We have a style and level for everybody. All of our teachers offer expert instruction and offer helpful suggestions and adaptations to poses when necessary. If you are new to yoga or are unsure where to start with our classes please contact Amy at 429-3303 and determine the best level and style for you.

Our styles

Our classes are based on many styles of yoga, but have more influence from Interdisciplinary, Baptiste, Anusara and Iyengar yoga. Our yoga teachers pull from these various influences differently and additionally draw from their own backgrounds. The "power" classes have less focus on instruction of details and have more focus on flow of the breath and deepening of the postures. In these classes people want to sweat and flow, rather than stopping to learn details of the pose. The "hatha" classes have more focus on details and alignment in the easier levels and becomes more physically challenging at the "hatha vinyasa" level. Vinyasa is a faster-paced breath-linked yoga. There are no pauses in between poses (though there may be long holds).
If you are new to yoga, start with a "basics" class.
We encourage people to stay at their own pace and level of challenge. With our expert instruction you are able to discover the vitality and health that yoga brings. TAYS' Chiropractor, Dr. Brent MacNeil, believes so deeply in yoga and its benefits, that he will pay for your first yoga class. He recommends TAYS yoga class Wednesday evenings at 7:00pm with Leanne Whiting.
“Practice yoga in a way that makes you want to do it again.” – Mike

HATHA

Hatha Basics

This is a beginner level class with emphasis on coordination of breath and movement, and also on safety and alignment. It is slower paced offering modification(s) for less flow and easier transitions. Our teachers can offer modifications or props when necessary to avoid strain or stress with certain poses, allowing everyone to obtain benefit and joyful practice. This class is a great place to start practicing, especially if you are new to yoga or enjoy learning the details of the poses.

Hatha Vinyasa

This is more challenging class that still offers details and props but only when necessary. The teacher will often work on specific postures and details of the poses that need attention. There is more flow or "vinyasa" in the class than with Hatha Basics, which will increase the heat in the body and start to challenge the heart and the lungs in addition to the muscles and tissues.

Workshop class

Maxine's Thursday lunchtime class will be a workshop style class. She will focus on different topics depending on needs and requests by students. Each month will have a different focus. In January the focus will be on backbends and in February Inversions. If you would like to request a theme for future classes please email Maxine

Hatha Aligned

This class integrates qualities of the heart with the bio-mechanics of the body through applying specific and powerful alignment principles based on ANUSUR© yoga. The class is a practice of deepening one's awareness in the attitude, alignment, and action of each pose.

POWER

Power Basics

This is a challenging yet accessible vinyasa class. This class links breath to movement to get the heart rate going, focuses on foundational postures and deepens the understanding of alignment. This class is a great place to start practicing, especially if you enjoy a bit of physical challenge.

Power Hour

This vinyasa class is more challenging than the power basics. This is a 60 minute modified All-Levels flowing class that will take you to your edge.

Advanced Power

Building on Power Basics, the sequences are more complex, including more challenging poses or variations. However it is not the complexity or challenging asana that make this class Advanced. It is the call to focus, listening and being part of a group while working strongly as an individual that gives this class its Advanced status. It is recommended to have some experience in power basics or a big, burning desire to step up to a whole new level of focus and awareness.

SPECIALTY CLASSES

Ease into yoga in a "gentle" way ... instead of a "yang" flowing practice slow things down for a "yin" practice ... or de-stress and find your breath in a meditation class ... we can help you find yoga during pregnancy or after having your baby ... classes can be for you and eventually can be for your children as they grow up. Our various styles of yoga are available throughout the week:

Flying Yoga Therapeutics

Leanne Whiting teaching is teaching this class Thursday nights at 7:00pm. Flying Yoga Therapeutics roots from the Acro Yoga lineage (www.acroyoga.org) and is a practice that combines the art and movements of two people, one as a flyer, and one as a base. It uses gravity and metta (loving kindness) to therapeutically release and open the flyer's spine while grounding and trusting the stability of the base. The flyer uses minimal effort to receive the numerous benefits of inversions, while the base guides, and therapeutically heals the flyer.

Flying Yoga Therapeutics for Beginners uses asanas (poses) to open the body, introductory level Flying Forward Folds, and Flying Back Bends, combined with the healing art of Thai massage. It is a practice that helps build strength, flexibility, while restoring balance to the body. Is this class for everyone? Yes! No experience is required - only an openness to physical contact with others. If this is a sensitive area for you, bring a friend or partner that you're comfortable making contact with. This class runs from September until June.

Gentle Yoga

Our Gentle Yoga classes are taught by Maureen Nowlan, certified yoga instructor and retired nurse, and Mike Munro, certified yoga instructor and registered physiotherapist. Allow our teachers to help you ease into yoga. Gentle Yoga classes ensure that your yoga experience is a good one. These classes take place Tuesday mornings 9:30-10:45am, and Thursday afternoons at 1:30pm until 2:45pm.

Yoga Life Coach

Yoga Life CoachingTM is a life coaching program offered by Tomomi Kojima, is a LIVE LOVE TEACH Affiliate teacher as well as a Certified Yoga Life CoachTM.

Do you want more connection with friends and family?
Do you want to love your current career more or shift gears entirely?
Do you have big dreams but no real idea of how to reach them?


A Yoga Life CoachTM can help you shift into the life that you really want to live, and it's quicker and easier than you think! Working with a coach is a practical action step that can change your life, today.
Yoga Life CoachesTM are trained to support your agenda and needs while helping you to dissolve the life-long blocks, troublesome patterns and limiting beliefs that prevent you from moving forward with the life you really want.
These sessions take place every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month starting January 2012. Please use a chit or pay for an individual class to attend.

Meditation class

Friday mornings at 11:00am. This course looks into the reasons why meditation practice can be helpful in our daily lives. By learning and applying the techniques of meditation on tranquility in the course and at home, we will try to discover for ourselves why we would want to utilize this practice.

 Mike is a yoga and meditation teacher and a student of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, who has been practicing and studying meditation and yoga since 1992. For more information check out our Meditation page.

Moms and Babes

Tuesdays 1:30-2:45pm. Five to six weeks after having your baby, you and your baby are invited to return to, or newly begin your yoga practice. These post-partum yoga classes are therapeutic in nature and focus on restrengthening the pelvic floor and abdominal muscles and relieves stress to shoulders and neck from nursing and/or carrying the baby. Classes are taught by Jolene, certified yoga instructor who has also completed her pre and post natal yoga certification. Moms usually continue with these classes until babies are 12 months old.

Parents n' Tots and Youth Yoga
classes from September to June

Kerry is a certified hatha vinysasa yoga teacher and is a certified Certified Radiant Child Yoga Teacher. She loves sharing the experience of yoga with children of all ages. Kerry brings to her classes, a light-hearted nature, a passion for psychology and healing, and a desire to guide people in finding a sense of balance, peace, joy, and overall well-being in their lives. She is excited to begin sharing yoga with young people as they take on the various experiences and challenges they encounter while growing up. Parents n' Tots classes are Wednesdays at 11:00am (ages 2-5) and Youth Yoga Wednesdays from 3:45-4:45pm (ages 6-11). These children's classes run from September until June. Kerry has started teaching her sessions as Themed class. What fun! A Christmas theme in December, a winter theme in January, Valentines in February and an Easter Theme in March.
Please fill out and bring this form to your first class.

Cost for these classes 5 chits for $47.50* OR drop in for $10 per class. *The family yoga prices are for one adult and one child; additional children/family members add $5 each.

Pregnancy Yoga

Pregnancy yoga classes focus on preparing the body for labor and delivery. Postures open the pelvic parameters, strengthen the legs and improve posture, breath capacity and awareness. Many moms return after having their baby informing us how helpful our pregnancy classes were in preparing them and guiding them through the delivery of their baby. Jolene and Hillary are extremely gifted in teaching pregnancy yoga with their backgrounds and experience. Pregnancy yoga takes place Saturdays at 11:00am and Tuesdays at 5:30pm. Please join us during any stage of your pregnancy.

If you are interested in Midwifery or Doula Services during your pregnancy please check: Doula services Certified Birth Doula and a Certified Lamaze Birth Educator In addition to regular pregnancy classes, T.A.Y.S. offers a workshop called "Yoga Birth" with Robyn Berman and Jolene d'Entremont. This workshop will help you and your partner feel empowered during your pregnancy, delivery and beyond.

Yin Yoga

Sunday nights at 7:30pm by Helen Fong. Yin Yoga contains the ancient, and some say original, form of asana practice. In a yin class postures are held for longer periods of time and are often supported with props to allow a deeper release. It is because of these long holds that the deeper structures of the body are opened, stretched and awakened. Years of a dedicated asana practice will make anyone healthier, stronger, and more flexible, but at some point the muscles will have reached their limit of flexibility. New depths in postures, deeper ranges of motion, or an increased flow of energy may only be achievable by focusing on the deeper tissues of the body. This is why so many students are finding Yin Yoga to be the perfect compliment and balance to their more active, yang practices. Come and discover this wonderful style of practice.

Therapeutic Approach Yoga Studio gives back

We support and have supported many projects and ideas with our donation classes including: Feed Nova Scotia, Halifax Shambhala Center, Nalandhbodi Foundation and Power of Movement (Arthritis Foundation). We also sponsor a 6 year old child from Shri Lanka named Pavritha Medagoda.

 

If you would like any further information please talk with one of the instructors. We would be pleased to answer any questions.

Hope to see you soon!

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