Worlds Yoga offers a comprehensive range of well established yoga styles as well as new and innovative ones that enables yoga practitioners at all levels to build a strong foundation for life-long wellness grounded in the ancient tradition of Yoga.
To maximize the benefits of yoga practice and to make our students’ yogic journey most enjoyable, the following dimensions of yoga is addresses:
- Breadth: A comprehensive range of classes that include Restorative, Yin, Hatha, Vinyasa, Power, Ashtanga, Hot yoga, Kid’s yoga and Prenatal as well as Postnatal
- Depth: Gentle, moderate, and challenging
- Continuity: In addition to individual classes we offer programs that consist of a collection of interrelated classes over a period of time aimed at achieving specific objectives.
- Impact: Practices focused on increasing flexibility, enhancing strength, improving balance, correcting misalignments, and breathing.
We do not believe in focusing on one type of yoga (such as Bikram Yoga); we believe that all styles of yoga are beneficial and that actually a student requires study in many different disciplines to understand his/her yoga practice more fully. It has been proven that repeating the same poses and exercises over a long period of time makes the body to adopt and automate and reduces the effectiveness of the exercise. Also, repeating the same poses and exercises increases the chance of injuries.
We believe in traditional methods of yoga practice as a way to achieve strength, flexibility & balance which leads to physical, mental, and emotional health and well-being. Worlds Yoga Curriculum supports beginners and new to yoga students as we teach with fundamental building blocks of a yoga practice. Practiced with proper alignment, yoga can address various physical needs, and go beyond what is possible with typical exercise programs because yoga augments physical practice with breathing and unification of mind and body.
Worlds yoga offers classes based on the following traditional styles of yoga
Ashtanga
Ashtanga is a classic well-known yoga practice. The practice is prescribed in detail in multiple series. Poses, transitions, gaze setting, and breath coordination are all defined throughout each series. We will start with the first series, Ashtanga Primary Series, also known as Yoga Chikitsa and Healing Series. The intent of the Yoga Chikitsa is to cleanse both body and mind and restore health. It is a rigorous practice.
The class is recommended to yoga practitioners who are familiar with the Vinyasa style of yoga and are looking to advance their practice and build stamina and endurance. The class is not heated, but most practitioners will sweat due to the internal heat the practice generates.
Gentle Yoga
Gentle yoga focuses on mindful practice of basic yoga poses, alignment, and coordination of movement with breathing. It teaches students to be aware of and connect to the breath throughout the practice. It is a calm and meditative practice and provides an opportunity to slow down the mind and build natural internal heat. Gentle yoga is a great class for beginners, experienced practitioners. Gentle Yoga students receive all the benefits of a complete yoga practice. Gentle Yoga is practiced at room temperature.
Hot Stone Restorative
Power Yoga
Power Yoga is a rigorous yoga class with demanding strength postures that will have you moving, breathing, and sweating. Incorporating the fluidity of Vinyasa, Power Yoga focuses the attention on building core strength, standing posture and a one pointed gaze. Includes Vinyasa flow with Sun Salutations, arm balances, long standing postures and creative sequencing. Modifications will always be offered, encouraging each practitioner to move into the postures to their own degree of practice, making this class great for the seasoned practitioner and those who are ready for a challenge. Power yoga will strengthen and define each and every muscle in your body.
Vinyasa Fusion
Vinyasa Fusion combines Vinyasa/Power style of yoga characterized by Vinyasa flow with Hatha/Ashtanga style of yoga characterized by focus on alignments and deepening of poses. It also adopts Bikram style structured sequence and queues.
Variations that make poses more challenging are offered step-by-step to allow experienced students to advance their practice while newer students learn correct alignments of poses.
Worlds Yoga Fusion Class is offered with four themes:
- Balance Flow: includes balancing on various grounding points – feet, hands, toes, knees, head, and various combinations of the above.
- Flex Flow: flexes major sections of the body including shoulders, spine, hips, inner thighs, and hamstring.
- Strengths Flow: systematically works on all major muscles in the body, including the involuntary muscles not accessible directly.
- Integration Flow: brings balance, flexibility, and strengths, as well as breath, body, and mind together.
Students are advised to attend classes with all four themes to get the full benefit of the practice.
Vinyasa Fusion class is heated moderately.
Vinyasa Power
Vinyasa Flow
Vinyasa refers to the flowing transition between yoga postures. A vinyasa class is characterized by synchronizing movement with breath to create a meditative state of mind while heating and opening the body deeply. It provides sequencing that fluently bridges one posture to the next. Through deep concentration based on breath awareness, students find increased endurance, flexibility, circulation and strength. Based on Vinyasa, Vinyasa Flow builds and engages core strength to support the body in flowing through sun salutations, standing postures, balancing, and inversions.
Yin Yoga
Yin Yoga is a slow-paced, meditative practice in which poses are held for 2-5 minutes. Yin allows time for the practitioner to look inside, observe, and to feel the mind and body unwind and relax. Muscles remain passive in this practice. Applying a slow and steady load lengthens and strengthens the connective tissues like ligaments, tendons, and fascia. Yin Yoga promotes joint mobility and flexibility especially in the hips and lower spine. Yin yoga is suitable for both the practitioner who thrives on high energy classes and the practitioner who is looking for a restorative yoga class. Postures in Yin do not require strain or struggle. Students focus on breathing naturally and leave class feeling relaxed yet energized. Yin is practiced at room temperature.
Hot Yoga
Hatha
Hatha Yoga is a widely practiced traditional style of yoga. Hatha Yoga uses postures and conscious breathing in combination with mental focus to develop awareness, strength and flexibility. Through proper alignment and mindful actions of the body, Hatha Yoga brings balance, strength, and a sense of well-being to the practitioner. Hatha classes are for all levels including beginners. Hatha is practiced in room temperature.
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