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Series Classes

Deepen your understanding in these specialized progressive classes designed for more in-depth study. Registration is required for each course. 1-wk pro-rated late enrollment available. Please call 804-359-9642.

10% discount for Richmond area college students.

KIDS YOGA (Grades 3-5)
6-week Children’s Series
Instructor: Cherie Cooper, RYT 500
Date: Thursdays, March 13 - April 17 (make up class April 24)
Time: 4:30-5:30 pm
Cost: $65

Kids Yoga gets kids creatively moving in a fun-filled engaging way. Using stories, music, games, and imagery, kids will learn the joy and benefits of a yoga practice. With this program kids will express, release, and refocus in a non-competitive environment.

Our yoga program will help kids of any age to:
• Build focus and concentration
• Learn relaxation and re-energizing techniques
• Improve self-awareness and confidence
• Increase stability, flexibility, balance, and coordination



...in a unique, fun environment with their peers!

INTRO TO KUNDALINI
6-week Introductory Series
Instructor: Keary Jenkins
Date: Saturdays, March 15 - April 19
Time: 12:30-2:00 pm
Cost: $65

Kundalini Yoga, the Yoga of Awareness, was brought to the West by Yogi Bhajan in 1968. Yogi Bhajan taught that, through the practice of Kundalini Yoga and meditation, your glandular and nervous systems are stimulated, and your capacity for creative potential is heightened. You gain inner vitality to compensate for the adverse effects of stress so you can excel in life. Kundalini yoga classes are a dynamic blend of postures, pranayama, mantra, music and meditation, which teaches you the art of relaxation, self-healing and elevation. Balancing body and mind enables you to experience the clarity and beauty of your soul. No previous experience in yoga is required for you to achieve results with your very first class.

ADVANCED VINYASA FLOW
6-week Advanced Series
Instructor: Tia Platte, ERYT 500
Date: POSTPONED until April (TBA)
Time: 1:00-3:30 pm
Cost: $100 (15-CEUs offered for RYTs)

Drops of Nectar: Tasting the Joy of Advanced Asanas
Like a chambered nautilus that organically grows into a greater and greater capacity for freedom, this series will provide a framework in which everyone can experience the opening and energy released through a powerful and consistent process. We will approach advanced postures with respect, intelligence and receptivity. The group will embark on a transformative journey together while individually exploring the vast realm of possibilities that lie within. We will explore a wide range of standing pose flows, full back bending, arm balances, deep twists and forward folds to create a harmonious & balanced practice. Emphasis will be placed on longer-held inversions (supported and free-standing) to deepen ones awareness and understanding as you invert the body and mind. The use of bhandas, drishti and breath are incorporated to experience the fluidity underlying all movement. Together, we will redefine what it truly means to “advance” ones practice by exploring all aspects of Hatha (physical) yoga. Time will be allotted at the end of each class for pranayama, seated meditation and discussion. 

This series is suitable for intermediate to advanced students & teachers looking to patiently expand their yoga practice with commitment and dedication. Students must have at least one year of consistent practice with a strong foundation and knowledge of sun salutations and the above mentioned asanas. Please direct all inquiries to Tia Platte at info@yogarichmond.com.

FUNDAMENTALS OF VINYASA
6-week Introductory Series
Instructor: Ellie Gompert, RYT 200
Date: Thursdays, May 15-June 19
Time: 7:45-9:00 pm
Cost: $65

Finding your Flow: An Introduction to Vinyasa with Ellie Gompert, RYT 200
Vinyasa is a flowing style of yoga that synchronizes movement with breath for a deep and meditative yoga experience. This vigorous and popular style is known for building strength, flexibility, and stamina as well as cleansing the body from the inside out.

In this six-week series, students will learn about the fundamentals of a vinyasa-style class and thoroughly examine its elements including the synchronization of breath and movement, sun salutations, ujjayi pranayama (victorious breath), drishti (gazing point), bandhas (energy locks), and inversion preparations. The series will help students gain the knowledge and self-assurance they need in order to “find their flow” and transition safely into power vinyasa and vinyasa flow classes. This series is open to all levels. Both experienced vinyasa practitioners and beginning yoga students will benefit from this opportunity to learn the basic elements of a vinyasa-style practice.

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ADVANCED IYENGAR
4-week Advanced Series
Instructor: Diana Martinez, RYT 500
Date: Thursdays, March 27 - April 17
Time: 7:45-9:00 pm
Cost: $65 (5-CEUs offered for RYTs)

This four week session will be a continuous study of practice, challenging the students to awaken the intelligence and observe the effects of the asanas (postures).

Students will be introduced to arm balances, deep backbends, twists and variations of head stand and shoulder stand.

This course is open to any student with a deep understanding of alignment (with at least two years of yoga practice), who are strong in standing poses, can do sirsasana (head stand) and salamba sarvangasana (shoulder stand) for five minutes, can kick up into adho mukha vrksasana (hand stand) and can push up into urdhva dhanurasana (upward bow pose).

Sutra 1.14: Where practice is long, sincere, devoted, and done with care, then stability in maintaining comes. ~translation by Kofi Busia ~

YOGA & STRESS MANAGEMENT
6-week Specialized Series
Instructor: Toni Halstead, RYT 500
Date: Sundays, March 30 - May 4
Time: 4:30-6:00 pm
Cost: $75 (9-CEUs offered for RYTs)

Whether you are seeking respite from a busy life or recovering from illness or injury, restorative yoga offers you the opportunity to relax your body and mind, alleviate stress, and restore your health and inner harmony. Restorative yoga is a gentle, calming, therapeutic style that uses props (blankets, bolsters & chairs) to support the body, deepening the benefits of the poses. Judith Hanson Lasater, author of Relax and Renew, refers to restorative yoga poses as “…active relaxation. By supporting the body with props, we alternately stimulate and relax the body to move toward balance.” The poses create specific physiological responses which are beneficial to health and help reduce the effects of stress-related diseases. Give yourself the gift of relaxation.