EASY Yoga: A Gentle, Slow, Accessible Practice, SPRING TERM 2020
March 31, 2020 May 26, 2020
SERIES OF CLASSES

Join us for a gentle yoga class features simple yet profound movements that will enhance your well-being in a small group of inspiring, like-minded folks also interested in increasing peace of mind and health.

This course is perfect if you are recovering from injury, need support for arthritis or other chronic condition, feel out of shape and need to slowly build, or simply have a hectic schedule and need to slow down and regenerate.

This special course includes EIGHT weeks of 60-minute sessions, on Tuesdays, 10 to 11 am: MARCH 31; APRIL 7, 14, 21 [No Session April 28] and May 5, 12, 19 & 26.  Registration is for the full course.

Each week we practice a variation on the traditional approach of the Joints & Glands Sequence taught by Swami Rama and continued by the Himalayan Institute.  These  sets of pleasurable stretches are suitable for nearly any age and body type. 

Even if you are completely new to yoga and are concerned about your abilities, you can ease into stretches and align your body without complex and difficult poses.  The routines are simple, yet with surprisingly deep and often lasting benefits.    The major joints--especially the spine and hips--are worked progressively with repetitive movements in order to increase mobility and lessen tension.   Increase your circulation, improve your flexibility and capacity for fluid motion, all while finding a few moments of tranquility!  

Habits of posture and repetitive movements can, over the years, lead to a sense of frozen spots, discomfort, and fatigue.  All of these can impinge on an overall sense of dissipated energy.   

The simple yet profound yoga practices are designed to address and reroute such habits by systematically exercising different parts of the body with soothing stretches, breathing, and attentive, slow movements.  Gradually, awareness if brought back to the muscles and joints to reverse neglect.  Muscles that may have become weak are gradually and progressive strengthened so the body can once more be held in a comfortable, natural position.  Overall posture is improved so energy may once again have a strong container in which to flow and grow!  These exercises work on syncing the breathe with these movements and improving overall body awareness to help your integrated system nurture, heal, and thrive.

The use of yoga props is encouraged to make practices more comfortable and accessible.  We will often use the wall as well as yoga straps, and even chairs, bolsters, and blankets.  

Do not let the use of chairs fool you: Though our movements are simple and gentle, you will still get a full-body strengthening and stretch.  Regular yoga practice also enhances proprioception (the awareness of where the body is located in space) and overall body awareness, which has been scientifically proven to help manage pain.  It also simply reduces future injuries.

These simple exercises increase the circulation of blood, hormones, and other fluids to different parts of the body and restores a natural, flowing body image in the mind, all to re-establish a harmonious feeling of energy throughout the system.  Yoga is about working toward balance, not just physically, but also of mind, emotions, and overall vitality.

 

This course not only decreases stiffness and increases fluid motion of the muscular-skeletal system, but also includes specific conscious breathing and systematic relaxation techniques that help regulate the nervous system, igniting healing capacities and encouraging an overall sense of relief and peace.  Working with the breath as you move into and out of shapes and stretches helps release tightness and strain, makes motion easier and body awareness richer, and enhances mobility and ease.  As the body becomes calmer and comfortable, a natural sense of peacefulness arises.  Mental concentration improves and there is a lightness to being in one's body that in turn, makes everyday movements more fluid, balanced, comfortable, and strong.  

The final 10 to 15 minutes are spent lying down or seated in a chair, completing a guided relaxation, so you glean the most benefits from the practice and leave feeling soothed and refreshed!

Please BRING A YOGA MAT.  If you use a shared studio mat, please note there is a $2 rental fee and  it is your responsibility to sanitize it after each use (cleaning supplies provided).  Chairs and other props will be provided.  

The dedicated practitioner investment for this course is $128 with advance booking (OR $112 with Early Bird Special/$104 for VIPs)!  This course registration includes EIGHT 60-minute yoga classes for SPRING TERM 2020.

To get the most benefits of your practice, commitment is for all 8 weeks of the course term; there are no make-up classes, transfers, or substitutions.  

The $16/class rate ($14/class for Early Birds & $13 for VIPs!) is available ONLY for dedicated practitioners pre-registered and paid in full for the entire 8-week course.  If space remains after the beginning of Spring Term on March 30, 2020, a casual one-time class for EASY YOGA  is $21; reservations for casual classes must be booked through the teacher and payment is made in person, cash or check only.  Please note all attendance at AHA Yoga offerings require an advance RSVP.  

All Yoga & Meditation offerings offered by Virginia Hill at AHA Yoga provide a support to ignite your own inner capacities for transformation.  To reserve your place at the dedicated student rate, your investment for the full series must be received prior to attendance (and prior to March 22 for EARLY BIRD rate).  

All courses are designed for intelligent progression and turning inward; this turn is advanced practice, a a refinement of the mind that cultivates discernment, inner peace, & joy, so you notice and feel more of the beauty in, around, and through you.

AHA Yoga offerings are not designed to be fitness classes (though fitness is one ancillary result). Instead, all AHA Yoga classes are more traditional yoga courses geared toward mastery of the senses and mind. Hence,  all offerings are developed as courses or specialty workshops to this end, and thus full course registration is recommended as only dedicated practice achieves the best results.

Purchase of the tuition pass below for "EASY Yoga: A Gentle, Accessible Practice" confirms your agreement to the following Terms & Conditions as well as the Waiver and Release.

These policies allow me to continue offering you the best possible yoga teachings I can and ensure our community runs smoothly and this studio remains sustainable as well as sacred time and space to thrive.  Should you prefer to pay in cash or check, or require a payment plan  for the dedicated practitioner rate (available in two installments of $69 each, due March 30 & May 4), let me know and we can arrange something that serves both of us and allows you to partake of this unique series. Connect with me if you have any questions!  I would love to hear from you.  

Looking forward to seeing you on the mat.  I am so blessed and grateful to be able to be a part of yoga and meditation to our little neck of the woods; it could not happen without you, so thank you for being a part of this yoga community!  

In service,

Virginia Hill, AHA Yoga Teacher

Want to learn more about me and why I am so passionate about sharing this practice?  You can learn more about me, my practice, and other yoga & meditation offerings here.  Looking for beginning yoga with MORE physical challenge?  Then, instead, try Yoga for Beginners here.