Class Descriptions

Our spiciest offering! Power Flow is a challenging and rewarding practice suitable for all levels of practitioners. When practiced regularly, you’ll create accelerated results in your overall body strength and confidence. The class begins with sun salutations to create heat where movement is linked with breath. Then you’ll raise your vitality through crescent lunges and twists, increase your equanimity through balancing poses, experience grounding, and ignite your spine in backbends. We’ll finish up with floor-based stretches and the opportunity to be still and let the whole practice settle into your bones. Classes are 60 or 75 minutes and the room is heated to 90 degrees. (If the temperature is super hot outside in summer, we’ll drop the class temp to 80.) 

Haven’t been to Power Flow before? That’s totally alright —  beginners are welcome! Come on in, and give it a shot — this is a safe place to try new things.

Medium spice! Half Vinyasa Flow, Half Yin Yoga. Have a full-spectrum yoga experience with this crowd favorite. This class combines Power Flow with the benefits of passive Yin postures. Spend the first 30 minutes in Power Flow then lay on the floor for Yin poses designed to tone the connective tissue, tendons, and ligaments. Arise feeling renewed, restored, and ready for the rest of your day. Room temperature is 90 degrees. (If the temperature is super hot outside in summer, we’ll drop the class temp to 80.)

Super mild spice. Yin yoga is known as the quiet yoga. Many of the most popular forms of yoga are fundamentally “yang” in nature, based on rhythmic movement of the muscle. Yin yoga, in contrast, tones and nourishes connective tissue (facia, joints, ligaments, and tendons) which can enhance our range of motion and overall physical well-being.

Postures are practiced on the floor, and each is held for a period of 3 to 15 minutes. Yin is a discovery-based yin yoga practice accessible to all backgrounds and body types that teaches you to relax, connect, and accept the present moment. It utilizes longer holds in the poses which allows for more focused energy medicine — meditation, breathwork, acupressure, reiki, yoga nidra, and other healing modalities. As a result, you can access a balanced state, and your body can be energized with a new flow of prana or life force. Room temperature.

Medium spice. A playful flowing journey working stability and mobility, strength and ease. Soulful Flow is an opportunity to try on some new moves, transitions, poses with support and guidance and support as we flow. Requests taken at beginning of class. All welcome. Room heated to 80 degrees.

Mild to medium spice. The class offers a lot of variety and focuses on creating space for natural healing of the body through moving energy, strengthening the core, improving balance, and releasing tension. Movements will be paced with the breath to start, with longer holds to lengthen tight muscles, nourish connective tissue, and provide deep mental relaxation. More modifications are offered than in our Power Flow classes, and the holds are shorter than in our Yin classes. This class is accessible to all levels of physical conditioning and experience and is ideal for beginners, athletes, seniors, and pre- and post-natal students. Room temperature. 

A super chill offering! Restorative Yoga involves complete rest with no load placed on the body and promotes health through postures supported by bolsters and other props. We work very hard in our lives, and while we may sleep, we rarely take time to rest. Restorative yoga poses help us learn to relax and rest deeply completely free from physical tension. 

Mild Spice! Chair yoga is a gentle form of yoga that is done sitting on a chair or standing on the ground while using the chair for support. Chair yoga participants can enjoy all the benefits of yoga, including improved muscle tone and mobility, increased breath capacity, stress reduction, better sleep, an improved sense of well-being, without having to get up and down from the ground. This class is free - sponsored by the Namaspa Foundation. Join us at Discovery Park Senior Home on Thursdays at 11:30.

Our most chill offering. Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation that helps calm the mind and relieve stress. It is designed to allow you to step into stillness and take time to nourish yourself. Yoga Nidra offers tools to reach a state of deep rest, improve the quality of sleep, and calm the nervous system for deep relaxation. It is called "yogic sleep" though it is not sleep — it helps you access a level of relaxed wakefulness that is even more restorative than sleep. (often incorporated into workshops, Restorative and Yin Yoga)

Embracing the universal wisdom in the 12 Steps and the yogic teachings, this class allows time for you to share about wherever you are on your journey, so you can find peace in your body.

Namaspa hosts the longest running kids yoga classes in Central Oregon! Children ages 3-7 years old take class with a certified teacher, while their parents practice the BEND Power Flow in a separate room. Classes include calming breath work, mindful games, sun salutations, moving like animals, and story topped off with age appropriate discussions about kindness, nonviolence, and how we can live yoga. Class size is limited and pre-registration online is recommended 2 hours in advance.