I hope to see you soon in our studio,

Deborah Harris
Studio Owner

CLASSES COME &
    CLASSES GO -
    June Schedule Changes

A fully updated schedule is attached to this email or it can be downloaded here. 

We've added some exciting new classes at the studio:

• In May we added a brand new Yoga For Everyone Mat Class Thursdays at 6PM

• Prenatal Yoga Workshop
  Jun 28th - Aug 9th - 6 weeks - $150
  Enroll now here

• TIME CHANGE: Friday Pilates mat with Props will now change to 10AM Fridays with Danielle

No Class on Monday July 5th

 

      Vinyasa Yoga is a series of flowing yoga poses that emphasize strength and flexibility. It it a vigorous, fitness-based approach to yoga. This form of yoga has the potential to tone you and give you a full body workout, promoting mental stability and releasing tension and anxiety.  

      In “Yoga For Everyone” Class, Thursday nights at 6 PM, there is an extra encouragement for all types of people to attend.

     By not specifying a level, we welcome everyone who will learn from each other, free from judgment. Your instructor will determine your level and will to modify or help you deepen each exercise and stretch based on that. Toni will make sure that each person gets what they seek individually, while experiencing the atmosphere and recognition of humanity that comes with practicing in a group class setting.

     You will leave feeling refreshed and renewed. Come try this wonderful class Thursdays at 6PM.

PILATES & YOGA FOR MEN: GET THE POWER, KEEP THE STRETCH!

Pilates is an exceptional exercise technique for core strengthening, flexibility, and developing a lean, strong physique. Pilates best trains the seven physical performance factors: posture, balance, mobility/flexibility, stability, coordination, functional strength and endurance. For elite athletes, theses skills are essential; but just about everyone will benefit from enhancing these.

Women have gravitated towards Pilates because of the positive impact of the technique on the spinal instability, rotated pelvis and knock-knees due to the inherent issues of a body designed to accommodate childbearing.
Most men have different issues. They have limited flexibility, weak pelvic floor and postural muscles, which eventually leads to injury. There is a growing interest among men in Pilates. Many professional football, basketball and alpine ski athletes are practicing Pilates. Tiger Woods, perhaps the greatest golfer of all time has incorporated Pilates into his training program. 

Most men who exercise regularly are strong but very tight. They have built the body from the “outside” and not from the “inside” as is done in Pilates. Some men will say that even though they have been lifting weights for 20 years there is still something missing. They are absolutely right - it’s called flexibility!

Most men have incredibly tight calf and hamstring muscles and are frequently even unable to sit straight with their legs outstretched. Although strength training is very important, lengthening the muscles through stretching is just as critical. That is exactly where Pilates can help. It's effects on enhancing flexibility and loosening up the tight muscles lead to a leaner, healthier, and more relaxed body.

With that said, Yoga is the ideal compliment to Pilates, and we have a number of men who combine the two to obtain the best results. It's been refreshing to see how quickly men realize that Yoga and Pilates are not nearly as easy as they thought.

So, could Pilates & Yoga be the two perfect techniques for getting most men to exercise regularly? We think so, as do many of our male clients!

P.S. We are contemplating adding a Men's' Only Yoga class in the morning. Please email us if you know of someone who'd be interested in such a class.