Manage aches and pains caused by daily life with this practice geared towards opening the areas of the body in which we tend to hold onto tension. This gentle practice will not only bring space back into your body, but will also calm and quiet the mind in preparation for a restful evening.
Have just a little time for practice? This short and sweet 15 minute practice gives you a breather and allows you to reconnect with your body and with the earth. You will finish, feeling restored and nourished.
Whether you’re a beginner or advanced practitioners, there are days where you just can’t get to the mat. For those days, here’s a short, inspiring, and effortless practice to help you get motivated and recharged. We start with the earth, feeling our body, legs, back, and reconnecting with what’s essential.
This well-rounded Vinyasa flow practice will touch all parts of your body. This is a strong and balanced practice of side stretches, twists, hip openers, backbends, forward bends, and core work that will make you feel open, grounded and centered when finished.
Ever feel like your hamstrings are hopelessly tight and that you’ll never be able to do the splits, much less touch your toes without bending the knees? This class will focus on lengthening those tight hamstrings, and at the same time, we learn how to angle our folds to put less pressure around the lower … Continued
Grab a yoga strap because this practice is all about releasing into the support of your strap. In this well-rounded practice, you will experience how working with a strap can help deepen your stretch safely and enable you to release deeper into yoga poses. A strap with double rings is recommended.
A gentle practice designed to help you slow down, pay attention to your breath, and to move mindfully while giving yourself permission to relax. This is a brief introduction to the full class and includes specifics of Table pose alignment and the use of props to support spinal movement, knees and wrists during the full … Continued
This class introduces greater freedom of movement in the spine using Table pose (for relatively healthy knees), and progressive movements to bring strength and balance to the legs with supported lunges and Warrior pose. Relaxation, Pranayama and meditation are included.
In session 3 of our backbending series, we focus on lengthening the hip flexors. As you open these areas you’ll not only find greater freedom and depth in your backbends, but also transform many of your other postures as well.
This Level 1/2 class invites more length into the side body and more mobility in the mid-upper back through a series of side stretches and open twists. This practice will leave the body feeling spacious and open and will bring more intelligence to the mid-upper back, which tends to be weak and slouched because of … Continued
Because most of us sit slouched over a computer or steering wheel for much of the day, the shoulders tend to round forward. This is exacerbated by the tension we hold in the trapezius muscles. This class will prepare the shoulders to open, creating more space in the shoulder girdle.
In this almost workshop-like class, we focus on building strength and flexibility in the legs and hips, starting with Supta Padangustasana and moving into lunges and standing Warrior poses. In this class there is “home base” pose of Downward Dog, but little to no “Vinyasa.” The practice concludes with a long, soothing supine hip opener.