Sherri Betz - Align the Spine (20 mins) - Level Suitable for All
Join Dr. Sherri Betz in a Yoga class focusing on spinal alignment using the pelvis as a foundation, where you'll learn to breathe with core control. By using tactile queuing with your hands, you'll find connections between your pelvis, ribcage, and spine, creating buoyancy and decompression in your joints. The class also includes the use of a 48-inch long by 1-inch wide wooden dowel for checking spinal alignment while moving, and a yoga strap to aid in breathing techniques in the ideal posture.
Shantani Moore - Yoga Barre Fusion (30 mins) - Level 2
You'll love the energy boost you get from this innovative fusion of Yoga and Barre classes. In this full-body class, we build transformative heat as we explore rhythmic breathing and pulsing in familiar yoga poses, strengthening your arms, legs, hamstrings, and glutes. You'll feel the burn, and feel empowered and strong!
Sherri Betz - Feet Focused (20 mins) - Level Suitable for All
Join Dr. Sherri Betz in a feet-focused bone health practice, where you'll be guided through weight shifting, finding the tripod stance, balance challenges, and building ankle mobility, all aimed at developing a strong arch in the foot. This class cleverly incorporates the use of a tennis ball and 48-inch long by 1-inch wide wooden dowel to enhance the practice and promote healthier feet. It's a fantastic way to increase your understanding of foot biomechanics and improve your overall bone health.
Sherri Betz - Yoga for Osteoporosis (15 mins) - Level Suitable for All
Join Dr. Sherri Betz in a specialized 15-minute lecture aimed at identifying osteoporosis, discovering bone-building principles, and applying strength training research to your practice. The class provides vital information on dealing with osteoporosis and bone density issues, and how Yoga can be a significant tool in managing these. This well-researched and expertly tailored class is an invaluable resource for those looking to enhance their bone health through Yoga.
Sherri Betz - Yoga for Bone Health Intro (1 mins) - Level Suitable for All
Welcome to Season 2 of Empowered Aging with Dr. Sherri Betz. The program includes five foundational tutorials that will guide you in exploring your body, biomechanics, and alignment from head to toe. These classes are designed for everyone from beginning yoga students to advanced practitioners, as well as older adults at risk for falls, making them a safe and effective way to improve bone health.
Shantani Moore - Take Up Space (20 mins) - Level 2
Feel strong and powerful in this energizing sequence leading to Half Moon. We find space in the shoulders and across the chest, ground and expand in Goddess and Warrior flows, and land in Half Moon. You will feel strong, expansive, and ready to take up space.
Jason Schneider - Feeling Flexible, Free, and Fantastic (45 mins) - Level 1/2
You'll feel fantastic after this class which combines longer holds to increase flexibility, focused balance challenges, and dynamic movements that inspire lubrication, suppleness, and mobility in our joints. We start on the floor warming our shoulders, hips, spine, and legs, and move to standing to explore Crescent, Pyramid, Standing Figure 4, and Dancer's Pose with the support of our props. You will feel long, loose, and easeful in your movement.
Shantani Moore - Circle Flow (20 mins) - Level 2
Experience that there is no beginning and no ending to our practice in this dynamic class that plays with the concept of circles. The cyclic nature of our breath guides our movement through lunges, Crescent variations, and seated poses, exploring circle shapes along the way. You will feel soft and present, with all your edges smoothed out.
Jason Schneider - I Believe I Can Fly (45 mins) - Level 2
Balance equals independence. The stronger we are, the longer we can remain mobile with confidence. Balance starts with a can-do mindset and requires practice! Get a sturdy chair as Jason leads us through standing poses, Single Leg Tadasana, Warrior 3, Half Moon, and Dancing Shiva, then if you're up for more challenge try the same sequence with blocks instead of the chair. You will feel focused, steady, and confident.
Shantani Moore - Twist and Unwind (20 mins) - Level 2
This twisting flow has lots of fun transitions and will leave you feeling energized and unwound. Shantani leads a playful practice integrating twists into lunges, Chair pose, and Side Plank to strengthen your legs, stabilize your core, and warm your whole body.
Jason Schneider - Strong to the Core (45 mins) - Level 2
Many of our most essential movements - standing up, walking tall, reaching for overhead items, picking up grandkids - begin with a strong, stable, reliable core. This includes the muscles of the abdominals, hips, lower back, and glutes. This fiery class stays low to the ground and uses a 4-point approach - Bracing, Rotation, Anti-Rotation, and Flexion - to pinpoint all elements of a strong musculoskeletal core system and ensure we are able to do all of our favorite things as we age. You will feel powerful, stable, and dependable.
Shantani Moore - Playful Heart (20 mins) - Level 2
Give yourself permission to feel good in this heart opening Vinyasa flow. We find space and clear tension in the heart space through standing poses Crescent and Humble Warrior, enjoy a slinky Vinyasa variation, and feel into our hips in a Skandasana dance, before closing in a supported Baddha Konasana. You will feel relaxed, open, and uplifted.
Jason Schneider - Stand Up, Stay Up (40 mins) - Level 2
This standing class builds the strength and stability needed to stay active and mobile as we age. It's also great for days when you're having trouble getting onto the ground but don't want to miss out on a challenging full body Vinyasa flow. You'll increase strength, stability, and flexibility in your legs, hips, and glutes in Chair, Warrior 1, Humble Warrior, and Half Moon, and, as balance creates stability, we take time in Tree Pose. As always, we have our props nearby to make all poses feel more comfortable and accessible for us. You will feel secure, challenged, and accomplished.
Maeve McCaffrey - Spacious Twists (30 mins) - Level 2
Find space in the upper body in this twisting class. Our flow stabilizes the legs and core to find length and twist in the torso in Revolved Half Moon, arm balances, and a Camel twist. You will feel spacious, calm, and invigorated.
Jason Schneider - More Hatha, Less Flow (45 mins) - Level 2
It is said that anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. In this full-body class, we slow down and spend more time in poses, to find breath, center, and nuance of each and every asana. We warm up finding space in the spine, flexibility and fluidity in the hips, and mobility in the shoulders. Cultivate stability, balance, and core engagement in a Birddog sequence before we move into holds in a series of standing poses, Warrior 2, Triangle, and Warrior 3. You will feel strong, supple, and quiet.
Maeve McCaffrey - Balanced Backbends (30 mins) - Level 2
Maeve leads a creative backbending sequence leading to Dancer Pose and Urdhva Dhanurasana (Wheel Pose). You will feel strong, open, and uplifted.
Jason Schneider - Welcome to Empowered Aging (1 mins) - Level Suitable for All
Jason welcomes us to Empowered Aging. This season we take our time, meeting where our edge is that day and connecting with the options that work best for us. These sequences combine dynamic mobility movements that promote lubrication and ease within your joints with longer holds to stabilize your bones, strengthen your muscles, find suppleness in your connective tissue, and celebrate the independence that comes with balance.
Jason Schneider - Foundations (45 mins) - Level 2
As we get older, sometimes we have to put aside what was and figure out What can I do now, putting our body, health, and happiness ahead of our ego. In this class, we focus on the foundations of your practice today, honoring your own body to find an approach that best suits you. We begin by loosening the muscles in the backs of the legs, moving fluid into the hips, and warming the spine and shoulders in preparation for our flow. We build heat and strength in the shoulders, core, and back in Cobra, Plank, and light pushups. Jason leads a flow using blocks to bring the floor closer to us in Vinyasas, low poses, and forward folds, to assist in balance, and find length and space in standing poses. You will feel light, positive, and empowered to make your practice your own.
Maeve McCaffrey - Playful Dolphin Flow (30 mins) - Level 2/3
This creative flow moves through standing poses and Dolphin to strengthen the arms and shoulders on your way to Forearm balance (Pincha Mayurasana). You will feel playful, energized, and focused.
Stephanie Tencer - Introduction to Headstand (45 mins) - Level 2
Inversions are a key component to an Iyengar practice. In this class, Stephanie offers a step-by-step sequence leading to Sirsasana, Headstand. We warm the hands, wrists, arms, and shoulders, open the side body and chest, strengthen the arms, shoulders, and core, and explore key actions as we move towards variations of our peak pose. You will feel strong and capable.