About Yoga

  Our teachers practice personal yoga styles, suitable for someone beginning with yoga (Gentle Yoga, Chair Yoga, Beginning Yoga) or having a continued practice (Ashtanga Yoga, Hatha Yoga, All Levels Yoga). Mindful stretching, balance and breath awareness consider individual limits, with options for challenging postures. Encouraged to test our abilities through physical effort and mental focus, classes are taught with humor, able to smile at ourselves, without judgement.

What do we need to start?

      Yoga is adaptable to many circumstances, even moving from a chair. There are no contraindications to practicing yoga. Doctors, mental health professionals and physical therapists all recommend an appropriate level yoga practice.

      Wear comfortable clothes for sitting on the floor. Bring your own yoga mat, purchase one at the studio, or use one of our extra mats. Avoid eating a large meal before class.

      Class movements are within our ability. We breathe with a slow easy breath, giving ourselves the chance to let go within a stretch.

Mindful Mountain Yoga offers a yoga teacher training and mentorship program with a 200 hour certification and yoga teacher diploma.

STUDY: Research Reveals the Molecular Link Between Meditation and Well-Being.

Meditation helps activate the human immune system. Medical researchers from 4 U.S. universities, and meditation centers, were involved in a novel, comprehensive genomic study of how meditation affects the biological processes directly involved in disease development and discovered a immunity-boosting molecular mechanism underlying yoga practices. “We show that yoga and meditative practices enhance immune function without activating inflammatory signals. The study demonstrates that non-pharmaceutical interventions like yoga and meditation can voluntarily influence the immune system.” ~Vijayendran Chandrana, Professor of Pediatrics & Neuroscience, College of Medicine, University of Florida. Key immune systems and related pathways are dramatically upregulated without activating the inflammatory signals. Plus, the response to oxidative stress, detoxification, and cell cycle regulation pathways was downregulated. Oxidative stress plays an essential role in causing chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. Suppression of oxidative stress, as well as inflammation, is one of the central strategies for treating these diseases. from Dr Loren Fishman