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YOGAPALOOZA - JANUARY 7-13
ALL SCHEDULED CLASSES* FREE ALL WEEK 

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(*Excludes children's classes)

 December 2006
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Fees

Join Anytime - Session Fees can be pro-rated.
Single Class Rate - Drop in: $15
Class cards* - 10 classes / $120  (expires 4 months from date of purchase)
*class cards are for Yoga classes only

Beginners Yoga  [top]
This class will introduce participants to all aspects of Yoga including breathing and meditation. Instruction focus will be on the correct execution of asanas (postures) and building a strong foundation for future yoga practice. Gentle modifications and individualized attention to participants will be provided to meet the unique needs of those just beginning the journey and support the development of those who wish to expand their personal practice beyond books and videos. Class size is limited

Daily Yoga Practice  [top]
This class will be a Beginner/Intermediate practice focusing on the fundamentals of Yoga. Each day will have a specific focus, i.e. standing poses, balance poses, backbends, inversions, twists, etc. Yoga postures exercise every part of the body, stretching and toning the muscles and joints, the spine and entire skeletal system. They work not only on the body’s frame but also the internal organs, glands, and nerves, keeping all systems in radiant health. By releasing physical and mental tension, they liberate vast resources of energy. The breathing revitalizes your body and helps to control the mind, leaving you calm and refreshed, while the meditation gives you increased clarity, mental power and concentration. Participants may attend as many classes each week as they chose. This series is offered to support the development of a regular practice and individuals are encouraged to attend often to gain maximum benefits from their yoga practice.

Power Yoga   [top]
Alignment-Based Power Yoga: this class presents a modified Astanga sequence, and gives equal attention to the building of strength and suppleness, and to the best anatomical structure of each pose for each individual participant’s body-type. It would be an especially useful course for people who have been active athletically and who are interested in working through old injuries or imbalances brought on by their athletic involvement, or by the periods of physical neglect that can follow intense athletic involvement

RESTORATIVE YOGA  [top]
A gentle practice that passively opens the body to help de-stress as well as to encourage deep relaxation. Restorative yoga can soothe the nervous system, aid in digestion, calm the mind, and promote total body health. The Sunday evening practice is a perfect way to close the weekend and embrace Monday with a happy heart. Accessible to everyone.

FOR THE LOVE OF YOUR BODY  [top]
Improving how you look and feel is a wonderful thing. So why do we often embark on that journey out of shame, disdain, guilt, and other negative “motivators”? Come condition, tone, laugh, energize, and enhance health and well being with Love Your Body Yoga. Drawing from the yogic tradition of Kundalini, Love Your Body Yoga is designed to help burn calories and shape muscles, while conditioning the glands, digestive system, nerves and immune system. Love Your Body Yoga encourages a healthy metabolism, balanced hormones, comfortable digestion, a positive attitude, and a good night’s sleep. With time each class focused on core strengthening we’ll tome the tummy and enervate “navel power” – in yoga, the center of our strength and will. So come work your body, for the love of your body.

Prenatal Yoga  [top]
Prenatal yoga addresses the physical and emotional changes one experiences throughout a pregnancy. Yoga can help alleviate some physical challenges common during pregnancy, such as backache, poor circulation, restless sleep, and struggles with balance. Yoga has also been used to keep the body in shape throughout the pregnancy and to tone and create flexibility in the parts of the body used during the birthing process. The emphasis on different breathing techniques calms the nerves and relieves stress, and may be useful during labor. Yogic meditation builds focus while melting away anxieties. A prenatal yoga class is a great way to meet other pregnant women, forge a community, and stay positive and motivated. While this class is appropriate for all levels, please consult with your medical practitioner about what is appropriate for your pregnancy.

Vinyasa Flow Yoga  [top]

Ride the transformative wave of vinyasa and enjoy a dynamic, engaging practice designed to stimulate body, mind and spirit by bringing the fluid body into balance with the vibrating world. Combining graceful, energetic movement with breathwork and centering strategies, the vinyasa practice cultivates physical vigor and precision, which brings mental energy and clarity. Increase strength and flexibility and restore balance by beginning or ending your day with vinyasa flow.

Toddlers in Motion I (12-24 months) & II (18-36 months)  [top]
This 45-minute class is designed for children and their parents/caregivers. While the class focuses on the gross motor skills, children also learn movement through imagination. Your child will have fun dancing to music, learning new songs, animals, shapes, and body parts through yoga poses, all while being supported by a caregiver. Enjoy exploring all the new movements and skills your busy one is acquiring!
FAMILIES ENCOURAGED TO SIGN UP FOR SERIES AS CLASS WILL BUILD THEMATICALLY

Yoga for Young Athletes (6-9 year-olds)  [top]
The focus of this class caters to developing athletes wishing to heighten their body control, awareness, and balance, vital skills to all sports. Using strength-building poses, the class will promote breathing, confidence, mental focus in competitive situations, and the ability to make graceful, split-second changes of body motion.

Yoga Bugs (3.5-5 year-olds)   [top]
Cows, dogs, penguins, and lions all in one class? Kids are natural yogis; come and experience a playful fun approach to yoga. Yoga helps develop better body awareness, self-control, flexibility, and coordination. Your child will have fun and learn through animal poses, storytelling, and yoga games. In addition, yoga tends to help children get a better night’s sleep, as they are more relaxed and calm.

YOGA FOR WEIGHT LOSS AND HEALTH   [top]

This 8-week series is dedicated to providing a safe program for losing weight, trimming and toning the body, and maintaining good health.

Physical, Mental, and Emotional Benefits

Through a graduated series of yoga postures, or asanas, specifically designed for weight loss, and through increased awareness of complimentary life-style options, you can learn to quiet the mind and its persistent demands, and to honor and feel at home in the body and its capabilities. As you come into that quiet self-acceptance, you become better able to work patiently toward change.

Self-Sustaining and Modified for Your Needs

The 8-week series will provide specific and appropriate tools you can use to create your own sustainable program for healthy living. From personal experience with the specific benefits of regular yoga practice, the instructor will guide you in each class meeting through safe sequences of linked yoga postures that simultaneously energize, strengthen, tone, and create the inner heat that burns calories. From one week to the next, sessions will include manageable upgrades to increase the benefits of the practice while keeping it a pleasurable journey at your level of need and comfort.

The Pleasures of the Journey

Most of us take certain aspects of our lives very seriously; and when it comes to “our bodies, our selves,” we often become heavy with our own seriousness. But, as C. K. Chesterton said, “the reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly.” We all have access to that lightness; we have in us the capacity to lighten our own load, and yoga works directly toward that end. Yoga helps us to avoid feelings of self-consciousness, inadequacy, and the feeling of challenge beyond our abilities. Through regular yoga practice, we learn to replace these negative feelings with a deep and abiding self-esteem. We learn to avoid cravings, and the deceptive and transient pleasures they represent, and to replace them with the real pleasure of gaining renewable energy and a sense of well-being in a practice that refreshes, inspires, and fulfills.

Let us begin this journey together.

Core Yoga   [top]
A yoga experience fused with basic pilates techniques to build core strength, increase flexibility and improve posture. This class is focused on engaging important postural muscles, while strengthening and lengthening the body through yoga poses. All levels are welcome.

Level I Yoga   [top]

A class for new and continuing students who wish to learn the fundamentals of yoga practice. Emphasis will be on posture, strength and breath awareness. Enjoy a slower paced class that will focus on greater understanding of alignment and balance. If you have often thought of starting a yoga program but were too intimidated to begin, this is the class for you!

Mixed Level Yoga  [top]
Mixed level yoga is exactly how it sounds. This class is for the student just beginning their practice as well as the advanced student looking to enhance and deepen their practice.

Kid’s Yoga  [top]
Improve strength, flexibility, and coordination. Children will learn how to focus and center themselves with various breathing and visualization techniques. They will also learn self-respect and respect for others with the practice of fun postures, group games, breathing and basic anatomy.

AM Yoga  [top]
Rise and shine and get the kinks out before you start your day! This moderately paced yoga class eases stiffness from aging joints, and builds strength and pliability in back muscles to counteract rounding of the spine. Enhance your balance, get your heart pumping, and put a spring in your step. Every class includes time for focused breathing, and relaxation.

Flow Yoga  [top]

This class is designed for yoga practitioners who enjoy combining the flow of a vinyasa class with the mindfulness of Hatha Yoga. During the practice students will be connecting mind, body, spirit and breath, exploring the importance of balance in their daily lives.

Yoga and Stress Reduction  [top]

This class will include stretching and a variety of breathing and other techniques as part of mind-body awareness training for comprehensive well being. It will also give the student practical methods to apply in daily life to help deal with tension, fatigue, aches, pain, change, loss, overwork, and burnout.

Power and Poses  [top]

Tony’s Power and Poses series is suitable for any level of Yoga Student that yearns to explore a vigorous practice. His methods are steeped in three traditional yoga styles Iyengar, Ashtanga and Sivanada. It is a power class that flows between the Asanas and gives the student a chance to hold 12 key Asanas. In the class we will Breathe, Move, Restore, Meditate and expand our understanding of the 8 limbs of yoga. If you believe that you exist and that your reality is not just some crazy dream then yoga is for you.

Yoga/Pilates Fusions  [top]
Enhance your well-being and fitness level by finding, feeling and using muscles via the Pilates method, a system of core muscle strengthening that creates a strong, flexible body and a lively spine, and bring your
exercise alive from the inside out. Deepen and develop your yoga practice from the center of your being, allowing for toning, balancing and stimulation of all systems of your body. It's all about CONNECTION!
All levels welcome.

Guru Yoga Meditation  [top]

Guru means "realized teacher" and is the personification and embodiment of our own inherent perfect qualities. Yoga means "union", so therefore this practice is an extremely effective method which allows us to identify with our own inner richness and perfection. It comes to us through the transmission of the Karma Kagyu Lineage - one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism - who is represented locally by the Karma Kagyu Diamond Way Buddhist Group in Naugatuck.

The meditation is guided and no previous experience is necessary. For more information visit www.diamondway.org

Pilates Mat  [top]

Pilates is intelligent exercise that can improve your strength, flexibility and endurance without bulking up like other forms of exercise can do. Pilates focuses on breathing, core stability and proper spinal alignment. The result of practicing pilates is a balanced and aligned body that looks fit, feels revitalized and moves with ease. Create definition without bulk. Heighten your mind-body awareness and most importantly, relieve stress.

Benefits of Stott Pilates:

• longer leaner muscles
• core strength and stability
• stress relief
• better posture
• improved balance and coordination
• improved mind body awareness

Bellydancing  [top]

Learn the basics of this ancient dance in a supportive environment and discover the joy of connecting with other women through dance. Experience how bellydance can increase strength and flexibility in the body while freeing the mind. Come and dance from your soul...for your soul. Please wear comfortable, nonrestrictive clothing and bring a scarf to tie around your hips.

Middle Eastern Dance  [top]
Let the music move you, learn the basics of Middle Eastern dance, how to improvise to your favorite song, have fun, firm your body & make new friends. We will explore many different Middle eastern dance styles using veils & cane; a sensual style of floor work will be introduced.
 

Motherwell™ Maternity Health and Fitness Program  [top]

Motherwell™  Maternity Health and Fitness Program is a nationally recognized program available to all pregnant and postnatal women. The Motherwell™  program follows the guidelines of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and has been endorsed and recommended by Board Certified physicians specializing in Sports Medicine and Obstetrics.
The carefully structured exercises work the muscle groups affected by pregnancy. The Motherwell™  program is designed to be well-rounded and safe. Exercises are uniquely designed to allow each participant to perform at her own rate of comfort and tolerance.
The Motherwell™  Program has been designed to help:

• Improve muscle tone, endurance and tolerance in areas affected by pregnancy
• Reduce pregnancy-induced lower back pain
• Relieve minor discomforts of pregnancy
• Increase vitality and energy level
• Ease everyday tension and stress
• Improve posture and circulation
• Provide more efficient weight gain during pregnancy
• Support easier labor and delivery
• Lesson the chance of dietary restrictions during pregnancy
• Help regain pre-pregnancy shape
• Create opportunities to meet other pregnant women and new mothers

Women in the program report having fewer pregnancy related symptoms, including, nausea, fatigue, backache, leg cramps, ankle swelling, and depression. They also report a greater sense of social support during pregnancy compared to new mothers who do not go through the program.
You may join at any point in your pregnancy, but to realize the full benefit of the program, it is recommended you join for your entire pregnancy. It is also recommended you consult with your obstetrician or nurse-midwife before joining the program.

Free Workshop Descriptions

Free Community Yoga Class  [top]
3rd Friday of every month, 7:00-8:00pm.
Our all levels class with modifications offered for the beginning student and challenges offered for the intermediate student. This practice of breathing, postures and meditation realigns the physical body in a way that creates strength, openness and suppleness.
Please bring your own mat and wear comfortable clothing. Most of all bring friends and family!!! All ages and levels are welcome. Registration is not necessary.

 

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