Yoga Boutique

CHAIR YOGA

Don't let physical limitations get in the way of experiencing the benefits of yoga! Chair yoga is a fantastic alternative to classical yoga, especially for those with injuries, balance issues, or age-related concerns. It's a gentle and supportive way to stay active and healthy.
Exercising in a group provides a powerful social motivation that keeps you accountable and pushes you to work harder than you might alone. It also fosters a sense of community, reduces stress through shared experience, and ensures you're following a structured, professionally guided routine.

Weekly Monday classes at

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Paschimottanasana
Intense stretch to the West.
Stretching from the heels to the head.
This pose sometimes requires a prompt to lift the sternum to lengthen the spine, by drawing the shoulders away from the ears and working the dorsal spine slightly forward.
Now this is established Eric is free to work on the action of the legs.

Photos taken last Thursday 5.30pm class.

Thanks Eric.

If you are thinking about your mobility and want to try a yoga class to see what it has to offer. We are teaching this coming Easter weekend.

Thursday 2nd -5.30pm&7pm
Saturday 4th-8am
Monday 6th-8.30am
Yoga Boutique
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Regular timetable
Monday 8.30am
Monday 5.30pm
Tuesday 5.30pm
Tuesday 7pm
Thursday 5.30pm
Thursday 7pm
Saturday 8am

Kathryn & Ernie

Martial arts and yoga share many similarities. Both seek to connect, the mind, body, and spirit. Both arts improve flexibility and strength through movement and breathing. Through such disciplines greater mobility is obtained by balancing strength training with flexibility. Both will improve your range of motion benefitting both soft tissues and joints aiding a reduction in stiffness.

Developing a good practice in both arts requires discipline. An exemplary figure in Martial arts is Bruce Lee. He developed Jeet Kune Do by combining elements of Wing Chun, fencing, boxing.

Jeet Kune Do is often considered a "philosophy of combat" rather than just a set of techniques. It promotes absorbing what is useful and discarding what is not, making him a founder of MMA.
What we can take from Bruce Lee's training from a stretching perspective is his unwavering discipline. He didn't wait for motivation he stretched every single day.
His routine wasn't complicated, we can identity most of his routine as basic classical yoga poses. Like yoga the focus is on correct form, and fluidity of body movement.
Bruce Lee’s "be like water" philosophy means cultivating extreme adaptability, flexibility, and fluidity in life to overcome obstacles, rather than resisting them rigidly. It urges emptying the mind of preconceptions to adapt to circumstances, like water taking the shape of its container, being both soft yet powerful.

Each stretch class, I think about my students wants and needs. Tonight's stretch class is for Steve our student who has taken up Karate.

See attached article for his daily stretches.

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Erich Schiffman talks about playing the edge in yoga, challenging the body but not violating it. Balancing the movement without pain, but stepping out of our comfort zone. This week is forward bends for example your edge will tell you how far you can go in a forward fold. This edge however, can change, due to lack of practice, injury, or age. It is therefore important to listen to the subtleties in your body as you play your edge.
Go softly and allow each posture to evole.

See you in class.

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Long time students of Yoga Boutique are moving to other cities and countries and that means a few spaces are now available. If you are free Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7pm, consider booking a class. Learn classical yoga with an encouraging smile, in a small fully equipped studio. Each class has a maximum of six students. Each week is different with a a specific focus following Iyengar rotations.
Whatever your age, ability, yoga is always for you and it is never to late to begin your journey.

“Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.” — Amit Ray

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On Facebook today, the baking Queen herself Nigella favours Iyengar Yoga and attends three classes a week.
Awesome

Yoga Boutique will be open as normal Auckland Anniversary weekend.
Iyengar rotational weeks begining on Monday 2nd February :-
Standing Asanas -
Forward Extensions
Backward Extensions
Restorative &aPranayama

Additional monthly Pranayama & Yoga Nidra class.

For timetable and bookings.
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Sunday 18th January at 10am, I will be teaching a short Pranayama, Yoga Nidra class.

https://www.yogaboutique.co.nz/booking-calendar/breathe-easy-class

No Yoga in this class wear unrestricted comfortable clothing.

Thank you Kathy, Michelle, Steph, Steve and Sandra (and Ernie) for joining me and kick starting the New Year in the 8am classes. Looking forward to tomorrow's Restorative class.