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A strong vinyasa practice with back and core strengthening as you work toward dancer pose, this class features leg balancing and hip stretching. You'll work with Every time we arrive on our mats, we have an opportunity to surrender. To surrender our expectations and the weight we may be carrying. To surrender any duty we have to anyone else, just for this time.  May you use this time to feel your body, celebrate your breath and movement, and simply be where you are right now.  Style: Vinyasa Duration: 60-minutes Level: intermediate Props: 2 blocks Focus: Nataraj (dancer pose), back and core strengthening, leg balancing, hip flexor release. Location: Vancouver, BC Music: Our Time Spotify Playlist  For more yoga classes with Clara Roberts-Oss, join Practice with Clara Virtual Yoga Studio - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠start your free trial today⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Links: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@clararobertsoss⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clara Roberts-Oss⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Practice with Clara⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Train with Clara⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Events with Clara⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Yoga Blog + Free Resources⁠

A strong vinyasa class that moves from standing leg balances with eagle pose into variations of side plank and fallen triangle; this class opens with a moving meditation to connect you to the flow of Prana (energy) within. This class works with visualization, pranayama, mudras, and mantra to stimulate and direct the flow of Prana. Yoga is a system that gives us the opportunity to work with and play with energy so that we can actively participate in how our energy moves through and out of us! Style: Vinyasa Duration: 60-mins Level: open Props: 2 blocks Focus: leg balancing, hip opening, twists, and core strengthening. Location: Vancouver, BC. Music: The Director Spotify Playlist For more yoga classes with Clara Roberts-Oss, join Practice with Clara Virtual Yoga Studio - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠start your free trial today⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Links: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@clararobertsoss⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clara Roberts-Oss⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Practice with Clara⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Train with Clara⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Events with Clara⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Yoga Blog + Free Resources⁠

Enjoy a smooth vinyasa class that builds toward handstand pose; this class features lunges, warriors, backbends, and heart opening.  A full-body experience that includes pranayama, visualization, and meditation, this is a wonderful class to strengthen to core stabilizers and the hamstrings!  You'll focus on Manipura, the third chakra, and engaging Mula Bandha.  Learn more about the bandhas in this article. Learn more about Manipura chakra in this article.  Style: Vinyasa Duration: 60-mins Level: intermediate/advanced Props: 2 blocks, wall space Focus: core strengthening, hamstring lengthening, handstand! Location: Vancouver, BC. Music: Our Raft Spotify Playlist For more yoga classes with Clara Roberts-Oss, join Practice with Clara Virtual Yoga Studio - ⁠⁠⁠⁠start your free trial today⁠⁠⁠⁠! Links: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@clararobertsoss⁠⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Clara Roberts-Oss⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Practice with Clara⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Train with Clara⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Events with Clara⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Yoga Blog + Free Resources

A slow flow class that opens the shoulders and side body takes you through dancing warriors, breath of joy, handstand hops, and backbends from the ground to strengthen the back body. This class opens with a poem by Hafiz and a mantra for peace. A great option for practitioners who want to move a little to release static energy and create space through a gentle flow and deep breath. Style: Slow Flow Duration: 40-minutes Level: open  Props: 1 block Focus: full-body, shoulder opening, back strengthening. Location: Vancouver, BC Music: Your Magnificent Self Spotify Playlist Poem from class: They Call to You to Sing by Hafiz Stones are longing for what you know. If they had the graceful movements Of your feet and tongue, They would not stop laughing Between their ecstatic dance steps and unbroken praise. Your heart beats inside a sacred drum, Its skin is tanned and stretched— Our skin is alive and stretched— With the wild molecules of [our] Wondrous Existence. Your mind and eyes are an immense silk cloth Upon which all your thoughts and movements paint. Your soul once sat on an easel on my knee. For ages I have been sketching you With myriad shapes of sound and light; Now awake, dear pilgrim, With your thousand swaying arms That need to caress the Sky. Now awake with your love for the Friend and Creation, Help this Old Tavern Sweeper, Hafiz, To celebrate. No more enemies from this golden view— All who have entered this holy mountain cave Have dropped their shields and swords. We all cook together around a fire Our yearning music builds. We share our tools and instruments and plates; We are companions on this earth As the sun and planets are in the sky. We are all sentries at our sacred humble posts. The stones and stars envy the movements Of your legs and tongue And call to you to sing on their behalf. The atoms in your cells and limbs are full of wonderful talents; They dance in the Hidden Choir [we] conduct. Don’t sleep tonight, dear pilgrim, So I can lead you on my white mare to [the] Summer House. This love you now have for the Truth Will never forsake you. Your joys and sufferings on this arduous path Are lifting your worn veil like a rising stage curtain And will surely reveal your Magnificent Self So that you can guide this world… In the Hidden Choir [Of the Divine] and [their] friends will forever Conduct. For more yoga classes with Clara Roberts-Oss, join Practice with Clara Virtual Yoga Studio - ⁠⁠⁠start your free trial today⁠⁠⁠! Links: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@clararobertsoss⁠⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠⁠Clara Roberts-Oss⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Practice with Clara⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Train with Clara⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Events with Clara⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Yoga Blog + Free Resources

A vinyasa class that features leg balancing and hip opening to prepare you for Dekasana II (low-flying airplane) and Ardha Chandrasana (half moon pose), this class includes core strengthening and binds!  A great option to release the hips and strengthen the inner leg lines, this class is perfect for anyone who sits for long periods, cycles, or hikes. Chaturanga pushups and backbends support the core and spine, making this a well-rounded class. Style: Vinyasa Duration: 63-minutes Level: open  Props: 2 blocks Focus: leg balancing, hip opening, core strengthening, psoas release. Location: Vancouver, BC For more yoga classes with Clara Roberts-Oss, join Practice with Clara Virtual Yoga Studio - ⁠⁠start your free trial today⁠⁠! Links: Instagram: ⁠⁠@clararobertsoss⁠⁠ Website: ⁠⁠Clara Roberts-Oss⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Practice with Clara⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Train with Clara⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Events with Clara⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Yoga Blog + Free Resources

A slow flow class focusing on abundance to celebrate the fertility and beauty within and all around us, this class treats you to a full-body experience. Style: Slow Flow Duration: 40-minutes Level: open  Props: 1 block Focus: full-body, spinal undulations, twists, hips, heart.  Location: Vancouver, BC Music: Sweet Hips Spotify Playlist  For more yoga classes with Clara Roberts-Oss, join Practice with Clara Virtual Yoga Studio - ⁠start your free trial today⁠! Links: Instagram: ⁠@clararobertsoss⁠ Website: ⁠Clara Roberts-Oss⁠ ⁠Practice with Clara⁠ ⁠Train with Clara⁠ ⁠Events with Clara⁠ ⁠Yoga Blog + Free Resources

A smooth and fiery flow that takes you through hamstring and core strengthening to prepare the body for inversions with a handstand as the peak pose.  This class features lunges, warriors, leg balancing, and shoulder opening. Option to use a wall if you are comfortable with handstand pose. Backbending and twists complete the class.  Style: Vinyasa Duration: 60-minutes Level: intermediate/advanced Props: 2 blocks Focus: core and hamstring strengthening, inversions, handstand.  Location: Vancouver, BC Music: One and Many Spotify Playlist  For more yoga classes with Clara Roberts-Oss, join Practice with Clara Virtual Yoga Studio - ⁠start your free trial today⁠! Links: Instagram: ⁠@clararobertsoss⁠ Website: ⁠Clara Roberts-Oss⁠ ⁠Practice with Clara⁠ ⁠Train with Clara⁠ ⁠Events with Clara⁠ ⁠Yoga Blog + Free Resources

A smooth, full-body vinyasa with leg balancing, twists, core and hamstring strengthening, and supported backbends to close. This class opens with a quote from Paths to God by Ram Das   A great class for those who spend long periods sitting, this class strengthens and releases tension in the psoas (hip flexors).  Style: Vinyasa Duration: 41-minutes Level: open Props: 2 blocks Focus: leg balancing, hamstrings, core, twists, shoulders.   Location: Vancouver, BC Music: Do It Fully Spotify Playlist "Once you've decided as best as you can [on what you're going to do], you act, keeping in mind that you are not the actor. While you're acting, you don't second guess yourself; you don't waste your time wondering whether you made the right decision. You're done deciding--now you're acting: Be present with your actions. After you've finished, if you want to, you can sit back and reflect and say, "Was that the right choice?" That's different. But while you're doing it, do it fully. When you're making tea, make tea. When you're brushing your teeth, brush your teeth. When you're making love, make love. Big acts, small acts, whatever it is, be fully there with it. Stop ruining things for yourself with that self-conscious, judgmental holding back." Ram Das, Paths to God For more yoga classes with Clara Roberts-Oss, join Practice with Clara Virtual Yoga Studio - start your free trial today! Links: Instagram: @clararobertsoss Website: Clara Roberts-Oss Practice with Clara Train with Clara Events with Clara Yoga Blog + Free Resources

A smooth vinyasa practice with longer holds to strengthen the legs and back body; this class features lunges, leg balancing, and heart-opening. A great class for those who work at a desk to strengthen the erectors (spine) and upper back muscles. This class features back body strengthening with locust (salabasana) variations using no hands! Style: Vinyasa Duration: 44-minutes Level: open Props: 2 blocks Focus: hip opening, hamstring and back body strengthening. Location: Vancouver, BC Music: Rainfall Spotify Playlist * For more yoga classes with Clara Roberts-Oss, join Practice with Clara Virtual Yoga Studio - start your free trial today! Links: Instagram: @clararobertsoss Website: Clara Roberts-Oss Practice with Clara Train with Clara Events with Clara Yoga Blog + Free Resources

A smooth vinyasa ride that takes you through lunges, warriors, binds, and leg balancing poses, this class features Hanumanasana (full splits) as the peak pose! Enjoy hamstring strengthening and stretching, back body strengthening, and hip opening; this class is great for cyclists and runners. Style: Vinyasa Duration: 60-minutes Level: intermediate/advanced Props: 2 blocks Focus: hamstrings with hanumanasana (full splits) as the peak. Location: Vancouver, BC Music: Shared Intention Spotify Playlist  * For more yoga classes with Clara Roberts-Oss, join Practice with Clara Virtual Yoga Studio - start your free trial today! Links: Instagram: @clararobertsoss Website: Clara Roberts-Oss Practice with Clara Train with Clara  Events with Clara Yoga Blog + Free Resources