These sessions offer an hour of dynamic Vinyasa Yoga centered around Sun Salutations and standing postures.  These are active sequences applying effort to overcome any inertia, and move our bodies in new ways to regenerate our inner momentum. This class is intended for participants of all levels, and to ensure that all students may practice as appropriate for their particular capacities and limits, Gaëlle will explain variations and offer personalized guidance.  While Gaëlle does incorporate hands-on adjustments, know that these are optional and communicate if you’d prefer not to receive them.  After our time building up our energies and synching our movements with the breath, we will find rest in an extended half-hour savasana.  As we settle into stillness, Gaëlle will play singing bowls, bells, rattles, and other instruments, creating a coherent soundscape to organize our energy field and support the subtle shifts ignited in our practice. 

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Slow Flow should feel like an extended morning stretch, opening up the body in a gentle way, an intuitive realignment and reset to begin the day. The class includes light Vinyasa, flowing through postures with care; breathing exercise to rebalance the nervous system; and restorative poses for deep relaxation and release, soothing away stress and enhancing mood and vigor.  Slow Flow aims to nurture the mind and body, to move in ways that feel good as we practice, and support us in feeling better beyond the mat.  This is an accessible class for all students.    Gaëlle will offer adjustments and honor participants' choice whether to receive them; please communicate clearly your preferences.  Bring a mat, towel, and water. 

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Find your flow in this gentle one-hour “Yang to Yin” Vinyasa class that incorporates both power and ease, like water soft and strong.  This class is designed for all levels of practitioner to connect with their inner wisdom and outward grace, and to hone awareness around what’s best for the body. Students will build confidence and broaden understanding around the essential elements of Vinyasa Yoga.  This class will work our strength and balance, and incorporate some targeted core-work, but know that Taylor prioritizes guiding students safely with modifications to dial intensity up or down.  Discover how postures may be modified and sequences might progress to build a feeling of familiarity and fluidity in this supportive environment.

These sessions offer an hour of dynamic Vinyasa Yoga centered around Sun Salutations and standing postures.  These are active sequences applying effort to overcome any inertia, and move our bodies in new ways to regenerate our inner momentum. This class is intended for participants of all levels, and to ensure that all students may practice as appropriate for their particular capacities and limits, Gaëlle will explain variations and offer personalized guidance.  While Gaëlle does incorporate hands-on adjustments, know that these are optional and communicate if you’d prefer not to receive them.  After our time building up our energies and synching our movements with the breath, we will find rest in an extended half-hour savasana.  As we settle into stillness, Gaëlle will play singing bowls, bells, rattles, and other instruments, creating a coherent soundscape to organize our energy field and support the subtle shifts ignited in our practice.  

With Sarah Reimer
Wednesdays 10:00 - 11:00 AM
January 7, 14, 21, 28 & beyond

Designed to quiet the mind, soften the body, and reconnect with the breath, this slow flow practice is suitable for all levels and provides a calm and steady reset.  We will begin by taking a few moments to journal, releasing any persistent thoughts or worries, and letting go of the mental clutter we might be carrying.  This will not be a lengthy time to reflect, just a focused pause to acknowledge what’s been occupying our mental space and let it leave through pen to page.  Setting our journals aside, we will center ourselves on the mat and begin with gentle seated postures to warm and ready the body for mindful movement.  Flowing though simple sequences, finding ease in our effort, we will make our way to standing postures to summon our stability, grounding ourselves with presence. Gradually we will wind down to a restful savasana; in stillness our awareness will reside with the breath.  To conclude we will take a brief opportunity to share reflections or questions, making space for support, connection, and community.  

This practice aims to open the heart and activate the Anahata chakra.  December can be an emotional month, a time to reflect on what we’ve experienced through the year, and year-end celebrations may evoke nostalgia for earlier times.  This is an opportunity to tap into our emotions, embody our feelings, and invite consciousness to reside in the heart-center, allowing an authentic love and receptivity in our relationships.  We will begin with a brief introduction and some minutes chanting and connecting with intention, then we will move into a dynamic vinyasa yoga practice focused on opening the chest though back-bending.  Gaëlle will offer adjustments, so please communicate if you’d prefer not to receive these.  This sequence is intended for all levels, and Gaëlle will offer instruction with variations to make it accessible.  About half our time will be dedicated to our yoga asana, and half to receiving healing sound vibrations as we rest in our heart-awareness, our essential being, processing our practice and allowing any inner shifts to integrate.  

For anyone who needs a break from being in the mind, this Vinyasa Flow practice will bring you back into the body and restore a better mind-body balance.  We begin with a meditation to center ourselves in the space, leaving behind thoughts of our experiences before class or what’s to come after.  By observing the breath we become aware of the physical body, mental body, and emotional body.  After dedicating this time in stillness to return fully to ourselves, we continue our meditation in dynamic movement.  We will focus on grounding into the earth’s energy to support us in moving freely, finding our own flow, and feeling how we can experience relaxation in movement.  The postures and sequences draw on the long tradition of Hatha Yoga and combine contemporary elements of Vinyasa Flow.  To close our practice we return to stillness allowing our bodies to integrate our experience with deep relaxation in Savasana.

​For anyone who needs a break from being in the mind, this Vinyasa Flow practice will bring you back into the body and restore a better mind-body balance.  We begin with a meditation to center ourselves in the space, leaving behind thoughts of our experiences before class or what’s to come after.  By observing the breath we become aware of the physical body, mental body, and emotional body.  After dedicating this time in stillness to return fully to ourselves, we continue our meditation in dynamic movement.  We will focus on grounding into the earth’s energy to support us in moving freely, finding our own flow, and feeling how we can experience relaxation in movement.  The postures and sequences draw on the long tradition of Hatha Yoga and combine contemporary elements of Vinyasa Flow.  To close our practice we return to stillness allowing our bodies to integrate our experience with deep relaxation in Savasana.