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  • 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: shoulders/chest opening.

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Block, Chair flow, Full body workout, Massage ball, Massage feet, Peripheral neuropathy, Strap

  • Description:
    Gentle stretching exercises that can be done outdoors on a bench after a walk or just enjoying the fresh air.

    Tags: All levels, Bench, Chair, Full body stretch, Outdoors

  • 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. This class has almost all poses seated on the chair, including warriors and lunges. It’s a more gentle version of the chair yoga classes, and is great for people that have a hard time standing up.

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Block, Chair flow, Full body workout, Massage ball, Massage feet, Pheripheral neuropahty, 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 on 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).

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Blanket, Block, Flow - vinyasa, Full body workout, Massage ball, Massage feet, 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 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.

    Tags: Beginner-intermediate, Block, Chair flow, Full body workout, Massage ball, Massage feet, 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 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 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.