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
Next Series Begins Monday, October 2nd @ 7:00pm!
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.
Series cost $144.
Russell has been practicing the art of Tai Chi for 46 years.
Contact Russell for more information on his next class series: whirlingstillness@gmail.com
Yoga for Gentle Grounding with Rachel
Tuesdays @ 10am
This class offers a gentle combination of yoga poses, stretching, conscious breathing, and intervals of relaxation and reflection, in a format adapted from the Sivananda yoga style. We will emphasize seated and reclined poses, as is typical of the Sivananda system, 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. We will also employ from Sivananda the practice of taking small periods of rest in between key poses to reset, reflect, and further allow our bodies to integrate the movements we have made.
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
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:
- Beginners get to start at the beginning.
- Poses will be taught one at a time and in a safe orderly progression.
- Demonstrations highlighting specific points of action in each pose.
- Poses will be modified to your particular needs using props such as blocks, straps & blankets.
- 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
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
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
Yoga for Gentle Grounding with Rachel
Fridays @ 10am
This class offers a gentle combination of yoga poses, stretching, conscious breathing, and intervals of relaxation and reflection, in a format adapted from the Sivananda yoga style. We will emphasize seated and reclined poses, as is typical of the Sivananda system, 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. We will also employ from Sivananda the practice of taking small periods of rest in between key poses to reset, reflect, and further allow our bodies to integrate the movements we have made.
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, October 6th-December 8th (No Class 10/13 and 11/24!)
“Harmony exists only when yin and yang are in balance.”
- 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
All Levels Flow with Andrea
Sundays @ 4pm
This All-Levels Flow class will combine breath, balance, and vinyasa style flow to allow students the opportunity to grow in their yoga practice. Each class will work toward, and release from, a peak pose that is a mix of strength, focus, and flexibility. More advanced students will be encouraged to try extensions of the poses offered, allowing a truly cohesive class that works for every level yogi. Classes will begin with breath and intention and end with guided Savasana.
Connect with Andrea: vttaylora@gmail.com
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