Yoga Styles

All Levels Yoga

All Levels Yoga is a great way to deliver yoga to a group of people that practice at various levels or have never practiced at all. We deliver a practice where your instructor is prepared to meet the needs of everyone present. No matter how large or small the amount of experience, everyone benefits.

This practice combines a yoga 101 style that contains a beginner flow and ends with stretching and relaxation yoga techniques. A great overall practice that can be delivered to any community.

Ashtanga

(This class is very advanced and should only be chosen by advanced practitioners.  If your audience is curious, please mention this in your request so we shorten the practice and eliminate the extremely challenging poses.)  

Build core strength and tone the body with ashtanga yoga, the modern-day version of classical yoga from India. It is the root of all flow and is practiced strictly in Sanskrit without music. Prepare to sweat in this dynamic, challenging practice designed to purify the body. We’ll go through multiple, repetitive sequences to break you open and instill the values of discipline and habit.

Among the benefits of this more advanced practice comes from purifying sweat that detoxifies muscles and organs. Suitable for those in need of a solid cardio workout and who have ample yoga experience, you’ll leave this class relieving stress, burning fat, and with an increased focus and sense for your body.

Astro Yoga

Astro Yoga is a combination of astrology and yoga. Most commonly used with the phases of the Moon, especially for the Full and the New Moon. We start with a crystal grid to enhance the energy of the sign the Moon is in. At times crystals are included to reflect the sign that the Sun is in. This crystal grid is displayed to enjoy during your yoga session.

During the New Moon, we help you journal your intentions prior to the yoga practice. There are monthly rituals performed that involve releasing the intentions back to the Earth the day after the New Moon and what they wish to release prior to the yoga class. These desires of release may also be sent back to the Earth through a variety of techniques that can include fire, water, or burying. Although both the New Moon and the Full Moon are most potent on the day they occur, their energy is strong enough that events can occur up to three days prior or three days after the Moon is new, or full!

All other significant astrological events can be added to this practice such as eclipses, conjunctions, comets, and more! We move with the energy you provide for the journey! All rituals, including Astro Yoga, help us live with the rhythm of the seasons and bring a bit of ritual to our lives. In today’s world, many folks have lost the rhythm of the seasons, and ritual is performed rarely. Astro Yoga is a great way to rediscover your connection to this wild and wonderful planet, and the universe, we live within.

Core Stress Release

Core Stress Release (CSR) is a technique used within a yoga practice that is meant to help the body release deep patterns of stress and tension within the muscles. The technique was designed by Dr. David Bercelli to activate a natural reflex within the muscles to shake or tremor in a relaxing and soothing way. Once you’ve got the technique you should be able to engage it on your own at home any time, especially after an episode of difficulty, stress, or tension.

Kids Yoga

We will craft an age-appropriate experience that teaches young minds how to decompress in a busy world. Presented in a child’s language, this style of yoga targets young bodies and yoga practitioners of all skill levels, enabling families to connect through meditation, breathing, and introductory poses.

Children are often exposed to the natural, hectic nature of their everyday lives, and yoga can teach them how to destress, find balance, and connect with their inner self at an early age. Fostering compassion and cooperation, this form teaches parents and children alike how to find calmness together.

Laughter Yoga

Need a good belly laugh? Come join us to relieve some stress with some Yoga and Laughter!!! We start off with techniques to learn to force a laugh that turns into genuine laughter. Who doesn’t need some laughter in their day, and in their yoga practice!

Light Movement & Stretch

Light Movement & Stretch is a great way to deliver yoga to a group of people who practice at various levels or have never practiced at all and may be intimidated by the word “Yoga”. We provide a class with the same movements and stretches we just call them different terms.  Your instructor is prepared to meet the needs of everyone present. No matter how large or small the amount of experience, everyone benefits.

This practice combines a beginner style that contains stretching and relaxation techniques. A great overall practice that can be delivered to any community.

Meditation

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Learn to quiet your mind and create a mind-body connection through the art of letting go. We will guide you through a series of breathing, concentration, and mindfulness meditation exercises. This will help you train your mind to lessen distractions and focus on the inner self.

Dive into a deeper state of awareness by observing the mind and you’ll come to face positive results both physically and spiritually. Reap the benefits of a more relaxed state of being. Mediation will bring you closer to securing a revitalized outlook on life and a stronger peace of mind.

Meditation Express

Complete your connections with the body, mind, and soul with meditation express. For those who are unable to dedicate long lengths of time to meditation, this practice will get you on the right track toward restoring a sense of balance to a crazy day. Through breathing, meditation, and relaxation techniques, we will help you calm your nervous system and steady your mind.  This is great for corporate offices to start the work day off with focus and concentration.

Schedule this practice and experience deep rest and relaxation for your body and soul. Even with a shorter time frame, meditation express can help you feel centered, rejuvenated, and ready to face whatever the day throws your way.

Pre/Post-Natal Yoga

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Commonly referred to as “mommy and me yoga,” this style will increase your strength and flexibility during pregnancy through a series of breathing and relaxation techniques. We will also enhance your endurance and help you get reacquainted with your body through gentle stretching, balance, and postures.

While prenatal yoga can alleviate any aches and pains during your pregnancy, postnatal yoga will help restore your body after your pregnancy and labor. These yoga forms are designed to ease the physical and mental pressures that many mothers may face during this miraculous time. This practice will help reduce stress and anxiety; help improves your sleep, and help build the muscles needed for childbirth.

Power Yoga

In modern yoga, power yoga stands out as a popular and athletic practice that emphasizes standing postures to get your heart pumping. Inspired by ashtanga yoga, power yoga focuses on building strength rather than flexibility -- there are typically fewer poses but they are held longer.

Like most yoga practices, power yoga enhances stamina and mental focus, but unlike more traditional forms, it can be quite rigorous and typically burns more calories. If you’re ready to take yoga to the next level, pump up the beat and request a power yoga class today!

Relaxation Yoga

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This is a great practice to choose if you need yoga but are exhausted from the business of life. This is a great practice to combine with a girls' weekend or to wind down after a long day.

Relaxation Yoga can include any of the following practices: guided & self-meditation, restorative yoga for your nervous system, yin for your connective tissue and maybe even some sound healing or self-myofascial release! You name it, we provide it in your yoga experience of bliss.

Restorative Yoga

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Restorative yoga goes through five to six gentle and supported poses held for several minutes to help the body and mind relax and rest. Props are used to help you maintain the positions longer. This form uses passive stretching to open up the body and strengthen your nervous system.

An antidote to the general fast pace of life, restorative yoga will assist in combating stress, anxiety, fatigue, and injury. This class offers healing for the body and the mind and is often used to restore calm and harmony to our lives.

Self-Myofascial Release

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Looking to relieve pain and increase mobility? Self-myofascial release may be a good fit for you! The actions taught in this class attempt to release tension in the fascia (connective tissues) caused by posture, inflammation, or other physical reactions. Our dedicated instructors will guide you through gentle techniques to target common trouble spots and help you feel instant release.

Self-myofascial release can help complement your general yoga practice, and applying gentle pressure to areas such as your feet, legs, chest, forearms, hands, neck, and shoulders can help renew blood flow to restricted areas, improving muscular health and circulation. Give self-myofascial release a try and see how it affects your body!

Sacred Sound

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Sacred Sound is the concept that your mind and body operate at certain vibrations, and such vibrations can be manipulated through sound waves. Using sound bowls (both crystal and metal), chimes, and drums, this practice sees your body and mind absorbing sound waves to focus and center you for deeper meditation and healing.

Because sound resonates in everything we do, Sacred Sound has seen the benefits of relieving stress. Taking part in a Sacred Sound Session only requires you to lay back and enjoy the sound! 

Yin

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Take on a more meditative approach with a deep physical focus on the practice of Yin yoga. A slow-paced and passive form, Yin yoga stretches the connective tissues around the joints to increase circulation and flexibility. Postures are often held for longer periods of time, allowing you to relax, soften the muscle, and move closer to the bone.

Prominently used to tackle tight joints, Yin yoga requires longer holds, similar sensations to getting a massage.  Yin encourages you to get intimate with the self and often brings strong emotions to the forefront. You’ll deepen your awareness of inner silence, breathing, and interconnectedness.

Yoga 101

Get a proper introduction to studio and gym yoga. This class will focus on the fundamentals of yoga and is designed to help first-timers and beginners get comfortable with the practice. Learn the basics of yoga postures, breathing, and proper alignment through gentle and easy techniques.

Building a solid foundation for yoga will instill a deeper appreciation in you for your own mind and body. Dip your toes in the healing waters of yoga today and build the confidence to practice to the next level!

Yoga Flow

Are you ready to work up a sweat? Named for the smooth way poses run together, yoga flow is a contemporary style of yoga that synchronizes breath and movement. Swift but mindful, breathing serves as a measure and gives the practitioner a sense of direction to move from one pose to another.

For those feeling stiff and stuck, yoga flow will help you loosen your muscles and release any blockage of energy flow throughout your body. The synchronized breathing also relaxes the chatter of the mind and leaves you feeling re-energized. Unwind today with a yoga flow class!

Yoga for Athletes

Are you an athlete looking to improve your form? Or are you recovering from a sporting injury? Perhaps you’re an athlete simply looking to round out your training with new tools. Yoga adapted for athletes offers an advantage in any competitive field. Through a series of poses that target different parts of the body, including hamstrings, legs, glutes, hips, and chest and shoulders, the variety of work within this style of yoga will undoubtedly translate to better performance.

Enhance your physiological and cognitive abilities and utilize the skills acquired in this class to help prevent future sporting injuries and aid in recovery. Any athlete will benefit from adding yoga to their exercise regimen, and our expert staff can show you how!

Yoga for Core Stability

This practice will be a core stability class led by a Yoga’s Arc Instructor that is also certified in Pilates. We will focus on the lower, outer and upper parts of the abdominals, along with the surrounding muscles that support them. The Pilates-style repetitive strengthening and lengthening movements with a Pilates-style breath will enhance your yoga practice, and vice-versa! Incorporating Pilates into a regular routine will also help you learn to support your lower back throughout your day by engaging your core stabilizers and posture.

Yoga for Good Posture

In a world where slouching over technology and steering wheels has become an epidemic, yoga for a healthy posture strengthens and active/passively stretches your body to rehabilitate it to its correct state. Effective for enhancing posture by massaging the skeletal system, yoga additionally reduces tension in the muscles and tendons. We’ll work with you to focus on opening your body and strengthening the back and core.

This class includes but is not limited to combinations of the following practices: All Levels; Yin; Restorative; Meditation, Self-Myofacial Release & Yoga Nidra. Whether you practice breathing techniques, strengthen your core, stay for minutes in a yin pose or relax in a gentle pose to restore, this practice will help the body and mind rest, relax and open.

Yoga for Healthy Back

This gentle yoga practice is tailored specifically for increasing back health and easing back pain.

A few tools are required for releasing the various types of tension in the back that cause back pain: re-patterning the nervous system; releasing the strain of habitual body posture, movement, and contraction patterns; strengthening the stabilizing muscles; strengthening some of the muscles that are most commonly weaker; and Gentle compression to break up inflammation, scar tissue, and tightness.

Yoga for Healthy Joints

Free your body from tension and discover what it feels like to enjoy your body! This class is designed to increase mobility and decrease tension throughout the major joints of the body. Participants will be guided to move in easy, rhythmic patterns to relieve pain and tension and to hydrate and lubricate the joints.

The movements flow one right into the next, and are done lying, kneeling, and standing. A soft surface or mat will be useful, plus cushions for the knees and head, and a chair or sturdy furniture within reach to assist with balance. Because this serene class serves as both an introduction to exercise and a supplemental program for improving physical performance, it is appropriate for people at all levels of fitness, from sedentary to athletic.

Yoga Nidra

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Enter a state of calmness, quietness, and clarity with Yoga Nidra. This guided meditation practice is done by laying down with support for comfort and pushes the body into a relaxed state of consciousness. There’s no wrong way to practice yoga Nidra - just listen and follow the voice guiding you!

This yoga form promotes deep rest and relaxation, and the stages of body scan and breath awareness help to calm the nervous system, leading to reduced stress and improved health. With our talented team of instructors, you’ll leave each class feeling inspired and ready to incorporate yoga Nidra into your everyday life.

Yoga with a Chair

Yoga with a chair is an effective way to stretch your body and relieve tension all from the comfort of your chair. The practice can be modified to include the chair as a balancing prop while you stand, or gently used as you sit upon it. Whether you are looking to squeeze in a session during a busy workday or have limited mobility due to age or physical attributes, chair yoga serves as a great alternative to the more challenging yoga styles.

While seated, this form allows you to exercise versions of twists, hip stretches, backbends, and more. Its benefits include improving flexibility, decreasing stress, and reducing joint strain, particularly among the elderly. At Yoga’s Arc, we will work with you to ensure you take away key learnings from this class so you can practice anywhere you find a seat!