Class Descriptions
Core Method Classes
(6) 60-75 minute intermediate classes blending Hatha Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Dance Movement, and Fitness Fusion Technique all in one class for a comprehensive workout and workin. A new class is available in the online studio each week. There is no voice instruction as you will learn the structure and general movements the more you do it. This will help you to develop autonomy and awareness. No more than 3-4 times a week is recommended along with other classes offered. Be prepared to sweat!
*A new movement series every 6 weeks for each class will be the curriculum to keep things fun and fresh.
Leg Sculpt & Flow Class
60-75 minute full body workout with more emphases on building grounding strength in the legs through standing and balancing yoga postures. Lower body movement design with Fitness Fusion Technique sculpts, tightens and tones glutes and leg
Dance Movement: Inspired by Hip Hop, Country, and Tribal rhythms depending on the week for this class.
Hip Sculpt & Flow
A 60-75 minute full body workout with more emphases on forward folding and hip opening yoga postures. Fitness Fusion Technique focuses on burning visceral fat in the lower belly and love handles. Moving the belly button up and in while simultaneously dropping the tailbone back and down, creating a flatter toned tummy.
Dance Movement: Inspired by Latin Ballroom, Sensual Jazz, and Reggae rhythms depending on the week for this class.
Core Sculpt & Flow
A 60-75 minute full body workout with more emphasis on inner deep core strength, a snatched waist, and angled vector torque for twisting range of motion through yoga postures and Fitness Fusion Technique. Abs are tightened, toned, and conditioned.
Dance Movement: Inspired by Jazz through the decades and Musical Theater.
Heart Rebalancing & Back-bending
A 60-75 minute full body workout with more emphasis on back-bending yoga postures. Energizing the spine while simultaneously re-balancing the heart chakra, freeing stuck emotional grief while ushering in a healthy self love outlook. Fitness Fusion Technique focuses on upper body strength and flexibility simultaneously.
Dance Movement: Inspired by Ballet, Lyrical, Modern, and Contemporary Dance Styles.
Arm, Neck, Shoulder Alignment
A 60-75 minute full body workout with more emphasis in arm, shoulder, and neck alignment through using blocks, straps, and binding the arms in yoga asana. Fitness Fusion Technique uses arm placement, flow, and fast staccato movements to tone, shape, as well as sculpt the upper body.
Dance Movement: Faster More Aerobic Dance Movement.
Inversions & Arm Balances
A 60-75 minute full body workout with more emphasis on moving past fear and strength barriers to free into a deeper natural flow. Turning upside down for brief periods of time is a deep detox, meditation, reducing inflammation, ushering in a youthful glow, clear radiant skin elasticity and has a long list of benefits for health and longevity. Arm balances require strength, concentration, quieting the mind, and moving from a strong authentic place. Fitness Fusion Technique in this class is ankle weights for abs primarily.
DanceMovement: Prayer Arm Flow
More Classes
Restorative
A 60-75 minute voiceover led class by Merissa.
Restore, Refresh, and Rejuvenate through stillness. Release stuck chronic pain, stress, and inflammation with a deep flush detox by holding restorative yoga postures from 5- 10 minutes.
As yoga blankets, blocks, and straps help support your body into its natural nature of rest and digest, the parasympathetic nervous system, you will return to a sacred place held by loving flowing patience. Feels like a mini massage.
*New class every season.
Fitness Fusion Technique Sessions
Created in 2013, quick knock out sessions for your lower body, abs/waist, and arms. 10-20 minute sessions that burn fat, tone, sculpt, while moving you into a natural rhythm. Yoga movements and yoga accessories combined with fitness movements and fitness accessories create long lean muscles with extra sculpting power in a thread of momentum. Belly up and in, tail bone back and down, waist cinched in, shoulders slightly rounded, feet straight, and a body engaged structure.
*New sessions every 6 weeks along with the new core method movement series.
Kettlebell Sculpt
A 10-20 minute workout with a 10lb kettlebell (or whatever weight that works best for you). Ankle weight movements and stretching add more curves and flexibility whilst building muscle.
*A new class twice a year
Movement Series
Every 6 weeks, after the Inversions and Arm Balances class week, starts a new movement series of core method classes with two thirds of each class being new material. This is to keep things fun, fresh, and engaging.
Movement Series One
Fitness and Yoga accessories needed:
Yoga
2 blocks
2-3 yoga blankets (you can also use pillows as well)
Yoga mat
Fitness
(2) 3lb weights (men 5lb - 8lb)
Pilates Ring
(2) 1-2lb Bala bangle ankle weights. I use 1lb for the arm fitness fusion sessions, and 2lb for the core method class ab sections. Men will need 3lb most likely. It all depends on weight and body composition.
(We will be adding other equipment in the next movement series of classes which is every 6 weeks).
This first series is the foundational series where you are being introduced to the foundational movements of this method’s structure of modalities, classes, and accessories.
Movement Series Two
New Fitness Accessories For This Series Plus Everything Above:
Yoga Strap
6inch Pilates Ball
In this second series, we introduce the Yoga Strap and the Pilates Ball. This series is all about compression and tighter binding towards the central channel. The yoga strap helps to shape a sharper clearer structure, knit things together with a deeper flexibly, and clean-up body alignment. The Pilates Ball also compresses which helps clear meridians for detailed circulation and enlivens stagnant energy through pulses. As we tighten things in as well as ripple energy to be detoxed out.
Kettlebell Sculpt
A 10-20 minute workout with a 10lb kettlebell (or whatever weight that works best for you). Ankle weight movements and stretching add more curves and flexibility whilst building muscle.