Workshops & Events

Creative vinyasa sequences will take you deep into hip opening, twists, forward bends, back bends, fundamental arm balances and inversions. A full dynamic engaging yoga session including asana, pranayama, relaxation and meditation. For those who love a comprehensive practice and want to go deeper into all of its aspects.

Even if you’re not used to a strong practice, alternatives will be given, with a stage-by-stage approach used to move toward the more strenuous/advanced poses.

Fall is a time when there is a shift in our environment. This shift is happening inside of us, as well as around us. This class is about learning how to open and relax into the changes. We will be doing poses to help bring balance to the digestive tract (toxin elimination), the endocrine system (for hormonal balance) and the immune system (to protect against colds).

Registration fee: $20 per person until October 11th; $25 thereafter
 

Family yoga offers kids a chance to practice yoga with their mothers, fathers and/or sisters and brothers. Participants develop body awareness, motor coordination and confidence through yoga games and poses. Family yoga classes are structured like kids yoga classes with more emphasis on interactive and partner poses for kids and parents to do together.

This workshop is designed for family members 4 years and older.

Registration Fee: $25 per family.  Pre-registration requested.

Join Kelly for an hour and a half of free form yoga practice to the music of the Beatles. Students will have the opportunity to explore their personal practice in this very loosely guided vinyasa flow class.

Regular class pricing.

Amy will guide you through this liberating vinyasa practice, where you will be encouraged to move from a place of feeling rather than outer form. We will play with movement within postures and there will be lots of room for individual expression. Inspired by eclectic world music, the breath and movement, this flow will be meditative, dynamic, and boundless! Come discover your yoga.

All levels of experience welcomed and honored!

Regular class pricing.
 

Our monthly healing circles led by Dorothy Whitton and Paul Lamb will guide us to an enriched state of wellness and consciousness. You will experience and learn profound transformational processes to help facilitate your ability to take charge of your health, healing and overall wellbeing.

• Gentle Movement (Qigong) and Self Massage
• Breathing Practices and Progressive Relaxation
• Guided Imagery and Creative Visualization
• The use of Conscious Intention, Mindfulness and Positive Emotion to manifest optimal health

In this dynamic workshop, Casey will be teaching his method of Thai Hermit Yoga which he developed living in Northern Thailand for the past decade. Thai Hermit Yoga incorporates traditional Thai Hermit (Russi) postures together with Indian classical asanas. The approach is gentle, yet active, with a strong emphasis placed on Vipasana (Insight) meditation practices. Casey has spent the last ten years in a number of secluded meditation retreats in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, these practices are very powerful and accessible to all practitioners.

The current book we are exploring in the Yoga Synthesis Book Group is "Relax & Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times" by Judith Lasater Ph D, PT. This book is like a picture book of basic restorative yoga poses. Ms. Lasater reveals the recipes for undoing our busy lives, relieving stress and how to create healing in the system. Restorative yoga stems from the teachings of BKS Iyengar where props are used to support the body in a pose allowing one to hold the pose longer and deeply relax.

This workshop begins with an asana practice that will be a slow flow vinyasa format - not difficult in nature, but rather more meditative and restorative. Michelle will pay special attention to certain mudras and postures that evoke specific deities and ideas symbolizing divine powers. To conclude the workshop, all Goddess participants will take part in a traditional Mendhi ritual, using an ancient Indian and North African shrub plant for Henna body painting.

In this class we will explore chants and songs from a variety of traditions and cultures. Find your own voice through practicing chants in a comfortable group setting. By vocalizing the breath we use the voice to create music and harmony. Chanting helps to deepen the connection between sound, breath and healing.

All are welcome, no previous singing or chanting experience is necessary. We will begin with simple breathing exercises and vocal warm ups. Chant sheets will be provided. Please feel free to bring instruments.