Which class level is right for you? Here’s how to find out.
Level One
Classes will be taught using demonstration and detailed verbal guidance. Level One classes will help students build a safe and strong yoga practice.
Who should come: Those with no or little yoga background. Those who are returning to yoga after a break, students with injuries, and students interested in refining their alignment and understanding of yoga postures.
What to Expect: Detailed instruction and a slower pace. Poses will be described primarily in English.
Level One/Two
Classes will be taught with detailed verbal instruction for alignment; advanced poses may be demonstrated or taught using partner work. Modifications for most poses will be provided so that the student can elect to make the posture more or less strenuous according to their experience, health, and desire.
Who Should Come: Those with an intermediate or advanced yoga foundation. Not for those with a beginning knowledge of yoga.
What to Expect: Level One/Two classes build upon a foundation learned in the Level One classes. Teachers will guide students into safe ways to deepen postures, such as binds or other variations. Students may also learn new postures, such as introductory arm balances. And, they will be given poses in a mixture of English and Sanskrit. Other yoga elements, including: bhandas, krias, pranayama and mediation, may also appear in a Level One/Two class.
Level Two
Classes will be taught with an emphasis on establishing a flow to link several poses together (flow classes) or to deepen poses or hold them for longer (strong hold classes). Pranayama, meditation, krias and bhandas my be incorporated into Level Two classes.
Who Should Come: Those with an established foundation of yoga. Not for those with a beginning knowledge of yoga.
What to Expect: Level Two classes will challenge the student to take their established yoga practice deeper.