A 5‑week Advent Soul Care Yoga series to deepen our understanding and experience of joy this advent and beyond.
🫶 Joy To The World
🫶 Joy To The World
Joy is all around us…
From greeting cards with joy written in delicate script, to bold light displays flashing Joy to eager onlookers, during the Christmas season we are surrounded by the reminder that the season invites us to claim and cling to joy.
🫶 But how can we lean into joy when the world feels weary?
🫶 Is being joyful an avoidance of reality?
🫶 Is joy something more than we’re being marketed as smiles and sparkles?
This advent we will explore joy not as escapism, but as a sacred, embodied response to a complex world.
Through yoga asana (movement), breath work (pranayama), meditation, soul-nourishing reflection, and contemplative practices we’ll explore how joy deepens our capacity to live fully, how it calls us to vulnerability, wonder, resistance, and presence.
And, how Jesus’s arrival was the beacon of joy declared by the angels as the most joyous news the world has ever heard.
Step into advent with Joy To The World: Virtual Soul Care Yoga
A 5‑week Advent Soul Care Yoga series to deepen our understanding and experience of joy this advent and beyond.
We’ll Explore
Week 1 | Joy as Vulnerability
Exploring our definitions and ideas of Joy and leaning into how Brené Brown describes Joy as vulnerability in Atlas of the Heart.
Yoga style | Slow Flow
Week 2 | Joyful as Resilience
Exploring how practicing joy creates resilience, which increases our capacity to show up in the world.
Yoga style | Ladder Flow
Week 3 | Joy as Resistance
Exploring how joy is an act of resistance in a world that says we need to go it alone. God’s goodness is in the fingerprints of everything around us and we can live ‘on Earth, as it is in Heaven’.
Yoga style | Reverse Ladder Flow
Week 4 | Joy as a Practice
Exploring how joy is something we practice. When we find what brings us joy and lean into it, we can show up joyful in the world, cultivating the fruit of the spirit.
Yoga style | Flow
Week 5 | Joy and Jesus
Exploring Jesus and joy— how his birth brought Joy into the world. “Joy to the world; the Lord is come; Let Earth receive her King; Let ev'ry heart prepare him room, And heav'n and nature sing!”
Yoga style | Peak Flow
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🫶 Virtual Classes
Classes will be held live over Zoom. The meeting link, ID number and passcode will be emailed to you in the weekly class reminder email sent out the day of each class.
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🫶 Weekly Extras
You'll receive a weekly class follow up email with a 7-day replay of the class to enjoy anytime you'd like, and other bits of inspiration, reflection and practices to nourish your heart throughout the week and season.
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🫶 Explore & Expand
Each week we will explore a new style of yoga asana like hatha, slow flow, yin yang and more, and we'll explore a new contemplative practice to expand your spiritual journey.
Luke 2:9-10
Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared in a radiant splendor before them, lighting up the field with the blazing glory of God, and the shepherds were terrified!
But the angel reassured them, saying “Don’t be afraid, for I have come to bring you good news, the most joyous news the world has ever heard! And it is for everyone everywhere!”
Details and Registration
🫶 SESSION DATES | Each Thursday night from November 20th - December 18th, 2025
🫶 TIME | 7-8pm Central Time (Winnipeg/Nashville time)
🫶 ACCESS | Sessions will be held live over Zoom.
🫶 REPLAY | Can’t make it to the session? No problem! The replay will be set out each week.
🫶 ACCESSIBILITY | All you need is internet access to Zoom, clothes you can move in, a workout mat and journal.
🫶 COST | Registration is the series is $65 CAD (Canadian dollars) per person. Please reach out for accessible costing.
🫶 WELCOME STATEMENT | No matter where you find yourself on your faith journey, you are welcome to join. Our faith journeys all look different and are shaped by our experiences. We acknowledge God is present with each of us and God’s continual invitation to us to explore our connection.
Let this be a your invitation to explore joy not as a fleeting emotion, but as a spiritual practice, an act of resilience, and a gift for how we engage in the world.
Meet Aelea
Hi! I’m Aelea! The founder of Wander to Wonder Soul Care, a space for intentional practices that nourish your soul and facilitate a deeper awareness and connection to God and self.
I am a trained and certified Life Coach, Yoga Teacher, and Spiritual Director and finds deep purpose in walking with others as a spiritual companion.
I’ve been offering live virtual yoga classes since Spring of 2020 and it’s become a beloved part of welcoming the seasons. Each session has a unique theme that we get to engage with that draws us deeper into our relationship with God, and deeper into our own self and body awareness. It’s a gift to hold space for you.