
Please join us See Yoga Class Schedule Kirtan and Chai Sunday, 6:00 pm25 Join us for an evening of Kirtan and Chai. We are grateful to be able to offer you daily yoga classes at the Yoga Center and online.

In a typical class we begin with about 15 minutes of Pranayama or breathing exercises.Īll yoga practices originate from the spiritual texts of India and were developed as a tool to help the yoga practitioner attain a state of enlightenment or union with the supreme consciousness. Yoga can help keep the body fit, the mind balanced and the energy positive. When practiced regularly, the specific Sivananda Classical Hatha Yoga Postures, Relaxation and Breathing can help you to develop on many levels, improving strength, balance, flexibility, concentration, confidence, as well as general health and well-being. The sequence can sometimes be adapted to be in harmony with the different seasons, weather etc. The classes always close with a longer guided deep-relaxation to allow the benefits of the practice to be fully metabolised, and to encourage further stress-release and healing. All our yoga classes follow the Sivananda Yoga Class Sequence a Classical Sequence of Hatha Yoga Postures (Asanas), Relaxation, and Breathing Exercises (Pranayama) originating from India and practiced by yogis and spiritual seekers throughout the ages. As you advance in your practice dynamic and fun variations of the 12 postures are introduced. Having thoroughly warmed up we move into the main body of the class with a sequence of 12 powerful yoga postures (Asanas).
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To establish a calm mental attitude and inner focus the classes always begin with a short chant, a relaxation, and deep breathing exercises (Pranayama).Īfter establishing this inward focus we move into a sequence of flowing warm-up movements called the Sun Salutations (Surya Namaska), followed by leg stretches and core strength leg lifts. breathing exercises sun salutations a series of twelve classic postures (and potentially, variations) a final deep relaxation. With Sivananda yoga we give our minds and souls as much of a cleanse and a workout as we do our bodies. Sivananda had further distilled the yoga regime of twenty postures that Van. The Sivananda Yoga Class Sequence can be practiced strenuously providing a dynamic physical workout or very gently and slowly creating deep calm and stillness. To accommodate his growing number of disciples, in 1936 Swami Sivananda. For example, when it is cold we do more of a dynamic practise and with more cooling, camling techniques when it is warmer. Sivananda Yoga is a spiritual yoga system founded by Vishnudevananda it includes the use of asanas (yoga postures) but is not limited to them as in systems of yoga as exercise.


All our yoga classes follow the Sivananda Yoga Class Sequence a Classical Sequence of Hatha Yoga Postures (Asanas), Relaxation, and Breathing Exercises (Pranayama) originating from India and practiced by yogis and spiritual seekers throughout the ages.
