Meets 4 Tuesdays
11:00 am-12:30pm

Add a little resistance to your yoga practice to increase muscle strength, build bone strength, and support the joints to increase stability in movement.

Schedule:

• Week 1 (Oct 1): Strengthen the feet, calves and lower legs

• Week 2 (Oct 8): Strengthen the hips

• Week 3 (Oct 15): Strengthen the spine and core

• Week 4 (Oct 22): Strengthen the upper back and shoulders
  

*Price: $100/$90.00 for Ahimsa members and if registered by 9/24/24

2 Tuesdays | April 16 and 23
11 am-12:30 pm

Release the issues that live in the tissues!

This 2-part workshop will include a combination of somatic and gentle yoga movements along with balls that are designed to help release the tightness and stress that lives in the muscles and the fascia--the human bodysuit.

Week 1: Spine/Shoulders, Upper Back, and Face

We will start with the spine, release the habitual holding patterns, and then move to the shoulders and upper back. The first session will include some ways to release the hidden holding of the face & jaw with a yoga self-directed “facial.”

Week 2: Feet, Hips, and Lower Back; releasing the tight muscles of these areas.

Purchase therapeutic balls on your own before the workshop
Approximately $40.00 plus shipping from https://www.lifesaball.org/store/c1/Featured_Products.html

• Two - 4.5-inch Easy Grips (2 x $8.00, any color)

• Two - Yellow Togu Balls (2 x $10)

• One - 2-inch Hollow Rubber Freeball ($4.00)

*Price for two workshops: $60/$50 for Ahimsa members
Price for a single class: $35

Meets 5 Tuesdays.
10:45 am-12 Noon

This series is an introduction to the yoga practice or can act as a refinement of your current practice. Linda will share her experience as a yoga therapist and a yoga teacher who trains other teachers. She will help you develop new skills and/or fine-tune your existing skills as you explore habitual patterns that can, over time, develop into problems and/or injuries. All are welcome.

This series is an excellent way for yoga teachers, beginning and seasoned, to fine-tune their cueing and alignment skills to work with all levels of yoga students easily. The series is approved for Yoga Alliance CE credits.

Each class will build upon the previous class so we can reinforce alignment and increase stability:

• Week 1 (Nov 7): Tadasana—Find out why this pose is called the Foundation of ALL Yoga Poses.

• Week 2 (Nov 14): Open Hip Poses—Direct counter poses to release tight, weak muscles from sitting and strengthen weak muscles for better movement, such as walking and balancing.

• Week 3 (Nov 21): Closed Hip Poses—Adding onto the work from the previous week, learn how to strengthen the front line of the body and the back line of the body.

• Week 4 (Nov 28): Salutations for students of all levels. One of the benefits of a movement practice such as a safe, slow-moving Vinyasa practice is the movement of circulatory fluids, freedom of breath, and stabilization as you transition from pose to pose.

• Week 5 (Dec 5): Taking care of YOU with a restorative and breath practice.

A PDF of the weekly practice will be supplied as a resource to build a home practice.

Price for the 5-week series: $100/$90 for Ahimsa members and those who register before 10/31/23.

Meets 5 Tuesdays
10:45 am-12 Noon

In the United States, an estimated 10 million people age 50 years and older have osteoporosis. Most of these people are women, but about 2 million are men. Just over 43 million more people — including 16 million men — have low bone mass, putting them at increased risk for osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is aptly named the Silent Disease because most people do not know they have it until they break a bone!

Week 1 (Oct 3): Open hip poses with supports and variations to support bone health.
Week 2 (Oct 10): Closed hip poses, including the posture and gait (walking) to support bone health.
Week 3 (Oct 17): Core and functional twists
Week 4 (Oct 24): Variations of backbends
Week 5 (Oct 31): Restorative and pranayama techniques

This series aims to enable you to modify your yoga practice so you can continue to practice safely and use the practice to strengthen your bones. It will include resistance and movement practices and yoga to increase functional stability and movement. Each session will include a pdf for a continued home practice.

*Price: $100/$90.00 for Ahimsa members and if registered by 9/26.

Meets 5 Tuesdays. No class July 4.
10:45 am-12 Noon

This series is an introduction to the yoga practice or can act as a refinement of your current practice. Linda will share her experience both as a yoga therapist and as a yoga teacher that trains other teachers. She will help you develop new skills and/or fine-tune your existing skills as you explore habitual patterns that can, over time, develop into problems and/or injuries. All are welcome.

This series is an excellent way for yoga teachers, beginning and seasoned, to fine-tune their cueing and alignment skills to work with all levels of yoga students easily. The series is approved for Yoga Alliance CE credits.

Each class will build upon the previous class so we can reinforce alignment and increase stability:

• Week 1: Tadasana—Find out why this pose is called the Foundation of ALL Yoga Poses.

• Week 2: Open Hip Poses—Direct counter poses to release tight, weak muscles from sitting and strengthen weak muscles for better movement such as walking and balancing.

• Week 3: Closed Hip Poses—Adding onto the work from the previous week, learn how to strengthen the front line of the body and the back line of the body.

• Week 4: Salutations for students of all levels. One of the benefits of a movement practice such as a safe slow-moving Vinyasa practice is the movement of circulatory fluids, freedom of breath, and stabilization as you transition from pose to pose.

• Week 5: Taking care of YOU with a restorative and breath practice.

A pdf of the weekly practice will be supplied as a resource to build a home practice.

Price for the 5-week series: $100/$90 for Ahimsa members and those who register before 5/31.