Yoga Workshops
Date: 12/14/2018
Time: 6:30-7:45 pm
Cost: $16 or 4 credits
Restorative yoga is a specialized practice for those who desire deep relaxation, rest, nurturing and restoration. Restorative class will have a contemplative, restful energy and aim to enhance freedom in the body while calming the nervous system and grounding you energetically. This special manner of practicing utilizes bolsters, cushions, blankets and chairs to completely support the body through a selected sequence of postures. The body then deeply relaxes while the posture is being held. All of the benefits of yoga are received without any expenditure of energy.
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Date: 12/15/2018
Time: 2:00-4:00 pm
Cost: $28 or 8 credits
Meditative Yoga is an opportunity to focus less on asana and more on other practices that support meditation. A physically gentle class, it is often led entirely on the floor. Students seeking rejuvenation and calming will benefit from this practice as well as those seeking a quiet, internal practice. All students are welcome to come focus on the effects of yogic practices on the mind and awareness.
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Date: 01/04/2019
Time: 6:30-8:00 pm
Cost: $20 or 6 pass credits
Join Rebecca for a tranquil, slow-flowing class, uniting mind, body and breath by candlelight. This introspective practice strikes a balance between movement and stillness, strength and surrender, leaving you open, refreshed and at peace. Melt away tension with the simplicity and beauty of meditation in motion as you flow through this practice, and enjoy the benefits of letting go. We will practice postures, pranayama, meditation, and deep relaxation.
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Date: 01/06/2019
Time: 2:00-3:15 PM
Cost: $16 or 4 credits
Restorative yoga is a specialized practice for those who desire deep relaxation, rest, nurturing and restoration. Restorative class will have a contemplative, restful energy and aim to enhance freedom in the body while calming the nervous system and grounding you energetically. This special manner of practicing utilizes bolsters, cushions, blankets and chairs to completely support the body through a selected sequence of postures. The body then deeply relaxes while the posture is being held. All of the benefits of yoga are received without any expenditure of energy.
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Date: 01/08/2019
Time: 7:00-8:15 pm
Cost: $60 or 16 credits for the series
Anxiety and stress often manifest in our inability to fall asleep and to sleep well which significantly impacts our quality of life. Yoga is the practice of quieting the chatter of the mind. Invest four weeks in yourself to improve the quality of your sleep through specific breath work, gentle and restorative yoga, meditation, and lifestyle techniques. This series is intended to improve one's ability to fall asleep, stay asleep, and snuggle in to deep and restful states of sleep.
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Date: 01/09/2019
Time: 7:00-8:15 pm
Cost: $60
This class is designed for the new yoga student wishing to start at the beginning and learn the foundations of yoga asana, breath work and philosophy. Offered as a 4-week series and designed for those who are new to the practices of yoga, the emphasis will be on learning yogic breathing and common yoga postures while developing body awareness. We will study alignment and techniques for common postures, building the practice from the ground up in a safe manner suitable to beginners. Beginning the practice of yoga will allow you to establish a deeper inner spiritual connection, stabilize your emotional responses, develop focus and concentration, release stress, build strength, increase flexibility, improve your posture and improve your mental outlook. No previous experience is necessary.
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Date: 01/10/2019
Time: 7:00-8:15 pm
Cost: $60 or 16 Credits
In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali outlines 'Eight Limbs of Yoga' that when diligently practiced leads to liberation of the true Self. Come discover these deep teachings which outline a system of techniques upon which modern yoga is based. Learn how to incorporate this yoga philosophy into your physical practice to deepen your experience and accelerate your learning in mind and body. This is an Intermediate Practice Series.
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Date: 01/12/2019
Time: 2:00-4:00 pm
Cost: $28 or 8 Credits
True yoking and balance in the yoga practice is achieved when we honor and adapt our practice to meet the natural rhythms and changes of our bodies over time. As women, our bodies have a natural rhythm that ebbs and flows like the tides. This workshop is designed to serve as an introduction to the art of self practice and aims to teach and inspire students to adapt and modify a yoga practice to support all the phases of a woman's life. We will practice a sequence will encompass both dynamic and restorative yoga asanas and will be designed to both open and strengthen the hips and pelvis while inviting deeper understanding of normal hormonal fluctuations You will learn the basics of how to approach your practice during different cycles and phases of your life and will be given basic posture adaptations and contraindications that are beneficial to use during menstruation, pregnancy, peri-menopause.
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Date: 01/18/2019
Time: 6:30-7:45 pm
Cost: $16 or 4 credits
Restorative yoga is a specialized practice for those who desire deep relaxation, rest, nurturing and restoration. Restorative class will have a contemplative, restful energy and aim to enhance freedom in the body while calming the nervous system and grounding you energetically. This special manner of practicing utilizes bolsters, cushions, blankets and chairs to completely support the body through a selected sequence of postures. The body then deeply relaxes while the posture is being held. All of the benefits of yoga are received without any expenditure of energy.
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Date: 01/26/2019
Time: 2:00-4:00 pm
Cost: $28 or 8 Credits
The pleasure of eating is often destroyed by our conflicted relationship with food and our bodies, confusion about what to eat, the busyness of our lives, and a focus on unrealistic cultural standards. However, eating can be one of the most joyous activities we engage in on a daily basis. In this workshop, you will learn about concepts from Eat for Life, a 10 week mindful eating program, which has been researched for its ability to ending overeating, improve your relationship to your body, decrease emotional eating.
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Date: 02/02/2019
Time: 2:00-3:30 pm
Cost: $20 or 6 Credits
Use the power of focused, repetitive, rhythmic movement synchronized with breath to draw attention totally into the NOW. Simple stepping movements are accompanied by music especially created for this meditation. The whole experience, done to four directions, ends with a deep savasana supported by the magic sounds of Tibetan bells. The practice relieves inner tension allowing the energy of the heart to flow and at the same time calms, refreshes and encourages our being to act more out of the center of the heart again.
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Date: 02/05/2019
Time: 7:00-8:15 pm
Cost: $60 or 16 Credits
Life seems to move at an every increasing pace. This February, slow down and steep in the practice of self-care. Over the course of this yoga experience, you will learn nourishing and restorative practices that you can use as a resource both on and off the mat. Each week, we will open with a chant (mantra) that will serve as the doorway into meditation and movement practices. From week to week, we will explore nourishing therapeutic postures and breathing exercises coupled with a movement sequence each week. Sequences will range from traditional Hatha Yoga postures, restorative postures, and floor based sensory meditations with slow movement. Our final week together we will practice the art of Yoga Nidra.
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Date: 02/06/2019
Time: 7:00-8:15 pm
Cost: $60 or 16 Credits
This class is perfect for the beginning yoga student wishing to build on the foundations of yoga asana practice and philosophy that was established in Yoga 101 or other new yoga students who wish to extend their knowledge. Offered as a 4-week series of classes and specifically designed for those who are new to yoga practice, new postures will be introduced each week, including posture alignment details, breathwork and introduction of simple meditation practices. Each week will include a full 60 minute practice along with 15 minutes of discussion of new postures and techniques. All postures will be appropriate for new and advancing beginners.
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Date: 02/07/2019
Time: 7:00-8:15 pm
Cost: $60 or 16 Credits
You are communicating with your nervous system with every breath you take. A long, deep breath triggers relaxation while short, shallow breaths put you on alert. Yoga skillfully uses this connection between the breath and the body through Pranayama, the art of breath control. One of the core practices of Yoga, Pranayama (breathwork) leads to deeper states of focus and meditation. In this class series, learn to incorporate pranayama into your regular yoga practice and explore how attention to the breath, when used with yoga postures, creates transformation. This is an Intermediate practice series.
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Date: 02/23/2019
Time: 1:30-4:30 pm
Cost: $70 per pair
Join us for an afternoon of learning the art of touch. This couples/partner massage class is based on simple, easy-to-learn Swedish and Thai massage techniques and is designed to help you and your partner share the nurturing, relaxing, therapeutic benefits of massage with each other. There will be time for each partner to receive a full hour of relaxing treatment! This class is appropriate for couples or friends. Please wear comfortable clothing that allows some movement. Short sleeves and shorts/pants are best. You will be clothed throughout the workshop.
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