Upcoming Events

Thai Yoga Pop-Up Class with Jori

Friday February 21st at 7:15 p.m.

Join Jori for this new evening Thai Yoga pop-up class integrating Thai Yoga hands on assists along with our traditional Hatha Yoga format.  This combines simple yoga postures with various Thai Yoga assists and adjustments. This hands-on class is designed to be restorative in nature and appropriate for all levels. Class size limited to 10 people. 

Yoga for Osteoporosis & Scoliosis

Sunday, February 23rd at 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Join Linda Benton, specialist in Yoga for Back Care, Scoliosis and Osteoporosis, for a full day of training, to explore techniques and ways of practicing to target the conditions that tend to progress over time. Learn about the major curve patterns, anatomy of the spine, muscles affected by back pain, along with lung capacity and how yoga for back care and scoliosis will be key to releasing pain to address your affliction/curve pattern while stretching and releasing tension in tight muscles and strengthening the muscles that have become weak. Learn how to slow the progression by integrating these techniques into your practice and your teaching.

Appropriate for teachers and teachers in training, as well as those interested in deepening their understanding of working with these conditions in your own life. $175 Class size limited to 16 students.

First Friday Healing Yin Yoga with Cara

Friday March 7th at 5:30 p.m.

Join Cara for a grounded and replenishing class to end and unwind. We'll begin with grounded somatic sequences to open the fascial holding and warm the body, and gently move into restorative poses and a long savasana. Drop in and class card rates apply.

Thursdays with Rich Logan

EVERY Thursday from 4 - 6 p.m. -$20 to drop in

Join this highly skilled, knowledgeable, entertaining teacher, and seasoned practitioner. 

Rich is a long time practioner of yoga and creates a space for exploration and discovery, using humor and years of insight to help facilitate an intentional practice. The closer we come to the edge of consciousness, the closer we are to our core selves. And when we discover a technique that helps us transcend our seeming duality, that is the moment we arrive... the reason we practice.... to go beyond Ananda, the idea of bliss, into the actuality of unity.

 Or we might just learn some cool stuff that eases our stressful lives. In either case you win, and the world wins when each of us is better at taking care of ourselves... to go beyond Ananda, the idea of bliss, into the actuality of unity. Or we might just learn some cool stuff that eases our stressful lives. In either case you win, and the world wins when e ach of us is better at taking care of ourselves.

The Ropes Workshop with Cara

Saturday March 8th at 11 a.m.

STEADINESS & EASE: Sthira Sukham Asanam, with Cara. Find your balance between effort and ease in your practice and your life! Learn and practice poses using the support of wall and the ropes to experience its therapeutic and tractioning effects. Then move into more restorative poses, relaxing into the support and grounding properties of props and of course end with a long and peaceful savasana. Pre-registration required. Class size limited to 12 people. 

Alignment is a kind of enlightenment and in this workshop you’ll learn why.  Yoga is not stretching just to be more flexible; every posture (asana) must be checked against the biomechanics of alignment. Through the practice, each student can observe first-hand the distortions of their anatomy and how to correct them.

Post Workshop Reminder:

Life long Yoga practitioners know how exhausting it is just managing the stress associated with long term or chronic ailments. So of course learning to relax is very helpful regardless of what issues we are facing. Be in it for the long haul;.progressive refinement comes through practice over time, so stick with it.

Disclaimer:

This workshop is not intended to diagnose or give specific medical advice. Yoga is a system of well-being based on common sense, plus sel- reflection that makes for quality of life choices. Yoga supports the progressive refinement that comes through the practice over time. Yoga invites you to find out for yourself.

GABRIEL HALPERN

Master Yoga Instructor

“GOOD FOR WHAT AILS YOU”

Friday, March 14 at 6:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M. - Head, Neck, Shoulders, Arms, Chest, Ribcage, Torso

Saturday March 15th, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. - Low Back, Lumbar, Sacrum, Pelvis, Hips, Knees and Feet

Take this opportunity to study with a yoga legend, our teacher, and one of the Best. Named in the top 10 most influential teachers in America, Gabriel will give you the opportunity to get first hand guidance on what’s been ailing you. This weekend we will explore therapeutic techniques and specific poses and ways of practicing to alleviate physical pain in your body.

Be prepared to ask about any pose that has been giving you trouble, or causing you discomfort. However chronic or long standing the discomfort get some tips on how to modify the pose to be as pain free as possible.  This points us in the direction of safely integrating stage appropriate levels of flexibility, strength, endurance, breath control, meditative focus and an ever improving sense of proper alignment.

Gravitational drag can either free or distort our anatomy. Yoga trains our attention to see how the body responds to different positions with respect to gravity. Any pain in a given movement is an indication that the body wants us to pay attention to something. Since form and function go together: if the form is lacking in proper positioning, the function must be impaired as well. So to improve our functioning, we have to improve our form. How?

Kirtan with Rich Logan

Friday, March 28th at 7:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Join Rich Logan for an evening of Kirtan. Kirtan is one of the oldest devotional practices on the planet. It gives one the opportunity to align with spirit and also community. This seemingly simple practice is a call and response vocalization. And wether we are chanting to the gods, for our own personal release or simply as a way to come together with others, it can be a profound experience that invites change and transformation. It's well suited for people who have trouble meditating because it occupies the minds normal processes, it gets us out of old patterns of thinking and can invite a quiet and peace that may be unfamiliar to us in our busy world. 

Free experience, $20 suggested donation.

Spring Qi Gong and Sound Bath with Lisa Devi

Sunday, March 30th at 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Qigong is a Chinese healing art that uses breathing, movement, visualization and focused intention to circulate qi (energy/life force). It helps revitalize the body and supports well-being. This style of qigong features continuous gentle movements, tapping to awaken qi meridian lines, and guided meditative imagery to mirror the way nature flows.

Lisa created the Spring Qigong practice to help you harmonize with the beginning of a new cycle of seasons. Traditional Chinese medicine associates Spring with elemental Wood: a pattern of rebirth and growth, embodied in functions of the liver & gallbladder. It is an auspicious time to support physical and mental detoxification, and align with the yang energies of expansion and inspiration.

The workshop will conclude with a 10-minute sound bath with crystal singing bowls, chimes, Native American flute and vocal tones.

Cost: $35

Yoga & The Reflexive Nervous System

Sunday, April 6th at 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Seeing Structure: The Reflexive Nervous System as it Relates to Yoga with Rich Logan

Long before you feel the heat of flame burning your hand, your body takes note of sensations at a base level.  The body reacts before the brain has even had time to think, “ouch”.  We are hard wired to protect ourselves at a primal level.  Ancient neural connections keep us safe through reflexive actions.  Just maintaining balance as you walk down the street requires an acute set of reflexes that monitor the feedback from muscles and tendons long before the signals reach our brains. 

The time it would take an electrical impulse from the big toe to reach the brain and back again would leave us at a crippling pace to meet the pavement without stumbling forward and backward. That’s why we learn over time, through a series of checks and balances in the neuromuscular system, how to ambulate(so the brain can think of more important things like, “where can I get a good mocha latte”).

What happens when our reflexive habits become too strong?  Are my hamstrings tight, or are the impulses from my nervous system over compensating?  Yoga helps us find the balance between too much of a good thing(hyperactivity) and a deadened nervous system.  And the parallels between the physical manifestation and spiritual reality can be astounding.  Not to say that a tight hip will bar your way to heaven, but it’s a bit easier to move toward your spiritual goals when the body is more willing to let go.

This class will be designed as lecture and experience of different ways the reflexive nervous system works and ways we can understand, if not override, how it can hold us back unnecessarily. 

Appropriate for those looking to deepen their understanding of the practice, and teachers and teachers in training. $60