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When: Friday, October 4, 2024 from 7:30 - 9:30 AM
Where: The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe
With: Tahoe Flow Arts and Fitness
Description: Yoga at Ritz is a fun class for all levels and ages. The class synchronizes the breath with music and movement to build stability, flexibility, and mindfulness. These classes typically follow an arc of opening awareness, warm-up stretches, standing poses, balancing poses, inversions, grounding poses, and relaxation. There are two classes, one at 7:30 and one at 8:30. I adapt each class to the students who show up.
Theme: I used today’s class to beta test a flow I’m working on for a private group yoga class next Saturday. The sequence is pretty similar to most of my classes with breath-work, warm-up, standing poses, inversions, and relaxation. However, this time I added what I call ‘Sun Salutations with Affirmations’. We make a list of 10 affirmations then say them outloud with each new asana in the Sun Salutation.

Class Outline

• Welcome
• Write Affirmations
• Centering Breath-work
• Warm Up
  • Neck and Shoulder Circles and Twists
  • Seated Forward Bends
  • One Leg Forward Bend
  • Cat + Cow
  • Childs Pose + Cobra + Childs Pose
  • Down Dog + Bear Pose Flow
• Sun Salutation
  • Once with Only Cues
  • Once with Affirmations
• Standing Poses
  • Warrior I Flow
  • Warrior II Flow
  • Goddess + Wide Leg Forward Fold
  • Warrior III + Standing Split
  • Tree Pose
• Core Work
  • Boat
  • Bow and Swimmer
  • Bridge + 1 Leg Lifts
• Relaxation
  • Legs Up Wall
  • Knees to Chest
  • Reclined Twists
  • Happy Baby
  • Gratitude Savasana
• Closing

Notes

For today’s class I beta tested the sequence I am preparing for a private beach yoga session on October 12. It went really great. For the 7:30 am class a friend who works at the Ritz showed up, so I felt comfortable testing it on her. I was able to work out a few kinks and decided to rearrange a few songs in the playlist.

For the 8:30 class, no one showed up initially, but then a woman came in to do yoga on here own, but after chatting for a bit, I convinced her to let me teach her a few things. We did the Sun Salutations with Affirmations together, and she loved it. She took a photo of the board to keep for herself and to share with her yoga teacher friend. She was there with her family for a 3*day mountain marathon race to bring awareness to children with disabilities.