Beginner Track

OM Yoga (B1D)

Start Where You Are!

Cyndi Lee
Track: Being Yoga Beginner; Level: Beginner

This OM Yoga beginner class gets us standing, stretching, sweating, and moving through safe and simple sequences. We practice to open tight spots in our body, such as hips and shoulders, and to release tight spots in our mind and heart. We leave feeling integrated in body, breath, and mind—and we have fun getting there!

The Yoga Tools (B2A)

Bandhas, Breath & Drishti

Beryl Bender Birch
Track: Being Yoga Beginner; Level: Beginner

Learn to use the three techniques of bandhas, breath, and drishti to catapult your own practice beyond exercise to the outer edges of your spiritual potential. These three aspects of yoga practice are not just incidental additions to asana; they are profound and powerful aids that develop and deepen mindfulness since they require attention to the present moment. Beryl Bender Birch guides us in understanding how yoga fuels our evolution and leads us into deeper levels of multisensory awareness. This is a strong vinyasa asana practice—hard enough to challenge, yet soft enough to do.

Everyday Yoga for the Beginner (B3K)

Colleen Saidman Yee, Rodney Yee
Track: Being Yoga Beginner; Level: Beginner

Come begin or revitalize your yoga journey. Guided by Colleen Saidman Yee and Rodney Yee, learn an everyday sequence that highlights the essential postures to bring balance, vitality, and ease into your practice and life. With fundamental instructions that can guide your daily exploration of the art of yoga for years, discover why we order the poses of this sequence the way we do and learn how to be creative from this basic blueprint.

Practice Principles for Finding Your Inner Teacher (B4K)

Peter Sterios
Track: Being Yoga Beginner; Level: Beginner

Using a variety of basic yoga asana, we examine where resistance is present in our body, and experience how resistance softly met during practice is essential for discovering new ways of moving and new ways of being present with whatever limitation exists in the body and mind. Through both static and flowing styles of practice, we sink deep into self-reflection and stay in the moment with any sensations that arise. With consistent practice, we uncover our unique “inner teacher,” cultivating a sustainable, lifelong practice and the wisdom borne of our own experience. This class is appropriate for beginners and teachers of beginners looking for creative ways to produce original curriculum.

Anusara Yoga® (C1G)

Feel Your Unlimited Power With Standing Poses & Back Bends

Desirée Rumbaugh
Track: Being Yoga Beginner; Level: Beginner

The creative power (shakti) is available to everyone at any time—and feeling it is believing it. Come and delight in the playful exploration of your own shakti and discover your unlimited power. In this invigorating class with Desirée Rumbaugh, Anusara Yoga® and its universal principles of alignment lead the way.