CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
Rock Yoga
Rock Yoga is a combination of yoga, meditation, breathing, interval exercise and dance. It's a class encouraging you to trust your instincts and play. It's important in life that we don't ALWAYS take ourselves so seriously, and attempt to laugh and have some fun. With a focus on using balanced joint space to help move with ease, this class can be a great way to strengthen and stretch, relax and restore. Book Rock Yoga in the Wild !!!
hot hatha yoga
Open eye moving meditation. Starts and ends with breathing exercise. Challenges physical and mental practice of focus, strength and flexibility. A hatha practice has less "flow" and more obstinacy. The challenge is practicing effortless effort while holding these shapes. Sometimes that brings unexpected emotions. Emotions can teach us too, this can be a healthy way to explore them without reacting to them. Hot Hatha is a detoxing class practiced in a room heated to approximately 105F, or we go outside on a hot summer day! There are many different variations of this sequence that can include up to 84 poses! Pay attention to your entire body - bones, joints, muscles, ligaments, tendons - how can they work efficiently together to help us to do the things we love? These postures that promote cardiovascular, circulatory health. Treat your body and your practice with openness, interest, and kindness. Practice curiosity and play! All levels welcome always.
Check out a time lapse of the 90 minute Hot 32 sequence...
Check out a time lapse of the 90 minute Hot 32 sequence...
HIIT (high intensity interval training)
HIIT is a low impact, high intensity workout that uses interval training to sculpt and tone your body. You will do between 1 and 8 sets of each exercise for 20-30 seconds. This method of training burns the maximum amount of fat and calories during class. HIIT also creates the after effect, during which your body is still burning calories and fat after class.
Always work at your maximum capability with correct form. That level will be different for everyone. When you find that perfect place where you are working absolutely as hard as you can, mindfully, and remain there throughout the class, you will see results very quickly.
Always work at your maximum capability with correct form. That level will be different for everyone. When you find that perfect place where you are working absolutely as hard as you can, mindfully, and remain there throughout the class, you will see results very quickly.
Vinyasa
Rejuvenate, invigorate, challenge yourself! This class practiced in a room heated to approximately 90-95F, creates internal heat and has a long list of benefits. A vigorous, progressive series of postures that focus on movement with the breath, bringing you your highest level of energy, strength, vitality, balance and tone. A dynamic, wellness and fitness program that flows with music from Chopin to Radiohead to Aretha Franklin and builds lean muscle mass, increases flexibility, decreases stress as well as much, much more. Active. Dynamic. Invigorating. All levels welcome always.
Katonah Informed Vinyasa
Katonah Yoga has been developed by Nevine Michaan and her teachers over the last forty years. Synthesizing traditional Hatha yoga, classical taoist theory, mathematics, mythology and metaphor, Katonah Yoga provides a clear yet powerful understanding of “self.” Katonah Yoga is both spiritually refined and eminently practical. As an egalitarian yoga, it works for novices as well as advanced body workers. Mara is training to teach be a certified Katonah yoga teacher. She will throw in bits and pieces of what shes learning in this class. Expect to move a lot.
Restorative
Restorative yoga is a way to slow down and go within, giving us the opportunity to explore and restore the body on a deeper level. It is different from a typical vinyasa class in that we hold postures for long periods of time, sometimes 5-7 minutes, allowing ourselves to find our edge, ease into the pose and then go further. Restorative targets our deeper connective tissues with fascia being the main tissue explored. The goal is to achieve relaxation and restoration through very little effort. Many different props are used in order to provide structure, so that one can do less and allow for the breath to relax the body and nervous system. Gentle and healing. Less effort and more ease.