Yoga
Leave the stress of daily life behind. Learn to listen to your body, follow your breath, and raise your spirits. You'll find it relaxing, energizing, and fun.
Enjoy a gentle approach to yoga — to nurture body, mind, and spirit.
Yoga for the Spine
Join Sila Rood in a class based on the principles of Kundalini yoga and belly dance, designed to awaken the serpent spine. Support the spine through a series of exercises designed to strengthen the core and teach the body to move and undulate naturally, in its animal form. Through breathing and Vinyasa, we will build heat and awareness to push through the blockages in our energy that cause pain and stagnation. Pay close attention to our body habits and posture in a safe environment, and give love to those places in our body that we so often neglect.
Sila's interest in Yoga began at age thirteen, inspired by her grandmother, Penelope Holden, who was a leading force in bringing the practice of yoga to Vermont. In 2006, Sila made her voyage to India to study Ayurvedic medicine and yoga in Auroville, an eco-village and community of spiritual practice based on the philosophies of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. In 2009, Sila completed her teacher training in Santa Monica, CA through the Tree of Life yoga school, taught by Psalm Isadora. The process of this training was fueled by a very primal intention, focusing on the practice of Kundalini and tapping into the power of the core.
Through her yoga and a background as a professional belly dancer, Sila has tapped into a form of movement that brings strength, confidence, fluidity, and sensuality back into the body, and is appropriate for all sexes.
When we set the intention for transformation, we must embrace certain postures that make us uncomfortable, and that force us to stand with new expression and possibly a feeling of vulnerability. By acknowledging these aspects of ourselves, we find our underlying strength and can fill our life with positive energy and a new variety of elements to work with. Use the power that simmers at your base.
Slow Yoga with Jill Mason
Slow Yoga is a great tool for slowing down in a sped-up world and for deepening your practice. In addition to increasing strength, balance, and flexibility, it gives you time...
- to explore what feels best as you go into a pose
- to notice what’s going on in your body and make adjustments
- to allow your muscles to relax and gravity to do its work
- to find your own best expression of each pose in the moment
These classes are designed particularly for people age 50 and up, but everyone is welcome.
Jill Mason is a 200-hour-certified kripalu yoga teacher. A long-time student of modern, jazz, and West African dance, she began practicing yoga in 2008, at age sixty-four, and fell in love with it. Since then she has been taking several classes a week and recently completed the intensive teacher training program at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. She has a particular interest in teaching older students.
Restorative Yoga
Restorative Yoga with Julie Peoples-Clark. Offered one Sunday a month, these sessions restore and renew, and promote deep restful sleep. Please call to reserve your space.. Enjoy the early evening light and resonant sound in this calm and peaceful studio. Restorative Yoga sessions restore and renew, promoting deep and restful sleep. Purify, align, reduce stress and improve energy while connecting to your inner self. Julie guides students through a series of physical postures, breathing, and relaxation to bring a state of balance within. (90 Minutes)
Julie is certified in the Yoga for the Special Child™ is a Registered Svadhyaya Yoga Teacher with the National Yoga Alliance, and is currently enrolled in a 500-hour certification program with the Silver Lotus Institute in Rehoboth Beach, DE.
She stopped dancing 8 years ago when her daughter Ella was born with spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy. Julie's search to help Ella led her to Sonia Sumar and the Yoga for the Special Child™ training program where she learned techniques to help Ella as well as beginning her personal practice of health and healing through yoga.
"The most profound message that I learned from my yoga practice was in order for me to care for Ella I had to care for myself. I find joy each day and I marvel at my incredible daughter and all she has overcome."
After two years of traveling the world volunteering with children with brain injuries and exploring many different healing options, Julie moved to Vermont with Ella and her husband Dave, and is again performing and teaching dance as well as adaptive and restorative yoga in the Burlington area.
Adaptive Yoga for Adults
Yoga can offer a unique and powerful experience for people who have multiple sclerosis, arthritis, cerebral palsy, parkinson’s and other physical disabilities. Students with little mobility can benefit just as much as students with little impairment. Yoga is body, mind and spirit. Practice teaches us to be present in the moment with awareness, and can transform our perceptions of our circumstances and ourselves.
In Adaptive Yoga for Adults Julie Peoples-Clark adapts traditional yoga postures to the needs of each individual. Ideal for students who have health or physical limitations. This class offers a balanced approach for strength and flexibility, breath work and deep relaxation.
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“What is Yoga after all? Yoga is a practice of observing yourself without judgment. It is something that we experience inside, deep inside our being. We do it only for ourselves. We are both the observer and what is observed at the same time. The only authentic Yoga is the one that works for each person according to circumstances and needs, and there are many possibilities.”— T.K.V. Desikachar
Morning Mindful Vinyasa Yoga
Returning Soon! Morning Mindful Vinyasa Yoga with Sarah Austin. This class will explore the connections of all the different layers of being through a mindful Vinyasa flow practice. This class pulls from several yogic practices to allow participants the opportunity to be mindful of how we can take what we learn on our mats into everyday life. At any level of practice, this class can help guide beginners as well as experienced yogis as we collectively expand our awareness.
YogaDance
YogaDance® with Nancey Kinlin,returns for periodic workshops. Combining the traditions of yoga with music and movement, YogaDance® uses the chakra system as a template to explore and express our life’s energies. YogaDance® is for all bodies of any age or ability. It is a sacred practice applicable to anyone interested in new ways of opening to the abundant riches of self-discovery.
During these classes we will:
~ Come in contact with the body’s inner grace and wisdom;
~ Discover new ways of moving to allow energy to flow more freely;
~ Distinguish the difference between being embodied and being simply a body;
~ Awaken joy and passion through the celebration of one’s own body and its abilities;
~ Appreciate one’s body as a unique vehicle for healing.