Specialized Class Descriptions
Prenatal
This class is for women from eight to forty weeks pregnant. We will focus on keeping the body strong and supple throughout pregnancy as well as offering techniques for a productive labor and delivery experience.
New Moms
This a special class for both mom and baby. That's right, bring your baby to class(up to crawling)! Enjoy some gentle stretching, breathing and relaxation with your baby. We will focus on low back, mid-back issues and core stabilization. Be in the company of other new moms and share questions, ideas and stories. Celebrate the joy of the new life in your life!
Yoga for Low Back Pain
This class is a gentle and healing class to help restore strength and flexibility to the lower back and associated muscles. You will learn about your back, what you can do when you feel tight and tense and how to prevent muscles spasms that cause debilitating pain. This class is not for people in acute pain or who need perscription pain medication to take the class. It is a 5 week series which builds each week. For best results, you must commit to the entire series.
Conditioning Yoga
This class with step things up a bit with all the yoga poses you know and love....with weights! We'll use small, light, weights to help build strength, tone and sculpt the body. You can still expect to stretch and relax, too. Time to take it up a notch!
Pilates Mat Class
The Pilates Mat Class focuses on the basic principles of the Pilates method of body conditioning. Proper matwork technique is the foundation of the Pilates method and this class will focus on beginner and intermediate level exercises. Each exercise is done in a particular sequence, with a minimum number of repetitions and a high degree of precision and mental focus. The movements are continuous from one exercise to the next and the workout becomes increasingly more challenging and aerobic as the practice is mastered. This class will emphasize the language of Pilates and the basic principles that bring the Pilates method together, as well as appropriate modifications and progressions to help gain strength and confidence.
Itsy Bitsy Yoga®
Baby Itsy Bitsy Yoga® classes contain dozens of unique yoga postures designed to support baby’s development. Each class is filled with calming, nurturing ways to enhance bonding and improve baby’s sleep.
Tot Itsy Bitsy Yoga® is a supportive, fun-loving and active yoga class. As tot’s mobility increases, classes offer tot-centric poses that encourage and support their physical explorations. Tots become more confident in their moving bodies as they practice yoga both in and out of class.
Tykes Itsy Bitsy Yoga combines unique toddler-friendly yoga poses with songs, stories, and games to create an enriching parent/child activity. Each class is personalized around tyke’s curiosities as they learn yoga through social interaction, repetition, and play. Tykes also learn how to relieve frustration, improve motor skills, and increase attention span by actively following directions. Help your tyke build the foundation for a healthy and fit lifestyle while having fun! No yoga experience is required.
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Core
This class is specifically designed for men and women who regularly participate in running, cycling, swimming, weight training and/or competitive events. The class will focus on stretching and lengthening over developed muscles to bring the body back into balance. We will also incorporate techniques to improve breath capacity,endurance and focus. This class is open to new and experienced students. Grab your training buddies and join us.
Nidra
Yoga Nidra is a powerful technique in which you learn to relax consciously. The state of relaxation is reached by turning inward, away from other experiences. During these classes, we will begin with some movement, the settle for some deep guided relaxation and rejuvenation.
Restorative
Restorative yoga is practiced in a quiet space, using props to support you for long, luxurious stretches as you open and unwind, leaving stress behind. This session is designed to open the chest, relax the spine and release tension that affects your ability to breathe freely.
Somatics Workshop with Ed Barrera www.gravitywerks.com
Ready to take your Yoga or your favorite activitiy to the next level?
The world's oldest exercise is known as a pandiculation and you did it in your mother's womb. In fact, all healthy vertebrate animals continue to pandiculate in order to remain agile, in balance, mobile and pain-free. A pandiculation is a full body contraction. When you see your cat, dog or chipmunk stretch in the morning, they are actually pandiculating. They are using their cortex to wakeup their nervous system so they can do all the wonderful movements that animals do.
This innate intelligence has been lost mostly in the human animal. It's been de-programmed out of us.
Your brain sets you up to program movement. Somatics is a way to re-program your brain so your muscles generate a different output, mainly a lower more relaxed one which allows you to enjoy all of your other movement practices and activities at a higher level.
Hanna Somatic Education® is the original form of Somatics created by Thomas Hanna, the author of Somatics who coined the term to describe "the body experienced form within".
Eduardo Barrera is a Hanna Somatic Educator® who has been teaching Somatics for 8 years. He teaches people how to effectively reset their brain so you can enjoy a lifestyle free of pain. He knows since he used to live with Fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition. He's appeared in several books on chronic pain and was just in New York doing an interview for an upcoming Gary Null show.
Kids
We offer classes for babies, tots and tykes through a certified Itsy Bitsy Yoga instructor. These classes offer age appropriate poses, games and activities which promote a sense of confidence, creativity and exploration in children. Guided breath work, mediation and partner work are part of the experience as well. The format for this class is to "follow the child" and will be different and spontaneous each week. You will wish you had a class like this when you were young! This class often runs as a series. Contact us for registration and dates.
Teens
We welcome adolescents and teens, aged 12 yrs and up to any intro or all levels classes. We will offer a joyful and focused practice that is lively, upbeat and finally relaxing for the group. Teens will learn about deepening the breath, focusing the mind, relaxation, balance and a strong sense of inner strength. Yoga instills confidence and peace in people of all ages; children and teens are no exception. You will wish you had a class like this when you were young!
One on One
Our instructors can offer one on one or couples yoga sessions for people who prefer to work privately with an instructor to get started. Please contact the studio to discuss your needs and we will guide you to an instructor who is most qualified and best suited to support you. Times will vary based on instructor and studio availability.
Notes on Classes
Please contact any one of our staff if you have any questions or concerns about any of the class descriptions. If you have any physical limitations, the instructor may recommend adaptations that will enable you to benefit more fully from the practice. Above all, your safety is most important.
Wear loose, layered clothing and do not eat a heavy meal before class. Studio Be will provide mats and other yoga props that may be needed. We do encourage students to bring their own mats if possible. Water bottles are welcome in the studio.