Wednesday Yoga – For Experienced Yogis

This practice starts with opening the body and breath through stretching and breathwork (pranayama). We then proceed to fundamental poses (asanas), where the focus is on feeling the body and movement of energy in each asana. By spending time breathing into the pose, or shape the body has taken, we create the opportunity to seek whatever Sukha, or sweetness and ease, we might find within the moment. This mindfulness is a key element to the practice, inviting you to stay present with body and breath. When we are able to release this way, into each moment, a balance of the right and left sides of the brain may occur, inducing a parasympathetic dominance in the nervous system, and relieving tension by lowering the blood pressure, slowing the heart and calming the mind.

This class relies on your prior experience of yoga practice and is not recommended for beginners.

Teacher: Danielle Rain Dvorak — Sol Center Teacher bios can be found here