BruceYogi Yoga Classes

Power up your practice with intent, a focused mind, steady and firm breath, focusing your awareness on the smoothness of transitions between poses, and steadiness while holding the poses.

A strong combo of poses for yogis wanting a sweat.

Class Guidelines:-

1. set your sankalpa, or intent.

2. practice with a steady rhythmic ujjai breath.

3. focused awareness to movement and breath.

4. practice with steadiness, and ease ("relax") into that steadiness - of mind, breath and body, sealed together with bandha (locks).

Namaste.

(a class for those with a regular and steady yoga practice)

A Shorter Vinyasa Yoga Flow class - if you have limited time available but need your yoga.

Emphasizing - standing poses and balancing.

(Alternative 45min classes, try #92, #99)

Class Guidelines:-

1. set your intent.

2. practice with a steady rhythmic ujjai breath.

3. focused awareness to movement and breath.

Then rest or meditate after the class.

You can practice this class before your pranayama and meditation practice - - -> for a steadier - easier meditation.

Namaste.

(this class is for all levels of practice)

This is a shortened (perhaps easier) version of the 90 minute Jivamukti Yoga classic, Class 7 – BackBending.

This compact 60 min class leads you through opening postures that prepare your body to safely experience back-bending, so you can proceed to the deeper back-bends and open your heart with enthusiasm and confidence.

It is a simplified version of Jivamukti Yoga Class 7, leaving out some of the very challenging poses of the full class (e.g. hanumanasana, kapotasana), thus making this class a little more accessible to the average yogi.

Even if you are relatively new to yoga, you will still be able explore the fundamentals of back-bending in this Vinyasa Flow in a safe way, using the alternative poses that are suggested to you.

Namaste.

(a challenging class, open to yogis with a regular practice, but not for beginners level)

A gentle yoga class to help release tightness in your back muscles.

- mobilize - lower, middle, upper back and shoulders so that you will feel free.

Have a yoga-block handy for this class !

It is accessible to all levels of yogi. As safe as this class is, please take care, and always consult a medical professional, especially if issues persist.

Namaste.

A dedicated yogi who practices with non-attachment will attain self-mastery of mind afflictions – and freedom from delusion. This advice can be found in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras 1:12: abhyasa vairagyabhyam tan nirodah (practice with non-attachment brings mastery of mind modifications).

This is the task you will face in this challenging Jivamukti Yoga vinyasa class. The intensity of the sequence is guaranteed to create waves of thoughts and subtle emotions which will arise and which can only be mastered, by releasing them and “letting go” through acceptance.

The class leads you through opening postures that prepare your body and mind for the challenges that arise later in the class. A pose may be enjoyed, disliked, a good or bad emotion may be triggered, feelings may change. The skill required to be learned is - "Allow thoughts to come, but allow them to go. Allow everything to come, but allow everything to go."

Hint: focus your awareness on the sound and or feeling of your ujjayi breath, which will help you “let go” of thoughts and emotions that may arise in a particular pose, and, through consistent practice help teach you non-attachment.

Namaste.

(this can be an intense class in places, so if you are a beginner, please proceed with due caution, and take rest when needed)

Practice a series of poses from the Ashtanga Primary and Intermediate Series in a way that is more accessible for the average yogi.

Ashtanga Yoga is a form of yoga as made popular by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, as taught to him by his yoga teacher Sri T. Krishnamacharya. It is a strict vinyasa yoga practiced in a fixed sequence of poses, where movement, breath (ujjayi pranayama), locks (bandha), and steady gaze (drishti) lead the yogi consciously from pose to pose. The name comes from Maharishi Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, where the aspirant practices 8 limbs (or steps in a practice) of yoga for self-mastery.

Vinyasa Yoga sequences, when practiced regularly (abhyasa), with dedication and non-attachment (vairagyabhyam) will lead the yogi through self-mastery (nirodah) - to a steady, calm, peaceful state of being that is free from afflictions.

Namaste.

(this is a challenging class, if you are a beginner, please practice a beginner class which you will find elsewhere in this series of podcasts)

This is a shortened (perhaps easier) version of the 90 minute Jivamukti Yoga classic, Class 6 – Balancing.

- where you get to root back to Earth, and re-establish your connection to Mother Earth.

Through this connection you feel more stable, more balanced, and more confident to “LET GO” and release your tensions worries and concerns, opening up to the life force - prana - which balances, internal world and external word, creating a new harmony within.

This Jivamukti Yoga class leads you through opening postures that prepare your body to safely experience standing balances as well as inversions, so you can proceed with confidence to more challenging classes.

Even if you are relatively new to yoga, you will still be able explore the fundamentals of balances in this Vinyasa Flow in a safe way, using the alternative poses that are suggested to you.

Learn and practice the foundations of balancing, and your practice will always be grounded. All this in 60 minutes.

Namaste.

(this can be a challenging class in places, so if you are a beginner, please proceed with due caution)

An invigorating back-bending yoga class!

Whether you enjoy back-bending classes or avoid them, this yoga class will help you deepen your practice.

Backward bending poses open us to the future by helping us release tension stored in thighs, hips, belly, our chest and our shoulders, which "hold us back" in the past. Once free from these restrictive tensions, we can approach the future with confidence, openness and ease.

This Jivamukti Yoga class leads you through opening postures that prepare your body to safely experience back-bending, so you can proceed to the deeper challenging back-bends and open your heart with enthusiasm and confidence.

Even if you are relatively new to yoga, you will still be able explore the fundamentals of back-bending in this Vinyasa Flow in a safe way, using the alternative poses that are suggested to you.

Namaste.

(a challenging class, and not for beginners level)

Life needs a gentle balanced approach (see podcast #97). 

But sometimes life throws us into a twist and a turn. 

Be prepared! - take life on, confidently and openly with a balanced center, skillfully negotiating whatever twists and turns come your way -

This yoga class is like a mirror for your life... giving you the opportunity to prepare... get your balance, take on the twists.

(This is a stronger class with a fun element).

Namaste.

A "Win-Win" accessible yoga flow with two heads-up sides to the coin. Give the coin a flip . . . 

 - Heads - focus on slimming your waistline and building your core strength.

- Tails - stimulate your metabolism, burn fat, detox and stimulate your excretory functions.

Heads you win & Tails you win.

You should practice this class at least 2x weekly to experience the benefits.

Namaste.

(a class for all levels, but be prepared for a sweat).