Class Descriptions
ADVANCING ASANA
105 min
Workshop-style yoga classes that combine strong breath work and detailed alignment for exploring fun poses and transitions. Every Sunday we build up from the basics into more challenging balances, bends, folds, openings, twists and inversions in a supportive, community-based forum. Advancing Asana invites anyone seeking to advance their yoga practice, no matter your level of practice.
ALIGN & EXPLORE
75 min
This class provides a combination of healthy alignment and the freedom to play within familiar and new poses. From beginners to seasoned practitioners, this class hopes to broaden the range of capabilities of each person through the instruction of alignment and breath. This physical practice is offered with some yoga philosophy, music, and perhaps some humor.
ALIGN AND FLOW
90 min at noon, 75 min in the evening
Classes are open to students of all levels and offer accessible alignment principles and biomechanics from which students can be playful, explore their creative potential, heal and transform. These classes are taught with music.
AUDIOHM SOUND BATH
75 min – Beginner Friendly
Audiohm is a live electronic sound bath. Lay back and close your eyes as you’re taken on a relaxing sound journey. Waves of dreamy tones wash over you, subtle rhythms gently pulse, arising and passing away with the moment.
BEGINNER YOGA
60 min
This class is designed as an introduction to the practice of yoga. Class is slower paced than an all-levels class, and focused on developing clear and safe alignment in foundational poses. Come to learn, play, and maybe even break a sweat in a supportive environment. All bodies are welcome.
BREATHE AND FLOW
75 min
With a focus on breath and feeling, this class offers accessible alignment cues to engage any yogi. In addition to asana, classes include opportunities for pranayama and meditation. All bodies are welcome.
EARLY MORNING ONE-HOUR PRACTICE
60 min
Vigorous align-and-flow style classes to wake you up and get you going and flowing into the rest of your day.
GENTLE VINYASA
75 min – Beginner Friendly
Gentle Vinyasa yoga is an intuitive group class that features personal modifications and emphasizes integrating mind, body, spirit, and breath. All are encouraged to accept the beauty of their practice without needing to achieve anything other than coming into the present moment and truly experiencing it.
HATHA YOGA
75 min
In Hatha Yoga, we come into the breath and quiet the mind as we find steadiness in asana and attain increased balance and an enhanced connection to our highest self. Each class provides personal modifications and emphasizes integrating mind, body, energy, and breath–all within a playful, supportive environment. All levels of practice are welcome.
MEDITATION FOR PEACE
60 min – Beginner Friendly
Meditation for Peace uses various meditation techniques such as breath awareness, body awareness, sensory awareness, and guided meditation. This class is for you whether you are new to meditation or have an established daily practice. Every week we will meditate to invite more peace into our lives for a renewed sense of vitality, love, and purpose.
PLAY AND PAUSE ▹ ⅠⅠ
75 min – Beginner Friendly
This class cultivates a playful quality to your yoga practice by encouraging a sense of curiosity, enthusiasm, and openness. Get curious about how your body moves and feels throughout your practice. Play around with poses that appropriately challenge your strength, balance, and flexibility. Enjoy moments of pause to remain present and improve your connection to your mind and body. Accessible alignment cues allow you to decide what the expression of each posture looks like in your body. Perhaps you’ll even be motivated to take that sense of playfulness off the mat, and approach the rest of your life with excitement, a sense of hope, and maybe even a little humor. This class is offered with music.
QUEER & TRANS YOGA
75 min – Beginner Friendly
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.” – Audre Lorde
Queer & Trans Yoga is an all-levels flow class that works to affirm all of our identities, abilities, bodies, expressions, colors, and sizes. This gives each of us an opportunity to fully be in our practice and open to its deep gifts. In community we will focus on our breath, grounding, alignment, healing, and growth.
SENSUAL SLOW FLOW
90 min – Beginner Friendly
Engage all of your senses in a gentle, meditative class that focuses on the breath, intuitive movement, and restorative postures that help reconnect us with our erotic potential, which is a source of personal power, transformation, and liberation. Classes are taught with music and props.
SLOW FLOW AND REST
75 min – Beginner Friendly
This class is a blend of gentle vinyasa and restorative yoga and is all about self-care. Through the gentle vinyasa portion of class students will connect to their bodies through movement and breath, focusing on listening to the body and giving it what it needs. During the restorative yoga portion students will allow the body to rest while being supported by blankets, blocks, or bolsters. This conscious rest allows our minds and other tissues to relax, supporting the natural healing process of our bodies.
WEST AFRICAN DANCE WITH LIVE DRUMMING
75 min – Beginner Friendly
Traditional and contemporary dance styles (Bijagos, Balanta, Fula, and Manjaco) from Guinea Bissau. African Dance is a great way for people to enjoy themselves while having an amazing workout and learning a facet of culture from Guinea Bissau.
YIN
75 min – Beginner Friendly
Yin is a passive practice where poses are held for 3-5 minutes at a time with the focus on the connective tissues of the body. Many postures are seated, but focus on the whole physical and emotional body. In this class you will be asked to engage with very little muscular effort, and invited to ask questions of yourself or your practice and settle into whatever responses you receive. This class has music and may include meditation, reiki, or nidras.
YOGA & PARTNER STRETCH
75 min
This class starts with alignment-based yoga asana, then focuses on a specific part of the body with partner yoga stretches and Thai Massage movements. Classes are open to all levels, come ready to explore and honor your boundaries AND the boundaries of others. No partner necessary, but you’re welcome to bring someone you want to connect more with. Taught with music.
YOGA FOR RECOVERY & TRAUMA
75 min – Beginner Friendly
This class is a focused on healing from addiction and trauma of all kinds and it is open to everyone. At the beginning of class, a brief reading from various literature from AA as well as traditional and modern healing practices is shared. Students are welcome to share their reflections or anything they are working through or just listen to others. The remaining 50 minutes is dedicated to practicing relaxing beginner-friendly yoga suited to regulate the nervous system and build emotional and mental awareness and resiliency.