Baby & Me
Baby & Me focuses on strengthening the spiritual, emotional and physical bond between parent and child. Using interactive, slow-moving postures the class is ideal for moms/dads and babies 4 weeks to crawling. Class also includes infant massage and various exercises that assist the development of your child’s motor skills. Baby & Me Yoga will help carry you smoothly through the busy early months of caring for a new baby.
Beginners
Beginners is a class devoted to new students who are interested in learning the foundations of yoga or for yogis who would like to focus on the basics of active practice. This class will concentrate on breathing techniques, postures, and alignment. Learn how to unite your breath with movement to create strength, flexibility, discipline, and focus while cultivating calmness in our bodies and our minds.
A practice that helps us slow down on and off the mat. Integrating awareness of movement in Hatha poses, with yin yoga, and restorative yoga to cultivate awareness to our deeper muscles, connective tissue, as well as deep release. This class is a great compliment to athletes, a vinyasa based practice, or for those looking to just find deep release mentally and physically.
Deep Integrative Stretch
Cultivating a deeper awareness of energetics and alignment in Hatha poses, and integrating Yin Yoga, and Restorative Yoga to focus on deeper muscles, connective tissue, and assist with deep release and relaxation. This class is a great compliment to athletes, a vinyasa based practice, or for those looking to cultivate improved awareness to the body and mind by slowing down on the mat and off. Expect to leave feeling relaxed, renewed, and ready for the upcoming week.
Gentle
Gentle is a great place to get started with yoga or for students who are looking to slow down their practice. A gentle class will help you begin to build the foundations for a strong yoga practice.
Gentle/Restorative
Gentle/Restorative is a great class for students looking to slow down their practice. It will help you build the foundations for a strong yoga practice. This class will be 45 minutes of Gentle yoga followed by 15 minutes of Restorative. Restorative yoga is often referred to as “active relaxation”. Props are used to support the body during a gentle and passive stretching practice; aiding in the alignment of the body and quieting of the mind. This class will balance the nervous system, deepen the relaxation response, and help to reduce anxiety and stress. After each class, our teacher and health coach Christie Rosen will be available for a short Q&A on various wellness topics. Every student will leave the studio with a free healthy recipe to start their week off right!
Hatha Flow
Hatha Flow focuses on individual alignment and uses breath to create meditation in motion. This challenging slow-flow practice allows students to build strength, flexibility, and peace of mind while exploring the depth of traditional yoga postures. Suitable for all levels of experience.
Heated Vinyasa
A deep, detoxifying, challenging sequence producing physical and mental release. Heat assists the body in becoming more supple and faciliating ease in postures for a broader range of people, including those with injuries or pre-existing conditions. Heat, conciously combined with skillful action and attention, allows the external body (skin), and internal body (muscle, soft tissues, organs) – to open and receive flow of blood and oxygen more readily as well as detoxify through breath and blood flow. Joints will bend and move without agitation, permitting a comfortable range of motion for studnets to ‘let-go’ and be in the moment. Prepare to explore, research, and leave feeling rejuvinated and relaxed. In a gently heated room.
Hot Yoga
Hot Yoga is a heated power yoga class designed to strengthen, stretch and challenge your body! This class will be heated and will also include added humidity to allow the body to become soft, supple and encourage flexibility. You will sweat, so please bring or buy a towel. This class will be geared to all levels and support will be given around modifications. The athletic style of these classes is great for runners, cyclists and athletes of all kinds as well as anyone that wants to challenge themselves through a heated yoga practice. Be sure to drink some water before you come and bring something for afterwards as well.
Pilates
Pilates strengthens the muscles that support the spine (the neck, shoulders, abdominals, hips and thighs) to bring balance into the body. This class targets the deep postural muscles within the body through a series of exercises aimed at building muscle strength and rebalancing the body.
Power Yoga
Power Yoga is a vigorous, cardio-based approach to the vinyasa style with an emphasis on linking strength with flexibility and breath. Power yoga is adaptable for all levels and is held in a heated room. Bring water and a towel and be prepared to sweat!
$8 Power Hour
$8 Power Hour is a discounted non-heated power yoga class to serve the Charlestown Community at just $8!
Prenatal Yoga
Prenatal Yoga is designed to honor the physical and emotional changes in our body, our baby, and ourselves. This class concentrates on using safe postures and breathing methods to help strengthen the uterus and pelvic muscles and keep the body flexible. Students in this class will focus on breath to connect mother and baby and prepare for a healthy and mindful approach to the challenges of pregnancy, labor, and childbirth.
Restorative Yoga Therapeutics
Restorative yoga is often referred to as “active relaxation”. Props are used to support the body during a gentle and passive stretching practice; aiding in the alignment of the body and quieting of the mind. Restorative Yoga Therapeutics helps to balance the nervous system, deepen the relaxation response, soothe the emotional body, reduce anxiety and stress, improve depression, stimulate restful sleep, and enhance immunity. Suitable for all levels and abilities.
Vinyasa Flow
Vinyasa Flow is a challenging and vigorous yoga class. The word Vinyasa means “breath-synchronized movement”. This class links postures with breath and movement creating a continuous and challenging flow. Suitable for all levels of experience.
Vinyasa Vibes
Vinyasa Vibes is a Vinyasa Flow class with a rockin’ playlist!
Yang/Yin
Yang/Yin yoga combines an invigorating (yang) flow for 45 minutes to warm the body and 30 minutes of restorative (yin) practice. This class allows for the cultivation of mindfulness, inward focus, and surrender while relaxing muscles to stretch connective tissues. Suitable for all levels of experience.
