Class Schedule
Schedule
Weekly Zoom Classes
Mondays 9 - 10:20am: Zoom!
(80 minutes)
Sundays 10 - 11:20am: Zoom!
(80 minutes)
Please click here to access google calendar view of class schedule.
Due to my performance schedule in September (see weplayers.org for details) the following classes are canceled:
Sundays September 8, 15, 22, 29
Monday September 9
Saturday Sangha
Once a month, we practice together. Practice begins at 10am
Zoom! (password: yoga)
Currently on pause.
IN PERSON at Radiate Studio in Sebastopol!
Sweet Surrender: softening the psoas, unwinding the hips, soothing the lower back
An Autumnal Equinox Extended Practice
Saturday, September 21, 4-6pm
A gentle celebration to welcome the shifting season and the shortening days. Wind down from the heights of summer while unwinding the great holding places of hips and softening, spreading, and soothing the lower back. This extended practice will incorporate a warmth generating flow sequence followed by long holds in supported postures to maximize release and relief throughout the hips and lower back. We practice softening into intensity - cultivating steadiness and presence as we move into our places of discomfort and dredging our ‘stuck spots’. Ava’s hands-on adjustments are both gentle and deep and will support students in seeking sweet surrender within the postures. Fall freely and with ease into the autumn months, a time of both harvest and restoration.
Donation Based Practice
I am pleased to offer classes in my virtual yoga shala by donation. Especially during these strange pandemic times, some folx have experienced significant changes to income. If you are able to contribute $15-20 a la ‘regular’ studio drop-in rates, thank you for doing so. If not, please simply make a minimum $5 donation per class. If you need to make special arrangements, or are a regular student who would prefer to receive a monthly invoice, please contact me directly at agentava@gmail.com.
How To Donate
Students are invited to make a donation for the class in any of the following ways:
Zelle: agentava@gmail.com
Paypal: agentava@weplayers.org
Venmo: @agentava
"If you work on yoga, yoga will work on you."
- Baba Hari Das
Class Descriptions
Click here for class descriptions for the following special offerings and workshops
Regular Zoom Classes
These classes happen weekly at regularly scheduled times (see above) on Zoom. Classes are a strong and steadily paced ashtanga vinyasa freestyle, which I adapt to best support students as they develop their own unique yoga practice. Wednesday evening sessions more closely follow the traditional ashtanga primary series, including the opening and closing chants.
First Saturdays: Community Practice
In these community practice sessions scheduled on the first Saturday of each month, I will simply call out the Sanskrit name of the postures and we'll move together. For newer students, it may be more challenging, but you are joyously welcome to join and follow along as best you can, just rest in child's pose whenever you need to. For more advanced students, I'll start with primary series and gradually layer in second series postures over time.
Monthly Extended Practice
Designed for dedicated students to 'go deeper'. The extended practice is a 2.5 hour session incorporating seated meditation, pranayama, and preparation poses prior to a rigorous flow in the classical ashtanga system. Sessions will include half or full primary series, as well as introductions to postures from the second series. We conclude with restorative postures leading into a deep Savasana. We practice softening into intensity - seeking ease and deep release as well as building strength, stamina, and focus. Time TBD when class is scheduled.
Physical Distance Practice
An occasional “physical distance” practice held throughout shelter-in-place held at Miller Knox Regional Park in Point Richmond, California. Practice begins at 10am; Savasana will conclude by 11:30am. There will be an opportunity to roll up your mat and depart at that time. For those who wish to stay, pranayama and meditation will be offered from 11:30am-12pm. Practice concludes by 12pm.
“You are what you repeatedly do”
- Aristotle