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Niroga Center Yoga Class Descriptions

ALL LEVELS WELCOME!
For current schedule of classes, visit the Class Schedule page.

• Asana and Yoga Nidra (beginning in October 2011)
  Using two frameworks for experiencing ease of being, Asana and Yoga Nidra is focused on witnessing the movements of the body/mind and the ground from which these experiences arise and dissolve. During the yoga asana portion of the class, students are invited to explore their body/mind through a series of dynamic movements and postures, as well as breathing exercises. The class concludes with the meditative practice of yoga nidra where students will be invited to sense into the physical body, breath, emotions and beliefs to support deep relaxation, healing and self-inquiry.
• Dance and Yoga en Español
  Dance and Yoga en Español is open to all levels and physical abilities. This is a class where you can experience the richness and beauty of various latin dances to warm up your body for an hour long session of yoga flow. The class is taught mainly in Spanish, but also bilingually. This class is designed for anyone interested in exploring how dance and yoga compliment each other, deepening the awareness and benefits of the body in movement. It is also designed for anyone interested in experiencing dance and yoga in a different context and language. The class borrows from several mindful disciplines to form a unique practice that helps develop awareness and inner peace, while gaining balance, flexibility, and strength with grace.
  * No prior knowledge of dance, yoga or Spanish is required.  
• Family Yoga
  Family yoga is a playful way to connect with your children and with yourself as a parent and individual. Play, breath and asana are woven together in an environment that encourages all to find the joy in movement and being together. Children must be age 4 and up.
• Healing Yoga for Seniors
  This class applies the principles of Healing Yoga to help us age gracefully, addressing many of the common age-related changes in all of our physical systems. In addition to the many benefits of the practice for your body and mind, you will have an increased sense of well-being, as you learn to live each precious moment more fully. Bidyut has been teaching yoga to seniors for decades. No prior yoga experience necessary; all levels welcome!

  "It makes me feel wonderful - I'm 88 and I wish I had begun this practice 40 years ago. I can't say enough in favor of it!"
  – Yoga for Seniors participant

• Healing Yoga for Everyone
  All levels are welcome to this gentle yoga class designed to rejuvenate the mind, body, and spirit. Benefits include increased flexibility, pain reduction, injury prevention, and increased energy. Learn healthy tools to help manage stress, anxiety or depression.
• Kundalini Yoga
  Kundalini Yoga draws on Hatha Yoga postures, breathing techniques, physical locks, hand gestures, sets of movements, chanting, meditation and visualization. Benefits of Kundalini Yoga include balancing the energy systems in the body, including the brain, glandular and nervous systems, which helps one function at a consistently higher level, without exhausting the body.
• Meditation
  Experience what studies show can reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and put the mind/body at ease. Take 30 minutes to slow down your world and enjoy the stillness.
• Mindful Raja Flow
  Mindful Raja Flow is focused on movement as a form of meditation and works on linking body, breath, and mind. A flowing series of postures is followed with longer held poses to help balance and restore the body with emphasis on proper alignment. It is challenging, yet restorative and adaptable to all levels.
• Raja Flow
  Raja Flow is a mindful yoga practice focused on connecting breath with movement. This moving meditation flows from one pose to the next bringing awareness to the mind and body in each movement. This class is suitable for all levels and bodies.
• Raja Yoga
  Raja Yoga is the yoga of mindfulness, where yoga poses and breathing techniques come together to prepare your body and mind for meditation, the fascinating journey within. In addition to the many benefits of the practice for your body and mind, you will be gently guided to connect with your authentic self, the wellspring of love and compassion, fearlessness and freedom, joy and peace.

  "This has really expanded and deepened my yoga practice - life enhancing and life-changing. Thank you!"
  – Raja Yoga class participant

• Restorative Yoga
  In restorative yoga, we gently release tension and induce a deeply healing relaxation response through sustained, mild stretches comfortably supported with props, such as bolsters, cushions, blankets, blocks, and walls. As we yield to gravity in each position, we witness mindfully the flow of breath and any sensations, feelings, and thoughts that may arise and pass. Through practice, we cultivate physical ease, quiet minds, emotional balance, meditative awareness, and equanimous self-acceptance. We renew our energies and restore our embodied souls.
• Stress Management: Healing Yoga
  All levels are welcome to this gentle yoga class designed to rejuvenate the mind, body, and spirit. Benefits include increased flexibility, pain reduction, injury prevention, and increased energy. Learn healthy tools to help manage stress. Part of the lunchtime stress management series.
• Stress Management: iRest® Yoga Nidra
  iRest® Yoga Nidra is an evidence based transformative practice of deep relaxation and meditative inquiry that releases negative emotions and thought patterns, calms the nervous system, and develops an inner sanctuary of well-being and equanimity that underlies all circumstance you may encounter in your life. Research has shown iRest® Yoga Nidra effectively reduces PTSD, depression, anxiety, insomnia, chronic pain, and chemical dependency, as well as increases well-being. Class is led in savasana, a comfortable resting position. Part of the lunchtime stress management series.
• Stress Management: Mindful Flow
  Move mindfully through sequences of movements designed to relax tight muscles, release tension, and calm the mind using the powerful tools of breath and careful attention to our bodies. This class is appropriate for all-levels. Part of the lunchtime stress management series.
• Therapeutic Yoga
  The Therapeutic Yoga class is for those students with injuries who wish to help themselves to heal from injuries, as well as to obtain full therapeutic benefit from yoga. In this class modified poses are practiced that target specific injuries. These poses have been shown to benefit people with back strain, chronic back pain, sciatica, neck strain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and many other musculo-skeletal conditions.

  On some days, after class, a complimentary 15-minute therapeutic massage will be offered by the assistant teacher, a licensed massage therapist.

• Trauma Sensitive Yoga
  This class is open and accessible to everyone, regardless of physical ability. It is specifically designed to create a safe, supportive, and peaceful atmosphere for people who have been exposed to trauma, or chronic stress. At the same time, it is open to anyone who seeks to move away from old habitual triggers and self-judgment towards curiosity about their internal experience in the present moment.
• Yoga Flow en Español
  "Yoga Flow en Español" is a yoga class taught in Spanish that is open to people of all levels, physical abilities, and age groups. The class is specifically designed to make mindful practices accessible to Spanish-speakers, but it is also open to anyone who would like to experience yoga in a different context and language. The class aims to provide tools that promote balance, and help develop an awareness and curiosity of the present moment through a diversity of mindful movements and sequences, sometimes borrowing from different mindful disciplines. It is through this exploration of body and mind that we arrive at a graceful state where we can stay rooted and calm even when faced by challenging situations of every day life.

Niroga Center Class Fees:

$10 - Single Class
(unless otherwise indicated on the class schedule page)

$20 - 4 Class Card
NEW students only (expires in 30 days)

$90 - 10 class card
one card per student (expires in 90 days)

$75 - Monthly Membership
Unlimited classes and discounts on Niroga's Yoga Therapy workshops

Pro-rated membership during month:
• 1st-10th: $75
• 11th-20th: $125 (includes next month)
• 21st-31st: $100 (includes next month)