Ageless Balance & Strength (In Person, Online & On Demand)

Ageless Balance & Strength (ABS) is a fusion movement class designed to increase functional sturdiness, strength and balance, while adapting the poses for your body and medical history. A sequence of moves are repeated and added onto during the class that challenge strength and balance, and activation of sturdiness in the body.

"This class is strengthening. It feels challenging, yet I feel safe moving through the various poses under your skillful direction and guidance."

*This class does have more weight bearing postures, e.g. planks, downward facing dog, and chataranga like poses.

What you will need to participate:

  • Yoga mat

  • Two blocks

  • Blanket for cushioning the knees

  • Strap or similar object to allow you the ability to hold your foot more securely, e.g., hand towel

Intensity: Moderate to High


Heart Centered Yoga (in person, Online & On Demand)

You’re invited to step out of your mind and into your heart. Heart Centered Yoga explores a heart expanding practice performed at a slow, gentle pace, allowing time to be present in each pose. In this class, we will embody a theme related to the practice of heart centering. We will lovingly move through a series of reclined, seated, and standing postures, adapted for your body. Our asana practice will be followed by a guided meditation through which we will experience love, gratitude, and joy to greater depths.

“We begin each Monday morning with Amanda which enables us to start our week in a mindful way with a positive and affirming gentle series of movements that warm up the body and build upon our flexibility and strength. Amanda is phenomenal in her communication skills guiding us all with clarity and grace in the various poses she leads in her practice - and with a voice so soothing that on its own is calming and restorative. Her warmth and caring spirit shine through each and every time we’re with her. We’re totally addicted to her and her practice!” - Anne F.

Experience: No experience necessary.

What you will need to participate:

  • Yoga mat

  • Yoga blocks

  • One or more blankets

  • Bolster or pillow (optional)

Level: All levels

Intensity: Gentle

 

iRest (in person, Online & on demand)

iRest follows the tradition of yoga nidra. This means the practice takes you on a journey through what yogic philosophy calls the koshas (the feeling, breath, mind, wisdom, and joy bodies) to facilitate deep rest and healing. It is practiced for specific benefits: to induce profound relaxation; eliminate stress; overcome insomnia; solve personal and interpersonal problems; resolve trauma; and neutralize and overcome anxiety, fear, anger, and depression.

If you are thinking, “Can it really do all that?” The answer is, “Yes. All that!” In an iRest practice you enter a deep state of relaxation all while remaining aware and alert which uncovers your innate intelligence and intrinsic clarity. It’s all right there waiting for you. This amazing practice offers so much and it simply involves lying down, listening, and staying awake for 30 to 40 minutes. This practice can change your life.

Listen to a short Interview about iRest Below or Read the transcript.

Experience: No experience necessary.

What you will need to participate:

  • Yoga mat or comfortable place to rest

  • One or more blankets, bolster or pillow

Level: All levels

Intensity: Gentle


Group Meditation (In Person, Online & On Demand)

Meditation is practiced to help support a greater sense of awareness, a deeper sense of calm, and help uncover valuable insights related to wellbeing. You learn to observe your thoughts without judgment and recognize what hinders us from freedom.

The meditation session provides ample time to settle in and explore various techniques along with 30 minutes of meditation.

After we have finished meditating you may choose to leave or you are invited to stay to ask questions and if you like to, share experiences. Each meditation technique offers a different tool to help develop concentration and calm.

No experience needed! Anyone can meditate.

Find a place you can sit comfortably so you are not distracted by your physical body. You can sit in a chair, on the floor, or lie down.

What you will need to participate:

  • Something to support a comfortable seated position: a chair, pillows, meditation cushion (zabuton), bolster (zafu) or a meditation bench (seiza).

  • Props for your body that you need, e.g., for the sides of the legs when sitting cross-legged.

  • Blanket

Level: All levels

Intensity: Gentle


Joint Freeing Yoga (Online & On Demand)

This functional movement class is for those who have strength, flexibility and/or balance limitations. This class may be very beneficial for those living with chronic pain.

This gentle class helps build strength, balance, flexibility, a sense of community and confidence.

Yoga poses will be performed seated, standing with or without support, and reclined.

What you will need to participate:

  • Yoga mat or non-slip surface. Wearing socks can increase your chances of falling. Shoes can be worn if best for standing poses.

  • Strap or similar object to allow you the ability to hold your foot more securely, e.g., hand towel

  • One or more yoga blocks

  • Blanket

  • Folding chair (padded seat is ideal)

Level: All levels. Those that cannot get up off the floor can practice in the chair or use a chair or other props for transition support. The floor poses can be practiced on a bed to elevate the floor and also cushion.

Intensity: Gentle


Mindful Movement & Yoga (in person, online & on demand)

In this class, we use mindfulness techniques and adapt yoga poses to your body promoting increased elasticity, strength, balance, decreased reactivity, and sense of well-being.

Learn a practice that safely and positively stresses your body's fascial plains. This mindful practice promotes great insights as to how we hold tension, move (or do not move) our bodies, and how we relate to the sensations in the body.

This class includes mind-body activities to increase awareness of habits that impact our health, and provides techniques that can be applied in daily life to create opportunities to re-pattern our movements and support improved health.

What you will need to participate:

  • Yoga mat

  • Strap or similar object to allow you the ability to hold your foot more securely, e.g., hand towel

  • Two yoga blocks

  • Blanket

Level: All levels

Intensity: Gentle to Moderate

 

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