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2024-03-27 Strong Arms – Join Oliver and Noah for an #armday strength building practice with lots of fun activation skills n’drills and inversion variations to build strength in your hands, wrists, forearms, arms, and shoulders. Props: mat, wall, strap, 3+ blankets, block. Read more

2024-03-25 Outside In & Upside Down – Join Oliver and Noah for this playful and challenging Inversion Strong practice of handstand & forearm balance prep, sun salutations, headstand and shoulderstand variations. Props: mat, wall, strap, 3+ blankets. Read more

2024-02-12 Enduring Strength – This FUNdamentals Monday #legday class focuses on activating the lower body with strengthening drills and longer durations in standing poses, that will leave you feeling strong and clear-minded. Props: mat, wall, block, strap, blankets, chair (optional for shoulderstand). Read more

2024-02-11 GAME DAY – Join Noah and Oliver for a Game Day class, and our companion Puppy Bowl fan dogs, Leo and Phoebe, for a playful and fun Super Bowl Sunday practice. Bring the kids and dogs, grab a (American) football to use as a prop (or a block) and come ready to play hard and laugh yourself out of poses. Read more

2024-02-09 Courageous Moon – Strengthen your legs and hips and stabilize your pelvis and core in this Fearless Friday #legday journey into Parivritta Ardha Chandrasana (Revolved Half Moon Pose) and Ardha Chandrasana (Half Moon Pose) variations. Come ready for strong leg work in balance poses and hip strengthening drills that will leave you feeling courageous and centered. Props: mat, block, strap, blanket. Read more

2024-02-08 Deep Rest Yoga Nidra – This Thankful Thursday practice of Yoga Nidra guides you into deep relaxation, decreased stress, and greater harmony with the forces within and all around us. This practice will leave you feeling refreshed and more peaceful throughout your day. Props: mat, blankets, bolster, eye pillow. Read more

2024-02-07 Bend Over Backwards with STRENGTH – Usually when someone says they had to “bend over backwards” for someone or something, they mean they had to do too much, or they felt taken advantage of. This practice is all about backbending from a place of integration and strength, inviting your courageous vulnerability of opening the front of your body and bending over backwards with strength in progressive backbend sequencing. Props: mat, blanket, strap, blocks, sliders, bolster, chair, wall. Read more

2024-02-06 Carry the Load, Vary the Load – Activate your deep core, stabilize your shoulders, and strengthen your upper body in this Tensile Strength Tuesday class filled with sun salutations, Chaturanga Dandasana (Four Limb Staff Poses) variations, and progressive sequencing to the arm balancy Eka Pada Koundinyasana. Props: mat, strap, block. Read more

2024-02-02 Fearless Friday – Practice and embody Abhaya Mudra, Gesture of Fearlessess, as you engage your heart and body in sun salutation progressions, headstand, leg stretching, single leg balancing, and shoulderstand. Props: mat, strap, sliders, blankets(s), optional chair for shoulderstand. Read more

2024-02-01 Yoga Hug – Gather your props and get cozy in this Thankful Thursday practice of meditation and supported/restorative poses that will leave you feeling peaceful and rejuvenated. Practice this class anytime you feel depleted, want to slow things down, or when you need a yoga hug. Props: mat, bolster, 3 blankets, block, strap (2 straps + door handles *optional). Read more

2024-01-31 Strong Open Heart – This WendsdayBENDSday weaves together supported poses that mobilize and open the front body, with backbody strengthening drills and poses, to create a delicious backbendy buffet that will leave you feeling strong and open hearted. Props: mat, 1+ blankets, 1+ bolsters or cushions, 1 or 2 blocks, strap, sliders. Read more

2024-01-30 Sensitivity & Resilience – Welcome to #shoulderday practice that invites you to become more attuned and sensitive, as you simultaneously cultivate deeper resilience. This Tensile Strength Tuesday class will activate and strengthen your shoulders (and core) in a variety of positions in sun salutations, handstand progressions, side plank variations and forearm balances. Props: mat, blanket, wall. Read more

2024-01-29 Stand Strong – Welcome to Yoga Strong! This first class in the series invites you into deep engagement (yoga) as you mindfully activate the structures of your body, cultivate discernment of your awareness, and attune to your breath. We begin with seated centering, warm up with sun salutations, and work hard in standing poses. Props: mat, blanket, strap. Read more

2023-10-23 Keep on Rolling: In the words of Jimmy Buffett, “I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.” Begin slowly and ease into your practice, open your heart and expand your breath. Explore supine sun salutation variations to fire up your core, explore plank variations for dynamic stabilization of shoulders and deep core, weave inversions with forward folds and hip openers, and plenty of rolling around on the floor (for all ages!?). Props: 2 blocks, mat. Read more

2023-10-18 Breath-by-Breath Side-to-Side Flow: Ride the waves of your breath in sets of Surya Namaskar A & B, weave a side-to-side pattern of breath (Nadi Shodhana Pranayama) and standing poses, and weave a tapstry of continuous awareness, breath and movement. Props: mat, block. Read more

2023-10-17 Stability Instability Flow: Familiar, repeated movement patterns in a controlled environment with rhythmic breathing feels calming and soothing. Decreased surface stability and decreased predictability, using sliders under feet and/or hands, changes the environment of practice and urges the body/mind into heightened alertness and activation. This practice, like life, utilizes both strategies, as we juxtapose the comparative stability of predictive movement on the sticky mat, with dynamic sliding transitions and less stable poses, to increase our ability to create stability in instability, both on and off the mat. Props: mat, sliders. Read more

2023-10-16 Breath Balance Flow: Attune to the intrinsic rhythms of your breath and heart as you move with awareness through progressive sun salutations and cultivate dynamic homeostasis in single leg balance poses. Props: mat. Read more

2023-10-03 Slow Flow: Ease into movement, expand your breath, and enjoy moment to moment awareness in this slow flow of hip openers, sun salutations, seated poses and inversions. Props: mat, 2 blocks. Read more

2023-10-02 Open Heart Flow: Open your shoulders, thoracic spine, and hip flexors in this slow to moderately paced backbendy vinyasa practice. If you’ve been sitting a lot, gardening, moving house, or anytime you want to open your front body, this practice is for you. Props: mat, strap, 2 blankets. Read more

2023-09-28 Strong Arm Flow: This strong upper body/shoulder focused practice features pushing actions in Plank Pose, Chaturanga Dandasana, and slide throughs to sitting (and back). Ease in with some opening stretches and breathing, and get Vinyasa Strong arms in Surya Namaskar A and B variations, standing poses and hip openers, then use sliders in seated poses and vinyasa transitions. Props: 2 blocks, sliders (disks, hand towels, socks…). Read more

2023-09-27 Spacious Flow: This slow to moderately paced hip-opening flow invites ease and spaciousness in body, awareness, and breath. Focus less on the destination, and more on enjoying the journey as you explore where you are moment_to_moment and breath_by_breath, as you open and strengthen your lower body and stabilize your core. Props: mat, towel. Read more

2023-09-26 Vinyasa Strong: Welcome back! This slow build practice eases you in, synchronizes awareness with breath and body, builds heat in sun salutations, interweaving dynamic movement and isometric holds in standing poses, plank and side plank variations. Props: mat, towel. Read more

2023-07-19 Yoga is Skillfulness in Actions: Invest in and grow your awareness (buddhi) in this foot focused class, inspired by one of the Bhagavadgita’s definitions of yoga; yogaha karmasu kaushalam, “yoga is skillfullness in actions” (2.50). Begin with contemplation and centering, then put your legs up the wall in Viparita Karani and articulate/awaken your ankles, feet, and toes. Come up to standing and practice dynamic ankle stabilization drills in weightbearing poses, and connect and integrate the kinetic chain from your feet to your pelvis in standing poses. Props: mat, wall, blanket, bolster, 2 blocks, optional extra mat. Read more

2023-07-17 Stand in Yoga: In this first class of our July Yoga Strong series, we begin with contemplation of the Bhagavadgita’s teachings on yogasthaha, “Stand in yoga” (2.48), then warm up with Surya Namaskar A and B, progressively load and strengthen your legs in longer duration standing poses, invert in Sirsasasana I (Headstand) and Sarvangasana (Shoulderstand), then rest in Shavasana (Corpse Pose). Props: mat, 3+ blankets for shouderstand, strap (optional). Read more