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2025-10-05 Sunday Stretch – Join Noah and Oliver for a #sundayvibes full-body stretch class, with a dynamic mix of deep openers, breath-based sun salutations, energizing backbends, and restful restorative poses. Props: mat, strap, 2 blocks, bolster, blankets. Read more

2025-10-03 Hip Flossing – This “deep hip massage” of a class sequences supported hip & leg openers that will have you working strongly and deeply in mostly supine and standing poses while allowing the floor and wall to have your back. Experience how supporting the back body increases proprioception, lends support to allow you to hold poses for longer durations, facilitates deeper awareness, and increases your ability to create and maintain the many actions within each pose. Props: mat, strap, wall, blankets, sandbag. Read more

2025-10-02 Shoulder+Core Strong – Strengthen your shoulders and stabilize your deep core through progressive arm and shoulder movements and positions as you refine your motor skills. Come ready to repeat familiar movements with deep awareness (lots of chaturangas), explore creative variations and changing relationship to gravity (supine, prone, standing, inverted), increasing and decreasing load (hand weights), increasing and decreasing surface stability (sliders), and more. Props: mat, sliders, light hand weights, wall, blankets/props for shoulder stand. Read more

2025-09-29 Slow & Strong – This full body practice, with “special guest” Oliver, starts with centering and some slow stretches to mobilize the spine, progresses into sun salutations with many “bonus” chaturanga opportunities, explores strengthening plank and side plank variations, handstands, headstand, leg burning utkatasana wall squats into Surya Namaskara B, and deliciously restful legs-up-the-wall and relaxation. Props: mat, blanket, wall, strap, block, bolster. Read more

2025-09-25 Hip Strong – This #legday hip focused practice will activate and strengthen all your hip muscle groups through isometric prop drills as the constant and continuous action as you move through variations of sun salutations, vinyasas and into standing poses. Props: mat, blanket, block, strap. Read more

2025-09-19 Stay Low, Work Strong – When you need to get low to the earth, feel grounded and calm your nervous system, while still working strongly, this class is for you. This seated_and_mostly_supine practice utilizes isometric activations, props, and resistance training in poses to wake up and attune your neuromuscular pathways, open your hips, and mobilize your spine. Props: mat, 2 blankets, 2 blocks, strap, resistance band, light hand weights. Read more

2025-09-18 Recover Strong – This active “recovery day” practice invites you to slow down, release unnecessary tension, and embody steadiness in a wobbly world. Use this practice as a refuge anytime you want/need to tap into your body’s wisdom and rejuvenative healing capacity through meditative awareness, deep stretching, supported poses, and restorative yoga. Props: mat, bolster, 3 blankets, strap, eye pillow/cloth. Read more

2025-09-17 Upside-Down Strong – This full-spectrum practice layers in specific activations and mobilizations to prepare you for inverted poses at the wall with introductory stages and options. Come ready for plenty of shoulder strengthening and spending time upside-down. Props: mat, wall, block, 3+ blankets. Read more

2025-09-16 Welcome Back! – In this first “back to (yoga)school” practice, we welcome ourselves and each other back to the mat in a moderately paced, well rounded sequence of centering, sun salutations, balance poses, standing poses, backbends and forward folds. Bring your wisdom and experience into familiar poses AND invite beginner’s mind to receive each breath and each movement as a new experience. Props: mat, towel. Read more

2025-05-16 Shoulder the Load – This shoulder-focused class unpacks the anatomy and explores the movements of the shoulder girdle in sun salutations, activates and strengthens the rotator cuff muscles in forearm balance progressions, aligns and stabilizes the shoulders to carry the load of Chaturanga Dandsasana. Come ready to learn, experience, and strengthen your shoulders. Props: mat, block, strap, wall. Read more

2025-05-15 Strong Knees #legday – This leg-focused class connects hip_to_foot to align and stabilize your knees (patella-femoral joint and tibial-femoral joint), strengthen your quadriceps, and will increase your knowledge and motor skills to align your legs. Props: mat, sliders. Read more

2025-05-14 Hip Strong – Building on our pelvis focused class, this hip (coxal joint) class practices the 6 movements that occur at this ball and socket joint, activates the muscles 360 degrees around this region, with a particular focus on strengthening the hip adductor and abductor muscles in seated poses, sun salutation poses, and variations of side lying (Anantasana) and side plank (Vasishtasana). Props: mat, block, strap. Read more

2025-05-13 Stable Pelvis – This pelvic (sacro-iliac joint) self-care class follows a rehab protocol of (1) gentle stretching/mobilization (2) facilitation of pelvic and lumbar stabilizing muscles (3) and strengthening progressions. Whether you have pelvic instability, or for regular/occasional self-care, this class will help release tension and increase stability in your pelvis, spine, and hips. Props: mat, strap, 2 blankets, 2 blocks. Read more

2025-05-12 Spine Power – This class focus on and explores the alignment and movements of the spine; fine neutral/natural curves of the spine in poses with that alignment, explore flexion and extension (sagittal plane) movements of Surya Namaskara A and B, feel how each region of the spine twists/rotates a different amount, and combine multiple spinal movements in seated forward folds. Props: mat, chair. Read more

2025-05-08 Contractions, Load, Chains – Explore types of muscular contractions (isometric, concentric, eccentric), load dynamics (intrinsic, extrinsic), and open and closed kinetic chains in this practice of Surya Namaskar A and B sequences, variations, related poses and drills. Props: mat, bolster and/or blanket(s), sliders. Read more

2025-05-07 Exploring Relationship to Gravity & Surface Stability – As the title suggests, this class explores the movement principles of our relationship to gravity and surface stability, from the familiar “usual” way we do Surya Namaskar A poses and movements, to practicing similar shapes and transitional movements while consciously changing these dynamics. Expect lots of Surya A in familiar and unfamiliar ways as you bring your accumulated wisdom and experience AND invite beginners’ mind. Props: gravity, mat, sliders. Read more

2025-04-09 Jumpings — This Vinyasa Strong practice incorporates plyometric movements (aka jumpings) and other variations, for both your lower body and upper body, into familiar vinyasa sequencing, including progressions of Chaturanga Dandasana pushups and hops (Nakrasana), Utkatasana jumps (squat jumps) in Surya Namaskar B, and standing jumps to/from Tadasana to a wide stance (Utthita Hasta Padasana). Plyometrics are exercises that involve explosive movements like jumping and bounding. They are essential for building speed, coordination and power. Plyometrics improve the function of muscles (especially the fast twitch fibers), fascia and the nervous system, all of which are crucial for maintaining agility and mobility as we age. Props: mat, 2 blocks Read more

2025-04-08 Strengthening Slow Flow — Ease into your breath and body, activate your shoulders and core, flow through a moving meditation of familiar sun salutations (Surya Namaskar A and B), then mix it up with explorations of plank variations; one-arm planks, plank sliders (s-l-o-w-l-y slide from plank to prone) with STRONG CORE. Add standing poses into the mix, strengthen your back body to balance out front and back, turn yourself upside down (Sirsasana, Viparita Karani), and rest deeply. Use this practice anytime you want to move at a moderate to slow pace, get into a flow state, AND spotlight your shoulders and core for focused strengthening. Props: mat, sliders, 2 blocks. Read more

2025-04-04 Explore, Play, Stabilize — Explore variations and progressions of familiar vinyasa krama (Surya Namaskar A and B), as that is how we continue to grow and learn. Come ready to challenge and progress your Chaturanga Dandasanas (4 Limb Staff Pose) as you explore single leg variations of poses, hopping transitions, and handstand moments. Make firm, hold fast, and stabilize (all meaning of “dharma”) as you increase asymmetrical forces and get VINYASA STRONG! Props: mat, strap, 2 blocks, optional wall. Read more

2025-04-03 Savor Deeply — This moderately paced practice invites you to savor deeply the taste/experience (rasa) of each breath, each movement, each pose. Come ready for strong and deep work in Chaturanga Dandasana, hip opening AND hip strengthening, moments of arm balancing and cool down inversions — but without urgency or hurry, with many reminders to savor each moment and explore each shape. Each pose is a vessel, a cup, to fill with awareness, with breath, with feeling. Props: mat, 2 blocks, blanket. Read more

2025-04-02 Eye of the Storm — Find center (bindu) and anchor yourself with dristhi (calm, serene eyes), in awareness of breath (prana), in the deep core engagements (bandha), in this varied tempo vinyasa practice of sun salutations, core and hip strengthening, linked standing poses layered with side plank variations. Props: mat, 2 blocks. Read more

2025-03-27 Active Recovery Slow Flow — Slow things down, deepen and luxuriate in your breath, and explore different transitions into poses in this slow flow Thankful Thursday practice with ZERO CHATURANGAS :) Use this active recovery practice whenever you are tired or fatigued, when you have wrist/elbow/shoulder limitations, or when you just want to switch things up. Ease in with opening poses, practice Nadi Shodana Pranayama, explore supine sun salutation variations, strengthen and open your hips into standing poses and creative transitions, turn yourself upside down (Sirsasana, Halasana?Sarvangasana), then rest deeply. Props: mat, 1 or 2 blocks. Read more

2025-03-26 Garland of Sun Salutations (1/4 Mala) — This sun salutation challenge is Inspired by a study in which participants did 24 sun salutations daily, 6 days per week for 12 weeks, concluding that sun salutations are an ideal exercise to keep oneself in optimal fitness. This practice includes 27 total cycles of sun salutations in sets of Surya Namaskar A and B; with some sets representing the “regular/traditional” way, other sets taking liberties with holding a different pose in each cycle for 5 breaths, and some cycles that add in additional poses. Use this practice to assess and increase your strength, focus, and endurance. Props: mat, towel. Read more

2025-03-25 Sahrdaya — To be attuned to your breath, to be deeply and soulfully connected to your heart, is to be sahrdaya (“hrdaya” = heart, “sa” = with). This first-of-the-series Vinyasa Strong practice emphasizes continuous breath awareness and invites you into a progressive moving meditation of sun salutations interwoven with standing poses, core strengthening, and backbendy counter poses. This practice will not only strengthen your body, it will strengthen your connection to your breath and to your heart. Props: mat, 2 blocks. Read more