It is our goal at Community Yoga to offer a diverse selection of classes. We have several teachers, each with their own passion and gifts. Please read our class descriptions below and visit our mindbody site for the current schedule. Please let us know if you have any questions! We look forward to sharing a practice with you.
Classes with Jacqueline Allen:
Sunrise Vinyasa (75°)
The perfect way to start your day! Open your body, mind, and soul to the world around you, doing sun salutations with the rise of the sun. Class begins with breath awareness and gentle stretching, opening the way to the practice of yoga poses to build strength, flexibility, and awareness. Getting up and moving in the morning can help you increase circulation, help you find balance both mentally and physically, and get you energized and focused for the rest of your day! Please be advised that class will begin promptly at 6am and end promptly at 7am.
Slow Flow Vinyasa (75°)
This class is a moving meditation that will flow through postures exploring and refining alignment. You will experience the fullness of practice by slowly merging movement and breath to create a powerful, yet subtle, meditative flow. It’s perfect for beginners or more experienced practitioners wanting to slow down and deepen their practice. Together we will explore the beauty of yoga lying in its subtlety.
Vinyasa (90°)
In this heated vinyasa class you will feel the stress of your day melt away as you flow through a series of postures that promote strength, endurance, greater flexibility, and cleansing sweat. Be prepared to move into deep relaxation before leaving class with a more balanced body, a calmer spirit, and a greater peace of mind.
Friday Night Yoga (90°)
Join the Harmonious Warriors—Jacqueline Allen and Betsy Totty—for Friday Night Yoga! This heated class is physically challenging, but lighthearted and fun. Come let go of the stress of your week as you breathe, sweat, laugh and relax. With 75-minutes, this class will allow you to experience a deep practice. Jacqueline and Betsy alternate teaching each week, both offering vinyasa flow sequences designed to help you create a balanced energy deep in your body, mind and heart.
Yoga for Runners (75°)
This class is designed for the runner or athlete who wants to improve their flexibility, breathing, core strength and mental focus. The foundations of yoga are used to bring awareness to the structural and muscular imbalances caused by repetitive strain on the muscles and joints used in running. We will focus on the essential yoga postures for runners, teaching proper alignment to help bring balance back to the body through increased range of motion, flexibility, and strength. This class is suitable for those with or without yoga experience. You don’t have to be a runner to attend, but the focus will be on opening the areas tightened from running.
Classes with Summer Cushman:
Classic Yoga (75°)
Summer’s classes are designed to bring stability, energy and balance into your body, mind and heart. Using the principles of Viniyoga we connect with the spine and strengthen the back. We practice dynamic, warming movement, but also hold poses long enough to build strength and learn about our body through the posture. Connecting breath and movement we focus on axial extension, forward bends, backward bends, lateral bends, twists and balancing postures. Weaving together asana, pranayama and readings from the tradition of yoga, these classes will leave you feeling centered and rejuvenated.
Restorative Yoga (80-85°)
Restorative Yoga is a gift for your body, mind and heart. This practice includes a mix of guided meditation, guided breath exercises, supported, long held restorative postures and gentle moving postures. The practice will relax your mind and body, increase your energy and reduce your stress. Summer offers this class as a mini-retreat that you can take every week! You will walk away feeling calm and renewed.
Yoga for Transformation Course
Many people are aware of the physical postures of yoga (asana), but are less familiar with yoga’s deep philosophical tradition. Yoga is an ancient art and science that includes many practices for personal growth and change. The Yoga for Transformation course is designed to help you connect with your deepest self. Svadyaya is a Sanskrit term referring to self-study and in these sessions we will explore the mind, body and heart using the tools offered to us through yogic philosophy. For each session you will be given a reading assignment and home study practice. The course is designed to help you build or renew your personal yoga practice. It will allow you to focus on being rather than doing and will leave you feeling calm, balanced and more in touch with who you are.
The next group course begins May 25th. Please visit the “events” tab of our online scheduling page to sign up.
Classes with Tammy Ness-Haville:
Yoga for Beginners (75°)
Yoga for Beginners is a weekly class designed for ‘never-evers’ that have heard about the benefits of yoga and want to try it, but haven’t felt comfortable walking into a class. This class is always open to any student–those new to yoga as well as those simply looking for a slower practice with more instruction. In this class you’ll learn the basics of breathing and asana (yoga postures). This class will give you time to feel the postures in your own body and help you find your appropriate edge (the point between pushing yourself hard enough, but not too far) as you learn to build a safe practice.
Classes with Debra Steinhauer
Classic Yoga (75°)
This class is designed to integrate mind, body and spirit by incorporating pranayama, meditation and a smooth sequencing of postures. Classes will begin with several minutes of meditation and breath awareness to calm and center the mind. The practice will include steady, dynamic movement as well as static holds that encourage exploration of the posture’s effects. Final relaxation will allow the body to accept the work that’s been done and allow you to quiet the mind. Appropriate for beginners or experienced practitioners wanting to slow down and deepen their practice, all levels of experience are welcome. Modifications allow each student to work with what’s best for their body in the moment. Students will leave class feeling peaceful, calm and centered.
Classes with Amy Taylor:
Vinyasa (75°)
Amy’s Vinyasa Yoga classes will move you through a series of postures intended to build strength, balance, and flexibility while bringing stability and peace to your body, mind, and spirit. We will emphasis core strength, which includes spinal and digestive health. Always concluding with guided relaxation and savasana, these classes will leave you feeling restored and inspired. The practice includes sun salutations, standing poses, twists, spine strengtheners, balance, and gentle inversions. Amy models and explains basics of posture and breath with cues and tips for correct alignment and full expression of the poses.
Sacred Vinyasa (75°)
The intent of Sacred Vinyasa is to offer a safe and nourishing place to explore the integration of body, mind and spirit through a flowing yoga practice. All interpretations of ‘spirit’ or ‘the divine’ are welcome and embraced. While not intended to be religious in nature, the hope is that this class will promote an awareness of the holy, which resides in and among us. Seane Corn has spoken of vinyasa flow as a living, moving form of prayer and it is in this spirit that you’re invited to deepen your intention and experience of connection to a greater consciousness, as well as to yourself and the community.
Yoga for Kids
In these classes Amy teaches the fundamentals of yoga practice while incorporating a healthy dose of imagination! Your kids will stretch and strengthen their bodies while having fun and enjoying their innate creativity. Group and partner poses foster positive peer relationships. Classes end with guided relaxation, a special time for children to learn to be still and let their imaginations soar.
Yoga for Kids (75°) (ages 3-10) includes simple yoga poses, games, and cooperative activities.
Yoga for Youth (75°) (ages 11-17) This fun vinyasa flow class, designed for teens and tweens, will stretch and strengthen the body, mind, and spirit. Excellent for students and athletes who are feeling stressed by hectic schedules.
Please note: All minors need a liability form signed by their parent or legal guardian before they can practice at Community Yoga.
Classes with Betsy Totty:
Core Vinyasa (80°)
This class is designed to help you connect to your core and find your inner strength. This flowing vinyasa practice will bring you a strong and flexible body, a calm spirit and a peaceful mind. This practice ends with deep relaxation that will leave you feeling a greater sense of balance in your own being.
Friday Night Yoga (90°)
Join the Harmonious Warriors—Jacqueline Allen and Betsy Totty—for Friday Night Yoga! This heated class is physically challenging, but lighthearted and fun. Come let go of the stress of your week as you breathe, sweat, laugh and relax. With 75-minutes, this class will allow you to experience a deep practice. Jacqueline and Betsy alternate teaching each week, both offering vinyasa flow sequences designed to help you create a balanced energy deep in your body, mind and heart.
General offerings at Community Yoga:
Private Instruction
Community Yoga offers both private and semi-private sessions. We value this intentional way of working. Send us a note with a bit about yourself and your goals and we will work together to find the plan that makes the most sense.
Yoga Parties
Have a birthday coming up? Or a reunion? Or a work retreat? Community Yoga would be happy to organize a private yoga class for you and your group. Any reason is a good reason to come together to move and breathe. Practicing yoga builds community and strengthens connections. Let us help you relax and find comfort and ease in body, mind, and spirit. Let us know what your needs are and we’ll be happy to design a special yoga session just for you!
Contact us if you are interested in organizing a yoga party.
Karma Yoga
The teachers of Community Yoga are committed to the idea that the practice of yoga has the potential to benefit everyone. We work hard to ensure that anyone interested in these benefits has the opportunity to explore the practice. Please visit our Karma page to see all that we offer.
