This class is an 8-week series for $100, open to all ages. No dance experience is required.
It is an excellent starting place for anyone who struggles to enjoy conventional exercise programs and is looking for fun, alternative ways to get fit, toned, and energized, or just to have fun and experience something new.
In this class, you will learn the foundational movements and techniques of belly dance. You will also learn to understand and appreciate how your body works during dance and how to isolate specific muscles and breathe through movement. Belly dance can increase confidence, relieve stress and tension, and create a time that is just for you to relax and celebrate your body and how it moves.
This beginner series will focus on proper posture and technique that will allow you to learn the foundations of belly dance. From there we will build up to movement combinations. Students should wear comfortable exercise clothes and either bare feet or socks.
So if you're looking for a fun new way to build strength, stamina and increase flexibility, in a safe and nurturing environment, come dance with us!
Series consists of 8 weekly one-hour classes. $100 for the 8 week series.
This class is open to all ages, and students should have taken at least one beginner Belly Dance class with Shanrae or another instructor with a minimum of 6 months of belly dance experience.
Belly Dance is for anyone who struggles to enjoy conventional exercise programs and is looking for fun, alternative ways to get fit, toned, and energized, or just to have fun and experience something new.
In this class, you will continue to build on the foundational movements and techniques of belly dance learned in the Beginner class.
You will continue learning to understand and appreciate how your body works during dance and how to isolate specific muscles and breathe through movement while enjoying movement combinations and short choreography. Belly dance can increase confidence, relieve stress and tension, and create a time that is just for you to relax and celebrate your body and how it moves.
This Intermediate class will focus on continued use of proper posture and technique that will allow you to build on the foundations of belly dance and begin exploring more in depth movements, isolations and layering of movements.
So if you're looking for a fun, new way to build strength, stamina and increase flexibility, in a safe and nurturing environment, come dance with us!
$100 for the 8 week session.
This class is an 8-week series for $100, open to all ages.
This Advanced Belly Dance class is recommended for students who have at least one year of experience in Belly Dance. In this class we expand on techniques learned in the Beginner and Intermediate level classes. The class is focused on learning choreography and developing stage presence while continuing working on drills and conditioning for a healthy dance practice.
$100 for the 8 week series.
Join Paisley Parvati Devi for this special class on select Fridays throughout the year!
We will focus on one Chakra per class and explore asanas (poses), pranayama (breathwork), meditation, mudras (hand gestures), and mantra (sound) to balance each energy center. Classes are from 4 - 5:30pm at The Yoga Place.
This class is a great way to learn more about each of your Seven Energy Centers:
March 14th - Root Chakra
April 11th - Sacral Chakra
June 13th - Solar Plexus Chakra
July 11th - Heart Chakra
August 15th - Throat Chakra
September 12th - Crown Chakra **Note: This session will exceptionally be held from 3-4:30pm at Yoga Central.**
October 10th - Third Eye Chakra
November 14th - All Seven Chakras
$11 per class, or attend all eight classes for $77.
Free for YTT students as an optional part of the YTT curriculum.
Shashi Gupta is preparing a special vegetarian to-go lunch which will be available between 11:30 and 1:30 at Yoga Central on July 12.
Shashi has done cooking programs at Yoga Central before and also was the featured chef in one of our “Vegetarian Supper Club” evenings The proceeds go to support Yoga Central's mission and programs. The full meal is $20.
Chick peas with spinach, rice pilav, 1 bhatura and mango lassi, July 12, around noon, $20.
Please pay several days ahead.
These foods are healthy and easy to digest. Bhatura is a type of fried bread. Mango Lassi is a very poular refreshing cold drink made from mangos and yogurt. It is rich in calcium, and we will cut back on the sugar.
You. are welcome to bring your own container(s), if you want.