Therapeutics

Specific modified yoga poses target kinetic (movement) lines and deep muscles to promote mobility, healthy flexibility and prevent injuries. This class focuses on opening up the myofascial tissue connections from the inner pelvis to outer hip to promote strength and mobility in knees, ankles, and lower back.

Great class to support healthy mobility in joints and restore muscular imbalance.

Ready to keep your spine healthy, recover from chronic back pain or injury and improve your posture? This class will help you to stabilize your core, strengthen and lengthen the muscles surrounding your spine, and open your hamstrings and hip flexors. You'll feel more freedom not just in your physical body, but your mind and heart.

This FREE 15 minute shoulder mobility class is great post-workout or on your active recovery days and is also great for anyone who sits at a desk all day. We begin by stretching the neck and then move to the shoulders. This class is focused on mobility, not just flexibility.

This class works to relieve low back pain and improve posture. Side sleeping, screen time, and day to day life can close specific lines of the body which leads to low back pain, poor posture, and loss of mobility.

Designed to be both therapeutic and to improve muscular balance. This class opens key reflective points within the body to support back/shoulder mobility and to release: upper back knots, low back lateral 'pulling', tightness across chest and front of the hips.

Recommended to be done daily - few times a week to improve posture, shoulder mobility, and support hip opening. Practice with my video, Evolutions of flow-Seat of Health for a healthy back and hips.

A powerful breathwork series from traditional Hatha yoga that purifies the body and mind. This 4 part practice is used to deepen the effects of yogic practices throughout the physical, mental, and emotional body through the main energy channels (Nadis- Sushumna, Ida, Pingala).

The practice neutralizes a restless mind and works the breath through bandhas (binds) to remove stagnant energy, rebalance energetic flow, strengthen the pranic (subtle body) and connect the intellect with intuition.

Daily practice will create more lasting results to improve focus, relieve nervousness, strengthen yogic practices (asana and pranayama), and deepen meditative states.

We all hold tension in the body, and when life becomes stressful, fast-paced, or when you feel flooded or overwhelmed, the patterns that were set up long ago as your nervous system did it's amazing job to keep you alive, show up as your shoulders raise to your ears, or you tense up in the hips. This is all done on an unconscious level, and for good reason. And yet, these patterns often leave tension behind as a reminder that life is out of balance.

Becoming aware of these physical "go-to" patterns is the first step towards conscously changing these, which allows you to choose something different, more beneficial, and over time, resolving the build up of tension, so you can shift toward more wellbeing.

This 45-minute class brings a focus to hips and shoulders: areas of the body where tension is most often held, and relieving both is the key to freeing up the spine and the whole body system to live better.

Shoulder openers and classic warrior poses with precise alignment cueing, facilitates a balance of strength and flexibility. You will feel complete and whole after this practice.

This back care Iyengar Yoga class will use a chair. You can use a yoga specific chair, or you can use a dining room chair that has a high back. Be sure you can plant your feet firmly on the ground when sitting. This sequence will include stretches and gentle spinal traction techniques, and will feel great for a lot of different bodies. It is a sequence that is particularly helpful for folks who have tight legs and back or scoliosis, people whose back gets sore when they bend forward in spinal flexion, and those who have spinal disk compression.

Work on improving your posture with Iyengar Yoga! Proper posture requires you to have firmly planted feet, firm and straight legs, a strong core, a lifted spine, and open chest and shoulders. This class will guide you through all of these points. You will use props, which will give you access to posture specific stretches. This class will leave you standing taller than when you began, and teach you tips on how to maintain your posture when you step off of your yoga mat. Enjoy!

Many of us are spending more and more time on the computer and that means that our heavy heads and falling shoulders can pull us out of feeling good. This simple class can certainly help unwind the ouchies and empower the yummy feelings!

This 20-minute sequence is accessible to ALL, be it that you are at the office or home, and can squeeze a break to yoga, or simply just wanting to try a different approach to the entrance, holding and exit of these staple poses. You will feel supported throughout this class using any steady, and preferably backless chair to experience this brief yet encompassing warrior series. We warm up together and then we move on to exploring all the Warriors: I, II & III, and their variations such as reversed, inclined, humble, and exalted. Also know that you will get to enjoy some delicious twists in crescent lunge, and of course all linked to mindful breath. Have fun!

Learn the basics of therapeutic acroyoga in this partner massage-based class. Use gravity and the weight of your flyer/receiver to help ease tensions and increase flexibility. Wonderful for couples and for anyone wishing to learn how to make others feel amazing in the air!

Heal and empower your hips and back in this deep therapeutic practice at the wall! Yoga therapist Shy Sayar will teach you ways to safely and gently increase stability and flexibility in your hips in order to free the back, using a wall and an optional bolster. Over time, this practice can even help you safely build up to the lotus pose and the shoulder stand!

Get grounded quickly. This short, innovative series of supine poses at the wall uses two straps, one around the ball of your foot and one around the top of your thigh to help root your thigh bones back, stretch your hamstrings, and create traction in the lower back. Your go-to practice for when your body feels disconnected from the Earth, your nerves are fried, or your mind is spacey.


Spotify playlist for Root Back & Relax

Enjoy a deep release with this all levels Iyengar Yoga sequence. You will use props both as muscle release tools, and as aids to open the hips and legs. This will be a supine class, and will lead you through hip openers and Reclined Hand to Big Toe Pose variations in order to open your hips and legs. If you experience limitations of stiffness in the hips and legs, this class is for you!

"Rolling, rolling, rolling!" Have you ever wanted to learn how to give yourself a full-body massage? In this unique class, Elise will teach you techniques to use with massage therapy balls to release built-up muscular tension and improve the range of motion in your joints. Ball rolling will also help you recover more quickly from a hard workout and improve your yoga experience. Enjoy this fun and therapeutic self-massage method!

Spotify playlist for Therapeutic Ball Rolling

Learn how to integrate harmonic techniques into Thai Yoga Massage in this instructional video with yoga therapist Shy Sayar. Harmonics are a rhythmic massage technique that help lubricate the joints and loosen the muscles through repetitive, harmonic motion. Wonderful for couples, therapists, and anyone who want to learn cool and easy techniques to make others feel amazing with yoga massage.

Learn an awesome Thai Yoga Massage sequence for the upper body in this instructional video with yoga therapist Shy Sayar. Working along energy meridians, this sequence from the Nuad Buran ("ancient touch") school can help reduce stress and pain throughout the body, and especially in the upper back, shoulders and neck. Wonderful for couples, therapists, and anyone who wants to learn some cool and easy techniques to make others feel amazing with yoga massage

Learn an awesome Thai Yoga Massage sequence for the lower body in this instructional video with yoga therapist Shy Sayar. Working along energy meridians, this sequence from the Nuad Buran ("ancient touch") school can help reduce stress and pain throughout the body, and especially in the hips and back. Wonderful for couples, therapists, and anyone who wants to learn some cool and easy techniques to make others feel amazing with yoga massage

Learn a powerful way to create better balance and symmetry in the entire body through isolating, toning and equalizing the strength of the gluteus medius and minimus muscles in the outer buttocks. This short and informative practice, will give you the awareness and tools to make your yoga practice more intelligent and sustainable.

Learn the fundamental techniques of the Nuad Buran ("ancient touch") school of Thai Yoga Massage. Develop the skills to use gravity and body weight to effortlessly give as much pressure as needed for any receiver. Wonderful for couples, therapists, and anyone who wants to learn some cool and easy techniques to make others feel amazing with yoga massage

Claire designed this therapeutic class for anyone suffering from chronic or occasional back pain and for those who want to make sure to maintain a healthy spine. This short class will help you open up tight areas that contribute to back pain, strengthen muscles to support your spine, and calm down your nervous system with Pranayama breathing techniques. Take the time to keep your back healthy!

A somatic investigation of the Patanjali Yoga Sutra’s teachings on living life from the inside out in order to find sufficient inner freedom to enjoy and experience life to its fullest. This sequence will explore shoulder openers such as inversions and arm balances to integrate the least stable joint of the body and access the seat of wisdom in our heart’s center.

Core work practiced with intelligence creates strength through length. Within each of us, is a second brain located at the navel center, in which we produce over 90% of our serotonin. An integration of Patanjali’s metaphysical teachings along with functional anatomy in exploring how to move from one’s deep center.

This class is more of a detailed technique workshop, than just a full physical practice. You'll get to practice postures as well as spend extra time learning and examining the details of them.

This fusion class is a combination of foam rolling and static stretching. The main benefits of foam rolling also know as self-myofascial release include improved circulation, reduced inflammation and the release of the overactive muscles of the body.

The beginning of this class will consist of foam rolling the calves, quadriceps, inner and outer thighs, hips, lats, and spine. After foam rolling and massaging the body you will progress through a complimentary full body static stretching sequence.

This class will leave you with a deep sense of relaxation and release.

Props for this class include a foam roller and blocks. Other alternatives to a foam roller include rolling sticks, medicine balls, or a tennis or lacrosse ball.

We are born aquatic and have to work our whole lives to find our legs, and to work with gravity to embody the experience of ascension. Standing postures actively develop strength and suppleness of the legs, as well as stability in consciousness. Abhyasa, or practice, literally means to “check the downward pull”. An integration of Patanjali Yoga Sutra, functional anatomy and asana offer pragmatic development of Yoga as the art and science of self-actualization through embodiment.

Joints hold so much tension. Use this quick routine to move the energy through all the joints of your body, and lubricate them at the same time. This is a wonderful sequence to use before any other yoga practice or physical sport, or before or after bedtime.

Spotify playlist for Joyful Joint ReleaseI

Patanjali advises us to go forth on the yogic path with the two wings of freedom, abhyasa and vairagya, effort and release. We will explore how to create traction and release in a clear and systematic approach that is compression-free.

Sarvangasana and Sirsasana are known as the royal postures in that they offer the most profound physical and physiological benefits to the master glands of the endocrine system. A detailed and methodical investigation of how to approach these postures to access the nectar of Amrita, to reverse the aging process and awaken higher brain centers of intution.

Unless you have had gymnastics training, you will probably notice that Inversions are very challenging and sometimes seemingly impossible poses. Beginning to practice inversions as an adult is an extraordinary achievement and one we believe is worth your time. It is, however, very important to have the proper conditioning to make your journey safe and productive. Here is a simple routine designed to prepare you physically and mentally for this feat. If you have tight shoulders, take more time during the week to do the shoulder stretching that is demonstrated in this video. Also, practice the preparations for inversions without going fully upside down often so you become more accustomed to the blood pressure changes that occur when you are upside down.

This class will make you work for the Ahhhh....but the work is worth your time and effort. You may be surprised at the muscular energy required to truly release those tight areas around your hips and thighs. Aim to practice this class once or twice a week for best results. Your lower back and knees will thank you and your psyche will too.