Yoga for Back & Neck Care classes offer a safe, comprehensive, and effective approach to back and neck rehabilitation. In the series based on the work of BKS Iyengar, you will learn: (1) poses to relieve muscle tension and nerve pain, (2) safe poses to increase flexibility in the hips, (3) shoulders and back strengthening poses to give the spine and neck adequate support , (4) ways to improve your posture and alignment, (5)relaxation techniques to help you to reduce mental stress often associated with chronic pain. You will receive personalized attention and will be given sequences of poses appropriate for your specific condition.

Releasing and Stabilizing the Hips and Groins with Cara Judea Alhadeff
Saturday, Jan 6th, 2-5pm ($45 pre-register/$55 drop-in)
Cara's three-hour workshop is a methodical approach to giving you greater mobility in the hips, full extension through the groin, and greater length in the hamstrings --resulting in deeper forward and backward bends, and more importantly, easing and stabilizing your walking locomotion and standing posture.

Extended Practice with Tony Briggs
Saturday, Jan 13, 1:30-4:00pm ($35/ pre-registration required!)
These classes are intended for students commited to yoga as an ongoing practice in support of self-knowledge and personal growth. While drop-ins are welcome with the permission of the instructor, Tony will use the 8-week period to illustrate a specific theme, with each class in the series building upon the previous classes.

Prenatal Yoga: An 8-Week Series with Stephanie Parent
Mondays, Jan 8 - Feb 26, 6:00-7:30pm ($16 Drop-In or 8 for $110)

Yoga Jumpstart - Will and Practice with Karl Erb
Sunday, Jan 7, 2:00-5:00pm ($35)

Relax and Renew: Learning to Teach Restorative Yoga with Judith Hanson Lasater
Sunday, Jan 7, 2007, 12:30-6pm ($95)
This class will be devoted to studying the theory, practice and teaching of Restorative yoga. Part of this teacher training will be personal experience of the poses, part will be learning to set others up in the most advantageous way, and part will be the discussion of the theory of Restorative yoga. Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D, and Physical Therapist and internationally-known yoga teacher, has taught yoga since 1971.

Yoga for the New Year with Chase Bossart: How to Really Keep Your New Year's Resolutions
Sunday, Jan 14th, 7pm-9pm (Class card or $15 drop-in)
Having made the list of things we want to change and stated the ways our lives WILL be different, now comes the difficult part: actualizing those changes. Fortunately, this is one of Yoga's strengths: helping us to change in consciously positive ways. In fact, Yoga is essentially a technology of transformation: it offers specific strategies along with practical tools for effecting lasting, positive changes in our lives, in our relationships, and in our body/minds. In this workshop, we will discuss Yoga's ideas about patterns of behavior, how they are created, why they exist, and how to consciously create the positive habits we want. The discussion will be supported by an experiential, meditation practice emphasizing breath. All levels are welcome!

Bringing Spirituality Down to Earth with Joel Kramer
Friday, Jan 26, 6:30-9:00pm ($20)
Spirituality is either a separate realm, a convenient myth, or a creative force infused in living that can bring meaning, purpose and connection to a life. As a species, we are now on a cusp point as to whether we are going to grow up and become adult and use our intelligence to remain viable. This challenge is the evolutionary and also the spiritual challenge of the times. Extending spiritual frameworks to daily life, relationships, and the pressing issues of the times is what bringing spirituality down to Earth really means. This talk presents a framework for placing spirituality within the essence of life that can bring a shift in awareness and provide a new foundation for values to help meet the challenges of the times. Please join us.

Last Sundays: An Ongoing Immersion Practice with Patricia Sullivan
Sunday, Jan 28, 11am-2pm ($40)
An accomplished sculptor, Patricia's classes are imaginative, exploratory and continuously evolving. She emphasizes process rather than end result, curiosity rather than "knowingness," and always brings to her classes a feeling that yoga is not only a vehicle for self-transformation, it's fun. Inside a practice that works to develop strength and flexibility, Patricia brings her life-long experience and love for alignment and kineseology, and its resulting aesthetic and healing potential.