Yoga Classes Decatur
If you have a body, you can do yoga. You can receive the benefits of yoga in just ONE class. In each class you attend, you will receive hands on adjustments and assists to guide you into proper and safe alignment or to encourage more depth in each posture.
Ever wonder if you are doing each yoga posture correctly while doing yoga at home? Come, ask questions & expand your yoga practice!
Benefits of Yoga
Through participation in yoga, over time you will see:
- Increased flexibility & balance
- Increased muscular endurance & tone
- Increased energy & vitality
- Improved athletic performance & protection from injury
- Improved respiration, immunity & balanced metabolism
- Improved sleep, calms restless mind
- Protects your spine
- Betters your bone health
- Increases your blood flow
- Drains your lymphs and boosts immunity
- Ups your heart rate
- Drops your blood pressure
Try for yourself and see how yoga can assist in meeting your lifestyle goals!
Class Descriptions
Village Flow
Build heat and energy in your body through connecting your breath with a variety of yoga postures. Your instructor will guide you with fun, upbeat music through a class that will move your body through all planes of motion, leaving you feeling refreshed and energized. Motion is lotion and we want your body to maintain its full range of motion through all its joints so you can keep doing what you love to do.
Deep Stretch
This active stretching class will give you the space to increase flexibility through holding postures for 1-2 minutes. After the body is warmed up, we will work through the major muscle groups of the body to relax and open common tight areas (upper back, hips, hamstrings). Through chill music and direction from your instructor will guide you to use your breath to relax your mind and body. Leave class feeling revitalized and ready to take on the rest of your week.
Village Basics
This class is foundational to your yoga practice. You will learn the basics of yoga alignment, verbal cues that enhance your understanding of poses, and modifications to create a sustainable practice for your specific needs. Participants will build strength and body awareness that will decrease risk of injury in future flow or vinyasa style classes. This is a slower paced class that all levels are encouraged to join. You can expect to move through a mindfully paced class and look forward to long stretches and restorative poses at the end of class. Come early or stay after to talk with your instructor about specific poses you would like to learn more about!
Pre-Natal Yoga
As you know, yoga is for everyone! Even for expecting moms out there. Whether you have done yoga before or maybe once or twice, yoga throughout the regnancy can alter your entire pregnancy and delivery experience.Prenatal Yoga classes are a growing trend and a much needed addition in the yoga world. This style of yoga offers much for the expecting mother. During physical and hormonal shifts, instructors design classes specifically with these changes in mind.Prenatal yoga classes focus on breathing, core strength, restorative postures, presence 1 and awareness. These areas can assist the pregnant woman as she enters a new stage in her own life. Here’s how these areas help
Breathing
This is foundational in all styles of yoga and especially helpful in prenatal classes. Practicing particular ways to breathe (often called Pranayama) can create a soothing and calming effect throughout the entire body and mind. Child birth is certainly a stressful act, but learning and using breathing techniques before and during delivery will help keep the expecting mom at ease. (It can also help the expecting dad, too!)
Core Strength
With specific poses and movements, the expecting momma can continue to develop core strength throughout her pregnancy. When the muscles around the pelvic floor remain strong, it makes for a smooth delivery whether it’s through natural child birth or even through Cesarean.
Restorative Postures
Carrying and developing a child for 9 months is certainly taxing on the body; one can feel worn out and tired often. Restorative yoga poses using comfortable and supportive props like blankets and bolsters allow the whole body to release tension in those strained areas of the body like the back, legs, and shoulders.
Benefits
Of course, a yoga class helps the practitioner experience greater presence and awareness. Staying in the present moment can help any person with anxiety and stress; we are constantly worrying about the past and the future. This couldn’t be truer for the mother-to-be. She may be worried about the delivery and her responsibilities as a mother. Going to a prenatal yoga class will help her cast away those worries so she can remain present and build confidence that in caring for her body now, she will be better off to care for her baby post-delivery. Through yoga you can learn to let go of unnecessary mental stress just by coming back in the moment and connecting with your breath.
Post-Natal Yoga
In additional to the benefits of Prenatal Yoga, continuing a yoga practice after delivery can be just as helpful for the new mom. The calm breathing and restorative poses in postnatal yoga can help ease her emotions and even assist with the healing process after child birth. Giving birth can be trying on the psyche, so going to yoga classes can bring the mother back to her emotional and mental balance.
After having a baby, the new mom can sometimes feel disconnected from her own body. Attending what some may call “The Fourth Trimester Yoga Class” or “Postpartum Yoga” can help her re-establish a relationship with her whole physical self.
Some postnatal classes will even allow you to bring your newborn. The instructor may teach you poses that you can actually do WITH your infant.
So, even while you’re on that journey toward motherhood, there are yoga classes designed to guide you and support you throughout the entire process. Even here in the Decatur area, you can find Pre & Postnatal Yoga classes just for you here at Village Vitality!
Yoga For the 2000 Human
Today’s world can get very stressful with the high demands of work, excess computer usage, constant contact with your phone, and long periods of travelling via car or plane. There are many resources that people can use to battle the negative effects of this stress and thankfully, many people are looking to find deep stretch yoga and regular yoga classes for that relief. Since 2017, our Decatur yoga studio has been offering specialized deep stretch yoga classes to create a space for our community to target the muscles and tissues that people find they carry stress or tightness on a daily basis. Whether it’s the lower back, shoulders, or weakened posture, deep stretch yoga is a great resource to open up the body and feel your best.
Our deep stretch yoga class is 60-minutes and only allows a maximum of 10 people in the class so you can experience the full benefits of this semi-private Decatur yoga experience. Some of the increased benefits of deep stretch yoga are better posture, increased breathing, improved flexibility, and a stronger core. Our favorite part about being in Decatur is how receptive the community is to these deep stretch yoga classes, which is offered daily at Village Vitality. All of our teachers at our Decatur studio are highly trained in the anatomy of the body and work with health care providers to constantly improve and educate ourselves on ways to enhance our poses in the deep stretch class specifically.