Weekly Class Descriptions

 

Restorative Yin with Karen

Mondays @ 9:30am

Yin yoga is a healing practice that increases mobility in the joints, ligaments and fascial networks. This passive practice moves one into stillness, allowing healthful benefits to occur in the body as well as the mind.

This Yin practice provides the opportunity to slow
down and give yourself the ultimate gift, the gift of creating space in the body and the mind that may not have been there before. Take the time to connect with the present moment, and notice how your perspective begins to shift.

This challenging practice will leave you relaxed, energized and mindfully at peace.

Connect with Karen via email: rodgerskm@aol.com


Mindful Noon Flow with Mary June

Mondays @ 12pm

This class uses the linkage of movement with breath to create a mindful yoga experience as we move through a slow to moderate paced Vinyasa-style flow. Each class centers on a specific theme to help practitioners find that mind-body connection and cultivate focus during the practice, allowing the mind to become quiet and tension and stress to leave the body.

Examples of themes explored in class include more mentally challenging practices, such as balance; to more physical practices such as working with poses for maintaining a healthy back or building upper body strength; to energetics, such as working with chakras. There is lots of variety in this class and something for everyone as we focus on cultivating and maintaining the health of our minds, bodies, souls, emotions, and energy fields.

Some yoga experience is helpful but not required.

Connect with Mary June via email: maryjunethompson@hotmail.com


Yoga Basics with Claire

Mondays @ 5:45pm

Claire loves the mindfulness of yoga – connecting movement with breath, and the beauty of learning to be ok with where you are at that moment. Her class is based on an Iyengar-based practice which is focused on alignment, breath, strengthening and lengthening. Most classes are balanced beginner flows with liberal instruction and use of props.

Connect with Claire via email: clairehyrka@gmail.com


Beginning Wu-Style Tai Chi with Russell

Please contact Russell for more information about his upcoming 10-week series beginning March 11th!

Come explore the tranquil flow of Wu Tai Chi. Experience for yourself how to dissolve stressful tension with this easy-to-learn method of connected movement.

Russell has been practicing the art of Tai Chi for 46 years. 

Contact Russell to register for his next class series: whirlingstillness@gmail.com


New Class! 1 Body Yoga with Cheri

Tuesdays @ 10:30am

Cheri invites you to take time each week to celebrate all that is YOU! Join the fun as we celebrate our imperfectly perfect selves. Her weekly class will inspire you to grow through breath and bodywork. Cheri invites you to move at your own pace and listen to the wisdom of your body. This class is for all ages and stages of life. 1 Body Yoga! is designed to help students learn to better trust themselves and deepen their understanding of body and spirit.
Show up for yourself and discover what is possible.
Connect with Cheri at: functionalfunk@gmail.com

Gentle Yoga & Meditation with Wayne

Tuesdays @ 12pm

Unlike Hatha Yoga, this gentle Kundalini class employs lots of movement but does not require precise alignment or advanced knowledge of yoga asanas.  Unlike vinyasa or Pilates, it’s not a physical workout in the usual sense.  The emphasis is on meditation, focusing on the breath to lead the movements and cultivating awareness of every sensation in the body.

Connect with Wayne: yogaway249@gmail.com


Alignment Yoga Levels 2 & 3 with Ron

Tuesdays @ 6:30pm

This class is an upper-level class, so you have already earned your stripes by being in several series of an alignment style (like Iyengar) yoga at Level 1. This class builds on that beginner’s level, refines it with more advanced poses and introduces you to a theme type practice.

This class is taught in an 8-week series format, but drop-ins will be allowed with permission from the teacher. Please check with Ron directly for pricing, registration, and other class information.

Connect with Ron with any questions or to register for the series: ron_felix@bellsouth.net


 

Mindful Noon Flow with Mary June

Wednesdays @ 12pm

This class uses the linkage of movement with breath to create a mindful yoga experience as we move through a slow to moderate paced Vinyasa-style flow. Each class centers on a specific theme to help practitioners find that mind-body connection and cultivate focus during the practice, allowing the mind to become quiet and tension and stress to leave the body.

Examples of themes explored in class include more mentally challenging practices, such as balance; to more physical practices such as working with poses for maintaining a healthy back or building upper body strength; to energetics, such as working with chakras. There is lots of variety in this class and something for everyone as we focus on cultivating and maintaining the health of our minds, bodies, souls, emotions, and energy fields.

Connect with Mary June via email: maryjunethompson@hotmail.com


Alignment Level 1 with Ron

Wednesdays @ 5:30pm

This is the foundational level (Level 1) to alignment yoga.

This is the foundational level (level 1) to alignment yoga.

It is based on the Iyengar style of yoga which is famous for its emphasis on precision & alignment. B.K.S. Iyengar wrote the seminal book “Light on Yoga” as well other books on yogic practice and philosophy.

The class will emphasize the standing poses or learning to stand on your own two feet. You will develop strength, stamina, concentration and body alignment.

Each class will have an emphasis on the dynamic interplay between how your body is built (anatomy) and how your body moves (kinesiology).

What to expect from this teaching format:

  1. Beginners get to start at the beginning.
  2. Poses will be taught one at a time and in a safe orderly progression.
  3. Demonstrations highlighting specific points of action in each pose.
  4. Poses will be modified to your particular needs using props such as blocks, straps & blankets.
  5. Individual corrections and adjustments as necessary.

This class is taught in an 8-week series format, but drop-ins will be allowed with permission from the teacher. Please check with Ron directly for pricing, registration, and other class information.

Contact Ron for more information and/or to register for this series: ron_felix@bellsouth.net


Alignment Yoga Level 2 with Ron

Wednesdays @ 7pm

This class is an upper-level, so you have already earned your stripes by being in several series of an alignment style (like Iyengar) yoga at Level 1. This class builds on that beginner’s level, refines it with more advanced poses and introduces you to a theme type practice. A theme could be a class focusing on back bends or forward bends etc. In addition, you will be working on an inversion practice as your knowledge and experience as a beginner has taught you what not to do as compared to what you can do.

This class is taught in an 8-week series format, but drop-ins will be allowed with permission from the teacher. Please check with Ron directly for pricing, registration, and other class information.

Connect with Ron with any questions or to register for the series: ron_felix@bellsouth.net

 


Energy Medicine Slow Flow Yoga with Caroline

Thursdays @ 10am

With Caroline’s passion for Eden Energy Medicine and yoga, she infuses slow flow yoga with simple yet powerful energy medicine techniques. Her Slow Flow class is a breath-based, mindful movement practice. Students will be guided through a sequence of reclining, seated, and standing postures while moving and transitioning with the breath, gently opening the body and developing more strength, stability, flexibility and energy. Slow flow yoga is a happy medium where one can reap the benefits of vinyasa and flow practices, in a way that is more attainable for beginners and experienced yogis alike. Energy medicine techniques are also ancient and powerful. One of the many benefits of integrating these techniques with yoga, is that it greatly amplifies one’s regular yoga practice, thereby increasing vitality, strength and resiliency in a new and powerful way.

Connect with Caroline: carolinemunday@gmail.com


Gentle Yoga & Meditation with Wayne

Thursdays @ 12pm

 Unlike Hatha Yoga, this gentle Kundalini class employs lots of movement but does not require precise alignment or advanced knowledge of yoga asanas.  Unlike vinyasa or Pilates, it’s not a physical workout in the usual sense.  The emphasis is on meditation, focusing on the breath to lead the movements and cultivating awareness of every sensation in the body.

Connect with Wayne: yogaway249@gmail.com


Yoga Basics with Claire

Thursdays @ 5:45pm

Claire loves the mindfulness of yoga – connecting movement with breath, and the beauty of learning to be ok with where you are at that moment. Her class is based on an Iyengar-based practice which is focused on alignment, breath, strengthening and lengthening. Most classes are balanced beginner flows with liberal instruction and use of props.

Connect with Claire via email: clairehyrka@gmail.com


Move to Meditate: Viniyoga-inspired Functional Movement with Sarah

Thursdays @ 7:15pm

Moving our bodies helps quiet our minds. Dynamic, breath centered movement paired with guided meditation and extra-long savasana help to leave your body and mind feeling calm and refreshed.  *Trauma informed, beginner friendly*

Reach out to Sarah for more information: bush.sarah.e@gmail.com


 

Yoga for Gentle Grounding with Rachel

Fridays @ 10am

Yoga for Gentle Grounding offers a gentle, balanced combination of yoga poses, stretching, conscious breathing, and intervals of relaxation and reflection. We will emphasize seated and reclined poses, offering us the opportunity to connect with the earth and feel rooted in our bodies. Supported by the ground and within ourselves, we will cultivate calmness, while continuing to build strength and flexibility.

This class is suitable for all practitioners. Beginners to yoga are welcome, as are those with somewhat reduced mobility. There are also benefits for more experienced yogis who would like the time and space afforded by a slow-paced class to enter deeply into the poses and to practice grounding and reconnecting with themselves.

Connect with Rachel: luxrefulget@gmail.com


Yin Yoga Series with Mary June

Fridays @ Noon through 4/19

“Harmony exists only when yin and yang are in balance.” 

Yin is a slow-paced and therapeutic style of yoga that uses a specific series of floor poses held for a length of time to provide a “deep tissue massage” for the body that also calms and balances mind, body, and soul. From this class, you will also see these benefits:
  • Improves flow of prana (energy) to the vital organs and the entire body
  • Releases fascia, therefore improving joint mobility and enhancing range of motion
  • Increases circulation and helps alleviate pain, stiffness, and tension
  • Less stress and anxiety and a deeper connection to self
  • A “workout” for your connective tissue, lubricating and lengthening tendons, ligaments, and fascia that don’t respond to more active forms of yoga or other exercises (yang)

Use your Breezeway class package or drop in for $15/class. Contact Mary June for more information about this series: maryjunethompson@hotmail.com


Slow Flow with Jill

Saturdays @ 9am

Jill’s Slow Flow class combines elements of traditional vinyasa yoga with strength and mobility work, offered at a slower pace and with creative sequencing to challenge both mind and body in new ways. She is a firm believer that one size does NOT fit all when it comes to alignment and encourages students to explore variations so they can get to know their own unique bodies better.

Jill’s lighthearted approach and eclectic playlists are the finishing touches on this well-rounded practice that is sure to be a fun start to your weekend!

Connect with Jill at: flutistyogini@gmail.com


Sunday Stretch & Release with Rachel

Sundays @ 4pm

Give yourself time on Sunday afternoons to reset for the week as we stretch through the body and expand through the mind and the breath. This gently paced class focuses on fully stretching the body by means of targeted yoga poses in coordination with deep breathing. We will invite tight muscles and tissues to loosen and find movement in areas of stiffness or soreness. In addition, we will take some time to experience stillness and increase conscious awareness with guided breathing and extended relaxation.   

This will be an accessible experience, perfect for those who wish to increase flexibility, release stress, and recenter the mind.

For more information about this class, connect with Rachel: luxrefulget@gmail.com


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