Center for Yoga - livestream classes

Mondays and Fridays

7:15 am Pacific time, 10:15 am Eastern time

centerforyogala.com

Kim is available to teach virtual private sessions on request: kfisch3@hotmail.com

Class Description

Kim’s class guides students toward self-understanding, connection and awareness, within a healing and experiential environment. She offers a simple, yet challenging practice suitable for students of all levels. Her work guides students toward awakened self care- with specific alignment, and integrated movement with breath. Her teaching is a compassionate, interdisciplinary approach to yoga, dedicated to structural and energetic integration, balance, breath and heart.

Without belonging to a single lineage, she welcomes all healing movement modalities. Her class playfully weaves guided imagery, experiential movement patterns, sensory awakening, self-massage and therapeutic practices. She empowers each student to listen for internal cues and trust in their own intuitive intelligence by skillfully providing options intended to create balanced effort and personalized intensity. Her most influential teachers are Donna Farhi, Erich Schiffmann, Max Strom, Annie Carpenter and Betsy Ceva.

CFY 1/2: An intermediate level class, some yoga/ movement experience is useful. However, Kim always provides options for modifications and variations, so that each student’s practice is perfectly individualized, and suited to match the current needs of the day.

Here are some of the themes we explored through the summer and fall of 2020, and some reflections around that experience.

July 2020 theme: ‘Yoga and the Creative Spark’ is a workshop-style class, suitable for students of all levels, to explore how our yoga practice can directly inspire the creative process- and to engage with art as a contemplative experience.

Reflections: I fully enjoyed exploring the relationship between yoga and art- embodied presence and creation. It was inspirational to see my students works-in-progress, and it was deeply satisfying to create a space for positive feedback and support.

August 2020 theme: ‘Breathe- restoratives, pranayama and meditation:’ a breath centered and restful practice, exploring pranayama, restoratives, gentle movement and meditation... it will feel like a full body massage, from the inside out... although, i will remain on my side of the Zoom call. i promise.

Reflections: I thought this theme was absolutely appropriate for life in the current times. We worked with active engagement in our restoratives, refined our breathing, worked toward stillness in inversions - and the feedback that i generally receive with this work is: “wow, i feel so much better now.” i enjoyed offering a space for my students to slow down, connect with the simplicity of breath and being still, to rejuvenate with this simple and gentle practice.

September 2020 theme: Therapeutic Yoga: Neck, Shoulders and Upper Back: I am hearing from students in my virtual classes that the top physical complaint these days is happening in the neck, shoulders and upper back. Whether the root cause is taking on stress, staring at the computer screen, sitting in unhelpful postures, or feeling the physical burden of overwhelming emotional congestion. I decided for my Sunday class in September to offer an explorational therapeutic practice to create space, relief, soft opening and ease. We will address stiffness in the upper back, the emotional posture of a closed chest, strain in the eyes, tension in the muscle fibers of the neck and shoulders, as we return to fullness of breath, relaxation in the body, and tranquility for the mind.

October 2020 theme: Therapeutic Yoga: self-care through balance, focus and embodiment.