This is how you do it...
Step by step....
- Create an account.
- Create a password
- Buy an intro pass online (no cash, no checks, no in studio purchases please).
- Sign up for the class or classes you want to attend
- Come to class 10min early.
- Stay until the end of the class
Some Yoga 101 for brand new Yogis
We use a little Sanskrit....
Chaturanga
Savasana
Namaste
Listen to your instructors voice to guide you through the practice.
Yoga instructors normally don't usually do the class with you.
The instructor is watching you, The instructor is watching the class and making sure you are safe. Experienced instructors will have very precise verbal cues to lead you through the practice. If you feel more comfortable watching someone do the postures, let your instructor know that you are new and ask who you can watch. That way the new students are not watching other new students. Listen to your instructors voice to guide you through the practice.
Bring a water bottle, and your own mat. Due to covid we can no longer offer complimentary mats. We do have cold filtered water and towels at no extra charge.
Wear fitted exercise clothing. nothing too baggy or warm.
If you feel hot, you can step out or lie down.
Some instructors use hands on adjustments. Hands on adjustments are to help you get deeper into the posture and are meant to feel great. If you prefer not to be touched show your peace fingers and we will pass you by.
Leave your ego outside the studio...
Not everyone can do every pose or every chaturanga. Listen to your body, if something is cramping, pulling, squeezing, impinging or hurting, Please do not do it.
As long as you are breathing, and as long as you are aligned you are doing the yoga correctly. That means lay down if you want to.
There are no specific levels in yoga
A deep stretching, on the floor, holding still, yoga class may be excruciatingly difficult for one person and very easy for another, while an intense flow class filled with down dogs, up dogs and warriors may be difficult for another.
Our classes are set in 3 basic categories.
Yin/Zen. deep stretching usually on the floor.
YinYang. some flow and some Yin.
Flow-mostly standing postures and sun salutations flowing from one pose to the next.
At the end of the class our instructor will give you a cool scented towel, if you prefer not to have the towel, show your peace fingers and we will skip you.