Y3: Yin-Yang Yoga

Renovate your yoga formats with a variety of transformational practices that benefit body, breath, and mind. Learn to compliment your dynamic asana flow (yang yoga) with a slower-paced practice (yin yoga) to create a balanced movement experience enhancing your relaxation response. (Equipment: yoga mats if possible)

Animals & Asanas

Join Yury for a look at different approaches to yoga for group fitness drawing from animal patterns. We learn some animal quadruped and biped positions as a warm-up and then focus on strength and flexibility using some of our favorite—and new—animal-based asana. This session also welcomes personal trainers and group instructors with no yoga experience. Welcome to the zoo! (Equipment: yoga mats if possible)

Athletes & Asanas

Yury will show how to dimensionalize yoga to attract more athletic types to training for a two-part experience featuring strength-based yoga and working in flexibility-based yoga. You will learn how to choose asana to complement athletic performance, augment athletic body awareness to prevent injury, and aid recovery through restoration. (Equipment: yoga mats if possible)

Be Yo-ga®: Forms and Flows

Join Yury for a workshop demonstrating ways to mix non-traditional —yet mindful— music (featuring Beyonce, hence the title) with the practice of various types of Hatha yoga, decreasing the sometimes-vast distance between pop (culture) and prana. Some consider Ashtanga-inspired practice too difficult for all or esoteric to others, but Yury will show you ways to incorporate progressions and regressions to make it accessible to all. (Equipment: yoga mats if possible)

Roll It with Rockit!

Fascia is a largest organ in our body, and it cannot be replaced. Fascia not only affects the quality of our movement, but it also regulates our nervous system’s functioning. Yury invites you to explore some links between our physiology, psychology, and movement, all while learning easy practical ways to roll out the Rocks of body-mind connection. Prepare to add research-based mindfulness as we roll, rock, move, mobilize and hydrate. (Equipment: Special foam roller)

Breathe to Excel: Powerful Prana

Just like movement gets better with deliberate and specific practice, so does our breathing. Learn with Yury how to implement specific, research-based and scientific breathing strategies for not only better athletic performance but for enhanced recovery, general well-being, and a clear and focused mind. (Equipment: yoga mats if possible)

Be Water, My Friend.

Have you experienced state of “flow” when everything seems happening effortlessly in your life? Before this condition occurs in your external environment through a synchronicity of events, it first must happen within your body & brain through the power of our breath. Let’s explore how the quality of our breath streams brain-wave patterns that support and encourage more “flow.” (Equipment: yoga mats if possible)

Spirited® Elements

Learn how to fuse into a mind-body barefoot workout experience the four elements of earth, fire, water, and air with movement that complements these elements. Yury’s “Spirited” program appears internationally with its appealing, easy combination of 20-minute sections of barefoot & mindful strength, cardiovascular, and flexibility sections. Learn to give our body all of our workout needs in 60 minutes using just our bodyweight and non-traditional, complementary music. (Equipment: yoga mats if possible)

The Aliveness Experience

Yury invites you into experience where meditation becomes movement and movement becomes meditation. In this fusion of mindful disciplines, you will deepen your connection to Self while bridging your revitalized inner world with outer reality, bringing transformation and cultivating your sense of Aliveness with(?) one breath and sound frequency at a time. (Equipment: yoga mats, ability to control, dim, turn off lights if possible)

Rockit Strength®

Get Yury’s class ideas and moves to create a flowing, balanced muscle conditioning experience using barefoot bodyweight. We will incorporate a variety of planes, body positions, transitions, progressions & regressions to elevate our traditional movement patterns with proven, mindful components of breathing & proprioception. (Equipment: yoga mats if possible)

Hit the Wall:

Some tools are readily available to us that we often ignore using them: like our own bodyweight and A WALL. Come experience creative ideas to implement the wall in different movement combinations and experiences from strength & cardio conditioning to mobility enhancement. You’ll definitely have a wall! (Equipment: wall, yoga mats if possible)

Core to Soar!

Soar after you’re sore! Join Yury to heighten your developed core to soar to new physical heights. Implement stability and mobility drills to not only chisel your core but establish a powerful center-point of self-care for efficient and injury-free mobility and performance skills, from every day to athletic. (Equipment: yoga mats if possible)

Play Hard — Recover Harder

Taking care of our body involves a fine-tuning of our muscles and mind. Join Yury for an exploration of how to be inspired in various ways as personal trainers, group ex instructors, and fitness consumers with the goal of tuning-up for a fresh physical and spiritual feeling. (Equipment: yoga mats if possible)

Spirited Tune-Up: Toes to Nose

Join Yury for an in-depth look at self-care as we put attention to our breath, brains, and bodies. Starting with the intrinsic muscles of our feet that carry us through our lives, we will learn some movements from rehabilitation that help reprogram one of the most common threads among all mindful modalities, our bare feet. We will also learn small adjustments to several other body parts including hips & shoulders, some organs, and meridians. Finally, we will experience rejuvenating, powerful uses of prana (breathwork) to realign our sense of self to feel like we’ve had a “tune-up” on many levels. (Equipment: yoga mats if possible)

Recovery Through Meditation

Learn with Yury the background to traditional tenets of Buddhist meditation: from principles to prana to practices. Instead of learning just the theory, we will practice traditional, authentic meditation to gain some new pranayama skills and drills to implement into life and use with clients and classes almost immediately for both physiological and psychological benefits for mind and body. (Equipment: yoga mats if possible)

APP-etite for Wellness: Your Smartphone Hack

Uncover with Yury hidden gems and unlocked potential right on your digital devices to not only “connect” socially, but also stay “connected” to yourself and your wellness. Learn to hack some technological tips with applications for smartphones, get great discoveries for apps on productivity, brain training, health, nutrition, binaural beats and many other tools that can enhance quality of your life. (Equipment: smartphone)

I Wish I Knew Before…

With a science-based current understanding of the aging mental and physical process, any age can teach active aging clients. Learn secrets and tips from Yury’s current research study for adding mindfulness, meditation, and music with our active aging clients. We also will address balance from a mental—as well as physical-perspective.

Water Running

Two of the most authentic and natural forms of human movement are walking and running. Exploring running techniques in the water not only mimics (and creates an adaptation for) better land movement, but also challenges us to become more efficient and mindful of our form, muscle activation, and breathing, all without excessive wear on our joints! (Equipment: buoys if possible)

Dive In

Join Yury to experience most effective and innovative way to enhance your cardiovascular capacity while submerging your head in the water, and using land-based pieces of fitness equipment to challenge both your strength and endurance. Train in the water and become a better athlete on land. (Equipment: light & medium hand weights, goggles if possible)

Spirited Surf ®

The aquatic version of Yury’s land-based workshop, “Spirited®” offers you 20-minute sections of cardiovascular, strength, and flexibility sections for shallow aquatic training. Learn to train all of our workout needs in 60-minutes, taking advantage of our discussion of the physical and metaphysical vibrational qualities of water itself. (Equipment: pool gloves if possible)

Or What is Vitamin Qi?

Have you had your daily dose of Qi? Electricity and magnetism power so much of what surrounds us today, but what powers our human body and mind? It is its own kind of energy of Life Force — “Qi” (in Chinese) — that determines the quality of our health and consciousness. Through simple breathing techniques and movement, we will learn how simple it is to be an abundant Life Force source and enhance our Qi. (Equipment: yoga mats if possible)

Wisdom of Your Qi

Qi Gong is an ancient discipline that taps into the innate intelligence of our bodies through breath and movement. Get to know your “Qi” and enhance your wisdom of your mind, openness of your heart and vitality of your body. (Equipment: yoga mats if possible)