There are a variety of hatha yoga classes available. Some are scheduled weekly, others are scheduled surrounding events and special occasions at Ananda Portand.

Experience Hatha Yoga in:

• Beginners Yoga
• An Extra-Gentle Approach to Yoga
• Intermediate Yoga
• A Meditative Approach to Yoga

Each class offers personalized instruction and your experience is focussed on your personal level of ability and intention. Learn and practice how to safely do forward bends, backward bends, twists, and inversions. Every asana (pose) may be adapted in a variation that fits you.

Beginners Yoga

These classes are designed to nurture, calm, and provide a deep feeling of inner renewal. You'll enjoy expert instruction in Ananda Yoga, including the essentials of safe technique, enabling you to continue your practice at home. Learn how to adapt the postures to your own level of flexibility and experience, while exploring the spiritual dimensions of hatha yoga and the yoga/meditation connection.

An Extra-Gentle Approach to Yoga

This class supports healing of body, mind and spirit and is perfect for those who are working with limitations. You can do yoga! This gentle approach to yoga is ideal for helping to experience the benefits of increased flexibility, improved circulation and more energy.

The postures are geared to suit a variety of skill levels. In this chair-based series, students will learn to modify postures, in order to stay within the safe limitations of their bodies. Breathing techniques are used to deepen the body’s ability to relax and recharge.

In this class we will explore:

A simple warm-up routine that helps to increase flexibility as well as tone areas of the body.

• Extra Gentle Yoga asanas
• Affirmations to help the mind focus on positive qualities.

Intermediate Yoga

Have you been practicing yoga for awhile and are looking to take your yoga practice to the next level? Are you wanting to explore yoga postures as an aid to your own inner awakening?

This class provides a deeper experience of yoga for intermediate students or advanced beginner, (those who have practiced yoga postures for at least seven months). This program is physically satisfying and gives an understanding of postures as a path to inner awakening.

We will go more deeply into the practice of pranayama (energy control) with each yoga posture. By holding the postures longer we will deepen the inner experience of breath, energy flows, and affirmations. We will also have short discussions of yoga postures that relate to yoga philosophy and delve into making yoga a much more integral part of your life.

Ananda Yoga Teachers are registered with Yoga Alliance