| Bikram Method Hatha Yoga and Yoga w/ Carla |
This amazing 26 pose sequence, made famous by Bikram Choudhury and his teacher, Bishnu Ghosh, systematically stretches, strengthens, lubricates and oxygenates 100% of the body, restoring all systems toward healthy, balanced order. It is intended for any level of student as each pose has its beginning and advanced stage. All continued efforts are rewarded with increased awareness, control and relaxation of the body and the state of mind. The room is HOT to help the stiff places get moving and to promote a gradual detoxification of the tissues through sweating. Layering of clothing is encouraged in the wintry months so the body doesn't cool down until the end of practice. Be sure to bring your largest towel, a washcloth, and a waterbottle to every class. (Please bring 2 towels if you tend to sweat a lot.)
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Carla
Carla Raushenbush, creator and director of A Perfect Knot, has been a Massage Therapist since 1990 and graduated from Bikram's second formal teacher training (500 hrs.) in 1995. She has continued her studies with various teachers and took Scott Anderson's Alignment Yoga 200 hr. Teacher Training in 2005. Since opening her own studio in 1996, she has taught 7-11 classes per week and loves it now more than ever. Carla is gentle and sweet in her approach to the practice of Bikram Yoga. Using the physically thorough sequence of poses to increase the health and relaxation of the body, the focus of Carla's class is to find the calm, centered, free place within ourselves. Understanding habitual reactions/patterns of the mind, recognizing and centering in your Self that lives beyond ego, culture, and circumstance is crucial to truly relaxing and enjoying your life. The ability to be calm and centered amidst challenges allows clarity, kindness, and fun to flow forth. She also offers useful anatomical and holistic health information. You can expect friendly, personal encouragement in a class that respects silliness, seriousness, and independent thought!
*Carla understands something about dealing with sickness as she has had Type 1 diabetes for 25 yrs. and wears an insulin pump. She also has personal experience with depression and anti-depressant drugs.
Carla can also adapt the poses appropriately for pregnant women and has had numerous women use this class pre- and postnatally.
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| Hatha Yoga |
| Designed for students interested in exploring the fundamentals of yoga. Hatha Yoga classes combine asana, gentle pranayam, kriyas, and meditation to provide students with a foundation for practice. Community classes combine strength building with flexbility, movement with stillness, and sound with silence to break through old patterns of moving and holding, making way for more graceful movement in the body and spirit. Students are encouraged to be aware and engaged in their bodies, working with their individual potential to overcome limitations. Kristin provides gentle guidance to move students toward a deeper understanding of Hatha Yoga, and the skills to develop a practice of their own. Kristin's community classes are a comfortable place for beginners, and are suitable for students at all levels. |
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Kristin
Kristin has been practicing yoga and meditation for the past seven years. She has studied asana methods including Iyengar, Bikram, Ashtanga, and general Hatha. She completed a 200-hour teacher certification with Scott Anderson whose training course, Alignment Yoga, is approved by the National Yoga Alliance. Kristin provides gentle and compassionate guidance.
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| Vinyasa Yoga |
| Vinyasa Yoga is a comprehensive and fully integrated practice that includes the full spectrum of yogic disciplines and delights, fostering a potent healing dynamic and a free flowing of rejuvenative creative power. Vinyasa is where the traditional and methodical marry the artistic and evolutionary. The consistent practice of yoga gradually burns through the chords that keep us fettered to our past habituations and illusions, making space for the light of self-awareness, soul investigation, and realization. Yoga can increase the efficiency and harmony in the activities of the body's systems, while facilitating your higher qualities of intuitive discernment and development. You will feed all the layers of your being by exploring asana, pranayama, bandha, mantra, mudra, meditation and embodiment practice that enable you to identify and awaken a perennial wisdom capable of mobilizing your inner enlightened being. Lisa embraces the practice and teaching of yoga as a dance of remembrance that allows us to lose our taste for dualistic thinking and to soften into the enchanted domain of unity consciousness. She is sensitive to the current of the collective and the needs of the individual. Classes are held in a warm environment so you will find yourself drenched in the nectar of well being. Come join a community of authenticity seekers in a space that supports introspection, self-expression and unconditional acceptance. With a spirit of consistency, you will awaken to an enlivened relationship with your whole multidimensional self and experience how to meet change in life with agility, an attitude of stillness, and an open illumined heart.
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Lisais a dedicated educator in the living spiritual arts and brings more than a decade of experience to her classroom. As a yogini, dancer, musician, and visual artist she is committed to living the path and passing the torch of creative life force to all whom she works with. She is known for integrating wisdom teachings into her eclectic classes, inspiring seekers to fall in love with their own authenticity and to inherit the role of their true destiny. Lisa's visionary nature and honesty guide her teachings, and it is with great heart that she shares the transmissions she has absorbed from her teachers, studies, travels, and experience and a life student. Lisa continues her studies with the world's leading teachers and offers oceans of gratitude to her teachers Shiva Rea, Rod Stryker, Jai Uttal, Nubia Teixeira, Baron Baptiste, Ana Forrest, Noema Devaki (her daughter), and all of her students.
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| Ashtanga Inspired Yoga |
| This friendly and lighthearted class, based on the Ashtanga primary series, will leave you feeling rejuvenated and relaxed. In exploring the flowing series of postures, as taught by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, we coordinate breath to movement to discover the joy and playfulness of the practice. The class is designed to bring new insight to fundamental poses and with a focus on deep breathing to encourage a balanced, grounded practice. All are welcome; no previous experience with Ashtanga yoga is necessary. |
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Jessica
Jessica is an active member of the Madison community and a dedicated yogini. She earned her 200 hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Certification with Scott Anderson and enjoys teaching yoga, as well as biking, playing ultimate frisbee, traveling, and cooking
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| Pre-Natal and Postnatal Yoga with Infant |
: This gentle yoga class is for mom and baby to have time to relax, gently rebuild strength and stamina while spending time with a community of other new mothers. Classes focus on regaining abdominal tone and body strength. Attention is also given to areas stressed in being a new parent, namely, the shoulders and back. Information is given on breast/bottle feeding, newborn/infant care, infant/child development and postpartum recovery. Mothers are welcome immediately postpartum until child is toddling. Babies are present in class with moms in any way they see fit: nursing, playing, crying, etc. Pre-registration is recommended.
Drop-in rate is $12/class, eight week session is $88. is a gentle class designed specifically to benefit the changing body of a pregnant woman. Yoga strengthens the uterus and pelvic muscles, improves circulation, aids digestion, exercises the spine, and increases overall comfort. It can also alleviate many of the common discomforts of pregnancy such as nausea, constipation, varicose veins, swelling and back pain including sciatica. Yoga is an ideal way to prepare for birth and labor. This class is a time to encourage the mind to relax and to connect with the innate wisdom of the birthing process that all women possess It is a community of pregnant women with which to share ideas, concerns, everything to do with being pregnant and becoming a parent. Prenatal classes are eight week sessions for $96. |
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Christine
Christine has been taught and certified to teach prenatal and postnatal yoga from Colette Crawford at the Seattle Holistic Center. Ms. Crawford spearheaded the prenatal yoga movement and is the acknowledged leader in the world of prenatal and postnatal yoga. Christine is the only Seattle Holistic Center certified instructor in Wisconsin. There are about 75 instructors world-wide who are trained and certified by Colette Crawford. Christine teaches in Ms. Crawford‚s style, which means reconnecting with the innate wisdom inside that knows intuitively about the very natural process of pregnancy, birth and beyond. Christine is a mother of three young boys and draws her teaching skills from the study of yoga and parenting.
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| Teen Yoga- ages 12-16 yrs. |
Yoga is a fabulous way to tone our bodies and relax our minds! This class offers an introduction to yoga techniques that are simple and effective. Yoga is listening to the breath as you move the body. This affects our metabolism to function optimally and keep us calm and happy. Class promotes positive self image, healthy choices, and relaxation techniques. Bring a friend and make a few new ones as we explore the benefits of yoga with teachers Julie Traxler and
Katie Muschlewski.
4 weeks, July 7-28. Ages 12-16. $40/session.
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Katie: 608-669-2855
Julie: 608-215-0337 |
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JulieJulie Traxler has been practicing hatha yoga since 2002, and recently finished her 310 hour Certified YogaKids Teacher certification program. She is a first grade teacher in Madison, where she integrates yoga into the everyday classroom experience. She enjoys cooking, music, animals, and warm, sunny weather.
KatieKatie Muschlewski, Certified Kundalini Instructor Guru Kirti Kaur, founded Lotus Roots Kundalini Yoga in 2005. In 2007, she launched Yoga Sprout! Child and Caregiver Yoga and Youth Yoga. She completed a traditional apprenticeship with Lisa Lawrence, Guru Anand Kaur, and has learned from renowned yogini, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa and yogi Gary Kraftsow. These phenomenal teachers continue to inspire her practice and teaching. In her experience, Kundalini Yoga helps bring balance and bliss to all aspects of her life. Katie brings gentle and sincere instruction to her clients, and offers on-going classes, private sessions, and workshops in the Madison, WI area.
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Kundalini Yoga
Yoga Sprouts for Kids & Caregiver -this is an ongoing, drop-in class! |
Kundalini Yoga, THE SCIENCE OF AWARENESS, a 5,000 year-old technology for maintaining balance in body, mind, and spirit, was first brought to America in 1969 by Yogi Bhajan. According to this ancient tradition, Kundalini Yoga will help strengthen the glandular system, the nervous system, and the circulatory system; expand the lung capacity; and eradicate emotional blocks that manifest as tension in the muscular system. Kundalini Yoga is accessible for everyone regardless of age or experience. Simple and effective, Kundalini Yoga yields fast and dramatic results, and may help with muscle toning, strength building, increased flexibility, better mental clarity, and stress relief. Please see your regular health care provider before beginning this or any other fitness routine. Kundalini Yoga combines conscious breathing (Pranayama), guided movement, meditation, simple postures (Asana), stretching, sequence (Kriya), rhythm, and sound (Mantra) to balance body, mind, and being. Remember who you truly are, love yourself completely, and accept yourself with all you potential and faults. These are the goals of Kundalini Yoga. Let Your Self Blossom! Sat Nam
Enrich your child’s day with yoga! Adventure stories to promote healthy living and relaxation techniques to share with our children. Children and caregivers will have fun learning Kundalini Yoga in a relaxed setting. Classes will incorporate song, stories, and animal poses to make yoga fun and easy to remember. Deep breathing techniques will help to calm the mind and relax the body. Ages 2-7
Call Katie if you are interested in starting a group class! Cost:
Drop-in is $10 for one child and a caregiver
OR $50 for a 6-class pass that is valid for 8 weeks from the purchase date |
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Katie
Katie Muschlewski, Certified Kundalini Instructor Guru Kirti Kaur, founded Lotus Roots Kundalini Yoga in 2005. In 2007, she launched Yoga Sprout! Child and Caregiver Yoga and Youth Yoga. She completed a traditional apprenticeship with Lisa Lawrence, Guru Anand Kaur, and has learned from renowned yogini, Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa and yogi Gary Kraftsow. These phenomenal teachers continue to inspire her practice and teaching. In her experience, Kundalini Yoga helps bring balance and bliss to all aspects of her life. Katie brings gentle and sincere instruction to her clients, and offers on-going classes, private sessions, and workshops in the Madison, WI area.
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| Kripalu Danskinetics |
This class is a combination of yoga and dance, based in the yogic tradition of self-knowledge through breath and movement. Each class uses music and a uniquely choreographed series, with room for individual improvisation. All levels welcome.
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VictoriaVictoria has practiced yoga and meditation with various teachers since 1995, in North Carolina, Massachusetts and Wisconsin. In June 2007, she earned a teaching certificate in DansKinetics (dance yoga) at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where she studied under Megha Nancy Buttenheim.
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| Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan & Nutrition Consults |
Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan strengthens the body inside and out and includes meditation to clear and focus the mind. This yoga class will help you take control of your health and life. Each class is focused on developing strong body systems and mental capacities through the combination of breath, movement, posture, and mantra. Katy also offers workshops and private consultations in nutrition, food-based cleansing, naturopathy, and yoga for organ systems. Contact her for a workshop or to schedule an appointment.
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Katy Katy Wallace, practicing since 2000,will complete a 200hr certification with the Kundalini Research Institute and Yoga Alliance in June 2008. She has received Vinyasa Flow Yoga teacher training from Shiva Rea, and Vipassana meditation courses with S.N. Goenka. She is a Naturopathic Doctor and has a background in food-based health education and cleansing. She often explains how yoga and meditation assist with body systems.
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| Kripalu Yoga |
| This class encourages practitioners to develop a healthy and loving relationship with their bodies, minds, and spirits. Throughout Kripalu’s three-stage approach, you are guided to move at your own pace, honoring your body’s needs in each moment. Kripalu Yoga eases tensions, tones muscles, calms restless minds, promotes self-acceptance, and invites deep stillness. Classes generally include breath work (pranayama), flowing posture sequences (asana), and relaxation. You will leave class relaxed, renewed, grounded, and present. Consistent practitioners of Kripalu Yoga continually develop increasing intimacy with themselves, unveiling limits, needs, and habits. Kripalu’s non-judgmental approach creates a welcoming atmosphere for all body types and levels of flexibility; classes will be moderate and explore both strengthening and opening. |
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Joe Joe has studied hatha yoga, karma yoga, ayurveda, meditation, and yoga philosophy with senior teachers at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts, for almost three years, including one and a half years living on campus. He spent over one year there as Manager of Volunteer Programs, and has taught advanced classes to Kripalu’s residential staff for two years. His compassionate, down-to-earth approach to the deeper practices of Kripalu Yoga consistently encourages self-acceptance, freedom, and creativity. He holds degrees from UW-Madison in Philosophy and English, and is a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher.
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| Perfect Morning Yoga |
With concentration on core strength and body alignment, this all levels practice will focus
on asanas with sun salutations. Bringing both breath
and movement into balanced energy, we are assured a
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AliciaAlicia Wright is a busy and dedicated yoga mama with threeboys. Her class seeks yoga mindfully through asanas with breath and body awareness. Alicia is currently studying with Andrea Russell and is enrolled in Alignment Yoga Teacher Training with Scott Anderson. Alicia passionately believes in the power of yoga to help us live a simple, balanced life in a crazy world.
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| Conceiving Health Yoga--Yoga for Fertility |
Prepare yourself, mind, body and spirit for the experience of pregnancy and birth. Whether you are beginning the journey toward starting your family or have been experiencing a fertility challenge for many years, this class will relax, replenish and rejuvinate you and your reproductive system with increased circulation, an open heart and receptive flexibility. We look forward to being part of your fertility yoga journey.
Class offered through The Center For Conceiving Health.
Please pre-register with Karin.
No class July 4, 2008.
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EllenEllen Crow is a deeply committed student of sacred movement. She is a Hatha Yoga instructor, a belly dance teacher, a certified pre-natal Yoga instructor as well as being passionate about pre-natal, infant and multi-modality massage practice.
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| T-Rex Yoga -a children's yoga class 5-10 years old |
T-Rex Yoga is a playful yoga class for children. Many classes follow a storyline or theme to take children on an imaginative journey as they learn poses, breathing techniques, and flows that they will carry with them for life. This holistic approach to child wellness also incorporates music, children’s literature, and art.
2 sessions (please pre-register with Julie):
4/14-6/9 on Mondays, 4:30-5:30pm; 8 wks/$80
(no class Memorial Day 5/26)
and Tuesdays, 4:30-5:30pm 6/17- 7/29 (7 weeks, $70)
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JulieJulie has been practicing hatha yoga since 2002, and recently finished her 310 hour Certified YogaKids Teacher certification program. She is a first grade teacher in Madison, where she integrates yoga into the everyday classroom experience. She enjoys cooking, music, animals, and warm, sunny weather
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