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YOGA CLASSES

NEW! YOGA FOR BACK CARE
Instructor: Susanna Czuchra

Learn how to relieve mild back pain and create a strong healthy back and core. This will be a foundational course with modifications for more experienced students. Discover the rejuvenating benefits of a regular yoga practice. (For those with serious back issues, private special needs sessions are available.)

Location: Belvedere Community Center
Fee: $106/6 weeks

NEW! LAUGHTER YOGA - Laughter is the Best Medicine
Instructor: Deb Reid

Discover why thousands of people in over 60 countries around the world are laughing their way to reduced stress, increased health and renewed joy. Feel energized because laughter is an excellent aerobic and cardio workout. Be healthier because laughter oxygenates your blood. Feel happier and more joyful because laughter releases anti-depressants and painkillers from the brain. The concept of Laughter Yoga is based on a scientific fact that the body cannot differentiate between fake and real laughter. One gets the same physiological and psychological benefits. Laughter Yoga is a complete wellbeing workout combining Unconditional Laughter
with Yogic Breathing. Anyone can laugh for no reason without relying on humor, jokes or comedy.  Wheel chairs and walkers welcome!

Deb Reid, Meditation and Yoga Alliance Teacher and Laughter Yoga Leader, facilitates classes for seniors, women in addiction recovery and the general public. Deb enjoys living with her partner Clinton in the bounty of Sonoma County near her three daughters and their young families.

Location: Tiburon Community Room, Tiburon Town Hall
Fee: $108/6 weeks

NEW! CARDIO/SCULPTING AND TONING - Not available
Instructor: Toni Dee

Get the toning benefits of resistance training with an added cardio element, for a fun and creative full body workout. We start with an aerobic portion, utilizing elements of basic Dance and Calisthenics, interlaced with added weights (bring your own) and/or body weight for strength and shaping. All this makes for a vigorous workout that develops deep core strength, flexibility and postural awareness, while trimming and firming.

Toni Dee has over 30 years of experience as a Group Exercise instructor and is a Multi Certified Personal Trainer.

Location: Tiburon Community Room, Tiburon Town Hall
Fee: $120/8 weeks
Drop-in fee: $20

Chair Yoga

Instructor:  Megan Scott, Ph.D.

This class is developed exclusively for people over 59 years of age. These classes focus on increasing range of motion, improving posture, restoring flexibility, and increasing breath capacity. Designed for those unable to lie or kneel on the floor, participants use standing and seated movements and stretches. Relaxation tools are also taught. For private sessions, call Megan at 383-1393.

Megan Scott Ph.D. is a doctor of integrative energy medicine, sports rehabilitation and clinical psychology specializing in advanced healing techniques.  Dr. Scott teaches yoga at California Pacific Medical Center, Institute for Health and Healing, is a professor and a clinician of pain management at University of the Pacific School of Dentistry.

Location: Tiburon Community Room, Tiburon Town Hall (pre-registration required) Come try one free class!
Fee: See below

YOGA WITH WEIGHTS

Instructor: Megan Scott, PhD

Yoga with weights is an exercise program based on the book Yoga with Weights for Dummies co-authored by Sherri Baptiste and Megan Scott, PhD. Weights add another dimension to yoga: they stabilize your body and engage you more deeply into the yoga exercises. By combining aspects of traditional yoga with the benefits of weight training, participants will gain all the physical benefits of traditional yoga - strength, flexibility, balance, focus and concentration - more quickly. Participants will notice an increase in vitality and an overall sense of well-being. This class is designed for all levels and abilities. Weights are optional.

Please bring your own weights, mat, block & straps. 1 to 2 pound hand weights and ankle weights are all you will need to begin.

Location: Tiburon Community Room, Tiburon Town Hall
Drop-in Fee: $18
Fee: $108 - 10 class yoga card (Yoga card may be purchased at the recreation office or by calling 435-4355)

Ongoing                                 Wed                                          9:00-10:00am

Yoga for Mind, Body and Spirit

Instructor: Megan Scott, Ph.D.

Participants learn the timeless insights of yoga with the latest advances in mind-body health. The techniques include Anusara yoga principles of alignment and heart-oriented teachings, muscular conditioning, breathing, guided imagery, meditation and deep relaxation. These principles provide tremendous therapeutic relief to a wide variety of bio-mechanical limitations and injuries, taking your yoga practice to a whole new level. Bring your own mat, towel, block & straps.

Location: Tiburon Community Room, Tiburon Town Hall
Drop-in Fee: $18 (Your 1st class is FREE!)
Fee: $108 - 10 class yoga card (Yoga card may be purchased at the recreation office or by calling 435-4355.)

NEW! HATHA YOGA

Instructor: Blair Brown

This Thursday evening class starts with a gentle meditation getting ourselves connected to our minds and bodies before beginning the practice. We do  a series of different warm-up exercises for our spines, abdominals, and legs that helps connect to our breath before getting into a deeper flow. The class always has sun salutations to invigorate the heart and build heat in the body, and different balance, twist, and strengthening postures are explored each week. The last portion of class is for restorative postures and different relaxation techniques for the body, the instructor always includes some hands on massage to help us get deeper into the fi nal meditation. If you need a night away from stress for your mind and body, this is the perfect place to come  with a great group of people!

Location: Belvedere Community Center
Drop-in fee: $20

NEW! CANDLE-LIT YOGA
Instructor: Diane Green, M.A.

Pamper yourself. Come practice yoga to achieve a deep relaxation. We lead with a series of postures and stretches including focused breath work as part of reducing stress. Strengthening asanas enable a deeper relaxation as we let go of held tension. In a candle-lit, scent-filled room, class concludes with a conscious relaxation to calm body and mind. This class accommodates all levels of fitness. Please bring a mat and light blanket.

Location: Belvedere Community Center
Fee: $124/8 weeks
Drop-in fee: $20

LYRICAL YOGA™
Instructor: Carol Michelson - Not available

Lyrical Yoga™ is a joyful and transformative movement practice incorporating the meditative, peaceful qualities of yoga with the expansive, graceful fluidity of dance. Beginning with yoga postures, we open our bodies and cultivate the awareness of our breath and the mind - body - spirit connection, then drawing from the yoga practice, we inspire our dance. Deepening into awareness, we move our bodies from a place of inner stillness to moving lyrically through space. We dance our yoga!

Carol uses her eclectic repertoire of music to inspire the dancer / yogi into exploring the joy and pleasure of this authentic movement practice.

Carol Michelson, CYT, is a certified yoga, movement, music and dance instructor. For over 25 years she has studied classical, modern, jazz, ethnic dance and music traditions
along with Iyengar, Ashtanga, Anusara, Yin and Viniyoga traditions. Her love of dance, music and yoga inspires this Lyrical Yoga™ movement practice.

Location: Belvedere Community Center
Fee: $120/8 weeks

PILATES CLASSES

Pilates Mat Class

Instructor: Stephanie Cunningham

Learn the essential exercises of pilates practice in this class that focuses on your abdominal/core strength, proper body alignment and overall strength and flexibility of your body’s muscles. This class will incorporate six principles of pilates techniques (centering, breath, precision, control, concentration and dynamic fluid movement). A wonderful way to clear your mind and tone your body. Bring your own mat.

Stephanie Cunningham has been teaching pilates since 2005 and has been a personal trainer since 1999.

Location: Belvedere Community Center
Fee: $110/7 weeks
Drop-in fee: $20

TAI CHI CLASSES

TAI CHI

Instructor: Cathy Stierhoff

Tai Chi is a wonderful form of exercise for strengthening the body, and for creating body/mind awareness. Tai Chi is a centuries old system of gentle physical exercise that is practiced the world over for health and fitness. Developed as a defensive martial art, today it is practiced for personal improvements in balance, flexibility, circulation, posture, body awareness, and even mood! The Wu style Tai Chi emphasizes gentle movement and inner calm. Everyone is welcome!

Location: Belvedere Community Center
Fee: $108/7 weeks
Drop-in fee: $20