Gentle movement with safe alignment, and a contemplative presence. Moving and exploring at your own unique pace.

A physically more lively practice including Inversions, backbends, rigorous flow. Mindfulness practice during class is emphasized.

Sharing stillness, embodied and attentive presence, openness, poetry and readings with one another during this contemplative practice each Wednesday. Designed each evening to work with who arrives and how we might best encourage, nourish and support ourselves and one another. No special prerequisites. Show up as you are and we’ll support one another and ourselves as we practice meeting this difficult era. About 30 minutes each evening.

The simplicity of the flow of motion, breath, and sensation as the centerpiece of the yoga practice. Generous and dynamic.

Gentle exploration of generous movement, postures, stillness, and relaxation. For everyone.

The general form of poses, simple flow, introduction to yoga breathing and the practices of mindfulness. A more lively physical class than Beginning Mindfulness-Base Yoga

Mindfulness is a basic human ca- pacity for attentiveness to the direct experience of living moment-to- moment. A very accessible and therapeutically relevant expression of mindfulness is ‘awareness, of present experience, with accep- tance.’ During times of acute stress, trauma or difficulty the body will appropriately adapt by shifting to a mode of high-alert. This mode may echo through a person’s life in some form as an ongoing state physiologically, neurologically and emotionally. External stressors may be gone, but the state may en- dure in the long term and decrease the capacity for ease and recupera- tion. Such lingering stress may take many forms such as pain, dif- ficult physiological states, moods, and more. This can affect health over the long term, often in pro- found, destructive ways. [11] [12]
The practice of mindfulness medi- tation, a foundational element of self-care, can mitigate this linger- ing stress. It enhances the capacity for mindfulness, the ability to rest sustained awareness on the direct experiences of life: physical sensa- tions, thoughts, sounds, affective states, churning of thought, and more. Being more capable of sus- tained attention on current experi- ence enhances the capacity to dis- cern the experience of unconscious reactivity and distraction from the capacity for intuitive choice and conscious attentiveness. As a con- sequence, there is a tendency to be more responsive and less reactive: physiologically, neurologically, emotionally and socially. As these burdens lift, people are potentially more healthy and capable of heal- ing. Practitioners are more capable of compassionate and healthy inter- and intrapersonal relationships. The therapeutic consequences of this practice are substantial and are being well recognized in the fields medicine and psychotherapy in a variety of ways.