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Yoga Programs
individual and group private, in-home or in-studio available
Our teachers are trained in the following methods, which can be applied to all levels of practice. Private yoga is recommended for anyone searching for a deeper practice, beginners who need a good foundation before going into a studio setting, and people struggling with specific healing needs such as chronic injury or disease. Yoga in all of these methods is an effective way to guide people toward healing from within, offering a tool with thousands of years of study behind it for wellness.
Hatha Yoga
Considered the base for all other lineages of study, Hatha Yoga opens students up to the thousands of poses available from thousands of years of yoga's brilliant history. Students are guided through the poses with a focus on their therapeutic applications when practiced with mindfulness to detail. Hatha literally translated from Sanscrit means "sun and moon", and is interpreted to include the female and male aspects of the study. In this way, Hatha Yoga study uses paradox such as rooting into the earth to lengthen the body, or feeling very strong and stable while staying flexible in a pose.
Ashtanga Yoga
Ashtanga Yoga is a study of yoga taught by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois at the Ashtanga Yoga Research Institute in Mysore, India. This method of yoga involves synchronizing the breath with progressive series of postures—a process producing intense internal heat and a profuse, purifying sweat that detoxifies muscles and organs. The result is improved circulation, a light and strong body, and a calm mind.
Vinyasa Yoga
This style of yoga actually developed from the Ashtanga practice. It is less formal in sequence, and encourages using a flowing sequence that is creatively put together to match the needs and goals of the student. This practice can be quite rigorous, producing the same intense internal heat and detoxification of the muscles and organs as Ashtanga Yoga. It can be tailored to a gentle flowing class that encourages deeper breath and flexibility through the flow of poses.
Phoenix Rising Method Yoga
In yoga poses from any study, the body re-discovers parts of itself that have stored emotions, histories, or general tension. This method of teaching yoga is distinct in that each student is regarded for his/her uniqueness from a holistic paradigm for healing. It is a client-centered, non-prescriptive method of using yoga to explore and discover the inner landscape of each client. That is to say that, rather than diagnosing problems and administering a program of healing, the teacher uses yoga to explore what is going on for clients and how they can heal their own lives through this deeper understanding of themselves. This is different from psychotherapy in that it is rooted in the tradition of Hatha Yoga, and is a body-centered mode of healing rather than a mind-centered one.
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