What’s so different about yoga at OPY?
Ours is an empowering practice that takes into account the influence our mindset and nervous system have on how we move. The pace of practice is slow enough to allow you to notice how your body and mind respond to stimuli. Our Engagement & Mobility Skills address imbalances in strength and flexibility. Our community is welcoming and supportive. Our space is clean, calming and inviting. And our staff is committed to skillful thoughts, words, and actions in yoga and in life.
Our limited capacity Small Group Yoga sessions let us work more closely with attendees so they can reach the goals that brought them to yoga. Our Community Classes are are open to anyone to attend, and are a lively gathering of our slightly off-kilter and fun-loving community that will lift your spirit and challenge your outlook. We also offer streaming, replay and on-demand options through our Online Only Pass. For more details on these options, click here.
You can also schedule private sessions with a Power Yoga trained Physical Therapist to customize a sequence just for you!
Our Power Yoga is for anyone who wants to be their strongest, steadiest, best self!
- Do you want to bend and move with ease?
- jump, laugh at a joke or sneeze and not pee your pants?
- get out of bed without pain?
- pick something (like yourself!) up off the ground and not feel old?
- keep your [bleep] together when life gets [bleepy]?
This yogi experienced a “wobbly, clicking, painful knee.” After applying E&M skills, clicking stopped, stable knee and no pain!
Our cuing helps you target stability and mobility of the smaller (negleted) tissues.
The average fitness class or workout routine is focused on strength and/or flexibility of the big, obvious muscle groups: traps, delts, lats, pecs, biceps, triceps, superficial abs, glute max, quads, hamstrings, and calves.
Together with Trinity Physical Therapy, we developed Engagement and Mobility (E&M) Skills in response to years of treating ailments in a clinical setting and observing movement patterns and strategies used in a yoga practice.
E&M Skills address the over/underuse of muscular engagement that over time can cause a chain reaction of movement compensation throughout the body, often resulting in limited range of motion, injury, or pain with movement.
Incorporating E&M Skills into yoga turns “I can’t” or “I shouldn’t do yoga” into “Yoga is a non-negotiable, must do for feeling my best.”
Learn more about the big vs small muscles in Trinity PT’s article: White Meat vs Dark Meat.
Our engagement and mobility skills are rooted in a foundation of FOUR COMPONENTS:
- AWARENESS… We can’t change what we aren’t aware of, and when we are not aware of our own thought patterns, emotions and sensations, it impairs our perception of reality. So, improving our awareness of the physical body and its connection to our mental and emotional states, is paramount.
- MOBILITY is, very simply, the ability to move. Obviously very beneficial in being self-sufficient.
- STABILITY… A healthy body can hold strong and steady through a wide range of motion and in a still, static position.
- AGILITY is the ability to move, think or understand quickly and easily. Our bodies adapt (often immediately and unconsciously) in response to stimulus of pain, injury, or change of any kind. Similarly, our minds and emotional bodies adapt based on our perception of our experiences.
“You can’t do what you want, till you know what you’re doing.” ~ Moshe Feldenkrais
The more conscious and steady we are in our responses to the stimuli life throws at us, the more serenity and satisfaction we can experience.
Our goal is to help people move better, think better, feel better, and human better!
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Coming soon… Power Yoga Teacher Training!
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Learn more about Trinity Physical Therapy here.
