Blossom & Thrive Yoga
Yoga is for EVERY body!
“Anyone can breathe, therefore anyone can practice yoga.”
- T.K.V. Desikachar
Welcome to Yoga at Blossom & Thrive!
All sessions are completely virtual using the Zoom platform. We offer
a variety of styles to meet your needs whether it’s to wind down
at the end of the day, build strength and endurance or increase
flexibility and mobility there’s an option for you. You’ll get
3 private yoga sessions as part of your coaching package.
Just choose the style that fits your needs best, and join
in from the comfort of your own home. See you
on the mat!
- Namaste
Yoga Styles
Breathe & Flow Vinyasa
Get your heart rate pumping with this invigorating vinyasa flow class on Saturday mornings that’s completely virtual! We’ll work through balance, strength, and quieting the mind so you can breathe and flow through your day! All levels welcome!
Benefits of Vinyasa:
- endurance + strength training
- stability + balance
- cardio workout
- lowers stress + anxiety
- weight loss
Rest & Relax Restorative
Treat yourself to this deeply relaxing and completely virtual practice from the comfort of your home, focused on rejuvenating your spirit. Props will be used to support the body through each posture and to reach optimal relaxation. All levels welcome!
Props:
1. Yoga Blocks (stack of books, coffee table, chair back, wall)
2. Bolsters (throw pillows, couch cushions, bed pillows)
3. Blankets (2-3) and/or towels
Benefits:
- deep relaxation
- regenerating for the body
- calming to the mind
- encourages mindfulness
- releases tension
And much more . . .
Yin Yoga
Yin yoga is an inward focused style of yoga that lengthens and strengthens the connective tissues in your joints for more flexibility, mobility, and support. In short, it helps your connective tissue stay youthful and is essential in injury prevention. Opt for virtual yin yoga when you’re looking to quiet the mind while creating that space in your joints so you can move more freely! All levels welcome!
Benefits of Yin Yoga:
- increased flexibility + mobility
- stability + balance
- lowers stress + anxiety
- essential for injury prevention
Yoga For Equestrians
COMING SOON…..
If you’re looking to take your riding to the next level, this class was designed with you in mind. Whether your discipline is dressage, hunter/jumper, or you just love riding, you’ll build strength, increase flexibility and mobility, and improve your seat for a more balanced ride for you and your horse. Location TBA
Benefits:
- endurance + strength training
- increase flexibility + mobility
- improve balance
- body + mind awareness + coordination
- quiet the mind’s internal chatter
- improved rider position + improved performance for horse
Kidding Around Yoga
Kidding Around Yoga (KAY) is a yoga program created by Haris Lender and is based on the 5,000 year old science of yoga. Children are taught how to stretch, breathe, meditate and deeply relax. Whether you’re a yogi who recognizes the beauty in this program or brand new to the science of yoga, your child will love that they get to sing and dance to more than 35 original KAY songs that keep them moving. Jogging, Dancing, Limbo-ing, Rocking and rolling, Laughing, Marching, you name it we have a song for it! And of course all of our classes end with a magical trip to The Peaceful Garden (Kid version of Yoga Nidra). We wouldn’t think of missing this part of class but then again our students keep us on our yogi toes and remind us when they walk in the door. The benefits of a KAY class are immeasurable.
Children, Pre-Teens and Teens today are under a lot of pressure between school, extra curricular activities, peers, parents, and society. While they are resilient, all of this pressure can create a daily dose of high levels of stress and anxiety making it difficult for them to focus on being kids because they are stripped of their inner peace and joy.
Kidding Around Yoga, helps kids manage their stress without them even realizing it. But it’s also so much more!!! Kidding Around Yoga benefit kids in many, many other ways too!
Benefits:
- improve posture + strength
- improve focus, clarity of mind, calmness + poise
- increased self-esteem + accomplishment
- learn how to increase energy level + how to relax the body
- helps in development of self-regulation + mind, body awareness
- expend energy and strengthen cardiovascular system
- Reduce stress through play oriented yoga. Kids get to let loose, be
silly and have fun!
- Music + dancing have therapeutic properties + teach rhythm,
tempo + coordination
- Peaceful Garden for deep relaxation assimilating all they’ve learned
in class. The kids create a place in their mind where they feel
peaceful, happy and safe.
- The principles of yoga teach kids kindness, sharing, compassion,
mindfulness, awareness, and much more.
These are tools that will serve our children as they reach adulthood and throughout the rest of their lives!
If every 8 year old
in the world
is taught meditation,
we will eliminate violence
from the world
in one generation.
-Dalai Lama
Coming Soon - EduKAY Workshop
At Blossom + Thrive, we believe that yoga is for EVERY BODY!! But it doesn’t just have to be an extra curricular activity. Did you know that the principles of yoga can be infused into the classroom as part of the units you teach in school? Many districts across the country are beginning to realize that yoga has some profound benefits so why not bring yoga to your school so you can reach all of your students with varied learning styles.
Teachers will have an easier time fitting the required health and physical fitness mandates into the school day and EduKAY will help educators make academic content standards more engaging by using our methods and resources as a conduit for learning. This system provides enough flexibility (haha!) to create yoga mini-lessons and yoga breaks that can serve as part of class meetings for character education topics tied to academic lessons. We provide focus and concentration exercises which serve as a foundation for mindfulness and as a place where all other academics are given the opportunity to thrive.
The EduKAY School Workshop is a six hour professional development opportunity delivered to you by an expert trainer. It provides educators with the skills necessary to introduce yoga, meditation and mindfulness into today’s demanding academic environment by guiding them through methods to integrate yogic concepts throughout the school day as they pertain to behavior, stress management, and health awareness, all while increasing student engagement in a positive environment. Also included is unlimited access to all of the online resources shared during the workshop.
Educators complete EduKAY with a toolbox filled with:
songs, stories, activities, + games that can be used alone or within a mini-lesson or class meeting.
ways to select learning standards from reading, math, or other content areas that are yoga-adaptable.
meditation + mindfulness techniques.
breathing techniques to use for themselves + with students.
ways to consistently incorporate yoga techniques into mini-lessons for students.
yoga breaks at transitional times.
MUSIC INCLUDED!* Some of our very best Kidding Around Yoga music geared for elementary-aged children.
As an added bonus, your teachers will gain LIFETIME access to all of the online resources shared during the workshop.
