Welcome to Blue Sky Yoga

We are a small, locally owned vinyasa yoga studio. We don’t have hundreds of classes a week with dozens of instructors. We do offer small classes with personalized instruction by experienced teachers who have been practicing and teaching for over 20 years. We teach yoga as a tool for transformation of Body, Mind, and Spirit:

YOGA BODY
Yoga teaches us how to carry our physical body efficiently and sustainably through life, how to move through the activities of our day with energy and ease, head high and heart open. We learn how to use gravity to create space in the body, vs. succumbing to the relentless, aging pull of gravity. We realize how good we can feel when the body is properly balanced and aligned, allowing energy to move freely. Yoga is a proactive approach to aging well, and an investment in being well now.
The Ten Systems   The Basic Movements and Their Benefits

YOGA MIND
Have you ever tried to stop thinking? cease the constant internal dialog? stop the monkey mind? Yoga helps us quiet the mind by demanding our full attention and by bringing our awareness again and again to the breath. Whenever you are completely focused your awareness resides in the here and now; the mind temporarily ceases its judgment of the past and speculation about the future. What a relief! The practice of yoga is an excellent way to cultivate focus, concentration, and awareness.

YOGA SPIRIT
Something powerful happens when we free the body and quiet the mind. It is difficult to put into words; we may point toward it, but not actually define it. Yoga is a way of living and being, of learning to deepen our awareness moment to moment, to develop a quiet mind, a vibrant and energetic body and to awaken love, compassion, and intelligence. When asked “Are you a God or a man?” the Buddha replied, “I am AWAKE.”

YOGA IS NOT:
Just for flexible people or the young and fit. Yoga is accessible to everyBODY. The more inflexible you are the more you will benefit, though it may be more challenging. Consistent, dedicated practice will make you stronger, more flexible, and more balanced in body, mind, and spirit.

A magic bullet. It is a complex system of movement, a demanding practice requiring patience, focus, and hard work. Yoga helps release the blockages in the body the inhibit energy flow - translate as the flow of blood, oxygen, lymphatic fluids, electrical currents in our nervous system, prana or life energy. This is one reason we feel so great after practicing. With consistent practice, this quality and quantity of energy becomes addictive. It is good to feel good.

Easy. It may be strong and challenging or gentle and restorative, but is an elaborate exercise system that takes a lifetime to learn and the only place to start is where you are. Don’t be afraid to work hard but listen to your body and honor your limits. Modify the poses as needed and instructed for your level of strength and flexibility.

Necessarily safe and sustainable. Unless we take time to learn structure and alignment, develop core strength, protect our joints, honor our limits, and listen to the body’s feedback systems (pain, breath, energy flow) our practice cannot safely grow and evolve. The concept of developing a sustainable yoga practice that will serve us into old age is quite different from the ego based ambition to conquer difficult poses.

A religion or cult, or even necessarily a spiritual practice. There are many styles of yoga that are very devotional, dedicated to a particular guru or teacher, and demand rigid adherence to some form of authority. Recent research indicates that yoga as we know it in the west originated as something call Danish Gymnastics! We vehemently avoid all forms of dogma, lineage, or singular devotion, while wholeheartedly acknowledging the transformative effects of this (or any) practice that tunes the physical body and awakens consciousness.

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