Classes

Day	Start Time	End Time	Type	Class	Instructor	Attend	Sign Up
Friday	8:30 AM	9:00 AM	Meditation	Morning Meditation	Jeff Goin	Livestream	Sign Up
Monday	9:00 AM	10:10 AM	Kundalini Yoga	Kundalini Yoga	Judith Kenney	In Studio	In Studio
Monday	11:00 AM	11:15 AM	Yoga	Laughter Yoga	Mary Ann Finn	Livestream	Sign Up
Monday	5:30 PM	6:15 PM	Yoga	Intermediate Hatha Yoga	Natalie Hall	In Studio	Sign Up
Saturday	9:00 AM	9:45 AM	Meditation	Medicine Buddha	Jeff Goin	Livestream	Sign Up
Saturday	10:00 AM	11:15 AM	Yoga Becky	Vinyasa Flow	Becky Glenn	In Studio, Livestream	Sign Up
Sunday	10:30 AM	12:00 PM	Dance	Ecstatic Dance	Various Instructors	In Studio	In Studio*
Sunday	2:00 PM	3:30 PM	Workshop	Heart Conversations	Jeff Goin	In Studio	In Studio*
Sunday	4:00 PM	5:15 PM	Yoga	Myssage with Juniper	Juniper Bowers	In Studio, Livestream	Sign Up
Thursday	6:45 PM	8:15 PM	Dance	Ecstatic Dance	Various Instructors	In Studio	In Studio*
Thursday	5:30 PM	6:15 PM	Meditation	Meditation for Everyone!	Jeff Goin	In Studio, Livestream	Sign Up
Thursday	9:30 AM	10:30 AM	Yoga	Chair Yoga	Trish Buerger	In Studio, Livestream	Sign Up
Thursday	11:30 AM	12:45 PM	Yoga	Slow Flow Yoga	Becky Glenn	In Studio, Livestream	Sign Up
Tuesday	9:30 AM	10:30 AM	Yoga	Chair Yoga	Trish Buerger	In Studio, Livestream	Sign Up
Tuesday	11:30 AM	12:45 PM	Yoga	Slow Flow Yoga	Becky Glenn	In Studio, Livestream	Sign Up
Wednesday	5:30 PM	6:45 PM	Yoga	Vinyasa Flow Yoga	Patricia Stone	In Studio	In Studio*

Ecstatic Dance — Dance Church

Come for an hour and a half of free form dance where you can groove however your body wants, by yourself or with others. Bare your soles (and soul), surrender to the music and let your movement be guided by your body’s wisdom. There are no wrong moves. Doors open at 10:30 AM; dance starts at 11:00.

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For in-studio or outside attendance, no pre-registration is needed.

Myssage

Myssage uses movement under pressure to soften and re-hydrate the connective tissue. The pressure is created by your own body weight. The method uses massage balls to penetrate deep into fascial junctions and awaken the nerves which can then stimulate strong signals of healing.
Please note that this class is scheduled using Mountain Time. If you are in a different time zone, be sure to indicate this when registering.

Vinyasa Flow Yoga

Emphasis on moving with the breath in a more continuous flow (and with less instruction): incorporates sun salutations, along with other standing and seated postures for increased flexibility, stamina, balance, and strength. This class is more vigorous than the Slow Flow class – recommended for those who have a regular yoga practice (or know how to modify their practice to fit their body) or for those who are familiar with yoga (or similar practices) and are in good physical condition.

Intermediate level

Medicine Buddha Meditation

During these times of great challenge and great opportunity, support and empower yourself with this powerful practice. Join Jeff Goin this Saturday for a guided meditation during which we draw on the healing, purification, and protection powers of the Healing Buddha.

Morning Meditation

Meditation . . . what a great way to start your day! Please join facilitator Jeff Goin for 15 minutes of unguided meditation, followed by 15 minutes of questions, discussion, and/or commentary. These gatherings are designed for people who are relatively new to meditation, and have an established, consistent meditation practice. For those who aspire to establish a consistent meditation program, but have not yet done so, please contact Jeff at info@LotusCenterSC.org.

Intermediate Hatha Yoga

The Sanskrit word, Hatha, translates literally as “force.” Hatha yoga translates to “the yoga of force,” or anything that we do with the physical body to attain the state of Yoga, which is the blissful true form of the Self. Hatha yoga includes postures (asana), breathing techniques (pranayama), mudras and bandhas (hand or full body gestures), and kriyas (cleansing techniques).

In this Intermediate Hatha Yoga class, students experience some or all of these physical practices. A typical class incorporates relaxation of the mind and body before and after pranayama and postures, which include sun salutations to warm and strengthen the body, followed by a series of traditional asanas with some intermediate level postures and variations. The practice is performed more slowly than in a vinyasa flow style class. It is helpful to have some prior knowledge of yoga and/or be in moderately good physical condition.

Benefits of Hatha yoga include strengthening and increased flexibility of the body; improved awareness of the internal and external state of the body; cleansing of the internal organs, cardiovascular, and nervous systems; and calming and clearing of the mind. These physical and subtle benefits help one towards the attainment of Yoga.

Vinyasa Yoga

An energetic class that synchronizes breath (pranayama) with specific postures (asanas) that builds, in gradual stages, toward a peak within a class session. This flow class is all about continuous movement and breath. The class builds strength, flexibility, balance and endurance. Through the practice there is a natural alignment of the body, mind, emotion and spirit that leads to an experience of peace, power and flow both on and off the yoga mat. Some experience of yoga is helpful but not necessary, as modifications are offered for different levels.

Advanced-beginner/Intermediate

Slow Flow Yoga

Beginner Friendly. Emphasis on moving with the breath in a slow, conscious way: incorporates modified sun salutations, along with other standing and seated postures for increased flexibility, stamina, balance, and strength. The intention is to go slow enough for you to adjust your practice in a way that really fits for you.

Kundalini Yoga

Each class contains a kriya (a series of coordinated movements, postures and breath work), mantra, meditation, and relaxation. Our intention for each class of Kundalini Yoga, as taught by Yogi Bhajan, is to share this knowledge system in order to elevate the individual and improve the quality of life for all who attend. We will modify poses to best serve our bodies, develop the consciousness to become our own best teachers, and uplift each other.

Chair Yoga

Chair yoga is a gentle form of yoga that is practiced sitting on a chair or using a chair for support during standing poses. Yoga is all about moving life force energy (called prana). When living energy reaches every part of our being we experience less pain, more relaxation, and a general state of well-being. Chair yoga helps increase flexibility, lung capacity, circulation, and strength, improves balance, and relieves stress. The class incorporates breathing exercises, stretching, and yoga postures.

Meditation for Everyone! with Jeff

While the coronavirus pandemic is a once-in-a-lifetime event, it’s also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for growth. By undertaking a thorough examination of the recent changes in our world – and, most importantly, our own reaction to those changes – we have an opportunity to transform these times of COVID into a path of healing, growth, and awakening. No meditation experience is necessary. By donation.

Becky Glenn

Becky is a registered yoga teacher (RYT) by Yoga Alliance in the vinyasa (flow) style of yoga – receiving her initial teacher training from Stephanie Keach at the Asheville Yoga Center in Asheville, NC, in 2006. Ever since, Becky has been consistently teaching multiple yoga classes each week – first at the popular intown yoga studio in Atlanta, Yoga Samadhi, then in Silver City after moving here in 2009.

Becky teaches various classes, ranging from gentle to vigorous. In all classes, Becky emphasizes listening to one’s own body and following the breath. Becky brings a tender-hearted, playful spark to the yoga practice, creating an environment to support each student’s intentions and needs . . . while having FUN!

Trish Buerger

Trish is YogaFit I and YogaFit II certified, receiving her training in 2001 and 2003 in Wilmington NC. Trish has her B.S.E in Recreation and Leisure Studies and her M.S.E. in Health Education from SUNY Cortland in NY. Since 1992 she had taught Community Health (now Public Health) classes (Nutrition, Stress Reduction, First Aid, Health and Aging etc.) and various exercise classes ( yoga, step aerobics, water aerobics, weight training etc. ) for the Physical Education program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Trish also developed and taught exercise classes in Wilmington and surrounding counties for the aging population and disease- specific functional movement classes in various exercise studios, churches, senior centers and wherever else there was a need.

Health and fitness has always been a huge part of her life. In 1982 she was involved in a traumatic auto accident which resulted in a brain stem injury, various fractures and over a month in the ICU. She credits great Doctors, the love from family and friends and the fact that she practiced a healthy lifestyle. It is through the journey of recovery that she feels that she can understand and relate to the various abilities of those participating in her classes.

Trish and her husband both retired from UNCW in 2015 and are now loving their life in Silver City. She is very excited and happy to be teaching at the Lotus Center.

Natalie Hall

Natalie is a registered yoga teacher in the Sivananda school of yoga. She was attracted to Sivananda yoga for its medical foundation (the guru, Swami Sivananda Saraswati, was a medical doctor), its consistent and structured asana and pranayama components, and its strong attention to yoga’s traditional roots. A typical Sivananda yoga class incorporates opening and closing chants (Bhakti yoga), pranayama (breathing exercises), and asana practice built around 12 basic postures with variations, and with relaxation between postures.

In addition to Sivananda yoga Natalie is a member of a growing movement of rehabilitation professionals working to “bridge the gap” between traditional allopathic or Western medicine and the ancient knowledge of yoga. She brings this intention to her work as a physical therapist for Gila Regional Medical Center’s outpatient rehabilitation department. Likewise, she is able to help her yoga students work with sensitive or injured areas in their yoga practice in order to achieve more complete movement.

Juniper Bowers

Juniper Bowers is the creator of Myssage, a technique of self-massage based on the principles of deep myofascial tissue release. Juniper was trained as a Rossiter Coach and in Thai Massage and worked for many years as a body worker before synthesizing her expertise into a form of self-massage that can be taught in a class. Juniper has been a teacher for 20 years and a Yoga instructor for 15 years.

Juniper began her training in the tradition of Iyengar Yoga, which places a heavy emphasis on correct alignment. She has since then gone on to study Vinyasa flow and Anusara Yoga and Feldenkrais, hoop for health and balance auditory visual exercises (Bal-a-vis-x). Her style is a unique combination of all of the above. She has taken the best parts of all of the modalities that she has studied to create an experience that is deeply transformative and informative. Juniper expertly blends and offers, an awareness physiology, traditional Yoga poses, correct alignment, techniques for brain and body balancing with a light hearted and playful approach to creating lifelong wellness skills that are accessible for everyone. At the Lotus Center Juniper offers a weekly Myssage class and occasional workshops of Hoop for health and Bal-A- Vis -X. myssage.com

Patricia Stone

Patricia Grijalva Stone was born in Silver City, raised in Bayard, and has recently returned home after 30 years. Her discovery of yoga has positively impacted all areas of her life, so much so that she became a registered yoga instructor in the Vinyasa flow style. Her passion is to share the physical, mental, and spiritual benefits of a regular yoga practice.On a physical level, yoga helps improve flexibility, strength, balance and endurance; and on a mental level, yoga teaches how to cope better with stress by cultivating a sense of ease in both active and passive poses. On a spiritual level, yoga helps to cultivate awareness by allowing the space to connect deeper within yourself. She creates a warm, welcoming environment for students of all levels to come unwind, relax, energize, heal, and strengthen their body, mind, and spirit. Her classes incorporate breath (pranayama), movement (asanas) , core strength (bhandas), flow, and music.

Jeff Goin

Jeff has been teaching and leading non-denominational meditation in Silver City, on a volunteer basis, since 2008. His classes provide practical ideas and methods for improving relationships, overcoming anger, dealing with stress and, in general, establishing and maintaining a peaceful state of mind.

Jeff is a co-founder of Single Socks, a non-profit thrift store in Silver City that donates hundreds of thousands of dollars to anti-hunger programs in Grant County, New Mexico. He is a practicing Mahayana Buddhist since 1999.

Heart Conversations

1st and 3rd Sundays; 2:00 to 3:30 PM

That these times are unprecedented is something everyone understands.

While there’s been a lot of challenge and suffering, it’s also been a great opportunity to reflect and contemplate. Many of us have had the time and mental space to think about and experience things like uncertainty, forgiveness, and being alone. Heart Conversations are an opportunity for us to get together, share our thoughts about some of these important topics, and support each other.

The sharing circles will follow a format similar to that of 12-step recovery meetings. Personal sharing, rather than academic or philosophical views, will be encouraged, “cross-talking” will not be allowed, and all that is shared will be retained in confidence.

All sharing circles will be held outdoors, in the back garden of Light Art Space. Donations are welcomed, but not expected or required.

Please note that these gatherings are in-person, not online; registration is required.

To access, please enter through the big gate (with the Light Art Space sign) on Arizona between Broadway and Spring Streets.

Judith Kenney

Judith Kenney started practicing yoga at age 17 and it has been a source of joy, stability, and confidence in her life ever since. She trained and taught in the Iyengar tradition, which was the core of her practice for many years, and is now fully engaged in Kundalini Yoga and Meditation as taught by Yogi Bhajan. Judith’s teaching focuses on the principle of experiencing the body as a field of non-violence and integration. She is continually learning and growing on this path and wishes to share this wonderful technology with others.

Judith has worked at the Silver City Food Co-op for many years, and loves walking in the woods with her dogs and reading.

Laughter Yoga

Easiest. Join us for a journey of playfulness, breathing, and meditation with the practices of laughing, breathing and clapping. Each session is a bit different and is adapted to the folks who attend. Participants may be invited to enjoy laughter milkshakes, speak in gibberish, laugh in different styles, or play laughter games. The physical act of laughter can decrease stress hormones and provide many health benefits!