Saturdays, July 17-August 21, 2010

• Deepen Your Asanas •

Jae Bevin Murphy presents a 6 workshop series focusing on groups of poses from the 26 pose sequence, designed to help you take your practice to a deeper level.

The cost is $140 for the entire series. Individual sessions $30. Each session is limited to 15 students so sign up today at the front desk.

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• What is Yoga? •

"A yogi's brain extends from the bottom of the foot to the top of his head."
- B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is an ancient system of health and fitness which originated in India. Today yoga is accepted as a comprehensive exercise to promote control of the body and mind. Yoga has become accepted as one of the best ways to achieve health, fitness and balance.

Literally yoga means to unite, and it is through yoga that we work towards uniting the harmonious integration of the body, mind and spirit. In this way the result is optimal health and longevity.

Yoga is not a belief or a religion but a way for us to reach our greater potential. Yoga is a refined system that works on developing and balancing strength and flexibility, stamina, focus and endurance. Through a series of physical poses and a focus on the breath and an awareness of the body yoga helps us to deepen our sense of well being

Why Hot Yoga?

• 7 Reasons for the Heat •

• Enhances vasodilation* so that more blood is delivered to the muscles


• Allows oxygen in the blood to detatch from the hemoglobin more easilty.**


• Speeds up the breakdown of glucose and fatty acids.


• Makes muscles more elastic, less susceptible to injury.


• Improves co-ordination.


• Reduces heart irregularities associated with sudden exercise.


• Burns fat more easily.***

*The capillaries that weave around the muscles respond to heat by dilating. This brings more oxygen to the muscles and helps in the removal of waste products such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid.

**When blood passes through warm muscles oxygen releases more easily from the hemoglobin. Blood passing through cold muscles releases much less oxygen.

***Warmed muscles burn fat more easily than cold ones. Fat is released during stress. The stress of intense exercise causes a deluge of fatty acids into the blood streams. If you exercise with cold muscles they can't use the fatty acids, and they end up in places where they aren't wanted, such as the lining of your arteries.

Note: Muscles aren't the only beneficiaries of heat. Higher temperatures improve the function of the nervous system, meaning that messages are carried more rapidly to and from the brain or spinal cord. Warm muscles are more elastic and are less susceptible to injury. Warmer temperatures produce a fluid like stretch that allows greater range of motion. Cold muscles don't absorb shock or impact as well and aren't stretched as well so they get injured more readily.

Excerpt from "Smart Exercise" by Covert Bailey

• Student Video Project •

Put together by Cristina Catanzaro and starring Yoga108's Bruno Teyssandier and Kim Lee, this film chronicles the journey from the devestation of Hurricane Katrina back to hope through the peace that yoga brings.

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• Give the gift of Yoga •

Now available for purchase in the studio - gift certificates! Share yoga with someone you love: give them a class card or a membership. Gift certificates are available in any amount and can be used towards class cards or memberships. »»»