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Class Styles & Yoga Therapeutics Offered

All classes are 60 minutes unless otherwise indicated on the schedule. Most classes can be adapted to accommodate any level practitioner; we strive to provide accessible yoga for all, please contact us for specific recommendations.

Slow Flow

Slow Flow classes to help you find the space between poses while still retaining the gentle rhythm of a flow yoga class. This class will provide a more meditative and calming effects of a slow flow class, while still giving benefits of improved strength, flexibility and range of motion.

Vinyasa

Vinyasa is characterized by flowing poses and sequences that are linked to the breath. This class is diverse and sequences will vary, but in general this is a more vigorous, athletic approach to yoga focused on building strength and flexibility.

Chair Yoga

Chair Yoga is a 30-45 minute class, and a great way for those who need some more support, or those may not enjoy practicing on a mat to get the wonderful health benefits of yoga. An excellent way to loosen and stretch painful muscles, reduce stress, and improve circulation, it also reduces anxiety, helps lower blood pressure, protects joints, and builds strength and balance.

Candlelight Slow Flow & Yoga Nidra

This candlelight Slow Flow class will be followed by Yoga Nidra, or yogic sleep as it is commonly known, an immensely powerful meditation technique. This systematic meditation takes you through a body scan which in 30 minutes can give you the equivalent of two-three hours of rest, leaving you with a sense of wholeness.

Yin Yoga

Yin yoga is a slow, gentle class focused on holding our poses for 3-5 minutes. Holding poses for longer periods of time allows the fascia and connective tissue surrounding our muscles to relax and give us more flexibility within our practice. Yin helps calm the mind and body; reduces stress and anxiety, while increasing circulation and improving joint mobility.

Private Yoga Therapy and Yoga Therapeutics

Every private yoga therapy* is designed to address your specific physical and mental needs. Yoga therapy teaches the mental and physical techniques of yoga that empower your health and wellness in a more precise and specific way. Instruction will be modified with the goal of complimenting medical care through strength conditioning, mindful movement, meditation, Yoga Nidra, and the holistic mind/body connection yoga provides. With experience teaching beginners through advanced students, private sessions can focus on alignment, advanced variations, or restorative care – whatever you need.

Yoga Therapeutics for…: 

• Stress Management—While some amount of stress can help us to be productive, elevated levels of stress can become disruptive to our lives and to our health. Cortisol is a stress hormone released by the adrenal glands. It's important for helping your body deal with stressful situations, as your brain triggers its release in response to many different kinds of stress. However, when cortisol levels are too high for too long, this hormone can hurt you more than it helps. In fact new studies now correlate excessive cortisol levels with inflammation, the main cause of many different diseases. It is estimated an 80 to 90% of doctor visits is related to stress levels, yet many medical professionals have a difficult time discussing how to help their patients manage stress. In a national survey, over 85% of people who did yoga reported that it helped them relieve stress. Yoga powerfully combines both movement, with an underlying philosophy of self-compassion and awareness.

• Cardiac Care—Utilizing gentle or chair yoga, mindfulness practices, and stress management, therapeutic yoga can be a powerful complementary treatment for those who have suffered a cardiac episode or has been diagnosed with a cardiac issue.

• Trauma Recovery— Yoga’s ability to touch people on every level of their being—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual (whatever that means to each individual) makes it a powerful and effective modality for trauma survivors. A three-year NIH funded research on yoga and trauma study at the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute in Brookline, Massachusetts, with women with treatment resistant PTSD has shown promising results. The study showed a 30% reduction in PTSD symptoms, including less intrusive thoughts and disassociation with their bodies. Whether it is childhood trauma, work place trauma for EMT, fire fighters, law enforcement, or veterans, most agree that all traumas live within in the bodies, which is why yoga’s ability to aid in a person’s recovery has been shown to be invaluable. 

• Addiction — An increasing number of studies suggest that mindfulness activities, such as yoga, can help people overcome addiction when complemented by traditional treatment. Meditation and yoga’s effect on raising the neurotransmitter GABA in the brain which reduces stress and anxiety may be a reason why. A 2014 study published in the journal Complementary Therapies in Medicine examined the effect of yoga alongside rehab in treating alcohol dependence. In the trial, 18 people battling alcohol dependence in Sweden received traditional treatment or traditional treatment plus yoga. The results showed that the greatest reduction in drinking occurred among the group that incorporated yoga into treatment.

• Cancer Recovery--Yoga, whether through gentle movement, or through mindfulness practices, provides a patient with tools to manage their stress and anxiety during this incredibly stressful time. Through the various modalities, yoga has been shown to help cancer patients manage their stress and anxiety to achieve better sleep, to help with their fatigue from treatments, and to stay focused on the present through breathing exercises.  

• Back Care--Chronic back pain contributes to 264 million days of missed work in one year. Experts predict 80% of people will experience back pain in their lives. Back pain is the third most reason for doctor visits next to skin disorders and osteoporosis or join disorders. Low back pain costs Americans 50 billion dollars in healthcare costs each year. With such alarming statistics, yoga is being recommended by doctors to patients with chronic back pain more and more. Katie has studied with re-knowned back care yoga specialist, Dr. Loren Fishman. Whether it is treating a patient suffering from a herniation, stenosis, scoliosis, priformis syndrome, or sciatica, we can tailor a yoga program to help combat these specific issues to provide their clients with the ability to, hopefully, be pain free and to be more mobile in their everyday lives. 

• Osteoporosis--Osteoporosis affects more than 200 million people with that number ballooning as the baby boomer generation ages. Weight bearing exercise is recommended to help bone density, but not all weight bearing exercise is ideal for those prone to fractures. Recent studies using yoga has shown promising results for maintaining bone density, although not yet shown that yoga promotes bone density. Under the guide of a trained therapist, a patient diagnosed with osteoporosis can practice in a safe way to guard against fractures and other side effects of osteoporosis. 

• Mood Disorders---Whether it is depression or anxiety disorder, since the 1970’s mindfulness practices have been recommended to those suffering from these two most common mood disorders. However recent studies have shown that yoga is now being considered as another complementary tool. Yoga’s ability to help control stress response, or to help down regulate a person’s nervous system is widely accepted as a beneficial side effect of the practice. For a patient suffering a mood disorder, this ability to help regulate their stress response is paramount to their ability to help manage their illness. For Katie this has been a particularly personal journey since she manages her own ADHD, depression and anxiety with yoga. She experienced first-hand how much impact her practice and all the modalities of yoga helped her to manage these issues she continues to face to this day. 

• Sleep Management- 50-70 million adults suffer from some form of sleep disorder. Yoga has been shown to help in the aid of sleep by reviving the body through the poses; relieving stress; helping to down regulate a person’s nervous system through other modalities like yoga nidra and mindfulness practices and a regular practice often can change the quality of one’s sleep.

• Athletic Recovery-- Many athletes have turned to Yoga to help them calm their minds, recover from injuries, also helps elongate muscles that athletes have spent years contracting. Athletes who stretch before or after a workout, usually only stretch their muscles in the direction and plane in which they will be exercising. Yoga goes far beyond simple stretching to working all range of motion; activating little-used muscles that support the primary muscles.  In order to have a healthy and balanced body, the body must be worked in all three planes of motion; not only in the sagittal plane but, in the frontal and transverse planes as well, ensuring well-rounded development. Yoga not only helps athletes to relax tight muscles, it also helps calm and relax anxious and overstressed minds and can improve focus and concentration.

* Yoga Therapy is not intended to replace the care of a licensed medical health professional. Yoga supports your health, but Yoga Teachers and Yoga Therapists are not responsible nor do we assert to diagnose, treat, heal and/or cure mental or physical disease or illness. As with all exercise, be sure to be cleared to practice yoga by your doctor or a certified health professional.