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When: Tuesday, October 8, 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: 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.