As part of "Mindful May", the Delaware Botanic Gardens (DBG) is hosting Yoga throughout the month. 

Join local Yoga instructors for Gentle Hatha Yoga at the Gardens.  This hour long class yoga is a slow-paced, accessible practice focusing on holding poses, stretching, and mindful breathing to increase flexibility, reduce stress, and improve body awareness.

Please check in at the Welcome Center to access the Gardens.  The Gardens open at 9 AM and classes begin promptly at 9:30 AM.

Please bring your own yoga mat and any yoga props your may prefer.

Come out and enjoy the fresh air and Garden blooms.

Meet your instructors:

May 7 & 14 - Hiba Stancofski

Lewes resident Hiba Stancofski, shifted from a research biologist career years ago to the world of yoga, and has been teaching yoga for over 12 years now.
Hiba is a 500-hour certified yoga teacher (in vinyasa yoga, yoga philosophy, yoga for trauma level 1, yoga for cancer, restorative yoga, Svaroopa yoga foundations, Yin yoga). She is also a “Let Your Yoga Dance” instructor, a mindfulness instructor, a Reiki level II healer, and author of state and national award-winning children’s book “I Feel Better Now” which introduces children to the tools of yoga and mindfulness to better self-regulate during life’s struggles.
Hiba has taught yoga at the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition, the American Cancer Society, and the Cancer Support Community. She has guest taught for several D1 and D3 college athletic teams, has taught yoga at women’s retreats in Sedona, AZ, and has taught mindfulness in schools. Hiba also hosts self-care yoga retreats at the Himalayan Institute in Honesdale, PA, every Fall.
Hiba regularly teaches yoga at Involution Yoga Studio in Lewes, DE, leads yoga practices for Beebe Healthcare staff, and offers yoga to several athletic teams at Cape Henlopen High School. She integrates mindfulness in all of her yoga classes.  For more information, please visit https://www.hibastancofski.com/

May 21 & 28 - Tara Gush

Tara Gush is a 200-hour certified yoga teacher, trauma-informed yoga facilitator, and breathwork guide who blends mindful movement with nervous system science. With additional training in yoga for recovery, meditation, breathwork, Pilates, and applied neuroscience, Tara designs classes that support both physical strength, emotional resilience and stress relief.

Her teaching integrates intentional breath, steady sequencing, and grounded awareness to help students move out of stress mode and back into embodied presence. Tara believes yoga is not about performance — it’s about regulation, reconnection, and returning home to yourself. Through compassionate cueing and thoughtful pacing, she creates a supportive space where students can build stability, explore their edge safely, and experience movement as a pathway to whatever the mind and body need in the moment.

For Tara, the breath and movement is the bridge — and every flow is an invitation to cross it.