Yoga Styles
Our trademarked style of yoga:
Scroll below for other class styles and levels.
MEDITATION IN MOVEMENT® (MIM) STYLE ALL LEVEL YOGA
Owner - Lanita Varshell's trademarked style of teaching yoga. Check
our teachers bio's - if they have been certified through A Gentle Way you
will experience this slow, loving, deceptively deep style of yoga in
both our PINK and PURPLE classes. MIM is a slow and steady restorative
all level yoga that customizes poses and incorporates any needed props
to support and nurture your body, while awakening your health body and
deeply stretching your outer body. MIM classes teach you how to listen
to your body, and apply deep breathing and self-healing techniques. It
is your own personal yoga journey, done in group energy.Modified poses taken from traditional "yoga for your back" series, this unique floor-based yoga reaches deep into the central nervous system, hips, and spine." PINK classes are doable for all levels, PURPLE classes begin gentle, progressing into more advanced poses, and moving up off the floor to more active poses.
PINK CLASSES: GENTLE YOGA - DEEP STRESS RELIEF - GENTLE, EFFECTIVE HEALING
Start here if you are new to moving your body, health-challenged, over-tired, or extremely tight. These are the best classes for students who may have a hard time getting up and down off the floor, being on their hands and knees, and have a fear of moving their body.
PURPLE CLASSES: DEEP RELAXATION, STRETCH, AND INNER BODY WORK
GENTLE-HATHA MIX (MIM), RESTORATIVE, YIN-STYLE
These classes begin with relaxation poses, progressing to deeper, more traditional stretches and asanas. Students should be able to easily complete at PINK class, and have learned to progress at their own level or stop when needed. Purple classes begin to teach traditional yoga asana after yoga for your back and hips warm-ups. Lanita's classes will incorporate yoga philosophy, advanced breathing techniques, and meditation.
GREEN CLASSES: LEARN, LISTEN, EXPERIMENT, GROW
All-Level Workshop-Style classes that begin to teach Traditional Yoga, and Restorative Yoga at customized levels - based on attendees. Students are encouraged to talk about how their bodies feel in the weekly poses, and ask questions. Teacher adjust students when needed. These classes help answer the common questions:
"Am I doing this pose right? How is this supposed to feel? Do I need a modification?"
BROWN CLASSES - TRADITIONAL HATHA YOGA- STRENGTHEN, BALANCE, STRETCH
Taught more traditionally, usually without modifications, these classes assume participants begin with previous yoga experience or can already move easily, with a reasonable degree of strength and endurance.
Students attending brown classes must be easily able to move their body, get up and down off the floor with ease, and know how to modify on their own when needed, or end a pose early if needed. Please ask for a private session with one of our BROWN class teachers first if you are not sure if this is an appropriate class level for you.
Hatha Yoga Mix - A variety of seated, standing, floor and balance poses, based on each teachers unique yoga training.
Active Hatha Yoga - Energetic warm-ups and active poses before slowing down. Sun Salutations, Triangles, Warriors, and balance poses. Even though we do not heat up our rooms, please be prepared to sweat. Bring your own towels and mats.
Mat Rentals: $1 - Please wipe down mat before returning it.
Mat Purchases: $15 - $95 based on quality of material and thickness.
RESTORATIVE YOGA
In yoga, the longer you hold a pose, the deeper it goes into the body and mind to detox and cleanse, becoming therapeutic. By supporting the body with props, we alternately stimulate and relax and body to move towards balance. These long-held prop supported poses, are deep inner work, deep stress relief, and breath work. Many students walk away from this class feeling as though they have just taken a week's vacation. Make sure you can easily do Meditation in Movement Style classes before attending these classes.
Arriving at least 15 minutes before class time is ESSENTIAL.
Most poses have a prop set-up to assist you in relaxing deeply into poses
for 5-20 minutes at a time.
Restorative Yoga is the yoga of non-doing. It is a core practice underlying the very essence of yoga. Even those with an active dynamic yoga practice will benefit from the inner quietude and deep release of
Restorative Yoga. Restorative Yoga is the practice of entering into yoga postures using an assortment of props: blocks, bolsters, blankets, straps, walls, chairs, tables, eye pillows, the floor, and even another yoga practitioner. Supported and stabilized by various props, one experiences the yoga postures as profoundly relaxing and deeply rejuvenating, invoking a natural state of healing rest, renewal and equanimity. Supported and passive yoga postures allow the body to naturally release, letting go of deeply held tension and stress. The result is a balanced state of being from the inside out.
Restorative Yoga is a life enhancing practice.
CHAIR YOGA - Very gentle yoga designed for seniors, larger bodies, or super-size students who cannot get up and down off the floor. Classes are fun, effective, and stress reducing, with a variety of seated and standing poses. We use a chair or the wall for body strengthening, balance poses, forward bends, down dogs, and more!