YamaYoga: Levels and Styles

Level 1 - New to yoga or looking to refine skills
Level 2 - Experienced beginners
Level 3 - Experienced beginners/intermediate
Level 4 - Intermediate/ advanced

Yoga Basics with Ali Modell (90 Min.) All Levels (Four-Week Series)
Introduce yourself to the practice of Yoga,you'll be happy you did! Explore the fundamentals and foundations of postures, breathing, meditation and mindfullness.This will allow you the tools you need to discover a style that's right for you, or as you embark upon building your own practice. Questions encouraged!

Pre-registration required for this four-week series beginning the first Wednesday of every month.

Bikram Yoga with Jenny McCoy (90 Min.) All are welcome

Bikram Yoga is a series of 26 postures conducted over 90 minutes, beginning with one warming up breathing exercise, progressing through 24 asanas or postures and finishing with one toxin eliminating breathing posture. This series of postures systematically and scientifically works through the entire body.The room is mirrored to allow for greater body awareness and to refine and deepen our postures with easy self-correction.Classes are held in a heated room. The warm room allows for greater flexibility, it minimises muscle strain, lactic acid build up and reduces the chance of injury, allows for greater cleansing of the body and helps build tremendous stamina and endurance.
This yoga is for athletes and beginners alike. Come and experience why celebrities such as Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Elle Macpherson, Brook Burke, Charles Barkley, Gwenyth Paltrow, and Salma Hayak love their Bikram Yoga.

*Please Bring a Large Towel and Bottled Water to class
~Choose to and fill your life with the good that knocks at your door.~
~J McCoy~

Candlelight Vinyasa Flow with Leah Persky (75 min.) All are welcome

Vinyasa Flow class uses consistent, steady breathing to link a series of postures together in a flowing, fluid manner.  This class will strengthen your body and calm your mind.  Integration of breath work, asana, music and meditation creates a challenging class that will invigorate both body and mind.  This well-reounded class is open to all levels of ability, from the beginner to the experienced yogi.

Express Yoga with Marietta Pucillo (60 Min.) Level 2-4
This one hour class is an express version of Marietta's Strength and Wellness, with a slightly softer and gentler side.

Express Yoga with Morgan Engels/Andrea Frazer(55 Min.) All Levels
Limited time? This class is perfect for you.Stretch and strengthen the body while you calm the mind. Take the time to slow down and focus on breath and body awareness with the intention of letting go of thought and judgement. Bring balance into your day.

Hatha Yoga with Morgan Engels (75 min.) All are welcome
Hatha refers to any practice of the physical practice of postures and breathing (pranayama). Hatha balances the "ha" stimulating/ sun energy with "tha" the moon/calming energy. This class will be a fine balance between the two, including pranayama and meditation. Its focus is to bring a clear balance and energy on and off the mat.

Hot Yoga with Andrea Frazer/Ali Modell(90 Min.) Level 2-4
This 90° vigorous Vinyasa Flow class challenges students to increase flexibility and endurance while simultaneously cleansing, energizing and relaxing the body. Intensify the connection with the inner self and deepen your understanding of your own inner yogi. Bring water and a towel.

Multi Level Vinyasa with Marya Bradley (90 Min.) Level 1-4
This mixed-level flow class focuses on connecting movements with the breath and on alignment - with modifications for beginning to advanced practitioners. Students learn to listen to their bodies, deepening their connection with the wisdom of the energy that flows within, while strengthening core and major muscle groups. A beautiful way to start the weekend! Bring water & a towel. All are welcome.

Pilates with Therese Stark (60 Min.) All Levels (More Info)
Through Authentic Pilates you develop core strength thereby learning to support your spine and move with proper mobility stabilizing the pelvis and moving your limbs freely without injury. Therese will guide you through a series of mat exercises combining coordinated movement and breath. 

Urban Yogi with Jon Witt (90 Min.) All Level
Come and join for fun and foundation! This class will be based with strong standing sequence, core strengthening and arm balancing.

Stiff Guys Yoga with Marietta Pucillo (90 Min.) Level 1-3
Ever said you can't do yoga because you are too stiff?  Then this is the class for you...and you don't have to be a guy, just stiff like one! This 1 1/2 hour class is a mix of opening and stretching postures combined with breathing techniques that are geared to increase flexibility and energize a perfectly good body that is just in need a regular dose of TLC.

Strength & Wellness with Marietta Pucillo (90 Min.) Level 3-4
This is a class for those who want to challenge themselves to a robust, highly physical practice which combines some of the best elements of Forrest Yoga (upper body and core strength), Iyengar Yoga (alignment and stability of postures), Vinyasa yoga (flowing postures together with the breath) and Anusara (isometric alignment and longer holds). This class also explores some of the more philosophical and spiritual sides of meditation and chakra balancing.

Urban Zen with Jon Witt (90 Min.) All Level
Enjoy your Sunday afternoon with a strong, light (fun) practice. Based in hip opening/ forward bending all in preparation for deep back bending. The practice will be different each week, tailored to your specific needs and wants. Expect longer holds to compliment all that you love and do!

Sunday Ying and Yang with Tracy Hart (90 Min.) All are welcome

YamaYoga favorite Tracy Hart combines the more vigorous/heating postures & sun salutations with more cooling, restorative postures to set your week in motion.

Vinyasa Flow for Fitness & Endurance with Dean (75 min.)  Level 2-4
With each breath, movement flows.  Give your body a complete cardio/muscular workout, promoting strength, endurance, flexibility and a quiet mind.  Dean’s Vinyasa class flows at various paces, building stronger muscles and burning excess calories and fat.  Explore various asanas (postures) that use the body’s own weight to awaken and strengthen all of the muscles, helping improve performance activity and reduce bodily injuries.  Dean also focuses on mindful breathing and meditation, helping to reduce stress and improve overall mental health.

Please bring a towel and room temperature drinking water.

Yoga Alchemy with Marya Bradley (75 Min.) All are welcome
Experience yoga's alchemical power to engage and move powerful and subtle energies in and through the body to transform - to invigorate, clarify and integrate - our experience of being the complex embodied, feeling and conscious living creatures we are. A strong and focused practice of select asana and asana sequences conjoined with the use of pranayama (yogic breathing techniques) and various techniques to develop concentration and awareness of energy and energy centers (chakras) in the body will serve to expand our experience of yoga as a transformative discipline. Explore and enjoy the power of yoga to strengthen, purify and balance our physical, emotional, mental and energetic being.