Pilates Program
The Breathing Room’s Pilates program is grounded in the principles of Pilates. We focus on the breath, as it is the essential essence of all we do. However, each principle is integral to achieving the true focus of Pilates and a well developed session. All of our Pilates classes, whether classical or contemporary, incorporate these principles and focus on accessing and understanding how each one is used to support and enhance your practice.
The Principles: Breath, Control, Awareness, Balance, Concentration, Efficiency, Precision, Harmony, Flow, Center
Awakening ~ Pilates Equipment
Start your day with an energizing open-level mixed equipment class. The class is designed to energize, challenge, and bring focus to your body and your breath - preparing you for the day ahead.
Centering ~ Pilates Equipment
This open-level class is the perfect afternoon pick me up. Utilizing various Pilates equipment, you’ll get your body moving on your lunch hour while focusing on increasing stability and strength.
Balancing ~ Pilates Equipment
Unwind in the evening with this open-level mixed equipment class. This class will get you moving after a long day and bring focus to your body and breath. You’ll challenge your body as you increase stability and strength.
Advanced ~ Pilates Equipment
This advanced level class takes you to the next level in your Pilates progression. Exploring the advanced Pilates repertoire, such as back bends, inversions, twists, and arm balances, utilizing various studio equipment. This class requires that you have a solid foundation in Pilates with no physical limitations in your back or neck.
Pilates Mat
Pilates Mat is an important element of the Pilates method. In this open-level mat class you will work deeply with the classical repertoire to improve posture, core strength, balance, flexibilty and form while breathing deeply and fully. This class is great for developing the strength needed for equipment classes. Options will be offered for beginners and advanced students looking to challenge their practice.
Pilates Beyond Mat
This open-level mat class is designed to challenge you on your mat. Using various props, this class will get your body moving to improve your stability and strengthen your core. Options will be offered for beginners and advanced students looking to challenge their practice.
Yoga Program
The Breathing Room’s yoga program is grounded in the breath, which serves as our connection to the air element and our access point to freedom. All of our yoga classes weave the element of air throughout as a conscious focus on accessing and understanding how the breath is used to support movement, awareness, and nourishment through the cycles of life. We use the intuitive understanding and qualities of the other three elements: water, fire, and earth to describe the movement aspect of our classes.
Air: Our Breath
Earth: Non-heated, Hatha, Restorative
Water: Cool, Vinyasa/Flow
Fire: Warm, Vinyasa/Flow
Earth GROUND SLOW + STEADY
This non-heated class is designed to align and calm in support of connecting body + mind + spirit. This balanced, grounding, strength-building Hatha inspired practice is spirit engaging, heart opening, and breath focused. Breath (pranayama), and meditation practices may supplement this nourishing practice. This All-levels class is great for Beginners and those looking for a slower more grounding practice.
Water Flow
This steady-paced vinyasa/flow class is for students of all levels in a non-heated room. This class offers a breath-linked series of postures that move fluidly between smoothly flowing postures and longer-held postures. Options will be offered for beginners and advanced students looking to challenge and expand their practice.
Forrest Yoga Inspired
In this all levels class the primary focus is to feel your breath. The poses and intelligent sequencing are an invitation to bring breath into places that are habitually tight. Verbal cues and hands-on-assists will encourage you to support and enliven your whole body with your breath. Options will be offered for beginners and advanced students looking to challenge their practice.
Yin
In this all-levels class you will restore the body in a gentle practice where postures are passively held for several minutes. Yin is an opportunity to turn your focus inward and slowly open the body. It is a gentle practice where flexibility is not required, but it can also be intense in that the postures are held for longer periods of time to generate both physical and emotional tension release. You will feel connected, open, stretched, energetically softened, more present, and relieved of deep tension.
Restorative
Restorative yoga is the gentlest of the practices. This class will consist of only a handful of postures, all of which are supported by props that allow you to completely relax and rest. This will be an opportunity to receive the posture and feel the breath. Rest and stillness open the doors wide for our breath to fully arrive.