All Samadhi Yoga classes will suit the needs of every student from beginner to the advanced, seasoned practitioner. Each class style will offer advanced options for experienced yogis and modifications for those newer to the practice so they can safely learn the poses. The different styles offer our students the opportunity to pick a class that will fit the pace they desire. If you have a specific injury you are minding, please tell your teacher before class so that they can offer you the appropriate, safe modifications or alternative poses. Also, if you are minding an injury, please inquire the desk staff or your teacher about private yoga sessions to work with a specific set of poses that will help to encourage healing in the body.
All of our Samadhi classes are kept between 75-85 degrees. We like to guide students how to create their own inner fire.
ALL LEVELS welcome.
Vinyasa Yoga cultivates awareness through the combination of movement in the body connected with conscious breathing. This practice provides a well rounded approach to maintaining health in the body working on strength, flexibility, endurance, balance, coordination and the ability to focus. Vinyasa Yoga offers students a faster paced practice where breath supports and guides you through each pose creating a mindful practice that opens one up to a meditative state of being and beautiful connection with the body, mind and spirit.
Appropriate for ALL LEVELS.
emPOWERment Yoga is for students who are ready for a high energy, physically challenging class. Students are encouraged to challenge themselves through a mindful approach of conscious movement and observation of the mind and breath. Advanced options are offered and inversions and arm balances are taught. Gently heated 85-90 degrees.
ALL LEVELS welcome.
Gentle vinyasa yoga is appropriate for students who enjoy and desire a slower paced yoga practice. These classes are designed to give detailed instruction and to be less physically challenging than other vinyasa classes. Gentle vinyasa yoga classes will allow the student to gain strength and flexibility at their own pace with safety and alignment as the main focus.
ALL LEVELS welcome.
A more tranquil approach to the traditional Vinyasa Yoga format, by candlelight. Rejuvenate your natural rhythm & harmony, improve strength & flexibility, dissolve tension and experience a deep sense of well-being that will support you well after the session is over. Guided by the breath and our own powerful intention, we unite mind, body & spirit, and infuse our whole being with life-giving energy.
Less active than most Vinyasa classes, this introspective practice strikes a balance between movement & stillness, strength & surrender, leaving you open, refreshed and at peace.
“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within” ~ Eckhart Tolle
ANUSARA & ANUSARA INSPIRED appropriate for ALL LEVELS.
“The vision of Anusara is grounded in a Tantric philosophy of intrinsic goodness. In this philosophy we take the premise that everything in this world is an embodiment of Supreme Consciousness, which at its essence pulsates with goodness and the highest bliss. All of creation is divinely danced into existence for the simple delight and the play of embodying the Supreme’s own blissful nature.
The highest intention of practicing Anusara Yoga is to align with the Divine. As we deepen our alignment with the Supreme, we step deeper into the flow of Grace. It is through the revelatory power of Grace that we awaken to the truth that this Divine flow is our essential nature. This higher knowledge naturally fuels our deepest desire to lovingly serve the creative flow of life through each breath and posture in our yoga practice. On our yoga mat we artistically offer our individual light and our unique music with the heartfelt prayer of adding more beauty, love, and goodness to the world.” – www.Anusara.com
“…through Anusara, we experience our inner worth, we align our bodies, our minds and hearts with the current of the Divine flowing through us, we celebrate life itself as we touch the Divinity who pulsates within us as our every thought, feeling, and experience.” – Dr. Douglas Brooks
ANUSARA FLOW incorporates a Vinyasa like style of using breath, movement and creative sequencing to link postures together while staying true to the foundation of Anusara yoga’s alignment based postures and heart opening philosophy. Appropriate for INTERMEDIATE students.
Appropriate for INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED Yogis who like to have FUN!
Raja Yoga with Mike is challenging, fun, inspiring and deeply rewarding. Join this family of true yogis coming together to support each other in deepening, growing and laughing. No beginners please. Photos are often taken during this class. Please don’t hesitate to let us know if you would prefer not to be in the photos.
ALL LEVELS welcome.
Come join us in supporting Samadhi’s community of Yoga Teachers in training. Each week this fun and inspiring community vinyasa yoga class will be taught by one of Samadhi’s Yoga Teacher Training students or graduates. You will experience new yogic wisdom and perspective each time you step onto your mat, so come learn with our fabulous new yoga teachers!
ALL LEVELS welcome.
These classes are designed for those who want and need to fill themselves back up. Life on the outside can be pretty stress-filled these days. Restorative Yoga helps you remember how to find the calm in the storm, have strength from within and revitalize yourself so that you feel whole again. Come and enjoy this restful yoga practice to help bring balance and peace back into your life again.
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
ALL LEVELS welcome.
ALL LEVELS welcome.
Yoga for Bountiful Bodies is designed for individuals who are interested in yoga but are not comfortable in a traditional class setting because of their size, shape or ability.
ALL LEVELS welcome.
This class is inspired by the Plum Village tradition of Engaged Buddhism as founded by the Venerable Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn.
The asana portion of the class is conducted slowly, mindfully, and infused with dharmic guidance such as stopping and looking deeply into the nature of the body, appreciating the group of practitioners, observing the miracle of breathing, inviting the bell to sound, and similar awareness practices. Asana is conducted with great respect for the yogic tradition, awareness of Ayurveda, and solid biomechanical support. Approximately 40 minutes are devoted to asana practice, 15 minutes to deep relaxation, and 20 minutes to sitting meditation.
This class provides all the physiological benefits of exercise, soothes the nervous system and mind from over-stimulation, and helps practitioners access true peace and insight.
Asana 60 min
15 min deep relaxation
15 min seated meditation
ALL LEVELS welcome.
Yoga Nidra means Yogic Sleep and refers to the conscious awareness of the Deep Sleep state. In Yoga Nidra you leave the waking state, go past the dreaming state and then go to deep sleep, yet remain awake. The state of yoga nidra is deeply relaxing and rejuvenating. Time spend in yoga nidra opens us to deeper clarity. It is one of the deepest of all meditations, leading us to supreme stillness and insight. I invite you to come and allow Jeremy to guide you into a deeply restful and revitaling pracice. This is where the nectar lies. Deep within in you is and ocean of Amruta, Nectar of the Gods. Through deep surrender, the heart opens and a river of this Amruta flows from the heart. Live in Bliss.
This restorative “inner-body” yoga uses a series of guided visualizations and deep relaxation techniques to move beyond the conditioned mind into a state of expanded self-awareness. Access to the deeper realms of the mind allows us to release the sources of tension, anxiety, unwanted habits, and self-limiting beliefs and to awaken our greatest inner potential. Each class begins with 10 minutes of gentle, meditative asana, with the majority of the practice performed in savasana (corpse pose).
One of the most beneficial practices of the yogic tradition is mediation, and the one of the best times of day to perform meditation is early morning. Come and experience guided meditation, taught by a former monk, which will connect you with the infinite wisdom within. You will practice various different forms of meditation such as pranayama, or breathing, in addition to different types of guided visualization meditation which will help to dissolve stress and mental blocks that are created by the business of our thoughts. When you are finished your mind will feel clear, focused, and revitalized so that you can meet your day with a peaceful sense of bliss.
ALL LEVELS welcome.
Naam Yoga is a unique merging and refining of powerful Eastern and Western esoteric traditions made accessible to everyone. It is a complete self-healing practice that removes stress and restores the flow of vital energy throughout the entire body and the brain. This art and science works with movement, sound current (mantra), breathing exercises, hand symbols (mudras), and the wisdom of the laws of nature, resulting in deep relaxation and cellular invigoration. Naam Yoga awakens consciousness, maintains a youthful glow, and opens the heart.
Naam Yoga is one of the most in-depth, precise and comprehensive systems of yoga in the world. Through its innovative use of movement, breath, and sound therapy, one achieves optimal health and well-being.
Appropriate for INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED yogis.
Forrest Yoga helps you connect to your core – getting strong and centered. It uses deep breathing techniques and vigorous yoga sequences to sweat out toxins. The long holds in the pose progressions create internal heat called tapas to help you flush, oxygenate and rejuvenate every cell. Forrest Yoga will teach you to Go Deeper, find your Truth and encourage you to take these gifts you have earned Beyond the Mat into the rest of your life. Gently heated 85-90 degrees.
ALL LEVELS welcome.
Kundalini Yoga focuses on awakening the living energy that rests dormant in the base of the spine through specific breathing, movements, stretching, meditation and chanting; all in precise sequence. This ancient and sacred practice was kept secret by advanced yogis until recently because of its power to wake the kundalini and allow for enlightenment in this lifetime. It must be practiced with care and intent. Your Samadhi teachers teach with the utmost integrity and dedication to the practice as taught by Yogi Bhajan.
A typical Kundalini yoga class will start and end with the most beautiful and ancient chants which open and calm the heart. Then we proceed with a carefully planned sequence of postures, movements and breathing exercises that bring about quick and powerful transformation on all levels.
“All is in you. You are the storehouse of your totality.” ~ Yogi Bhajan
YIN YOGA with Katherine Coleman
ALL LEVELS Welcome
A quiet yet profound and highly therapeutic style of yoga that is available to all students at all levels. The power of Yin is in its long-held relaxed floor postures. This kind of stretch stimulates the deep, connective “Yin” tissues of the body, affecting not only the physical body, but also energetic aspects of the self. Yin yoga strengthens the flow of prana (life force) or chi, maintains the health of the meridian system of the body, and as an additional bonus contributes to the mindfulness necessary for a successful meditation practice. It is a logical balance to dynamic, muscular, “yang” forms of yoga and/ or strenuous exercise. It is excellent for students looking to advance deeper into their practice as individuals are challenged to sit in the pure presence of awareness.
ALL LEVELS welcome.
Adaptive Yoga introduces for those living with a disability to the benefits of yoga by introducing mind-body concepts and practical exercises to deepen the connection between mind and body.
Adaptive Classes – For anyone living with impaired mobility due to disability….such as partial or total paralysis, amputation, severe spinal cord injury, severe arthritis, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, head injury, spina bifida and cerebral palsy.
YOGA FOR ADDICTIONS: The Consciousness of Recovery
with Rindy Leeds and Special Guest Kenton Leeds
Who is an addict?
“Most of us don’t even have to think about this question…. we know” NA page 3
This class is about recovery. Whether it’s food, drugs, sex, alcohol, relationships, gambling, shopping…..ect. there is a human side to Addiction and Recovery.
This class is not meant to be a replacement for ongoing Recovery Programs but as a way to live more fully in the present moment. If you need to be inspired and centered walking the path of recovery in 2012, come and join us as we….. move, breath, meditate and share. Strengthen your unique journey of Recovery so you can live a vibrant and conscious life.
Each class will have a theme such as
- The Stranger Within
- Your Issues are in Your Tissues
- Forgetting to Remember
- You Are Not Alone
Meditation with Gentle Asana focuses on the practice of sitting in stillness. Students will be led in a combination of guided group sitting practices for 20-30 minutes and slow asana postures designed to make sitting easier and increase energy flow in the body without raising the pulse or breathing rate. This class is designed for everyone from beginner to advanced and all are welcome.
Warning: Meditation can be extremely beneficial and may result in powerful feelings of bliss, connection and purpose!
Yoga For Seniors
Gail Waldstein, M.D.
Certified Yoga Instructor
Gail has created a safe yoga class because she understands the importance of keeping the body healthy as we age. She will lead classes to help boomers & seniors understand the benefits of yoga and how it can help their health. Topics include:
- Increase flexibility
- Revitalize balance & coordination
- Improve strength
- Support healthy joints
- Build bone & muscle
- Prevent/improve osteoporosis & osteopenia
- Reduce stress
- Manage chronic pain
30 to 45 Minutes of Anusara yoga followed with 15 – 20 minutes of the powerfully relaxing practice of yoga nidra at the end.
Led Primary Series of Ashtanga Yoga
The traditional series as taught by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois. A set sequence of flowing postures intended to detoxify and align the body, building strength and stamina along the way. We’ll combine these postures with unjjayi breath, bandhas, and dristi to create a little sweat and fun. Regular, continued practice brings intense focus, cleansing, and less stiffness in body and mind.
The instructor’s intention is to flow through the entire primary series. However, if the majority of the class is less experienced, the instructor will only cover the first half of the primary series.
Suitable for those with some yoga experience and very patient beginners.
ALL LEVELS WELCOME
In power yoga we seek to cultivate shakti a Sanskrit word meaning “to be able.” Shakti represents the sacred force of empowerment. These classes provide a challenging yet accessible yoga practice for all levels; modified versions of more difficult postures will always be given. Power yoga emphasizes the use of ujiayi breathing, generating an internal heat within the body to purify body, mind and spirit. After class you will feel strengthened, empowered and ready for what life has to offer you!
The word “puja” comes from the ancient Sanskrit language and it means, “to manifest the highest merit” and “to adore”. In a puja, we sing mantras, make offerings and give praise to a particular universal energy that is represented in the form of a diety. This universal energy is an elemental piece of our own soul. In performing puja, we develop the qualities of the diety in ourselves and in our environment. Puja is a sweet devotional practice which is being offered to anyone who wishes to participate and/or observe.
