SVAROOPA® STYLE YOGA - All levels

Svaroopa® Yoga is a very gentle yoga approach, yet you will be surprised by the profound healing results at all levels. “Svaroopa® Yoga is for everyone.” If you are feeling stiff or out-of-shape, try out Svaroopa® Yoga to find the most essential parts of true yoga teaching. This style is also a wonderful counter-balance for people who are engaged in high physical training or a very stressful life style.

The classes will cover the power of Ujjayi Pranayama (Svaroopa® yoga’s primary breathing technique) as well as the most important poses in Svaroopa® Yoga practice: the Primary Spinal Openers. These poses promote deep internal opening that releases the layers of muscle wrapped around the spine (“Core Opening”), rather than peripheral stretching of other joints, like hips, legs and shoulders. You will experience deeper changes in the body and a deeper meditative inner experience. The release of the tailbone tension affects the entire physical body and the subtle (energy) body. Say good-by to your back pain, neck/shoulder tension, and headaches. You will also experience improved internal organ, glandular and immune system function with deeper and more efficient breathing. You will feel more calm, peaceful, relaxed, healthier and happier.

Svaroopa® Yoga classes explore different themes, building on your body’s releases and on your ability to become aware of the changes in your body. In this class, we will focus on Svaroopa® Yoga Foundational poses (Primary Spinal Openers) to open the spine. We will mainly explore three different themes of Svaroopa® Yoga, including Daily Practice, Lower Spinal Release, and Upper Spinal Release, to create deeper changes in the body (both Lower and Upper Spine areas), and opens a deeper meditative inner experience. Beginners are welcomed.

After her extensive and thoughtful studies of different styles of yoga, Qigong, Pilates and other manual therapies, Ryoko discovered the most benefit (physical, mental and emotional transformation) and true teaching of Yoga in her study and teaching of Svaroopa® Yoga. In addition to different Eastern healing modalities and Western osteopathic manual therapy techniques, Ryoko uses Yoga as an integral part of rehabilitation with great success in Orthopedic Physical Therapy settings.

To learn more about the many benefits of Svaroopa® Yoga and Ryoko, please visit www.HealingSpiritBodywork.com