Time	Class	Level	Instructor
Sunday	9:30am - 11:15	IMY	Open	Tim Thompson
	11:30am - 1:00	IMY	Open	Tim Thompson
	5:00pm - 6:30	Gentle Yoga	See desc	Stack Buss
Monday	9:15am - 10:45	IMY	Open	Tim Thompson
	11:15am - 12:15	Toddler	Open	Beth Houghton
	5:45pm - 7:15	IMY	Open	Tim Thompson
	7:30pm - 9:05	Monkey Flow	Open	Ray Joichi
Tuesday	6:30am - 7:30	Monkey Strength	Open	Ray Joichi
	5:45pm - 7:15	IMY	Open	Tim Thompson
	7:30pm - 9:00	IMY	Open	Tim Thompson
Wednesday	9:15am - 10:45	IMY	Open	Tim Thompson
	5:45pm - 7:15	IMY	Open	Tim Thompson
	7:30pm - 9:00	Monkey Flow	Open	Ray Joichi
Thursday	6:30am - 7:30	Monkey Strength	Open	Ray Joichi
	9:15am - 10:45	Vinyasa	Open	Terry Alvord
	11:15am - 12:45	Mom & Baby Yoga	Open	Cynthea Denise
	5:45pm - 7:15	IMY	Open	Tim Thompson
	7:30pm - 9:00	IMY	Open	Tim Thompson
Friday	9:15am - 10:45	Vinyasa	Open	Terry Alvord
	11:15am - 12:15	Preschool *	Open	Beth Houghton
	6:00pm - 7:30	Vinyasa	Open	Wendy Hahn
Saturday	9:00am - 10:40***	CampYoga/$10	Open	Laura Camp***
	11:00am - 12:40	CampYoga	Open	Wendy
	4:30pm - 6:00	Vinyasa	1-2	Lisa Falk

When coming to class, you may wear shorts and a shirt, or a leotard and tights that do not cover your feet. Bring a towel, you'll sweat. Please do not eat for at least one hour before coming to class. A banana's okay. If you have any physical problems or injuries, be sure to inform the teacher before the class begins. Parking is available across the street in the metered parking lot under the freeway, or in the Trader Joe's parking garage. Bringing a banana for the teacher is considered good form.

Isometric Monkey Yoga (IMY) is fun, accessible, and challenging. The synthesis of Ashtanga and Iyengar yoga, dance, and martial arts principles, IMY is a non-impact, aerobically efficient alternative to weight lifting and passive stretching. Isometric exercises and resistance stretching place the emphasis on muscle growth, separation, and definition. Monkeying around in the asanas slides the muscle sheaths independently, melts fascial binding, engages new muscle fibers, and increases proprioceptor nerve growth, making the body long, strong, supple, flexible and agile. You will laugh, sweat, and be sore the next day. Good sore. Effort and intelligence evolve the monkey, transforming pain into pleasure and restrictions into abilities. The first monkey rule is to do what you like and don't do what you don't like. All of our teachers will help any willing student to modify the asanas to make the positions and sequences easier and simpler, or more challenging and complex.

Monkey Strength An intense, hour-long, full-body strength training class. This class will focus on increasing your cardio endurance, cultivating integrated strength, and improving your inversions. This class will increase your total body fitness by using weighted balls, hand balancing, and bodyweight exercises. This is a great opportunity to focus on your strength and form to complement and enhance your yoga practice. This class is good for all levels; from beginners to seasoned yogis. No matter what level of fitness you will be challenged and have fun. Monkey strength training will help you build core strength, supplement and improve your yoga practice, increase your cardio endurance, and give you agility and full body integrated strength.

CampYoga is a vinyasa-style flow class set to music. The Open Level class is open to beginners, but the style is fast paced and students should have some knowledge of sun salutations. The Level 2/3 class is appropriate for students with 1+ years of vinyasa style yoga experience. Class begins with a few gentle partner body balance stretches, formally opens with the traditional Ashtanga Chant (vande gurunam) and a focus on Ujaii breath, and moves into a series of sun salutations, with modifications, combined with stabilization and strengthening exercises. After the warmup, students move through a standing sequence, a seated sequence, and end with finishing poses, pranayama, and savasana. The work is based on elements from classical Ashtanga, alignment principles from the Iyengar style, core work, acrobatic strength training, contemporary dance sequencing and technique, and acrobatic-style arm balancing and partner work. The spiritual emphasis is broad, with a grounding in mindfulness practice, Vipassana meditation, and the cultivation of self and other love through self-reflection. Everything in the class is optional (except breathing!) and students are invited to modify any pose as needed. You can do 500 extra pushups or watch the whole spectacle from child's pose, if you'd like! It gets hot & sweaty, so bring a towel and some water. To get more information on the class, and on Laura Camp, please visit lauracampyoga.com.

Gentle Yoga Gentle floor work and restorative poses to open the body, quiet the mind, and move into a deep sense of relaxation. Use of props makes class accessible to all ages, abilities, and body types

Iyengar yoga is based on the teachings of B.K.S. Iyengar. This system emphasizes precise alignment and use of props such as blocks and straps and blankets to enable each student to benefit from the therapeutic effects of every asana with respect to physical limitations and abilities.

Vinyasa style classes are inspired by the Ashtanga tradition, but do not stick to the ordered series. The postures are strung together with sun salutation and breath in almost dance-like sequences. Class concludes with forward bends and backbends. Advanced classes include inverted postures.

Mom/Baby/Toddler Yoga This is a class for all Mamas (or Mamas to be...) who want to move, re-energize, invigorate and restore. Cynthea will lead you through asanas that you can take home and experience with while your baby or toddler is next to you content, or 'cue-ing' to engage with you. The student will be guided to explore her body/mind consciousness. The student will be supported to hear her body's inner wisdom as guide, as a practical way of living. We will cultivate our intuitive knowing in this class. All classes are drop-in. Cynthea's current teacher is Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of BodyMind Centering. The principals of Body/mind centering are the foundation of how Cynthea is exploring her asana practice. "If you want to see which way the wind is blowing, look at the sand. If you want to understand how the mind is moving, look at the body." B.B. Cohen. Please phone Cynthea with your questions at (510)986-9370

Bendy Berry Toddler Yoga (ages 2-3) This toddler yoga class is a mixture of yoga games, stories, beginning postures and movement. The class encourages physical and mental development while introducing kids to the language and movement of yoga, with some laughter along the way. Parents will need to be nearby for wrangling and although you needn't participate, kids really love to crawl through parent down-dog tunnels. Class Maximum 15; Drop-in is fine; Mats provided; Please bring water bottle for child. More information at Bendy Berry Yoga.

Bendy Berry Preschool Yoga (ages 3-5) This pre-school yoga class is a mixture of yoga games, stories, beginning postures and movement. The class encourages physical and mental development while introducing kids to the language and movement of yoga with a little laughter along the way. Parents can drop-off if child is at least 4. If child is younger, I would ask parents to stay in the room. Class Maximum 15; Drop-in is fine; Mats provided; Please bring water bottle for child. More information at Bendy Berry Yoga.

Bendy Berry Preschool Yoga (ages 5-9) This yoga class will introduce kids to beginning asanas (postures) and meditation while building body awareness, strength and mindfulness. At this age, I believe in a Òspoonful of sugar.....Ó so I incorporate yoga games, stories, movement and group exercises, with a big emphasis on fun and laughter. Minimum age is 5 and children must be enrolled in Kindergarten to attend. If you have a five-year old who is still in pre-school, check out my Friday pre-school class. Class Maximum 12; Drop-in is fine; Class cards available; Mats provided, but as these are shared mats, you might want want to bring your own; Please bring water bottle for child. Please come early if it's your first time Ð life with kids is all about paperwork! More information at Bendy Berry Yoga.

What is yoga? YOGA is derived from the Sanskrit root "yug" which means to unite, yoke, join, and combine. Yoga thus means to create, to make something new from existing elements, to connect our intelligence with our chosen subject free from distractions. It is the unification of our body, mind, breath, and spirit. Hatha yoga is the physical path to integration. "Ha" means sun and "tha," moon. Together, this translates as appropriate force or determined effort, making our bodies hot like the sun and our minds cool like the moon, balancing our active and reflective energies. Hatha yoga is regenerative exercise, not contortionism. It is the art and science of loving, healing effort sustained over a lifetime.

This practice removes the obstacles that prevent humans from moving their bodies and minds freely. (Wrap your mind around the idea of wrapping your arms around your leg and back, simultaneously -- and enjoyably!). Properly practiced, yoga tones the muscular, digestive, nervous, and endocrine systems, balances our hormones, aligns the skeleton, removes toxins, drains the lymph, repairs our tissues and organs and provides us with more energy. The "yoga buzz" is a natural high that heals our appetites and increases our self-confidence, clarity, and love for the natural world.

ASANA is posture, to sit with, to embody. Positions are often named after animals, scholars, sages, warriors, and archetypes.

To MONKEY is to express your creativity, to move during the asana, to use a tool such as a block or a strap or to make a variation or substitution while fulfilling the intent of the original asana. "Monkey see, monkey do" is the most direct form of learning available to all simians, with or without the aid of sophisticated larynxes.

PRANAYAMA is the rhythmic control of breath. PRANA is the energy within all living beings. AYAMA is lengthening. Pranayama breathing techniques promote the full flow of our most basic fuel. The conscious elimination of carbon dioxide and consistent intake of oxygen repairs and revitalizes each cell in the body.

SHALA is school.