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 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 2025 DATES:
January 11, 18, 25, Feb 8, 15, Mar 15, 22
No class Feb 1, 22, Mar 1, 8, 29
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.
December 21st 2024
Location: TCFM 1725 Grand Ave, St.Paul OR on Zoom
Investment: $35 in person / $25 Zoom
Pre-registration is required, to do so please send investment via Venmo to Tara at Cindy-Sherman-15 or Mary @MaryBueMusic
CELEBRATE THE WINTER SOLSTICE with Yin Yoga, Sonic Blessings & Yoga Nidra ~ 12.21.24
Join Mary and Tara as they guide you through an evening of reflection and introspection on the auspicious portal of the Winter Solstice. Enjoy an evening of nurturing practices that help quiet the mind and calm your being. Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, has long been celebrated as a time of sacred rest and reflection. It is considered to be the "great stillness" before the sun's strength builds and the days grow longer.
Yin yoga has a similar energy to that of the Winter Solstice as it relates to the more inward, mysterious, feminine, and passive aspects of our being. Tara will guide you through a gentle and luscious practice of Yin Yoga while Mary serenades you with her siren-like voice, beautiful chants, songs and instrumentation. The experience ends with Tara leading you through the deeply relaxing practice of Yoga Nidra and culminates with more sonic blessings from Mary. Claim the time to enjoy a little slice of heaven for yourself this holiday season. Allow yourself to be immersed in the fruitful darkness from which renewal is born.
No experience necessary, feel free to even come and lay on the floor the whole time if you like, please bring your own mat, blankets and props, no open containers in meeting room
4 week Series on Zoom
Dates: January 8, 15, 22, 29
Time: 7-8:30pm CST
Recordings availableI
Investment: $80 / $70 Earlybird til Monday, Dec 2nd 11:59 cst
Pre-registration is required, to do so please send investment via Venmo to @MaryBueMusic or Zelle marybue@gmail.com
Class size: Minimum of 6
Zoom link will be emailed 24 hours prior to first session
Can’t wait to practice with you!
Explore the Chakras: Energy Centers of Creativity, Strength, Love, and Transformation
4 week series on Zoom begins January 8th 2025
Explore the philosophy, symbols, stories, developmental nature, and practices inspired by seven major Chakras in Yogic philosophy ~ symbolic spinning wheels/vortices of energy located along the central channel of the body alongside the spinal cord. Within each center, we can tap into supportive, nourishing, creative wellsprings that can bring benefit to our lives and the lives of others.
In this introductory series, each class will offer combinations of lecture, movement (yoga asana + other gentle movement), breathwork, meditation, mantra/songs/sound, ritual, intuitive creative practice (doodling, writing, coloring, etc), rest/integration. If time allows, there will be brief opportunity for discussion/connection.
Each practice is an opportunity to offer gratitude to the ancient teachings, all of our teachers past/present/future, and the auspicious quality and privilege for being able to give ourselves this time to study and reflect together.
Jan 8th ~ Introduction + Muladhara (Root) Chakra
Jan 15th ~ Svadhisthana (Sacral) + Manipura (Solar Plexus) Chakras
Jan 22nd ~ Anahata (Heart) + Vishuddha (Throat) Chakras
Jan 29th ~ Ajna (Third Eye) + Sahasrara (Crown) Chakras
No previous yoga experience necessary. You can practice with your camera on or off. These classes will be recorded and sent to you if you miss one (only Mary who is instructing will be on camera, any check-ins or personal sharing will not be recorded).
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.
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.
