Classes

Intro to Yoga

Our Introductory class is a good place for new students to start. Typically offered in a 6-week series, this is an introduction that includes several specific breathing techniques (pranayama), relaxation techniques, and a dozen basic poses (asanas). Poses include basic movements for a traditional sun salute as well as simple backbends, twists, balances, and modified inversions. Students develop confidence and capability with a foundational and well-rounded yoga practice.

Gentle Yoga

Our Gentle classes are an invitation to slow down and enjoy each simple pose by attuning to breath and sensation and elevating body awareness. We are primarily on our backs and against the wall, with occasional standing and supported sitting work. We warm the joints, open the breath, and move with respect for individual needs. This class both strengthens and nurtures the student. While the pace of this class is slow and transitions are gradual, students must be able to move from the floor to standing and back again without assistance. Beginners welcome.

Restorative Yoga

Restorative sequencing moves us slowly into a deep somatic experience. Forward folds open the back and calm the nervous system, prompting self-investigation. Light abdominal exercise replenishes our well of energy. Mild, supported backbends and twists spread energy throughout the body, freeing places of grip and grasp. Gentle inversions relieve the daily demands made on our legs and hips. Visualization and relaxation techniques calm the mind. This class is for everyone.

Basics

Basics classes refine and broaden the techniques from the introductory level. Students practice universal alignments in basic standing and seated poses and explore new poses, including hip opening to support backbends. The intention is to deepen through structural alignments and to cultivate an ever-fresh beginner's mind: wide awake and open to discovery. Basics includes an introduction to mindfulness meditation and refines breathing techniques (pranayama).

Moderate Yoga

Here we move at a determined, moderate pace with pauses for reflection and absorption of poses and their sequencing. We offer a wide range of poses with options for modification, development, and variation. Moving with awareness, students are able to uncover the potential of breath, alignment, and mindfulness in each pose. Arm balances, inversions, and deep back bends are included.

Open Yoga

An unhurried exploration of breath, body and awareness in a  balanced sequence of poses. The pace and content of these classes is similar to Moderate yoga. Open Yoga is for students with some yoga experience, but beginners are welcome. Teachers offer their unique style while addressing various levels of proficiency. These classes offer further yoga experience and refinement through gradual development of each pose.

Stress Buster Hour

This class utilizes breath work, movement, meditation and deep savasana to release you from stress and anxiety and bring you to a more calm, relaxed state. Join us for mindful breath work, 30 minutes of gentle/yin postures, 15 minutes of guided meditation, and 15 minutes of supported shavasana to create a profound state of ease. Learn why these techniques work and how to utilize them off the mat.

Svaroopa Bliss I

Individualized supported yoga poses deepen awareness of the bodymind connection. Reliably releases deep spinal tension and relaxes the mind.

Blissful Back

Svaroopa Yoga poses specifically for your achy, ouchy, tight back, neck and shoulders! Fully supported, individually aligned asanas to release the tension that compresses your back and restricts your mind.

Baby Boomer Class

If not now, when? Geared to the older student, people roughly 40 to 60 years old. This class honors the wisdom in each of us that is gained only through life experience. Modifications of the poses are offered to suit a student's ability, body type, or physical limitations. There is plenty of adjustment time in between poses.

Mindfulness Yoga

Mindfulness is complete acceptance...accepting just this moment, just this breath. Yoga means union or yoking of the body and the mind. In this class we will explore posture and meditation, mat and cushion, mindfully merging both. We will work with the breath, following its movements through the body, being present in just this moment, just now. As we turn the lens inward, we will learn more about the asana, the breath, and ourselves.

Mellow Vinyasa

A flowing investigation of postures, breathing techniques, and energy, Mellow Vinyasa is a canvas for students wanting to learn how to move with grace, intelligence, and ease. Each month we focus on a principle of movement so that techniques may imprint on the body over time. This practice refines body balance and increases strength and flexibility. The format includes pranayama, chanting, and meditation.

Heated Power Vinyasa in the Baptiste Power Vinyasa tradition

Practiced in a 90 degree room, this is a vigorous flow.  Challenging yet accessible to all, this class will leave you feeling energized and cleansed.  Consistent practitioners of this flow find that their flexibility, strength, and endurance improve quickly and dramatically, producing a deeply satisfying sense of physical and mental stability and power.  Some experience with basic yoga postures is helpful, but not required.  Bring a towel and water, and get ready to sweat!

Vinyasa

Practiced in a warm room at a swift pace, this class aims to burn through the physical and psychic impediments to Self-realization. Vinyasa sharpens intention and deepens devotion to living through the light of the Self. It is designed for students who are comfortable in a heated room (85°); who are familiar with inversions; and who appreciate a challenging sequence of postures. Bring a towel.

Wednesday Meditation

This is an opportunity to meditate for a half hour each week in a supportive environment. Practice in your own tradition or learn new techniques and reap the benefits of a quiet mind. Donations only. Beginners are encouraged to arrive ten minutes early. 

Shoulder Strength and Flexibility

A well-rounded, varied class that begins with arm and shoulder strengthening poses and balances them with wise poses for shoulder flexibility. Useful for those with shoulder issues, to help prevent rotator cuff injury, to build arm strength, prevent osteoporosis and to shrug off the tightness that we all seem to develop as we carry the weight of the world on our shoulders.

All Levels Vinyasa

This class features flowing sets of postures that can be modified based on your experience level. The word Vinyasa means "breath-synchronized movement." Students are guided into a sequence of poses that flow from one to another in conjunction with the breath.  Vinyasa Yoga develops a sense of internal focus while warming and energizing the body to create strength, flexibility, cardio vascular conditioning and relaxation. Yoga props are used to accommodate all levels.