All Levels: A class that accommodates the beginner, intermediate and advanced practitioner. This class encourages students to be mindful and work at their own pace. You will be guided through yoga postures and breath work with options to increase or decrease challenge. We hope that you will walk away with a greater sense of self awareness, energy and love for yourself and others.
All Levels & Meditation: In these class offerings, we’ll incorporate yoga poses to prepare the body for meditation, breathing exercises to deepen your body to breath connection, and seated meditation to cultivate presence of the mind to the moment. Wherever you are in your experience of being embodied, this class will guide you towards mindfulness, compassion, and kindness for yourself and others. Meditation is the heart of yoga.
All Levels & Reset: We all need a reset from time to time! This is a perfect class to end the week and reset for the weekend. In this class we will work with all levels flowing asana, deep stretching, meditation and visualization to support releasing tension, connecting to our emotional selves with acceptance and compassion, and calming our spirit to allow space for more ease and joy.
Beginner: Cultivate strength and flexibility through the practice of foundational yoga poses. Learn to breathe with awareness and move with mindfulness. You do not need to be able to touch your toes, you just need a curiosity of your body and the willingness to quiet your mind and better your spirit.
Flow: This class aims to help students connect mind, body, and breath through joyful and supportive movement. It will progress through a series of adaptable and creative postures and all levels, including beginners, are welcome. We hope that the class will provide space for you to breathe and reconnect with yourself amidst the busyness of life.
Limber Babies: A yoga class for you and your baby. Connect with your new body, your mind, and your baby through postures that will strengthen, increase flexibility, and well being. In every class we will spend time on shoulders, back, core, and breath connection. This class offers you a safe space to share about your discoveries, your challenges and honors the importance of self-care. Your baby will enjoy being with others and benefit watching your take care of you and in turn taking care of them.(Newborn to 18mos.)
Mat Pilates: This all levels mat-based pilates class will increase your core strength, postural alignment, flexibility, balance and stability in a full body workout based on the exercises and breath work from the essential and intermediate Pilates repertoire. In addition to modifications that can both increase and decrease challenge, we will use bands, weights, and balls to offer variety. Through articulated muscular and imagery rich cuing, you will increase your body awareness and gain a greater understanding of deep core engagement, proper biomechanics and muscular recruitment allowing one to decrease tightness and tension and increase the strength of our “sleepier” muscles. This multi-level mat-based pilates class is sure to offer benefits to all movers whether you’re postpartum, recovering from injury, or an experienced athlete.
Meditation Group:
Come as you are. Experienced, beginner, dedicated, distracted, restless, bored, sleepy, unsure, a big ol mess, cool and confident. All are welcome! Let’s explore being human together and see where it takes us. Weee!
This is not specifically a Buddhist or religious class. We’ll be trying on a variety of practices, traditions and modern approaches to ancient teachings that are useful to people from all walks of life regardless of their religious background.
(Every Sunday 6-7pm)
Come as you are. Experienced, beginner, dedicated, distracted, restless, bored, sleepy, unsure, a big ol mess, cool and confident. All are welcome! Let’s explore being human together and see where it takes us. Weee!
This is not specifically a Buddhist or religious class. We’ll be trying on a variety of practices, traditions and modern approaches to ancient teachings that are useful to people from all walks of life regardless of their religious background.
(Every Sunday 6-7pm)
Myofascial Release Yoga:
This all levels practice will incorporate the use of yoga tune-up balls to hydrate your connective tissue, fascia. If you have areas in your body that feel stuck, stressed, and or shortened this class will feel like a bitter sweet massage. Each class will focus on a different area in the body and will include yoga poses, breath, and ball rolling. This all-level practice will offer space for you to become a students of your body. With the use of props and familiar postures, build the resilience of your body, mind, and breath in this inclusive and accessible practice.
This all levels practice will incorporate the use of yoga tune-up balls to hydrate your connective tissue, fascia. If you have areas in your body that feel stuck, stressed, and or shortened this class will feel like a bitter sweet massage. Each class will focus on a different area in the body and will include yoga poses, breath, and ball rolling. This all-level practice will offer space for you to become a students of your body. With the use of props and familiar postures, build the resilience of your body, mind, and breath in this inclusive and accessible practice.
Powerful Flow Yoga:
Join this flowing practice to connect with your power and feel it growing from the inside out. All levels, ages, and abilities welcome. We will incorporate mindful movement, breath, and music as we flow together during this lunch-hour class. Come to be challenged, be supported, and experience joy on your mat!
Join this flowing practice to connect with your power and feel it growing from the inside out. All levels, ages, and abilities welcome. We will incorporate mindful movement, breath, and music as we flow together during this lunch-hour class. Come to be challenged, be supported, and experience joy on your mat!
Prenatal: Pregnancy is another journey in life and one that shows us how strong our bodies are and offers a woman the opportunity to nurture, slow down and to consciously welcome a new life. Prenatal yoga offers postures to strengthen, to alleviate discomforts in low back, pelvis, neck and shoulders, and positions that will help in labor too. Prenatal yoga is not just an adaptation of your usual yoga practice, it is a place to connect to your child, to your breath, to other women, and your power to birth with knowledge and confidence.
Slow Flow: In this dynamic practice we will use breath to move mindfully through a flowing sequence of postures (asanas), transitioning with intention, strengthening our ability to be present. Through this slow, focused movement we are able to isolate our effort, creating balance from the inside out. Be ready for a creative and safe sequence. Come with a curious mind, an "I can" attitude and you will leave feeling accomplished and centered. This is an all-levels class, and btw - slow does not mean easy!
Slow Flow on Alki: Are you ready to flow onto the beach and move your body along with the wind and the waves? This will be an all levels flow practice on the sandy beach on Alki. Sign up as usual on Mindbody and we'll meet on the beach across the street from Wheel Fun Rentals 2530 Alki Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116. Bring water, a towel, layers and friend too. (Begins July-Sept)
Slow Flow & Meditation:
Together, we will take time to slow down our body and mind by moving through a sequence of asanas. Each pose will be held longer over several rounds of breath. Although we are moving slowly, we will access the magnificent strength and power that is within each of us. Props are incorporated to make this practice accessible for you in that exact moment. This slower paced class is geared to embody a sense of focus and calmness. We will close our practice by exploring different forms of meditation to compliment our slow flow, bringing us to a deeper state of awareness and peace. All levels of experience and ages are welcome!
Together, we will take time to slow down our body and mind by moving through a sequence of asanas. Each pose will be held longer over several rounds of breath. Although we are moving slowly, we will access the magnificent strength and power that is within each of us. Props are incorporated to make this practice accessible for you in that exact moment. This slower paced class is geared to embody a sense of focus and calmness. We will close our practice by exploring different forms of meditation to compliment our slow flow, bringing us to a deeper state of awareness and peace. All levels of experience and ages are welcome!
Yin Yoga:
Yin yoga, a quiet and contemplative practice, works into our body on a very deep level. By holding floor poses passively and for longer periods (3-5 minutes), the connective tissues of the body - the ligaments, joints, bones, the deep fascial networks - are targeted. When attention is given to the connective tissue, circulation is increased, joint mobility is improved, and overall energy flow is refined, enhancing the flow of chi in the organs. And with an emphasis on mindfulness, each pose can be treated as a mini meditation, encouraging deeper relaxation and calming the mind/body.
Yin yoga, a quiet and contemplative practice, works into our body on a very deep level. By holding floor poses passively and for longer periods (3-5 minutes), the connective tissues of the body - the ligaments, joints, bones, the deep fascial networks - are targeted. When attention is given to the connective tissue, circulation is increased, joint mobility is improved, and overall energy flow is refined, enhancing the flow of chi in the organs. And with an emphasis on mindfulness, each pose can be treated as a mini meditation, encouraging deeper relaxation and calming the mind/body.
Yoga Nidra:
The term Yoga Nidra means yogic sleep. It is a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping and is a form of meditation. This class begins with gentle movement, then you'll create a rest nest with yoga props in the studio or pillows and blankets at home, and get into your most comfortable, cozy position while you listen to a guided meditation. The goal is to completely rest, relax, and take a break from life's stressors. This practice can be done in your pajamas and if you take the zoom class, then it can be done in bed, so you can fall asleep right after class ends. Sweet dreams! (Last Sunday of the month @ 7:30pm)
The term Yoga Nidra means yogic sleep. It is a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping and is a form of meditation. This class begins with gentle movement, then you'll create a rest nest with yoga props in the studio or pillows and blankets at home, and get into your most comfortable, cozy position while you listen to a guided meditation. The goal is to completely rest, relax, and take a break from life's stressors. This practice can be done in your pajamas and if you take the zoom class, then it can be done in bed, so you can fall asleep right after class ends. Sweet dreams! (Last Sunday of the month @ 7:30pm)