Discover your strength. Awaken your spirit.
218 Pearl Street, Fort Wayne IN 46802
10329 Illinois Rd, Fort Wayne IN 46814
ph 260-627-YOGA (9642)
Class Descriptions
All Levels Yoga
Is just what it says. This is a yoga class for the beginner and beyond. Whether this is your very first class or if you have a daily practice, our teachers will give modifications, adjustments, and verbal cues to meet you where you are.
Prana Flow™
Prana Flow is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of Teachers. An evolutionary approach of embodied transformation and radiant health cultivating inner and outer strength and fluidity, skill and intuition, vital energy and relaxed being, activation and receptivity within the sacred structure of our yoga practice.
Heated & Hot Yoga Classes
Hot Yoga is the newest craze and we love breaking a sweat everyday. However, Pranayoga's philosophy is about sustainablility and a holistic approach to our yoga practice. We heat our classes from 80-86 in the summer and 86-90 in the winter. It isn't just about how hot the external environment gets, it is about the internal heat we are building, as well. It is important not to throw the body out of it's natural homeostasis. Heated Yoga, more mild than Hot Yoga, is a safer way to practice than Hot Yoga as the vital organs are not compromised, and Heated Yoga also may be safer than a cooler room as the body is naturally warm to prevent against injuries. So come get your sweat on in a challenging but sensible way!
Kids Yoga & Teen Yoga
Yoga is not just for grown-ups anymore. Yoga is a great tool to help kids and teens grow strong in their bodies and the qualities of confidence, creativity, and compassion. In the fast pace world we live in even younger people can feel the stress. Yoga can help them feel more at ease with themselves, more focused, and more relaxed. These classes are ongoing, so you can join at any time. Kids yoga classes for ages 4-11. Teen yoga class for ages 12-16.
Prenatal Class
Prenatal yoga provides the strength and relaxation benefits of yoga, as well as a chance to nurture your-self while bonding with the life inside. The special selection of postures, are designed to prepare the body for changes that occur before, during, and even after labor.
Restorative Yoga
Learning to relax is at the heart of living well and this class is an antidote to stress because it promotes deep relaxation. We will use props like blankets and bolsters to put the body into extremely comfortable and supported positions. Then, much like meditation or asana class, the attention rests on the breath. Each class will include subtle backbends, forward bends and twists, to promote healthy spines, as well as inversions to reverse the fluids in the body, enhancing the functions of the heart. This setting provides the perfect environment to truly relax and rejuvenate. Recommended for beginners and those seeking a very gentle yoga practice.
Vinyasa Flow
This class is breath-synchronized movements. It is a fluid system of yoga poses that has a purification effect on the body and mind. Experience flow, chant, and meditation.
Yoga for Cancer
This program, developed by Jnani Chapman, RN, BSN, CMT, CYT, is for people with cancer, pre, during, and post treatment. It includes breathing techniques, relaxation, mental imagery, conscious use of the mind and imagination, self talk, meditation, and gentle movement through sequences and postures. It is designed to treat the person as an individual and a whole system of body, mind, and spirit. Our community class may also act as a support group, and pull you out of the cocoon that it is so easy to put ourselves in at the time of diagnosis. Learn to love yourself back to life at a time when it feels like your body has betrayed you.
We believe that yoga for cancer should not be limited by the amount of money a person has, with the already overwhelming amount of medical expenses, so this is a donation based class. Please be generous if you can so that we can keep these programs going for those who cannot afford it. $14 donation is recommended.
Yoga for Corporations
Supports the individual's work performance, while contributing toward corporate profitability, productivity, company loyalty and customer satisfaction through training individuals to:
• Increase control and concentration of the mind
• Enhance alertness
• Improve stamina and resistance to illness, less sick days
• Decrease stress during the performance of challenging work activities.
• Improve communication, listening, and interpersonal relationship skills
Great for an afternoon stretch or after work hours.
Yoga for Schools
Yoga helps reduce stress, anxiety, disruptive behavior, and lack of emotional control in children. The class is designed to benefit both students and teachers. Our school's principle training program is Calm Classroom. Our program also includes creative movement, reading to improve literacy, and ethics for respecting ourselves and others.
Community Yoga
An intro to yoga class. Come practice for free if you can't afford membership or come and donate $14 to pay for yourself and for someone else's yoga class. Ages 9-99 welcome! Enjoy community, a delicious treat, and practice a little yoga too. Meets the 1st Saturday of every month, 3-4pm, Southwest location and the 3rd Saturday of every month, 3-4pm, Downtown location.
Meditation
The practice of meditation allows the mind to quiet down and enables your body to get the deep rest it requires to release stress and stay healthy. Any one at any age can learn to meditate and enjoy the benefits. We will practice many different meditation techniques during this class to find the tool that works best for you.
Devotional Chanting
Devotional Chanting is all about using your voice to cultivate the highest quality mental and emotion experience available to human beings. Your mind and heart follow where your voice sends them. When you repeat mantras ("mind-protectors"), you're pronouncing the very Sound Forms of Perfection. Chanting makes the Supreme--the Best you can imagine--present in the form of your own voice. In so doing, you exchange your ordinary, troubled mind and heart for something higher, more refined, and infinitely more vast. The effects over time include greater peace of mind and emotional fulfillment, a reduction in the unhealthy self-concern that causes you so much suffering, and direct knowledge of the Divine. It's a simple, beautiful, and effective self-help method that will enrich your life and empower you to make a difference in your world.
Yoga Therapy
Yoga therapy is a healing art of awareness, breath, and movement. Dani McGuire is the only yoga therapist in the area and is a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Dani has helped numerous students get relief from pain and anxiety. Yoga therapy helps the systems regain balance and vitality. Dani will meet you wherever you are today and using gentle asana, guided imagery, and breathing practice gain relief from pain or illness.
Private Sessions
Private sessions are ideal for those students wishing to gain personal direction and guidance, deepening their yoga practice with one on one attention from the teacher of their choice.