Are you interested in learning yoga in a safe, comfortable and supportive environment? Are you looking to reconnect with a yoga practice that has been challenged by other responsibilities? This 8 week series is designed for students New to Moving Spirit – including both beginners and those seeking to reconnect with a “beginner’s mind”. We will explore: Yoga Postures (Asana) Relaxation Connecting with your breath (pranayama) Meditation Yoga Philosophy and how it applies to daily living This series will help you increase body awareness, relax your senses and calm your mind. You will finish the series with an effective understanding of the fundamentals of yoga and techniques needed to continue your yoga journey.

Explore the fundamentals of yoga in a supportive, welcoming environment. In this class, you will learn yoga postures, breathing, and relaxation techniques to build or expand your yoga practice. Strengthen, balance, and energize your body and mind! Beginner to experienced students welcome! Teachers are trained to help you adapt the practice to support your personal goals and abilities.

Improve strength, tone, and flexibility! Develop a deeper sense of body awareness. This class combines yoga postures with somatic movement to integrate the whole body with an emphasis on core stability, neutral alignment, breath, and tension relief. Moderate level includes more advanced postures.

Pilates is a well known exercise system designed to strengthen the bodies' "core" which refers to our backs, shoulder girdle stabilizers and abdominals. With time, Pilates improves posture, muscle balance and ease and efficiency of motion. It's an exercise system which can decrease chronic aches and pains and provide a strong foundation for participation in all physical activities from dance to yard work.

Somatic education is a movement system designed to bring greater awareness and control to an individual's physiological process. By increasing body awareness through slow, graceful and gentle movements, participants can free themselves of habitual movement habits and postures and attain flexibility and freedom.

Practiced together, Pilates and Somatics are the opposite sides of a balanced coin. In short, Somatic movements reduce habitual movement patterns and chronic stiffness in order for participants to better adapt to the alignment and awareness that Pilates requires. Pilate's/ Somatic class will begin with gentle yet powerful movements from the Somatic system and then move onto the more rigorous strengthening of Pilates. A stretch and relaxation segment concludes class sometimes utilizing Somatic movements and sometimes using classic stretching and breath work. Participants leave refreshed and revived!

Have you always wanted to dance, yet were afraid to take the first step? This is a perfect class for you! Explore modern dance techniques, creative expression, improvisation, and choreography in a non-competitive setting. Have fun tapping into your full movement potential while increasing body awareness, flexibility, and strength.

Join in the fun of moving together as a parent/toddler team! Using age appropriate yoga postures, dance, music, and games, your children will expand their movement vocabulary. Watch them grow creatively, increase body awareness, and develop confidence as they explore the world around them!