Yoga and Movement Classes

Several independent practitioners offer yoga and movement classes at the Uma Center. You can read descriptions of regularly held classes below. Click HERE to learn about additional classes that are held intermittently at our center (and check the Events Calendar for current days and times).

Gentle Yoga
Taught by Marijka Haverhals

Thursdays, 6:00 - 7:00pm
Enjoy being in your body and connecting to your breath during this supportive gentle yoga hour. Bring more balance to your life with a softer, nurturing, slow-paced and relaxed practice while starting to build deep core strength to support your lower back. Gentle yoga compliments programs to help reverse heart disease and can provide relief from challenging conditions and mood disorders. This is also a great class for postnatal mamas. All body types and abilities are welcome.

Cost: $7/class or $5/class with 10-class punch card

Prenatal Yoga 
Taught by Marijka Haverhals and Ryan Law

Wednesdays, 5:15 - 6:30pm
Prepare for birth and motherhood while connecting with an inspiring community of moms-to-be in this 75 minute Prenatal Yoga Class. With a focus on strength, flexibility and balance practices especially helpful for pregnancy, with breath and visualization/meditation techniques to empower you during challenges including labor and birth. Women during all stages of pregnancy are welcome!
Cost: $7/class or $5/class with 10-class punch card

    For more information about yoga classes, contact the instructor here!

Essential Core
Taught by Ryan Law

 Wednesdays at 7:00pm

Corrective Exercises with Dr. Konrad
Taught by Konrad Grzeszkowiak
Full of Life Holistics
See Events Calendar for Class Times!
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Core muscles provide strength and stability to the entire body. When these muscles are weak the body is vulnerable to injury and comprises to posture.

This class is open to ALL individuals interested in learning how to strengthen and bring muscle integrity back into the body. This class will work with exercises to strengthen core muscle groups, develop endurance and fine tune alignment.

Cost: $5.00 per class. Please bring a yoga mat if you have one.
Decreased activity from sedentary lifestyle creates muscle imbalances that may lead to muscular dysfunction and ultimately an injury. These muscle imbalances drive poor posture that has been directly connected to shorter life spans. Prevent injury, retrain proper motor patterns, and improve your posture with corrective exercise training today!

Benefits:
  • Improve Muscle Imbalances
  • Improve Posture
  • Train your muscles to work synergistically and efficiently
  • Regain your balance
  • Strengthen your core
  • Improve whole body range of motion and function
  • Increase muscular strength, stability, and endurance
  • Prevent injury
  • Increase the ability to overcome whatever life throws at you (heavy boxes, snow shoveling, slippery ground, unstable grounds while hiking, etc.)

This class is open to ALL levels of fitness. Dr. Konrad will be able to modify exercises depending on level of fitness to be challenging but safe and corrective.

Cost per class is $5.00. Please bring a yoga mat if you have one.