Online and Pop Up Power Vinyasa Yoga
60 / 75-Minutes
This commonly known style of yoga includes movement from one posture to the next using breath as the catalyst and connection. This class is designed to elevate heart-rate through cardio-vascular intensive dynamic shapes. This class will leave your spirit softened and your mind clear. Depending on the teacher, may include elements of Universal Yoga.
All levels of students are welcome. In studio Pop Up Classes will be designated as such and held at Vitalidad Movement Arts Center.
Online Hatha Yoga
75-Minutes
A Yoga for Life custom Hatha class is comprised of 36 uniquely sequenced postures (asanas). The class begins with Universal Yoga preparatory Pranayamas, or breathing exercises to warm-up the body and truly expand the capacity of your lungs, followed by static strengthening and stretching poses. Overall goal is to improve balance, tone muscles, improve mobility. With a consistent and regular practice you will see improved posture, larger capacity of lungs, and generally lesser aches and pain.
This class is perfect for practitioners of all levels.
Level-Up Your Practice
90-Minutes
Typically Yoga Workshops focus on progress of students in their yoga practice. At Yoga for Life we offer workshop-style classes every week without the workshop price. Each skillfully designed class focuses on either “Arm Balance and Inversion,” or “Backbends,” or “Splits.” The goal is to give you the tools and methods to move your practice to the next level. Each class includes conditioning exercises and deep stretching to prepare you for those postures that make Instagram-worthy practice!
Vinyasa Foundations
60 / 75-minutes
This class is a back-to-basics for new and experienced yogis on the path. Grasp the concepts of Asana in a way that breaks down the Sanskrit names of a yoga sequence, and begin to recognize the sensations of your body’s movement in an Asana practice.
Monday Meditation
45-Minutes
Perhaps the most important aspect of the benefits of yoga practice is to gain control over mind, thoughts, and intentions. Our meditation classes are taught in the context of certain wisdom from Buddhism and Hinduism that sets the stage for different and effective meditation techniques. Skillful teachers guide you to a state of calm mind where you and the witness of your mind unite, leading to a peaceful heart.
All levels of practitioners are welcome.
Online Deep Stretch
75 / 90-Minutes
Students regularly say that this class is like giving yourself a deep tissue massage. Focused on improving ranges of mobility, you hold each posture for a period of time allowing you to focus on stretching your muscle groups for increased mobility and flexibility. Passive postures similar to popular Yin Yoga, the range in this class is vast, and practitioners delve into deeper layers of their body by focusing on the muscles around every major joint. This class is ideal for students with an active and athletic life, and tight shoulders, back, and hips. You will walk away feeling new!
All levels of students are welcome.
Universal Yoga Cross-Mat Mandala Vinyasa
2.5-Hours
Universal Yoga is a style of yoga based on the entirety of a human being. In traditional yoga, it is said that we consist of seven shells known as the Maya Koshas. Every Universal Yoga class is a mission to harmonize each of the layers that resides within us. While most lineages of yoga practice on one linear single yoga mat Universal Yoga attempts to expand the possibilities of asanas by layering two mats in the shape of a cross. This combination allows yogis to combine a variety of poses in order to influence more parts of the body to impact our physical and psychic energies.
Master Class: 6 months of yoga practice recommended.
Weeknight Warrior
75-minutes
Designed for the athlete, this class combines what you love about Hot Power Vinyasa class with the Deep Stretch classes. Think workout, then chill out with some slower stretching. This fusion of sweat and serenity will strengthen your body, increase your range of motion and flexibility, and leave your spirit softened.
Appropriate for students of all levels as modifications will be offered by the teacher.
Advanced Yoga
90-minutes
Taught by Master Teacher Raj Patra, a weekly advanced class in various styles of yoga, upholding Universal Yoga principles. Held weekly for yoga instructors and practitioners moving toward advanced practices.
Pre-requisites: Must be able to hold Wheel pose (Urdva Dhanurasana), Crow pose (Kakasana), and headstand for at least 30 seconds each pose - Yoga Magic Milestones 4, 5, and 6.
Studio approval required for student attendance, please inquire at info@yogaforlifepdx.com.
Once-in-a-while: Universal Yoga- Single Mat
75-Minutes
Universal Yoga is well-known for its Mandala Classes: a set of two yoga mats placed in a cross that serves as a multi-dimensional space for physical and energetic practices. This class, however, is a shorter version on a single yoga mat. You will still experience the geometry of sequences through a complex of artful movements and postures in the front, middle and back side of your mat. The result is elegant connection from your body through your energy, to your emotional balance.
Recommended for students with 6 months experience.
Once-in-a-while:
Dance of Shiva
20-Minutes
Shiva Nata is an ancient practice that was lost in the history of yoga practice, revitalized and practiced only in the lineage of Universal Yoga. Designed to stimulate the mind, it improves thinking, reflex, memory, and reaction speed.
A consistent practice will move you from one level to the next - think of it as a computer-game, but with your body and limbs.
Dharma Teachings
3-Hours, Series of 7
You will have the opportunity to learn about a variety of topics including: Tantric Philosophy, the Chakra system, The Effect of Music on Emotion, The Playbook of Happiness, and more from Yoga for Life Co-founder Raj Patra. Offered just once a year, these talks are a highlight of the YFL Yoga Teacher Training Program and are open to the public. Next offering TBA.