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Ongoing Classes: Descriptions of Class Levels (updated 12/7/07)
Registration is not required for ongoing classes. You may pay as a drop-in or use a punch card.
These levels are simply a suggestion of the pace of the class. Remember all yoga is to be practiced at your own pace, with a sense of comfort and ease.
Yoga 1 ~ This class moves at a slow gentle pace. Emphasis is on alignment of spine and limbs, creating a stable base. This class is suitable for beginners, as well as intermediate and advanced students who want to renew the details of asanas/postures, or would just like a calm respite.
Yoga 2 ~This class offers a bit more challenge with a moderate pace and flow, poses held longer for strength building, and more vigorous links to breathing. A crisper focus on intention produces mental as well as physical progression.
Yoga 3 ~This class is more dynamic and energetic, combining joyful flow and breathing, maximized limb and core strengthening, and the challenge of testing "edges" within the safety of self-discerned limits. An opportunity for exploration, this class is for advanced students and adventurous intermediates.
Integral Yoga
I (This is a Yoga Level 1 class) incorporates the
structured routine of Integral Yoga including eye movements,
forward and backward bends, twists and inversions, as well
as deep relaxation. Chanting may be included. There is no
background music.
Yin Yoga 2 (This is a Yoga Level 2 class) is a blend of
Hatha Yoga practice and Buddhist concepts of compassion and
loving kindness meditation. Poses are floor poses, no standing poses, with longer holding to access the deeper tissues surrounding the joints. One year yoga practice, meditation practice or Martial Arts required.
There is no background music in this class.
For complete listing of ongoing classes, see Class Schedule Page.
Teacher's style:
Maggie Boyes is a substitute teacher at The Yoga Center. She is trained in Hatha Yoga.
Caryl Connolly's teaching style is in keeping with the Integral Yoga format, which means addressing all aspects of the Body/Mind/Spirit connection which hopefully encourages the student, at whatever level, to find a peaceful and/or meditative place in their Yoga practice.
Lindy Dalton ’s style of teaching involves flow, breathing techniques and proper spinal alignment.
Ann Egge: Her class consists of asanas, mostly from the
Integral yoga tradition, including warm-ups, sun salutations, standing
poses, back bends, forward bends, twists, and deep relaxation.
Pat Starkey ’s style is loosely based off of the Iyengar method, a method of refining alignment in poses to enhance levels of awareness during asana practice.
Debbie Stevens offers an opportunity to explore the body/mind connection through listening to your own body.
Evie Urquhart teaches a basic Hatha Yoga class beginning with flowing warm-ups, transitioning to heated standing poses, and
ending with mindful twists, backbends, and breath awareness.
Special Classes:
Registration, including your name and contact information as well as payment, is required at least 5 days prior to the class.
There is a minimum of 5 students per class.
Ashtanga Yoga The
Primary Series is a continuous flow of traditional yoga
postures, practiced vinyasa-style, linking postures with
Ujayyi breath, and bandhas (locks). The class concludes with
relaxation and meditation, the heart of yoga practice.
The 2nd Series takes the Primary Series practice to another
level. For your comfort, the student should be able to
practice most of the poses in the Primary Series. The 2nd
series moves into backbends.
Ashtanga Yoga is a vigorous, athletic practice best suited
for the younger student, athletes, or those students who
have an established Yoga practice.
Jivamukti Yoga is a
style created by Sharon Gannon and David Life. It is one of
nine internationally recognized styles of Hatha Yoga. It has
5 elements: scripture, bhakti (devotion), ahimsa
(non-violence), music and meditation. In this class we
practice vigorous vinyasa style yoga, chant Om & sing
Sanskrit prayers. The student learns about yogic philosophy as well as how to
link movements of the body with breath. We practice methods of
Kriya Yoga (cleansing)and meditation.
See Events page for dates, fees, and link to registration form.
6 week Series:
Registration, including your name and contact information as well as payment, is required at least 5 days before the series begins.
There is a minimum of 5 students per class.
* Beginner Yoga 1 is for the first time student or students wanting a refresher. The focus is on the fundamentals of yoga: alignment, core postures and breathing techniques. Good for strengthening and stretching the entire body. Yoga is practiced in the Kripalu Yoga spirit of self-discovery and empowerment.
*Beginner Yoga 2
is a continuation of Beginner 1, offering more basic yoga postures. Focus is on elements of standing poses, back bending poses, forward bends, twists and inversions. Breathing techniques are reviewed.
Beginner Yoga 1 is a pre-requisite for Beginner Yoga 2.
FREE Beginner classes in the usual Beginner class times the week of April 14 - 18, 2008!
New 6-week Beginner series starts the week of March 3, 2008.
New 6-week Beginner series starts the week of April 21, 2008.
Your choice of Monday noon, Monday evening, Wednesday evening, or Friday noon classes.
* Pilates deals with the body on a physiological level. In this practice the student looks inside the body, discovering the spine and its vertebrae. One visualizes muscles and resistance that's not there. This mat work helps with alignment of the spine. It aids in accomodating imbalances. Muscles are equalized, as in strengthened muscles are lengthened and the muscles that are tight are stretched.
Pilates began as a
rehabilitative exercise and continues to serve that purpose.
This mat work is appropriate for all levels (5 student minimum/12 student maximum)
* Prenatal Yoga offers yoga poses for stretching to help with discomfort experienced during pregnancy. Poses also strengthen muscles and using breathing techniques prepares the body for childbirth. You will move gently through the
pregnancy.
Your back will feel better. Your baby will thank you. And you will connect with other moms-to-be.
This series is appropriate for all levels of your pregnancy.
Please consult with your medical practitioner before attending this class.
See Events page for dates, fees, and link to registration form.
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