Balancing

Focusing on Warrior 3, the pose of courage, we build a repeating flow that creates strength, balance, and a feeling of power in the body and mind! A great practice for any time of day when you want to move your body, focus your mind, and create a feeling of overall wellbeing and confidence.

This class will keep you completely off the hands and arms, and work on your leg, strength and mobility. We will move from Mountain pose into various standing and balancing poses.

On the road without a mat or any space to practice yoga but still want to practice? No problem! Claire designed this standing series of postures so you can open your spine, strengthen your body, test your balance, and counteract the stress of planes, trains, and automobiles. You'll flow through standing cat-cow through a Warrior series and balance work too! ***And you've got your hotel bed for Savasana. Try it today!

Before you start your day, join me for a morning flow! In this class, we’ll explore chest openers and backbends that will help us to create BIG energy to move through our day feeling our best. We’ll ease into the practice to gently wake up the body and move through some transitions to keep us on our toes and wake up the mind. The final build will take us into Dancer’s Pose before we wind down with a little bit of core work and a self-guided savasana. Hope you have a great day!

Some days you want that yoga glow but you're not in the mood for a faster-paced Vinyasa class. Claire designed this class specifically to get you flowing, balancing, and opening your body from head to toe. Only a few chataranguas and longer holds of your favorite poses, like Ardha Chandrasana (Half-Moon) and Parvritta Trikonasana (Twisting Triangle) will have you feeling renewed and refreshed. Slow doesn't mean easy! Enjoy.

In our busy world we can often feel pulled in many directions. Yoga is here to help us return to our center, again and again. Take time to come to your mat and mindfully move your body, breathe deeply, and recenter with this vinyasa flow class.

You will flow through Sun Salutation (Surya Namaskar) variations, then hold balancing postures such as Half Moon (Ardha Chandrasana) and Extended Hand to Big Toe Pose (Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana) with options, and finish with grounding postures to help you feel balanced and renewed. Enjoy!

When you're short on time but want a balanced, calming yet invigorating Slow Flow, this is the class for you. Think Claire's Quick Energy Flows but more chill.

You'll challenge yourself with a standing flow, including balancing poses, twists, and all your favorite poses, without the chataranguas! It's the perfect yoga break! *Includes Savasana!

This class is apart of a zodiacal series to attune the physical and subtle body to the energetics of the Moon in Gemini. It works to open the side-body, chest, and diaphragm. It strengthens the inner to outer communication, focusing from inner self and intuitive expression.

It can be practiced when the moon is in Gemini, each month, or if your birth moon is in Gemini and you'd like to accentuate the physical and mental qualities.

Do you love Vinyasa but don't always love the chataranguas? Claire designed this class for you!

A well-rounded dynamic flow with twists, plenty of balancing poses like Uttitha hasta padangusthasana (extended hand to big toe pose), and Garudasana (eagle). Yoga is often described as planting seeds to manifest what you desire in your life, so we'll plant those seeds to flourish!

Some days we crave an active practice and others we need something more receptive. This Yin Yang flow is the perfect fusion of modalities to satisfy both! If you're new to Yin yoga, this class is the perfect way to check it out.

You'll start with a warming Vinyasa flow and smoothly transition into a calming Yin practice where you’ll hold poses like Sleeping Swan and supported Bridge for long enough to soothe your parasympathetic nervous system.

Ready to tap into your inner well of strength and power? This empowering Vinyasa flow class will have you shedding the layers hiding your inner light and revealing your authentic strength. You'll flow through twists, challenging balance series, heart-opening poses which will leave you feeling light and invigorated. You'll sweat, you'll strengthen, and you'll savor that savasana!

Practicing yoga begins with release. We exhale to unite our breath for an inhale. We work through tension - in the body and the spirit. And when we use the mind, we can also release ideas and patterns we have "bought" that we recognize we no longer want or need. To "sell the goat" is a practice of all this. With the help of our breath, we will move through this well-rounded sequence and find a greater sense of contentment for what we already have.

If you've experienced trauma, it can be tough to show up for yourself and make it to your yoga mat. This 20-minute practice accounts for this, and gives you a short yet effective practice space to breathe, move, and connect with your trauma.

Dancer's Pose is one of the most potent and difficult postures. It's a balancing pose that asks us to stay strong amidst our wobbly times in life. It also asks the shoulder to open deeply into the backplane. We start slow and work steadily towards opening our hips and shoulders through balancing poses as well as taking our shoulders into the backplane. Though it's a slow-moving class we go deep. Jeanie uses a strong and steady tree to balance on for the full expression of Natarajasana with a strapm as this class is offered from the beautiful Eldorado Canyon State Park on a windy Fall day with lots of challenging obstacles to balance. The theme is steady yourself as the wind attempts to blow you off your midline.

Bienvenida/Bienvenido a tu primera (o segunda/tercera) clase de yoga. Me da gusto que te des esta oportunidad para explorar como se sienten estos ejercicios en tu cuerpo. Esta clase te dará la oportunidad de disfrutar moviendo el cuerpo y en veinte minutos estar lista/listo para continuar con tu día.

Inspired by Power Yoga, Elise offers longer holds of simpler poses in this transformation 40-minute session. Warm, open, and strengthen your whole body while moving from restful Child's Pose through invigorating Warrior 2, eventually finishing with joyful backbends and calming hip openers. Please check out Elise's special Spotify playlist for this class, too!

Spotify playlist for The Power of Intention

Want the feel of a well-rounded, smoothly sequenced Vinyasa flow but don't want any chataranguas? Claire designed this slower paced class where you'll flow through standing sequences including balancing poses like Garudasana (Eagle) and Dakasana (Airplane) and Standing Splits. You'll gain all the benefits of your favorite sequences at a more mellow pace. Enjoy!

This 30 minute flow class has just the right amount of work and rest. We warm the body up with sun salutation and then move into our twisting and balancing flow for the day.

You will expand, contract, balance and ground as you move from pose to pose. The twists get gradually deeper and we open up the lower half of the body for our peak pose, parivrtta hasta padangusthasana or revolved hand to big toe pose.

On our mats we train to feel sensation in the body (the good & the bad) and then to do something about it. We make informed decisions about our alignment. We respond to the quality of our breath. And we tap into the sacred space of the heart. In this vinyasa practice, we will do just that - feel our bodies, our breath, our heart and then take action based on what and how we feel. The more we do this on our mats, the more this skill can seem valuable in the world around us.

Ready to challenge your balance and fortify your inner and outer resilience? This Vinyasa flow practice centers around mindful strength, balance, flexibility, and staying strong through difficult times. Life is a rollercoaster and yoga helps you navigate the ride. This class is a well-balanced, fun class that will leave you smiling and sweating.

This dynamic yoga class is designed to help you cultivate inner strength through presence, practice, and awareness. You will flow, twist, balance, hold, open up, and breathe deep as you practice being present and experiencing all that arises. May this practice help you connect to your power so that you can live and act from the strength within. Enjoy!

Let's dive into the Amazon Forest and stand tall with the trees! This is an energetic flow to get your body moving and exploring different poses (from perhaps a different angle). Have fun!

Ready to release what is weighing you down and shine your brightest? This class combines fun, creative sequences to challenge your balance, twist away stagnant energy, and tap into your Manipura chakra=your inner fire. Step into your light!

"We practice to nourish our hope — our hope for a more settled mind, a more stable breath, a more compassionate heart. Our practice feeds our hope, and our hope feeds our practice. In fact, our practice is hope in action." Judith Hanson Lasater

What does embodied hope look like? Is life weighing you down or are you walking with your head high and with an open heart full of hope. This practice incorporates nourishing backbends like sphinx, floor blow and even an opportunity to cultivate Ardha Chandra Chapasana (half-moon bow pose). Backbends energize and help us counter and strengthen our modern and chronic postural patterns. You can take this slow or customize with vinyasa transitions to build heat.

Start your day off with this energetic flow that will warm and awaken you. You will flow, balance, strengthen, and stretch as you connect to your inner spark. When we connect to what lights us up we can live in alignment with our highest purpose and inspire others to do the same.

Class begins with flowing Sun Salutation variations (Surya Namaskar), followed by balancing, heart openers, and twisting postures. You will finish with grounding postures to leave you feeling centered and balanced. Enjoy, and have a great day!

Iyengar Yoga teaches us how to identify and work from the foundation of a yoga posture. In a standing balancing pose class, we focus on foundational standing poses and link them to related but more advanced poses. In this class, we use Triangle Pose, Warrior 2, and Side Angle Pose (covered with in depth instruction in Introduction to Iyengar Yoga) in order to approach the standing balancing poses Vrksasana (Tree Pose) and Ardha Chandrasana (Half Moon Pose). Learn to feel as firm when you are balancing on one leg as you are when both feet are firmly planted on the ground in this class!

For those days when you just don't want to get down on the ground, Elise gives you a full sequence of standing poses. Exploring all the warrior poses, lunge variations, and fun balancing challenges, this class will help you become grounded, strong, and empowered. You don't have to touch the ground with anything other than your feet to do this class.

Spotify playlist for Stand Up & Yoga!

This class is all about moving your body to calm your mind. In rare form for my class, we start standing and begin moving right away. This class incorporates gentle twisting to energize the body, flow to still the mind, and balance to create more focus.

The Sun Salutation B series includes balancing, twisting and smooth transitions so you can effortlessly flow through class without having to think too much.

At the peak of our class, we move deeper into twists with prayer twist, revolved half moon and then work up to hasta pada gustasana (one legged hand to big toe pose).

Flow on the Go is a FREE class designed for any place or any time when you need a quick 15 minutes for yourself to open your body and ground your mind.

*Feel free to rewind and repeat the main sequence as many times as you want.

This class invites you to unclench and let go as you flow through your practice and your day. You will flow through warming sequences, find balance, breathe deep, and get an opportunity to embrace ease and grace. Enjoy!