Yoga & Meditation Lunch Hour, SPRING TERM
April 26, 2019 July 12, 2019
SERIES OF CLASSES

Give yourself a healthy break during your Friday lunch hour, and wrap up your week & invigorate your upcoming weekend with this all-levels practice in a bright, serene, and welcoming environment. Join this quick practice for a fun yet quiet hour in a room full of like-minded folks who are equally interested in finding peace of mind and inspiration, as well as bodily health.

This course includes ten one-hour sessions, on Fridays, noon to 1 pm:  April 26; May 3, 10, 17, & 24 [NO SESSION May 31]; June 7, 14, 21, & 28; and July 12 [NO SESSION July 5].  Registration is for the full course.

These lunch hour sessions combine gentle warm ups, slow flows, stretching, and strengthening to replenish your system, without making you so tired or sweaty you can’t go back to the office or run errands.  It will help you energize AND relax, as you gently work the body and calm the nervous system.  These simple yet deep practices all work to reignite your sense of ease and renewed purpose, as we integrate physical and meditative practice more explicitly.

 

Your Yoga & Meditation Hour will start with a centering practice to catch the breath plus soothing warm-up stretches for 10 minutes to loosen up tightness.  Then we'll shift to half an hour of classic yoga asana (postures) to work and release tension in the body.  

Attention to alignment also clarifies that active mind, gathering its one-pointedness to a soft focus to help lessen the frazzled mental strain that may accumulate through a hectic work week.

Each session then shifts to 10 minutes of supine systematic relaxation, working with diaphragmatic breathing and guided the mind's focus to energetic points in the body to help free up physical, emotional, and psychological burdens.  If you must gather yourself to return to work within the hour, this is a reliable break after 50 minutes, where you can quietly leave the classroom to return rejuvenated to your workday.

Have a little extra time? Stay 10 additional minutes for an extended seated meditation to finish off a full, well-rounded practice for a satisfying lunch hour of yoga asana (stretches) plus the much-needed and richly rewarding practice of meditation to refine and empower the mind.  Return to your afternoon refreshed!   

This is an all-levels course, so it is appropriate for absolute beginners as well as long-time yoga students.  Everything is cued and there are ample demonstrations.  It does require the capacity to get up and down from the floor, and some weight will be born on the hands and knees.  Most postures can be modified for more accessibility as well as additional challenge, and many alternate poses are also provided.  

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).  

 

All sorts of yoga props, such as straps,  blankets, blocks, hand-weights, sandbags, & eye-pillows are provided.  If you are not sure what those are--no worries!--you soon will; it is all in the service to making our yoga session more comfortable and RELAXING. If you have preferred personal props, feel free to bring those.    

This is a very special course because it combines asana (physical stretching), relaxation AND meditation, the traditional goal & centerpiece of yoga practice.  10-minutes of meditation, mostly guided then with a few minutes of silence, is an ideal practice for those just starting a regular meditation routine.  For those with an established meditation routine, it is also beneficial to add this weekly group meditation time to help solidify and enrich your personal practice.  Starting meditation after asana and effective systematic relaxation allows you to very easily slip into a meditative state, where you are then guided through a traditional, trustworthy step-by-step system to gently guide the mind to rest and thrive.

The dedicated practitioner investment for this course is $160 with advance booking (OR $140 with Early Bird Special)!  This course registration includes TEN 60-minute yoga classes. This course meets for 10 weeks, from noon to 1 pm on Fridays.

To get the most benefits of your practice, commitment is for all 10 weeks of the course term; there are no make-up classes, transfers, or substitutions.

The $16/class rate ($14/class for Early Birds!) is available ONLY for dedicated practitioners pre-registered and paid in full for the entire 10-week course. If space remains after the beginning of the Term on April 22, 2019, a casual one-time class for YOGA & MEDITATION LUNCH HOUR is $21; reservations for casual classes must be booked directly with 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 . Because AHA Yoga classes are not designed to be fitness classes (though fitness is one ancillary and amazing result), and instead are more traditional yoga classes geared towards mastery of the senses and mind, all offerings are developed intelligently as progressive courses or specialty workshops. Thus full course registration is recommended as only dedicated practice achieves the best results.

Purchase of the tuition pass below for "YOGA & MEDITATION LUNCH HOUR" 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 $85 each, due April 22 and June 3), 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 bring 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 AND enabling it to continue & grow!

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 a course for a different day, time, or goal?  Then check out the full course schedule here.

It is an honor to share this tradition with you and our community.  I look forward to practicing with you! Come See, Come Do, Come Feel, Come Shine.