This yoga format gently helps to release tension and achieve balance and poise. Asanas (poses) focus on increasing flexibility and enhancing vitality and strength.

Bring a yoga mat, two yoga blocks or several hard-covered books, a yoga strap or a man’s tie or belt, a blanket and a bath towel. You will need these items to provide support in the positions as we work to increase your capacity in the more advanced poses. Wear loose comfortable clothing.

Yoga — A Science for Living Well
with Nancie LaPier

A good yoga program helps to increase your resistance to everyday stresses, improves the immune system and develops self-confidence, poise and a more graceful, refined body. Yoga increases strength, flexibility, range of motion and vitality. The less tangible benefits are many and far-reaching, enriching every area of our lives.

This is a comprehensive yoga class designed to suit the needs of beginner to moderate-level practitioners, and is intended to give you a total yoga experience by implementing those techniques and practices which exercise and tone the body, mind and spirit.

Sessions begin with relaxation poses (asanas) that gently help to release tension, followed by a centering meditation to bring our awareness inward. Warm-ups and simple yoga asanas open the joints, increase circulation and prepare the muscles, tendons and structures of the body for the more vigorous portion of our yoga routine. The pinnacle of the discipline focuses on the execution of those postures that develop and improve strength, vitality and overall flexibility. Throughout the practice, focused, intentional breathing (Pranayama), Mantras (vibrational sound) and Mudras (sacred hand positions) help to calm the emotions, focus the mind, tone the organs, and purify the system. We complete the active portion of the session with balancing poses to increase concentration. A deep period of relaxation and meditation follows, providing an experiential opportunity for the self to unite with the Divine, where body and spirit can rejuvenate and heal.

Yoga for Corporate Groups
with Nancie LaPier

A Science for Living Well

Yoga is an ancient, non-religious, non-sectarian science for whole living that was established as a practical methodology in approximately 200 B.C. Though its roots are within Hindu scripture, it is entirely universal in its appeal. The practice of Yoga presumes that most of our fundamental attitudes toward life are mirrored in the physiology and biology of the body; therefore, using all of the attributes of the physical body, we can address our perceptions and emotions and effect deep, positive and lasting changes. Yoga practicum stimulates an ever-increasing state of physical health and vitality; its philosophy provides explorative opportunities that create psychological and emotional balance and facilitates self-awareness, self-responsibility and self sufficiency.

Yoga saves on health-care costs, decreases absenteeism and increases productivity because it:

Yoga provides an environment conducive to improved sales and enhanced customer and employee relations because its practitioners: