspicious spring equinox, will be exploring the energies of two Goddesses of renewal, sustenance, perseverance, and abundance. Both ruled by the rising star of Venus, Inanna makes descent into the Underworld having been called by her sister. On her descent, she is stripped of everything she possesses, and emerges having lived through the dark of winter to see the light of spring once again, stronger.
Lakshmi is spring beauty and sweetness, offering luxury and abundance through blessings, grace, patience, and devotion. We will explore Venus- inspired practices including movement, breathwork, meditation, mantra, and ritual to symbolize moving from the depths to the rising sun of the spring equinox.
ROCKIN' THE SHAKTI
Drum, Dance, Chant & Meditate
with Mary Bue & Tara Sherman
Sunday April 13
3-5:30pm
Twin Cities Friends Meeting House
1725 Grand Ave.
St.Paul, MN 55105
Investment $45 (+ $1.50 credit card processing fee)*
Join Mary Bue and Tara Sherman in raising the creative feminine energy known as shakti with practices designed to rock your body, uplift your spirit and affirm this sacred life! Connect deeply to the rhythms and pulses of your body and our blessed mother earth through sacred sound, movement, devotion and celebration.
Our workshop begins with drumming and chanting to ground and center in the body of the day and the body of the earth.
Shaktiflow comes next with groovy yoga warm ups and creative movement that unleash and celebrate the shakti within.
This is followed by a kirtan with call and response chanting which invokes our awareness of the sacred feminine.
We wind things down with the deeply restorative meditation practice known as Yoga Nidra or "sleep of the yogi".
Sonic blessings round out our day as we bask in the energy we raised and drink in the soothing chants and songs from Mary
What to bring:
A few of your favorite ROCKS for our community altar and charge them up with the shakti we raise!
Your mat and any props you'd like
A water bottle
A drum or rattle, extra rattles will be provided for those who don't have one
No experience necessary with any of these practices, just an openness to explore expressions of shakti
Plan to arrive no earlier than 2:45 please.
We can’t wait to be with you!
*If you’d like to avoid the $1.50 processing fee
Zelle Mary at marybue@gmail.com
Venmo @marybuemusic
Please be sure to write your name and email to the comments on venmo or zelle when you send the registration fee 🙏
Mary’s Yoga Bio
A registered yoga teacher (e-RYT 500) in the Viniyoga tradition, Mary received her certification at Whole Life Yoga in Seattle, WA from Tracy Weber, (student of Gary Kraftsow, student of T.K.V. Desikachar) and her 300 hour from Yoga Center Retreat (formerly Yoga Center of Minneapolis). In 2020, Mary received an additional 200-hour Nada Yoga (the Yoga of Sound) certificate from Nada Yoga School in Rishikesh India, and in 2024 co-founded a Registered Yoga School (RYS) with her master teacher Tara Cindy Sherman, launching Yojita Yoga Teacher Training.
Mary has pursued continuing education in prenatal yoga, yoga for anxiety & depression, pranayama, and a 30-hour certification in Trauma-informed Yoga with Firefly Yoga International. Mary was a teaching assistant for Whole Life Yoga’s ten-month-long, 200-hour teacher training in 2010 and assisted in WLY’s “Yoga for Healthy Backs” Series. She has her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with an emphasis on Transpersonal Psychology from the University of Minnesota–Duluth. Mary has also received volunteer training in sexual assault victim advocacy from PAVSA and domestic violence victim support from DAIP. She founded and ran Imbue Yoga Studio in S. Mpls for nearly 3 years (closing Jan. 2019).
As a wanderer-luster and experience junkie, she has worked in many types of jobs: as a clinical research assistant in a prison & hospital, an AIDS prevention outreach worker on the streets, and harm reduction work in needle exchanges, as well as many hundreds of hours as a server, bartender, and barista.
All of these experiences culminate in the guiding of Creativity and Yoga Retreats. Mary has led and co-led retreats in Northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Bali, Malta, Ireland, and Italy.
Mary is an avid runner (10 half marathons and two full marathons), a nature lover, and a vegan. In her spare time, she enjoys playing music, cooking, writing blogs, poetry, and in journals, painting cow portraits, reading non-fiction, and traveling.
