A Little About the Yoga We Offer...
Hatha Yoga
A practice appropriate for beginning students thru advanced. Traditional Hatha Yoga is a holistic yogic path, including moral disciplines, physical exercises (e.g., asanas (postures), Pranayama (breath control)), and meditation. Hatha represents opposing energies: hot and cold (fire and water, following the same concept as the yin-yang), male and female, positive and negative. Hatha Yoga attempts to balance mind and body via physical exercises, or "asanas," controlled breathing, and the calming of the mind through relaxation and meditation. Asanas teach poise, balance and strength and are practiced to improve the body's physical health and clear the mind in preparation for meditation.
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Yoga is designed to heal the western body and its unique stresses,
challenges and common injuries. Each class incorporates physical,
mindful and emotional work to bring about a complete yogic experience.
Students can expect a slow paced class that teaches a variety of
breathing techniques, methods that get you connected to your core -
getting strong and centered, how to do a sequence of poses with
compassion and skill toward oneself, how to open a deeper connection to
spirit, and explore challenge with a sense of truth and integrity.
Classical Yoga
Yoga means Union. The goal of Yoga is Self Realization. This classic approach to yoga brings the body and the mind into harmony. Slow paced and meditative, this rejuvenating practice incorporates Hatha Yoga (postures and breathing practices that prepare the body/mind for meditation) and Jnana Yoga (contemplation of Yoga scriptures written over five thousand years ago). All body types and levels of experience will be welcome and engaged in this class.
Prana Yoga
An approach to Hatha Yoga that dives deeper into coordinating the breath (Pranayama) with the postures (asanas). This is an all level practice suitable for beginners thru the advanced practitioner. Modifications will be given for those newer to the practice, while opportunities for deepening will be offered for those with a strong practice. This peaceful class will help you to move and breathe with greater joy and ease.
Beginner Series
This 4-week series is designed for students either new to yoga, or students returning to the practice after some time, or for the student that feel like they just don't "get it". You will complete this series feeling confident venturing out into the world of yoga with knowledge in; the postures and their proper alignment, basic yoga breathing techniques, basic yoga philosophy and history, benefits of a yoga practice and the postures, and guidance on continuing your practice.
Yoga for the Super Stiff & Beginners
Suitable for all - Modifications
will be given for those newer to the practice, while opportunities for
deepening will be offered for those with a current practice. This
peaceful class get you back into your body, and help you move and breathe with greater joy and
ease.
Yoga Strong
This Hatha Yoga class will help you to learn to tap into the power of your core through key alignment principals. We'll work strength, stamina and flexibility. This class welcomes healthy beginners through advanced practitioners.
Yoga for Athletes
Many athletic injuries are caused by muscular overuse and a lack of overall body
conditioning. Yoga for Athletes is a simple, predictable, head-to-toe yoga practice
designed to create balanced action and increased strength throughout the body while enhancing your ability to focus and relieve performance-based stress. This class is ideal for those involved in regular sports activities such as; swimming, running, golf, tennis, soccer, baseball, and for dancers.
Pilates Mat & Yoga Seat
Much more than physical exertion, Pilates, is a holistic approach to fitness. Improve core, as well as overall strength, flexibility and condition all muscle groups with the Pilates Technique. Then, explore the Yoga Seat - Much more than just siting, Yoga Meditation takes the concentration we learn in overall body awareness, and directs the mind to peaceful and relaxed moments of being. This class is sutiable for all levels.
Yoga Blast
Busy lives and schedules make it hard to find time to take care of your body, overall well-being, and peice of mind. Yoga Blast is a 45-minute practice designed to de-stress, stretch, tone, and strengthen the entire body - especially the abdominal muscles so critical to good posture and back health. This class is sutiable for all levels.
Rejuvenate & Relax
This class provides a welcoming balance to a busy life and a more active yoga practice. As many of our lives are filled with the rush of a fast pace, yin yoga allows you to slow down and experience the benefits of your more silent, meditative self. We will hold gentle poses for longer in order to stretch the body deeply, and use mindfulness practices to connect to our bodies and fully experience the power of the present moment. This class is easily accessible to all levels, provides a great introduction to meditation practices, and will leave you feeling rejuvenated and deeply relaxed. Come see how exciting it can be to slow down and experience the joy of your quieter side.
Healthy Backs
All levels and all students are welcome to attend this gentle class that is specially designed for those of us with back pain or back injury. We’ll move through sequences of stretches specially designed to open and recover our backs. We’ll work through the entire body to remedy imbalances and to bring harmony back to our movements.
Vinyasa
Also known as Flow Yoga. Students of all levels are encouraged to unite the body and the mind with the wave-like action of the breath. In life, vinyasa is any cycle; the cycle of the moon, equinoxes and solstices, the flow of your day, or simply moving from breath to breath. In this vigorous class, enjoy creative sequencing and soothing rhythms as you break down your boundaries and align to your true nature! This class is for the athletic beginner looking to challenge their edge and the advanced practitioner looking to deepen their practice.
Alignment with Flow
This all-level class offers practical techniques to open the body and release tension, while building strength and flexibility through fundamental alignment principals. The detailed alignment work, combined with the freedom of vinyasa based flow sequences, offers the student the opportunity to grow their practice.
Pre/Post Natal Yoga Clients are welcome to attend the following classes on our schedule: Gentle Hatha, Classical Yoga, Healthy Backs, Yoga for the Super Stiff & Beginners
Yoga
can help ease your pregnancy and rejuvenate you after birth by:
increasing overall strength, flexibility & well-being, reducing low
back pain & sciatica, reducing aches & fatigue in the thoracic
& cervical regions of the spine, reducing swelling &
inflammation around your joints, aiding in digestion, helping to
prepare you physically for giving birth, while improving emotional
well-being. It will help ease your labor by: teaching you to soothe
& empower yourself by finding your own inner rhythm, learning to
use the tools of meditation & visual imagery and your breathing,
learning to use the muscles of your pelvic floor, facilitate the labor
process by teaching you to let go of tension and improve your physical
comfort. Please inform your instructor of any conditions, doctor recommendations, or changes to your health prior to class.
West African Dance - Monthly Special Class
African dances vary because of the many cultural differences in musical and movement styles. These dances must be viewed in close connection with African Music, as many African languages have no word to define music. These dances teach social patterns and values and helps people work, mature, praise or criticize members of the community while celebrating festivals and funerals, competing, reciting history, proverbs and poetry; and to express spirituality. Class will be held with live drumming accompaniment.
Thai Yoga Bodywork - Available in Private Sessions
This ancient Ayurvedic folk-art is an experience of beautifully choreographed bodywork sequences (also known as assisted yoga) synthesizing rhythmic compressions, intense stretching, ancient breathing arts, acupressure and meditation to produce profound rest and rejuvenation. Thai Yoga sessions fulfill on the promise of inspiring the soul and tranquilizing the body. Customarily, you will find a Thai Yoga massage to last about 1-2 hours. Flowing rhythmic compression using the feet, knees, palms, elbows, forearms and fingers is blended with asanas (stretching positions) and disciplined breath control (Pranayama), effectively producing a balanced and harmonious symbiotic communication integrating the body's vital systems (mechanical-muscular skeletal, electrical-neural, chemical-glandular).
Not all class styles may be represented on our schedule at this time as they may be offered as special series, workshops, or as private sessions.
