If you are a new student at YHE, you may wish to consult with our staff to find your best placement.

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Pre Natal Yoga: Connect with your baby through relaxation, breath work and opening postures. Gentle yogic stretches with focus on breath work and meditation. Drop-In class with discounted rate for 6 or more classes.

Chair Yoga: Especially suited for those who prefer not to, or cannot, work on the floor. All yoga postures will be done seated or standing using a chair for support and balance. A well-rounded variety of yoga poses for strength and flexibility are taught, along with breath work and relaxation.

Gentle Yoga: Designed for anyone recovering from illness, surgery, and injury; or who simply want a relaxing, mindful class. You will learn yoga foundation basics and how to apply yoga principles in your life. Gentle breath techniques and meditation are part of the experience. Poses will be modified for all abilities.

Yin Yoga: A quiet, meditative practice that brings balance to the muscular body by passively working and rehabilitating connective tissue & ligaments with gentle traction & breath. Excellent for gaining flexibility in the joints and in the mind. Well suited for overly active minds & bodies, arthritis, neuro-muscular issues; healing old injuries & much more. Great before a high energy activity.

Beginning Yoga: Learn yoga from the beginning with a taste of history, philosophy, and the foundation poses. Learn the process of yoga and how to apply yoga in your daily life. Emphasis is on utilizing the breath in movements. You will learn a daily routine and how to ground and center your energy.

Mastering Yoga Basics: This class is designed for All Levels of students who wish to focus on yoga poses that address our body’s most basic issues – muscular strength, balance and poses that release tightness in hips, shoulders and back.

Beginning & Beyond: Refresh your understanding of yoga from the beginning. This class is designed to teach and re-teach the basics of foundation, grounding, movement, breathing & relaxation. Class focus is on proper alignment and adapting yoga to your physical & mental needs. A great class for active people starting yoga for the first time, students returning to yoga after a time away, or for experienced students wishing to strengthen their practice.

Kundalini Fire Series: A yoga technology based on the teachings of Yogi Bhajan, synchronizing the breath with movement that literally opens tense areas of the body, clears the head, and gives an incredible overall body feeling of flexibility & resiliency. An excellent class for boosting the immune system, working the endocrine system, and soothing the entire nervous system - a cardio intensive practice that detoxifies the body. Suggested Prerequisite: Beginning Yoga

Yoga for Teens: Is there a more challenging period of growth than adolescence? Yoga addresses the issues of life as a teenager and this class is specifically designed to bring hormones into balance; clarity & sharpness to the mind; strength, coordination & flexibility to the body; appreciation and respect for one's body & mind. This class is designed for youth in good health who want to have fun and be challenged in a non-competitive setting. The class is FREE
and students who attend 10 classes in the Session will receive a New Yoga Mat.

Continuing Yoga: The next level after Beginning & Beyond, builds strength and provides motivation for your own personal practice. You will be guided in ways of breaking the cycle of stress, balancing the body’s energy flow with holding poses and Vinyasa. This is a rigorous practice, building inner fire while developing flexibility, and endurance including sun/moon salutations, inversions, and advanced asana. Pranayama, meditation, and deeper studies are a part of
all intermediate classes. Teaching is progressive. Prerequisite for Continuing Classes: Strong foundation of yoga fundamentals and physically fit.

Yoga Flows: Connecting poses in a flowing sequence is called vinyasa. Learning the basics of foundation in Beginning or Beginning & Beyond classes is best before doing Good Morning, Slow or Sunrise flow yoga, which require good health and strength. Flows increase flexibility and stamina. Sunrise Flow is demanding, involving numerous weight-bearing positions for hands & arms. Great for strengthening legs and opening hips & shoulders. Moon Flow is a compliment to the Sun Flow with most poses moving laterally, thus minimizing upper body weight bearing positions. Great for strengthening legs and opening hips & shoulders. Continuing classes include vinyasa sequences.

 

Rise & Shine Yoga: The latest technology attracts the athlete to get an edge on their sport and promotes a quick fix. However, the power of breath, flexibility and discipline is overlooked and can be the secret to a long-lasting life of athleticism. In this class, you will learn the essential ingredients to a complete training program that lead to effective and powerful performance outcomes.

Yoga with Weights/Fusion with Weights: Add light weights to your yoga practice for enhancing strength and muscle tone, along with attention to balance and proper alignment! You will need to bring two small weights (one or one and a half pounds) or two regular 8-ounce water bottles to this class.

Yoga for Back Issues 1: Regardless of age, activity level, medical history, and current back condition, this therapeutic, educational class will bring relief to your situation. Most importantly, you will learn basic yoga movements that can be practiced at home to ease, and possibly remedy, most back issues.
Yoga for Back Issues 2 is a maintenance class for graduates of Back Issues 1. Yoga for Arthritis & Stiff Bodies: A specialty, therapeutic class for tight bodied folks and those suffering with arthritis. Come look at a fresh new perspective of arthritis, including fibromyalgia, and take-home ideas each week for creating change and healing.

Tai Chi: Discover this system of beautiful flowing movements, relaxed breathing, and meditation to awaken internal energy, build strength & endurance, enhance flexibility, improve balance & coordination, and reduce the stress of daily life.

Sound Baths: A therapeutic experience that involves immersing oneself in the soothing sounds of singing bowls, gongs, chimes, and drums which produce harmonious frequencies that resonate throughout the body, inducing a state of deep relaxation and inner peace. Participants lie comfortably on mats enveloped in a cocoon of sound, allowing tensions to melt away and the mind to drift into a meditative state.

Ecstatic Dance: is a free-form dance with no choreography, simply intuitive movement. The dance playlist creates a wave of rhythms to facilitate journeying. The intention is to form community connection and connection with one’s mind, body and soul.

Private Yoga Classes, Yoga Therapy and Ayurvedic Consultations, along with presentations for business,

are available with YHE staff.

Please call for details.