Tuesdays & Thursdays
4:30 – 5:45 PM

Senior Citizen's Discount - 20% off all packages (I.D. required)

A Highly Specialized Class For Yoga Practitioners
Ages 55+

Improve and maintain your quality of life though the practice of classical hatha yoga. This class is geared toward the older adult with focused and personalized attention including hands-on guidance and adjustments for proper alignment.   Each specialized class will begin with gentle movements to warm your body and guided breath-work to relax and calm your central nervous system.  Each class will include an ashtanga-based asana practice designed to keep the spine strong and limber, improve circulation and ease your heart and mind through meditation and deep relaxation.

A yoga practice will enhance the health and well-being of every system of the body, including the cardiovascular system.  Poor posture and the degeneration of the spine are the source of many physical problems, contributing to illness and fatigue by restricting our breathing and circulation to vital organs, and interfering with digestion and elimination. Yoga prevents and can even reverse the most visible symptom of aging, the shortening and rounding of the spine.  In our culture, we spend long hours sitting, doing desk work, driving and other activities that tend to pull the upper body forward. As a result, a rounded back, forward head and collapsed chest. When our spine begins to stiffen and degenerate, we lose height and experience back and neck pain, balance problems occur and many other health concerns.

Yoga will help you gain and maintain strength, stamina, flexibility, balance and peace of mind.

Yoga utilizes a combination of:

• breathing (expanding the lung's capacity to handle an increased amount of oxygen intake) to rejuvenate, repair and create new cells.
• meditation (calming the mind, releasing stress and anxiety)
• physical posturing (asanas), designed to strengthen the musculo-skeletal structure, to increase bone density by doing weight-bearing exercises (to prevent osteoporosis), lubricate joints (reducing arthritis)
• alignment (or re-alignment) balances of the body's skeletal structure
• stimulation of the endocrine system which promotes the increase of beneficial hormonal activities.

Susan Meyer A self-proclaimed “yoga mutt,” Susan draws from a variety of yoga traditions, blending Ashtanga, Jivamukti, Sivananda and Vinyasa to create her own signature teaching style.  She teaches all aspects of yoga, asana, pranayama, relaxation and meditation and encourages all of her students to do something good for themselves everyday.  Susan’s classes are invigorating and challenging.  They are never too serious, and they always support individual differences. Susan is a devoted and enthusiastic student of Hatha Yoga.  After her initial certification in Sivananda yoga, she continues to study and is especially grateful to her first teachers, Neela Robinson, Dharma Mittra and Erich Schiffmann.  In 1998 Susan adopted Ashtanga yoga as her personal practice, which led to her studies with Richard Freeman, Lino Miele, Dena Kingsberg and John Scott.  She also takes classes from Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in New York City and attends several workshops every year, most notably with David Life, Sharon Gannon and Cyndi Lee.

Time alone on the mat is her best teacher.  Susan and her husband, Jim, recently moved to Minneapolis after living in Washington, DC for 20 years and teaching yoga for 15 years.

“Health is wealth.  Peace of mind is happiness.  Yoga shows the way.”