Yoga Classes
14 Week Session starts January 2nd, 2011
Purchase 10 classes @ $10.00 each (must be used during session)
Drop-ins Welcome:  $15 per class

CLASS SCHEDULE

Monday Yoga 1 5:00-6:15pm Bill Shearer

Tuesday Yoga 1 6:00-7:15pm Linda Vrooman

Thursday Svaroopa®Style Yoga 4:00-5:30pm Leslie Beckett

Friday Gentle Yoga 10:00-11:15am Linda Vrooman



CLASS DESCRIPTIONS:

Gentle Yoga: This class is designed for newcomers to yoga and for beginning students. You will need to be able to get onto the floor. We will incorporate warm-ups, gentle poses and breathwork to increase your flexibility and reduce stress. This class is appropriate for those with chronic pain, fibromyalgia, and other limiting illnesses or injuries.

Yoga 1: This class introduces beginning and continuing students to the fundamental practices of yoga including breathwork, focus, and meditation. We will emphasize the balance between strength and flexibility, work on conditioning and develop self-awareness skills you will be able to use off the yoga mat.  Each class will begin with a short meditation. 

Yoga 2: This class is for those who want to bring focus into their afternoons with a flow of stretches, poses, and relaxation. This class will work on principles of  alignment  in more challenging poses. This class is for more advanced yoga practitioners or those in excellent physical condition.

Svaroopa® Style Yoga: This class focuses on releasing tensions at the core of the body in the muscles that attach to the spine. The premise is, when the spine is open, all the muscles of the body are stronger and more flexible. Students should be able to get down onto the floor. Chairs are available and will be used, as well as mats, blankets and blocks to make the poses comfortable and accessible. This is a deeply relaxing 1 1/2 hour class that will dramatically reduce pain, increase flexibility and help put you in touch with the bliss that is your natural state of being.




About Our Instructors . . .

Linda Vrooman, after studying Tai Chi Chuan for 20 years and Tensegrity for five years, found yoga to be a more holistic movement tradition. She brings 19 years of physical therapy experience into her classes, emphasizing therapeutic benefits of yoga. She is an Anusara-inspired™ teacher, bringing grace and humor to her teaching. She graduated in 2005 from the teacher training program at Willow Street Yoga Center in Washington, DC., the largest Anusara® center in the country.

Bill Shearer combines a professional expertise in yoga, sports psychology, psychology, campus ministry, and counseling with a love of the great outdoors. His yoga classes are gentle to moderate in style and emphasize posture/body alignment, breath, patient stretching as well as strengthening of muscles, deep relaxation, range of motion, and wholeness of body, mind, spirit, and breath. He carefully listens to and encourages students young and old, beginners and advanced, to learn, grow, and transform their lives. Bill’s eclectic Hatha Yoga style blends Kripalu, Iyengar, and Integrative Yoga.

Leslie Beckett has been practicing yoga for over 25 years. She began teaching Svaroopa® Style yoga in 2004 and was registered with Yoga Alliance in 2006 at the RYT 500 level. Additional certifications include Embodyment® yoga therapy, Kripalu® YogaDance™, Relki, therapeutic massage, Touch-for-Health® and Tae Kwon Do. Her studies inform her precise and compassionate yoga instruction. Students consistently find her classes deeply effective  and relaxing.

Call for an appointment or for more information:
Elkton Office
107 Chesapeake Boulevard  •  Suite 100  •  Elkton, MD 21921  •  410-392-9400  •  410-392-0577 (fax)
Perryville Office
4925 Pulaski Highway  •  Suite A  •  Perryville, MD 21903  •  410-642-9100  •  410-642-9102 (fax)