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When: Tuesday, October %*d, 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 with flowing poses and breathwork 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: Today’s class inspired by a request for hip opening yoga class.

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Class Outline

• Welcome
• Breathwork
• Opening Stretch
  • Wide-leg forward fold with bolsters
  • Seated 1 leg forward folds LR
  • Pigeon
• Warm-up
  • Boat variations
  • Neck and arm circles
  • Cow face legs and arms
  • Cat-Cow
  • Plank - Side plank - Supported side plank
  • Cobra - Side leg lifts
  • Childs pose
  • Downdog - Bear Pose Flow
• Standing Poses
  • Low lunge - Half-split flow
  • High lunge - Pyramid pose flow
  • 3-leg Dog with knee taps - Fallen star
  • Flip Dog
  • Warrior II Flow
    • Warrior II
    • Side Angle with Arm Circles
    • Reverse Warrior
    • Triangle
    • Warrior II
    • Humble Warrior II with clasp hands behind back
  • Half Moon
• Cool Down
  • Childs pose
  • Pigeon with a block under the leg
  • Down Dog
  • Wide leg forward fold
  • Malasana
  • Reclined Twists
  • Savasana
• Closing

Notes

I thought I was going to have a repeat guest in my class, so I wanted to do something different than Thursday, so I picked this inhale-exhale meditation as a centering activity. But, she didn’t show.

For the 7:30 class, a woman requested a hip-opening flow, so I made up the sequence above on the fly, based on previous classes, especially one I just happened to go to on Monday. For the 8:30 class, one of her coworkers was in the gym and I hustled him into letting me teach him a few breathing techniques and the Warrior poses.