Iyt Hatha yoga

Monday's & wednesday's @ 8:45 - 10:00am

Hatha Yoga is the classical Indian system of physical cleansing and purification.The practice emphasizes alignment and form, core postures, yogic breath, and meditation. Students explore a variety of yogic philosophies and quickly develop greater flexibility through detailed attention to body awareness. This system was first brought to the west as early as the 1920's and is growing in popularity still today.

Instead of joining a systematic program, how about creating one that works just for you and where you are now in your body, mind, heart, and soul at this moment of life. Founder of Integrative Yoga Therapy, Joseph LePage writes "I wanted to create a training program with the focus on Yoga as a healing art which would be student centered, non-dogmatic and in alignment with the latest approaches to teaching, while remaining deeply rooted in the vast treasury of wisdom within the Yoga tradition." Certified in the IYT method since 2002, my teaching practice has become a strong process of discovering which yoga poses, breath work, practices, etc. work for each individual.

 

Kundalini Yoga as taught By Yogi Bhajan

Sunday's @ 11:30am - 12:45pm

Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan is an energetic style composed of repetitive movements that differ rom those in other styles. Combined with longer meditations and basic Sanskrit chanting, this yoga works directly on the nervous system. The basic tools of the practice include posture, breathwork, meditation, chanting, and deep relaxation. Each class begins and ends with a tuning-in and tuning-out process which surrounds a core practice of asana, breathwork, meditation, and chanting.

Through somatic movement, dynamic breathing, and sound/vibration - the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems are challenged to re-direct signals to the brain in an emotionally healthy way. This breaks down past habit-patterns that no longer work and re-inforces patterns that do. In this way, the nervous system grows stronger over time in it's ability to maintain balance in stressful situations. Classes are accessible to all levels and require no previous experience.

"Keep Up... and you'll be Kept Up!" - Yogi Bhajan, PhD