Join Yoga Cville for a donation-based multilevel yoga class in the Iyengar style. Everyone is welcome, members and non-members alike!
Join Yoga Cville for a workshop on inverted postures. Inversions are some of the most powerful poses in yoga practice. They bring new energy to the brain and the body by inverting the legs, renewing blood in the heart and lungs, and getting this newly oxygenated blood to the thyroid, pituitary, and brain. The endocrine system can thus better regulate our hormonal cycles as we develop more refined physical and mental balance.
Join Yoga Cville for a Partner Yoga Workshop. Partner Yoga is a form of yoga where two or more practitioners practice yoga poses. This yoga style creates trust and warmth between partners, increasing each practitioner's physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
Join Yoga Cville for a Rope Wall Yoga Workshop. We’ll use the yoga wall to explore familiar poses and allow you to add different actions to your practice. You’ll love how the rope wall lengthens the spine and opens up the joints with the body's weight. You can go deeper in other poses like backbends or rope-supported inversions with support from the ropes.
Join Yoga Cville for a Yoga for Bone Health Workshop. Yoga has been found to prevent and reverse bone loss. Yoga may result in better balance, improved posture, and greater range of motion, strength, and coordination, all factors that mitigate the risk of falls and fractures.
Join Yoga Cville for a Restorative Yoga Workshop. Our modern lives are filled with stressors, which can impact both mind and body. We'll use our wonderful studio props to bring you into a relaxed state, incorporating all poses, from inversions to backbends to forward bends.
Join Yoga Cville to celebrate this day and enjoy a multilevel yoga class in the Iyengar Tradition. This will be a donation-based class.
An all-levels workshop with guest CIYT Level 3 senior teacher Mary Reilly. One of the healing aspects of yoga is harmonizing and balancing the kosas. This workshop will focus us on stability and vitality and aim for the experience of the third kosa, clarity. The last thirty-minutes of our time together will be dedicated to Pranayama. Treat yourself to a special Saturday gift of yoga.
A workshop dedicated to the rope wall! A unique prop often used in Iyengar yoga, the great yoga wall with straps will support the body and anchor the feet so you can experience various poses and their benefits for a longer time. Come fly with us in this wonderful class taught by Carol Gardner.
Join us for an exploration of Headstand and enjoy the wonders of being upside down! We will break down the actions of Sirsasana through preparatory poses that build strength and stability. We’ll also work on ways to develop strong shoulders and a stable core. Instructor Mary Bridle.
New or returning to yoga? Get an introduction to Iyengar yoga in a small group setting! We’ll use various props to help the body better understand the actions of the asana. We’ll also emphasize alignment and demonstrate how yoga can be used to build strength and flexibility.
Join us for a community yoga event. The FULL workshop is two classes: outdoor asana and indoor restorative practices. Either a Morning+Lunch or an Afternoon option is also available. Ample parking, mountain views, and noontime refreshments. We’ll be on location at the Whitehall Community Center, located at the intersection of Garth Rd. and Browns Gap Turnpike in western Albemarle County, VA. Instructor Mary Bridle.
According to Iyengar, "the practice of Pranayama develops a steady mind, strong willpower, and sound judgment." And who doesn't want that…? Join Mary Bridle for this workshop to learn, deepen, and enhance various Pranayama techniques. Suitable for students with a minimum of 1 year of a yoga practice.
Happy hips focus! Increase the flexibility of soft tissue while improving your range of joint motion using yoga therapy balls to relieve certain areas of pain. Self-myofascial release is a great complement to yoga allowing students to move or exercise more freely.
Class is FULL (current as of Feb 16)
Our next installment on a popular class! This fundamentals workshop will cover a variety of standing, sitting, and inverted yoga postures using the rope wall. Learn the principles and expand your knowledge of this very special prop with expert instruction by Anne Barkley.
A FOUNDATIONAL inversion workshop suitable for students new to yoga, as well as for yogis who want a challenge in a supportive studio environment. Our expert instructor, Amy Stewart, will share alignment tips and tricks to help us get set and lift off the ground.
The word sutra, which translates to “strand or thread,” refers to a series of teachings that are threaded together like pearls on a necklace. This class offers the time to focus on what it means to practice yoga. Free class for all yogis. Click to join Zoom Meeting on December 8, 15, and 22.
THIS CLASS IS NOW FULL
This fundamentals workshop will cover a variety of standing, sitting, and inverted yoga postures using the rope wall. Learn the principles and expand your knowledge of this very special prop with expert instruction by Amy Stewart.
Make merry with old and new friends and leave with a delicious batch of cookies. Details on specifics will be shared one week prior to the date. Registration required. Space limited to first 25.
A yoga workshop to encourage mobility in the spine, neck, and shoulders as we age with guest CIYT Level 3 senior teacher Mary Reilly. This all-levels class is suitable for students with at least 6 months of Iyengar experience.
Join us for a workshop dedicated to exploring joint mobility and stability. In a variety of exercises, we will flex, extend, and rotate our joints in ways that will benefit general fitness, daily life, and yoga asana. All fitness levels are welcome!
Explore balance, flexibility, mobility, and strength using multiple modalities—yoga, kinetic stretching, self-massage, and strength building to improve movement performance and minimize the possibility of injury. Workshop is open to anyone who would like to improve their ability to move with grace and ease.
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. Self-myofascial release is a great complement to yoga allowing students to move or exercise more freely.
No matter your age, we are all getting older, and our yoga practice will need to change over the years. Discuss how yoga can support and even counteract some of the normal changes that come with aging. Class includes asana, basic pranayama, and discussion for all levels of experience.
During this two-hour in-person workshop, Rosie Richardson will introduce techniques and poses to bring freedom and strength to the upper back, neck, and shoulders, and draw the connections to basic inversions or equivalent stages.
Treat yourself to a special getaway. Spend the day and make time for yoga and community with Mary, Alex, Anne, Ronda, and Chris for a day dedicated to asana, community, and practices to nourish and restore. Catered vegetarian lunch included.
Sarcopenia is the age-related progressive loss of muscle mass and strength. The main symptom of the condition is muscle weakness. Certain lifestyle behaviors can treat and help reverse sarcopenia. In this class, we will demo the use of resistance bands for a full-body workout, and examine how added resistance can often make many yoga poses feel more accessible.
In this class, we will continue to demo the use of resistance bands for a full-body workout, and examine how added resistance can often make many yoga poses feel more accessible.
Join a Heart Opening Yoga Workshop. Learn new poses to lift and open the chest, decrease shoulder tension, improve “Tech Neck,” and increase energy. This workshop is ideal for anyone returning to yoga, or continuing a yoga practice, and the poses can be modified for your level of practice.
Six wonderful ways to deepen your practice. Sign up for 6 Spring workshops (Feb-May) for $100, a savings of $20! Give yourself the gift of yoga. Limited time package deal available thru February 28.
A wonderful special guest! CIYT Level 3 teacher Siegfried Bleher returns for a multi-level class entitled Fine Tune Intention & Attention to Touch the Heart of Yoga suitable for students with a minimum of 3 months of Iyengar yoga experience. Siegfried will teach via Zoom and we will open the studio to practice together too!
Learn the fundamentals of Iyengar Yoga in a small group setting.
New location due to possible weather. Move, mindfully stretch, and enjoy a sun-drenched yoga class to help you bee calm, and then treat yourself to a browsing spree of hand-crafted skincare products using beeswax from the apiary, flowers from the garden, and CBD flowers from Petite Buzz. 60-minute yoga class and a 60-minute mixer to help Mary Bridle celebrate her 80th birthday. Fun for all!
Join an 8-week series especially for yogis who need special attention with limited mobility and chronic issues.
Join a weekly exploration of introductory yogic breathing practices within the Iyengar yoga structure. Minimum one-year prior Iyengar asana experience/study.
Join an in-studio rope wall workshop with Jocelyn Kitchen. We’ll use the yoga wall to explore familiar poses and add different actions into your practice.
Led by Rosie Richardson, this special series will instruct students in basic Pranayama techniques.
This will be a Zoom-only offering.
