May you be happy and peaceful, 
May you be free from pain and fear,
May you live with love and compassion,
May you fully awaken to your greatest potential

Welcome to Heart Filled Yoga - Vinyasa style yoga taught by Kris Lowe.  .
Woodinville WA

Joyful, Empowered, Inspired

Release stress from your mind and body and open your heart to a life of joy and gratitude!

Yoga Weekend in the San Juan's
The dates are set for 2012!!

May 4-6, 2012
Registration now open!!
http://www.canoeisland.org/adult-programs-mainmenu-104
 

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Photos from 2010 Yoga Weekend
Photos from 2009
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Pose of the Week Archive 2008
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Yoga allows us to open ourselves up and remove the obstacles that keep us from our center.  Allow yoga to create a path that takes you to your heart.  To who you are when you are at your very best. To your source of joy and inspiration.

How yoga brings us back to a sense of wholeness:

 1.      Body – Yoga opens the body to release tension – allowing the breath and life energy to flow more easily and for our own natural healing systems to work effectively.  Yoga also builds strength, balance, and flexibility in the body, helping us feel better and stronger as we resist the harmful effects of our busy stressful lives.
2.      Mind – Yoga clears the mind – by focusing on the body and the breath we become free of the mental clutter that causes stress.
3.      Breath - Steady, even breathing activates the parasympathetic nervous system “the relaxation response” instead of the sympathetic nervous system “the fight or flight response” – stress.

 These three things work together to create the state of relaxation and well being we experience after a yoga practice, leaving us feeling more balanced and free in our body.  Remember, the poses themselves are not our goal, they are the means to our goal of returning to our center; to who we are at our very best.

 The structure of our class 

1.      We begin with a few moments seated on the floor, focusing our mind on our breath to set the tone, centering.

2.      We move into a gradual warm up of the body.  As we warm up, we move with each inhale and each exhale, flowing with our breath.  We progress from simple movements, awakening, to combining movements in flowing sequences, energizing.  We finish our warm up with a Sun Salutation (a flowing sequence that energizes the whole body)

3.      Next is the standing series.  We focus on poses that strengthen and lengthen the body, develop concentration and balance.  Each pose is held about 5 breaths and the poses are linked together in flowing sequences.  We always balance both sides of the body.  Between series, we move through a vinyasa (moving with the breath) to keep heat up in the body.

4.      We then move to the floor for deeper stretches.  Poses may be held a little longer and focus on forward bending, back bending, twisting, hip opening, and inversions.

5.      The last few minutes of class we move into final relaxation – resting on the mat.  This is a time for our bodies to absorb our practice and for our energy to balance.  Receiving, restoring, releasing, renewing.  We have a short meditation and then slowly move back to a seated position to close with “Namaste” – a Sanskrit word which means “My spirit honors your spirit”.

Class schedule:  (Gold Creek Tennis and Sport Club, Woodinville WA)

Mondays and Wednesdays 6:15 pm
Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:15 am
Saturdays 10:00 am

Contact Information                 

Kris Lowe   kris@heartfilledyoga.com