A union of mind and body, linked with breath and movement; energy in flow. At RakSa, our teachers combine postures in a Hatha flow to promote health, relaxation, fitness, transformation and collective community.
Level I: Discover yoga, discover yourself. These classes are designed to introduce you to yoga while providing the time, attention and support to help you understand the proper alignment of yoga postures and breathing techniques.
Level I & II: Explore your edge. These classes are designed to challenge you to explore and expand your limits. Teachers incorporate creative poses and sequences, making it fresh and fun for students that practice regularly.
All Level: Come one, come all. Push yourself or pause as needed. We request that you have prior experience with yoga.
Ashtanga yoga is a powerful and dynamic practice in which poses are linked to one another through the synchronization of movement and breath. Students will be guided through the first half of the traditional Ashtanga Primary Series. This class is suitable for students with some yoga experience who are ready for a more challenging class.
Yoga For Kids is about jumping, becoming animals, moving through asanas and working on breath. Games that includes holding yoga poses and challenging balance will also be part of your child's practice. These actions and games stimulate the brain, work the body and help concentrate and relaxation skills that can shape a child's development.
Qi gong combines breath with slow graceful movements for a rejuvenating practice that promotes circulate of “Qi,” or life energy, calms the spirit, focuses the mind and strengthens the immune system.
Known as meditation in movement, this practice is a balance of yin and yang. Enjoy a slow and even flow through both internal and external energy for a healing practice that leaves you focused and aware.
Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons are a sensory-motor approach to learning based on the premise that becoming more aware of one’s movements, exerting less effort, and moving in more organic ways, can relieve stress, reduce pain, enhance agility and make life more enjoyable. These lessons are helpful and interesting for people at all levels of ability including those who are extremely healthy and those with serious injuries.
Contrasting most movement systems that focus on teaching predefined and static forms, Feldenkrais® focuses on function rather than form and does not have a goal of attaining an ideal body type or physical construction, or achieving "correct" positions or postures. Feldenkrais® is intended to improve the sensibility, awareness and quality of movement through one's own body feedback through diverse, ingenious movement experiments. Feldenkrais® stands today as a new western discipline equal in scope to Yogic practices, martial arts traditions and other psycho-physical approaches to human development that have originated in the East.
Feldenkrais for Wellness®: This class is designed to help you improve the comfort, ease and joy of your day-to-day movements, from the ordinary to the extraordinary. Learn ways to achieve a healthy, happy, pain-free and intelligent body.
Feldenkrais for Fitness®: Is your current workout helping or harming you? This class is designed to help you learn how to assess and improve the quality of your current exercise routine. Get more joy and comfort out of your movements while strengthening coordinaion, posture, deftness, performance, and stability.
