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Beginning yoga

The student will be introduced to:

• Basic yogic breath work (pranayama)
• Yoga postures, with an emphasis on safety and proper body alignment
• benefits and contraindications of various yoga postures (asanas) basic meditation deep relaxation

All levels yoga

• In addition to the practices of beginning yoga the student will be guided to:
• move into postures (asanas) more deeply
• hold asanas longer
• combine breathing techniques with asana practice
• deepen meditation practice

Restorative yoga

Students are guided through a series of deeply relaxing, supported yoga postures

Healing yoga for those touched by cancer
this class is open to people at all stages of treatment and recovery

• Healing for the body:
  
  Healing yoga supports you in staying in a caring relationship with your body, even when you find yourself dealing with an illness or disease. It offers a gentle and compassionate path back to movement by providing a progressive sequence of stretches and postures that allow you to choose the level of intensity of which your body feels capable on any given day. The posture (asana) practice promotes stretching and strengthening of muscles that retain stress after surgery while the practice of relaxation encourages optimum immune system function.
  
  
• Healing for the Heart and Spirit:
  
  When healing from an illness it is easy to become discouraged. We often feel depressed, anxious, angry, fearful and without control.
  
  Through the use of meditation, guided imagery, breath work, and deep relaxation yoga can help ease fear, anxiety and confusion. It can help you see things more clearly and find peace in your heart and your own inner wisdom. With yoga for healing you feel less victimized by your illness, and more of an active participant in your own healing and health. Through deep inward practice and meditation yoga can help us find islands of serenity in a world that so often can seem chaotic and harsh.