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Align & Flow
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Designed for people who only have one hour to practice, this class is suitable to all levels with a foundational knowledge of yoga. Moderately paced, practitioners will explore a fully balanced Vinyasa class. This includes warm-up, dedication, Surya namaskar, standing poses, back bends, forward bends, inversions, mediation and relaxation. Options will be offered for beginners, intermediate and advanced students. All are welcome!

Basics 
These classes move at a slower pace, providing more detailed instruction. Emphasis is on alignment and a deeper understanding of the postures. Students prepare to enter open-level classes.

Core Flow and Basics 
A class that has strength training and flexibility elements woven in throughout the practice. In this class, students will move through poses and repetitive sequences to strengthen not only their core muscles, but arms and legs as well. The practice is balanced out with deep stretching and breath work. Students usually come out of the practice feeling strong, centered, and reenergized! Great class for beginners and advanced yogis who want to go back to technique and build strength. 


Express
These classes are energetic and fast paced with heat-building, flowing poses. Great class to start your day with or take a mid-day refresher. Open to all levels.

Functional Yoga
Each week, this class will focus on one pose, movement, or concept and use it to get you stronger, more mobile, and become more aware of how you move in your everyday life. Incorporating elements from various movement disciplines, Functional Yoga is designed to improve your overall movement health as well as compliment your current yoga practice.  Open to practitioners of all levels.

Gentle Flow
This is a slow paced class in which you will deepen the breath and use gentle but dynamic movements to warm, mobilize, stretch and strengthen the body. Complemented with restorative poses, this class will help to calm the nervous system and mind, leaving you feeling open, rejuvenated, connected and nurtured.

GYROTONIC® Tower Class
This small-group class is taught on the GYROTONIC® pulley tower, a unique weight- and pulley-based apparatus that is at the center of GYROTONIC® exercise. You'll work your entire body through a series of fluid, circular-based exercises that incorporate resistance for strong, lean muscles along with increased mobility, flexibility, coordination, and balance.  Recommended to start at Beginner Movers level or do a Beginner 3-pack of Private or Duet classes before taking a group class.

Happy Hour Yoga
We make it frightfully easy to unwind from the week and get your groove on for the weekend. 60 minutes of blissed out flow yoga class with strong influences from the Anusara and Vinyasa traditions, this is an open level class . Join us!!
 
Intermediate/Advanced 
This is an intermediate class offering a greater challenge in strength and flexibility as students enjoy investigating, playing, and expanding their practice and unlimited potential. It will continue to refine familiar poses, and begin exploring a variety of advanced asanas. Appropriate for students with some previous yoga experience. Students should be versed with handstand at the wall as well as pushing up into urdhva dhanurasana (backbend). Expect a supportive, dynamic and playful environment.

Iyengar
The Iyengar method of Yoga defines itself by 3 key elements: technique, sequence and timing:
Technique means ever finer adjustments in the alignment of one's asana (poses) and pranayama (breath control).
Sequence refers to the sequences in which asana and pranayama are practiced.
Timing refers to the length of time spent in postures or pranayama. Postures cannot be done swiftly or without awareness. It takes time to move into a posture and become stable. When this has been achieved then one remains stably for some time to intensify the depth of the posture and so extract its benefit.

Jivamukti 
A Jivamukti Open class presents classical yoga teachings as relevant to one’s life on and off the mat, drawn from the Focus of the Month essay, supported by chanting, breath awareness, flowing vinyasa sequences, alignment exploration, hands-on assistance, relaxation and meditation. All Open classes include 14 points—asanas, meditation and spiritual teachings—in a sequence creatively designed by the teacher. Exuberant, eclectic music plays an integral role: you might practice to a shifting soundtrack of ragas, global trance, hip-hop, spoken word, George Harrison, Sting, Krishna Das, Donna de Lory, Michael Franti, Bill Laswell, Alice Coltrane and Mozart.

Mama Bear- "Mommy and Me Style 
MamaBear Yoga is a one hour “mommy-and –me-style” yoga class for moms and their new babies, newborn through pre-crawl.  Doors open at 2:00pm to settle in for a 2:15 class start.  Mats, blocks, bolsters and blankets are all supplied.  An excellent way to stretch, strengthen, and tone your body after birth. No previous yoga experience is necessary.  The babies love the experience, being together, watching mommy, and love the special way they are incorporated into the yoga poses.  You get a wonderful workout with BabyBear, and they will enjoy the special music and baby movement segments.
“Baby Whisperer”Alex Venier, our MamaBear Yoga Teacher is a magic spinner. Always adapting the group to various needs, Alex leads a class that is equally physically challenging and attentive to your postpartum restorative support. From weaving a dynamic class with hoots and hollers from the wee ones, to casting a spell of baby calm, Alex can juggle the energies while juggling a baby.
A great way to meet other local new moms and get back in shape.

Mindful Flow 
These classes are designed to focus on the actions of the poses, in alignment with the power of the heart. The classes are based on Anusara Yoga’s Universal Principal of Alignment. Integrating them into your practice of yoga, in order to serve the creative flow of life through each breath and posture. All levels are welcome.

Mindful Flow and Yoga Nidra (Deep Relaxation)
These moderately-paced, strengthening vinyasa classes are designed to focus on the actions of the poses, in alignment with the power of the heart, spirit, mind and breath. Integrating these foundations into the practice of yoga, serving the creative flow of life.  There is ample time given to recharge and rest via guided deep relaxation, sound, breathwork, and meditation.  All levels are welcome.
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Open
These fast-paced classes are based around heat-building, flowing poses. Modifications are given so that every pose is accessible to any level of student.

Open Level Vinyasa 
A practice that connects the breath with the movement. Expect to move at a moderate pace through sun salutations and sequences building up to a peak pose. Then cooling down with some deep stretching and restorative postures to allow the muscles to rejuvenate. There are plenty of modifications to assist practitioners of all levels. 

  
Open/Restorative
This class is two-thirds Open level vinyasa flow - stretching and strengthening yoga asanas - and one-third Restorative practice, which places the body in comfortable, supported positions allowing the muscles and nervous system to relax, dissolving tension.
We'll warm up, keep it moving, then bring some ease to body, breath and mind. For students of all levels.

Positive Vibrations
Start your weekend with a juicy, uplifting vinyasa flow with harmonium, essential oils, hands on adjustments and some mindful, grounding floor asanas. Expect good music, big smiles and overall positive vibrations! 


Positive Vibrations- Intermediate
Start your weekend with a juicy, uplifting vinyasa flow with harmonium, essential oils, hands on adjustments and some mindful, grounding floor asanas. Expect good music, big smiles and overall positive vibrations! In this intermediate level class, we will hold poses longer and work on more challenging sequencing and asanas. We will work towards arm balances, inversions, and more advanced peak poses.

Power Yoga 
Power Yoga is a vigorous, strength-building, flexibility-enhancing form of vinyasa (flow) yoga, with emphasis on the principle of adaptation and linking breath to movement. Wherever you are on your path, this class has something for you; the class offers modifications and direction for those new to the practice, and more advanced variations for the seasoned yogi.  Practice at your own level of ability, fitness level and circumstance. You don’t need to be physically flexible; all you need is to come, breathe, move, sweat, let go.

Prenatal
Prenatal classes are designed to help expecting moms deepen their experience and enjoyment of pregnancy. This class is strengthening as well as restorative to both body and soul. A balanced spectrum of breathing, warm ups and asanas are included in each class.

Restorative
Restorative Yoga is a method in which one holds poses for longer lengths of time with the help of props in order to focus on relaxing and strengthening the muscles. This provides a meditative, slow practice allowing time to go deeper not only into the body, but into the restless mind.

Sweat, Stretch, and Relax
This class opens with a fiery strength-building vinyasa flow (intermediate to advanced asana), followed by 20 minutes of deep, intensive stretching, and finally a sweet closing of pure restorative postures, pranayama and meditation. Recommended for those with some Yoga experience.

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Carroll Gardens

(718) 624-3157

Brooklyn Heights

(718) 221- YOGA (9642)

Park Slope

(718) 230-7495