The following styles are offered through the Sacramento Yoga Center. To find out more about a particular style or class, please contact the instructor offering the course. Each instructor brings their own unique training and experience to the practice.
Adaptive Yoga • Gentle Vinyasa • Gong Meditation & Kundalini Yoga • Hatha Yoga (Foundations, Led Practice) • Healthy Aging Yoga • Heartfulness Meditation • Kundalini • Kundalini Meditation • Kundalini En Español • Tai Chi for Arthritis & Falls Prevention •
In this Viniyoga class, we gently move all the joints in the body while using deep breathing techniques. Designed to release tension and alleviate pain, this yoga practice improves physical and mental health - tuning body systems for improved digestion, respiration, circulation and elimination. Improve your ability to focus, while at the same time, relax both body and mind.
Taught by Mae
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Vinyasa gentle style yoga practice incorporates yogic philosophy & teachings with the physical practices of asanas and pranayama. Classes are structured to appeal to those who have never done yoga before as well as for the experienced practitioner desiring a gentle, revitalizing class. The class focuses on the mind, body, spirit connection.
Taught by Bob.
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The gong is a natural extension of the transformative vibrational quality of mantra, fundamental to Kundalini Yoga. Creating non-ordinary and transcendent states of consciousness by suspending the thought-producing activity of the mind, true healing on all levels is possible.
The unpredictable, non-linear, complex vibration of the gong allows deep-seated physical tension in the muscles to relax, the nervous system to be repaired, and the glandular system to become balanced. The mind relaxes and clears, relieved temporarily of the constant pressure of the mind's content. Subconscious habit patterns (including addictive behaviors) can be broken up, the chakras become open, balanced, and awakened. A link to the transcendent self can be realized.
After some lighter Kundalini Yoga and a chanting meditation, surrender to the sound of the gong, which varies anywhere between soft, pulsating tones and "build and release" cycles, in which the sound volume builds to a high level and releases with one or more "thunderbolt strikes". Be prepared for a truly wonderful and transporting experience!
Taught by Manvir.
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A 12-week course in the foundations of yoga: the core poses at the base of all hatha yoga systems, and how to practice them safely, effectively, and thoughtfully. Instruction will focus on a syllabus of 48+ postures, plus an introduction to pranayama (breath practices), and will include poses from every category of asana: standing, sitting, forward extensions, back extensions, twists, and inversions, up to and including preparations for headstand and shoulder stand. The course is progressive, with each class consolidating and building on previous ones.
"Foundations" is suitable for people new to yoga as well as practitioners whose previous experience is with "gym" or "flow" forms of yoga, and who would like to systematically learn the core elements of a classical yoga repertoire with an emphasis on alignment, precision, and correct use of props to make the poses accessible according to their own capacity and condition.
Sessions are 75 minutes and follow Iyengar yoga principles of sequencing to leave students feeing refreshed, relaxed, and spacious. Enrollment is limited to 12 students to allow for individual attention to each practitioner.
Proof of full COVID-19 vaccination is required to register. If at any time you find out that you have been exposed to COVID, please take a rapid test before coming to class. Please bring your own yoga mat. Other props (belts, blankets, bolsters, and chairs) will be provided.
All sessions will be recorded on Zoom; recordings will be made available for up to one week following each session.
Taught by Liz.
Led Practice: An ongoing, progressive series
Suitable for practitioners with a solid foundation in yoga asana
Led by Liz Vasile, RIYT-200,
and Linda Nueva, CIYT
These sessions offer a quiet, shared, meditative practice of yoga asana, organized according to the sequencing principles of Iyengar yoga. The leader sets the sequence, calls out the poses, manages the tempo, and performs the poses with the group. Participants follow the sequence as called, taking modifications and props as needed to suit their capacity and condition (menstruation, injury, etc).
This is not a yoga class, in that there is no instruction in how to do the poses. A basic knowledge of asana and how to practice safely is assumed. The series will start with more basic poses and progress over time to an intermediate level. Inversions are included in all sequences; participants should have some experience with headstand and shoulder stand and the props required to practice them safely. Sequences will rotate each week to focus on standing poses, forward extensions, back extensions, and restoratives according to the week of the month.
Proof of full COVID-19 vaccination is required to participate. If you know you have been exposed to COVID, please take a rapid test before coming to practice. All sessions will be recorded on Zoom; recordings will be made available for up to two weeks following each session. Please bring your own yoga mat. Other props (belts, blankets, bolsters, and chairs) will be provided.
A gentle mat class for seniors utilizing props such as chair, strap, foam blocks or books, folded/rolled blankets, and towels to make poses more accessible. Start where you are. No prior yoga experience necessary.
Taught by Linda Roye.
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Our journey in Yoga is to return to the purity and simplicity of consciousness at the center of our being. As we divest more and more layers, our mental and emotional state lightens progressively. The Heartfulness practices each have an important role to play in this, and most vital to the removal of impressions is the practice of deconditioning we know as Cleaning. Cleaning is complemented by Heartfulness Meditation. Over time, as a result of meditating in the morning with Transmission, we learn to absorb and carry the depths and fragrance of the meditative state with us throughout our daily activities.
What makes the Heartfulness meditation unique is the element known as yogic transmission. Transmission has been defined as the utilization of subtle energy for our transformation. Yogic transmission makes meditation truly dynamic. Add this to your individual practice and witness a quantum shift in your inner experience from day one. The best way to understand transmission is to experience it practically.
Heartfulness reflection at bedtime connects us with universal love, helping us to sleep in a deeply profound state, and allowing us to go deeper in meditation the next morning. In this class, you will be guided into all the elements of Heartfulness practice.
Taught by Artee Chandekar and
NikhilChandekar.
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This ancient form of yoga combines active movement and stretching with many specific breathing techniques (pranayama). Facilitating circulation throughout the spinal column, exercise sets (kriyas) are combined with sound vibration (mantras), hand positions (mudras), and body locks (bhundas), in order to enhance their effectiveness. In so doing, they serve to dissolve energy blockages within the energy matrix of the body, creating a natural, meditative, blissful state of mind and openness to change.
One not need be particularly flexible or athletic to enjoy the profound benefits of Kundalini yoga; all that is required is the sincere willingness to try one's best while respecting your comfort levels and physical limitations.
Kundalini Yoga is the science and technology to unite one's finite nature with Infinity and to experience Infinity in the finite.
Taught by Manvir.
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Estas clases son una combinación de ejercicios (kriyas y asanas), técnicas de respiración (pranayamas), concentración mental, meditación, relajación, mudras y mantras para una integración armonia de cuerpo, mente y espiritu. Son clases sanadoras, generan alegria y activan en profundos niveles de conciencia, despertando el enorme potenciál aun dormido en muchos seres humanos.
These classes are a combination of exercises (kriyas and asanas), breathing techniques (pranayamas), mental concentration, meditation, relaxation, mudras, and mantras for the harmonious integration of body, mind, and spirit. These are healing classes, as they generate well-being and activiate the highest self on profound levels, awakening the enormous potential which is still dormant in most human beings.
Taught by Har Anand Kaur.
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Safe and effective for relieving pain, while improving health and balance. Developed by a team of medical and Tai Chi experts lead by Dr. Lam, the program is endorsed by the US Arthritis Foundation and the US Center for Disease Control. View sample classes here: taichiforhealthinstitute.org Taught by Mae, a requested donation for this class is $5.
Taught by Mae.
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