Class Descriptions
All of our classes are 60 minutes (excluding: Inspired Flow & Ashtanga Led Primary Series at 75 minutes ) and our yoga teachers are trained to provide ALL Levels classes, ALL The Time. We are a multi-faceted based Yoga studio with various yoga style influences that shine through with each instructor (ex. Ashtanga, Anusara, Kriya Yoga, Hatha, Meditation, Hot Yoga, Vinyasa, Yin, Aerial Yoga, Tribal and Primal Movement Systems etc.). We encourage you to honor your body & practice where you're at that day/moment! Some days we touch our toes and some days we don't-- that's OK! Our range of yoga classes create the opportunity to have a daily practice and explore/learn new yoga styles as you move forward in your practice, when you're ready.
All Classes are Based in the Practice of Mindfulness
All Yoga Pulse teachers are trained and skilled in offering modifications; creating more space, utilizing prop support, and/or more challenging variations, depending on your intention. We encourage you to honor your body & practice where you're at that day! Some days we touch our toes and some days we don't-- that's OK! This class will make you breathe, move, and sweat!
Heated Vinyasa Flow @ 6:00PM MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
@ 9:30AM SATURDAY
Our 60 minute hot yoga class is heated to 102-104 degrees with 50% humidity. Our classes are All Levels, All The Time. Breath and movement are linked throughout the class to help the body move with more ease and create more depth in your practice. All Yoga Pulse teachers are trained and skilled in offering modifications; creating more space, utilizing prop support, and/or more challenging variations, depending on your intention. We encourage you to honor your body & practice where you're at that day! Some days we touch our toes and some days we don't-- that's OK! This class will make you breathe, move, and sweat! Vinyasa Yoga is based on the 8 Limbs of Yoga in Ashtanga.
Vinyasa is an approach to yoga in which you move from one pose directly into the next. There’s a flow to a Vinyasa yoga session, though the specific poses and the pace of the flow vary from one instructor to the next.
You may also hear the term Ashtanga yoga used interchangeably with Vinyasa. While they’re similar in approach, the key difference is that Ashtanga sessions follow the same pattern of poses every time.
Vinyasa, on the other hand, usually moves from one pose to the next at the teacher’s discretion. This transition coordinates with your breathing. It’s done specifically as you exhale or inhale, and it gives you the feeling that your breath is moving your body.
Unheated Flow Monday & Wednesday @ 9:30am
This 60 minute, All Levels Unheated Flow class is taught in the Red Room (unheated). Every class begins with a short and light meditation to gather and build your breath for the practice. In this class, you'll breathe and flow into a moving meditation and relax into savasana, letting your mind calm and your worries be let go. This class is perfect for a daily pratice and Laura is a delight to practice with.
Hatha Yoga is the practice of performing yoga poses. The word “hatha” means “force” – thereby emphasizing the physicality of this type of yogic practice. Hatha Yoga has become popular as a method of physical fitness, as the “asanas” (poses) used in Hatha Yoga can help improve strength and flexibility, and promote overall health and wellbeing.
Inspired Flow + Singing Bowl Savasana Tuesday & Thursday @ 9:20am (75min)
This 75 minute, All Levels Unheated Flow class is taught in the Green Room. Ali offers essential oils at the beginning (Breather Easier- encourages focus, opens the breathing passageways and is antimacrobial) and ending of this class (YPS Dream-Cycle- Calming, Grounding, Soothing, Renewing). Every class begins with a short and light meditation to gather and build your breath for the practice. The class progresses from a Seated Stretching Sequence, to a Table Top Flow, Prone and Supine asanas included, to a Standing Flow sequence, and finishing the class lying on our backs with some deep Yin stretches. Throughout this class, all movement is intentional and synchronized with your breath as you are guided through postures (asanas). Mindfulness and body awareness (subtle energy) are promoted and encouraged throughout each class. The structure of this class is a little slower than our Heated Flow classes, but a little more intense than New To Yoga; with time to turn your focus inward and make any necessary adjustments-- with the help of the instructor or on your own. This practie incorporates hatha yoga, anusara yoga, kriya yoga, various meditation and pranayam (breathwork) pratices. This class closes with a 10-15minute Singing Bowl Savasana + Frequency Work with Tuning Forks.
Himalayan Kriya Journey Tuesday Evening @7:30pm
Sunday Morning @ 11:00am
*90 minute class
"Kriya" means action! Kriya is a Himalayan Kundalini technique designed to create an evolutionary response, expansion, and liberation, by accessing deeper states of meditation and yogic union in the body, mind and soul.
Himalayan Kriya Yoga works to generate energy and conduct electricity throughout the body with the use of specialized movements, mantra, mudras, and pranayama. Practitioners experience healing on a cellular level, bring prana back into flow, and ignite from the inside out!
Kriya is scientifically proven to bring extensive healing to the brain, body and psyche. Himalayan Kriya Yoga draws from the teachings of the Babaji lineage as delivered to Paramahansa Yogananda: an ancient set of practices brought forth for your metamorphosis.
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Morning Stretch Thursday @ 9:00am
A great class for anyone new to yoga, feeling stiff from lifestyle, returning after injury or time away from yoga. No flow, just breath-work and stretching.
Candlelight Yin + Sound Healing Wednesday @ 7:30pm
Thursday @ 7:30pm
Friday @ 6:15pm
Our 60 minute Unheated Yin class takes place after our Heated Flow Class, Monday - Thursday evening at 7:30pm. When you first walk into class, the room is slightly warm but continues to cool down as the class progresses. For Unheated Yin, we keep the room dimly lit with candlelight to promote a sense of calm and allow you to really focus on your own practice without external distraction. Each class begins with a meditation and breath-work to help restore your vitality. Traditionally, Yin yoga works from the area of the navel to the knees, and the principles of Yin yoga can be applied to any of the body's tissues. However, the primary focus is the lower body because we tend to hold more tension in this area as we age. The poses are sequenced in a non-exhaustive manner (less "flow" and more "static stretching"), each pose (asana) is held for 10-18 breaths (or 2-4 minutes) which results in a deeper, more thorough stretch. This class is less about muscular release, and more about supporting your Yin tissues-- tendons, ligaments, etc.
If you've been sitting at a desk all day, experience body aches due to lifestyle, life weights and don't stretch, have tension, been under stress, want an intentional meditation, are tired but need a good stretch? This class is perfect for you! This class is great for every body!
Power Flow (unheated room) Tuesday @ 9:00am
Friday @ 9:00am
Saturday @ 8:30am
Sunday @ 9:00am
Aerial FLOW: INTRO Saturday @ 10:00am
Wednesday @ 6:15pm
(with single point, Hammock Silks)
Our 60 minute Aerial Hammock Yoga class is accessible to all ages and all levels. We just ask that you get your doctors permission before hopping into a class. This class offers an authentic yoga practice, accompanied by a soft, sturdy hammock from which we explore, refine, and advance our practice. In this class, you will practice asanas on your mat and in the hammock, often times incorporating both the ground and the hammock at the same time. All of our teachers are professionally trained Aerialists and registered yoga teachers. They will teach you how to use the hammock to defy gravity (or use it to your advantage) to relax and restore, or realign and uplift. Each teacher has a different combination or sequence they will guide you through. Since we only have 5 hammocks, there is plenty of time to interact with our teachers one-on-one and get deeper into the practice both physically and mentally. **This is by far our most popular class and books up quickly! Be sure to book this class using our MINDBODY app or call us during business hours to schedule.
Our Aerial Hammocks are professionally installed and rigged. Each hammock can hold up to 5,000 pounds; 2,000 pounds with force. Our yoga is made for EVERY BODY!
Slow Flow Saturday @ 11:15am
Our Slow Flow yoga class is designed to be for all levels of practitioners. Expect to move your body and perhaps build up a steady sweat (“slow” doesn’t necessarily mean easy!) while you synchronize your breath with each movement. This class will slow you down just the right amount to provide both a steadiness of mind and strength of body. It’s a sweet space where softness meets intensity; the perfect practice for someone who wants a step up from restorative or yin, without the full blown vigor of a heated or power flow class. Great for beginners who are just starting to learn the poses! Great for all levels of pratitioners as the postures can be modified or intensified.
Vibration Meditation & Restorative Yoga Specialty Class
Ali will guide students through intentional pranayam to help bring some blance to the body and mind. She offers essential oils (in form of 2 drops of essential oil on a tissue chosen by you to keep oil from becoming intentionally airborn in case a client has an allergy) to empower and assist you in your practice. She will begin to lead you into a place of active meditation on Subtle Energies around us... with intentional breath work, BluePrinted Bio-Frequencies will be played over each individual.
We will tune into the Subtle Energies around us, and create harmony with Quantum Frequency, Resonance and Sound Healing. Finding Peace in Presence, find Sanctuary in Stillness, and find Clarity of Thought.
Join me in relaxing your body and mind, as we practice various Gentle Yoga, Restorative + Yin Yoga, and Meditation/Pranayam techniques that will help direct your awareness, consciously clear your mind, and help you to become acquainted with your Inner Knowing.
The Inner Knowing, is a space within you that already exists; we will work towards Building the Connect to your True Intuition, Confidence, Love, Gratitude and Overall Self-Empowerment.
*Periodically, Ali will allow clients to hold the metal bowls while being played. If you want to become knowledgable about the bowls and instruments, just come to a class! She might even lead you through Vocal Tuning practices to further the activation of your natural, inturnal, vibration and bringing that into harmony.
After the Sound Healing portion of class... we will enter a space of total silence while in Savasana. You will be guided to a light waking, and eventually become seated in Sukhasana again. We will close the class with a Unique Yogini's Blessing, and 2 rounds of Call and Response AUM's.
Ashtanga: Led Primary Series Monday, 5:30pm- 6:45pm
Thursday, 5:30pm-6:45pm
The Led Half Primary Series guides students half way through the Primary Series of Ashtanga. Focusing on the breath and utilizing drishti (gaze points) for each pose, this dynamic sequence will link breath and movement (Vinyasa Flows find their roots in the Ashtanga lineage). The Half Led Primary offers an excellent opportunity for any student to learn the poses and deepen their practice in a safe, mindful way by offering hands on, gentle assists and focused verbal cues.
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The Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga is a style of yoga codified and popularized by K. Pattabhi Jois during the 20th century which is often promoted as a modern-day form of classical Indian yoga. Ashtanga means eight limbs or branches, of which asana or physical yoga posture is merely one branch, breath or pranayama is another.
Usually an Ashtanga practice begins with five repetitions of Surya Namaskara A and five repetitions of Surya Namaskara B, followed by a standing sequence. Following this the practitioner begins one of six series, followed by what is called the closing sequence. There are six series, and this class covers the 1st Series are:
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The Primary series: Yoga Chikitsa, Yoga for Health or Yoga Therapy. This is a powerful practice that tones, cleanses, detoxifies, and purifies the body. Make sure you're properly hydrated and have eaten a light meal at least 2 hours before the practice.
Foundations in Flow (All Levels) Currently Unavailable
This 60 minute, All Levels Unheated Flow class is typically taught in the Green Room. We have various teachers offering this unheated, vinyasa flow, basics class in their personal yoga style accounting for client/student preference and disposition to help guide the class. This class is half workshop, and half flow. FIF takes time to answer questions and explain the postures, transitions, etc. Every class begins with a short meditation to gather and build your breath for the practice. Throughout the class, all movement is synchronized with your breath as you are guided through postures. Mindfulness and body awareness are promoted and encouraged throughout each class. The structure of this class is a little slower than our Heated Flow classes; with time to turn your focus inward and make any necessary adjustments-- with the help of the instructor or on your own. It's a great way to practice the foundation of each pose (asana)-- and a great way to to deepen your personal practice!
*THESE CLASSES ARE TEMPORARILY CANCELLED. WILL BE BACK IN THE FALL.*
Yang to Yin Currently unavailable
First 30 minutes is Flow, last 30 minutes is Yin.
This 60 minute class aims to build the heat and then slowly wind down into a slow flow, and finish with static, Yin-related, stretching. You'll become aware of the various tissues inside your body, and how your body responds to the supportive practices yoga provides. This class will warm you up quick, utilizing the mindful breath, and synchronize that breath with the asanas of the flow. This breath-&-asana connection helps to not only connect your body and mind but also detox and purify it. Teacher assisted stretching and adjustments are available-- with most taking place near the end of class. This is an energizing & refreshing class! It will inspire you, and put a little "pep in your step"!
**Class schedule is subject to change at the discretion of Yoga Pulse Studio Management Team. Please check the schedule on MindBody, before coming to class. We apologize for any inconveniences due to a schedule change.