Olney Yoga & Wellness teachers have  varied yoga backgrounds - each and every class is a unique reflection of a teacher’s training and authentic style. These descriptions are intended to offer students a brief overview of the classes available, and to help you choose the one that is right for you!

 Linda Evans

 Yoga 1/2  - Moderate: For continuing students who have completed Yoga 1 or who have prior yoga experience.  Students will refine the basic series of poses while building the endurance, strength and flexibility to prepare for Yoga 2 poses and variations.

Natalie Dodson

Yoga 1 Beginner: This is a class for students who have completed an introductory yoga program, students who are returning to their practice after several years, students who are currently at the beginner level or any student who desires basic yoga instruction.  This class will cover basic yoga postures and basic breathing techniques.

Sarah Fishman

Vinyasa Flow - All Levels:This is an amazing practice for students of all levels who want something more out of their practice - more energy, more self expression, more challenge, more breath, more meditation, more spirit.  Vinyasa refers to the fact that the poses are linked together and to the breath to create a powerful and flowing practice.  It is a natural, intuitive way to co-create a yoga practice that goes far beyond the "power yoga" sterotype.  If you love vinyasa or if you've never tried it, come and experience Sunset Flow with us on Sunday evenings.  Students should be in good health and free from any major injuries.

Vinyasa Flow - Levels 1/2:This class is intended for experienced beginners and intermediate students. We'll take hatha yoga postures and start to link them together in cycles of movement, and link breath to the movement and transitions in between the postures. As students begin to master form, structure, and breath, optional amplifications can be explored to guide you through more challenging postures (inversions and backbends) and sequencing, but still with a continued emphasis on the fundamentals of yoga, ensuring that more difficult postures are practiced safely.

Yoga 2/3 Intermediate/Advanced:This class is for students who have a general knowledge of the basic postures and are familiar with or ready to explore more advanced asanas as well as pranayama (breathing techniques), yoga philosophy and meditation.

Peter Gibbon

Gentle Yoga: This class is a designed for students of all levels who desire a gentle, nurturing practice for any reason. The basic postures are presented at a slower pace and with sufficient time and props for appropriate modifications. (This is not a therapeutic class and presupposes a fair to average level of fitness) For those with serious issues where  unaided movement is restricted a better choice to start would be a private session.

Level 1-2-Moderate - Mixed Level Yoga:This class is a mixed level yoga class for students with previous experience in yoga. The class focuses on proper body alignment, combining stretching and strengthening asanas within a vinyasa flow sequence.  This may also apply to more traditional Hatha yoga classes where poses are sequenced but focus is less on flow and more on longer holding to encourage deeper levels of experience within the postures.

Laura Greene

Yoga 1/2 Beginner-Intermediate: This class is for continuing students who have completed Yoga 1 or who have prior yoga experience.  Students will refine the basic series of poses while building the endurance, strength and flexibility to prepare for Yoga 2 poses and variations.

Yoga 2 Intermediate:This class is for students who have a general knowledge of the basic postures and are familiar with or ready to explore more advanced asana as well as pranayama, yoga philosophy and meditation.

Edie Lazenby

Therapeutic Yoga for Special Conditions:

Are you suffering from an injury or condition which makes movement difficult, and keeps you from enjoying life?
Do you cope with chronic pain or is your body just always tight and creaky? Or do you not know where your body is in space?

This class is geared to those students for whom movement is a challenge. We will use Anusara^TM alignment principles that help tune the body with nature so your body can learn to express itself with more freedom. We will move slowly and bring awareness to movement using breath, to help release what is held in and to help create new patterns within the body/mind continuum.
Balance will be addressed, as will posture. We will work on the floor and we will do some standing poses, but there will be props and/or chairs to assist those for whom standing is a stressor. We will not move up and down continuously, but in one plane at a time. We start with the feet and work our way up the body, class by class.

Yoga for the Not-So-Slender Bender:

Celebrate yourself through yoga!
This class is geared for those with bigger bodies, who want to investigate yoga without being intimidated by others or feeling judged in any way.

Yoga is a way to connect yourself, in all aspects: body, mind, emotion, spirit. We will work to develop awareness with breath and movement and challenge ourselves in various yoga poses, as we move from pose to pose and hold poses as well. Props are used as the supportive tools they are, to maximize the benefit of each pose. Every class will end with a deep relaxation where the peace and quiet that yoga gives will be experienced by each student. But more than all this, we’ll have fun getting to know our bodies and each other.

Join Edie for this 4-week short course geared to give you the tools you need to get the most out of who you are.
No experience necessary. All levels welcome and all levels will find a challenge, whether you’ve never worked out before or you already exercise your body