Class Descriptions
Hatha Yoga
Hatha yoga is the physical practice of yoga. Through a combination of conscious breathing and a series of poses called asanas, Hatha yoga helps corrects the body’s alignment and is an accessible practice for everyone, from beginners to long-time practitioners. Iyengar taught us to emphasize precise alignment in each pose, so using supports such as blocks, straps, blankets, and bolsters can and will be used as needed. Most important is that you listen to your body and take this time to deepen your connection to yourself.
Hatha Yoga Mornings, AM classes are a little more lively, with sun salutations and functional and dynamic movement to get you moving smoothly throughout your day.
Hatha Yoga Evenings, PM Classes will help ease the stress and tension built up throughout your day. This is your wind-down class to let the day go and get a good night's sleep
Healthy Hips
Healthy Hips is not a traditional yoga class. It is a functional movement class influenced by our asanas designed to build strength and flexibility in the hips. Our hips affect how we move, walk, and sit; having balance in our hips can lead to harmony and happiness in the entire body, mind included. Healthier hips lead to a happier you. This class will apply various movements using flat bands and yoga balls and resistance bands (not all in the same class or all the time) and is accessible for everyone.
Gentle Yoga
A calming yoga class structured around rejuvenating and healing the body. Asanas are practiced at a slower pace with attention to alignment, stretching, and strengthening all areas of the body, while releasing stress and tension from joints and muscles. Great for all levels looking for a soothing, relaxing class. Wonderful for those newer to yoga or working with special concerns or injuries. Accessible for all.
Vinyasa Yoga
This class is a play on traditional vinyasa practice the primary series. 90 minutes of mindful movement with each breath, this class is a little more intense (in a good way), Sun salutations, standing postures (which you will hold), seated posture, and finishing postures. This class will be taught to be accessible for everyone.
Yoga For Joints And Glands
This practice will help you maintain supple joints and a greater sense of well-being. This class is perfect for people suffering from arthritis, or chronic stiffness in the body, it will also condition your body to move to more demanding asanas. Great class for blood flow and circulation. This class was taught by Swami Rama the founder of The Himalayan Institute.
Yoga Nidra
Yoga Nidra, or yogic sleep, is a powerful meditation and relaxation practice that is intended to induce total physical, mental, and emotional relaxation. It is one of the easiest yoga practices to maintain. Resting comfortably in savasana, this systematic meditation takes you through the five layers of self, leaving you with a sense of wholeness. The benefits of yoga Nidra are, that anybody can do it. It’s an easy way to reduce stress. You cannot do it incorrectly.
Restorative Yoga
Restorative yoga is ideal for balancing our hectic, busy, and stressful modern lifestyles. Perfect for when you feel Stressed, weak, or fatigued from your daily life. With its roots in Iyengar yoga, he developed a practice that allows students to practice without any strain or pain. It is also designed to restore the nervous system and help release deeply held tensions from the body and the mind. You can practice the poses when not feeling so great and while injured.
The use of props to support the postures while gently stretching, relieving, and reviving the body. Restorative yoga is appropriate for all levels of practice and a must for keeping balance in our high-paced society.
Rise and Shine Yoga
This class is a perfect way to start your day, designed to wake up your body, mind, and soul. Accessible for all. Sun Salutations, Dynamic movement, Agni Sara (abdominal squeeze, stimulates digestion and our fire within), and breath work to get you up and get you out the door feeling amazing.
Hatha Yoga Container Series
The Hatha Yoga Container Series focuses on cultivating balance in the muscles from the pelvic floor to the diaphragm. This work is essential for everyone! Whether it is your first yoga class or you have been practicing for many years, everyone can benefit from the container series. You are learning to “tune in” to these areas of the body and applying these efforts throughout your yoga postures and daily life. This work can help prepare the body for more advanced breathing, digestive, and meditation practices. It can also help you feel more grounded and balanced
Align and Refine
In this class we deconstruct our asanas to get a better feel and understanding of proper alignment for our bodies, working at a deeper level in the pose. Also focusing on how to move in and out, and from one asana to another. This class is a mini workshops style class, bring your questions, and let's work on it.
Asana Lab
Asana Labs are classes that take a deep dive into a certain part of the anatomy (back, shoulders, hips, knee) or poses/sequences like breaking down Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutations). Some labs are in two, three, or four parts, others just one class. The labs are designed so that you can take just one of the classes or all parts.
Labs will be broken down into anatomy and kinesiology, the fascia and myofascial release, stretching the muscles, and strengthening the muscles. All sessions will include movement and asana work.
Check the class schedule for lab offerings.
Yoga Lab
When we hear yoga, most think of physical postures and movement or even exercise. Yoga is a system made up of eight limbs, 1) Yamas (outer ethics/restraints), 2) Niyamas (Inner ethics/observances), 3) Asana (this is your physical practice), 4) Pranayama (breathwork), 5) Pratyahara (withdrawal from the senses), 6) Dharana (concentration) 7) Dhyana (meditation) 8) Samadhi (bliss, enlightenment, oneness).
Yoga labs are designed to take a deep dive into these philosophies and practices like meditation, mindfulness, pranayama, karma yoga, Bhakti yoga, and the like.
Check the class schedule for lab offerings.