Spring 6 Week Session:
Vinyasa Yoga
at Cedarcroft Center
Ground | Strengthen | Align | Trust
Spring Session: 6 Thursdays 6-7:30 pm
April 11 - May 16
Cedarcroft Center, Hart Hall
6112 York Rd, Baltimore, MD 21212
My Spring 6 week session will be housed at Hart Hall of Cedarcroft Center near Belvedere Square.
I can’t wait to welcome you for a six week deep dive into the practice together to deepen your breath, ground, strengthen, open, and flow in community. Each week is grounded in a unique physical, energetic, and philosophical theme.
Week 1: Tether Yourself: Pelvic Girdle to Feet, Grounding, Mobility, Stability. In this class we introduce ourselves to one another and to our beautiful practice space. We clarify and set an intention for the 6 weeks ahead. We explore the delicious enlivening of boundless nerve endings through the soles of our feet to set a joyful foundation and observe the connection of ankle mobility and lumbar/sacral/pelvic movement fluency that forms the arc of all movements on the mat.
Week 2: Ignite your Core: ignite the spark down into the deepest layers of your center. You will know your Mula Bandha and Uddiyana Bandha after this class. Apply Lily’s central teaching concept of Floor to Core - setting a solid foundation by rooting firmly through your feet and drawing energy up from the earth to envliven your core. And practice tethering from your pelvic girdle or shoulder girdle (whilst upside down) down into your feet (or hands!) to stabilize and balance.
Week 3: Be Like Water: Hip Opening all ways. Today, you will learn the Gayatri Mantra and what makes it meaningful in the yoga tradition. In this class and open yourself to the nectar of flowing in all ways and releasing long held tensions around the pelvic center. You will learn the deeper meaning of Lily’s teaching mantra, “feel don’t force” and how this can help you deepen your connection to body, spirit, and practice. Expect a slow burn and a whole lot of sweetness.
Week 4: Detoxifying Twists: where can you let go to receive more? So often when things get intense on or off the mat, our natural response is to hold on tighter. What if there was another way? Can you breathe deeply when you are in a bind? Both on and off the mat? Learn to flow to let go. You will understand the anatomy of your spine and how to optimize your twists in this class. Stimulate your vagus nerve with the deep replenishing unwinding that twists flush and release from center to periphery.
Week 5: Open your heart: Back body strong, front body open! You will identify your body’s own individual area of deepest potential growth to tap into to progress efficiently, joyfully, equanimously into your backbends. (is it your hip flexors? your wrists? your thoracic spine? your shoulders? let’s check it out together and create a gameplay for you!). Shaky legs, open heart - you will practically fly out of this class.
Week 6: Flirt with your Fears: Exploring inversions. In this class we will create a solid map for you to get upside down. What is needed biomechanically, anatomically, technically? How can you optimize your approach to getting upside down? What arises when you try something that you cannot do on the first try? How can you stay in your process without judging, quitting, forcing when you are in the spaces in between?
Pro Rate is available to make the Session more affordable for those who make a living as a full time movement instructor.
Space is limited.
The Pro Rate is only available to those who make their living full time as a yoga teacher, massage therapists, or fitness coach.
To qualify for this rate you must email lilyyoga@gmail.com with your teaching schedule or website.
Schedule:
Thursday, 6-7:30 pm EST
Cedarcroft Center Hart Hall
October 5-November 9
What to Expect:
Come prepared to sweat, feel, breathe deeply, and meet yourself where you are.
Bring:
your own mat, 2 blocks, 1 strap
a bottle of water
a towel
For best results, please avoid eating for two hours before class starts.
Register:
Drop In Registration is available at an increased rate
Series Pricing is Pro-Rated
Class Cancellations:
In the emergency case that I am sick, I will find an appropriate sub.
If you are sick, please do not come to take class as viruses spread to our friends in the yoga room easily in yoga class. Instead, please enjoy the recording of the class that I will upload to your 6 practice page each week. (Class will NOT be live-streamed, but a HD recording with microphone of the same themed weekly class in 60-minute format will be shared on your recordings library). At the end of each session you will have lifetime access to a password protected online library of all the classes we shared together so you can go back and revisit your favorites.
How:
Easy as 1-2-3
The week before our first session, Lily will send an email to the group with detailed instructions about parking and a door code.
There is plenty of parking the lot out front. Doors open promptly at 5:45 pm so you have space to settle in and find your spot, use the restroom, etc. If you arrive early, please wait until 5:45 to come inside. Classes begin promptly and on time. Plan to arrive a few minutes early to set up.
3. Doors lock at 6 pm sharp. If you arrive late, don’t be shy - ring the bell and we will let you in!