Classes

All classes are practiced as a meditation in motion. Classes include warm ups, breathing techniques, formal yoga postures, relaxation and stories. Posture, concentration and inner stillness are nurtured in every class. Mats are provided.

In Kripalu Yoga the inner posture, what your mind is doing while you are practicing, is just as important as your alignment of the physical posture.

The classes seek "to return [the student to his or her] own inner strength, that inexhaustible Source of knowledge, peace and inspiration" (Yogi Amrit Desai).

The Kripalu Yoga technique is based on helping you to find your own level of endurance and flexibility while letting go of any preconceived ideas of what you can do. The goal is to listen to the instructions and fellow them as best as you can, then relax and integrate awareness into your posture, and let experience teach you.

Every class nurtures your body, mind and soul.

Beginners and Intermediate
Mornings: Mondays and Tuesdays 9:30 - 11:00; Saturdays 7:00 - 8:30 and 10:45 - 12:15.
Evenings: Tuesdays and Fridays 4:30 - 6:00 and 6:00 - 7:30, plus a late class Tuesdays 7:30 - 9:00 pm.

NEW: Yoga for Beginners
10 week course
Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.

10 week session $ 120
September 13 to November 15, 2011

The course will give you the opportunity to practise alignment in yoga postures, conscious breathing and relaxation. You will gain insight into the miraculous way in which your body maintains optimal homoeostasis and rebuilds itself. You will also learn how yoga contributes to a greater feeling of aliveness in your body,
and brings calmness, concentration and joy to the mind.

It's worth a try.

Meditation
Seated meditation consists of patience, trust and letting go of all you understand as good and bad, desirable and undesirable. Concentration and pranayama allow you to enter meditation, but in meditation you don't wish for results. As Edgar Cayce put it, prayer is talking to God, and meditation is inner listening.

Teresa of Avila, speaking on the need for meditation, said:

Fridays 7:30 - 8:30 pm.

 

About Brigitte:
Brigitte Kortright is a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher, and has been the director of the Pranayam Yoga Centre for 20 years. She has a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.A. from Queens University. Brigitte has worked as a research assistant in human and veterinary medicine in Germany, South Africa, and as a technician in the School of Hygiene at U of T. She is the author of the Fable of the Times Tables, a book written to spark children's interest in the multiplication tables. She is also the curator of the Stonechurch Museum of Art and the art representative for Dennis Noble, the artist responsible for the Centre's iconic bird paintings.