Classes

Integrative Yoga Therapeutics™ (IYT), created by Bo Forbes, combines both Eastern and Western healing systems. Its central focus is the mind-body matrix, the intricate network which includes the nervous system, immune system, emotional body, and pain modulation pathways. Integrative Yoga Therapeutics aims to help clients and students understand and access this matrix as a powerful vehicle to growth and healing. Encompassing the innovative and effective tools that yoga has to offer (including active, alignment-based, mindful asana practice, therapeutic “bodywork asana,” breathwork, meditation, and Restorative Yoga), Integrative Yoga Therapeutics helps us learn about, guide, and ultimately fine-tune the interplay between mind and body, addressing the physical, mental, emotional, and energetic manifestations of illness, imbalance, and disease. One of IYT’s guiding principles is that habitual patterns (in practice and in life) reinforce alignment anomalies, patterns of movement, and ways of relating to others that lead to restriction, injury, or emotional issues. In

Restorative Yoga Therapeutics is a practice in stillness, and some say, “the art of doing nothing.” A class involves carefully sequenced and artfully propped restorative yoga postures designed to balance the nervous system and emotional body. In these postures, your entire body stretches gently while supported by yoga props such as bolsters and blankets. Personalized support in each posture helps minimize muscle contraction and quiet blood pressure, heart rate, and brain function. Gentle guided meditation and basic breathwork techniques help create a safe space for the emergence of your innate wisdom and healing capacity. Restorative Yoga Therapeutics helps to quiet the mind, balance the nervous system, deepen the relaxation response, reduce anxiety and stress, soothe the emotional body, heal depression, stimulate restful sleep, and enhance immunity. For visual examples of Restorative Yoga postures, visit our Asana Library.

Developed by Bo Forbes as a fusion of vinyasa yoga and contemplative practice, Mindful Vinyasa combines an innovative system of yoga therapeutics with playful, creative, and compassionate self-exploration. This practice awakens each practitioner’s innate capacity for healing. It builds on the understanding that what we do on the mat has relevance beyond the mat, and that creating space and intelligence in the physical body reverberates in the nervous system, mental body, emotional body, and spirit. In a Mindful Vinyasa class, you will experience a practice that begins with an embodied meditation and incorporates breathwork, attention to the transitions between poses, innovative use of props, creative sequencing, an emphasis on deep, intrinsic core body strength and awareness, and connective tissue release work. This alignment-based vinyasa system helps ignite an intelligence in the tissues of the body which permeates your entire being. This practice also addresses asymmetries and injuries, promoting freedom and