Fall Classes 🌻 2024
Creating opportunity to bring awareness, mindfulness, awe and joy through breath and movement.
Classes are weekly consistent. Signups released each Saturday for upcoming week.
Movement with breath, linking a flow sequence. With a thoughtful progression, our joints will warm up and work forward in enhancing healthy range of motion and strength through a combination of holding and flowing in and through postures. You’ll create beautiful life giving energy through your body leaving you feeling not only physically awake but better balanced mentally and emotionally to springboard the rest of your day/evening. Classes begin with a gentle arrival, warmup and end with restorative poses and savasana. (60 min)
Yoga Flow Tuesdays 7:00p
Alignment based slower movement practice with some flow and restorative poses. When we slow down, we discover refinement and nuance both in our postures (asana) and in slowing down the transitions between them. When we move more quickly we can create momentum and sometimes loose connection. Momentum absolutely has a place in the practice, just not necessarily all the time. (60 min)
Gentle Yoga Movement Thursdays 9:15a
Gentle Yoga is an alignment based class where we explore basic postures and breath, common transitions between postures in a slow methodical way in order to gain control and refine movement. (60 min)
Gentle Yoga Thursdays 6p
Saturday Morning Wake Up Flow Saturdays 8:50a
If you enjoy the physicality of yoga and a good morning workout, this class is so your class. We’ll fuse a bit of fitness into all the good yoga. We’ll enhance body awareness, mobility and get strong. This class is similar to Yoga Flow, but sometimes we get a wee more physical, cuz it’s Saturday and we’re all about celebrating the beginning of the weekend! (60 min)
Ease to Restore(y) Yoga 6p
!! New Class Begins Oct ‘24 !!
This special once a month class will answer our desire to slow down. Each month’s focus to a joint or body part will help bring greater awareness, strength and mobility. The remaining class time with be nourishment for all body systems and a nervous system reset incorporating breathing practices, guided gentle body shapes and stretches with the use of props such as blocks and blankets to encourage a deeper relaxation response. Posture holds, breathing practices and slow transitions help nourish all body systems provide pain relief, improve joint circulation and flexibility and help us slow our often frantic busy pace of modern life strongly supporting regulation of the central nervous system, effecting all body systems to rest, release, heal and restore. (70 min)
Beginners Workshop
4 - Class Series
It takes courage to be a beginner and the older we get, the more uncomfortable it can feel to be one, and that’s ok. Yoga is not only for bendy bodies and calm minded people. Yoga is a practice accessible for most bodies. (I’m not particularly bendy and hardly ever calm-minded.) 😉 Together, we will explore common yoga poses, simple transitions between then, modification and pranayama breath work
This series is offered yearly.
STUDIO SPACE FOR YOU
Our studio floors are cleaned before each class and common surfaces cleaned and disinfected.
Studio is equipped with heating, air conditioning and air filtration to help maintain a comfortable practice space. It can be helpful to layer your clothing for class warmup and cool down. For eveyones’s safety, studio door will be locked once class begins.
If you own your own mat, please bring it to class. If you forget yours, we have studio mats available. Studio provides blocks, straps and blankets to use during class. If you prefer using your own props, please feel free to bring them.
In the event a class you’ve already signed up for needs to be canceled, you’ll receive notification as soon as is possible via email and/or text. We mostly follow LOSD in the case of inclement weather. Website and class signup form will reflect schedule changes.
Private/Semi-Private consultations/classes can be made available. Please contact me directly.
What happens on the mat that leaves you better?
How is it that you can experience a mat moment, gladness and appreciation, the awareness of feeling a feeling and still able to hold forward to what has yet to transpire? When we create an environment of time and space, joy can pull up a seat. She’d like to stay and hold hands and walk together into our next thing. We call it a practice. It’s not just making shapes with our bodies for within the shapes, within the movement of our breath, we are making space for joy.
When we meet on our mats together, our classes in community, joy pulls up a seat.
~ with love, Jill
Words fail to convey the total value of yoga. It has to be experienced.
— B.K.S. Iyenger
“Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I among them."
- Matthew 18:20
Wake up anticipating good things to happen each and every morning for each and every day. And then pay attention.
Wake up a little earlier than you “need” to. Sit in quiet. Pray.
Connect to simple morning rituals and be grateful you get to walk without help, shower without help and dress.
Make coffee or tea and enjoy the ritual and privilege of it.
Smile.
Call a friend.
Walk in the outdoors.
Move your body. Move your spine.
Breathe fully in and breathe fully out.
All hard things pass. God is still pursuing us.
~ with love, Jill
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