A strong practice in a heated room. You will flow through a series of postures (asanas) linking breath and movement with an emphasis on detail, precision and alignment. The heat allows for greater range of movement in joints, muscles, ligaments, and other supporting structures of the body. The many benefits of the heat also include: your cardiovascular system gets a workout, your muscles and connective tissue become more elastic and allow for greater flexibility with less chance of injury and improved resolution of injury, sweating promotes detoxification and elimination through the skin, and the raised temperature in the room will assist in improving T-cell function and the proper functioning of your immune system.

We use infrared heat to warm the room to a temperature of about 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

Our practice will be a breath-centered, mindful movement practice. You will be guided through a flowing, moderately-paced sequence of movements, that includes holding postures and flowing from pose to pose. Transitions are as important as poses themselves.

Each month we explore a different theme. In every practice we emphasize building skillful alignment and core strength, and cultivating awareness of body and breath. We provide a safe and stable environment for you to explore both flow and stillness, ease and challenge. You’ll improve your strength, flexibility, balance and coordination.

When the practice becomes challenging, we use relaxed awareness, guided by the breath, to explore and expand our capabilities and experience. Sensing the physical sensations and being aware of the breath are guiding us. I encourage physical and mental exploration while cultivating curiosity, ease and joy within the practice.

Yin Yoga is a meditative, healing and deeply rejuvenating style of yoga. It involves holding postures for a longer time in various seated and reclined poses to access deeper layers of connective tissues, ligaments, joints and organs. The practice can be deeply grounding, hence it supports the release of deep seated tension in body, heart and mind. It nourishes and revitalizes our organ systems and thus restoring the subtle flow of life-force or prana. Longer holds of postures invite your attention inward, creating space to tune into body and mind. Through mindful breathing practices and sensing the body, you learn how to breathe into and through discomfort while recognizing/exploring thoughts and feelings. Yin Yoga activates your parasympathetic nervous system by relaxing the body and calming the mind, which slows your heart rate and provides an overall sense of well-being.

Focus on well rounded asana practice, comprised of Sitting with

Breath/Pranayama, Warm-up, Sun Salutaions (A, B & C), Standing poses, Backbends, Unwinding/restorative and Recharging (shoulderstand/fish) and ending with Final Relaxation/Savasana.

This Yin class is practiced in a salt room to improve your skin and respiration. It focuses on connecting with the 7 chakras that align along the spine, starting from the base of the spine to the crown of the head.

Each chakra is like a spinning vortex of energy or prana that represents different elements of ourselves.

Chakras store the energy of thoughts, feelings, memories, experiences, and actions and shape our present and future mindset, behavior, emotional health, and actions.

While holding yin postures for several minutes, we use breath, sound and mind practices to sense and be aware of the energy that flows through each chakra.

This awareness begins to unravel and unlock contractions and blockages influencing these energies on the physical and subtle level, naturally awakening and aligning these energies.

This nourishing and restorative class can be helpful in balancing the energy within each chakra, building greater health, resilience and deeper fulfilment.

Yoga invites us to slow and deepen the breath and guides us in coordinating breath with movement. When we add sound to the exhale we intensify the healing and integrating effects of breath in the body. Sound can deepen our connection to what we feel and where we feel it and release chronic tension at deeper levels. Sound can be used to calm and soothe or to energize the nervous system. Yoga and sound practices can help foster clearer thinking, emotional equilibrium, a greater sense of peace and well-being, and more balance, flow and ease navigating in the world. Through the yoga of sound we experience the effects of vibration and various frequencies on different parts of brain and energy centers (chakras) in the body. Yoga and sound can help release trauma stored in the physiology from areas of the body. Within the container of a balanced slow flow yoga practice, you are invited to playfully experiment with breathing sound into held postures and sequences. Practice ends with a live music savasana.

This class is designed to improve mobility, stability and strength in the pelvic floor, hips, core and low back. The pelvic floor is known as the root/foundation of our body. If there is tightness or weakness in thisregion, the rest of our body will compensate, leading to tightness all the way up to our shoulders and neck. This class encourages relaxation techniques along with strengthening intrinsic muscles surrounding our spine and hips that are commonly overlooked to improve overall physical and mental health.