PPY News & Events

CORE AND STRENGTH YOGA WORKSHOP WITH RACHEL SMETANA

March 10th. 1-3pm.  $35 pre register. $40 day of.   

The core is your symbolic center of power.  It is where your center of gravity originates and where you find strength for your posture, yoga poses, balance, support for your back and all of your everyday movement.  Creating a strong and stable core is the single most important aspect of a fit and balanced body.

 Rachel will lead a strong flow that incorporates specific poses designed to strengthen the core. The class is balanced with poses that will lengthen the core muscles as well as creating long and lean abs that will help stabilize and establish power in all movement.  This workshop will give you a direct experience on how to work deep strength from the inside out!

This class will be both challenging and exciting!  As a result, you will feel the work you’ve done on your abs the next day.

A discussion of the function and application of the  tranverse abdominus, rectus abdominus, and the internal and external obliuques will be included in this workshop.

This workshop is appropriate for both beginners and more experienced students. 

Cost of Workshop: $35 pre-register and $40 Day of. 

Please join Rachel Smetana and Portland Power Yoga for this Core/Flow workshop with a KICK!  

Discussion on the transverse abdominis, rectus abdominus, internal and external obliques. Their function and how to work them. 

After teaching them how to “fire” their core, I’d like to have them incorporate this when doing High plank to low plank (utilizing core strength to help when asking the upper body to be strong) then also with lower body poses, crescent lunge, firing your core, and then arm balances and how you MUST fire your core in order to perform them…. Even shoulder stands. 

DATE: TBD!

Yoga Nidra with Anne Esguerra

Sunday, Feb. 24, 2012.  6:30-7:30PM

Students with Class Packages - $5
Drop In - $15



Yoga Nidra brings an incredible calmness, quietness and clarity. Yoga Nidra is one of the deepest of all meditations, leading awareness through many levels of mental process to a state of supreme stillness and insight.Yoga Nidra means “Yogic Sleep.” It is a state of conscious Deep Sleep. In Meditation, you remain in the Waking state of consciousness, and gently focus the mind, while allowing thought patterns, emotions, sensations, and images to arise and go on.In Yoga Nidra, you leave the Waking state, go through the Dreaming state, and into the Deep Sleep state, yet remain fully awake. Join us for this special class to relax & rejuvenate, help combat insomnia & stress, and discover the benefits of conscious deep sleep. 


Please note: This class is separate from class packages
Please feel free to bring any props, bolsters, or blankets so that you are comfortable enough to lay in Savasana for the duration of the class.

Mindful Eating with Jessica Curran

Sat. Feb 25th, 1-3PM

$35/$40 day of workshop.

This ALL-NEW workshop is for those who would like to improve their relationship to food. 

In this UPDATED workshop we will review the principles of Mindful Eating and introduce Intuitive Eating, an approach that teaches you to respond to your inner body cues. By practicing Intuitive Eating, you will gain the ability to trust yourself and enjoy a world of satisfying eating and a sense of freedom that can be exhilarating! 

If you are ready to take your yoga practice to the next level and into your life, and improve your relationship to food, this workshop is for you! Those who took the first workshop will find this a comprehensive review as well as an introduction to the next phase of their improved relationship to food, and newcomers will find this powerful all-inclusive workshop and will leave with tools they can put into practice immediately! 


COST $ 35 PRE-REGISTRATION, $40 DROP-IN

BLUE OSA RETREAT:  Pacific Bliss!  MARCH 24-31, 2012!

Portland Power Yoga of Portland, Maine is hosting a weeklong retreat led by Certified Baptiste Power Vinyasa teacher, Alice Riccardi. While on this retreat, enjoy the power of a simple and effective daily meditation, a morning power flow practice, optional late afternoon yin yoga and evening yoga nidra session along with open time to explore on your own - touring the beautiful and luscious country that is the Osa peninsula, getting an acupuncture treatment or massage, or just enjoy the chance to rest and rejuvenate quietly beachside or poolside. Please join us for this wonderful opportunity to rest and reconnect to the ease and flow of life!