Class Descriptions
Level I Asana (Maggie Kessell)
Introduction to basic asanas (poses), relationship of breath and movement, and concepts of sequencing. Suitable for beginning students, those who haven’t practiced for some time, and those who prefer a gentle class.
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Level II Asana and pranayama (Maggie Kessell)
More complex asana than Level I, development of pranayama techniques, and a deeper, more sustained practice.
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Asana, Pranayama and Meditation (Maggie Kessell)
Asana practice strengthens the back and purifies the body systems, preparing the body and mind to sit quietly and focus on the breath in pranayama. Focusing on the breath further calms and directs the mind, preparing it for meditation. In this class we will spend an hour with asana to prepare for simple pranayama techniques leading to meditation.
This class is suitable for anyone with six months experience in asana and a desire to experience the deep mind (citta) more intimately.
Class registration and fees
90 minute classes
10 classes, use in 12 weeks: $120 ($12/class)
10 classes, use in 6 months: $140 ($14/class)
drop-in rate: $14
20 classes, use in 12 weeks (2 classes/week): $200 ($10/class)
20 classes, Strong Bones, use in 6 months: $200 ($10/class)
For Wed. morning 1 hour class: 10 classes: $90; drop-in $10
Discounts for pre-paid packages:
10% discount for seniors (65+) 5% discount for 2 or more family members.
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Level II: Viniyoga for a Vital Life (Beth Cleary)
Students in Level II will develop deeper yogic connections among breath, awareness and movement, through more challenging asanas and pranayama practices. Each class, as always, will respond to the needs of students on a long-term and daily basis. Emphasis on skeletal alignment, muscle actions and antagonisms, and organ support will encourage deeper levels of students' knowledge about their bodies and their yoga practice. Practices such as chanting and mantra will be used occasionally to intensify and enrich students' experience of yoga.
Class registration and fees
Please pre-register.
90 minute classes
10 classes, use in 12 weeks: $120 ($12/class)
10 classes, use in 6 months: $140 ($14/class)
drop-in rate: $14
20 classes, use in 12 weeks (2 classes/week): $200 ($10/class)
20 classes, Strong Bones, use in 6 months: $200 ($10/class)
For Wed. morning 1 hour class: 10 classes: $90; drop-in $10
Discounts for pre-paid packages:
10% discount for seniors (65+) 5% discount for 2 or more family members.
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Recharge & Reflect with Midweek Yoga (Liz Lacey-Gotz)
You’ve made it through the beginning of the week, so take some time to recharge and reflect with this Tuesday evening asana and pranayama practice. We will thread a theme through each practice, inspired by a poem or other image, exploring concepts such as gratitude, courage or openness. This balanced asana and breathing practice will help prepare you to move through the rest of your week with a rejuvenated body and refreshed mind! All levels welcome.
Class registration and fees
90 minute classes
10 classes, use in 12 weeks: $120 ($12/class)
10 classes, use in 6 months: $140 ($14/class)
drop-in rate: $14
20 classes, use in 12 weeks (2 classes/week): $200 ($10/class)
20 classes, Strong Bones, use in 6 months: $200 ($10/class)
For Wed. morning 1 hour class: 10 classes: $90; drop-in $10
Discounts for pre-paid packages:
10% discount for seniors (65+) 5% discount for 2 or more family members.
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Yoga for Strong Bones (Mary Salisbury)
Learn yoga sequences that help to strengthen muscle and bone, as well as how to incorporate the use of free weights into your practice. We'll also talk about diet, risk factors, and resources to keep abreast of current research. Osteoporosis is a major health problem, especially for women in our culture, and it is preventable. Come and learn how to keep your bones strong.
Class registration and fees - Please pre-register.
90 minute classes
10 classes, use in 12 weeks: $120 ($12/class)
10 classes, use in 6 months: $140 ($14/class)
drop-in rate: $14
20 classes, use in 12 weeks (2 classes/week): $200 ($10/class)
20 classes, Strong Bones, use in 6 months: $200 ($10/class)
Discounts for pre-paid packages:
10% discount for seniors (65+) 5% discount for 2 or more family members.
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Yoga Stories for Children (Tami Eshult)
Yoga Stories for Children uses structured stories to engage children in fun yoga poses. Yoga Stories utilizes storytelling to fire children's imaginations, improving literacy, written, oral and listening skills. Yoga inspires personal growth and gently builds strength, flexibility, balance, awareness and confidence. Children learn to pay attention to themselves and the world around them through playing with yoga.
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Vinyasa Yoga (Tami Eshult)
Yoga poses flow in a Vinyasa style with an emphasis on movement, balance, flexibility and strength. Promotes core stability and uses intention to aid individuals in making their yoga practice their own. Class ends in relaxation and meditation.
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Kundalini Yoga & Meditation (Lauren Asheim)
Classes present ancient yogic techniques to unify body, mind, and spirit. Classes include movement, postures, strength training, mudras, mantras (chant), & meditation. Increase flexibility, boost metabolism, maintain a healthy weight, open spiritual awareness, relieve depression & insomnia, restore energy & vitality, promote self-love, feel happy & centered & so much more.
Class registration and fees
20 classes for $200 (pre-registered, pass must be used between January 1 - May 30, 2010)
10 classes for $120 (pre-registered, pass must be used between January 1 - May 30, 2010)
Drop-in rate is $15 for one class
New students may take one class for FREE anytime this winter or spring.
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Recovery Yoga (Beth Berila)
Learn to embody your recovery through yoga. Addictions, codependency, and disordered eating can rob us of our creativity, our freedom, and our loved ones. Yoga can help us reclaim our bodies and our lives. By helping us cultivate greater self-awareness and compassion for ourselves and others, yoga can help us heal. This class will help participants learn to embody recovery principles, so that we can practice qualities on the mat that will help us in our recovery lives off the mat. These qualities include nonjudgemental awareness, patience, self-care, self-honoring, and the ability to sit with cravings and discomfort. Participants will cultivate the self-reflection to learn how these qualities feel in our bodies. We can then make informed choices about which qualities we want to cultivate and which we want to let go.
Class registration and fees
Please pre-register
10 classes, use in 12 weeks: $120 ($12/class)
10 classes, use in 6 months: $140 ($14/class)
drop-in rate: $14
*If you need to make financial arrangements, contact the instructor at elizabeth.sue@live.com
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Vinyasa Yoga (Susan Schwartz)
Vinyasa Yoga heals, detoxifies and exhilarates the body and mind with emphasis on movement, balance and intention. Vinyasa Yoga is a dynamic, challenging program that combines strength, flow and spirituality. Vinyasa Yoga is a practice that appeals to everyone. During class, time and space and the worries of the day disappear and the focus is solely on flow, movement, balance and intention. A Vinyasa Yoga is a style of yoga which focuses on core strength, balance and flow to build a solid practice based on strength and spirit. Accessible to beginners and advanced students, Vinyasa Yoga emphasizes breathing to connect the body and mind.
Class registration and fees
Fridays 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
5 class package $40.00, $10.00 drop-ins
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Vinyasa Flow (Molly Mayer)
This class is influenced by the Ashtanga tradition. Each class consists of a gentle warm up, 10 rounds of Sun Salutations, an intermediate balance sequence, standing revolved asanas, inversions, shoulder stands, backbends and a final savasana. Attention to breath, and uddiyana bandha are also explored in this class. Students appropriate for this class will have at least one year yoga experience or physically equivalent class.
Class registration and fees
Wednesdays, 5:30 - 6:45 p.m.
$ 5.00 – $15.00 sliding scale - Cash or checks only, please try to bring correct amount of cash as change may not be available.
All Levels Class (Molly Mayer)
The all levels class welcomes beginners and progressing yoga students. This class is appropriate for people ages 18 through 101 who can sit on the floor without needing assistance. All level of students are welcomed to explore safe asana, meditation, and pranayama practices with adaptations provided to accommodate all ability levels.
Class registration and fees
Wednesdays, 7:00 - 8:15 p.m.
$ 5.00 – $15.00 sliding scale - Cash or checks only, please try to bring correct amount of cash as change may not be available.
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Align and Flow (Iyengar Inspired Vinyasa)(Stephanie Mauceri)
Explore the benefits of a Vinyasa practice (stamina, strength, breath awareness) and add the precision of Iyengar Yoga. What you will come away with is a blend that offers you detoxification and fluidity of movement with an understanding of how major muscle groups and certain alignment principles may support your Asana practice -- so as to safely receive the optimum benefit from it. A great class for those moving into an intermediate-level yoga practice as well as for more advanced practitioners who are able to take cues for modifying towards greater challenge.
Class registration and fees
$14 drop in. $120/package of 10. $100/package of 10
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Restorative/Yin Yoga (Stephanie Mauceri)
Restorative Yoga and Yin Yoga are different in subtle ways but are quite complimentary within the same practice. Making use of props, attention to breathing and poses held for prolonged periods of time, Restorative Yoga is a gentle and therapeutic modality that promotes the effects of conscious relaxation in the body as well as the mind. Yin Yoga addresses the lubrication and creation of space in the connective tissues at major joint sites, or at areas not accessed in a ‘yang’/movement oriented Yoga practice. At River Garden, Yin poses may be held from 1-5 minues, but in Yin Yoga, the key is in the sensation – navigating it with the movement of the breath. And, in understanding how certain physical sensations correlate to acupressure meridians -- which may actually fortify major organ groups. This holiday season, the liver line will be highlighted and focused on in the Yin practice – don’t miss it! (Suitable for all levels. But if brand-new to Yoga, please have a little yoga experience before attending.)
Class registration and fees
Sundays, 6:30 - 7:45 p.m.
$14 drop in. $120/package of 10. $100/package of 10
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Integration Yoga (Darcy Karl)
We’ll practice asanas (yoga poses), to balance, strengthen, lengthen and come present in our body. Raise the kundalini, release old patterns, reprogram and enliven our cells via the power inherent in movement, mantra (chanting), mudra (hand positions) and pranayama (breath work). Reflective writing and other creative tools will be woven into some classes to connect more deeply to one self. Tap into your soul. Tune into source. Allow the flow and integrate! (If you keep a journal, bring it along.) Class can be as gentle or intense as you care to make it.
Class registration and fees
75 minute class Thursdays 9:30-10:45 a.m.
First class complimentary
Drop in Rate: $14/class
20 class pass used in 24 wk / 6 mo: $200 ($10/class)
10 class pass used in 12 wk / 3 mo: $110 ($11/class)
4 class pass used in 4 wk / 1 mo: $48 ($12/class)
10 class pass used in 24 wk / 6 mo: $130 ($13/class)
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Candlelight Yoga (Angela Doerfler)
Illuminate your practice with a gentler-flow yoga surrounded by candles. This meditative vinyasa flow practice, heals, detoxifies and exhilarates the body and mind with emphasis on movement, balance and intention. A great class for ALL levels. A truly unique yoga experience you'll look forward to participating in each week.
Class registration and fees
60 minute class, Fridays 7:15 - 8:15
*Drop-in $8
*6-Pack $42 (use within 3 months)
*15-Pack $75 (use within 9 months)
*Rates good 1/8-4/30, and good for future classes after these dates if purchased on or before April 30th, 2010.
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Eclectic Vinyasa Flow (Julie Schmit)
Everybody welcome to experience this multi-level vinyasa-style Yoga class, that will be tailored to the participants needs. Poses are choreographed to a variety of music from Yogic chanting to African drumming to the Rolling Stones and everything in between. Julie uses her 20 years' experience as a professional body worker to use gentle, precise and intuitive adjustments that allow participant's bodies to unfold as they integrate their Spiritual selves or just break a great sweat and strengthen their booty to some groovy tunes. Come with special requests: from child's pose (the fetal position) to a hand stand (a "party" pose) and whatever else your body/mind/Spirit is craving.
Class registration and fees
75 minute class, Mondays, 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.(beginning March 1)
Drop-in $15
10 class package, expiries in 6 months - $120
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