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Baby & Tot Yoga and Community Coffee
For Moms, Dads and other infant caretakers! This is a practice to enhance your sense of well-being, connect with your body, gain strength and flexibility and connect with your child. If children/babies are willing we will give them gentle massage and movement to facilitate their development. Babies and tots also enjoy seeing and playing with one another. Join the community of other growing families. Babies must be at least 8-weeks and not older than 3 years. After class join us at Java Joes for coffee, tea and some social time. |
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Desktop Yoga
Desktop yoga, also known as seated yoga, is ideal for the desk-bound, for travelers, truckers, those in rehabilitation or those who are physically challenged. This class will introduce you to a series of effective yoga stretches, all done from the comfort of your chair. You do not need to stand up to reap the benefits of yoga. Learn to mindfully relax, breathe and stretch without getting out of your chair. Your body and your mind will thank you for learning about and practicing chair yoga!
Dr. Andrew Weil, today's guru of healthy aging says, “with seated yoga, the numerous benefits include increased strength and flexibility, improved circulation, and experience with breathing and relaxation techniques.”
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Kids Yoga
Treat your child to the same health benefits that have prevailed for thousands of years and is now a booming fitness craze among adults! Physical Strength and Flexibility are just some of the known benefits of yoga. Here a few other reasons why you should consider yoga for your children:
- Teaches children about healthy non-competitive exercise
- Promotes concentration, focus and attention
- Develops inner strength and calm
- Gives your children an opportunity to express themselves through joyful movement
- Builds confidence and self-esteem
- Teaches children self-relaxation and self-control
In our fun and playful classes we will improve strength, flexibility, and coordination using traditional yoga poses, stories, songs and free movement. Children will learn how to focus and center themselves with various breathing and visualization techniques. They will learn how to safely challenge themselves in a non-competitive manner developing a greater respect for themselves and those around them.
Our goal is to introduce your child to the concept that fitness is fun and everyone can do it!. If we can infuse kids with this understanding at an early age, they will develop a life-long skill and positive attitude about health and well being.
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Gentle & Restorative Yoga
The perfect way to ease into a yoga practice — this gentle yoga class is geared towards those new to yoga, those with chronic pain or injury or individuals looking to release the stress of everyday life. Join us for an hour and fifteen minutes of gentle movement, breathing and relaxation.
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Lil' Tots Yoga
Geared towards the 2-5 year old this is an introduction to yoga through games, stories and adventures. Poses for the very young are incorporated into play and movement. Parents welcome to participate.
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Meditative Posture Class
Open to all levels, this class is designed to strengthen and stretch the body and calm the mind using classical yoga postures, pranayama(breathwork), meditation and longer pose holding to generate heat and release of tension. Come and see how you can change your state of mind by changing the state of your body.
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Pranakriya Yoga
This slow, meditative class is good for students who want to move deeper into their practice, want to strengthen as well as lengthen, want to explore their breath and calm their minds. Pranakriya Yoga is an introspective, meditative practice which lead you into a deeper understanding of yourself. Through breath techniques and meditative postures that combine the correct engagement and relaxation of muscles, you will develop a way of being in your body that is fully alive, energetic and balanced. This class is suited for students of all levels from beginner to more advanced.
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Prenatal Yoga
Each class begins with a roundtable where we take time for discussion and friendship. This is an opportunity for each mother-to-be to talk about how she is feeling and ask any questions. There is a special comraderie and closeness that comes during this time and most women find the support to be invaluable.
The discussion is followed by meditation to quiet the mind and bring focus to the body and the woman's growing baby. Then we move in to breathwork, stretching, strength building, and balancing postures that help to prepare the body and mind for the process of giving birth. Each class is a unique experience tailored to all stages of pregnancy. We finish the yoga session with deep rest and relaxation.
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Tween Yoga
This class is designed for children ages 9-12. Through posture, breath-work, meditation and games, students will learn to incorporate the principals of yoga, (balance, focus, flexibility and strength), into their school and home life. Specific attention is given to learning body awareness and working through muscle tightness. |
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Yoga for Beginners
This beginners class will introduce students to the history of yoga, give them a basic foundation of asana (posture) practice, pranayama (breathwork) and meditation. This class is aimed toward the individual not sure if they want to commit to an entire session of yoga. |
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Yoga for Moms & Toddler Social Hour
A supportive, fun-loving and active yoga class for mom or dad and their busy tots. Come practice yoga and let your child play with other tots. We'll also bring the children into the class for a little parent-child yoga to help your child feel comfortable with their bodies, develop self-confidence, and creativity. For one parent and up to two children ages crawling to 4 years. |
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