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CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
We ask that everyone stays on their mat and silences & stays off their phones during class
Curious about yoga? Never taken a class before? If so, this class is for you. Students will learn and explore the ABC’s of yoga from breathing techniques to detailed posture alignment and much more. Even experienced practitioners can be challenged in this class.
The Tibetan Five are sometimes offered with this class type. They are five exercises believed to increase energy, mental acuity, suppleness and strength.
Foundations of Yoga
Appropriate for all levels - Seasonally Offered
Vinyasa Yoga
Vinyasa or flow yoga is a creative form of yoga. Poses are linked together with the breath in a flow sequence.
The beauty of Vinyasa yoga is the variety. There is no standard sequence in Vinyasa yoga, and the style, pace and intensity may vary.
The class may be dynamic and focus on strengthening postures, or it may be a slower flow with an emphasis on mobility and flexibility in the spine or the hips.
Appropriate for all levels
Introduction to Ashtanga
Students will learn the basic fundamentals of Ashtanga Yoga in a safe and supportive environment. The basic technique for breathing and movement (vinyasa), meditative gazing (dristhi), and internal energy locks (bandha) are taught. Students will also be guided through the initial sequence of poses.
A great and informative class for those interested in starting an Ashtanga practice.
Appropriate for all levels - Seasonally Offered
Half Led Primary Series
This class starts with 5 Surya Namaskara As and 3 Surya Namaskara Bs to warm up the body and is followed with a series of standing, seated, inversion and back bending poses.
The Led Half Primary Series class is led up to Boat Pose and followed with the traditional closing sequence.
For both new and experienced students, led classes are an important component to a regular Mysore practice that will be added soon. It is an opportunity to ensure that each vinyasa is being learned and practiced correctly. Following the teacher’s count and pacing increases internal and external strength.
Students will be guided through the poses based on their familiarity and proficiency in the practice.
This class is also listed as Power Yoga on the scheduling page.
Not for absolute beginners
Guided Meditation
Meditation is an ancient and increasingly popular practice of mental concentration and relaxation. As the stress levels of our society become higher and higher, so does the number of people looking for a method to relieve that stress inexpensively and effectively. Guided meditation can help provide that relief while offering direction and focus for both new and experienced practitioners.
Guided meditation is a state of relaxed concentration invoked and led by your instructor. The guide will instruct you to relax specific muscles in the body until they are comfortable, and will then lead you through mental images and visualizations, often of healing light or the dissipation of past wrongs.
Guided meditation can be as short as a few minutes or as long as several hours. Either way, the purpose is to achieve mental, emotional and physical healing and stress relief.
Appropriate for all levels
Yin Yoga
Appropriate for all levels
“Yoga is a light which once lit will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter your future.”
-B. K. S. Iyengar