Class Descriptions
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Restorative Yoga with Yoga Nidra
Experience conscious transformation and become receptive to change. Beginning with a few supported Restorative Yoga postures, we will open, release, and prepare the body for a deeper state of stillness and rest. Then, we will move into 20-30 minutes of Yoga Nidra, shifting awareness from the external world to the inner world and cultivating conscious relaxation. As brain activity quiets, mental constructs of reason, space, and time fall away, allowing you to reconnect with yourself more profoundly to heal, restore, and awaken.
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Pilates Reformer Foundations
This 45-minute class teaches the fundamental Pilates techniques and caters to students of all levels interested in form and movement. Uplevels and modifications are offered to challenge your abilities. This class will help improve posture and balance, develop a strong core, and engage the deeper layer of muscles. You will experience the benefits of a light resistance workout, including coordination, flexibility, and increased functional movement. This class focuses on mobility, alignment, and form and includes the Pilates classical and contemporary sequences.
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Nia
Nia is a unique fitness practice combining dance, martial arts, and mindfulness for a holistic experience, addressing the body, mind, and soul. It's inclusive and encourages students to listen to their bodies in a community setting, following a cycle that includes focus, warm-up, cardio, stretching, and strength building. The practice is also about having fun, fostering curiosity, and finding joy while improving physical and mental well-being, including mobility, agility, flexibility, strength, and balance.
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Candlelight Vinyasa
This vinyasa class emphasizing balance, strength, and wisdom will invite you to deepen your practice, connection to your center, and engagement with life. It is for all levels and will include movement synched with the breath, as well as opportunities for stillness and reflection.
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Embody Flow
Cultivate the magical life that sprouts from a dedicated practice rooted in classical Yoga lineages. The practice integrates somatization, with the intention to be both practical and spontaneous. The classes unfold with fluidity and ease while providing adapted physical challenges.
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Mindful Vinyasa
This class, suited for beginners and longtime practitioners, offers a vigorous and engaging practice to explore the depths of mindfulness, breath, alignment, and posture. The exploration of these foundations relies on both Hatha and Vinyasa styles, while also drawing on inspiration from Hindu and even Buddhist principles and methods. With this focus, this class seeks to prepare the student not only to go deeper into the practice, but also to expand the knowledge and ability for more challenging postures and series.
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Ashtanga-Influenced Vinyasa
This class, suited for beginners and longtime practitioners, offers a vigorous and engaging practice to explore the depths of breath, alignment, and posture. The exploration of these foundations is derived from traditional Ashtanga yoga. This class seeks to provide the student with a healthy asana series and principles of practice that can readily be adapted by the practitioner for home practice. The class also seeks to provide a foundation for a more in-depth exploration of yoga and to prepare for more challenging postures and series.
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Pilates Reformer Intermediate
This is not a calss for a beginner. This 45-minute class teaches the intermediate reformer exercises, plus their progressions. Pilates Sculpt will use hand weights, the magic circle, and the small ball, for a vigorous class format that will engage you mentally and physically, developing stability and strength. Participants must be comfortable planking, kneeling and standing on the reformer series. It is recommended that students have reformer experience and no knee injuries, recent surgeries, or joint replacements to take this Sculpt class. You will feel lengthened and strengthened after class.
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Ashtanga Primary Series
The Ashtanga primary series (known as ‘yoga chikitsa’, which means yoga therapy) provides a challenging sequence of asanas (poses) that are performed in a specific order which has the effect of ‘unlocking’ the body in an intelligent and scientific way, each pose preparing the body for ones to come. The postures of the primary series include standing poses, seated poses, back bending, and inversions and focus heavily on the most common physical afflictions of Western life: short hamstrings, tight hips, spinal imbalances, poor posture and weak abdominal muscles (core strength). While the primary series is challenging, the use of props and modifications are offered to make the practice accessible to practitioners of all levels.
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Classic Vinyasa
With a dynamic flow emphasizing breath and movement, this class will improve strength, stamina, and flexibility. This class is creative and safely sequenced, ensuring a well-rounded and grounded practice. The pace is moderate but the class tends to still be challenging.
Students should be familiar with basic vinyasa.
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Kundalini Flow
Kundalini is the embodied expression of Shakti, the energy of consciousness. Yoga often aims to awaken and harness this energy for health and vitality. While some methods involve intense physical actions and breathing, Kundalini Flow adopts a gentler approach, combining vinyasa flow with pranayama (breathing), bandhas (internal muscle movements), and focused awareness to awaken and nurture this dormant energy in a more gentle manner.
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Vinyasa with Music
This is an intermediate and physically challenging class. Expect an intelligently sequenced vinyasa flow with thoughtful and inspiring music that hits all the waypoints for effort and ease. The pace of this class is strong and steady and draws on modern yoga, anatomical wisdom, and traditional themes for a shakedown that will leave you glowing!
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Awaken Flow
A dynamic class to start your weekend, combining breathwork and energizing movement. In this class, you’ll be guided through a series of flowing sequences that will challenge you to move with intention and awareness. You’ll learn to listen to your body and honor its limitations while pushing yourself to new heights. Although this is a challenging all-level class.
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Mysore (Begins November 19)
Ashtanga Yoga is the source of Vinyasa and a unique system of practice based on a specific series of postures traditionally learned in the Mysore-style class. This lineage and potent system works beyond gaining strength and flexibility to access one's energy and life force (prana) and improve clarity of mind while cultivating a meditative awareness and observation of whatever arises, moment by moment and breath by breath.Mysore is a city in southern India where Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga originated and is still traditionally practiced. Mysore Practice offers the most progressive way for students to learn by combining group energy, individual intention and commitment, and supportive, hands-on adjustments in a safe, self-paced environment that fosters encouragement and independence for all levels, from those with no prior yoga exposure to beginners to experienced practitioners. Each student is taught and supported by the teacher according to their level and progresses as the sequence of postures becomes more familiar and the breath, endurance, and awareness develop. Variations and therapeutics can be learned to make poses more accessible and user-friendly. This unique combination of guidance and independence offers an excellent opportunity to cultivate a practice that can slowly build… and last a lifetime. NOTE: You do not have to come for the entire class time for Mysore classes. Instead, you can begin and end your practice as it suits your schedule. I will guide you individually and offer specific adjustments during your practice.