
These words have become interchangeable. This style of practice celebrates coming together and moving as a group. Skilled teachers guide the class through an unbroken flow of poses (fast or slow) sequenced around a theme, teaching, or peak pose. Often with music, students are encouraged to synchronize breath and movement. Classes can range from gentle, to moderately challenging, to rigorous. Less emphasis on what you do in any one pose, more of an emphasis on the entire experience of collectively “moving into stillness.”
Healing Flow
These classes explore the intersection of yoga with elements from Healing Cultures’ unique treatments, concepts and invocation work. Notice what is happening within your own body and learn to listen to the messages your body is sending. Self massage and experienced hands-on assists (for those who choose to receive) help uncover areas where emotions are stuck and move them through.
Expect traditional and non-traditional poses in this moderate flow. Accommodates all practitioners. Weekly themes bring focus and relevance.
Iyengar Yoga
Named for its founder, Iyengar Yoga is a comprehensive, traditional approach which accommodates all practitioners. It emphasizes the architecture of standing postures and how to position yourself within each one (alignment) as a foundation. Known for their fluency in anatomy and physiology, instructors deploy chairs, blocks, straps, blankets, bolsters, and the wall (most important) to help the student create a felt experience in body and mind. Expect purposeful repetition, philosophy from The Yoga Sutras, and increased holding times within each shape. This model encourages the long term unfolding of an individual personal practice.
Yoga Tune Up® (YTU)
Use novel movements to “see” your body blind spots: areas that are “overused, underused, misused or confused.” Creative use of every prop let’s you see around the corners of your yoga practice. Self massage from Jill Miller’s The Roll Model Method. Core integration from her latest book, Body By Breath. Transportive stillness and non-sleep deep rest. Discover your self where you’re not. Weekday sessions open to all. Sunday session requires approval from the instructor.
Yin
Yin Yoga (originally Taoist Yoga) is practiced primarily on the floor with a variety of props to promote ease during the longer (3-5 minute) holds. It derives wisdom from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the philosophy of Daoism, and subtle energy of Chi. For both the seasoned yogi and newbies, sessions are designed to harmonize layers of the physical body, improve mental clarity, and strengthen the resilience of the nervous system.
Restorative Yoga
Our most gentle offering, this practice targets the relaxation response to slow your heart rate, ease respiration, stimulate digestion, and turn off skeletal muscles. Recline, be supine, lay on your side with the support of bolsters, blankets, and blocks. Hammock your hips with straps. Swaddle your eyes with tiny pillows. Poses are few, but held for many minutes ( five to eight). Start with a slow motion warm up and end with a guided meditation in corpse pose.
Prenatal
This class is designed for people in any trimester of pregnancy.
Expect active yoga poses, restorative postures, breathing exercises, and meditations designed to support your body and mind through pregnancy, birth, and beyond. No prior yoga experience is necessary.
Note: prenatal yoga is for those who have a low-risk pregnancy and have been cleared by a medical professional to practice yoga.
Soundbath (monthly)
Lay down. Get comfortable. Let the healing vibrations of crystal singing bowls and the gong embrace you, as you go within for this special sound experience and journey. Feel the frequencies wash into the body. Float into a peaceful inner state of deep relaxation, and remerge completely revitalized.