An active, faster paced form of Hatha Yoga, this powerful vinyasa flow class combines asana and breath to encourage students to deepen their practice. Get ready for a powerful class designed to strengthen your body, mind and spirit.. The classroom is normal temperature. This class is NOT RECOMMENDED for students who have never practiced yoga before!
Slow, Deep Flow - All Levels
Slow Deep Flow - Slow and mindful movement, allowing you the time and space to explore, expand & connect to your highest potential. Each class unfolds organically and is suitable for all levels!
Kids Yoga 4-8
This class will be simple, playful and fun. We will play games and learn yoga poses. With active young children, there will a time to be boisterous and silly, but there will also be time to be calm and peaceful. Yoga can help build flexible and strong bodies, improve balance and coordination, promote self-esteem, develop concentration, nurture imagination and creativity. This class will teach ways to be healthy and deal with stress while having fun! Yoga builds happy and healthy kids!
Yoga Flow - All Levels
This is an active class that includes warm-ups and asana practice. The focus is on building core strength, body alignment, and honoring oneself. Pranayama, relaxation, and meditation are introduced and practiced during this class. All levels are welcome!
Easy Does It
This class is calming, gentle and designed to help students stretch, breathe, and tone. Perfect for beginners or for students who want or need a gentler practice. You will feel renewed and restored at the end of this very nourishing class!
Mind, Body, Breath
Mind Body Breath Yoga is structured around rejuvenating and healing the body through gentle yet powerful poses, breath awareness and meditation. Experience balance and harmony through a slow and mindful practice designed to release tension, reduce stress, and promote relaxation. Yoga props such as blankets, blocks, bolsters and straps are often used for safe practice, and to allow the body to fully achieve each position comfortably. Held at a slower pace Mind Body Breath Yoga focuses on stretching all areas of the body, while releasing stress and tension from joints and muscles. Emphasis is always on self-awareness, breath, and honoring the body!
Kids Yoga 9-13
Yoga for children ages 9-13. The pre-teen years are busy, active and often stressful. This class will help your children learn yoga poses safely as well as take some time to let go. Using asana and breath work, kids will learn how to get centered and steady, as well as how to relax from the daily pressures!
Yoga Basics
This class begins from the ground up with yoga poses, breath, and other aspects of the practice of yoga. Instructor will help you learn the poses building from the foundation to create stability and freedom in each posture. This is a great class for beginning students, but will also provide a challenge for students at any level!
Yoga Flow - All Levels
This is an active class that offers options for all levels-beginner to advanced. It includes warm-ups and asana practice. The focus is on building core strength, body alignment, and honoring oneself. Pranayama, relaxation, and meditation are introduced and practiced during this class. All levels are welcome!
Heavily Meditated: Meditation/Restorative Yoga
A new addition to the Namaste schedule! This class is appropriate for all levels. Begin with easy stretches, settle into pranayama (breath work) and meditation ending with restorative yoga. A perfect hour of asana, pranayama, and relaxation to complete your day!
Slow Deep Stretch
Slow Deep Stretch emphasizes the need to stretch our bodies regularly, either as a stand alone practice or as a compliment to a regular fitness routine. It is appropriate for all levels. The class will begin with centering, followed by breath work and a series of stretches and basic yoga poses aimed at releasing the tension and stress in the body. The focus is on body awareness and mindful movement!
Tai Chi Drop In
Ed Niam teaches an 8 week session beginning and ending April 27th through June 14th. The week of June 7th will be missed due to a workshop at the studio. This link is for a drop in class. Drop in Tai Chi is a $15 fee
Sunday Salutation
By reconnecting with our true, authentic self we open our hearts to the possibility of living a more spiritual, joyous and healthy life here on Earth. Vinyasa flow, static poses, breath work and meditation are tied together into a themed practice designed to provide you with the opportunity to align your body and spirit to the divine!
Yoga for Runners & Athletes
Whether you are competitive at your sport, or a weekend warrior for fun and fitness, yoga offers something for every runner & athlete. Yoga can address imbalances and injuries, help you gain strength and mobility, and practice with more mindfulness and relaxation. As with all Namaste classes, modifications will be offered for injuries and all levels of yogi are honored!
Restorative Yoga
Restorative yoga is a deeply relaxing practice. Using bolsters and blankets to fully support the body, you are able to completely surrender, melting away physical and mental tension, resting and relaxing the body and mind. Benefits of this practice include a quieter mind, better sleep and digestion, and an stronger immune system. No yoga experience necessary!
Vinyasa Flow
Experience an hour of delicious breath and movement, perfect for the all levels to advanced yoga student. This class is not for the beginning yogi!
Yin Yoga for Relaxation
Join us as we deepen our practice through breath-work and slow gentle deep yoga asana. This gentle practice invites us to explore each pose more deeply, slowly opening our bodies and our spirits to receive all the benefits of the breath creating a sense of stillness. Because we are relaxing in postures for long periods of time, this practice is very meditative and calming
Adaptive Yoga (Chairs/Props)
This class is designed for those who wish to enjoy a full practice of yoga but have difficulty getting up and down from the floor. You will be able to enjoy a complete yoga practice while remaining seated. This class is perfect for those with knee and/ or hip replacements, those with limited mobility or seniors needing a bit more support
Rise-n-Shine-Gentle
Early morning risers please join us for a gentle class designed to awaken the physical body, the mind body and the emotional body in quiet and gentle manner. Take your time as you stretch into the day, as your find your breath and as your awaken to the goodness of being alive. This joyful class will support you as you move through the rest of your day. Open to all students wishing a deep and gentle practice. Rise and Shine classes will end at approximately 7:50AM to allow students time to get ready for their day!
Rise-n-Shine-All Levels
Early morning risers please join us for an all levels class designed to awaken the physical body, mind and spirit. This class is open to all levels and accommodations will be made for beginners and advanced students. Rise and Shine classes will end at approximately 7:50AM to allow students time to get ready for their day!
Vin + Yin
This is a continuous vinyasa flow class for the first 45 minutes, ending with grounding yin yoga poses/deep stretch for the last portion of the class. This class is for intermediate to advanced students!
Spring Training: Yoga for Athletes
Join Lisa Meranti for a weekly spring training yoga series. We will warm up, ground ourselves, strengthen and branch out our bodies, explore our breath, and prep our minds for a weekend of outdoor adventures. Some weeks we will flow and others we will explore holding poses with the breath. Come ready for anything in this all-levels class!
At Namaste Yoga Studio, we celebrate the ancient practice of integrating the mind, body, breath, and spirit. The practice of yoga helps deepen self-understanding, develops strength and flexibility, and brings a sense of calm and balance to our hectic fast paced lives. We offer classes and workshops to students of all levels.