Gentle Yoga, Vinyasa Flow, Power practice

 

Your reason for seeking yoga is unique to you, so your practice should be as well. Find a style that will help you achieve your goals.

Gentle Yoga: For stretching and stillness

 

Slow Flow

 

Slow flow is a form of yoga where postures are held for longer periods of time and are typically modified to create an accessible practice for people at all levels of their yogic journey. The non-modified pose is also demonstrated so that the practitioner can decide the pose that they’d like to incorporate into their personal practice for that day. Prop usage is encouraged and vinyasas are usually at a minimum. This class is ideal for the beginner student or a student that is just getting back into their yoga practice after an injury or surgery.

Restorative Yoga

 

This form of yoga calms the autonomic nervous system which allows the parasympathetic nervous system to be engaged. This practice aims to lower your heart rate and blood pressure, while strengthening your immune system to relax your body and bring it into balance. This restorative rest allows our mind & body to renew and regenerate through a series of 4 to 5 postures that are completely supported by props, avoiding any stretch of the muscles. This class will be accompanied by meditative music while I guide you through meditation techniques or allow you to rest in silence.

Yin Yoga

 

The purpose of Yin yoga is to restore our bodies’ ability to move with fluidity. This in turn develops the flow of ‘chi’, the Chinese medicine practice based on the meridian centers in our body to allow life force energy to flow freely. Each posture creates a compression or a friction with the connective tissues, causing blood to rush to these areas, to rehydrate the tissues. A yin practice consists of 4 to 6 postures that are held for an extended time to activate this release of fluid. Yin yoga is traditionally practiced in silence so that you can meditate through postures, making it a mindful practice as well as a continuous surrender into the uncomfortable.

Yoga Nidra

 

Yoga Nidra is a form of guided meditation. This deep and relaxing practice is often used in stress management and psychological therapy. It harmonizes the deeper unconscious to awaken your inner potential. Referred to as yogic sleep, Yoga Nidra is often practiced while lying comfortably on your yoga mat or in bed. As no visual cues or postures take place, you will be guided through a verbal meditation placing your mind and body in the space between consciousness and sleep.

Chair Yoga

 

Chair yoga is an all inclusive yoga practice, using a chair as the main prop. The chair will be used to sit, or as a tool to assist with balance. Typical postures that are taught in a vinyasa class are modified in this type of yoga with the usage of the chair. This type of yoga is ideal for someone who has a difficult time with balance or moving from the ground to a standing position.

Trauma Sensitive Yoga

 

This style of yoga will teach you ways to become aware of your mental and physical responses, allowing your awareness to regulate emotional responses on its own. Poses and breathwork are modified for accessibility. This class will leave you feeling empowered with techniques to use on your own. This class is great for traumatic brain injury survivors, chronic illness warriors, those who have survived a traumatic experience, and others. This is a 1:1 class tailored specifically to you.

Prenatal Yoga

 

Prenatal yoga classes focus on stretching, centering your mind, and breathing to prepare you and guide you during your pregnancy. Breathwork will help you through the stress of childbearing, and teach you techniques that can be used during labor to ease any pains. Gentle stretching and postures will provide you with energy and assist in decreasing any tightness or pain from all that you are carrying. My prenatal yoga class will leave you with better night’s sleep, reduced stress, ease of aches and pains, and improved breathing.

Vinyasa Flow: Linking movement to breath

 

Traditional Vinyasa Flow

 

This is a practice that combines movement with breath, where the transition between each posture aligns seamlessly with the pace and strength of your breath. Traditional yoga asanas (postures) are utilized, to form a flow that is unique to each time that you practice. The sequence often has a focusing posture that all preceding postures lead up to, helping you achieve the focus posture.

Power Flow

 

Power yoga is an empowering practice with a vigorous fitness based approach to vinyasa style yoga. It incorporates the athleticism of Ashtanga Yoga with vinyasa to create a series of poses that can be taught in any sequence. The freedom to teach the flow in any sequence makes each class different than the last. This practice still focuses on connecting the breath with movement, while also physically toning the body, improving balance, and increasing stamina. In this form of yoga, we will learn to move with more purpose and acceptance which can be applied to life outside of class.

Move with Intention: Yoga for strength & conditioning

 

HIIT Tribal Yoga

 

This practice is similar to power yoga, but incorporates dance and HIIT components (high intensity interval training). Yoga postures are integrated with dance moves, burpees, jumping jacks, and other high intensity movements to make for a fun and empowering practice. HIIT Tribal Yoga normally flows along with tribal or R&B music.

 

Yoga for Osteoporosis

 

The objective of the class is to creating bone growth or retarding the loss of bone in the hip and femur, strengthening the abdominals, quadriceps, gluteus maximus and minimus and pelvic floor muscles  with the intention of safety with practitioners that have been diagnosed /by a licensed doctor with osteoporosis and/or osteopenia. There will also be attention giving to  stretching and strengthening in the wrists, neck and rotator cuff. Each class will have a focus of balance in standing postures and transitioning safely to the floor from standing so as to create habitual safe movement behavior. If the patient/ practitioner is unable to transition from standing to the sitting on the  floor modifications/ props will be suggested to help the practitioner to complete the specific shapes.

Allow me to help you.

There are hundreds of class styles and approaches to yoga. Send me a message about what you hope to gain from your practice and I’ll help you find the right class for you.