Class Descriptions

Yoga I

Yoga I introduces beginning and continuing students to the fundamental principles of alignment and breath work. Emphasis is on standing poses, stretching and strengthening of the legs, back and shoulders.

Yoga I: Short and Sweet

Yoga 1 Short & Sweet introduces busy students to the fundamental principles of alignment and breath work. Emphasis is on standing poses, stretching and strengthening of the legs, back and shoulders. Yoga 1 Short & Sweet is a Yoga 1 class in a shorter format.

Iyengar Yoga I

Iyengar Yoga I is a vigorous approach emphasizing a balance between strength and flexibility, building endurance, and developing self-awareness through precision in movement.

Move, Breathe, Restore (MBR)

Move, Breathe, Restore takes you beyond asana. Students will practice yoga poses for strength and flexibility, but will also explore pranayama (breath work) and meditation to promote inner peace and relaxation. Level 1 experience required.

Intro to Vinyasa Flow

Vinyasa flow is a fun, invigorating practice in which postures are linked together with the breath and continuous movement. In this class you will learn the fundamentals of sun salutations and other creative sequences in a safe and aligned environment. All levels welcome.

Women's Yoga

Awaken, embrace and celebrate the goddess within you. This nurturing class will reduce stress while creating strength, flexibility and balance. Our focus will be on your well-being and women's health issues at various stages of life. This healing yoga practice embraces all aspects of hatha yoga and emphasizes not only female health, but empowerment.

Baby and Me

As a mother of 2 young boys 21 months apart, Baby and Me Yoga helped me connect with my babies and restore my body after pregnancy. During each class, we will nurture you and your baby and teach you a series of postures so that you will feel comfortable incorporating them into your daily routine at home. These techniques will help you bond with your baby and heal your bodies. Babies must be at least 6-weeks old but not yet crawling.

Crawlers and Me

Playfully explore yoga poses with your inquisitive crawler. This class is open to moms and babies in all stages of crawling.

Yoga Babysitting Co-op

Yoga Babysitting Co-op provides moms an opportunity to treat themselves to a yoga class without paying for a babysitter. This unique class opens with children and parents together for some fun poses, then the children leave to go play while the moms enjoy their yoga class. Parents will rotate watching the children each week. Please bring one or two toys for your child each week. Please note that no food, drinks, crayons, markers, etc are allowed in the studios.

Prenatal Yoga

This class is designed to help expectant mothers bond with their babies and connect with their bodies during this transformative time by increasing muscular tone, strength, flexibility and concentration. Come nurture yourself as we make space for your developing baby in each and every pose. A doctor's note is required at the time of registration or before the first class.

Yoga Fundamentals

Yoga Fundamentals is an introduction to yoga designed for the yoga novice. You will learn basic poses, breathing and relaxation. This series will slowly guide you into a complete yoga practice.

Happy Hour Yoga

Open to all levels, Happy Hour Yoga is the perfect way to end your work week and begin your weekend.

Yoga I / II

Yoga I/II builds endurance for continuing students who have completed level 1. Level 1 poses will be refined and level 2 poses are introduced.

Yoga II

Yoga II is for students who have completed level 1. Revolved poses and sun salutations are introduced along with preparatory poses for inversions, backbends and arm balances. Pranayama and meditation are introduced.

Yoga II / III

Yoga II/III is for students who have completed level 2 and would like more practice and preparation for inversions, backbends, arm balances and deepening twists. The more subtle aspects of the poses are explored.

Gentle Yoga

Gentle Yoga combines warm-ups, gentle postures and yogic breathing to increase mobility and reduce stress. Gentle yoga is for students who prefer a less vigorous class and those experiencing illness, injury or chronic pain. All poses will be carefully modified for each student's needs and abilities.

Ageless Yoga

Ageless Yoga is designed expressly for the needs of mature students. Explore how yoga can improve your life physically and emotionally, promoting a healthy, active lifestyle for years to come. If you have hesitated to try yoga due to stiffness or other reasons, this is the class for you! The classes are appropriately paced for both beginning and continuing students.

Bhagavad Gita

Come and explore this ancient yet spiritually relevant text – a Divine love song – given to all spiritual seekers. This interactive workshop will examine the Gita from various philosophical perspectives, including the Anusara principles of Attitude, Alignment, and Action. We will consider their application to the Yoga of Devotion, Knowledge, and Karma, as we imbibe from the Gita's wisdom and express its essence in asanas as well.

The Yoga Sutras

The Yoga Sutras by Patanjali have been both appreciated and underrated within the Yoga community. They have been primarily presented from a male perspective, even though the flowering of yoga is often due to many dedicated yoginis. Using Nischala Joy Devi's The Secret Power of Yoga: A Woman's Guide to the Heart and Spirit of the Yoga Sutras, and Alberto Villoldo's Yoga Power, and Spirit: Patanjali the Shaman, we will explore and experience this ancient gem from a feminine perspective, imbibing from the font of the Sutra's timeless wisdom. See what suggestions this text offers for our practice. Men are welcome as well!

Yoga, Emotions and Transformations in Consciousness

Sthira sukham asanam: posture is steady and openly relaxed. PYS, II-46
In teaching posture, yoga classes usually place a lot of emphasis on the body (alignment) and mind (focusing, awareness), but rarely do we delve into the sometimes murky realm of emotions and how they affect our fundamental relationships to the world. Join us to learn how we can use posture to explore the dynamics of our emotions and the underlying energies of the autonomic nervous system that support them and discover how integral they are in maintaining a healthy self sense. By learning how the cultivation of sthira and sukham takes us into a much deeper level of integration of the nervous system than just the physical anatomy, and how this requires an ongoing relationship with the world around us, we can transform our yoga/meditation practice and life.

Yoga for Special Populations

Learn to work with special populations within your classes or as separate workshops you can offer.

Exploring the Chakras: A Basic Chakra Weekend

Learn about the underlying energy currents that feed the chakras, what causes blockages, how to use the chakra system for diagnosis and treatment of energetic imbalances, and much more that make the chakras intelligible and useful as a map for life's journey to consciousness.

Pranayama Yoga

As a teacher, just knowing how to practice Pranayama doesn't necessarily make it easy to teach it. In this experiential workshop, you'll learn to teach various Pranayama techniques including ujjayi, nadi shodhana and more.

Experience Sanskrit

Experience Sanskrit is more like a series of party games than a class at your local college or job-related training. We'll be playfully and enjoyably participating in activities that provide you with VIVID EXPERIENCES. These experiences make the Sanskrit names of the poses more memorable than any book you can ever read. Here's what you get when you participate in Experience Sanskrit:

Learn the stories BEHIND the yoga poses. The stories are rich with details that make strong associations in your mind.
Experience naming all of your body parts and using those names, too.
Experience Sanskrit math. Counting will never be the same. But you'll find out that Sanskrit numbers are not very different from numbers you already know.
Sort out the confusion about the difference between the "common name" of a pose and its Sanskrit name.
Learn why Sanskrit isn't a dead language at all.
Receive a 100+ page companion guide that you'll use as a reference for years to come.

*Special note to teachers: Every significant endeavor has its own language. The language of yoga is Sanskrit. Professionals should know the language of their profession!

Opening the Heart: A Meditation Workshop

The heart connects our personal self to our awakened soul. Meditation in the heart is all about connection--to our own love, to others, to the integration of masculine and feminine. Heart-centered meditation can shift everything in our lives: our relationships, our sense of self, our ability to access wisdom.

Guided by awakened heart teacher, Sally Kempton, this four-hour workshop unfolds a method for relaxing into the heart in meditation, and offers powerful practices for releasing some of the core emotional obstacles that block the heart. In this workshop you'll learn:

a meditation for entering the heart and stilling the mind
methods for working with thoughts in meditation
how to release blocks in the heart
how to kindle warmth in the heart

Karma and Transformation

In the eastern traditions, it's said that karma is the most powerful force in our lives. Our pleasure and pain, our character, the way our mind works, and even our ability to practice yoga are said to be the results of karma. Yet, contrary to popular lore, karma is never fixed. Our karmas are fluid, and the more we understand how to work with the force of karma, the more we are able to turn difficult situations into blessings.

This workshop brings to life the yogic teachings on karma, exploding myths, and showing you how to chart the workings of karma in your life and the lives of others. It will help you see the distinction between the karma you're born with and the karma you create. We'll explore practices for transforming karmic difficulties, the nature of karmic agreements, and how yoga and meditation interact with karma. This workshop is designed to give you powerful insight into your life's journey, along with meditations, self-inquiry practices, and other tools for transformation.

Among the topics we'll explore:

types of karma and how they work
how to know when an unexpected event is destined
karmic relationships
changing your karma: what can and cannot be transformed
can we take on other's karma?
how to know when you've completed a karma
Turning difficult karmas into blessings

Upanishads

The Mandukya Upanishad consisting of only 12 verses is the shortest Upanishad and is considered the crown jewel of Vedanta. The deepest understanding of this philosophy behind the sacred word "AUM" leads to the ultimate goal of Yogic practice: Moksha or Enlightenment. We will take you on a journey to understand Vedanta and more importantly apply this philosophy practically to daily life. Yoga is everywhere and not just within the studio. Perfection is in the journey itself and gradually it leads to a state of being Happy for no reason at all - a certain lightness of being to handle the ups & downs of our day-to-day lives (without drugs!).

Jyothi will focus on the practice of devotion where you experience the bliss of glorifying the divine within you. In Kaliyuga (this age of darkness), the easiest and the most effective way to attain Moksha is to sing or chant the names of your favorite deity or deities. This workshop will cover Philosophy, Meditation and explore chanting as a way to Self Realization.

Energy Anatomy

This is a revolutionary re-vision of musculo-skeletal anatomy in terms of functionally connected lines of myofascia. The workshop gives a new perspective and a new way to view holistic anatomy, posture and movement. This workshop will improve posture, yoga asana and increase awareness to the overall movement of the body.

Therapeutics 1

Feet, Shins, Ankles, & Knees: Setting the Foundation

Therapeutics 2

Thighs, Pelvis, & Midback - Freeing Back and Hip Pain

Therapeutics 3

Shoulders, Arms, & Wrists - Instruments of the Heart

Therapeutics 4

Shoulders, neck, head, special conditions including women's health and wellness, PMS, menopause, MS, heart disease, Parkinson's Disease

Intro to Meditation

Mindfulness meditation. Learn how to minimize the physical, mental and emotional effects of stress, and respond skillfully to life's ordinary and extraordinary challenges with this simple, but powerful meditation technique.

Intro to Ayurveda

What is Ayurveda? Ayurveda, the "knowledge of longevity", is the oldest and the most comprehensive systems of healing in the world and it has its roots in the philosophy of the ancient Vedas. It is an integral part of yogic psychology, philosophy and practice. The goal of Ayurveda is to restore balance to the body, mind and soul. In Ayurveda, prevention is emphasized. It is easier to treat the disease at its accumulation stage than at the later stages of complication and destruction. In this lecture the underlying theory of Ayurveda will be discussed along with some practical lifestyle and dietary guidelines.

Ayurveda

This 16-hour Ayurveda Intensive provides an in-depth exploration of the science of Ayurveda. Topics include Ayurvedic history, Samkhya philosophy, concepts of health and disease in Ayurveda, characteristics of the doshas, Ayurvedic anatomy and physiology, the digestive fire (agni) and toxins (ama), prakruti vs. vikruti, the rhythms of nature and Ayurvedic nutrition.

American Sanskrit Institute

The American Sanskrit Institute was created by Vyaas Houston M.A. in 1989 with a vision of Sanskrit as a universal sacred language. Utilizing learning technology based on the theory and practice of yoga, ASI courses emphasize the ease and joy of learning Sanskrit through an immersion experience, the enjoyment of making the sounds, fluently reading the original Devanagari script, and directly reading, chanting and understanding sacred literature.

Koshas: The Five Sheets of the Soul

The Sanskrit word Kosha can be translated as a sheath, a layer or body. The Vedic concept known as The Koshas is a way of understanding the layering of our consciousness from the most obvious and manifest state to the least visible and universal state, we are composed of each of these layers. The Five Koshas are Physical, Energetic, Mental, Wisdom and Spirit.

The Koshas are interwoven together like a tapestry. Each one feeds and informs the other. We all feel this interconnection at times. Sometimes we feed ourselves well and sometimes what we are being fed is not so fulfilling. When we feel great joy and inspiration inside it easily flows forth from us physically and when we feel great discomfort physically it can leave us feeling dispirited. All of us have experienced many of the layers in between as when we are struggling with some emotional stress or when we become aware of a deep wisdom or insight.

Exploring The Koshas will bring greater understanding of all the dimensions of ourselves beyond just the physically obvious. Yoga itself evolved to deal with all these dimensions of ourselves and our very human experiences.

Teaching with Themes

Using a thematic approach is a great way to keep the yoga practice fresh and interesting. Themes also help the students set an intention so the experience of practice comes from the inside out. This workshop will give teachers ideas and a chance to brainstorm with exercises that foster creativity.

Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) is a practice of deep relaxation of body and mind. With practice, Yoga Nidra becomes a path of meditative inquiry that enhances awareness of many layers and types of resistance so that deep release can be experienced, allowing life to be lived more fully and with greater intention and joy. This workshop, designed for teachers, will explore why and how this ancient art affects the brain. This workshop allows you to experience the technique and learn how to teach it.

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