Strong, energetic, and challenging, Yoga Strong combines traditional yoga postures with fitness movements for an amazing full body workout. Classes focus on the development of strength and mobility rather than flexibility.
Traditional yoga classes often emphasize flexibility to the point of injury through over-stretching and overstraining the ligaments and tendons around the joints. Students are instructed to move into poses too deeply or too bendy and stretchy for what is healthy and sustainable for the body. Yoga Strong instead focuses on building strength around the joints, creating stability while at the same time creating an ease of movement and mobility in one’s body. The yoga poses are carefully chosen and modified to follow the body’s natural anatomical movements. Added to this are the functional fitness movements which include squatting, lunging, pushing, pulling, bending, and twisting.
Each class begins with centering and grounding followed by core exercises and moving into some basic yoga postures. Class then picks up speed and heat by integrating squats, lunges and pushups throughout the yoga poses. The peak of class is a section of High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) that may include faster squats, lunges or burpees to get the heart pumping and then right into a balance posture while the heart rate is still up to really give the body a challenge. Moving down the other side, class goes back through some yoga flow into an active warm down and final mediation.
Together the yoga and fitness movements create a sustainable and strengthening practice that leaves one feeling energized and centered, powerful and peaceful.
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Yoga Strong classes are held at In Shape Athletic Club
Wednesdays from 12:05pm to 1:05pm
Free for Gym Members
$10 drop in fee for General Public
testimonials
"I’ve been a member of Jess’s class for 3 years. I had tried previous yoga classes but typically pulled something. I’ve never been injured with Jess because she sticks to her word when she tells us to pay attention to our bodies and make adjustments as needed. And she pays attention to all of us in class. As a 70 year old still interested in fitness, Jess is big part of my success. I look forward to her class every Wednesday."
— Larry L.
"I had never taken a yoga class before Jess encouraged me to try Yoga Strong. Yoga Strong has given me the opportunity to focus on balance, mindful movement and core awareness in a way that my weight training and cardio workouts could never do. My lack of flexibility has never been a barrier because of all of the modification options. Truth be told, however, the real secret sauce of Yoga Strong is that Jess is an amazing teacher. She intuitively guides you to do exactly what is right for you for on that day, inviting you to explore the limits of your body's amazing abilities while at the same time maintaining a laser-like focus on injury prevention."
— Jesse S.
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