Classes For All Fitness Levels
Vinyasa Yoga
This practice is a faster pace, moving from pose to pose increasing the heart rate and making the body work harder. This practice is accessible to anyone and worth a try to test your endurance and build on it. The practice is medium intensity with poses being held for short durations. Using occasional props and the breath to flow into each pose and focus on alignment, flexibility, balance, strength, and concentration. Each session will contain a mindfulness practice and/or a breathing technique to enhance the quality of the mind and breathing patterns.
Equipment needed: our space is fully matted out, you can bring nothing but yourself! You are welcome to bring your own mat and other props.
(Props are not required, but useful for some bodies in poses.)
Provided: blocks/straps
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Gentle Yoga
This practice is mild intensity, easy on joints, great for beginners learning each pose or individuals overcoming an injury or pain. Poses are held for longer durations with a focus on alignment, posture, concentration, and breath. Using occasional props to assist the body when needed. Each session will contain a mindfulness practice and/or a breathing technique to enhance the quality of the mind and breathing patterns.
Equipment needed: our space is fully matted out, you can bring nothing but yourself! You are welcome to bring your own mat and other props.
(Props are not required, but useful for some bodies in poses.)
Provided: blocks/straps
POWER FLOW
Power Flow is high-intensity/advanced, with a focus on strength & endurance.
Like a vinyasa flow, the breath is used to flow from pose to pose, holding poses for shorter durations.
Calisthenic (bodyweight strength movements) are added to the flow, making the practice more challenging (ex: push-ups/squats/planks).
Endurance & stamina builds as you increase your heart rate.
This form of yoga is a great workout to burn calories, get toned, and gain strength.
Equipment needed: our space is fully matted out, you can bring nothing but yourself! You are welcome to bring your own mat and other props.
(Props are not required, but useful for some bodies in poses.)
Provided: blocks/straps
In-depth Yoga Description & Benefits
Yoga
Yoga tends to hold negative/unappealing stereotypes. “You have to be very flexible and get deep into impossible poses or you have to be religious” “It’s a religious practice” NOT TRUE!
Over the years, the practice of yoga has evolved and developed into what it is today, or what you make of it. Western or modern yoga is very different from how it origanated. Yoga is a personal and independent practice. You experience deep stretching, along with building endurance and strength. It is an amazing form of exercise BUT it’s also a mental practice just as much as physical. You learn to control and calm the mind, which promotes a sense of mind- body connection. You gain a strong awareness of the breath and use the breath to your benefit. There are many variations of yoga, making the practice very diverse and accessible for everyone. Yoga provides extreme benefits when practiced over time.
Physical benefits:
- Lubricates joints, keeping them healthy, mobile, & increases flexibility.
- Increase muscle strength & tone
- Burns calories
- Improves balance & stabilization
- Boosts metabolism & reduces body weight
- Improves respiration & energy
- Improves posture & correct skeletal alignment
- Detoxifies internal organs, improving their function
- Reduces bloating
- Reduces inflammation
- Reduces chronic pains
- Improves breathing patterns
- Slow the natural aging process
- Lowers blood pressure
- Promotes digestion
Mental benefits:
- Activates the parasympathetic nervous system (nerves that relax the body)
- Reduces stress hormones
- Reduces anxiety/ depression
- Creates mental clarity & calmness
- Cultivates a positive mindset, reflecting in your attitude
- Sharpens the mind, betters the memory
- Increases body & self-awareness
- Increase awareness of others, bettering relationships
Overall, improving the quality of life.
More Information
Yoga is an ancient practice rooted in Hinduism. The word “yoga” is a term that comes from the Sanskrit language and means union/ join. Sanskrit was 1 of 22 official languages of India and the ideas of yoga were all written in this language, it is now a dead language. On a broad scope, “yoga” began not as a form of exercise that the majority of the western world knows, rather, at that time in history and part of the world, yoga was a lifestyle connected to the Hindu religion. Through the years, several writings were collected, and the Yoga Sutras by Patanjali is one of them. Patanjali was a Hindu author and philosopher and is said to be the “father of yoga” because of his writings of the sutras. The Yoga Sutras are basically a collection of four writings on the theory and practice of yoga, which contain the 8 Limbs of yoga, and are the basic yoga guidelines that the Hindu people practice and yogis today still follow. They are meant to be practiced and mastered in order. The 8 limbs are in the language of Sanskrit and are as followed; Yamas(how you interact with the world/ethical guidelines), Niyamas(how you interact with yourself/self-respect & discipline), Asanas(physical poses), Pranayama(breath work), Pratyahara(withdrawal of the senses), Dharana(concentration), Dyana(meditation), and Samadhi(absolute bliss).
Yoga is NOT a religion, but it did begin as a religious practice. Yoga has evolved over time and does not relate to any religion as we practice it today. It is what you make of it. In a yoga asana class, you flow through, adopting a pose and holding it for a specific duration. The yoga asanas have many benefits on the human mind & body, improving flexibility(range of motion in the joints), balance, strength, stamina, increasing blood flow, boosting immunity, cardiovascular health, improving organ function, relaxing your nervous system, calms the mind, reduces stress, and the list goes on and on – as listed above.