Hatha yoga is a practice that combines physical movements and postures with breathing techniques, with a focus on a healthy physical body and a sound, calm mind. All of the yoga classes offered at Roots and Wings are based on the Hatha Yoga practice, including Svaroopa Yoga, Kripalu Yoga, and Synergy Yoga. Some teachers prefer to use the name of the specific style of Hatha yoga that they teach, and others prefer to use the original name of Hatha yoga as their description.
Hatha Yoga
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Lynn's Hatha Yoga class starts slowly to gently open the body, before transitioning to a more active practice. Poses are generally held slightly longer, and detailed explanations create a safe space to learn all levels of yoga. Each class focuses on breathing and posture alignment and aims to reduce stress, improve health, and create wholeness of body, mind and spirit. Lynn would call her approach to teaching "light-hearted and eclectic," combining her favorite elements of Iyengar, Vinyasa, Restorative, Kripalu and Freedom-style yoga practices. She is known for maintaining wide variety in her classes, never teaching the exact same class twice.
no class 5/30, 7/4, 9/5
Hatha: Focus and Flow
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all levels
An eclectic, creative, moderate flow style of yoga which emphasizes opening the physical and energetic bodies while quieting the mind. Poetry, music, spiritual readings , visualizations, and meditations are variously included to foster greater integration and awakening of our Spiritual Selves.
Beginner and Intermediate students welcome.
Breath and Balance™ for Deepening Your Yoga
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Breath and Balance™ blends the knowledge of the skeletal structure with the muscular structure and the breath in order to develop muscular intelligence and balance in the yoga. Using guided imagery, deep held tension in the body melts away. You release tightness in and around the spine and deepen your understanding of the poses.
Breath and Balance™ incorporates a gentle style, one in which follows the natural movements of the body - a technique that is safe for all students, all abilities.
Open to all, you will experience new ways to drop tension and deepen how you experience your own unique body. Gracefully and effortlessly you will learn how your body does yoga. Trish will guide you and encourage you to play with your yoga. See what happens when you breathe space into your spine, drop into your bones and build your poses from the roots up.
Hatha: Focus and Flow
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(see Katherine's Thursday class description)