Kevin Courtney

Level 1

5 mins

Cool your body and calm the mind with a breath practice known as Sheetali pranayama, or cooling breath.

Centered in Bliss

Centered in Bliss

Generate space and rediscover the bliss stored in the abdomen using breath, bandha, twists, backbends, forward bends, and meditation. The teachings of hatha yoga suggests that your center governs your state of mind. Science also suggests that the health and wellbeing of your gut directly affects your mood. Yogic practices address this mind-body connection and empower you to manage your state of being and recognize the undercurrent of bliss (ananda) that is your essential nature.

Conscious and Clear

Conscious and Clear

Vinyasa

36 mins

Develop conscious awareness (cit) within your body in this full body practice. A vibrant mixture of standing poses, twists, and pranayama (breath work), this practice encourages you to awaken fields of awareness and intelligence within both your physical and mental bodies.

Being in Alignment

Being in Alignment

36 mins

Build awareness to the connection of hips to thighs with subtle and repeating alignment cues. Open your hamstrings, low back, and hips while building some heat.

Energize and Expand

Energize and Expand

36 mins

This purifying and energizing practice is aimed at activating your vital energy. Focus on moving energy up from the base while exploring bandhas (energy locks), kriyas (purification exercises), twists, and backbends.

Surrender Through Practice

Surrender Through Practice

32 mins

A down-tempo practice that explores the subtlety of surrender using floor-based postures, hip release techniques, and moving meditation. TThe practice of Ishvara Pranidhana (self-surrender) is to attune your awareness to the purity of presence in yourself and others. Perhaps the most refined version of the practice of Ishvara Pranidhana is to offer yourself up to the graceful and intelligent flow of divine consciousness that unites us all.

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Self-Reflection Through Practice

Self-Reflection Through Practice

Observe your thoughts, feelings, and behavior from an objective perspective is central to the practices of yoga. To study habitual patterns through meditation, contemplation, and the study of ancient texts is what the yoga tradition calls svadhyaya, or ‘self study.’ Join this reflective practice to help explore your own inner terrain. The practice includes moon salutations, longer-held standing postures, seated twists, meditation, and contemplation. Like moonlight reflecting off of a calm lake, so the mind stills and the ever emergent light of the Self can be seen.

Peace Through Practice

Peace Through Practice

Focus on approaching the challenge of being at peace with whatever arises. The sequence includes surya namaskar (sun salutations), balancing postures, standing postures, handstand, backbends, and some quieting closing postures. It’s through the process of meeting yourself well in the practice that you hone the subtle yet powerful skill of cultivating contentment out there in the world.

Purification Through Practice

Purification Through Practice

32 mins

Participate in the process of saucha (self-purification) with this dynamic practice created to help restore a feeling of physical and energetic vibrancy. The practice includes standing postures, twists, backbends, jumping jacks, and a deep savasana. That’s right… jumping jacks. Don’t judge. The condition of your body directly affects your state of mind. Physical inertia, stagnancy and tension can suppress your mood and, over time, influence the way you think about yourself and the world around you.

Restore Trust

Restore Trust

Restorative

Embrace a series of prop-supported postures to invite space for the gifts of yoga practice and offer you the stillness to trust the natural intelligence of your body, heart, and mind.

The Flame of Transformation

The Flame of Transformation

Stoke your inner fire, known as tapas in the yogic tradition, through this energizing practice. Begin with a gentle standing warm up followed by a shaking practice to release stuck energy in the body. From here dive deeper in to several standing and kneeling postures, breath exercises, and then to the wall for the second half of your practice to engage in wall-supported poses to turn up the heat. Close with soothing floor based postures to cool and release the body. A blank supporting wall is needed for much of this practice.

A Centering Practice for Devotion

A Centering Practice for Devotion

An energetic practice placing the currency of your attention on three primary centers: heart, navel, and root. As we generate heat through standing poses, forward folds, side bends and twists, experience the naturally occurring alchemy of change that comes with that level of presence, focus, and dedication.

The Seed of Intention

The Seed of Intention

You may have had a yoga teacher ask you to set an intention - but what does that really mean? Join Kevin Courtney in this class that will illuminate the process of truly cultivating and orienting around intention, or sankalpa.

Release Tension and Reset

Release Tension and Reset

Empty out stuck energy through this unique combination of breath work (pranayama), core strengthening, twists, and shaking movements. Aimed at awakening the body's vital energy and reducing stress, this practice invides in the yogic state of emptiness, shunya, to elevate you to a refreshed and renewed vantage point.

Awakening to Immortality

Change Your Perspective

Awakening to Immortality

Yoga Talks

15 mins

The practices of yoga can help us to learn how to deal with death in a more powerful and honest way. In this session, learn how the breath - specifically the stillness that follows the exhale - can be a tool to awaken our awareness to the impermanence of life. This simple shift in awareness can offer you more strength in the face of inevitability.

Take It Easy

Sunrise Yoga

Take It Easy

34 mins

Life is challenging enough, our yoga practice doesn’t always have to be. Experience the potency of this rhythmic and yet restorative practice to lubricate the hip joints and spine. Release into a state of deep relaxation with supported savasana.

See More Deeply

Change Your Perspective

See More Deeply

Yoga Talks

15 mins

In this session, we will develop our ability to see greater depth within the people and experiences around us by bring our attention to the presence of universal consciousness.

Slow. Strong. Centered.

Sunrise Yoga

Slow. Strong. Centered.