Chaula™ Yoga is the practice of simple movement, postures, and breathing techniques that anyone can do. The practice strengthens the body, builds endurance, increases flexibility, promotes good overall health, fosters deep relaxation, and increases personal poise and discipline.
All levels welcome. Class is structured to provide personal attention and instruction for beginning students, those with special needs, and more advanced students.
Classes run 1 hour and 45 minutes. Weekend programs also available.
This class is geared especially to those who work in an office, work at a CRT, musicians, drafts people, etc.. Those who do repetitive, seated, close work store their tension in the neck and shoulders, quite often suffer chronic eye strain and tension headaches, they tend to have shortened hamstrings and weak abdominal muscles which creates chronic lower back problems.
Computer victims receive all the benefits of a Chaula™ Yoga class with an emphasis on eye exercise, hand and arm work, upper back and abdominal strengthening, chest and hip opening, and lengthening of the hamstring muscles.
Participants learn breathing, relaxation, and techniques to be used throughout the work day. Benefits of this practice to the individual are reduced accumulation of tension in problem areas, less repetitive motion injuries, and greater relaxation at work. Benefits of this practice to the employer are a more positive and harmonious work environment, greater productivity, and lower absenteeism.
A Yoga for the physically fit practitioner or Yoga teacher that brings increased awareness of structural alignment, breathing, and concentration to your current practice. Enhance your practice with a series of warm ups, postures, and exercises to build strength, endurance, flexibility, and agility while achieving deeper levels of relaxation and greater concentration.
Utilizing vinyasa (posture flows), longer holdings, inversions, isometrics, partner assists, multiple repeats, and props increases awareness of particular muscle groups and provides greater resistance which encourages muscle growth.
Chaula Hard Body™ Yoga is a fitness program that incorporates a higher threshold of cardiovascular and strength training.
Classes run 2 hours. Weekend programs also available.
Experience the benefits of Yoga practice without prolonged standing or getting down on the floor. This class can benefit those with limited flexibility, strength, or mobility in the hips and legs or for those who have difficulty balancing in standing postures. This class is ideal for seniors or those with painful, stiff joints. It's for those who have limited space in which to practice Yoga or for busy, desk-bound people who want to practice Yoga during their coffee-breaks at the office. Also highly recommended for those working in special skills nursing or other clinical situations where Yoga could enhance the quality of life for their patients.
A complete Yoga flow practiced while seated in a common folding chair. Participants will experience increased flexibility, coordination, balance, concentration, and agility. All muscles of the body will be toned and stretched. The practice will conclude with pranayama (breathing exercises), progressive relaxation, and meditation.
Class runs 1 hour. Weekend programs also available.
The Yogic lifestyle provides an excellent opportunity to balance the systems of the body in a holistic way. By improving overall functioning of the body we increase it’s ability to overcome or recover from stress. By identifying the causes of stress we can take action and eliminate sources of unnecessary stress and aggravation.
This workshop is geared towards giving hands on skills that participants can easily take home and use without feeling overwhelmed. Participants learn breathing, visualization, and meditation techniques useful in overcoming such stresses as chronic pain, body tension, and anxiety due to the uncertainties of modern living.
We will examine eating and sleeping habits, exercise, and other factors that influence stress levels and our ability to recover from stress. Participants learn how to improve digestion and elimination and enhance adrenal function, how to cope with insomnia, increase awareness of personal health issues, and improve overall health, outlook, and wellness.
Each session includes portions of lecture, discussion, non-strenuous movement, and ends with a progressive, guided relaxation that will teach participants how to induce the “relaxation response” * on their own, anytime.
*See Dr. Herbert Benson’s book THE RELAXATION RESPONSE”.
This workshop can run from 90 minutes to 10 hours and can be delivered in segments or as a weekend program.
This program is appropriate for couples or singles. All touch is guided by the instructor in a safe and respectful atmosphere.
It is a relaxing, nurturing, ice breaking activity perfect for conferences, seminars, or retreats.
This workshop runs 1-2 hours.
A gentle workshop for those interested in living fit and Yogic lifestyle. An invitation to move beyond the mechanics of physical fitness by joining the mind and the body in a cooperative, team effort to bring the participant into his or her own fitness “zone” thereby achieving greater relaxation and confidence, enhancing the body’s efficiency, and promoting an all-around feeling of well being in both athletes and exercise neophytes alike.
Participants will learn to employ techniques of Yoga, including breathing, body awareness, and cultivation of witness consciousness, to create a mind / body fitness routine out of their current exercise activities or begin an exercise regimen, using the tools they will learn in this workshop.
The workshop includes instruction on nostril-breathing techniques and their application in the various stages of exercise, i.e. warm up, resting phase, listening phase, warm down phase, and deep relaxation as outlined in the work of John Douillard author of BODY MIND SPORT.
This is an experiential workshop. Participants will be moving, breathing, and experiencing the effects of the techniques in the classroom and will feel some benefits immediately following the class. Naturally, it will take some time, at least a few weeks, at home to incorporate these techniques into their current fitness program, or to begin a program if they are not currently exercising.
No previous Yoga or fitness experience is necessary and the workshop is geared for all fitness levels.
This workshop runs from 90 minutes to an entire weekend.
For those who are disabled due to spinal chord injury or with other physical challenges. Private sessions with techniques geared to specific needs. Assisted postures, restorative yoga, props, sand bags, weight training, visualization, meditation, relaxation, and breathing techniques.
Work to regain control of muscles, where possible, and counteract the effects of living life in a wheelchair, such as carpal tunnel, shortened or over stretched muscles and connective tissue, chronic pain, and reduction of musclular tension that causes spasms and tremors.
Yoga is for everyone and can be adapted those with chronic illness, pain management issues, difficulty breathing, injury, or paralysis. It is a holistic system of healing that honors our bodies as a sacred temples and recognizes that everyone's body has different needs.
Individual Instruction $60 per hour.
Private lessons allow students to learn Yoga the way it was originally taught, one teacher and one student. Receive the personal attention needed to deepen your practice. Hands on work - allignment, breathing, assists, props, straps, and holds to get the practitioner deeper into the postures than one can normally get, unassisted.
Chaula Hopefisher is a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher with further study of Iyengar, Shivananda, and Integral Yogas. A poet, artist, musician, and all-faiths minister, Chaula brings creativity, compassion, and humor to her Yoga classes and workshops. She empowers her students by giving them the tools to create a Yoga practice tailored to their particular needs. For full Bio click here.
Chaula™ Yoga & Music
PO Box 2008
Pittsfield, MA 01202-2008
413-637-3641
800-730-3191
http://www.chaula.com
Email: chaula@chaula.com
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