Encouraging Connection
A mindful movement-based class for older individuals or those with mobility limitations. We’ll enjoy upright cardio movement to get the heart rate up. Then we’ll use bands and props to help us grow stronger while staying safe with our joints. It’s the perfect place to laugh and gain confidence in your ability to move around in the world.
Ready to give yoga a try? Join with others who are new to the practice – a room full of people who don’t know what they’re doing, so you don’t have to pretend! This 4-week series gets you familiar with poses and movements of a basic yoga class with repetition to help you learn and variety to expose you to the breadth that exists within yoga.
It’s okay if you’re not flexible, if you don’t know what to wear, or if you’ve never given it a try! This is the place to learn.
Beginning September 7, we’ve got Barre classes on the schedule 5 days a week. This is great news for you! And if you haven’t yet tried Barre or found your Barre Groove, here’s your chance.
Purchase your Barre Blitz Intro offer: 5 Barre Classes for $45. The pass is good for 45 days, but when you step up to the challenge and use it in just 10 DAYS, you’ll get your first month of Unlimited Membership for half price.
Did you visit a yoga class long ago but feel unsure about jumping right into an All-Levels Class?
Or maybe you have a fair amount of fitness experience but hate the feeling of something being new/awkward/strange?
Our Newbies Jumpstart is our flash-baptism into yoga at Woven. Get familiar with the studio, the language we use to talk about poses and movements, and just get to know us before walking into a room of people “who know what they’re doing.”
Our Slow Flow for Newbies series spends 4 weeks covering the basic poses and movements of many of our All-Levels classes: it’s the best way to feel confident walking into a group of yogis, knowing you are familiar and “ready.”
But sometimes, 4 weeks in a row at the exact same time just isn’t possible. Sometimes, life happens.
We’ve added the Newbies Jump Start class to a monthly rotation. This is an 80-minute version of our Newbies introduction, designed to give you a jump start to attending open classes. If you have a regular movement practice (you’re a runner, weightlifter, prima ballerina, or cross-fit master, for example), this class might be completely sufficient to get you going. Or, maybe you want just a taste.
You can take the Newbies Jump Start class as often as you need to feel confident enough to join us in our open classes.
We’ve made some adjustments to the schedule as we move into our new space! Here are the highlights:
Our Yin Yoga class, taught by Traci each month, is a chance to move inward and slow down. You can pay attention to the subtleties of poses, but more so, the way your mind, breath and energy interact with a pose, over time. Yin Yoga isn’t a practice of push, it’s a practice of receiving.
Have you ever wanted to “linger longer” in a pose? Looking for a slower paced counterpart to your workout routine? Join us for an inquiry into the benefits of Yin Yoga. We will gently stress the connective tissues of our bodies while working to calm the mind and focus on the sensations we uncover when we give ourselves time to find stillness in each pose.
Sign up now for our November offering of Yin Yoga!
Toni will teach an in-studio All-Levels Flow at 6 PM or join Michele outdoors at the South Park at 7:15 PM for an All-Levels Flow. Livestream will be available only for the 7:15.
Join Kelsey for a trial class of Barre at 10 AM on Saturday. There’s room for 6 of you, so register early. Use code TRYBARRE and it’s free!
Now through mid-September there’s an Unlimited Pass option for teachers as we head back to our learning stations. The pass begins at purchase and runs for one month; this includes all the classes on our regular schedule (including Barre when it begins).
Mark your calendar now for an evening on the White Shutter Winery hillside. No need to pre-register. This is likely our last of this event for the year.
September will welcome back the 6:15 AM class on Wednesdays and add a Chair Yoga option on Tuesdays. With the addition of Barre, our studio will have evening classes 5 nights a week! Now’s the perfect time to commit to a regular practice and find a routine that fits your schedule.
Ayurveda, the Sister Science of Yoga (literally translated “the science of life”) is an ancient way of seeing the world. It uses ideas of opposite qualities (hot-cold, dry-wet, solid-spacious) to help identify ways to restore balance. Most often, Ayurveda can be used to help us decide what to take in to our lives and bodies through foods, media, and use of time.
Most years I take a week for an Ayurvedic “reset” to help me restore balance and prepare for a change in the seasons, mentally and physically. Every time I bring up this topic amongst friends or in the studio, I get a surge of interest. This year I will offer both a workshop that gives an overview of Ayurveda, the doshas, and how it can be a tool of restoring balance, paired with a guided reset experience for those interested. Details are coming your way soon, but for the moment, please email me if you have interest in participating in the workshop and/or the reset experience so I can begin to make preparations.
Since experiencing a Barre class several years ago, I’ve been on the hunt for a way to bring it into the studio. A friend who taught here in town moved on to new things; I was nearly signed up training three different times, but the scheduling didn’t work. Then I had a visit from my friend, Kelsey, and she revealed that she has been practicing at Pure Barre for years and was interested in taking a training and becoming a Barre teacher. I gave her some strong encouragement and within the month she completed her training with Barre Intensity at GoYoga!
Barre isn’t a form of yoga, but rather it’s a form of movement that taps into some yoga poses and adds strong movement to smaller muscle groups that often get looked over in traditional workouts or gross motor movements like running and biking. And for yogis who are regularly tending to the act of lengthening our musculature, a practice such as Barre that aims to work those areas will help to keep us safe and strong.
I’m super excited about this addition and you can anticipate seeing me in the classes! Barre classes will run on the same pricing and packaging as yoga and it’s already been added to your options for passholders and members – just sign up the way you would normally for a yoga class.
Kelsey is going to give a sampler class on Saturday, August 29 at 10 AM. Try it out for free by using the discount code TRYBARRE at checkout.
