Yoga
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Yoga Online
Practice in community, in the comfort of your own home. Cultivate a sacred space just the way you like it. Cut out the travel time, find a cozy nook (maybe invite your furry friend) and get started!
Current classes are offered as registered sessions and vary from 4 to 8 weeks in length.
Cost per class session varies, depending on duration and frequency.
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Yoga In Person
Find it challenging to practice at home? Set some time aside for yourself to practice in a cozy group setting. Props are provided. Experience the energy of practice in a shared space.
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Individualized Yoga
Whether the focus is on healing an injury, improving mobility and balance, or building a spiritual journey, this personalized practice is crafted just for you.
Single Session (tailored to your needs and conditions)
60 minute: $70
90 minute: $105
5 Session package: $360
75 minute each session
Tailored to your needs and conditions
10 Session package: $680
75 minutes each session
Tailored to your needs and conditions
Includes written instructions for a personalized home practice
Hatha Yoga
A traditional style of yoga with a emphasis on safety, breathing, and a meditative flow. Sometimes guided as a slower moving practice which offers an opportunity to build strength and tune into the signals from the physical body. Can involve moments of moving at a quicker pace to challenge the cardiovascular system. Modifications are always offered to suit the practitioners needs and capabilities.
Restorative Yoga
A deep practice of stillness, with a focus on gentle openings and balancing the nervous system. Props are utilized to support the physical body so that it can relax under gravity. This combination of props and yoga postures enables longer holds which can deepen over many minutes. These lengthy periods of stillness offer an opportunity to turn inward, to focus on breath and body, ultimately creating a calm and relaxed state.
Yin Yoga
A practice that utilizes familiar yoga postures but practiced in a way to improve the health and mobility of joints, connective tissue, and fascia. Postures are held a little longer to ensure musclular relaxation so that a healthy (and safe) stress can be applied to the target areas. Props are often used to support the body while in postures, but are not necessary for all practices.
Entrainment Yoga
Entrainment Yoga consists of seven precisely choreographed flows, each intended to awaken and balance the seven chakras. This style of yoga combines asanas, pranayama, mudras, mantras, meditation in motion, coordination and mindfulness. The seven Entrainment Yoga flows are practiced alongside specially composed music. The flows can be thought of as a meditative dance, a carefully designed sequence of asanas intended to vibrate each chakra and induce profound focus.
The powerful effects of each of the seven flows are felt immediately in elevation of energy in the body and a sensation of peace, tranquility, openness and lightness.
Entrainment Yoga synchronizes our physical, pranic, mental and blissful bodies to move in harmony and grace.
Pre-Natal / Post-Natal
An all encompassing yoga practice that is structured with specific modifications for pre-natal (all trimesters) and post-natal. Focus is shifted to strengthening instead of stretching. Pre-natal practice holds space to adapt to a changing body and to find what is needed throughout each stage of pregnancy. Both Pre- and Post-Natal practices have a strong emphasis on deep relaxation and balancing the nervous system.
Move-Breathe-Meditate
A traditional sequence of practice and a shift into “yoga proper”. The class begins with a meditative flow through yoga postures to enliven the body and mind, and to create flexibility in preparation for sitting comfortably. Traditional breathwork follows so that energy accumulated during the asana practice can be directed and experienced on a deeper level. The practice closes with meditation, an opportunity to turn inward and to calm the restless mind; to find steadiness.
Class Descriptions
Qi Gong
Qi Gong is the practice of working with energy through breath, movement, sounds, and mind. This practice includes a variety of techniques and lineages so you can experience how they may be incorporated into your personal practice. Classes often begin with qi gong breathing techniques and visualizations and will often include a standing meditation (often referred to as the ‘million dollar secret of qi gong’).
Meditation
An opportunity to develop or deepen a practice of stillness and calming the restless mind. Various techniques and styles are introduced so that students can find a method that works best for them. Meditation practice grows, evolves, and changes with time. Practicing in the presence of others enforces accountability and can also deepen the meditative state for all who are present. This is an also an opportunity to discuss meditation techniques, its challenges, and to ask questions.
Stages of Psychospiritual Growth
The Lost Teachings of Yoga by Georg Feuerstein
Self-observation: become aware that we are aware
Self-acceptance: our present condition is a result of our past activity
Self-understanding: understand our complexity and arrive at a summary pattern of our habits
Self-discipline: eliminate habit patterns that do not promote spiritual growth
Self-actualization: the unfolding of our full potential
Self-transcendence: consciously direct all efforts to transcending and realizing our higher human potential
Self-transformation: unleash undreamed transformative powers
“Meditation is that process of laying the foundation instantly, immediately, and bringing about – naturally, without any effort - that state of stillness. And only then is there a mind which is beyond time, beyond experience, and beyond knowing.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti (The Book of Life)
How Yoga Can Support Spiritual Recovery
The Lost Teachings of Yoga by Georg Feuerstein
Admit that our ordinary human conditions based on dualistic viewpoints is a stubborn habit
Look and ask for guidance to cultivate a new outlook
Initiate positive change in behavior
Practice self-understanding
Commit to stabilizing new outlook and new habits
Learn to be flexible and open to life
Practice humility in the midst of our endeavors
Assume responsibility for what we have learned about life and the principles of spiritual recovery
Integration of the divided psyche
Cultivate real self-discipline in all matters great and small
Increase the practice of spiritual communion, being transparent to ourselves
Open ourselves to the possibility of bliss, where we are made whole