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YOGA
FUNDAMENTALS
This
pre-registered class is for those students who are beginning yoga or
deepening their fundamental practice. It is suitable to students working
with physical challenges, as we progress slowly and individually through
the primary Yoga asanas. Though all of
our classes at RYA pay close attention to structure and offer individual
attention, this class is more workshop and instruction oriented that the
regular drop-in class. Some of the subjects covered in this class are
- The centrality of
breath, articulation of the spine
- Introduction to pelvic
girdle
- Introduction to
shoulder girdle
- Femoral Grounding
- Basic Standing
Postures
- The structure and
necessity of back bending
- Twisting – flesh,
bones, organs
- The principles of
forward bending
Yoga Fundamentals : Mondays, September 5 - December 20.
7:30 - 8:45pm
15 classes. No class on Thanksgiving.
Tuition: 225 + hst
preregistration required.
taught by Dennison
Price will be prorated if you
join these classes after they have begun.
Click here to register online.
RESTORATIVE YOGA
WITH JENNA
This class is
ideal for the student recovering from short or long-term injuries, or the
student who is managing a medical condition. It’s also a great class for every yoga
student who just wants to relax, be still, and let the body find its own
suppleness and peace. The postures are adjusted to your individual
needs. The class will principally employ restorative asanas, making use of props such as blocks, straps,
blankets, bolsters and wedges to passively put the body in position to
receive the full healing power of the posture. A typical class will
utilize only ten postures, permitting students to let their breathing
help gravity deeply open stubborn areas of tension or long-term pain.
Those suffering from fibromyalgia, CFS, Lupus, and insomnia and tension
have found it to be very beneficial.
We sometimes end
this class with the practice of Yoga Nidra, a
profound relaxation meditation that allows for the complete pause of
one’s identification to both body and mind, so that the eternal qualities
of life itself may become luminous.
Wednesday 7:30 - 9pm.
8 classes, September 15 - November 3, $128 plus hst
preregistration required
taught by Jenna Morrison
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LEVEL
ONE: Sundays, 10:30am
Beginning September 5
Drop-in any Sunday morning.
Please arrive 5 - 10 minutes before class.
Drop in rate: $18. 5 class pass:
$17 x 5. 10 class pass: $16 x 10
hst included.
Designed for
beginners, yet steeped in the fundamental technique that can sharpen the
practice of even an experienced yogi, Level One will both soothe and
strengthen. We’ll work on joint mobility, range of movement, basic
standing and sitting postures, while emphasizing structural alignment and
the freedom of breath. The physical and geometric approach
of this class consists of outer alignment in accordance with accepted
anatomical concepts of how the body wants to carry itself. For every
individual allowances are made to accommodate any differences between the
left and the right sides, as well as any pain resulting from stiffness,
weakness and injury. Fundamental ideas such as femoral and humeral grounding
are covered, as well as the basis for liberated breathing. Level
One classes are completely suitable for more
advanced practitioners. Far from being “easy”, they will allow you
to apply yourself more deeply to fundamental postural technique.
taught by Dennison
Drop-in
ECO-RESTORATIVE
Here is a simple premise: If we
truly inhabit our bodies, which, far from being autonomous are a
changeful dialogue between the internal world and the external world, we
would never harm the environment which sustains us. In an age of
technological alienation, where Nature herself is endangered by our way
of life, Yoga, in the light of Ecology, becomes a transformative and
radical act. This two hour restorative yoga class, framed by the
teachings of naturalists and ecologists Muir and Thoreau and Emerson and
others, is designed to take the student through a full-body contemplation
of the self in relation and dependence on Nature.
$30 plus hst
per class.
taught by Dennison
next session TBA
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LEVEL TWO: DEEP
STRUCTURE
This more rigorous
class in classical Hatha technique
covers all movements and postures that are key
to the three pillars of flexibility, strength, and balance.
Emphasis will be placed on the perfecting of skeletal alignment, the
release of the visceral body, straightening of the channels and relaxing
of the kidneys, spacial awareness and the
balancing of the doshas. We will work
within the language and understanding of ayurvedic
principles. Classical Sun salutations as well as variations in vinyasa punctuate the balance of postures and
instruction. Includes inversions and arm balancing.
taught by Dennison
next session TBA
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THE COMPLETE
PRACTICE: ALL LEVELS
with
Scott Petrie
Postponed
until further notice
6pm chanting,
6:30 yoga, 7:45 meditation and discussion
(Students are
welcome to participate in part or all of the class)
Explore, expand
and deepen your yoga practice with this 2.5 hour class. It
begins with a 1/2 hour of chanting (eg. Yoga
Sutras, Upanishads, Bhagavad
Gita, mantras, bhajans).
The first five weeks we will be chanting the first pada
of the Yoga Sutras followed by a discussion of the first 5 sutras in
detail. Chanting will be followed by an all-level asana class at
6:30 and a guided meditation at 7:45. Each class will end with a
brief dharma discussion till 9.
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