In our over-stimulated world, many of us live chronically exhausted. Yoga Nidra is a systematic way to obtain complete relaxation that rejuvenates and restores body, mind and spirit. Using guided imagery, body scanning and breath work, students are led into a deep physical relaxation, allowing the mind to release tension and stress. It leaves you feeling completely relaxed and rested and at peace with a more positive outlook than before. No experience necessary. Fee: $25.

Come explore how yoga can enhance your running performance and enjoyment! Yoga can help you open your hips and hamstrings (and heart!), strengthen your core, heal chronic injuries, and cultivate greater calm, focus, and willpower. You’ll learn: -How to use yoga as effective cross-training to build flexibility, endurance, and core-strength. -Post-run routines to alleviate soreness and enhance recovery -Yoga-therapeutics to rehabilitate and prevent common running injuries. Great for runners new to yoga, yogis new to running, and experienced yogi-runners who want to deepen their understanding of how these two practices can complement one another.

A workshop to complement the more active yoga or other fitness practices. This workshop will help to open new flexibility in the joints and connective tissue giving a feeling of ease and lightness in the body. Our practice will use softer sustained holds to allow time for the muscles, tendons, ligaments and fascia to release, for energy to flow more freely and for the mind to calm. The workshop is accessible to all body types and levels of experience. Various yoga props will be used to help everyone work comfortably in the poses. Some time will also be given to breathwork and meditation.

This workshop introduces Yin Yoga theory and its simple repertoire of poses that address the ligaments, tendons, and disc spaces of joints. This contemplative practice utilizes modest floor poses to stretch and compress connective tissue giving particular focus to the hips, sacrum, low spine, and knees. The foundational principles of Yin Yoga will be discussed as will the science and chemistry of why Yin Yoga is so uniquely therapeutic and rehabilitative to these areas of the body. Yin Yoga is an excellent modality for providing a structural and emotional counterbalance to more muscular forms of asana and other “yang” activities. While this practice will re-awaken and prime joints in people who have resisted becoming active because of joint pain, Yin Yoga is also ideal for athletes who experience joint pain caused by muscular overuse. The gentle but consistent stimulation to the connective tissues taught through Yin Yoga encourages long-term health and flexibility of the joints, calms and recharges the nervous system, and naturally draws the mind inward into a relaxed, meditative state. Everyone welcome. $25