CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

Barre

This class is the perfect blend of deep muscle toning, stretching, balancing, and cardio vascular intervals guaranteed to pump up your heart rate and burn fat.  Incorporate the fluidity of ballet, the flexibility of yoga, the core strengthening of Pilates and add weights for strength conditioning to tone.

Beginner Yoga

The beginner class introduces the fundamental principles of alignment and breath work in a flow of postures linked together by the breath. Students will be introduced to yoga postures through step-by-step verbal description and demonstration. Emphasis is placed on student understanding, safety, and stability within each pose. Gradually these poses will be linked together into a gentle flowing sequence. Students are welcome to repeat this class as often as they like.

CardiYoLates

This class blends low impact cardio with yoga and Pilates set to upbeat music.   Increase flexibility, balance, endurance, mobility and strength.  This mind and body experience will have you feeling energized.  Stability balls & weights optional​​

​Chair Yoga

Chair Yoga is a practice using a chair for seated poses, and the chair as a balance point for standing poses. Perfect for those who are unable to get up and down off the floor comfortably or anyone who likes a beginner yoga class.  This class is also recommended for prenatal yoga in the last half of pregnancy.
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​Strength & Balance Chair Yoga

​Chair Yoga is a practice using a chair for seated poses, and the chair as a balance point for standing poses. Perfect for those who are unable to get up and down off the floor comfortably or anyone who likes a beginner yoga class.  This class is also recommended for prenatal yoga in the last half of pregnancy.  Strengthen & Balance will incorporate movements to get you up and may include light weights.

Chakra Balancing Yoga Series

Seven classes; each class focuses on one chakra individually.  Balancing the chakras or energy centers is essential for an individual to experience harmony and health.  Chakra yoga poses help add mental, spiritual and physical balance.  This sequence is designed to promote energy flow and focus.  You can expect Erica Austin's usual unique style of teaching, with loving flows and insight into the chakras.

Gentle Yoga and Meditation

Gentle Yoga & Meditation is a practice of melding together breath and movement, most of which is seated on the floor. These classes have a longer meditation than others.

Gentle Yoga and Sound Meditation

 This gentle yoga and singing bowl meditation class will begin with gentle yoga poses, breath work and meditation to help guide the body into a relaxed state. This will be followed by a sound bath that will incorporate the use of Himalayan Singing Bowls.

Glow-Ga

Trendy, glow-in-the-dark yoga classes, practiced under neon and black lights, add a new twist to finding balance.  Join us in your white or neon yoga clothes for this flow yoga class. All levels welcome! Body paint & glow sticks are provided.

Grounded Partner Yoga

Learn to deepen your yoga poses and connections with others. Partner Yoga invites openness, patience, communication, and balance into your yoga practice and relationships.  You and your partner will help each other to relax physical, mental, and emotional tensions.  No previous yoga experience is necessary; bring a friend or loved one.

H.I.I.T. Yoga

Inspired by high-intensity interval training (HIIT) to burn the maximum number of calories, this class is set to upbeat music and combines strength training with cardio intervals to achieve a balance of work and recovery.

Intro to Meditation

A consistent and sincere meditation practice can give experiences of peace, lightness and unburdening. It eventually brings an awareness of inner beauty, purity and innocence as well.  Find those feelings of peace that are already within you.

Parent and Child Partner Yoga

Partner with your child in fun, animated poses as we take a yoga adventure! We'll bark in downward dog, hiss in cobra pose and flutter our butterfly wings as we stretch, sing, balance, twist, bend and play yoga! We'll plant lots of seeds for connection, courage, body awareness, self-regulation, kindness, finding our calm, sharing and for bonding between parent & child, all while strengthening growing muscles and using our imaginations. Caregivers welcome!

Pilates

Each class will work to balance all muscle groups' strength and flexibility, with an emphasis on challenging the core muscles with each movement.  Pilates is a challenging yet safe method to sculpt your body and to feel increased agility in your every day movements.

Power Yoga

A fitness-based approach to Vinyasa style flow. Students will focus on linking conscious breath with a vigorous and mindful flow. In a power yoga class, students will build strength, flexibility and concentration while cleansing the body and calming the mind.

Prenatal Yoga

Having a community and using tools like meditation, visualization and breathwork help you cope with the myriad physical and emotional changes that pregnancy can bring. All the work you do on the mat -- building endurance, learning to relax through intense sensations, and coping effectively with stress -- serves as power preparation for giving birth, too. Many prenatal classes begin with a brief check-in where students have the opportunity to share experiences and challenges from the previous week. From there, classes might move into a centering and breathing exercise, a restorative or body softening pose, and then through a series of active standing and squatting asana before ending with restoratives and a period of deep relaxation with props.

Rise & Shine Yoga

​Experience the benefits of waking up to yoga as you stretch your body, awaken your mind, and fuel your spirit. Salute the sun with a smile and gracefully work out all of the kinks and tightness from your night's sleep. You'll feel energized, have amazing mental clarity, and will be ready to flow through your day with ease. Awaken. Bend. Stretch. Breathe. Flow. You’ll be glowing all day long.

Slow Flow Yoga

​This practice moves slowly and mindfully through a variety of yoga poses.  The slower pace allows for greater opportunity for mindful movement with more precision in alignment and actions synchronized with breath.  This class is a deliberate and slower-paced Vinyasa flow.  It can be ideal for yogis just starting out or those that want to hone their practice and postures.  You will spend more time in each asana to allow for a deeper exploration of the pose. All levels are encouraged to partake.  Slow does not mean necessarily easy, so as always slow it down even more or take breaks when you need to. ​

Strength Conditioning

This class emphasizes constantly-varied, high-intensity functional movement. Work cardiovascular endurance, stamina, strength, flexibility, power, speed, coordination, agility, balance, and accuracy, maximizing your performance and fitness for any physical challenge or activity!

Stretch & Flow Yoga

​​This class moves at a slower pace than a Vinyasa Flow class and will help you build a good foundation in basic yoga postures.  Links the movements that “flow” with the breath.

Thanksgiving Day Yoga

Start your Thanksgiving day by opening your heart in gratitude and prepare for the festivities with a thankful yoga practice. Join us for a mix of vinyasa flow and static postures. Class is focused on body awareness, breath and meditation and infused with the bits of yogic wisdom and positive affirmations.

Vinyasa Flow Yoga

​A moving mediation with some vigor, this class begins with a centering and is a continual movement and linking together of poses and breath. This class consists of more standing poses than seated.  The Vinyasa experience sustains clarity of focus and builds inner heat as it develops strength and flexibility in equal proportion. The result is improved balance, resilience and endurance.

Yin Yoga

Yin Yoga includes fewer postures which the yogi holds for 3-5 minutes.  Most of these passive poses are performed seated or laying on the mat.  While "yang" yoga focuses on your muscles, Yin yoga targets your deep connective tissues, like your fascia, ligaments, joints, and bones.  It's slower and more meditative, giving you space to turn inward and tune into both your mind and the physical sensations of your body.  Because you're holding poses for a longer period of time than you would in other traditional types of yoga, Yin yoga helps stretch and lengthen rarely used tissues while also teaching you how to breathe through discomfort and sit with your thoughts. We use lots of props, which are provided, to enhance this practice. 

Yoga for Flexibility & Mobility

Boost your flexibility, increase mobility in your muscles and joints, build muscle strength to prevent pain, and reduce feelings of stress and anxiety.  We use lots of props, which are provided, to enhance this practice.