Our dear friend Serena from the Yoga For Life community is subbing today’s class while Karli is back home with family. Serena received her 300-hr Yoga Teacher Training under Raj Patra, owner and founder of Yoga For Life, and a fellow teacher of Karli’s who has influenced much of her teaching style. You’re in good hands.

Thank you Serena!
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Formatted to fit a one-breath-one-movement flow, this is an intermediate level practice intentionally sequenced using the principles of Universal Yoga. Several options will be offered along the way to accommodate the various levels of practitioners. An existing yoga practice will help each student as they enter this class, but specific UY experience is not required.
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Founded by Guruji Andrey Lappa, UY provides a multi-faceted system of methods that represent the essential rules and laws of traditional yoga. Each class is meant to challenge each student at their individual levels, with options to intensify or modify.

Sequenced in a mandala fashion, each class aims to bring balance across all shells target all major joint rotations, activating more marma points (energetic points), and lighting up the entire system.

This involves facing every direction of the mat, honoring North, East, South and West (literally and energetically), as well as belly up, belly down, and right/left side down vinyasas. The primary intention is to "trap the mind" in order to get out of the thinking chatter mind, and connect students with a much deeper part of themselves (true self).