Class and Healing Arts Descriptions

Join us for a class or healing art modality. Trying to find out what's right for you? Take a look at the descriptions below! If you have additional questions, contact our healing arts practitioners or instructors directly.

Class Descriptions

Yoga for Healthy Aging

This 90-minute class is excellent for students of all ages, whether new to yoga or seasoned practitioners. Class begins with restorative poses, moves to standing and balance poses, and finishes with more relaxing poses. Students can expect stretching, strengthening, and and renewal. No yoga experience needed.

Vigorous Vinyasa

This is an energetic flowing practice that connects the fluidity of breath with movement and encourages yogis to explore their body's full range of movement. Advanced options and modifications are offered throughout the practice to meet participants where they are in their own yoga practice

Evening Flow Yoga

This invigorating flow class focuses on rhythmic movement and breath with a playful approach to exploring new or challenging poses. Close attention is paid to linking breath with movement especially during pose transitions. We'll also examine proper alignment to support a clear understanding and optimal benefit of the yoga postures, asana. Some yoga experience is helful but not required; variations are offered for all levels. This practice will leave you feeling clear, calm, and collected.

Baby and Me Yoga

Come stretch and play with your baby! Baby & Me Yoga is a wonderful way for parents/caregivers and babies to interact and meet new friends while enjoying the benefits of yoga for development, digestion, and sleep. Adults will enjoy a gentle practice with tips on how to interact with babies during asana, and will engage their babies in a short series of baby yoga poses that are also fun to do at home.
This class is appropriate for babies from as young as 4 weeks old through crawling. Consult your doctor or midwife about when it is safe to resume physical activity after childbirth.

Stretch and Restore

This class is a combination of spiraling movements based on chi gong, self massage techniques using a soft foam roller and strengthening moves from Pilates. Appropriate for all levels, this class helps to support active recovery from daily activities, relieves stress and rebalances the nervous system. Your body will have a more relaxed alignment, and hopefully experience less physical discomfort. Over time, regular attendance has provided many participants with overall improvement in chronic pain patterns.

Gentle Morning Yoga

Expect to feel refreshed, calm, centered and ready to embark upon your day with this gentle morning practice. We'll slowly ease into movement and stretching with refined attention to how the poses feel. Emphasis is on cultivating mindfulness and relaxation as we integrate postures, alignment, breath awareness and meditation. It's a wonderful class for beginners and seasoned practitioners who want slow down and revisit the basics.

T'ai Chi & Chi Gong

This is graceful T’ai Chi slow dance-like moving meditation. We will incorporate learning Chi Gong & warm-up exercises to release stress while building vitality & strength. Learn key energy meridian massage points & stretches for self-healing. Embrace tools to keep your energy clear, balanced & flowing. Ancient Taoist exercises, philosophy and principles are explored. Mindful movement practiced in the class carries over into our daily life so we can live more centered and grounded.

Align and Flow Yoga

This flow class for students of all levels will offer a balanced practice, beginning with breath awareness and a brief meditation, and emphasizing proper alignment within the postures to improve your physical practice and take care of your body. Sequencing will include standing and balancing postures, twists, hip openers, gentle back bends, and seated postures, with each week offering a featured “peak pose” that the class will build toward. The class will leave you calm, centered, and feeling strong within your body.

Healing Arts Modalities

Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy
Judith Brooks L.Ac. practices this therapy. In a session, self-care techniques are taught to clients for many health issues: fertility and digestive issues especially. See Judith's website for more info: JudithBrooksacupuncture.com. Judith recently returned from Belize where she studied herbal rainforest remedies with Dr. Rosita Arvigo.

Body Work with Lea Clayton
In her bodywork sessions, she incorporates massage, energy healing and hands-on somatic (mind/body) therapeutic practices. Compassionate presence and body-based listening are guiding principles for Lea in her approach to touch-based therapy. Lea believes in the power of health as a living intelligence that informs and creates all the layers of who we are. When we view ourselves in this way, bodywork becomes transformational in nature and healing is facilitated.