Vinyasa means “to link movement with breath”. In this class we will encourage meditation through movement as we establish a consistent rhythmic breath and allow the postures to sync with it. Expect creative flows and transitions in this class that is appropriate for students with some Yoga experience. Variations are offered to create opportunity for a more or less dynamic experience based on your needs.

Exactly as it sounds, this is class is an opportunity to move your body gently. This class offers the same stretch and strengthening opportunity as a dynamic class but offered in a way that allows more time and support to find the shape. Appropriate for all levels

A rejuvenating practice which will bring harmony and balance in mind, body and breath. Through a blend of gentle asanas (poses), pranayama (breathing techniques), and relaxation methods, this class invites you to explore your inner landscape, cultivate strength and flexibility, and discover a sense of balance and peace. Suitable for all levels, this practice encourages mindfulness, alignment, and self-awareness, empowering you to enhance your overall well-being and vitality. A typical class will start with a centering that focuses on breath awareness, joint and gland exercises that will help move into some classical asanas, some pranayama, and end with a guided shavasana.

This class is similar to a vinyasa class in that it is breath based, but we will practice roughly half of the postures as each shape is held for several breaths to allow a deeper connection with each pose. The slower pace offers a meditative aspect to the practice.

This class is all about connecting with the body. We will move through dynamic sequencing that will serve to generate warmth in the body and burn through what is no longer serving. The room is brought to around 85 degrees which serves to facilitate that heat and allow for safe opening of muscle groups. Bring water and a towel. Some yoga experience is recommended.

Ah, the best of both worlds. Yang and Yin. This class will begin with a dynamic flow to warm the body and burn off excess energy then will shift to a more cooling and deeply stretching practice. Yin postures are approached mindfully using the support of props. These shapes are then held for 3-5 minutes to access deeper tissue and tension release. Appropriate for all levels.

This class is a slow and restful pace. Expect deep release of muscle tension as we utilize the support of props to explore space in the body. Postures are held for 3 to 5 minutes to access a deep stretch of tight tissues. Appropriate for all levels

This class is an opportunity for deep comfort and relaxation. We will utilize several props to offer the body an experience of complete support to let go. The lights are dimmed and we are encouraged toward a complete state of calm. This class is deeply beneficial in mitigating the stresses of everyday life.

Come hit the refresh button! If winter has you feeling sluggish, unmotivated, or disconnected from your body, this practice is for you. This special vinyasa-based class will touch on the whole body. Practice will incorporate energizing pranayama (breath work), twisting and spinal undulations, and core focused movements to stimulate the digestive and lymphatic systems, stoke internal Agni (fire element) and clear stagnant energy. The room will be warmed. Come ready to move, sweat and smile! Green juice will be available post practice to rehydrate and refresh.

The doors are open from 10-2. Come on in and see the space, have a coffee or tea and get to know your new yoga studio!

Join Kristin for an evening of resting the mind and calming the heart. All are welcome for this Restorative practice of supported twists and hips, freeing space all around the lungs and heart. Centeredness and Connection will be fostered thru poetry and inspirations. 

Benefits of baby yoga and what to expect
Each week parents will do a breathing and stretching exercise. We will do a sequence of movements with your baby and repeat the breathing and stretching

For the baby

• Strengthening and improving muscle tone
• Stimulating the senses
• Improving blood flow
• Stimulating the production of Oxytocin
• Maintaining flexibility in the spine and joints

For the parent/carer

• Using positive touch with your baby
• Understanding your baby’s non-verbal cues
• Healing after a traumatic birth
• Improve physical
• well-being
• Empower and support parents

Schedule

Week 1: Legs, hips, and tummy
Week 2: Arms, chest, and back
Week 3: Parent and baby exercises
Week 4: Yoga holds

To Register for the series go to "packages" under the pricing tab to purchase all 4 weeks at a discount!

Bring a partner, friend or family member for this fun and playful morning practice followed by coffee, tea and a light buffet brunch provided by The Blue House Bagels Co. and Cafe. Partner yoga is accessible to all and open to children (with grown up) age 9 and up. Class will run about an hour and then we will move to the community space for a yummy meal! A great way to spend time with mom on Mother's day but open to all! (Registration price includes food)

Soften into the transition of the season with a 90 minute practice merging yoga and Thai massage. If you're unfamiliar with Thai body work, expect assisted in passive stretches to access more space in the joints and tissues. This workshop will begin with a gentle warmup to prepare the body for longer held yin poses and supported restorative poses. While in longer held shapes, Katie and Melissa will be offering hands on Thai massage inspired assists to deepen relaxation of muscles, free the joints, and invite the body to further soften. Practice will end with an extended assisted savasana and optional aromatherapy.

***This workshop has limited space so everyone receives equal hands on attention. pre-registration is required, no walk-ins please.***

Grounding and expanding through movement and music are at the very heart of Shake Your Soul.

Through expressive dance, we reach for freedom, joy, and expansiveness, while also reaching for the ground, the pull of gravity, the grit, the passion, the struggle, the human experience. Using world music and simple, effortless, yet dynamic repertoire of movements, this class is a mind-body fitness class, and is suitable for all ages and fitness levels.

Qigong awakens the energy in the three Dan Tians (or reservoirs of energy). It teaches us to move from the inside out, and therefore is a vital part of this class.

No prior dance experience required.

Come join us and leave all rejuvenated and vitalized!

Thai Yoga Bodywork (TBW) is a dynamic healing modality unlike any other. It has also been called "lazy man's yoga". Done on a large futon style mat on the floor, the receiver remains fully clothed and no oils are used. During each session, the receiver is fully passive unless cued otherwise, which makes this modality a great option for those wishing to supplement an existing yoga practice or exercise routine with something more restorative, or for those just simply wanting to receive. NO experience is necessary.

This method works the whole body using techniques such as: palming and thumbing along the "sen" (energy) lines, gentle rocking, traction, activation of acupressure points, and gentle yoga-inspired stretches.

Benefits of receiving Thai bodywork include: greater joint mobility, deeper body and breath awareness, inflammation reduction, and improvement of circulation and lymphatic flow.

Join Kristin to explore joining her this fall to deepen your practice in a 100 hr immersion or to become a certified teacher through the 200 hr training option. No commitment!

Join us for a transformative Yoga Nidra session, where you will experience profound relaxation and rejuvenation.

What is Yoga Nidra?
Yoga Nidra, or “yogic sleep,” is a powerful meditation technique that guides you into a state of conscious relaxation. It is a practice that allows you to explore the space between wakefulness and sleep, where deep healing and restoration occur.

Benefits of Yoga Nidra
- Reduces stress and anxiety
- Improves sleep quality
-Enhances focus and clarity
-Promotes emotional healing
- Increases overall well-being

What to expect
During this class, you will lie down comfortably and be guided through a series of body scans, breathing techniques, and visualizations. No prior yoga experience is needed.
Yoga Nidra is accessible to everyone.

Why try Yoga Nidra?
In our fast paced lives, taking the time to rest and reset is essential. Yoga Nidra offers a unique opportunity to experience deep relaxation and connect with your INNER SELF.

What to wear?

Wear comfortable clothing, props are available but feel to bring your own blanket, and any items to make you feel cozy ( pillows eye masks, etc.)

Restorative Yoga is a deeply calming and healing practice that is appropriate for any and every body. Participants will be lead through a series of poses to allow access to a state of relaxation in the physical, mental and emotional bodies. Inviting an opportunity to detach from the fast pace of life and reconnect to self can allow us to then show up to life refreshed and rebalanced.

Sound Therapy is a complementary therapy that uses instruments played gently and rhythmically using an entrainment pattern to improve overall emotional health and well-being. Sonic vibrations are felt in the body where they support abundant health by activating a relaxed parasympathetic state. Sound healing connects and calms the thinking mind, the heart mind and the gut brain. It promotes feelings of safety, thereby creating conditions for healing in the body. Some benefits can include deep relaxation, improved sleep, reduced anxiety, decreased pain and lowered blood pressure.

Appropriate for all levels. An opportunity to check out in support of checking back in. This class offers a rotation of teachers and styles. Expect a gentle stretch to foster deep release of stored tension, accessible flows to connect with breath and energy and guidance toward mindful release of tension. This class may include gentle yoga, restorative postures, long holds of stretch in Yin and guided meditation. No experience is required.

Join us for a transformative Yoga Nidra with Crystal Bowl Sound Bath session, where you will experience profound relaxation and rejuvenation.

What is Yoga Nidra?
Yoga Nidra, or “yogic sleep,” is a powerful meditation technique that guides you into a state of conscious relaxation. It is a practice that allows you to explore the space between wakefulness and sleep, where deep healing and restoration occur.

Benefits of Yoga Nidra
- Reduces stress and anxiety
- Improves sleep quality
-Enhances focus and clarity
-Promotes emotional healing
- Increases overall well-being

What to expect
During this class, you will lie down comfortably and be guided through a series of body scans, breathing techniques, and visualizations. No prior yoga experience is needed.
Yoga Nidra is accessible to everyone.

Why try Yoga Nidra?
In our fast paced lives, taking the time to rest and reset is essential. Yoga Nidra offers a unique opportunity to experience deep relaxation and connect with your INNER SELF.

General Information about Sound Therapy:

Sound Therapy is a complementary therapy that uses instruments played gently and rhythmically using an entrainment pattern to improve overall emotional health and well-being. Sonic vibrations are felt in the body where they support abundant health by activating a relaxed parasympathetic state. Sound healing connects and calms the thinking mind, the heart mind and the gut brain. It promotes feelings of safety, thereby creating conditions for healing in the body. Some benefits can include deep relaxation, improved sleep, reduced anxiety, decreased pain and lowered blood pressure.

What to wear?

Wear comfortable clothing, props are available but feel to bring your own blanket, and any items to make you feel cozy ( pillows eye masks, etc.)

Yin yoga is a slow paced style of yoga that incorporates principles of traditional Chinese medicine. Expect a series of longer holds in floor poses to unlock and open tights muscle and fascia. Longer holds offer an opportunity to access deep tissue. Practitioners are encouraged to utilize props in support of finding the level of opening appropriate for their own body. Benefits of this type of yoga include increased flexibility, improved circulation enhancing range of motion, improving emotion balance and reducing stress, anxiety and insomnia.

Sound Therapy is a complementary therapy that uses instruments played gently and rhythmically using an entrainment pattern to improve overall emotional health and well-being. Sonic vibrations are felt in the body where they support abundant health by activating a relaxed parasympathetic state. Sound healing connects and calms the thinking mind, the heart mind and the gut brain. It promotes feelings of safety, thereby creating conditions for healing in the body. Some benefits can include deep relaxation, improved sleep, reduced anxiety, decreased pain and lowered blood pressure.

Wear comfortable clothing and be ready to relax!

All levels accessible. No experience necessary. Please bring a donation on a non perishable food item to be donated to our local food pantry. This class is open to all. Please pre-register.

This is an all levels practice that will be appropriate for every body. Come enjoy the beauty of nature as we usher in the first day of autumn together in the back fields of this iconic Simsbury landmark. We will gather together under the events tent to move and breathe together toward a sunset savanna. This event is rain or shine.

Join Katie and Melissa for a fun and playful evening of yoga by the glow of the blacklight and under the full moon. We will transform the studio into a glowing bright space to find the levity and fun in the practice. The full beaver moon symbolizes the transition from autumn and preparation for winter. Come celebrate this transitional time with us! Wear white or neon to shine your brightest!

This class is designed to build strength and stability using weights and resistance to enhance your practice. We will target muscle groups that support access to more advanced poses. Expect a combination of strength and mobility enhancing movement. This class will serve to support physical advancement toward your practice goals.

Bring your kiddo along to play while you practice. Let our dedicated childcare provider look after your little one while you find some balance in your body, heart and mind. Up to 5 children 6 weeks and older are welcome.

Join Katie for a heart opening flow followed by a 15 minute guided metta bhavana meditation to begin your Thanksgiving day in gratitude. This class will focus on cultivation of loving kindness toward oneself those around us and beyond. Feel free to bring friends and family and use credits on any new or existing class pack.

Infrared saunas use infrared radiation to heat the body directly, penetrating deeper than traditional saunas. They offer various potential benefits, including:

Improved Circulation and Cardiovascular Health: Infrared heat increases blood flow, which may improve circulation and reduce inflammation. This could potentially benefit cardiovascular health by lowering blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

Pain Relief and Muscle Recovery: Infrared saunas can help relieve pain from conditions like arthritis, muscle soreness, and chronic pain. The heat promotes relaxation and reduces inflammation, which can ease pain symptoms.

Weight Loss and Calorie Burning: Infrared saunas can induce sweating, leading to a temporary loss of water weight. Additionally, some studies suggest that infrared saunas may increase metabolism and calorie burning.

Detoxification and Skin Health: Infrared heat may promote sweating, which can help eliminate toxins and impurities from the body. This may improve skin health by reducing acne and eczema. Stress Reduction and Relaxation: Infrared saunas create a warm and calming environment that can promote relaxation and stress reduction. The heat releases endorphins, which have mood-boosting effects.

Improved Sleep Quality: Infrared saunas may help improve sleep quality by promoting relaxation and reducing inflammation.

Come spend the evening in deep release to ease yourself into the holiday season with a more regulated nervous system. We will move through longer held stretches in service of access deep release of long held tension in the tissues. Feel free to stay and mingle over tea after to connect with our beautiful Community.

Join Kristin for a practice of releasing and resetting, smoothing our energy's to move through the holidays with ease. All are welcome in this workshop that combines gentle, yin and Restorative yoga with poetry, pausing and pondering.

Whether you are brand new to yoga or a long time practitioner, the basics is where it all starts. This four week series will focus on the fundamentals of the practice. We will explore the elements of breath, safe alignment in common postures, available variations and modifications and what makes this movement modality different from others . Going beyond the physical aspect we will explore the unique benefits of this practice in the space of the heart and mind and how it can all be applied off the mat. No experience is required. All are welcome.

Private consultation

This is a floor based class designed to awaken and free long held patterns in the body that over time can result in tightness, tension and restriction. Both gently flowing and longer held (3-5 mins) stretches will be woven throughout the class in complement to one another . An optional 15 minute meditation will be offered at the end of class. Appropriate for all levels.

Let's start the year off together with mindful movement of body and intention. We will move through an all levels accessible flow followed by a guided meditation to open our hearts in acceptance and grace to welcome the unfolding of the new year.

This floor based class will combine the calming and relaxing characteristics of restorative yoga with the release of deep tension of the tissue and joints that yin yoga offers. We will use props to find support in relaxing shapes and find longer holds in some postures to encourage the body to relax and release. This practice is appropriate for all levels.

The Performance Lab is visiting Kosha to offer free services as an introduction of their offerings to the community. Schedule your time slot to try them out! offerings include:

• 10-15 min Injury Assessment/PT sessions, including cupping, dry needling, massage, and stretch 
• Sign-ups encouraged but walk-ins welcomed
• Normatec compression equipment for arms, legs, and hips 
• Hyperice Venom heat/vibration for back/shoulder/neck 
• Red light therapy for elbow, knee, ankle joints
• Theracube for heat/ice anywhere 
• Smart Goggles for head massage, relaxation, sleep enhancement  
• Zero gravity chairs 

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Spend the evening in a state of deep release and relaxation. Yoga Nidra ,also referred to as non- sleep deep rest or yogic sleep, is a guided meditation that leads one toward a state between wakefulness and sleep. This practice serves to induce a deep sense of physical, mental and emotional well being.

After finding a comfortable lying down position, expect to be guided through a process consisting of intention setting, breath work, imagery and self awareness.

This practice will be enhanced with periods of sound bath of vibration from singing bowls with notes corresponding to specific energy points in the body.

Dress in comfortable clothing, ready to release and relax. No yoga experience is required. This is appropriate for all levels.

Come enjoy a slice of summer bliss! This all levels class will take place in the shade of the trees by the river in Collinsville. The spot is right off rails to trails for convenient access by car, bike or feet! Experience your practice in a new way, in the fresh and connected to nature.

Come celebrate the first official day of summer in the fresh air by the river in Collinsville. We will move the body through an hour long flow incorporating Sun salutations, hip and heart openers and end with some longer held yin poses before enjoying the sounds of nature in the stillness of Savasana (rest). All levels are welcome to usher in the summer together!

Spend some time closing out the week finding space and connection. We will move through a gentler stretching practice setting intention around the space of transition that is Sunday afternoon. Overlooking the gorgeous back fields of a local landmark and breathing in the fresh air and connection to nature this all levels practice will leave you feeling refreshed and ready to start the week again. Well behaved children and leashed dogs are welcome.

This gentle practice will guide students toward shift inward by guiding prana and movement to find a higher sense of awareness on and off the mat.

Discover a class that goes beyond traditional fitness. Strengthen & Lengthen is designed to help you build muscle, improve mobility, and enhance balance—while also training your brain for lasting change. By focusing on joint mobility first, we create a strong foundation that allows your body to move with greater ease, resilience, and freedom.

In each session, you’ll blend strength training with targeted mobility work to expand your range of motion while cultivating stability and balance. Through the use of proprioceptive, visual, and vestibular techniques, you’ll actively engage your nervous system—stimulating brain plasticity and unlocking new levels of performance.

Using a variety of equipment and mindful movement strategies, this class empowers you to move better, feel stronger, and carry your strength into everyday life. Whether you’re looking to enhance athletic performance, support healthy aging, or simply feel more confident in your body, Strengthen & Lengthen offers the tools to help you thrive. This is an all levels appropriate class.

Looking for a slow, mindful start to your Saturday morning? This beginner-friendly, donation based class invites you to reconnect with yourself through gentle, somatic inspired movement, mindful breath, and deep rest - supporting balance in body, mind and spirit. Each practice is an invitation to be present, listen inward and cultivate embodied awareness. Open to all levels and beings!