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Begins Fall 2025! 

About Vinyasa Yoga - 

Vinyasa yoga is a flowing, dynamic sequence of poses and one of the most  popular styles of yoga within the United States today. Also called   Vinyasa Flow, Power Yoga, and Power Vinyasa Yoga, this type of practice  involves synchronizing the breath with a continuous flow of postures.   The fluid movements increase flexibility, strength, and stamina, as it  calms the mind and improves overall health. 

You do not have to have the desire to teach yoga to take this training. You can take this training for your self-care and personal growth. Come spend 7 inspiring months with amazing yogis while diving deep into the practice and study of yoga!

Our Next Training Begins Fall 2025! 

For more information visit our 290 Hour Training Page. Please click below for more information. 

January 2025!

Dive deeper into your yoga practice and your personal growth! Do this with a great group of yogis and teachers that are committed to doing the same. Please join us for a 30 Day Commitment to Your Practice, a 30 Day Commitment to Your Health, and a 30 Day Commitment to Your Self Care. 

Here are the details:

• Prizes are awarded to yogis completing 26 classes in 30 days.
• The 2 students attending the most classes will receive studio $$ to use toward any purchase at the studio. 
  • First Place receives a $200 studio credit. 
  • Second place receives a $100 studio credit.
• The cost of the Challenge is $71. 
  • This includes all of our regularly scheduled classes both heated and non-heated.
  • NOT INCLUDED in the challenge - special classes, events, workshops, trainings, and master classes.
• If you would like to participate in our 30 Day Yoga Challenge: 
  • visit our website to register online Register
  • send us an email,
  • or message us at (407) 494-5758 and we will set it up for you.

We're looking forward to completing this Challenge with you! Register

POWER YOGA WITH BRYAN KEST

Join us Saturday, November 23, 2024 for a full day of yoga with Bryan Kest!! Time:

• Power Yoga with Bryan Kest 9:30a-12p
• Long, Slow, Deep with Bryan Kest 2p-4:30p

Price:

• Power Yoga Master Class $75
• Long, Slow, Deep Master Class $75
• OR both classes for $140

Bryan Kest's Power Yoga Master class is a well rounded, flowing asana practice integrating spiritual practice that enhance everyday living. The class is designed to invigorate the body and develop a calm, less reactive state of mind while practicing dynamic, flowing sequences. In Bryan's Power Yoga Master Class students are encouraged to focus on the spiritual process and not the end result. This allows ALL levels of yoga practitioners to enjoy and benefit from the experience.

Refund Policy - one month prior to event Full refund less $50 - after 1 month prior to event NO REFUNDS

Join us Saturday, November 23, 2024 for a full day of yoga with Bryan Kest!! Time:

• Power Yoga with Bryan Kest 9:30a-12p
• Long, Slow, Deep with Bryan Kest 2p-4:30p

Price:

• Power Yoga Master Class $75
• Long, Slow, Deep Master Class $75
• OR both classes for $140

In Bryan's Long, Slow, Deep class we will move slowly, deeply and safely into deep stretching poses. Students who have taken Long, Slow, Deep often rave about how it makes them feel (great!) Long, Slow, Deep is a workshop special treat which Bryan does not usually offer. Long, Slow, Deep is a valuable balance to our usual Vinyasa Yoga Practice. Long, Slow, Deep may just be one of the most powerful classes we will take in our life! Bryan had a couple of objectives when he created Long, Slow, Deep. First of all, Bryan wanted to give students a deep and challenging alternative to the myriad of Vinyasa and flowing yoga classes. He wanted students to have a choice of yoga practices that may not involve Sun Salutations or Standing Series. Bryan wanted to offers students a practice that is utterly potent without focusing on strength, endurance or even building much heat. Secondly,Bryan wanted students to experience the benefits of holding poses a little longer, giving massive areas such as hamstrings, groin, hips, shoulders, etc., more time to release and go deeper into poses. This is truly an amazing routine!! It is by FAR the most difficult class Bryan teaches, yet we rarely leave the floor. The challenge of Long, Slow, Deep is mostly primarily mental but hang in there, be patient and keep breathing deeply and fluidly. This class is suited for students of all levels.

This workshop qualifies for credits earned toward Altamonte Springs Yoga's Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training Program.

Refund Policy - one month prior to event Full refund less $50 - after 1 month prior to event NO REFUNDS

Teaching Yin Variations, a 20-Hour practicum intensive. This is our Foundations Yin Yoga Teacher Training. We will guide the student-teachers through a review of the 3-Stage cycle of a Yin Yoga practice:
#1: Explore and Communicate. Through some schematics, charts, and lots of movement and chanting, we will explore and communicate with the body and guide it into a shape, a posture that follows its unique landscape of twists, turns, tensions and compressions. We will learn how and where to “listen/ observe” and how best to respond to the evolving needs of the body and mind.
#2: Be still and surrender. We will study what it means to “go deep” into the body with Yin Yoga, as well as what it means to “go deep” into the mind and emotions and spirit with Yin Yoga. We will compare and contrast these aspects of Yin Yoga with seated Chakra meditations techniques, as well as Yoga Nidra Practices.
#3: Rebound. Passively and steadily observe the flow of energy (i.e. chi, prana, “life force”) released on the exit of a Yin pose. We will discuss life-force channels of different traditions. We will turn to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras for a look into our deepest endeavors of all our yoga practices, to truly know ourselves.However, the primary objective in Teaching Yin is to offer the budding Yin Yoga teachers time and space and guidance to use their voice, as well as precious feedback from teachers and colleagues.
The Yin teacher’s two voices:
Group leader: Each student will guide colleagues into the “3-Stage Cycle of Yin.”
One-on-one consultant: After a review of all 5 Yin Yoga Archetypes, the anatomy and variations, each student will practice “Narrations” with fellow students.
Combining these practicum exercises, one gains the ability to speak fluidly and succinctly to lead students into their unique shapes and needs. More importantly, one learns when to stop speaking and listen deeply and understand the unique needs of each student. Details:

• Dates: Friday, December 6 - Sunday, December 8, 2024
• Times: Friday 6p-8p, Saturday & Sunday 9a-6p
• Instructor: Joe Barnett ERYT500
• Fees: $400 Early $450 Late or add the Advanced Yin TT for $750 Early $850 Late. Discount Deadline is November 1st, 2024. 
• Link in bio or use this link - https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=12529&stype=-8&sTG=23&sView=week&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000049&date=12/06/24
  

Join us Friday, December 6th & 13th, 2024 from 6-8 PM for especial Yin Yoga Master Classs with Joe Barnett, part of our Foundational Yin Yoga Teacher Training! Whether you're a seasoned yogi or just beginning your journey, this class is designed to help you explore the depth and stillness of Yin Yoga.

What to Expect:
A deeply restorative, meditative practice that targets the connective tissues, promotes flexibility, and calms the mind. Perfect for winding down your week and rejuvenating your body.

This class is open to everyone, not just those in the training! Come and experience the magic of Yin Yoga with us.

Details:

• When: Friday, October 6th & 13th
• Time: 6-8 PM  
• Where: Altamonte Springs Yoga
• Cost: $50 Early $60 Late Discount deadline is November 1st, 2024
• https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=12529&stype=-8&sTG=23&sView=week&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000049&date=12/06/24
  

Don’t miss out on this peaceful, healing evening!

Reserve your spot today.

This is our Advanced Yin Yoga Teacher Training.

This course is for those with at least a rudimentary understanding of the 5 Yin archetypal postures and the courage to explore the variations within each. Together, we will review the fundamentals with discussions and within practice.
I will present the basics of the anatomy of variation, the 3 Phases of the Yin Cycle, and the 7 Windows of Communication. These have proved successful models that I developed as a framework for the Yin Yoga teacher to guide their sequences fluidly: From deep stretching, to quiet observation/meditation/reflection, to gentle mobilization and recovery, and easeful returns to the top of the cycle again and again.
The bulk of our time will include lots of practicum and feedback. The four practice-teaching exercises/games called Narrations, Dialogues, Invitations, and Verbal Assists will develop the courage, self-confidence, voice projection, and comfort-in-silence needed to be a solid Yin Yoga teacher. With the right training, teaching Yin Yoga can regularly offer mental, emotional and spiritual development to the teacher as well as the students. Details:

• Dates: Friday, December 13 - Sunday, December 15, 2024
• Times: Friday 6p-8p, Saturday & Sunday 9a-6p
• Instructor: Joe Barnett ERYT500
• Fees: 
  • $400 Early $450 Late or 
  • add the Foundations Yin TT for $750 Early $850 Late. 
  • Discount Deadline is November 1st, 2024. 
  • Link to register https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=12529&stype=-8&sTG=23&sView=week&sLoc=0&sTrn=100000049&date=12/13/24

MyLinda Morales Hutchings E-RYT® 500, YACEP® 

MyLinda's classes are a favorite among Central Florida and North Carolina yogis. MyLinda's reputation for strong, therapeutic, alignment-based yoga classes and trainings combined with deep spirituality and compassion make MyLinda's yoga classes and yoga teacher training programs highly sought after by local, national, and international students.

MyLinda has been passionately interested and involved in prayer, meditation, fitness, and health  for over 43 years. MyLinda began formal prayer and meditation instruction at the age of 14 with the Capuchin Nuns of Amarillo, Texas. MyLinda began practicing yoga in 1994 (29 years go!) and has been devoted to the service of yoga ever since! MyLinda is registered with Yoga Alliance® as an E-RYT 500®, Experienced Registered  Yoga Teacher, which is the highest level currently available. MyLinda  has over 7,000 hours of yoga training, over 12,000 hours of yoga teaching experience, and 1,000s more hours in personal practice. In addition, MyLinda has been teaching yoga since 1996 and training teachers since 2002. MyLinda has a fondness for yin yoga and has been studying it since 2014 (9 years). 

MyLinda's Full Bio

Renee is a compassionate and talented sound healer who has dedicated her  life to helping others find inner peace and balance. She has spent  years studying the power of sound and how it can be used to promote  physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. With a deep understanding  of the human energy system and a wide range of instruments and  techniques at her disposal, Renee is able to create a soothing and  calming environment for her clients. Whether she is working with  individuals or groups, Renee's calming presence and intuitive nature  make her a valuable resource for anyone seeking to improve their overall  health and well-being.

Renee is also a certified yoga teacher through Yoga University of Florida. 

About Yin Yoga - Yin Yoga is a very simple practice. We  settle into an asana for 3-7 minutes and slowly relax our muscles to  allow the deeper drier tissues–the connective tissues that wrap our  muscles and make up our joint capsules–to be safely and therapeutically  stretched, stimulated, and strengthened.
The alignment rules of the  postures are also simple, but more importantly, they are functional and  organic: We listen to our bodies and lead ourselves into the shape that  follows the natural contours of our spine, pelvis, and hips.

Gong baths are a type of inactive meditation, where you “bathe” in the healing vibrations of sound.

Using  sound as a form of healing dates back to ancient cultures. Records of  using gongs have surfaced from as early as ancient Egyptian, Greek, and  Roman times. 

“Gongs have been used as shamanic healing tools,  celebratory instruments, and a method of communication for thousands of  years. Evidence suggests that gong making was known as early as 4,000  B.C. and ancient alchemy sources put the gong as far back as 16,000  B.C.,” says sound healing practitioner Britta Hochkeppel. 

Additional physiological benefits heart rate and respiration rate slow down and come into balance during a sound bath as the parasympathetic nervous system is activated. Some studies have even shown that nitric oxide (which regulates physiological processes related to good health) in the blood increases.