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  • Description: Animal Chi Kung and Tai Chi for the 5 Building Blocks of our Being: Body, Breathing, Mind, Energy, Spirit In this 45 minute class, you will strengthen your upper body and massage your spine and internal organs with an emphasis on some of the external and internal principles of Chi Kung and Tai Chi, such as relaxing the shoulders, keeping your head suspended, visualizing the Lower Energy Center, massaging your internal organs and evoking your spirit. • Bear Swimming : sitting and standing • Stretch and Release the Bows : the spine bow and the chest bow • Crane Spreads its Wings • Lion Plays with a Ball • The Cat and the Cow • Bear Massages his or her Stomach

    Tags: Breathing, Chi Kung, Healing, Mindfulness, Relaxation
  • Description: This Yoga Flow class is designed for participants that have had practiced yoga and have less range of motion limitations. The class is moderately paced to cultivate strength, flexibility, and balance within a gentle, continuous sequence of postures. Focus: side body
    Tags: Blanket, Block, Rfm, Strap
  • Description: This 45-minute joyful flow (vinyasa) is a practice that connects movement to breath in a sequence of yoga poses. The class is designed to promote a mind-body connection as it develops strength, stamina, flexibility, balance, relaxation and focus. All levels welcome. Focus: shoulders

    Tags: Beginners, Blanket, Block, Rfm, Strap

  • Description: Healthy Spine and Strong Internal Organs In this 45 minute class, you will learn and practice movements from Chi Kung and Tai Chi to lubricate and free your spine while massaging your internal organs with a strong emphasis on deep breathing, meditation, visualizations, and evoking your spirit. Everything we do can be done standing, sitting on the edge of a chair or lying down in bed. Some of the moves we practice: • The Cat and the Cow • Stretch and Release the Bows • Wave the Spine • Climb the ladder

    Tags: Breathing, Chi Kung, Healing, Mindfulness, Relaxation
  • Description: This 45-minute joyful flow (vinyasa) is a practice that connects movement to breath in a sequence of yoga poses. The class is designed to promote a mind-body connection as it develops strength, stamina, flexibility, balance, relaxation and focus. All levels welcome. Focus: twist

    Tags: Beginners, Blanket, Blocks, Bumble bee breath (paranayama) Strap, Rfm

  • Description: This 45-minute chair yoga invites you to find movement in a way that is gentle and supportive. The practice invites awareness into the body and activates muscles in the spine that help you find length up through the spine for better posture and energy flow. If you are new to yoga, have difficulty getting down to the floor, experience pain in your muscles or joints, loss of energy, or balance issues due to peripheral neuropathy, this class is for you. All levels welcome. Focus: twist

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Blocks, Chair flow, Massage ball, Massage feet/hands, Peripheral Neuropathy, Strap

  • Description: This class is great for building up strength and stretching the entire body while being supported by a chair (seated and/or standing behind a chair). This class starts with a seated warm up, moving to an engaging sequence of strengthening with light weights, followed by stretching and cool down.
  • Description: This Yoga Flow class is designed for participants that have had practiced yoga and have less range of motion limitations. The class is moderately paced to cultivate strength, flexibility, and balance within a gentle, continuous sequence of postures. Focus: twist

    Tags: Beginner/Intermediate, Blanket, Blocks, Full body workout, Mat, Rfm, Strap, Vinyasa
  • Description: This Yoga Flow class is designed for participants that have had practiced yoga and have less range of motion limitations. The class is moderately paced to cultivate strength, flexibility, and balance within a gentle, continuous sequence of postures. Focus: twist.

    Tags: Beginner/Intermediate, Blanket, Blocks, Strap
  • Description: This Yoga Flow class is designed for participants that have had practiced yoga and have less range of motion limitations. The class is moderately paced to cultivate strength, flexibility, and balance within a gentle, continuous sequence of postures. Focus: hip opening/ grounding.

    Tags: Beginner/Intermediate, Blanket, Blocks, rfm, Strap
  • Description: This 45-minute joyful flow (vinyasa) is a practice that connects movement to breath in a sequence of yoga poses. The class is designed to promote a mind-body connection as it develops strength, stamina, flexibility, balance, relaxation, and focus. The warm-up portion of this class has more supine (on your back) poses and a few kneeling poses (knee support and modifications are offered). Encourages transitions from kneeling to standing and standing to stepping back using blocks (modifications are offered).


    Designed for patients with breast cancer and suitable for all cancer diagnoses!

    Instructor: Juliana G. Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT
  • Description: This 45-minute chair yoga invites you to find movement in a way that is gentle and supportive. The practice invites awareness into the body and activates muscles that help you find length up through the spine for better posture and energy flow. If you are new to yoga, have difficulty getting down to the floor, experience pain in your muscles or joints, loss of energy, or balance issues due to peripheral neuropathy, this class is for you. Also included a gentle self-manual lymph drainage massage to help stimulate the lymphatic system (an important component of the immune system). Self-manual massage of hands and using a massage ball for feet to help with symptoms of peripheral neuropathy are shown. 

    Designed for patients with breast cancer and suitable for all cancer diagnoses!


    Instructor: Juliana G. Berfield, PhD, E-RYT 500, CPT