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Meditation & Guided Meditation Classes


At Zen Yoga Center, it is our hope to help you develop a meditation practice that resonates with you by introducing to you different styles and practices.  The focusing on  Zazen (Just sitting),  Mindfulness of the Breath,  Vipaśana and Loving-Kindness (Metta/Maitri) Meditation.  Meditation is not about stopping the mind, but rather recognizing the natural tendencies of how the mind moves. In this, eventual  recognition of the underlying peace in life emerges. Meditation is not a belief system. It is a disciplined practice that can heal the nervous system and unlock greater, more fulfilling potential in the brain. Practicing meditation can reduce stress, increase efficiency in action, and promote better sleep. Meditation is truly a discipline, but a very natural practice that can re-establish greater well-being and joy found in the present moment.

Zen Flow Yoga

This yoga class is an All-Levels-Yoga Class geared for students who desire  a slow moving form of yoga.  This slow flowing practice is perfect for stress reduction, creating a deeper sense of awareness, while building strength, mobility, and balance.  Mindful breathing practices and movement awareness to serve the needs of each student.  This class explores various meditation practices, with a minimum of 10 minutes included in each class.

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Warm Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga

This yoga class is an advanced vinyasa flow class, students should be comfortable moving through Sun Salutations A & B, exploring arm balance postures, inversions and moving at steady space. The room temperature is anywhere from 76 to 82°.  This class is not recommended for beginner students, students sensitive to heat, or those with high blood pressure, heart conditions or pregnancy.   Please bring your own towel and water to hydrate.     

Gentle Yoga

This yoga class is geared for students just beginning and individuals who are in need of a gentle form of yoga. It is a mindful, therapeutic practice that serves the needs of students, supporting their current physical and emotional needs.  Perfect for stress reduction,  spine and joint stability and mobility, and balance. Gentle Yoga offers therapeutic modifications, mindful breathing practices and movement awareness to serve the needs of each student.

Slow Flow Yoga

A  slower flow class with focus on the present moment and moving with your breath mindfully at a slower pace.  Synchronizing the movements with the breath in a dynamic sequence of connected yoga postures.  This class will incorporate sun salutations, and fundamental yoga postures moving at a steady pace to build heat.   This class emphasizes on creating dynamic sequences of postures and linking these “flows” with the breath; integrates self-awareness, alignment and creates a unique balance of strength and flexibility. Enjoying the diversity of movement, with a fun mix of hip openers, back bends, balance postures and gentle inversions.  Beginning students should attend the Yoga Basics class for  an  introduction to Sun Salutations and proper alignment of postures.

Flow Yoga Class

A flow class with focus on the present moment and moving with your breath mindfully.  This class synchronizes the movements of the breath with a dynamic sequence of connected yoga postures. The breath is an important component of these classes, and the teacher will instruct you to move from one pose to the next on an inhale or an exhale. This class will incorporate sun salutations, and fundamental yoga postures into flow, moving at a steady pace to build heat.   With a rhythmic and energetic approach to Yoga, this class emphasizes on creating dynamic sequences of postures and linking these “flows” with the breath; integrates self-awareness, alignment and creates a unique balance of strength and flexibility. Enjoying the diversity of movement, with a fun mix of hip openers, back bends, balancing postures and inversions. All levels are welcome, although a flow background is helpful, we recommend that you are comfortable with Sun Salutations prior to taking this class. Beginning students should attend the Yoga Basics class for an  introduction to Sun Salutations and proper alignment of postures.

Gentle Yoga & Meditation

This yoga class is geared for students just beginning and individuals who desire of a gentle form of yoga. It is a mindful, therapeutic practice that serves the needs of students, supporting their current physical and emotional needs.  Perfect for stress reduction,  spine and joint stability and mobility, and balance. Gentle Yoga offers therapeutic modifications, mindful breathing practices and movement awareness to serve the needs of each student.  

Slow Flow Yoga & Meditation

This yoga class is geared for students who desire of a slow moving form of yoga.  This slow flowing practice is perfect for stress reduction, creating a deeper sense of awareness, while building strength, mobility, and balance. Mindful breathing practices and movement awareness to serve the needs of each student.  This class explores various meditation practices, with a minimum of 10 minutes included in each class.

Flow & Yin Yoga

Flow & Yin is a sweet blend of flowing movement and yin. About half of class uses a breath-based flow to build strength and flexibility, challenging your balance and concentration, and harnessing that energy to promote inner stillness and peace. The other half of class finds you down on the mat holding yin poses for longer periods of time, targeting the connective tissues of the body to help release deeply stored tension. The two styles together are amazingly transformative.

Restorative & Yin Yoga Classes

These are calming gentle classes that is designed to reduce stress, stimulate restful sleep, restore the nervous system and enhance immunity.  The restorative postures use props such as blankets, blocks, bolsters and straps which allow the body to relax and open into a pose while be supported. 

 

The yin postures, also gentle and therapeutic, releases tension through the body in long holds, but without props, so the connective tissue is targeted, often resulting in a deep release of stress.

Ashtanga Yoga

Connect to your embodied intelligence with Ashtanga Yoga.  This class is designed and ideal for students new to yoga looking for an energetic athletic practice or for those who have recently started an ashtanga yoga practice.  


What is special about this traditional and dynamic yoga method is that it is followed by an intelligent sequence of poses that encompasses the body & mind as a whole. Unique to ashtanga is the central role of breath and that breath initiates, carries, movement. The ashtanga yoga sequence (first the Primary Series) is designed to promote vitality, strength and flexibility in body & mind.  Following a specific series with every practice is a great method to ease and focus the mind over time, connect to ourselves, and making us receptive to our inner world.  Over time the practice leads from a gross to a subtle level of awareness.

Core Flow Yoga

A  flow class with focus on developing core strength and moving with your breath mindfully. Flow synchronizes the movements of the breath with a dynamic sequence of connected yoga postures, which are joined together.  With a rhythmic and energetic approach to Yoga, this class emphasizes on creating dynamic sequences of postures and linking these “flows” with the breath; integrates self-awareness, alignment and creates a unique balance of strength and flexibility.  Enjoying the diversity of movement, all levels are welcome, although a flow background is helpful, we recommend that you are comfortable with Sun Salutations prior to taking this class. Beginning students should attend the Yoga Fundamental class for  an  introduction to Sun Salutations and proper alignment of postures.

Yoga Basics

Yoga Basics is an “All Levels” class introducing fundamentals and foundational yoga poses that will enable each student to create and apply building blocks toward their individual practice as they dive deeper into the yoga experience. This class will emphasize safety, stability and ease, and will help the student understand alignment, breath and gain awareness within each pose. The focus will help students better connect to themselves and to their daily surroundings. After practice it is our hope that each student leaves class with a deeper sense of gratitude, free of judgement and can encompass a life full of joy.

Gentle Prenatal Yoga Class

This Gentle / Prenatal Class is open to all levels including those new to yoga, as well as anyone looking for a gentle practice.  

Enjoy a special hour of yoga designed specifically for the amazing journey of pregnancy. This class is perfect for any experience level of yoga, including new students. Prenatal yoga can lead you to find balance and awareness of body, mind, and spirit. You will connect with your baby

and make friends with other expecting mothers in a safe and open environment. Breathe, meditate, stretch, and relax!  Benefits of prenatal yoga include:  Improved sleep, reduced stress and anxiety, strengthens the uterus and pelvis muscles, improved circulation and digestion, decreased lower back pain, nausea, swelling, headaches,

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