Forest Moon Yoga – A peaceful class intended to help students discover bliss, balance the mind-body and learn how to tap powerful inspiration. The pace is gentle enough for beginners, and also engrossing enough for experienced students. The class begins with breath work, visualization and meditation. Next, students are guided to feel into their bodies and allow their breath to lead them through gentle movements that bring ease and sensation to embodiment before returning to meditation. By alternating between movement and meditation, people can find peace and clarity in their thinking and feeling selves. Nature is an important element of the class. Forest imagery in harmony with the cycles of the moon is weaved throughout the practice. People are invited to come to class in their wholeness, complete with joys and sorrows, agitation and curiosity. No prior yoga experience needed.
Foundations – This class is for those looking for a place to begin, as well as those wanting to deepen their connection to the basics. Foundational postures, breath work, and meditation techniques will be practiced with the goal of nurturing a mind/body connection and encouraging strength, balance, and flexibility. Attention will be paid to safe alignment, and lots of pose variations and props will be offered for exploration. Different styles of yoga will be introduced, and multiple asana (pose) types will be included: standing and seated postures, forward folds, back bends, balance postures, twists, inversions, and restorative postures. No prior yoga experience needed.
Gentle Yoga & Meditation – This class begins with gentle, natural, floor-based movement. We then transition into a beginner-friendly seated practice including breath work and meditation. We end by coming into one or two restorative poses with optional massage. This cozy class is a slow, holistic practice, bringing the body into relaxed wholeness and easing the nervous system into a place of clarity, awareness, and peace.
Hatha/Vinyasa – This class combines a little bit of Hatha Yoga (asana/poses practiced individually with an emphasis on strength, balance, and flexibility) with a little bit of Vinyasa Flow (linking asana/poses together with coordinated movement with breath). Class will include centering, warm-up, and movement through the seven dynamic asana (pose) types: standing and seated postures, forward folds, back bends, balance postures, twists, and inversions. Attention is paid to alignment, and props and variations will be offered for both increased and decreased intensity. No prior yoga experience needed.
La Mer Yoga (Slow Flow & Meditation) – La Mer Yoga is an all-levels class composed of small waves of movement, stillness, and meditation. Cycling through repetitions of dynamic asanas, static asanas, and inward practice allows a comprehensive massage of the body and mind. Returning again and again to brief periods of meditation allows greater access to this state of mind in daily life. Visualization and music are used to inspire the inner life. Stillness and silence bring us to a blissful state of truth in being. Students may at times feel as if they are gently swimming on their mats. Sensing into the body and breath, students are free to experience and digest whatever feelings arise, and hopefully come to a residing place of joy. No prior yoga experience needed.
Morning Meditation & Flow – This is an early AM practice to start your day with movement and mindfulness. A Slow Flow asana practice is coupled with time spent in meditation. Variations and props will be offered. No prior yoga experience needed.
Restorative Yoga – Relax deeply in longer held poses, fully supported by props such as blocks, blankets, bolsters, straps, and chairs. Restorative Yoga activates the parasympathetic nervous system, also called the rest and digest system, slowing the heart rate, increasing blood flow, and allowing the body to relax, promoting stress relief and healing. This class is all about slowing down, connecting to the breath, and finding rest. No prior yoga experience needed.
Sivananda – A classical Hatha practice based on the teachings of Swami Sivananda. Relaxation and breath work will be followed by Sun Salutations and a specific and consistent asana/posture sequence focusing on strength, flexibility, and balance. Attention on alignment and breath control coupled with both physical challenge and ease. All levels welcome. No prior yoga experience needed.
Slow Flow – Slow Flow is a mindfully-paced Vinyasa practice, combining movement with breath while allowing time in each pose to focus on alignment and exploration. This approach allows newer practitioners to build confidence and familiarity, while giving seasoned yogis space to refine and deepen their practice, providing everyone an opportunity to forge a deeper mind/body connection. Class will begin with centering, breath work, and a brief warm-up before moving through sun salutations and multiple dynamic asana types to both challenge the body and quiet the mind: standing and seated postures, forward folds, back bends, balance postures, and inversions. Props and variations will be offered for both increased and decreased intensity. No prior yoga experience needed.
Yin – Yin is the practice of stilling both the body and mind through long held, passive stretches (usually 2-5 minutes), mostly practiced on the floor. Yin targets the connective tissues (tendons, ligaments, fascia), opening up parts of the body that are not often the focus of a more active (or yang) yoga practice. Emphasis will be placed on deep breathing, and various meditation techniques may be used in class. Props and variations will also be offered. No prior yoga experience needed.
Yinyasa (Slow Flow & Yin) – This class combines Slow Flow and Yin into one intentional practice. Half the time will be devoted to a mindfully-paced Vinyasa flow, and then class will conclude with a series of longer-held, passive stretches to target the deeper connective tissues (joints, ligaments, fascia). No prior yoga experience needed.
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