Yoga Workshops
At Breathe we are committed to deepening our understanding of yoga. The Breathe workshops and special events are led by international, national and acclaimed local teachers with a passion for sharing their practice, whether its asana, ways of caring for our bodies, how to breathe or the philosophy and history of yoga. Please join us in celebrating the infinite variety of yoga in these informative and often transformative workshops.
Anyone can enroll in a workshop and members of Breathe are often given a percentage off of workshop tuition.
Teacher: Kim Salloux
The summer solstice marks the longest day and shortest night of the year. Join us at Breathe for a candlelight yoga flow to welcome summer. Kim Salloux will guide us through the seasonal ritual of 108 sun salutations (also known as a yoga mala) to bring in the new season and invite the sun into our hearts and lives. The repetition is both meditative in nature and physically challenging and purifying. This will be a donation based community class open to all levels and experience. All proceeds from the event will be donated to the Pan-African Acupuncture Project. Please plan to join us for this heart centered practice. We will begin at 9pm (yes 9pm!).
Teacher: Jennifer Prugh
“Enlighten” your practice as we learn what is required of the mind, the breath and body to invert and balance on your hands. We will break down the essence of specific poses, such as the rotation of our limbs, the critical nature of weight distribution, the illusive but highly significant contribution of the “bandhas” and where we place our mind. We’ll look at how to ground our poses through extension and sustain our postures with breath. We will explore variations for intermediate, and advanced practitioners as well as modified postures as building blocks for those beginning to entertain the notion of flight -- and we’ll have a great time doing it!
Teacher: Suzanne Sterling
Join Suzanne on this ecstatic mind/body immersion into the heart of soulful self-expression. This practice will combine yoga asanas with sound, ecstatic movement, pranayama, and guided meditation, leading you to access your own true voice and embodied creativity to Sing Yourself AWAKE!
Through vinyasa flow yoga, conscious movement, chanting and singing, we will break free from the stifling grip of the inner critic and focus on freeing the natural voice; allowing our creativity to expand and tapping into our sacred self as well as our connection with the Divine.
Join us for a juicy fusion of chanting, meditation, trance dance, ritual and prayer.
Teacher: Joanne Varni
The Gentle Yoga/TRE workshop combines the ancient practice of yoga with the modern discovery of the Trauma/Tension Release exercises developed by Dr. Bercelli. The yoga portion of the workshop will have sequences that facilitate natural healing and will help stimulate and warm up the specific muscle groups that will help activate or "turn on the switch" for the neurogenic tremors. TRE is a gentle technique that promotes neurogenic tremors in the body by using simple exercises to release stress or tension that accumulate from every day experiences of life, difficult situations, immediate or prolonged stressful situations, or traumatic life experiences. The "shaking" originates deep in the core of body of the psoas muscles initiating tremors that start in the legs and often move throughout the body. The technique can help to restore balance in tense muscles, alleviate pain, and calm the nervous system.
The workshop will begin with an hour of gentle yoga followed by the TRE exercises with ample time for questions and discussion.
Teacher: Kent Bond
Teachers: Talya Lutzker and Endless Summit
Come together with community to venture and rock climb in Castle Rock State Park located in the Los Gatos mountains, enjoy delicious and nutritious catered lunch prepared by Talya's Kitchen and return to Breathe for a cooling restorative yoga class with Talya. Yoga and climbing share balance, mindfulness, self exploration and movement. This day of adventures will inspire individuals to build community, learn new skills, explore the breath, feel empowered, and relaxed.
What to expect:
-- Learn knot tying and climbing commands
-- Learn basic safety
-- 2 climbs (class size dependent)
-- 1.5-3 mile hike to climbing area with spectacular views of Monterey Bay
-- All climbing gear included (harness, helmet and shoes)
-- This incredible offering is open to all levels of climbing and yoga experience. Must be somewhat physically fit to participate.
What to bring:
-- Comfortable clothing appropriate to the local weather conditions - you can climb in the same clothes as you'd like to wear in yoga. Or, bring separate yoga attire
-- Water and snacks, lunch will be provided
-- Sun protection: hat, sunblock, sun glasses
-- Comfortable hiking shoes
Teacher: Lorien Neargarder
“Before we begin our yoga class, does anyone have any physical limitations they need to tell me about?”
Often times, a yoga teacher will start class this way. If your students mention their cancer experience, what do you know about their long-term affects, limitations and necessities? With better screening and effective treatments, more and more of us are surviving a cancer diagnosis. Are you prepared to answer question like:
- I’m done with treatment and want to return to my active practice, so what class should I attend?
- What are the practices I should avoid, and what should I be sure to include?
- I completed my treatment last year; can I practice heated yoga?
- Are inversions okay if I am a head/neck cancer survivor?
Teacher: Michael Stone
Students of all levels are welcome. This workshop is beneficial for teachers interested in learning the depths of practice and how to bring those depths to life with students.
Michael Stone is a renown Yoga teacher, Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist based in Canada. He integrates Vipassana, Zen and Yoga and runs a thriving studio in Toronto that integrates Yoga, meditation, and social action. He has authored five books, most recently Awake in the World: Yoga & Buddhist Teachings for Living an Engaged Life." www.centreofgravity.org
"Michael Stone's teaching brilliantly reveals the profound underpinnings of yoga which are rarely taught or understood. His demonstration of the interdependence of theory, practice and daily life makes yoga work on a level that will truly transform our minds and hearts, as well as our bodies.”
– Richard Freeman, Director of The Yoga Workshop, Boulder, Colorado
Teacher: Pearl Wang
Core, core, core! There is always an aspect of core conditioning in flight. However, in thisworkshop, we focus on how core conditioning exercises can be fun and playful. Yes, really!The balance aspect in flight helps to build strength in a variety of ways making core workfun again.
Teacher: Jana Kilgore
This transition time from Summer to Fall is an excellent time to do a short cleanse of a more simple diet to strengthen our center, physically & energetically. Nourishing our digestion will increase our immunity.
~Simple cooking for Summer/Fall cleanse
~Sweeter foods of the season to focus on
~How to do a 3-5 day Cleansing Diet
~Build the Manipura Chakra at the Solar Plexus
Teacher: Pearl Wang
Do you aspire to greater heights? Is Flight class on your ultimate to-do list? The Freedomof Flight series brings you a high-flying workshop designed to take you off the ground andinto the air! Safe, fun, and powerful, come learn Flying Lotus Yoga and what it takes tomake it to the top!
Teacher: Kira Ryder
This course is designed to develop or enhance our understanding of the physiological practicality of Self Love and offer techniques and practices that might enrich the soil for your Heart to bloom. Our time together will be a combination of practice and discussion weaving together the teachings of the sages with the latest discoveries of the scientists.
Teacher: Pearl Wang
The Flying Lotus Yoga series at Breathe Los Gatos takes your yoga practice off the matand into the air! Made for all participant levels, this unique style of aerial yoga offers anincredible method of conditioning, strengthening, and lengthening. Come learn how tobuild on focus areas by refining your yoga practice in ways beyond the traditional yogasetting.
Teachers: Joanne Varni and Kendra Ford
Through the practice of self-inquiry, renewal, and healing we touch upon the deeper aspect of the self, which is connected, centered, and whole.
Please join Joanne and Kendra for a powerful, yet gentle workshop focusing on the integration of mind-body-spirit. We will begin the workshop with a Gentle/TRE asana practice, which will allow tension to be discharged from the body in a very safe and natural way through neurogenic tremoring. TRE is a gentle technique that promotes neurogenic tremors in the body by using simple exercises to release stress or tension that accumulate from every day experiences of life, difficult situations, immediate or prolonged stressful situations, or traumatic life experiences. Moving into the subtle body, we will guide you through a meditation bringing your focus and attention into the chakra centers promoting chakra healing, chakra cleansing, and chakra balancing. You will then be invited to explore the healing elements of creative expression, where we will work with colors and embodied practices, taking the meditation into a deeper level of inquiry and understanding. To complete the workshop, we will come together for one final circle to close the afternoon.
Teachers: Talya Lutzker and Endless Summit
Come together with community to venture and rock climb in Castle Rock State Park located in the Los Gatos mountains, enjoy delicious and nutritious catered lunch prepared by Talya's Kitchen and return to Breathe for a cooling restorative yoga class with Talya. Yoga and climbing share balance, mindfulness, self exploration and movement. This day of adventures will inspire individuals to build community, learn new skills, explore the breath, feel empowered, and relaxed.
What to expect:
-- Learn knot tying and climbing commands
-- Learn basic safety
-- 2 climbs (class size dependent)
-- 1.5-3 mile hike to climbing area with spectacular views of Monterey Bay
-- All climbing gear included (harness, helmet and shoes)
-- This incredible offering is open to all levels of climbing and yoga experience. Must be somewhat physically fit to participate.
What to bring:
-- Comfortable clothing appropriate to the local weather conditions - you can climb in the same clothes as you'd like to wear in yoga. Or, bring separate yoga attire
-- Water and snacks, lunch will be provided
-- Sun protection: hat, sunblock, sun glasses
-- Comfortable hiking shoes
Teacher: Desirée Rumbaugh
A special 2-Hour Master Class with Desirée Rumbaugh.
Teacher: Jana Kilgore
Fall is a time for nourishing our deeper tissues, hydrating against the inevitable dryness of the season & strengthening the lungs.
~Savory soups & broths for Fall
~Spices for lung strength
~Autumn bounty of veggies & upcoming holidays
Teacher: Jana Kilgore
Ojas is immunity, inner essence & juice of life that is stored within the heart & the whole body. When our ojas/immunity is high & healthy we glow with radiant strength & are seemingly indomitable to sickness. Winter is the time to nourish our immunity & life force energy through more yin practices & diet.
~Warming soups & vegetables as your focus
~Feeding your kidneys & adrenal glands
~Ojas building foods
~Adrenal tonics for deep strength
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Yoga Class Prices
| Drop In Class | $19 |
| -Drop In (with a member) | $12 |
| -Drop In (Teacher/Student) w/ID | $12 |
| -Drop In (Senior 65+) | $10 |
| 5 Class Pass | $80 |
| 10 Class Pass | $150 |