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Being free to move like your unique self is one of the many gifts of this practice. Some days it's about up-leveling your energy, some days you need to ground, rest or heal. What a gift + privilege to have this ritual of balance every day. With gratitude....
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Harmony • Grace • Surrender
A relaxed pace class designed to enhance mobility, decrease pain, and refresh the mind, body and spirit. Slow, fluid movements coordinated with the breath release tension and open the flow of healing energy within the body and the soul. Modifications are offered to facilitate ease of practice for every body. This class is perfect for those times when we may feel weak, fatigued or stressed from daily activities.
Quiet • Still • Yield
Are you stressed out, overworked, overtired, run-down or just in need of some quiet rejuvenation time? Let the power of Yin Yoga come to your aid through the eradication of stress and toxins accumulated in our muscles, ligaments, bones, joints and internal organs. 3-10 minute postures draws the life force (prana or chi) into the deeper meridians which stimulates the immune system and rejuvenates the whole body.
Support • Nurture • Dissolve
Enjoy a calming and grounding practice that is a wonderful complement to cardio-based exercise or a vigorous vinyasa practice. Restore Yoga practice invites you to let go, allowing gravity and the breath to bring you into a deep space of inner reflection and openness. Expect to melt away your stress in this one! This class is available for all levels.
Eradicate • Reinforce • Lean In
Use wall space to change the orientation and good-stress levels experienced in the yin yoga postures.
let go • settle down • release
Wind down your day @ home. This evening class infuses a steady, all levels hatha class with quiet, cooling, relaxing and restorative poses at the end and an extended savasana. Perfect to ease away the day and prepare you for a restful night's sleep.
slow • low • nourishing
From Slow Vinyasa to deep relaxation, the Serenity Flow Yoga Class is a perfect way to prepare the body and mind for a deep restorative and restful sleep. It begins with a mindful vinyasa flow, then moves into a beautifully sequenced series of deep floor postures...twists, folds, and deep stretches encouraging body awareness, mental reboot/resetting, and letting your day fall away.
Vinyasa • Energize • Flow
The foundation of Focus + Flow Yoga is vinyasa, linking one breath to one movement with an emphasis on precise and supportive alignment. Play while challenging yourself through a wide range of postures + create heat and energy in the body as one posture leads fluidly into another in a class that integrates balance, strength and relaxation. Focus + Flow classes are accessible to all levels and modifications are given so students can practice at their own comfort level.
Tabata • Intensify • Burn
YOGA HIIT is a cross-training combination of yoga and HIIT (high intensity interval training) Experience your fitness and your yoga practice in a whole new way. Yoga HIIT utilizes smart alignment foundation, designed to fatigue muscles through heart rate spikes — cardio. Maximize your caloric burn, melt away fat, and boost your metabolism — active recovery. This cardio and active recovery experience, wrapped up in the familiarity of your yoga practice, will show you your edge and carry you safely beyond it. **This practice will include 3 x 4min HIITs which will use a Tabata Timer. 20 seconds in action and 10 seconds in recovery for a total of 8 minutes for each HIIT sequence. The rest of the practice will be yoga as you know it!
Weights • Tone • Challenge
Total body workout for ALL fitness levels. This easy-to-follow class is designed to sculpt, lengthen and challenge every muscle, to find core strength and stability, while nourishing your body mind and soul. Add small 2-5 pound weights to specific postures and move deeper into each pose– becoming your own personal adjuster. Classes are set to energizing music and designed to tone and sculpt every major muscle group by combining plyometrics and Vinyasa-style yoga flow. Full body strengthening with bodyweight resistance to get your heart rate and metabolism moving. Burn some extra calories, build healthy bone density, tone up those shoulders, biceps and core, and leave feeling calm, strong, refreshed and rejuvenated to start your day! Weights are provided for in-studio classes, while at home, grab some soup cans or full water bottles.
Strength • Stability • Align
This is an upbeat, moderately paced Vinyasa class designed with postures to build core strength, to encourage stability and flexibility through proper alignment, and to fill the body and mind with positive energy all while working towards an apex - or themed - flow. Expect a lively playlist as you journey through a well-rounded flow that will leave you feeling ready to take on whatever the day brings. Some yoga experience suggested.
Define • Digest • Transform
This class focuses entirely on stabilizing our deep core muscles so that we are better able to sustain proper posture throughout the day and alleviate low back issues. Additionally, abdominal organs are massaged and agni (internal heat) is ignited through core work. This stimulates the natural cleansing abilities of the body, helping to eliminate pollutants that deplete our systems and cloud our joy. We take the best from Hatha Yoga and Pilates to create a flow that allows you to strengthen and tone your entire body. Yoga and Pilates are blended together to create an atmosphere that is complete for all fitness levels- from beginner to fitness enthusiast.
Compress • Decompress • Extend
Ready to sweat? Detox Yoga is exactly what it sounds like - DETOXIFYING! Done in a room heated to approximately 104 degrees, this practice is based on a therapeutic, progressive sequence of demanding strength postures that will have you moving, breathing and sweating! Considered to be a more athletic style of yoga, this class will "push your edge" in the most rewarding way. The continual flow, linking movement to breath, produces heat and purifying sweat to detoxify the body and calm the mind. Hot yoga is a great way to build stamina and flexibility. Even iron will bend if heated enough!
26 postures • 2 breath exercises • deep rest
Often referred to as Original Hot Yoga, this class, developed in the Ghosh lineage in Kolkata (Calcutta) where the climate is naturally very warm, is a 90 minute - set sequence of 26 postures and 2 breathing exercises. All postures are done twice. It is characterized by a fluctuation between exertion and relaxation where after each posture there is deep relaxation to integrate the benefits of the pose. Emphasis is placed on proper alignment + not on the depth of each posture making this set challenging yet accessible for all levels of experience. This practice is therapeutic in focus, emphasized by stillness in body and mind. There is no music, just the sounds of silence and your own sweat gently dripping, purifying and detoxing your body.
Modifications are offered to suit your unique body. Watch yourself progress as you deepen your practice and stillness with each class and you reap the benefits of repetition.
Arise • Land • Invigorate
The mind is at it's most still just having woken from sleep so morning is the traditional time to practice yoga. Greet your day with a moving flow which includes seated pranayama (breathing), variations of surya namaskara as well as postures to strengthen and tone your entire body and mind to set the tone for your day. Transition from this dynamic practice with a relaxing savasana to invigorate your mind and body for the day ahead.
Decompress • Strengthen • Stretch
Perfect for beginners and floor based yogis alike, participants will discover how inversions and aerial movements decompress the spine, strengthen the core and achieve deep delicious stretches formerly only dreamed of. Exploring partial + full intro-inversions, learning fluid sequences, moving with breath and your floating savasana cocoon to finish...Expect to feel relaxed, lengthened and strengthened as you learn to fly and decompress the spine!
Music • Sound • Experience
This vinyasa flow class will explore the primal connection between sound, energy and movement. A new theme featuring fun and familiar music will be offered each week (e.g. The Beatles, Bob Marley, '90s music), inviting students on an auditory journey exploring the power of music and sound in relation to yoga practice.
Go In • Balance • Uplift
Yin + Refresh Yoga is a class that balances the newly developed Yin Yoga practice for the first half of the class with traditional warming flow yoga practices for the second half of the class. This class can provide you with a practice that starts with deep, introspective, and quiet yoga that evolves into an energizing and uplifting yoga that sets you on your way for the rest of your day. Perfect for all levels.
Traditional • Set Sequence • Foundations
This all-level class introduces students to the root of traditional yoga sequences and explores the foundations of steady practice, focusing on conscious, intelligent and supportive alignment in asana (posture), use of the breath, concentration, and other techniques that nourish our Yoga. Each month we will explore a new set of sequenced postures based on traditional practices. Some of these include, ashtanga, sivananda, 26 + 2 and more.
