Vol. 1 — No. 14Weekend Episode · Thu–Sun, Sep 17–20, 2026 · South Knoxville, TN★ soknoear.com
Vol. 1 — No. 14 · Sep 17–20★ soknoear.com
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Ijams ParkSun

Self Care Sunday puts a yoga class out on the grass at Ijams Park

An hour with Hope Irwin on Sunday mid-morning, ten dollars for adults and five for kids, which makes it one of the few things all weekend a whole family can do for under twenty.

Mats on the grass, mid-morning

Self Care Sunday is an hour of yoga outdoors at Ijams Park with Hope Irwin, eleven thirty to twelve thirty. Ten dollars for anyone thirteen and up, five for children five to thirteen. A parent and two kids comes to twenty dollars for the morning, which is not a sentence you get to write about much of this weekend.

When
Sun Sep 20 · 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Where
Ijams Park · 2915 Island Home Ave
Cost
$10 adults (13+) · $5 kids 5–13
Bring
Your own mat, water, and a hat for the walk in
Teacher
Hope Irwin
Weather
Around 93 — it will be warm on the mat

About the heat

It is going to be about ninety-three degrees Sunday and the class is at the warm end of the morning, so this is a water-and-shade situation rather than a gentle-breeze one. Bring your own mat. The upside of an outdoor class in September is the same as it always is — birdsong instead of a speaker, and the walk back to the car through the woods.

It stacks neatly with the rest of Sunday: painting starts at eleven, the mushroom workshop at twelve thirty, and the bluegrass jam at two. You could reasonably do two of the four.

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