Beginners welcome. Options will be offered to allow everyone, from the first-time explorer to the experienced student, to safely enjoy this experience.
Just like gardeners learn about plants to better tend to their gardens, you can learn about your anatomy to better care for your body. An Embodied Anatomy and Movement Immersion is for anyone who wants to support healthy movement through deeper understanding of the body.
In this immersion, we will focus on the neck and head or our “upper limb”. Join Louise to find lasting ease in your neck and head.
This workshop will begin with a presentation that alternates between practical information and embodied experience, followed by a yoga class that includes deep relaxation. A handout will be emailed to you afterwards to reinforce your learning.
June 3, 2023, Saturday, 2:00-4:30pm, livestream via Zoom (automatically includes video for 21 days)
Sliding scale $20-$40 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership) Contact us if this is beyond your reach and we will be happy to accommodate.
This class will be held via Zoom and will be recorded. It can be rented anytime after the live class ends to use for 21 days in the Video Library.
Beginners welcome. Options will be offered to allow everyone, from the first-time explorer to the experienced Gentle Strength student, to safely practice.
We are multi-dimensional beings. We think. We do. We feel. We are in an animal body, with a human mind and spirit. Yoga practice supports moving toward the experience of being a connected body, mind and spirit.
In this gentle immersion you will learn and experience:
This class will begin with a short presentation, but will be a full gentle yoga practice including accessible movement, breathing, relaxation and meditation all at a gentle pace.
Recorded on April 29, 2023
Video access $20 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Beginners welcome. Options will be offered to allow everyone, from the first-time explorer to the experienced Gentle Strength student, to safely practice.
The intention of this immersion is to introduce you to the Gentle Strength approach, created by Terry Tresco, and to give you an experience of safely integrating Gentle Strength principles into a gentle yoga practice. We will explore how to develop strength in several traditional yoga postures through mindful muscle engagement, postural alignment and harnessing the power of the exhalation.
During this immersion, you will:
You will be guided through a Dynamic Gentle Yoga practice enhanced by an exploration of the subtle details of Gentle Strength. Through conscious awareness and engagement, you will feel the work your muscles are doing to support you. You can take this knowledge with you into your future practice, if you so choose.
Recorded on April 1, 2023
Video access $20 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Just like gardeners learn about plants to better tend to their gardens, you can learn about your anatomy to better care for your body. An Embodied Anatomy and Movement Immersion is for anyone who wants to support healthy movement through a deeper understanding of the body.
In this immersion, we will focus on shoulders and the shoulder blades known as the wings of the heart. Join Louise to find joy in freeing your shoulders.
This workshop will begin with a presentation that alternates between practical information and embodied experience, followed by a yoga class that includes deep relaxation. A handout will be emailed to you afterwards to reinforce your learning.
Recorded on March 4, 2023
Video access $20 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
How are you these days? With so much going on in the world around us, plus our own personal close-to-home challenges ranging from daily life to illness or loss, we could all use some support to downshift the nervous system and nurture our capacity for resilience.
Give yourself the opportunity to be in a safe, meaningful, virtual community space with Rachel Allen, a musician and seasoned yoga teacher with a unique set of skills and talents and a lived compassion for humanness and the healing of both everyday and event trauma. Partake in evidence-based practices that build resilience in the physical, mental, emotional and social domains.
The experiences offered in this immersion are inclusive and accessible and can be integrated into your daily life if you so choose. Practices will include: gentle movement, music making (no singing talent required), reflective journaling, meditation and breathing.
A resources handout will be emailed to you after the live class or attached to the video in the Video Library if you choose to access this workshop by video. The handout includes the slide presentation on resilience.
Recorded on January 28, 2023
Video access $20 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Beginners welcome. Options will be offered to allow everyone, from the first time explorer to the experienced yogi, to safely practice.
Even if you’ve never heard of the chakras or don’t know much about them, you’ve probably experienced different states of the energies associated with them. Do you feel secure or insecure? comfortable or uncomfortable? empowered or disempowered? open or closed-hearted? self-expressed or stifled? insightful or confused? connected or isolated? We have options to influence the energy centers of the body that are associated with these experiences when we know a bit more about them.
In this immersion you will learn about the Chakra system and experience
This will be a wonderful practice to create a sense of wholeness and integration and prepare you to move into the new year.
Recorded on Dec 31, 2022
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Video access $20 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
Beginners welcome. Options will be offered to allow everyone, from the first time explorer to the experienced yogi, to safely practice.
The intention of a yoga practice oriented to the chakras is to help the energy flow freely. Balanced chakras allow the qualities of those energy centers to thrive in a balanced way, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
The fruit of yoga practice is said to be meditation, wherein the mind is peaceful and steady. Other qualities of meditation include a sense of objectivity, a healthy detachment, neutral noticing, a sense of being equal with all that may arise in awareness without thinking. Sometimes this is referred to as witness consciousness.
The sixth chakra, Ajna chakra, meaning to see or to witness, is the center of witness consciousness. In this state you can see clearly beyond all dualities, good and bad, higher and lower, right and wrong. As the poet Rumi wrote, “Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” It is by the stillness that is characteristic of the sixth chakra or witness consciousness, that the seventh chakra opens to the flow of energy.
The seventh chakra, Sahasrara, meaning “to know”, is the center of pure consciousness. With regular practice, all the chakras may open and offer an experience of transcendent peace as energy flows through the seventh chakra. This may bring a sense of freedom in which all of your chakras become integrated naturally, in which you have a clear vision of your life’s deepest meaning. As a result, your vision is transformed into a living reality.
This immersion will be a yoga practice of movement, asana, deep relaxation, pranayama and meditation, intended to impart the stillness of mind that opens the flow in these two highest chakras.
Recorded on Nov 26, 2022
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Video access $20 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
Beginners welcome.
The intention of a yoga practice oriented to a chakra is to help the energy flow freely through that area. A balanced chakra allows the qualities of that energy center to thrive in a balanced way, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
The fifth chakra is called Visuddha Chakra, meaning “purification.” It is an energy center located in your throat, mouth, ears, and hands, affecting your thyroid and parathymus glands. The fifth chakra’s element is ether, the element associated with sound, which travels through the ethers, also known as space. Focusing on the Visuddha Chakra is an opportunity to explore self-expression, your ability to communicate, to connect, to extend consciousness from one place to another, within the body and within society and culture.
The fifth chakra’s properties include communication through sound, rhythm, vibration, and words. It is the realm of consciousness that controls, creates, transmits, and receives communication, both within ourselves and with each other.
When we are balanced in the fifth chakra, we can live lives filled with a voice that is full, communicates clearly with truthfulness and creativity as well as with good listening. We can then experience connection, harmony and unity.
When the energy flow is deficient, one may experience fear of speaking, poor rhythm, a weak voice, excessive shyness, denial of creative expression When fifth chakra energy is excessive, there can be excessive talking, poor listening, over extension, gossiping, being too loud, unable to keep confidences, forced creative expression.
During the immersion Rudy will guide you in mindfulness practices including breath, meditation and asana to stimulate and regulate the flow of energy in the throat, this personal energy center which is a crucial place in the gateway between mind and body. Options will be offered to allow everyone, from the first time explorer to the experienced yogi, to safely practice.
The physical practice for the fifth chakra will focus on gentle movements to loosen the neck muscles and lubricate the cervical spine with an awareness of precautions for osteoporosis, arthritis, and disc or spine injuries. We will also explore expression through mantras, seed sounds of the chakras, the vowel sounds of the chakras, rhythm, creative movement and creative expression with pen and paper.
At all times you will be offered safe options for practice while stimulating the fifth chakra. The intention of this practice is to enhance your awareness of expression, transmission, listening, connection with you and with others, inner and outer harmony.
Learn to access self-expression, to generate sustainable self practices that create a strong, mind-body connection, and deepen your awareness of the vitality gained from expressing yourself.
Recorded on Nov 5, 2022
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Video access $20 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
Beginners welcome.
The intention of a yoga practice oriented to a chakra is to help the energy flow freely through that area. A balanced chakra allows the qualities of that energy center to thrive in a balanced way, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
The fourth chakra is called Anahata Chakra, meaning “unstruck.” It is an energy center located at the center of your chest, your heart. The fourth chakra’s element is air. Focusing on the Anahata Chakra is an opportunity to explore our ability to expand, to offer unconditional love, to accept love and kindness from others, to trust ourselves as a way of learning to trust others. This chakra’s properties include open-heartedness, gratitude, compassion, and connectedness.
When we are balanced in our fourth chakra we can live authentic lives filled with unconditional love, of ourselves and others. We have the capacity to appreciate beauty, be generous and cheerful. When the energy flow is deficient, one may experience loneliness, distrust, and separation. When fourth chakra energy is excessive, there can be a sense of self-righteousness, self-centeredness, and hard-heartedness.
During the immersion Terry will guide you in mindfulness practices including breath, meditation and asana to stimulate and regulate the flow of energy in our heart, this personal energy center into which we are born. Options will be offered to allow everyone, from the experienced yogi to the first time explorer, to safely practice.
The physical practice for the fourth chakra will focus on gentle lengthening of the chest muscles and strengthening the back of the body with an awareness of precautions for osteoporosis, arthritis, and disc or spine injuries. At all times you will be offered safe options for practice while stimulating the fourth chakra. The intention of this practice is to enhance your awareness of love, trust, and connectedness with others, but also your connection within, between body, mind, and heart.
Learn to access your open-hearted, compassionate self to create sustainable self practices that create a strong, mind-body connection, and deepen your awareness of your own open heart.
Recorded on Oct 15, 2022
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Video access $20 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
Beginners welcome.
The intention of a yoga practice oriented to a chakra is to help the energy flow freely through that area. A balanced chakra allows the qualities of that energy center to thrive in a balanced way, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
The physical practice for the third chakra will focus on gentle rotation of the spine with an awareness of precautions for osteoporosis, arthritis, and disc or spine injuries. At all times you will be offered options for a practice that can be safe yet still stimulate the third chakra. The intention of this practice is to enhance your awareness of self care, interoception, and compassion.
The third chakra is called the Manipura Chakra, an energy center located at the solar plexus, just beneath your sternum. The third chakra’s element is Fire. Focusing on the Manipura Chakra is an opportunity to explore your own personal energy, your place in the world. This chakra’s properties. Its properties are strength, strength of character, strength of commitment.
When we are balanced in the third chakra we can live authentic lives filled with non-judgmental awareness of ourselves and others. We have the capacity to digest our experiences, find peace in the now, stay committed to what is meaningful in our lives. In short, we have the opportunity to thrive. When the energy flow is deficient, one may experience low self esteem, a lack of purpose, a sense of giving up. When third chakra energy is excessive, there can be a sense of competition with others, conflict, a focus on fame or status.
During the immersion, Terry will guide you in mindfulness practices including breath, meditation, and asana to stimulate and regulate this fire in our belly, this personal energy center. You will be offered options along the way to allow everyone, from the experienced yogi to the first time explorer, to safely practice.
Experience strength of commitment to creating sustainable self care practices that create a strong, mind-body connection, and deepen your awareness of your own place in the world.
Recorded on Sept 24, 2022
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Video access $20 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
Beginners welcome.
The intention of a yoga practice oriented to a chakra is to help the energy flow freely through that area of the body. A balanced chakra allows the qualities of that energy center to thrive in a balanced way, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
The second chakra’s element is water; this energy center is about sensory experiences, feelings, emotions and pleasure. When there is a lack of flow in this chakra, joy, passion and creativity are elusive or dampened. When flow is supported, our capacity to enjoy life and all its sense pleasures increases. In this immersion, Rudy will guide you in gentle yoga movements and breath to help you reclaim more flow and comfort in your body.
Additional upcoming Immersions will also focus on a chakra or two. Gift yourself with these wonderfully therapeutic educational experiences; through the tools you learn in these practices, you can become even more of who you are meant to be.
Recorded on Sept 3, 2022
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Video access $20 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
Beginners welcome.
The intention of a yoga practice oriented to a chakra is to help the energy flow freely through that area of the body. A balanced chakra allows the qualities of that energy center to thrive in a balanced way, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. The first chakra is the root, the foundation, an energy center located at the base of the tailbone, the coccyx.
The first chakra’s element is earth. As a root, it creates stability and supports basic survival, similar to how roots feed water and nutrition to plants and trees. Its properties are grounded, solid, steady. When the energy flow is deficient, one may experience being scattered, ungrounded, flighty, drifty, maybe anxious or fearful. When first chakra energy is excessive, there can be a sense of lethargy, weightedness, a feeling of being stuck.
Yoga practices for the first chakra can produce a sense of centeredness, stability, clarity, strength and confidence. We focus on bringing energy and awareness down….down to the feet, legs and base of the spine. As you get the energy flowing freely throughout this system of energy centers, the seven chakras, you receive a powerful integration of your many parts into a sense of wholeness. The first chakra integrates mind and body.
The next four Immersions will also focus on a chakra. Gift yourself with this wonderfully therapeutic educational experience; through the tools you learn in these practices, you can be more of who you are meant to be, free and fully expressed, starting with a strong foundation.
Recorded on Aug 13, 2022
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Sliding scale $20-40 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
If you are a caregiver, you are probably all too familiar with the challenge of finding time for yourself. Even if you are not currently caring for another, we can all use effective ways to reset that don’t take a lot of time or require a yoga mat!
Join Rachel to learn short portable practices that anyone can use to create moments of peace. You will have an opportunity to dialogue about how to reach out for support and be sustainable in your caregiving as well as applying yogic principles to uncertainty and challenges.
After a short presentation, practices will include:
Rachel Allen ERYT 200, CMP, has 18 years of working in hospice with patients, including serving the needs of caregivers. Her daughter, Riley, now a young adult, was born with spina bifida, so Rachel has experienced long hospital stays, lengthy recoveries at home and the associated challenges of uncertainty as a caregiver for a loved one with a chronic condition.
Recorded on July 16, 2022
Video access $20 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Beginners welcome.
Experience the freedom and liberating energy of the Dynamic Gentle Yoga approach to moving on the currents of breath.
If you have never tried a vinyasa (guided flow) approach or you have shied away from yoga that’s referred to as vinyasa, thinking it is too difficult, too fast, or requires a high level of flexibility and strength, come experience this Immersion class and discover new freedom.
The Dynamic Gentle Yoga approach to guided flow is accessible, inclusive and empowering. Join Rudy to enjoy movement linked with breath that can change your relationship with your body and mind.
This gently-paced class will include some gentle but subtly powerful breathing techniques and a nice long resting time to ensure that your nervous system gets a reset into restore and repair mode.
Recorded on May 28, 2022
Video access $20 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
A workshop for every body. No yoga or strength-training experience required.
Begin from where you are; improvement in strength, balance and mobility is possible at any age and any stage. Experience gentle movements that build muscle mass and stimulate an increase in bone density from supported standing positions or seated in a chair. No weights or bands are required for this workshop; all you need is your body, a sturdy chair, a pair of thick socks, a couple of upside-down sturdy plastic bins (or yoga blocks) and a dish towel/hand towel. A blanket and pillow for relaxation will also be useful.
Those of us in our 50s, 60s and beyond are all too familiar with the dreaded diagnosis of osteoporosis or arthritis, and some of us have both. The precautions and recommendations coming from all directions can be conflicting and it’s difficult to know what movements are effective and safe. Staying committed to a routine is also a challenge for many of us. Give yourself part of an afternoon to discover manageable and effective solutions. In this gently-paced workshop, you will learn:
The workshop is comprised of four 20-30 minute segments of gentle physical activity to address different aspects of movement:
Balance. Strength. Mobility. Restoration.
After this workshop you will be empowered to practice on your own and keep track of your progress using the provided simple handouts AND/OR continue to learn and practice in live online 30-minute classes that will be offered on Thursdays and Sundays in May from 7:15-7:45 am starting May 8.
Recorded on May 7, 2022
Video access $20 (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Are you shy about expressing yourself in sound? Are you a singer wanting greater vocal freedom? Are you interested in sounding for healing? For any or all of these reasons and more, join Bhavani for her Soundplay workshop!
During this workshop, you will:
This workshop is fun, informative, and transformative, and you can leave it there if you like—but if you take the exercises on as a practice, they can change your life—the way you stand, the way you breathe, the way you show up in your world.
The Soundplay experience is enriching for “non-singers” and “pros” alike. No singing experience is necessary, simply be in a space you’ll be comfortable making sound in and have a chair handy. Dress for movement and get ready to fall in love—with your own sound!
Recorded on April 16, 2022
Video access $20 for 21 days (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Explore the stimulation of a well-supported sustaining phase of the posture where transformation happens.
Dive easefully into this masterfully guided exploration of the sustaining phase of yoga postures. In this practice, you will lighten your load, mentally and emotionally, flushing old emotions from the tissues, bringing them to the surface so they can evaporate into the ethers.
Experience this deeper aspect of yoga that builds energy and stimulates the flow of prana, the life force energy that some call the inner healer. Discover how the deeper practice of yoga in the compassionate style of Dynamic Gentle kindles wholeness, insight and a healthy glow.
Recorded on March 26, 2022
Video Rental $20 for 21 days (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Innovative sequences to open the chest, shoulders, neck and back, restoring well-supported posture and healthy energy flow.
In this immersion you will experience:
Recorded on March 5, 2022
Video Rental $20 for 21 days (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Even if you’ve never heard of the chakras or don’t know much about them, you’ve probably experienced different states of the energies associated with them. Do you feel secure or insecure? comfortable or uncomfortable? empowered or disempowered? open or closed- hearted? self-expressed or stifled? insightful or confused? connected or isolated?
We have options to influence the energy centers of the body that are associated with these experiences when we know a bit more about them.
In this immersion you will learn about the Chakra energy system and experience:
This will be a wonderful practice to create a sense of wholeness and integration.
Recorded on January 22, 2022
Video Rental $20 for 21 days (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Whether you are brand new to yoga, practice yoga regularly or you are somewhere in between…join us for this special opportunity to learn how the sequence of movements and breathing techniques Rudy guides in the daily morning class can bring benefits into your life. Find out why so many people have dedicated themselves to this practice.
Observe, experience and explore each of the movements, postures and techniques in depth with Rudy as your guide and ask any questions. Hear what people who have been practicing daily have to say about the benefits they experience. Gain confidence, get re-inspired, or prepare to begin.
Rudy has been leading this practice almost daily for 21 months. Though the practice has evolved over time, the main elements remain; three key yoga postures incorporating the six movements of the spine plus four pranayama/breathing techniques form the recipe for the success of this practice.
Rudy will address topics and questions including:
Bonus:
Handout of resources for further study will be provided.
Recorded on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2022
Video Rental $20 for 21 days (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Ayurveda is the Vedic science of living a life of optimal health and healing, in tune with Mother Nature. Ayurveda ascribes three constitutional types, vata, pitta and kapha. Vata governs movement in the body, the nervous system and elimination. We all have some degree of each of the three constitutions, therefore, we all need to “mind vata.” When vata is out of balance, symptoms such as digestive distress, dry skin, achy joints, anxiety, low energy, and irregular, insufficient sleep patterns begin to set in.
Now, here we are deep into November. Winter aggravates Vata constitution. Winter is dry, cold, and windy. So now is a great time to do some extra self-care to attend to vata. When your mind is overly active with thoughts, your body fatigued from moving too quickly, or stiff from the shift to dry, colder weather, a vata soothing practice brings warmth, stability and suppleness.
A vata-soothing sequence gives our bodies and minds the opportunity to manifest the relaxation response, a key to optimal health, lowering the risk of heart disease, obesity, anxiety, depression, and other stress-related diseases.
Unique features of this yoga immersion:
Recorded on Nov 20, 2021
Video rental $20 for 21 days (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom and was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra are practices to help us get back to homeostasis. Every system in the body is geared to help us maintain stability of many diverse internal variables, including temperature, acidity, and water level, amidst continual external influences. Yoga Nidra is a deeply relaxing practice of bringing attention to all areas of the body and then subtler and subtler realms of your being. The attention helps to release blocks to the flow of energy, the healing fluids and neural signals.
Where the attention goes, the energy flows. Where the energy flows, healing grows. Enjoy deliciously soothing, gentle yoga. Experience an important, rarely guided, restorative pose. Feel the release of stiffness and held energy. Enter the profound meditative journey of Yoga Nidra, a guided experience you enjoy while sinking into deep rest and doing nothing. Melt, restore and integrate with this deep relaxation and meditation.
In this Gentle Yoga Immersion:
Recorded on Oct 30, 2021
Video rental $20 for 21 days (or included with the All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom was recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
If you haven’t already discovered the joys of chair yoga, you will in this ease-fully paced, Dynamic Gentle Yoga class with Rudy – enjoy accessible stretching and discover the added benefits of doing yoga with the support of a chair.
In this class, you will experience new possibilities in your yoga practice, discover surprising comfort and ease offered by the chair’s elevated support and enjoy yoga that is kind to the hips and a relief to the back. In addition to sitting on the chair, we will use the chair as a prop for strengthening standing and balancing poses.
We will also explore using the chair while lying on the back. If coming down to the floor is a challenge for you we will offer seated options throughout the “supine” section of the practice.
Other special elements of this class include a nourishing experience of legs-up deep relaxation and the opportunity to drop into deeply peaceful meditation.
With Rudy’s seasoned gentle approach and expert guidance for the use of a chair, you will:
Useful props:
Read Rudy’s blog post The Unexpected Revelation of Chair Yoga for more inspiration.
Recorded on Oct 9, 2021
Video rental for 21 days for $20 (or included with All Yoga Monthly Membership)
This class was held via Zoom and recorded. Access now in our Video Library.
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Rudy is one of the kindest and most sensitive Yoga teachers you will ever find. His love for Yoga and the body-mind connection is so obvious. You will begin to feel some of that for yourself when you have him as a teacher and guide.
The guidance and practice was just what I needed...gentle, sweet and deep. It brought my scattered energies into the core of my being...into my body. I focused on Rudy’s words and instructions, and felt my body gradually replenish itself. At the start of the class I was feeling overwhelmed, depleted, nearly sick. By the end, I felt dramatically different. Thank you.