Intro to Yoga Pre-registered 4 week series: for beginners or those interested in better understanding the fundamentals of progression, yoga alignment, related movement and safety aspects. This will be a safe and inclusive environment and make participants comfortable moving to other classes.
Gentle Flow: A softer, nurturing, slower paced practice. Poses are built in gradual steps with a focus on breathing and mind-centred movement. Expect to move, stretch and relax.
Gentle Flow & Restore: Gentle Yoga is a blend of gentle hatha yoga that has been adapted with mindfulness meditation to access its potential physical. emotional and mental benefits. Gentle Yoga is a an awareness-based practice whereby students are encouraged and guided to access and develop the natural skills of their minds such as paying attention to present moment awareness, openness and self-compassion. By attending to the simple yet profound experiences of ones breath, body, thoughts, and emotions we are better able to access our inner wisdom as we address the reality of daily life and respond to its challenges from a place of inner and outer balance and stability.
Hatha Yoga for all Levels: Hatha Yoga is a class designed for practitioners of all levels to deepen their practice. Hatha tends to move slower than Vinyasa, allowing for more time in each posture. Expect a breath focused, from-the-ground-up approach to physical challenge, as well as a focus on mindfulness. Students can expect a mixture of strength, breath, focus and freedom. They will leave feeling lighter and stronger.
Vinyasa Yoga all levels:Vinyasa means “connection” in Sanskrit, and poses will flow from one to another in conjunction with the breath. Vinyasa for Beginner classes moves slowly with breath, posture and in-depth instructions; advanced classes are faster paced and integrate more advanced postures.
Pilates all Levels: Pilates is a form of exercise, developed by Joseph Pilates. It emphasizes the balanced development of the body through one’s core strength, flexibility and awareness in order to support effective and graceful movement. Pilates is a great way to tone and strengthen core muscles and is suitable for individuals who want to challenge themselves.
Prenatal Yoga Pre-registered 6 Week Series: Prenatal Yoga is an amazing way to prepare for childbirth and can help yummy mommies to be stay in shape during and after pregnancy. Other benefits of prenatal yoga include: Improvement in Sleep Reducing Stress and Anxiety Increase the strength, flexibility and endurance of muscles needed for childbirth Decrease lower back pain, nausea, carpal tunnel syndrome, headaches and shortness of breath Decrease the risk of preterm labour, pregnancy-induced hypertension and intrauterine growth restriction (a condition that slows a baby's growth). Prenatal Yoga can also help you meet and bond with other pregnant women and prepare for the stress of being a new parent.
Mom and Baby Yoga: Mom and Baby class for babies ranging from 6 weeks old up to crawling age. Post pregnancy can place new strains on ones body since mom's are constantly holding their babies in their arms, whether it's soothing, feeding or playing with them. Whether you are new to yoga or you are a long time yogi, developing and maintaining a regular yoga practice can provide your mind and body with balance and calmness. Best of all, you don't need to leave your baby behind when you attend a baby-friendly postnatal yoga class.
Movement Lab: Based on Functional Range Conditioning’s FRC® Principles, move all the body’s joints through their full range of motion. Appropriate for everyone – experienced yogis, new to yoga, stiff, lithe or curious seekers. Tremendous benefits for back pain and arthritic joints as well. This increased range of motion will benefit your yoga practice in many ways also.
Yang to Yin: In Yin and Yang Yoga, sequencing begins with flow movements (Yang) for the first half of the class which targets the muscles with stretching postures and breathing exercises. Yang poses stretches and strengthens muscular tissues with an emphasis on internal heating. In the second half, Yin poses targets the connective tissues, such as the ligaments, bones and the joints of the body to create deeper flexibility and greater bone density. This is a gentle, yet intense, practice which compliments any active practice of yoga or exercise perfectly. Poses are in a seated position (on the floor) and are held for longer periods of time. The combination of Yin and Yang poses balance each other out and give the body the full exercise it truly needs and allows one to create balance within the mind, body and spirit.
Yoga with Weights: Enhance strength, muscle-carving and calorie burning by adding resistance of weights and bands to your flow.
Restorative Yoga: Restorative Yoga is a therapeutic style of yoga which utilizes props (e.g. blankets, bolsters, straps etc.) to make it easier for the body to get into certain poses, and therefore, surrender to the pose and move towards a state of relaxation. Studies show that when done properly Restorative Yoga may positively benefit the parasympathetic nervous system leading to a host of benefits including, improved mood levels (e.g. depression, anxiety, irritability), immunity and blood pressure; balancing blood sugar levels, preventing ulcers, decreasing chronic pain, fertility, and much more!
Reiki Restorative Yoga: Students will hold traditional restorative yoga poses taught by Chrys and receive Reiki Therapy which is performed by Franki Lodge.Restorative Yoga helps to relieve the effects of stress by allowing the central nervous system to calm while the body is fully supported with the use of props (bolsters, blankets, blocks etc), stimulating deep relaxation and a sense of restoring and renewing your mind, body, and spirit. To deepen your experience of healing and relaxation, Reiki Therapy is incorporated into the class. Reiki is an ancient form of universal energetic healing that encourages a state of balance, harmony, and self-healing. Reiki Therapy enables you to access your innate healing energies so that you are able to avoid distress or disease and achieve states of deep relaxation and healing by yourself. Like restorative yoga, Reiki Therapy works on all levels of physical, emotional and spiritual elements, to help reduce stress, anxiety and other ailments. Combining both Restorative Yoga and Reiki Therapy allows for deep stillness to be found, as well as a transformative experience within and without.
Strength Flow: Classes are faster paced and integrate more advanced postures. This class focuses on stretching tight areas of the body and strengthening the different muscle groups and helps bring the body into alignment and prevents injuries.
