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.

Prerequisite Notes
None

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.

Anusara-Inspired™

Anusara yoga, created by Master teacher John Friend, integrates a heart-oriented spiritual philosophy, biomechanical alignment of the body and balanced energetic action. We align with Grace and stand in her current in order to know the innate goodness that lies within each of us.

Mindful Sculpt Fitness Classes

Join us for a fun, effective workout that will tone and strengthen your muscles, mindfully, for optimal functioning on or off your mat. This class is a mixture of yoga and traditional exercises. We will incorporate light weights and resistance tools (bands and balls) with yogic principles of movement to build strength, balance, flexibility and core stability for people of all fitness levels.

Gentle Yoga

This class introduces the basics of hatha yoga at a slower pace. It will include gentle poses as well as an introduction to breathwork and meditation in a relaxed and encouraging manner. We will begin and end on the floor but work up to standing in between.

This class is ideal for beginners, active seniors, people recovering from injuries, pregnant women and anyone who would like to experience yoga at a slower and gentler pace. The class will move the body to facilitate full range of motion in joints but will also do some restorative work to reach deeper levels of calm and peace. Com explore body, mind and soul.

Prerequisite Notes
None

Kids Yoga

Kids Yoga Yoga is not just for grown-ups anymore. Yoga is a great tool to help kids grow strong in their bodies and the qualities of confidence, creativity, and compassion. In the fast pace world we live in even our kids can feel the stress. Yoga can help them feel more at ease with themselves, more focused, and more relaxed.

Benefits: develops body awareness, strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and skill, strengthens immune system, stimulates imagination and creativity, builds self esteem and confidence, increases focus and attention, releases stress, teaches us to respect one's self.

This class is ongoing, so you can join at any time. Classes for ages 4-11.

Kriya Yoga

Kriya yoga is one of the most ancient forms of yoga for self-realization which is well known in India. Through Paramahansa Yogananda and his "Autobiography of a Yogi" it became popular in the West in the 1920s, yet it remains a mysterious and fascinating spiritual path.

Kriya Hatha Yoga including "asanas," physical postures of relaxation, "bandahs," muscular locks, and "mudras," psycho-physical gestures, all of which bring about greater health, peace and the awakening of the principal energy channels, “the nadis”, and centers, the "chakras.

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.

Benefits: Improves sleep, reduces stress and anxiety, increases strength, flexibility and endurance of muscles needed for childbirth. Decreases lower back pain, nausea, carpal tunnel syndrome, headaches and shortness of breath, decreases the risk of preterm labor, pregnancy-induced hypertension, and most importantly can help you bond with your baby, and empower you through the community of other pregnant woman.

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.

Prerequisite Notes
None

Restorative Yoga for Stress Release

Dani, IAYT, created this mix of restorative postures, breathing, and dynamic, therapeutic movement, and lighthearted fun, to release stress that accumulates in our daily lives. The goal is to train the nervous system to respond be flexible and cultivate a memory response of mindful relaxation, different than what we do in front of our televisions. Relaxing and stretching the body in this way, actually prevent us against future stress.

Vinyasa Flow

This class is breath-synchronized movements. It is a fluid system of yoga poses in a heated room that has a purification effect on the body and mind. Experience flow, chant, and meditation.

Prerequisite Notes
All-Levels or Basic yoga alignment

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.

Recommended donation $14.00/session.

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 All-levels yoga class. Come practice for free if you can't afford membership or come and donate 14.00 to pay for yourself and 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.

Community Kids

Kids yoga that meets the third Saturday of every month. Donations appreciated, or try it out once for free. Ages 3-11.

Recommended free will offering of $5.00/child.

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.

Prerequisite Notes
None

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.