Class Descriptions
LEVEL I YOGA: EXPLORE YOGA BASICS
For beginners, those returning to yoga practice, students with injuries or chronic conditions, or those who desire a gentler class. Level I introduces basic postures, movement aligned with breath, adaptation/modification principles and basics of sequencing. Students in this class are encouraged to take advantage of the package of six classes plus 1 one-hour private session to establish a good foundation unique to their needs.
Thursdays 7:15 – 8:45 p.m. (Maggie Kessell)
Saturdays 9 - 10:15 a.m. (lower studio) (Laurie Lopesio)
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LEVEL II: PRACTICE & DEEPEN YOGA BASICS (Maggie Kessell)
Prerequisite: recent prior yoga experience or readiness to move on from Level I. Students are encouraged to develop a home practice that complements weekly group session. Level II Class includes more difficult asana practices and introduces basic pranayama practices. Students learn how to adapt poses to their specific needs and goals. To help establish a home practice, students are expected to schedule a private session with instructor within three months of joining this class. See special offer on private sessions.
Mondays 7:15 - 8:45 p.m.
Thursdays 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
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LEVEL III: CHALLENGE LIMITS & POTENTIAL (Maggie Kessell)
For students with more experience and the desire to work more deeply in asana, including static poses and balance, along with more complex pranayama practices. Level III Class challenges your ideas about your limits and potential. Prerequisite: prior work in pranayama and/or a pranayama workshop with instructor. If in doubt, talk to instructor.
Mondays 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
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YOGA FOR AWAKENING (Maggie Kessell)
This class is open to all levels. It offers an energy-raising mix of asana, simple but expanding breathing practices and time for reflection on a positive quality to begin your day. This is a one-hour class. Come see what a difference this start makes for the rest of your day.
Wednesdays 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
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Level II: Viniyoga for a Vital Life (Beth Cleary)
Students in Level II will develop deeper yogic connections among breath, awareness and movement, through more challenging asanas and pranayama practices. Each class, as always, will respond to the needs of students on a long-term and daily basis. Emphasis on skeletal alignment, muscle actions and antagonisms, and organ support will encourage deeper levels of students' knowledge about their bodies and their yoga practice. Practices such as chanting and mantra will be used occasionally to intensify and enrich students' experience of yoga.
Saturdays 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
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Recharge & Reflect with Midweek Yoga (Liz Lacey-Gotz)
You’ve made it through the beginning of the week, so take some time to recharge and reflect with this Tuesday evening asana and pranayama practice. We will thread a theme through each practice, inspired by a poem or other image, exploring concepts such as gratitude, courage or openness. This balanced asana and breathing practice will help prepare you to move through the rest of your week with a rejuvenated body and refreshed mind! All levels welcome.
Tuesdays 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
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Yoga for Strong Bones (Mary Salisbury)
Learn yoga sequences that will help you increase bone density, while you also improve balance, overall body strength and flexibility. In each class we will safely use light free weights on select poses to enhance the effect of our practice, and will also devote time to simple breath work and quiet personal reflection. Join us to discover how diet, stress, and lifestyle can all have an impact on bone health. Osteoporosis is a serious health issue in our culture and should be a concern for women of all ages. Come learn how to keep your bones strong!
Tuesdays 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
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Kundalini Yoga & Meditation (Lauren Asheim)
Classes present ancient yogic techniques to unify body, mind, and spirit. Classes include movement, postures, strength training, mudras, mantras (chant), & meditation. Increase flexibility, boost metabolism, maintain a healthy weight, open spiritual awareness, relieve depression & insomnia, restore energy & vitality, promote self-love, feel happy & centered & so much more.
Fridays 5:30-7:00 pm, Sundays 10:00-11:30 am
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Aquarian Sadhana (Lauren Asheim)
Aquarian Sadhana is a special practice in Kundalini Yoga and Meditation to boost self-discipline, gain physical and mental balance and to welcome the full potential and truth of our soul. We conduct this practice in the early morning hours when the world is still quiet and neutral, this is the space in which we can cultivate a conversation with our soul, our consciousness and our higher Self. This practice has numerous benefits from gaining deeper personal awareness and insight, to supporting your personal practice, to opening up to a group consciousness and building community. We begin Aquarian Sadhana by listening to and reciting the prayer JapJi Sahib, the Song of the Soul. This prayer and its sounds stimulate and balance the chakras, the mind and the spirit. We follow Japji with a set of Kundalini Yoga exercises and finally we chant seven mantras. This sequence of events gives us the awareness, fearlessness, compassion, kindness and the spirit to serve, teach and prosper no matter what happens within and around us.
Saturdays 5:00 - 7:15 am (begins September 4)
Daily 5:00 - 7:15 am (October 22 - November 30)
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Recovery Yoga - Moving Beyond Addiction (Beth Berila)
Learn to embody your recovery through yoga. Addictions, codependency, and disordered eating can rob us of our creativity, our freedom, and our loved ones. Yoga can help us reclaim our bodies and our lives. By helping us cultivate greater self-awareness and compassion for ourselves and others, yoga can help us heal. This class will help participants learn to embody recovery principles, so that we can practice qualities on the mat that will help us in our recovery lives off the mat. These qualities include nonjudgemental awareness, patience, self-care, self-honoring, and the ability to sit with cravings and discomfort. Participants will cultivate the self-reflection to learn how these qualities feel in our bodies. We can then make informed choices about which qualities we want to cultivate and which we want to let go.
Sundays 4:30-6:00 pm
*If you need to make financial arrangements, contact the instructor at elizabeth.sue@live.com
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Vinyasa Yoga (Susan Schwartz)
Vinyasa Yoga heals, detoxifies and exhilarates the body and mind with emphasis on movement, balance and intention. Vinyasa Yoga is a dynamic, challenging program that combines strength, flow and spirituality. Vinyasa Yoga is a practice that appeals to everyone. During class, time and space and the worries of the day disappear and the focus is solely on flow, movement, balance and intention. A Vinyasa Yoga is a style of yoga which focuses on core strength, balance and flow to build a solid practice based on strength and spirit. Accessible to beginners and advanced students, Vinyasa Yoga emphasizes breathing to connect the body and mind.
Fridays 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
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Eclectic Vinyasa Flow (Julie Schmit)
Everybody welcome to experience this multi-level vinyasa-style Yoga class, that will be tailored to the participants needs. Poses are choreographed to a variety of music from Yogic chanting to African drumming to the Rolling Stones and everything in between. Julie uses her 20 years' experience as a professional body worker to use gentle, precise and intuitive adjustments that allow participant's bodies to unfold as they integrate their Spiritual selves or just break a great sweat and strengthen their booty to some groovy tunes. Come with special requests: from child's pose (the fetal position) to a hand stand (a "party" pose) and whatever else your body/mind/Spirit is craving.
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Go with the Flow Vinyasa (Aamera Siddiqui)
A moving meditation, this class will center and energize you as you begin a new week. Synchronicity of breath with movement links the internal with the external and leaves you with a greater sense of balance. This dynamic practice will bring you to your personal edge where you will build strength, detoxify, experience mental and physical balance, flexibility, and stamina. This class is accessible for beginners as well as students who already have an ongoing practice.
Sundays 8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
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Hatha Flow (Liz Wentworth)
An all levels class focused on combining both static (still) and dynamic (flowing) postures with specific breath work in order to bring each student into their ideal alignment (both inside and out). Emphasis on creating a safe and supporting space in which students can further explore and deepen their personal yoga journey.
Tuesdays 7 - 8:15 p.m. (lower studio)
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Yoga for You Level 1 Viniyoga (Laurie Lopesio)
Give your body what it needs to restore and revitalize with this Saturday morning yoga class. Connect your busy brain to your physical structure with yoga poses; allowing a more relaxed focus to remain with you for the rest of the day, surprisingly energized by your own breath. Ages 8 - 80 are welcome.
Saturdays 9 - 10:15 a.m. (lower studio)
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Go Yoga-Vinyasa (Ashleigh Penrod)
Have you ever wondered how to use yoga in your day-to-day life? This introductory-level class gives you the tools to take what you learn in class and practice at home, whether for five minutes at a time or for an entire hour. A Vinyasa-based class, the movements flow from one to the next and are initiated with the breath. Within each hour and fifteen-minute flow, we break down one specific “yoga-to-go” sequence that can be practiced at home, throughout the week. Each weekly sequence incorporates a different focus, zeroing in on everything from core strength to pain relief.
Sundays 5:00 – 6:15 p.m.
Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:15 p.m.
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Primary Ashtanga Series (Jim Mercil)
The Primary Series of Ashtanga Yoga involves synchronizing the breath with a progressive series of postures. preceded by a warm-up with the familiar Sun Salutations and standing asanas and then ending with restorative poses. This process produces intense internal heat and a purifying sweat that detoxifies muscles and organs. The result is improved circulation, a light and strong body and a calm mind.
Jim will be guiding participants through the series using verbal cues and offering modifications to poses with demonstration and in keeping with the traditional presentation of the style. This is an open practice session for experienced yogis and yoginis
Jim has has been maintaining a regular practice in vinyasa and Ashtanga yoga since 2004 and has studied with renowned teachers David Swenson. Kino Macgregor and Tim Feldman.
Saturdays 4:00 - 6:00 pm
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Tang Soo Do Karate (Eric Skarjune)
The Tang Soo Do lessons are for women, men, young and old. Each class will consist consist of 4 different sections. In the first section, students will learn beginning to advanced movements of defensive blocking, kicking and hand movements. The second section involves "one-steps", which are practice techniques of defending against an attacker. Forms are part of the third section and are prearranged movements of blocking, kicking and striking. The final section is sparring. The sparring is non-contact and non-competitive with an emphasis on knowing your surroundings and anticipating an opponents actions.
Wednesdays 7:15 - 8:30 p.m.
Saturdays 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. (lower studio)
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