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class descriptions

Use your amrita punchcard, membership, or drop in to attend any of the classes listed below.

For a list of wellness program class descriptions, click here.


yoga basics (pre-level 1)
For the absolute beginner, or the student new to alignment-based yoga, this class teaches the basics of yoga and alignment. Limited to 12 students, the class includes demonstration, hands on support, easy to learn poses for take home practice, and a step by step support into a Level 1 class at amrita.
 
sundays 10 - 11:30am with nikki
 


level 1
A class for students new to yoga. We’ll focus on understanding and getting connected to the core of the body, standing poses, beginning sun salutations, and alignment principles.
 
tuesdays 9 - 10:15am with nikki
  5:30 - 7pm with lani
thursdays 9 - 10:15am with nikki
sundays 10 - 11:30am with sarahjoy
 


level 1 - 2
A blend of level 1 and level 2, for students deepening their practice but not yet ready for a full level 2 class.
 
mondays 9 - 10:15am alternates sarahjoy & liz
wednesdays 9 - 10:15am alternates sarahjoy & liz
thursdays 5:30 - 7pm with lani
fridays 9 - 10:15am with liz
saturdays 8 - 9:15am with susana
 


level 2
For continuing students, this class includes a philosophical foundation about how we practice and why and deepens the practice of asana and awareness. Asana includes sun salutations, dynamic standing poses, beginning inversions, backbends and arm balances, and seated twists.
 
mondays 10:45 - 12:15pm with sarahjoy
  5:30 - 7pm with emily
wednesdays 7 - 8:15am with vicky
  10:45 - 12:15pm with sarahjoy
  5:30 - 7pm with sarahjoy
fridays 7 - 8:15am with patricia
sundays 8 - 9:40am with sarahjoy
 


level 2 - 3
A blend of level 2 and level 3, for students deepening their practice but not yet ready for a full level 3 class.
 
saturdays 10 - 11:15am with susana
 


level 3
For the early morning yoga devotee! This class varies between energetic vinyasa sequences and dynamic standing poses, arm balances, independent inversions, and seated forward bends and twists. The atmosphere is inward, quiet and connected, with good doses of communal laughter.
 
tuesdays 7 - 8:15am with sarahjoy
thursdays 7 - 8:15am with sarahjoy
 


yoga and strength conditioning
 
A combination of traditional yoga poses and conditioning exercise using exercise balls and therabands. Designed for specific conditioning of the stabilizing joints in the body to support rehabilitation from injury and cross-training for athletic pursuits.
 
mondays 8:15 - 9:15am with lynn
  6 - 7pm with nikki
tuesdays 9:15am - 10:15am with sarahjoy
wednesdays 8:15 - 9:15am with lynn
thursdays 4 - 5pm with sarahjoy
saturdays 9 - 10:15am with emily
 


awareness and alignment (level 1+)
Using yoga poses and pranayama, this class will be an investigation into the process of how we train the mind to come to awareness. We will also specifically discuss and explore anatomy and alignment. The practice of “training” the body to learn new movement patterns and to resonate in alignment internally and externally acts as a microcosm of “training” the mind to come back to awareness and to resonate with expansive insight and grounded attention. In this, there is a spontaneous ease and delight that comes to the heart.
 
sundays 10 - 11:30am with sarahjoy
 


beyond asana (level 2+)
The practice of yoga encompasses much more than asana. This class will use asana as a deepening touchstone, a place to explore the inner-sight of our yoga. It will also include pranayama, meditation, chanting, and restorative yoga. Class begins with a discussion of the philosophy of the practice to help us focus and come to the greatest depth of the moment.
 
sundays 8 - 9:40am with sarahjoy
 


happy hour yoga (all levels)

This class features a different teacher and curriculum each month, focusing on a different set of asanas, alignment principles, and philosophy. Special drop in rates apply: $8 per person, or bring a friend and you can both attend for $7 each!

Kimberley will be leading May's Happy Hour classes.

 
fridays 5:30 - 7pm with rotating staff
 


prenatal yoga
Designed to support your changing body and emotions, prenatal yoga cultivates strength and awareness to prepare for birth and mothering through asana, breathing, and deeply relaxing restorative poses. Join as early in pregnancy as you feel ready, keep coming as long as you want! (While our pre-natal students are welcome in any of our regular classes, there are unique benefits (ie. physical, emotional, social, etc) to being in a class dedicated to pregnant women.)
 
tuesdays 5:30 - 6:45pm with emilee
 


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last updated 06/14/10
by warren@amritasanctuary.com