Special New Years Day class.

Hatha Core Flow Challenge,
 New Beginnings. 
Wednesday, January 1, 2014   10 am – 12:30 pm, $25.
Start New Year in the heart of your practice. Get to the core of what really matters and work it. Use this New Year’s day vigorous yoga practice to prepare for 2014, and face any New Years resolutions with success.

Be prepared for an intense, methodical workout in a peaceful, supportive environment. Extra attention will be paid to the three locks (jalandhara, uddiyana and mula bandhas). Explore how using them connects us to the power of our core and our breath. Class will include standing flow series, core exercises, back bending, basic to intermediate inversions, and deep floor stretches. A generous amount of time will be given at the end of class to pranayama and meditation. Appropriate for all levels (minimum of 6 months experience)Julianne Rice has been teaching Hatha Yoga classes in the Bay area since 1984 and at Yoga is Youthfulness since 2005. Her classes reflect her background in Iyengar, Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy and Dance. They focus on one’s whole hearted “personal best” – honoring strengths and weaknesses, motivation to grow, attention to detail and being present.

For over 25 years, Julianne taught yoga and managed the Hatha Yoga program at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment (www.csecenter.org) in San Jose. She has also taught at the Oracle Corporation, SRI, Stanford University, the Harker School, Willow Glen Yoga, corporate Power Camp retreats, American Musical Theater, and many local gyms, small companies and schools in the Bay area. Julianne has produced a Yoga instructional audio CD called Gentle Yoga for Every Body (juliannerice.com). She is a teacher of teachers.
She leads annual Yoga Retreats in the Santa Cruz Mountains and is also a facilitator of a system of improvisational self-expression called InterPlay (interplay.org)