This is a faster paced vinyasa flow class that will keep you active, aware and recharged.

For kids 5 - 12 years of age. Imagine channeling all the exuberant energy your kids have? This class will help them to learn how. How to have fun and relax at the same time. It will help your kids to build strength, flexibility and concentration in a non-competitive environment. You might be surprised with better grades, better sleep and better focus to everyday tasks. Give them a chance....

Our class is a gentle, focused introduction to fundamental Yoga principles, movements and poses. Many students who started in this class have made a comfortable transition to Ashtanga practice at Yoga is Youthfulness. This Hatha
class begins with a short seated time of centering, breathing and meditation. We proceed with core warm ups and body alignment, balance and concentration exercises and postures, then we move our entire body with some slow and quicker variations of Sun Salutations. We incorporate some standing poses in the variations. We maintain an interior focus and pay conscious attention to our breathing. Having thoroughly warming up, class proceeds to seated and/or lying down deep stretching. We conclude with a deep relaxation. The class is gentle yet challenging. It inspires flexibility, builds strength and improves balance in all ways.

On Saturdays the class is for Beginners 1: it focuses primarily on the needs of the new student to yoga. It sets a foundation, physically and philosophically - that can be carried forward into any other style of yoga. Other levels are always welcome.

On Tuesdays the class is for Beginners 2: it focuses on the needs of students with 6 months or more experience in yoga. Students with less experience are welcome to try this class to see if it suits their needs. For students who have no experience in yoga, Hatha Beginner 1 is a good foundation for this class and is strongly recommended as a pre-requisite.

The practice of Restorative Yoga uses props such as bolsters, blankets, straps, blocks and eye pillows. Starting out with gentle movements to stretch and warm the body, we transition into soothing and well-supported poses that offer us the opportunity to quiet the mind and replenish the body. Guided visualizations, poetry readings, or just the soft sounds of music help you relax and settle into a place of stillness.

The Restorative Yoga poses are practiced from 5-30 minutes and create numerous benefits for the body and the mind:

• Reduces stress and anxiety
• Slows down the heart rate and lowers blood pressure
• Encourages healthy patterns of breathing
• Moves the spine in all directions to increase flexibility
• Helps during recovery from illness or injury
• Stretches muscles, fascia and connective tissue to facilitate a full range of movement
• Reverses the effects of gravity with inverted poses, which changes the flow of blood and fluids
• Conserves energy, redirecting it to restore, replenish and rejuvenate the body
• Quiets the mind, increasing a sense of peace and well-being

Feel free to join this class even with little yoga experience (it helps to be reasonably fit). This class is divided into the following parts:

• 15 minute discussion on yoga philosophy and how it affects our practice and life
• Ashtanga vinyasa yoga led Primary Series up to navasana, then backbends and finishing postures. At some point there is the \"posture of the week\" where one particular posture is explored in more detail.
• 5 minute pranayama.
• 10 minute silent seated meditation.
• 10 minute well deserved rest!

Our class is a gentle, focused introduction to fundamental Yoga principles, movements and poses. Many students who started in this class have made a comfortable transition to Ashtanga practice at Yoga is Youthfulness. This Hatha
class begins with a short seated time of centering, breathing and meditation. We proceed with core warm ups and body alignment, balance and concentration exercises and postures, then we move our entire body with some slow and quicker variations of Sun Salutations. We incorporate some standing poses in the variations. We maintain an interior focus and pay conscious attention to our breathing. Having thoroughly warming up, class proceeds to seated and/or lying down deep stretching. We conclude with a deep relaxation. The class is gentle yet challenging. It inspires flexibility, builds strength and improves balance in all ways.

On Saturdays the class is for Beginners 1: it focuses primarily on the needs of the new student to yoga. It sets a foundation, physically and philosophically - that can be carried forward into any other style of yoga. Other levels are always welcome.

On Wednesdays the class is for Beginners 2: it focuses on the needs of students with 6 months or more experience in yoga. Students with less experience are welcome to try this class to see if it suits their needs. For students who have no experience in yoga, Hatha Beginner 1 is a good foundation for this class and is strongly recommended as a pre-requisite.

Both beginning and experienced students are welcome to join this mixed level class. All instructions in this class are simply an invitation to the students. Instead of muscling through and trying to make asana (pose) picture-perfect, the students are encouraged to listen to their body and follow their body\'s inner wisdom by carefully following the instructor’s alignment and physical cues. As we explore more challenging poses, the instructions get broken down to step-by-step, so that all students can try and find a variation of the pose which is most suitable for their condition of the day. While we keep re-visiting the same alignment principles, influenced by Anusara Yoga, the instructor picks up a different focus for the class each week. In this way, students will always learn something new or something old in a new perspective no matter how many times they have attended this class. This class begins with a little talk with a heart-based theme which is easy for students to relate to. The theme sets a tone for the class and helps students to experience yoga practice beyond physical realm. This will help student to apply their on-the-mat experience to the off-the-mat world of their daily life. This is one of best gems that the instructor received from Anusara Yoga.