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Life Balance Yoga
• Mondays and Wednesdays at 6:00 pm with Stacy
• Wednesdays at 10:00 am with Bethany
• Saturdays at 9:00 am with Stacy
Developed by yoga teacher, occupational therapist, and Living Room Yoga owner, Stacy Renz, Life Balance Yoga is alignment-based and emphasizes the individual's needs even within the class setting. Participants are given the opportunity at the start of class to examine "how it is in the body right now" to determine what kind of practice will best benefit them that day. Props and individualized attention are used to help each student get the most out of each class.
Level 1-2 Classes offer the basics for beginners along with opportunities for greater challenge for the more experienced practitioner.
Level 2-3 Classes are taught by Living Room Yoga owner Stacy Renz. While these classes can be quite challenging in terms of strength, stamina and flexibility, Stacy gives options for beginners, intermediate students, and advanced students within each class.
What unifies all Life Balance Yoga classes is its aim to help individuals in class participate in a way that balances out the effects of their particular lifestyles on their bodies. In addition, because it is alignment-based (versus flow), it allows students to find their way to their best alignment in each posture as they build strength, stamina, and flexibility. What makes each class unique are the diverse backgrounds and interests of each Life Balance yoga teacher as well as the needs of the students who show up each class. We recommend that you try both teachers for a diverse experience and to see which one resonates most with you.
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Intermediate Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga
• Mondays at 10:00 am with Ellen
Teacher Ellen Schulman provides an intermediate sequence of flowing asanas that remain constant from class to class with minor variations. This allows students to see their progress from week to week while providing them with a meditative flow to quiet the mind. When students are ready for a greater challenge, Ellen demonstrates the next level of difficulty of each asana to provide just the right amount of challenge. Ellen conducts her classes with exquisite music choices that facilitate easy alignment with unity consciousness, the ultimate goal of yoga.
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Hatha Yoga Classes
ECLECTIC HATHA YOGA
Tuesdays at 6:00 pm with Sally
Veteran teacher, Sally Watson, blends her vast
knowledge and experience with some of the best teachers of our time into
her own unique style. Sally's classes focus on alignment,
strengthening, and stretching within short flow segments. All levels
are welcome.
ANUSARA-INSPIRED YOGA
Fridays at 10:30 am with Barbara
In this Anusara-Inspired Yoga class, students
will focus on the importance of a strong foundation, and good alignment
in your yoga poses. Teacher, Barbara J. Allen provides verbal
instructions, demonstrations, and some gentle hands on adjustments. You
will notice a level of mindfulness developing in your practice over
time.
ALIGNMENT-BASED HATHA YOGA with Certified Anusara Instructor Rita Knorr and Associates
Sundays at 9:00 am with Rita, Barbara, Mary, and Laura
Join certified Anusara teacher Rita Knorr, as
well as Barbara Allen RYT200, Mary Allen RYT200, and Laura Conley
RYT200, in a class that includes clear instruction on physical actions
and alignment details to yoga poses. Classes include demonstrations and
detailed descriptions of employing alignment principles to enhance your
yoga poses.
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Therapeutic Yoga
RESTORATIVE YOGA/ATHLETES WITH INJURIES
Mondays at 7:30 pm with Patty
This class will focus on teaching athletes with stiff bodies how to stretch out using restorative yoga. Patty addresses the needs of individual athletes with their specific injuries and will work on focus and attention through mindful breathing techniques. The goal for this class is to increase flexibility, strength, and balance in athletes.
THERAPEUTIC GENTLE YOGA
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:45 am with Sally
Veteran teacher Sally Watson leads you in a gentle practice geared toward those who cannot tolerate intense physical activity. Emphasizes gentle physical movement, restorative postures, breath, and meditation.
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Classes for Stress & Anxiety
LIFE BALANCE YOGA FOR STRESS
• Tuesdays at 7:30 pm with Stacy
• Thursdays at 7:30 pm with Gail
If you are a chronically stressed or tense person you will likely be surprised by the level of deep relaxation you achieve through restorative yoga, and also by how refreshed you feel afterwards. Enjoy! This class utilizes supported yoga postures to "turn on" the parasympathetic nervous system (our internal calming mechanism) and "switch off" our sympathetic nervous system (our "fight or flight" mechanism). Specifically, it calms down a racing mind, relieves sore, tight muscles, reduces the production of stress hormones, decreases water retention, lowers blood pressure, soothes the internal organs, and brings healing energy and oxygen to the entire body. In short, restorative yoga is an antedote to the immediate experience of stress as well as its longterm effects on the body and the psyche.
Who will benefit from restorative yoga? Persons who:
• Have a "type A" personality who is always striving for perfection and efficiency
• Experience anxiety, a racing heart, irrational fears, anger, or difficulty sleeping
• Suffer from chronic tension due to an active physical lifestyle or a sedentary one
• Need or desire to experience deep relaxation
• Feel a sense of exhaustion from stress
• Are recovering from illness
AMRIT METHOD YOGA NIDRA
Thursdays at 6:00 pm with Roger
Through a sequential series of simple induction techniques using the body, breath, and awareness, enter a profound state of silent relaxation. In this deeply receptive state of relaxation, the root causes of stress can dissolved and resolved through the use of "self-directed intention." This simple practice can be done lying on the the floor or sitting comfortably in a chair. The most difficult aspect of this practice is to not fall asleep! The dynamic techniques you will learn in this class will enable you to, spontaneously and effortlessly, shape and create the quality-of-life changes you have always wanted to make.
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Pilates
PILATES FUNDAMENTALS
Mondays & Wednesdays at 7:30 am with Lore
Lore Ayoub will guide students of all levels through the Fundamentals of mat exercises, allowing them to progress quickly from basic to advanced mat exercises using the principles of Pilates - including breathing, focus, flow, balance, control, and precision, along with relaxation. Basic goals include increased flexibility as well as range of motion and of course, increased core strength. You will feel strong, tall, refreshed and invigorated after class, ready to take on the day’s mental and physical activities with renewed awareness, confidence, and ease.
POWER PILATES
Fridays at 9:00 am with Diohn
Join Diohn Brancaleoni for an energetic and lighthearted Mat Pilates class aimed at beginner and intermediate students, based on the classical routine of specific exercises developed by Joseph H. Pilates in the 1920s designed to improve core strength, flexibility, and body awareness. Putumayo music will often form the backdrop for Diohn's verbal cues, taking you through the routine in a fun and flowing manner.
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Pre and Postnatal Classes*
PRENATAL YOGA
Wednesdays at 6:00 pm & Saturdays at 10:30 am with Gail
Discover your strength and truth through the heroic and transformative journey of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. Cherish your pregnancy and enjoy the camaraderie of fellow mom’s-to-be as you develop strength, courage, flexibility, and calm in preparation for childbirth. Take time to relax, release, and attune to your body and your rapidly growing baby within.
Through the gentle guidance of certified prenatal yoga teacher, Gail Walker, find relief from common discomforts associated with pregnancy, including fatigue, low back pain, leg cramps, upper back and shoulder tightness, swelling of the hands and feet, round ligament pain, nausea and indigestion, sciatica, headache, stress, anxiety, doubt and fear.
*You must purchase a Pre & Postnatal Class pass to attend these classes.
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