Shelburne Falls Yoga
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Class Descriptions
Spring and Summer 2013
Individual Yoga Sessions
with Kate Pousont Scarborough
In addition to a full schedule of regular classes, Kate offers hour long individual or group sessions. The offerings for an individual or group session may include any combination of:
-Traditional yoga posture practices
-Meditation
-Basic or advanced pranayama (breath work)
-Fitness/Pilates based core strength training and conditioning
-Restorative Yoga or Yoga Nidra
-Gentle Movement based on Qigong and the ancient science of Ayurveda
-Supportive Daily Practices in the Yogic Lifestyle
-Introduction to Yoga for Beginners
Please contact Kate at 413-475-2441 or shelburnefallsyoga@gmail.com to register.
Kripalu Yoga
Monday 8:30-10:00 a.m. Kate Pousont Scarborough
This moderate level yoga class includes gentle movements to encourage a depth of embodiment, detailed alignment objectives to heighten and attune to sensation, and ample time for relaxation and integration. Kripalu Yoga aligns the systems of breath, mind, and body for an optimal experience of whole body fitness, health, and growth. This class is suitable for a wide-range of levels and abilities.
Yoga for Aging and Recovery
Monday 11:00-12:15 (beginning July 15) Pam Roberts
This gentle, adaptive class is geared toward supporting aging bodies and healing for students of all ages. All levels, including beginners, are welcome. We will begin with meditative centering and breath work, do a thorough and gentle stretch, include some strengthening and balancing postures, and end with a long and deep guided relaxation.
Slow Flow with Restorative Yoga
Monday 6:30 - 7:45 p.m. Katie Cutler
This class includes a 30 min. slow vinyasa flow followed by 45 min. of restorative yoga. Katie brings her experience as a Thai Yoga Massage practitioner and Vinyasa Yoga instructor to this rejuvenating practice. Restorative yoga includes the use of props in fully supported postures for relaxation. All levels are welcome.
Morning Fitness (all levels)
Tuesday 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Molly Stamell
Morning Fitness class is an exercise program that draws inspiration from Pilates, strength training, and cardio workouts. This class offers a vigorous workout balanced with stretching, relaxation, stress-reduction practices, and muscle toning. The goal of this class is to increase strength, flexibility, and stamina while providing a solid foundation in understanding anatomy and physiology and the practical application of this knowledge in daily life. Students will be encouraged to push their limits and explore new exercises while learning more about what their own bodies need to perform safely at their individual maximum ability level. This class is fun and upbeat, with a relaxed and positive atmosphere!
Vigorous Yoga
Tuesday 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Kate Pousont Scarborough
Ready to build some heat? Try vigorous yoga: Vigorous flow, deep holds, advanced postures, delicious relaxation. For students with prior yoga experience. Join us any time!
**Qigong Class (series)
Tuesday 9:30 - 11 a.m. Collin Ricketts
Class includes both still and moving exercise to help students relax deeply and develop a greater sense of “presence” in their lives. Wild Goose Tripod-Spiral Qigong, The Healing Sounds, Fragrance Qigong, and Taoist Standing Meditation. For more information about Qigong please contact Collin directly at wildgooseqigong@verizon.net.
Vinyasa Yoga
Wednesday 8:30 - 10:00 a.m. George Nager
In this class students coordinate the breath with flowing movement to create dynamic sequences and a deep meditation in motion. Explorations include some inversions, backbends and balancing postures. Suitable for students with some prior yoga experience.
Lunch Break Yoga, $8-$10 special
Wednesday 12:00-12:50 p.m. Kate Pousont Scarborough
A balancing, energizing, and rejuvenating practice for all levels. Lunch Break Yoga is specifically designed to target the areas of the body in need of loosening, strengthening, and stretching after long hours of commuting and office work. All are welcome!
Morning Fitness (all levels)
Thursday 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Molly Stamell
Morning Fitness class is an exercise program that draws inspiration from Pilates, strength training, and cardio workouts. This class offers a vigorous workout balanced with stretching, relaxation, stress-reduction practices, and muscle toning. The goal of this class is to increase strength, flexibility, and stamina while providing a solid foundation in understanding anatomy and physiology and the practical application of this knowledge in daily life. Students will be encouraged to push their limits and explore new exercises while learning more about what their own bodies need to perform safely at their individual maximum ability level. This class is fun and upbeat, with a relaxed and positive atmosphere!
**Introduction to Yoga Series (Meets June 6,13, & 20)
Thursday 9:30 - 10:45 a.m. Kate Scarborough
Learn the basics of yoga in a supportive and welcoming environment! No prior experience or special attire is needed. Please pre-register for 1, 2 or all 3 classes. $14 per class or $36 if you pre-pay for all three
All Levels Yoga
Thursday 6:00 - 7:15 p.m. Kate Pousont Scarborough
A balanced, warming, and strengthening yoga class for a range of experience levels. All-levels yoga provides experienced and new practitioners alike an opportunity to build stamina, strength, and flexibility through a range of yoga postures and techniques. Come explore your potential through a practice in yoga!
Gentle Kripalu Yoga
Friday 8:30-10:00 a.m. Kate Pousont Scarborough
A gentle class for all levels, this class harnesses the power of breath aligned with gentle movements, postures, and stretches. A great way to balance a more vigorous practice or calm the system at the end of the week, this class offers a range of options and modifications to help you tailor each practice to meet your needs and goals. Enjoy calming music, warming and restorative postures, and a great community while moving toward greater balance, ease, and vitality.
Co-op and Community Yoga
Friday 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Rotating teachers: Penfield Chester, Pam Roberts, Robin Mathiesen, & Kate Scarborough
A gentle, strengthening, and balancing community class each Friday. Class is only $5.00 for Franklin Community Co-op members ( McCusker’s and Greenfield’s market), $10 for non-members. Come enjoy a gentle mid-day practice and meet the teachers at Shelburne Falls Yoga.
Saturday Morning Yoga
Saturday 9:00-10:15 a.m. Molly Kitchen
Join Molly for this lively new Saturday morning practice-a moderately paced class suitable for a range of levels. The class will focus on physical and energetic alignment in a welcoming, light-hearted community atmosphere.
**Advancing Your Practice Level 2
Saturday noon-4p.m. Kate Pousont Scarborough
Meets June 22
Advancing your Practice continues this spring with a Saturday afternoon "mini-retreat" designed for graduates of our Level 1 program and for teachers of yoga. Our workshop will provide an opportunity to delve deeply into the practice of yoga with an extended session of meditation, pranayama, and asana. Chant, mantra, philosophy, and discussion around the joys and challenges of a deepening practice will also be included.
Moderate Yoga
Sunday 9:00-10:30 a.m. George Nager
A moderate level yoga practice with instructor George Nager. Get your heart pumping and breath moving in this moderate practice with some focused work on alignment objectives.
**Introduction to Yantra Yoga
Sunday 11:00-12:30 (begins July 6) Naomi Zeitz
Yantra Yoga is one of the oldest recorded systems of yoga in the world coming to us by way of Tibet. Yantra Yoga’s unique series of positions and movements, combined with conscious breathing, helps to coordinate and harmonize the body’s energy so the mind can find its authentic balance. It is a superb method for attaining optimal health and relaxation through coordinated breath and movement.
In this course we will introduce the preliminary series of Yantra Yoga, beginning with training in complete breathing. The complete breathing in itself is a system of breath work that can create profound harmony, relaxation and enhance health. There will also be a strong focus on the second of three preliminary series called the Eight Movements, considered the heart of Yantra Yoga. Through this workshop people will go home with a simple daily practice that can increase relaxation and harmony in daily life, gently enhance flexibility and strength, and provide many health benefits.
Contact Naomi directly for more information at mirror@tsegyalgar.org
**Dance Classes
To register please contact Kate at 413.475.2441 or shelburnefallsyoga@gmail.com
Modern Dance/Yoga for Grades K-3
Monday 4:45-5:30 p.m. Kate Pousont Scarborough
Students will experience the joy of moving through a combination of kinesthetic play, structured improvisation, and exercises from a range of styles including modern dance, ballet, and yoga. Students will create a short dance to share with friends and family on the last day of class.
Modern Dance/Yoga for Grades 3-6
Tuesdays 4:45-5:30 Kate Pousont Scarborough
Modern Dance/Yoga for grades 4-6 (grade 3 by permission) is designed to build skills for life in body awareness, strength, flexibility, muscle memory, and physical empowerment in a fun and supportive environment. Through exercises from a range of dance and yoga styles, students will acquire skills in yoga, dance, and performance also applicable to athletics and other physical activities. Students will have a chance to perform each spring in our studio performance.
Payment & Policies
Single Classes
• $14 per class
• Student rate for single class: $11
• Lunch Break Yoga: $8-$10 sliding scale
• "Early Bird" Classes (6:45, 7:00, or 7:30 a.m.): $12 each, or 4 classes for $40
• Co-op/Community Yoga: $5 members, $10 non-members
** Series Class are not included in this pricing. Please contact series class instructors directly for more information.
Three Month Class Cards
• 8 class card for $96 ($12 per class)
• 16 class card for $176 ($11 per class)
• 24 Class Card: $240 ($10 per class)
• 32 Class Card: $288 ($9 per class)
Class cards can be purchased at any time during the session and are valid for three months from the date of purchase. (If your class card should expire before all classes are used your class card will simply be adjusted to reflect the number of classes your purchase price would cover at our usual drop-in rate of $14 per class. Adjusted class cards do not expire.)
In need of sliding scale, payment plan, or trade of services in order to attend? Please contact Kate Pousont Scarborough, Director, shelburnefallsyoga@gmail.com