Where to Begin...
New Beginner Orientation: New students become familiar with basic alignment, beginning yogic breathwork (pranayama), postures (asanas), and philosophy. This single class gives you a solid foundation for entering your beginning classes.

Beginner: We focus on detailed instruction in the techniques of aligning the body as a way of entering into experience. The results are released tension, greater mindful awareness, and inner peace and tranquility. This class is good for first-time students as well as those with some experience or who are returning to yoga after many years. Continuing with detailed instruction, we begin to explore the subtler, more internal stages of the practice.

Gentle and Mixed-Level: For beginners and beyond (see descriptions, below). Beginners are encouraged to explore all their class options.

All Levels: These classes begin the early day and end our busy week. Time to care for ourselves through the practices. Beginners and more experienced welcome.

Kids' Yoga: (Ages 6 - 9) Join the Yogagaia Heart cisrcle where, through the practices of yoga, you will discover your story of planet earth. You will have fun with each other ans all the creatures we will meet along the way and you will receive their special gifts.

Beyond Beginner...
Gentle: Classes with mixed ability and knowledge of yoga are guided in gentle, rhythmic movement and breath. Here we learn to approach ourselves with gentle, loving compassion in body and heart.

Mixed-Level: Designed to meet the needs of beginning and more experienced students alike, allowing individuals to have a deep experience by meeting ourselves where we are.

Moderate to Advanced: We continue with more advanced postures and posture flows, and we learn deeper practices. Classes require at least six months' experience with postures, pranayama, and meditation.

Yoga and Meditation w/ Brahmani (Moderate & All Levels): Meditation is the primary practice in yoga. In these classes you will receive clear instruction and guidance in your meditation practice that can be carried into your asana practice. These classes are an invitation to dive into the practices of sitting meditation, passive (Yin) and active Yoga, pranayama and deep reflection. Each class will be filled with yogic practices integrated with inspirational dharma teachings. Brahmani weaves the yogic practices and teachings together with a Buddhist perspective, which allows us to access a deeper connection to the wisdom of our own true nature and realize that peace is possible right now. The contemplative teachings and practices are offered to support their integration into daily life.

Meditation, Yin Yoga & Pranayama
"I feel like I was on a 2 week vacation." TN "We cannot really experience anything without being present to it. True presence requires that we be attentive to what is happening ... here and now." Gunilla Norris This contemplative class is a time of deep inquiry. Time to deepen our meditation practice. In the quiet of meditation, presence simply allows everything within it to unfold. Yin Yoga is a perfect complement to our more active yoga and lives. In the long holdings the meridian system is nourished and prana awakened. The mindful practice continues here in the poses and as pranayama practice is integrated it enhances the practice and its benefits. Brahmani will give teachings while in the practice to support our living in awareness, our true home. Please join us for this opportunity to see what keeps us from living from our true essential nature; present in body, open in heart and awake in mind.

Just for Women...
Women's classes are an opportunity for women to use their intuitive feminine nature to explore their bodies, minds, and hearts. We learn to listen and respond from that place, through the practice of yoga and meditation.

Women—Pre-Natal: Pre-natal yoga can attune women to their inner rhythmns, strength and wisdom. We experience the beneficial techniques of yoga poses, breathing, focused awareness, visualization, and relaxation for ourselves and our babies. Classes emphasize strengthening muscles, flexibility, breathwork, balance and mindful awareness. Yoga can support us throughout our pregnancy by centering, calming, and energizing the body, mind, and spirit.

Women—Mommy & Baby (to 1 year): This class is designed to support the recovery of Mom from the physical, emotional, and spiritual stresses of giving birth. By participating with our children, we also reap the benefits of yoga as we cultivate a deepening, conscious, and loving connection. We allow the self a chance to reconnect, strengthen, and stretch into the role of Mother. As we nourish ourselves, we find joy in the demands of motherhood. The class will include postures for Mom without babies as well as postures for Mom with babies. We rebuild pelvic muscles and abs and strengthen the lower back, regaining tone while creating balance in relationship to self, baby, family, and beyond.

Just for Children...
Kids' Yoga (age 9 & above): Join the Yogagaia Heart Circle where you will discover: * your inner light * your body * your uniqueness * your connections to planet earth * your inner healer * your play center * each other * the web of life!

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