12 Alignment Yoga Classes in Cambridge, MA, USA

A heart warming, playful and invigorating practice. All levels supported. And some assists provided to insure safety and proper alignment.

This is a mixed level class.
Basics classes are suitable for those new to yoga, those who want a gentle, slow-paced class, or those coming to yoga while healing. These classes include relaxing and rejuvenating posture sequences. Focus is placed on moving with the breath, freeing the spine, opening the hips, and strengthening upper body and core.

In Level 1 classes the emphasis is alignment and creating a solid foundation for steady comfortable asanas, transforming the body into a vessel for the flow of subtle energy. Level 1 classes are suitable for those who have taken yoga before or those looking for a more strenuous class than a gentle and healing Basics class.

This all levels flow class is intended for students interested in developing and refining their yoga practice. Emphasis is on intentional movement and optimal alignment to maintain proper body mechanics, combined with a moderately-paced flow, cultivating breath and body awareness. With regular practice, students build strength, flexibility and balance while gradually expanding the range of motion. Class ends with relaxation and meditation. This class is highly inclusive with modifications and variations offered throughout the practice to suit all fitness levels.

Intermediate yoga is intended for yogis who want to develop a practice of intermediate asanas (postures) including backbends, lotus, hand balances and inversions.

Asanas will be taught from the ground up focusing on safety, sustainability and prerequisite movements.

Class is taught using verbal cues, manual adjustments and visual demonstrations.

This class is not appropriate for new students or students with injuries. Class is limited to eight students.

This class for people who speaks Japanese. Use asana, pranayama, restorative and nidra to practices Hatha yoga. Based on postures and ailment. Beginner to intermediate.

Yoga practice is essentially a therapeutic dialogue between the mind and the body, comprised of somatics—placing the attention (the mind) within the body to direct, inform and refine very specific and conscious movements and actions, and vinyasa krama—or the art of wise sequencing, which ultimately determines our overall experience of a given practice, as well as the extent to which it addresses (or neglects) our individual needs and capacities, and moves us in the direction of enlightened being and enlightened living. Chakras are designated as wheels of energy that align with the spine where matter and consciousness meet.

Chakra vinyasa krama yoga describes a creative and wisely-sequenced yoga practice that works with the innate intelligence of each posture as it becomes revealed to the practitioner. Each pose follows from the previous one in a sweet synergy of movement, bandhas and breath, energetically sequenced according to the chakras to balance and best meet the needs of body, mind, soul and spirit.

Yoga Kurunta is a series of [] Iyengar-style postures practiced with aid of ropes on a wall, translating to mean puppet or doll-made- of-wood. The student is literally suspended from the ropes like a puppet! We break up the flow a little here to explore the alignment-based principles particular to Iyengar yoga using the ropes to help the yoga practitioner become more aware of the orientation of their body in space, activate muscle groups in a new way, and appreciate the subtle nuances that frequently escape our greatest attention. With emphasis on anatomy, students experience greater opening of certain areas while still strengthening and toning their body.

Savasana completes the experience by bringing you gently back to your divine, sweet, fantastic Self. Ideal for all levels of practice.

This class incorporates the careful use of a range of props and generous instructor assistance to help with mobility and alignment. In a loving and supportive class atmosphere, all students will be encouraged to gently deepen their yoga practices and to experience the joy of being younger this year.

This is an intermediate class. Emphasis is on flowing with the breath with awareness on alignment and precise transitions.

Flow Yoga classes provide a balance of flowing movement and breath awareness done in steady pace, intended to induce relaxation. These classes are for all levels and provide a perfect way to unwind or for a new student to try yoga in a slow, supportive and welcoming environment.

Vinyasa can best be described as a breathing movement system. With regular practice, vinyasa seeks to develop coordination of breath and movement. Overtime this synchronized breathing and movement leads to meditative states, internal heat, increased strength and greater joint range of motion I teach a slower paced vinyasa class placing an emphasis on longer holds in postures, correct form, alignment and intelligent sequencing.