We know that beginning a yoga practice, restarting a yoga practice, or even trying a class means that you often have questions - every practitioner and teacher at YLC began just that same way.  So we've created a class where you will learn the basics in a supportive and interactive environment.  This class is designed to give you the guidance you specifically need from the very beginning of your practice and help you grow your learning.  Many students may feel most comfortable here for quite some time, or you may decide to discuss moving to something additional, and your teacher will happily explore those options with you.

Gong meditation heals us with sound and vibration frequency.  Our body's cells vibrate at different frequencies and factors such as stress, depression and illness trigger non-optimal frequency changes in parts of our bodies, causing dis-harmony.  Through gong sound meditation your body is able to absorb sound waves and vibrations to help restore harmony to the body, mind and spirit.

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This class will begin with light movement and incorporate simple breathing and meditation along with gong listening.

An energizing guided practice rooted in breath and Hatha postures that get your body moving.  Each practice is infused creatively to build strength, find full range of motion and promote balance.  this practice has intentional music and mindfulness that leaves you feeling awake and focused.  Expect a moderately heated room to help with releasing tension, working deeper into muscle tissue and detoxification.

Our peak flow combines vinyasa movement with modern music and is structured to improve mobility and allow for a higher energy level workout.  We will often move on each breath and you will get both a flexibility and strengthening workout in a high-energy sequence that will prepare you for a specific posture or type of postures.  After the flow  and before cool down, you will be given instruction based around the peak posture.  You should be able to step from downward dog to the front of your mat with one foot to join this class, and you should have some understanding of yoga principals and alignment.  This class will focus less on the alignment of each posture because it will flow more quickly and focus on breath connected with movement, meditative focus, and expression.  This class is moderately heated (about 80-85 degrees).

This guided practice is created with intentional slow and light foundational movement.  You will feel grounded in seated postures that encourage a meditative state, and also find some balanced energy in some active postures.  This class is a perfect way to balance your energy and calm your nervous system with some refreshing movement that is not too strenuous.

Yoga wall ropes provide a very unique perspective on practice.  They allow us to feel alignment in an uncompromised way, lift gravity from our joints and body in ways that create lightness with less effort, and allow us to experience postures in different planes, which creates different engagement patterns and challenges.  The ropes are also a great tool for opening shoulders and hips as they guide our movement within a specified range and allow us to understand what portions of our body need to provide stability in order to allow others to move.  This class will increase your overall mobility allowing you to understand better how strength and flexibility work together.  It is designed for all levels and will offer modifications and additional challenges so that you can choose where to take your practice for the day.

This class is designed to challenge your strength and help you understand alignment in more advanced postures.  Expect to get off of the ground completely in ways that create life and require stabilization.  We will work both front body core strength and back body core strength while also exploring how ropes assist or change arm balances, inversions and bends.

Increase your focus skills by finding your center balance in different planes of movement.  This class will take you front aligned standing balances to shapes in flight on the wall to upside down inversions in a safe traditional way.  We will also explore some peak postures and how the ropes help us to find more balance and mobility to move deeper into those specific postures.  You must take two Ropes Explore or Align and Strengthen classes or a Ropes Workshop before taking this class.

A guided meditation followed by the healing sounds of crystal singing bowls.  This class is free - it's our way to give back to our community.  This class is for both a seasoned meditation practitioner and anyone who has ever wondered how to start meditating or who finds meditation difficult or complicated.  In this class you will be introduced to some basic breathing techniques and then guided through a meditation, ending with a restorative rest while listening to singing bowls.  No experience is required - the guidance and sound will help make the process of meditation more approachable.

Join us for a group seated meditation session.  We will briefly discuss meditation for a few minutes and then meditate together in silence while seated.  This is the traditional type of meditation that teaches us to find stillness by listening and simply observing.  We will discuss the benefits of this style of meditation and students are welcome to share and discuss their experiences.