Gentle Yoga with Meditation
This is a perfect class to bring balance back to your day! Enjoy gentle movement to stretch your muscles and restore longer breathing cycles, followed by a guided relaxation longer than usual Savasana.
The class is appropriate for practitioners of all levels, including those brand new to yoga. Beginners will enjoy the gentle flow of movements with a bit of an extra guidance from the teacher, while experienced students might enjoy this class on days they feel like being extra careful and gentle with themselves.
This class is a wonderful place to start if you’re not sure what to choose from our class menu.
Slow Flow
This class incorporates gentle movements synchronized with the breath at a gentle, slow pace (Vinyasa style of yoga).
If you are looking for a beginner-friendly class, are brand new to yoga or are in the mood for a gentle flowing practice – this class is perfect for you. It is a bit faster paced than our Gentle Yoga class.
Vinyasa Yoga
Lead at a faster pace, this class is a perfect start of the day or a “pick me up” after a long day at work.
Using breath synchronized movements and Sun Salutations this class will warm up the body, challenge muscle strength and endurance.
We recommend that those brand new to yoga take a few of our Slow Flow or a Gentle Yoga classes before joining us for this class.
Yin Yoga
The focus of this practice is on working with more plastic tissues of the body – tendons, ligaments, joint capsules and fascia, rather than muscles of our body (elastic tissues).
Yin Yoga postures are held longer (3-5 minutes) and are usually performed in a seated, supine or prone (laying on your back or stomach) positions.
Often referred to as “the practice of quiet power” Yin Yoga provides an opportunity to quiet down the mind and breath while bringing greater flexibility to the deep tissues in the body.
Yin Yoga is a very beginner friendly practice. Please, notify your teacher of any health issues, recent injuries or surgeries prior to class.
Restorative Yoga
Most of the yoga classes represent an active practice of various intensity in which you move from pose to pose, building heat and increasing your strength and flexibility.
Restorative yoga is something completely different. It’s about slowing down and opening the body through passive stretching while relaxing into the comfort of such props as blocks, bolsters, and blankets. If you take a restorative class, you may hardly move at all, doing just a few postures in the course of an hour or hour an a half.
During these long holds, your muscles relax deeply. It’s a completely different experience from other types of yoga classes since props are used to support your body instead of your muscles. Restorative classes are very meditative and slow paced, making them a great complement to more active practices and an excellent antidote to stress.
Restorative Yoga with Reiki
Occasionally, depending on who teaches the restorative yoga class you will get a chance to experience Reiki while you’re relaxing in restorative yoga poses.
Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by “laying on hands” and is based on the idea that an unseen “life force energy” flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one’s “life force energy” is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.
The word Reiki is a combination of two Japanese words – “Rei” which means “God’s Wisdom or the Higher Power” and “Ki” which is “life force energy”.
A treatment feels like a wonderful glowing radiance that flows through and around you. Reiki treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and well-being.
Yoga (Nap) Nidra
Yoga Nidra (or yogic sleep) is a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping, like the “going-to-sleep” stage. It is a state in which the body is completely relaxed, and the practitioner becomes systematically and increasingly aware of the inner world by following a set of verbal instructions. This state of consciousness (yoga nidra) is different from meditation in which concentration on a single focus is required. In yoga nidra the practitioner remains in a state with four of his or her senses withdrawn, and only the hearing still connects to the instructions.Yoga Nidra is among the deepest possible states of relaxation while still maintaining full consciousness.
The practice of Yoga Nidra has been found to reduce tension and anxiety.
