Class Descriptions
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Ashtanga-Influenced Vinyasa
This class, suited for beginners and longtime practitioners, offers a vigorous and engaging practice to explore the depths of breath, alignment, and posture. The exploration of these foundations is derived from traditional Ashtanga yoga. This class seeks to provide the student with a healthy asana series and principles of practice that can readily be adapted by the practitioner for home practice. The class also seeks to provide a foundation for a more in-depth exploration of yoga and to prepare for more challenging postures and series.
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Pilates Reformer Foundations
This 45-minute class teaches the fundamental Pilates techniques and caters to students of all levels interested in form and movement. Uplevels and modifications are offered to challenge your abilities. This class will help improve posture and balance, develop a strong core, and engage the deeper layer of muscles. You will experience the benefits of a light resistance workout, including coordination, flexibility, and increased functional movement. This class focuses on mobility, alignment, and form and includes the Pilates classical and contemporary sequences.
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Nia
Nia is a unique fitness practice combining dance, martial arts, and mindfulness for a holistic experience, addressing the body, mind, and soul. It's inclusive and encourages students to listen to their bodies in a community setting, following a cycle that includes focus, warm-up, cardio, stretching, and strength building. The practice is also about having fun, fostering curiosity, and finding joy while improving physical and mental well-being, including mobility, agility, flexibility, strength, and balance.
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Pilates Reformer Sculpt
This 45-minute class teaches the intermediate reformer exercises, plus their progressions. Pilates Sculpt will use hand weights, the magic circle, and the small ball, for a vigorous class format that will engage you mentally and physically, developing stability and strength. Participants must be comfortable planking, kneeling and standing on the reformer series. It is recommended that students have reformer experience and no knee injuries, recent surgeries, or joint replacements to take this Sculpt class. You will feel lengthened and strengthened after class.
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Vinyasa with Music
This is an intermediate and physically challenging class. Expect an intelligently sequenced vinyasa flow with thoughtful and inspiring music that hits all the waypoints for effort and ease. The pace of this class is strong and steady and draws on modern yoga, anatomical wisdom, and traditional themes for a shakedown that will leave you glowing!
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Kundalini Flow
Kundalini is the embodied expression of Shakti, the energy of consciousness. Yoga often aims to awaken and harness this energy for health and vitality. While some methods involve intense physical actions and breathing, Kundalini Flow adopts a gentler approach, combining vinyasa flow with pranayama (breathing), bandhas (internal muscle movements), and focused awareness to awaken and nurture this dormant energy in a more gentle manner.
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Mysore-Style Yoga:Personalized Practice
The perfect way to begin or advance your yoga practice. Mysore-style Ashtanga provides personalized instruction and hands-on adjustments in a community setting. In a Mysore class, each student moves independently, according to the timing of their breath, through the sequence of postures as they learn them from their teacher. The student does not need to know anything about yoga to begin. When a student new to the practice begins, the teacher teaches the student the poses one by one. As the student learns the poses and their sequence, the teacher provides guidance to refine familiar poses and to add more challenging poses, as the student’s capability grows.
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Classic Vinyasa
With a dynamic flow emphasizing breath and movement, this class will improve strength, stamina, and flexibility. This class is creative and safely sequenced, ensuring a well-rounded and grounded practice. The pace is moderate but the class tends to still be challenging.
Students should be familiar with basic vinyasa.
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Yin Yoga
Yin yoga poses focus on releasing tension of the connective tissue and fascia throughout the body, which increases blood circulation and overtime range of motion and flexibility. The yin approach is to find your edge in the pose, be still and hold there from one to several minutes depending on the pose. Yin poses prepare the body for sitting in meditation and this class time offers a relaxed and calming ambience to free your mind of stress and experience the healing and transformative elements of the practice.
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Ashtanga Primary Series
The Ashtanga primary series (known as ‘yoga chikitsa’, which means yoga therapy) provides a challenging sequence of asanas (poses) that are performed in a specific order which has the effect of ‘unlocking’ the body in an intelligent and scientific way, each pose preparing the body for ones to come. The postures of the primary series include standing poses, seated poses, back bending, and inversions and focus heavily on the most common physical afflictions of Western life: short hamstrings, tight hips, spinal imbalances, poor posture and weak abdominal muscles (core strength). While the primary series is challenging, the use of props and modifications are offered to make the practice accessible to practitioners of all levels.
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Dynamic Alignment
Dynamic Alignment Yoga classes are dynamic and light-hearted and inspiring a greater compassion for the Self, while cultivating a strong mental and physical practice. Consulting with students along the way to improve their health and overall wellbeing.
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Mindful Flow
This class, suited for beginners and longtime practitioners, offers a vigorous and engaging practice to explore the depths of mindfulness, breath, alignment, and posture. The exploration of these foundations relies on both Hatha and Vinyasa styles, while also drawing on inspiration from Hindu and even Buddhist principles and methods. With this focus, this class seeks to prepare the student not only to go deeper into the practice, but also to expand the knowledge and ability for more challenging postures and series.
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Prenatal & Postpartum
Our Prenatal and Postpartum Yoga class offers a gentle flow and restorative practice to create ease in the body, mind, and spirit for a more comfortable pregnancy, labor, and postpartum period. No matter what stage you’re in, Kai offers evidence-based, heart-centered guidance to help you safely and mindfully reconnect with yourself and your baby. Each class is thoughtfully curated to help you regulate, release, and recover — giving you the strength and surrender for the most positive parenting experience possible.