This practice will guide you through the salute to the moon—a soothing and ancient practice of body sensing. The emphasis with these asanas is not on form, but rather on the sensation the forms elicit and evoke in the body. Don’t worry about placement, simply tune your awareness into the breath, and the sensations that … Continued
For those of us with sedentary jobs, the hips can be an easy place to go numb. In this soothing practice, Ana empowers practitioners to reclaim their hips through gentle stretching and strengthening. Moving through these asanas will help to alleviate pain and stiffness in the hips, and bring a renewed sense of awareness to the hips. Part of … Continued
Building on the foundation of the first two classes, Ana next guides practitioners through an exploration of the heart—our own personal drum beat. This practice explores gentle backbends to broaden and expand the front and side bodies for a heart that is open and nourished. Part of the Easy Does It series.
This well-rounded class focuses primarily on building awareness and tone of the knees, inner legs, and hips, while minimizing yoga postures that involve deep knee flexion. Melina’s creative use of props and the wall to demonstrate modifications of common postures will better serve the health of your knees.
For people with wrist or shoulder injuries who still love doing Sun Salutations, this class offers alternative movements that allow you to do the sequence you love without putting weight in your wrists or upper body.
This practice with Melina Meza is perfect for yogis with back injuries who want to continue using asanas as part of their daily movement practice, or for those simply looking to give their back a little extra TLC. Melina has carefully selected a wide range of postures and transitions to minimize the risk of injury for … Continued
Explore awareness of breath through the gentle breathing technique Anuloma-Viloma Krama. The word Krama means step in Sanskrit, and this type of pranayama builds depth and quality of the breath through a three step inhale, and a three step exhale. Practice this pranayama technique and enjoy a deeper awareness through breath.
Ana invites you to reawaken your relationship with your body by asking, what part of this can I do? Perfect for all levels, the practice begins slowly with pranayama and supine poses, and gently builds heat to prepare the body for standing poses. You will finish feeling refreshed, and re-energized in your mind body connection. Part … Continued
This is the full, extended breathing practice. Hatha yoga speaks to the solar and lunar currents that course through our body, which are nothing but the two channels of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system. In this series of restorative postures we will be taught to prepare our body and mind for the in-depth and … Continued
Feel more relaxed, reduce all indices of stress, improve immune function, and sleep better by giving your body the “miracle” of 20 minutes of supported rest. Join Judith and her daughter, Lizzie, on this journey to true relaxation.
Feel more relaxed, reduce all indices of stress, improve immune function, and sleep better by giving your body the “miracle” of 20 minutes of supported rest. Join Judith and her daughter, Lizzie, on this journey to true relaxation.
If you often sit in front of a computer, stare down at your phone, or slouch at the wheel in the driver’s seat, this class is for you. Join Melina in a practice designed to help open the front of your body, correcting postural imbalances and providing relief for a tight, achy neck and shoulders. … Continued