Vinyasa Flow invites you to fluidly move through many Yoga postures, all the while being guided by your own breath. In this way, it’s like a a moving meditation, through which you practice awareness of the breath & body connection. Class begins with gentle warm ups to open and prepare the body for quicker-paced movement through standing, balancing, and/or inverted poses. Cool down with slower, lower to the ground movement and finish with final rest: Savasana.

Like Flow, class starts with a warm up, then standing, balancing and/or inverted postures, a cool down, and final rest. This style is different because it is slowed way down. It takes several breaths to fully transition into, achieve & hold your ideal shape, then transition out. Some find Slow Flow more challenging for the mind & muscles. More time can benefit you in many ways. It allows for more explore safer structural alignment, to build strength and mind-body awareness.

Yin Yoga is static practice, as opposed to how one moves so dynamically in a Flow! Postures may look similar to those of other styles of Yoga, but they have new names because their effect is profoundly different… All Yin postures are held for 1-5 minutes, requiring a balance of effort and ease in the body. Holds create a beneficial stress that allows for stiffened fascia, ligaments & tendons to relax. Find increased flexibility, joint mobility, nervous system regulation, & energetic balance.

Restorative Yoga is a practice of stillness and silence. Unlike Yin, the idea is to get as physically comfortable as possible. Poses are always at the earth and are held for longer: 5 - 15 minutes. Time is taken to set up so the body so that it’s fully supported by props, encouraging physical release. Once comfortable, it’s the students choice to practice meditative breath or open awareness of what arises from within - what thoughts, emotions and physical sensations appear and change.

There are many types of meditation. In breath awareness, you can focus on the physical sensations of breathing, or count the cycles of inhalations & exhalations. Guided visualizations take the mind through an imagined story. One-pointed awareness may look like staring at a candle flame and aiming to focus on only that. Open awareness is instead, the practice of feeling into the body to see what arises. All are the practice of gently guiding your attention back to a focal point.