Classes for Various Levels
We offer a wide range of practices, which yoga are you interested in learning more about?
Iyengar Yoga Classes
Foundations/Intro:
An introductory series offered several times a year, this course is excellent for newbies with no or little experience doing Iyengar Yoga. It is geared to people who are newer to developing body awareness and using props.
Continuing Beginner:
For students who have completed our intro series and are newer or returning to Iyengar Yoga. The exploration of the Iyengar method is continued and standing, forward and backward extensions, and deep twists are taught.
Level I:
For students who have completed the Beginner coursework and want to concentrate on fundamental postures. Students build their strength and stamina even more, and expand their repertoire of yoga poses.
Level I-II:
For those with experience in fundamental poses and interested in precision alignment. Basic poses continue to be fine-tuned and the student’s overall practice more deeply explored. As confidence builds, new poses are introduced, including Salamba Sarvangasana (shoulderstand).
Level II:
For students who are well practiced in the basic postures. In the Iyengar tradition, students learn and explore inverted poses, including Sirsasana (headstand) and Adho Mukha Vrksasana (handstand).
Gentle Yoga Classes
Gentle Yoga:
A less rigorous, slower paced class completely adaptable to the student. Well-suited and tailored to yogis with minimal mobility, recovering from illness or injury, or chronic issues of fatigue.
Self-Myofascial Release:
Muscle knots be gone! Increase the flexibility of soft tissue while improving your range of joint motion using tools to relieve certain areas of pain. Typically 60 minutes in duration, this class uses either two yoga therapy or tennis balls. Self-Myofascial Release is a great complement to yoga allowing students to move or exercise more freely. Come prepared to have some fun while working those kinks out!
Restorative Yoga:
This class will typically involve only five or six poses, supported by props that allow you to completely relax and rest. Held for 5 minutes or more, students can expect restorative poses that include light twists, seated forward folds, and gentle backbends. Our restorative practice is based on the teachings of B.K.S. Iyengar.
Yin Yoga:
Suitable for all levels of students, this practice is slow-paced and designed to help you sit longer, and more comfortably, by stretching connective tissue around the joints (knees, pelvis, sacrum and spine). Involves variations of seated and supine poses typically held for several minutes, accessing deeper layers of fascia. Props often used.
Specialty Topics
Workshops:
These monthly topics aim to deepen your practice and encourage in-person connections with other yogis and an instructor. Classes, in various forms and formats, are vital to ensuring that Iyengar and our yoga community remain strong. Please check out our workshop schedule if you have not yet done so. We require minimum numbers to hold such special programming.
Mindfulness and Meditation:
A free guided online practice to set intention for the week and to learn more about the Yoga Sutras:
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