Yoga for Beginners | Gentle Yoga
Yoga for Seniors | Mixed Level Classes
Early Morning Yoga | Yoga for Anxiety | Nia | Meditation

Mondays, 3:30 -5 PM
Thursdays, noon-1 PM
Thursdays, 6 - 7:30 PM
Saturdays, 10:45 - noon
Saturdays, 12:30 -2 PM

These classes are all geared for those new to yoga. Come experience this dynamic yet restful practice. You'll learn simple postures to improve flexibility, build strength, and cultivate peace. This class will include active and relaxing yoga poses to open the body and clear the mind.

For more information call 802/388 1961
or write Joanna at joanna@ottercreekyoga.com

Yin Yoga with Sansea Sparling

Wednesday Mornings, 9-10:30 AM
Friday Evenings, 5:30-7 PM

The watchwords in Yin Yoga are compassion, non-striving, and kindness towards one's body.

Yin Yoga increases joint mobility in stiff hips, tight lower back, tense spine. In Yin Yoga, we support and cushion the large joints of the body with bolsters and pillows, so that each pose gradually relaxes, thus easing the largest joints of the body.

We pay elegant attention to alignment, as well as the individual differences in each person's anatomy, so each support arrangement is unique. Each person chooses the degree to which the pose is held. In a Yin Yoga class, students look may look quite different from one another. The pace is leisurely, the transitions gentle. The lubrication of any joints that may be growing stiff is gradual. Based on familiar, un-exotic poses such as Seated Forward Bend, and Cobra, Yin Yoga increases circulation of healing fluids to the areas of the lower back, deep inside hip joints, and the top of the pelvic bowl. Balance issues in these poses are non-existent.

If you have been a runner, a skier, a biker, you may have discovered that as one ages, the strength of the muscles in the same, while the flexibility of the joints has decreased. There are yogic solutions for these issues: cushioning support, deep breathing, gradual entry and exit of poses.

Sansea has steadily deepened her Yin Yoga teaching vocabulary, training with Paul Grilley's emphasis on individual variations in bone and joint structure, with Bif Mithoefer, Yin Yogi, and Kaline Alayna Kelly, Thai massage therapist and Yin practitioner.

For more information call 802/453 3894
or write Sansea at ssparling@gmavt.net

with Joanna Colwell

Tuesday Mornings, 9-10:15 AM
Thursday Mornings, 9-10:15 AM

This class is for anyone who would like to feel a little less stiff and creaky. Yoga improves posture, strengthens and lengthens muscles, increases bone density, and even aids digestion. Plus it's relaxing and fun. This class is geared for those 60 and better, but is open to anyone interested in learning to move and breathe with a bit more freedom.

For more information call 802/388 1961
or write Joanna at joanna@ottercreekyoga.com

with Brian Slavin

Monday Early Mornings, 6:30-7:30 AM
Wednesday Afternoons, Noon-1 PM

with Joanna Colwell

Tuesday Afternoons, Noon-1:00 PM
Tuesday Evenings, 6-7:30 PM

with Russell Comstock

Wednesday Evenings, 6-7:30 PM

with Annie Konopke

Friday Mornings, 9 -10:30 AM

with Olga Pschorr

Sunday Mornings, 9 -10:30 AM

These classes are geared to be inclusive to beginners as well as more experienced students. Come prepared to work vigorously and relax deeply. Please see teacher bios for more information about our different styles.

For more information call 802/388 1961
or write

Joanna at joanna@ottercreekyoga.com

with Brian Slavin

Monday Early Mornings, 6:30-7:30 AM

The early morning is a wonderful time to rise and greet the sun with yoga. In this class we will be using pranayama (breathing exercises), movement and postures to open our body and clear the mind, as well as time to be quiet and feel our day beginning with all its potential. This class is designed to start your day off on the right foot and inspire you to move through your day with awareness of your body and equanimity of mind. Please join me as we greet the day with creativity, abundance, and joy.

For more information call 802/388 1961
or write Brian at

babaslavin@gmail.com

with Mary Claire Dehaven

Thursdays, 4:30 - 5:30 PM

A mind, body, spirit therapy group for people struggling with anxiety, panic, stress, body tension and worry. We will begin by developing compassionate relationships with our anxiety or tension. (You may have noticed that wishing it away doesn't always work). You will also be offered strategies for easing the stress or anxiety that keeps you from feeling free and calm. You will learn about the unconscious beliefs that fuel anxious behaviors or stress inducing choices and you will have the chance to begin to unburden these beliefs thus respectfully reducing the anxiety and stress.

We will use guided meditation, yoga postures. and experiential exercises to enhance our learning and healing.

Pre-registration is required for this class.
To register or for more information call 802/349-7095
or write Mary Claire at:

mcdehaven@gmail.com

with Linda McCuen

Mondays, 5:30 - 6:30 PM

Otter Creek Yoga welcomes Nia instructor Linda McCuen. Nia is a super fun workout for your body and mind that incorporates elements of dance and martial arts. Nia addresses the body’s five main sensations: flexibility, strength, mobility, agility and stability. You will sweat and smile, while moving your body to some truly amazing music. Everyone welcome: no dance experience necessary.

$10 per session (Please note: You may not use an OCY series to pay for Nia classes. Please pay instructor directly.)

For information please write: lcallnan@gmail.com.

Deep Let Go Meditation
Monday Evenings
beginning January 30, 2012

with Karen Winston

7 to 8 pm
Six Week series $75
scholarships available

Deep Let Go Meditation is a simple, direct approach to meditation that allows us to step out of the push and struggle of day-to-day life and drop into the present moment. It is great for people who don’t like to meditate because they can’t quiet their minds.

Each of us longs for peace. In this class we will investigate through simple meditation techniques what it means to stop the war within, to have no agenda, to rest in the present moment.

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