Index of Yoga Styles
Akhanda Foundations:
Akhanda 1 classes offer a moderate sequence of the most familiar and accessible postures and breathing techniques, and can be enjoyed by both beginning and continuing students. The classes introduce the basic principles of alignment, breath, sound, yogic wisdom and relaxation. Yogic phrases will be introduced as themes to thread a guiding message through the class. You will come away with tools to help you move with greater ease, and use breath both to uplift and calm your whole system.
Akhanda Intermediate:
Akhanda 2 is designed to inspire intermediate students through more dynamic asana, pranayama, and mantra themes. These techniques work together to deepen your exploration of body mechanics and inner alignment, uplift your energy system and refresh your outlook. You will become more aware of how sequences balance the chakras and the solar and lunar energies of the body. Mantras and yogic aphorisms are used as themes through the classes and anchor the final meditation.
Akhanda Advanced:
Akhanda 3, sometimes referred to as Akhanda Flow, provides unique and dynamic sequences woven through the sun salutation. As all Akhanda practices are balanced, the intensity of strong, uplifting asana at the beginning of a class are mirrored by surrendering, grounding postures at the resolution. Classes also further explore the bandhas and breath retention for the direction and expansion of prana. Mantras and yogic aphorisms are used as themes that run through the classes and anchor the final meditation.
Five Koshas:
Yogrishi Vishvketu designed this profound class style in 2005. Five Koshas classes explore and deepen your connection to the five layers of being, physical, energetic, mental/emotional, intuitive and pure awareness. By repeating a short sequence three times, these classes focus on individual layers, gradually bringing your awareness inside and allowing you to go deeper and deeper until all that remains is bliss.
Inner Reprogramming:
Inner Reprogramming is a new class style designed by Yogrishi Vishvketu to help release anxiety and stress, and to re-align the whole being. In this practice, movements are slowed to help you drop into the moment and focus closely on harmonizing breath with movement. Culminating with alternate-nostril breathing, this approach calms the body and mind drawing you into a naturally clear, meditative state.
Raja Yoga:
Raja Yoga is another very special class style developed by Yogrishi Vishvketu in 2003. Classes offer a sequence of moderate postures practiced in a slow and mindful way in conjunction with Bhramaree Pranayama (honey-bee breath) and conclude with a natural meditation. Performing Bhramaree during postures helps to lengthen the breath and releases stress at a cellular level. The postures chosen influence the pineal and pituitary glands of the brain, which balances the hormonal system and calms and uplifts the mind, bringing you more easily into meditation.
Pranayama:
Pranayama balances and expands the field of our life force. The breath is our main source of life energy, and it is through breathing techniques we can gain incredible vitality, upliftment, and also clarity. In this class, you will learn more about techniques, such as Anuloma Viloma, Kapalabhati, Solar and Lunar breathing and Bhramaree, each with their own unique benefits ranging from calming to cleansing and energizing. Gain more confidence to include pranayama in your home practice and feel the joyful expansion!
Yoga Nidra:
Yoga Nidra, or “yogic sleep” is a meditative practice that brings students into a state of complete relaxation between waking and sleeping. The Akhanda approach to Yoga Nidra directs your awareness to each part of the body, alternating right and left, through the medium of the third-eye. This balances the hemispheres of the brain and cultivates intuition. Setting an intention enhances the practice and assists in manifesting deep wishes and purifying outmoded habits. Yoga Nidra is extremely beneficial for anyone suffering from stress, anxiety, insomnia or alienation.
Meditation:
The practices of Yoga are designed to help us sit in meditation. A common misconception is that in order to meditate we must be able to silence the mind. But meditation is a tool that allows us to witness our mind, it’s patterns, it’s biases, it’s untruths, so that we can begin to calm the fluctuations and arrive at a state of inner peace. Scientific studies show that meditation helps to activate our parasympathetic nervous system (rest-and-digest mode) and guides our body and mind back to a more natural, calm state. From this state of inner peace and calm we find ourselves better equipped to handle the daily stresses and challenges of life with grace and resiliency.
Yin Yoga:
Yin Yoga is a slow paced style that works with long holds of the postures alongside conscious breath to target the fascia and connective tissues in a passive approach. A perfect complement to more vigorous, Yang-based practices, Yin Yoga utilizes prolonged periods of stillness to allow you to surrender to the sensory experience, helping to release tension, stress, and repressed emotions, so you may feel lighter, clearer, and more expansive.
Vinyasa Flow:
Vinyasa Flow classes emphasize the sequential movement from one posture to another guided by the breath. This class style creates strength and flexibility in the body and mind as we flow thoughtfully through a creative and dynamic sequence.
Gentle Flow:
Gentle Flow classes are designed for all levels of practitioners and are perfect for those new to the practice or those seeking a more gentle offering. This class incorporates foundational postures in a purposeful sequence at a slower pace to focus on alignment, strength, balance, and flexibility.
Restorative Yoga:
Restorative Yoga classes enable you to relax deeply with gentle floor based postures supported by a variety of props. With supported, longer held postures we are able to find full relaxation in the body’s musculature, bring ease and awareness to the breath, slow the waves of mental activity, shift long held emotional patterns, and tap into the nervous system’s capacity for healing.
