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Strength, balance and a beautiful back. Mon 530 Shanti Vinyasa

Balance, Spinal Flows, Upper Body Strength,

Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha, Nadi Shodhana, Anuloma Viloma

Right into flows with cat bows, 3 legged dog (extended mountain) to swan, back to cat bows but adding on for extended cat bows. Balance with raised standing to warm up the feet and legs, tree, extended tree, half stance. Strengthening flows for the back, flowing cobra to locust. Tortoise bow and arch, easy seat, Janu Sirsasana to Tarasana, aromaterapy to savasana.

Aromatherapy tonight will be Dharma Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan.

Opening the New Year with Yoga. Sat 1030am

Balance, Core Work, Forward Folds, Standing Strength,

Pranayama: Seated Sahaja (natural breath), Dirgha (3 part breath) done slowly to prepare for the adventure of the practice of Yoga.

Opening the hands with a few hand stretches, cat rolls, cat hip circles, crossing the leg over to admire the foot and to feel the stretch.  Toe stretch, toe balance and stretching the top of the foot.  Ankle rolls, inversion and eversion of the leg, reverse table, Navasana with a little more abdominal work by coming into 1/2 Ardha Navasana.

Sun Salutation A variation adding in some twists.  Moving into standing postures with Warrior 2, Side angle, Triangle, Moon Triangle, Warrior 2 then to the other side.  Balance today was Crane, seagull, airplane, star and back to crane.

The floor was for strengthening the back with cobra 1/boat flow and a swan added in as well as a twist and a thigh stretch.   Some twists and forward folds concluded the asana practice.  Aromatherapy and Savasana

Aromatherapy today was Shanti Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan

Gentle beginners flow class. 530pm Fundamentals

Hip Openers, Standing Strength

Seated sun breath with arm movements.  Mula rolls, easy seat reed and twist.  Gate to open the side body, downward dog.  Sun Salutation A, Sun Salutation B,  Wide Leg Forward fold with a twist.  Locust, frog, Janu Sirsasana, Cobbler, Navasana, twist, aromatherapy, savasana.

This is a class that Amanda does so we will see how everyone is progressing.

Aromatherapy tonight will be Pitta/Kapha Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan

Holiday Flow moving through the body. Shanti Vinyasa Tues 745 LFF

Spinal Flows, Standing Strength

Warming the body tonight with a nice holiday flow.  Well that was my intention however, Mr Iyengar’s birthday was today and the practice just flowed into a strong standing (grounding) practice that honored Mr Iyengar.

Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha, Nadi Shodhana

Sun Salutations before moving on to opening the hips with pigeon, 3 leg dog, runners stretch.  Strong set of standing postures held with awareness and purpose. Hand Balance  of crow, squat to cockey mudra with a cooling breath. To floor for forward folds and twists. Aromatherapy & Savasana rounds out the evening.

Aromatherapy tonight will be Vata/Kapha Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan  This blend is perfect for the weather we are having now  cold and windy.  This has a wonderful smell of warmth and love. I also brought some yogi tea to warm the body,mind and spirit for the journey home on this cold evening.

Thanks to everyone for coming out tonight.

Standing, sitting & shopping hard on the Sciatic Mon 7pm Yum Yum

Yoga Moves,

Yummy gift for yourself for the holidays.   Sciatic love and kindness.

Starting on our back with supported bridge over a bolster to open the heart and the shoulders.  Using sandbags on the shoulders to allow them to drip down to the floor. Pranayama is  Dirgha with Ujjai

Rock the clock, leg stretch with foot pressing into wall,  opening into the wide leg supported with blocks, chair or whatever.   Cradle stretch.  Supported cobbler with blocks or blankets to support the knees and sandbag for the feet props as needed under the hips.   Wide leg Forward Fold.

Standing Sciatic Help is Triangle on the wall, side angle on wall all using blocks.  Bolster twist and bolster child.   Aromatherapy & Savasana

Aromatherapy tonight will be Shanti Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan

Beautiful, Peaceful Flow, Shanti Vinyasa Mon 530

Hip Openers, Standing Strength

Pranayama:  Sahaja, Dirgha KB with holds

Yoga from the heart flow tonight. Standing palm tree stretch, cat rolls, natural seat rolls, cat bows, runner to mountain flow, wide leg Forward fold with twist, standing posture flow, including 3 leg dog, cobra 1/boat flow, 1/2 locust, sphinx, bridge rolls, reclined butterfly, cradle, and hip side stretch.  Aromatherapy and Savasana.

Aromatherapy tonight will be Shanti Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan.

Shanti Vinyasa Flow Friday 1030am LFF Tyrone

Balance, Core Work, Hip Openers, Spinal Flows, Standing Strength, Toe Stretch, Upper Body Strength,

I LOVE to teach morning classes… wake up the body for a beautiful day. Lets Play

Pranayama: Breath of Joy, Goddess breath

Sun Salutations, warrior 1, with a balance twist, warrior 3, standing split, Skanda, warrior 2, side angle, triangle, triangle, Skanda.  Bird of Paradise, & Dancing Shiva for Balance.  Hip openers to release the hips, core strength with the can can, opposing muscles of the back with dolphin/plank, cobra boat flow, finishing with twists & forward folds. Aromatherapy and Savasana to send you off for your day and weekend.

Aromatherapy will be Energizing Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan

Sciatic help 7pm Yum Yum

Gentle Stretches, Hip Openers

Pranayama:  supported bridge to open the shoulders and heart before practice.

rock the clock, leg stretch with foot on wall, 4 square on back.  mula rolls, hip openers with shoulder openers, mermaid, cat rolls, gate, 1/4 dog, 1/2 dog, sphinx, gentle wave, pigeon.  Bridge rolls then sustain with blocks.  Knees to chest.   Bolster twist, bolster child,  Savasana with bolster

Aromatherapy tonight will be Anxiety Ease Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan

Sun Salutation B Wed 530 Fundamentals

Standing Strength

Pranayama: Sahaja, Dirgha, KB

Working through warms up you may see in beginner’s classes

easy seat twist, reed, drape over knee forward fold.  Reverse table, inversion/eversion, cat rolls, table balance, donkey kick, Anatasana.

Moving on to Sun Salutation B.     Then into twists and folds.

Aromatherapy tonight  will be Anxiety Ease Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan

Fall Fun- Flow witn Iyengar. 10am Fri Yoga4All

Balance, Core Work, Toe Stretch,

Hi all,

I am subbing Wanda’s Friday morning class today so we will have a little flow and lots of Iyengar.

Pranayama:  Shaja, Dirgha, Kapalabhati with holds.

Stretching out the hands before beginning.  Lots of warm ups as a morning class we need to have the joints oiled. Cat rolls, cat hip circles, calf stretches, toe stretches, hip rolls with shoulder opener.

Warming up the feet with the ole golf ball massage.   Darsha Charna.  Sun Salutation with some cobras added in to strengthen the back.   Wanda wanted you all to have some abdominal work so here we go with that.  Shoulder isolation awareness.   Balance.  Iyengar leg and movement awareness for moving into 1/2 moon, from runner to forward fold, warrior 1 to warrior 3.  Hand balance,  Twists and forward folds. 

Aromatherapy then down to floor for some bridge rolls with block support.   Savasana

Aromatherapy today will be Shanti Blend from Yoga Flow Oils, thank you Susan