Alameda Yoga

Lunchtime Flow

A playful All Levels Flow class with vignettes of tension releasing postures to provide sweet relief for our work-crazed bodies and wound up minds. This is your chance to reset in the middle of the busy work day and take some time to move and breath. This class is set to upbeat music, in a comfortably cool room, and will offer modifications for beginners and advanced students to support everyone in need of a re-boot!

Warm Flow

In a gently heated room, students will find a steady Vinyasa based practice that focuses on linking breath and movement through a dynamic sequence of postures to build stability and strength. In combination with flow, postures will be held for several breaths to ease tension and create ease. This class will explore breath work, core strengthening exercises, strong standing sequences, and playful balancing postures. Designed to be accessible yet challenging for beginners, this level 1-2 class will have something for everyone including experienced students.

Vinyasa Flow

These classes weave together the building blocks of a grounded practice focusing on alignment, flexibility strength and play. We invite our students to move like themselves finding the freedom within the exploration of their own practice. We believe that the challenges that show up on the mat can be overcome and translate into how we approach the trials in our daily lives. Our Vinyasa teachers instruct in a way that invites students of all levels to come and explore their yoga journey while enjoying live music or tailored playlists that compliment the associated teachers style of class. As a beginner, intermediate or advanced student, we look forward to serving you at Symmetry Yoga!

Gentle Yoga

Gentle yoga is a semi-active practice to rejuvenate and heal the body with a more restorative focus. This class is geared toward students who wish to move and build strength, but at a slower pace to calm the mind while increasing flexibility and body awareness. Yoga props such as blankets, blocks, bolsters, and straps are used for safe practice and to allow the body to fully achieve each position comfortably.

Hatha Flow

Hatha Yoga is the foundation of all other forms of holistic yoga. Ultimately Hatha is the expression of Yin and Yang, movement and stillness, putting forth effort and receiving the flow of life through surrender and breath. Hatha Flow combines breath and movement in a graceful flow that will encourage freedom in your joints, length in your muscles and somatic awareness throughout. This class will leave you enlivened and enthused with deep sense of well being. All ages, levels of experience and ability are welcome.

Friday Night Flow

Kick off your weekend with live music that will inspire you to move through an open level yoga class taught by Nikki Borodi. Whether you are new to yoga or a long time yogi, this class will invite you to deepen your experience of Vinyasa Flow.  Through live music and movement we will find a sense of play in our practice, learning to listen to the body’s intuition, and how to move like your best self. Inspiring music will take you out of your head and into the spirit of sound that will carry you through a beautiful dance on your mat.  We look forward to sharing in this special Friday night live music and yoga class at Symmetry every month. Class is held on the last Friday of every month and will have a different local musician for each event.  Please see our Workshops + Events page for more details.

Restorative

This is a complete relaxation class. In each class, only a handful of poses are practiced. This method of yoga utilizes props for total support and to facilitate relaxation and deep ease. Each pose is held for about 10-15 minutes and feels like it’s own mini-meditation session. This practice is suitable for all levels. It can be especially helpful for people coping with stress, anxiety, grief, fatigue and physical injuries

Yin Yang Yoga

This holistic class balances the enlivening and strengthening aspects of a gentle Hatha Flow class with the more restorative and meditative qualities of Yin Yoga. We’ll start by opening the body slowly with some Yin postures, held between 3-5 minutes to target connective tissues and increase flexibility. From there we’ll make our way into a mindful breath-based hatha flow to build strength and body awareness. This class will close with deep restorative postures utilizing various props to support the body and allow for deep relaxation, sending you into the weekend rested and rejuvenated.

Community Flow

This is a vinyasa flow class open to all levels of practitioner. In this class you will synchronize breath with movement. The class will focus on creating a feeling of being grounded, dissolving anxiety and tension systematically through a present moment awareness of the feeling body, facilitated through conscious breathing. Students awaken their strength, energy, and flexibility in a fun atmosphere. The class will begin with sun salutations, progress through standing postures with a focus on balance, move into a seated series with an emphasis on forward folds, finally ending with finishing postures and a period for rest.

Fierce Friday

This is a vinyasa flow class open to all levels of practitioner. In this class you will synchronize breath with movement. The class will focus on creating a feeling of being grounded, dissolving anxiety and tension systematically through a present moment awareness of the feeling body, facilitated through conscious breathing. Students awaken their strength, energy, and flexibility in a fun atmosphere. The class will begin with sun salutations, progress through standing postures with a focus on balance, move into a seated series with an emphasis on forward folds, finally ending with finishing postures and a period for rest.

Prenatal

Prenatal yoga offers a multifaceted approach to childbirth preparation that encourages stretching, mental centering and focused breathing. Prenatal yoga can help Improve sleep, reduce stress and anxiety, and increase the strength, flexibility and endurance of muscles needed for childbirth and motherhood. In each class mothers are encouraged to gently move different areas of the body while standing, sitting or lying on the ground. Each position is aimed at developing strength, flexibility and balance. Props – such as blankets, cushions, blocks and belts – may be used to provide support and comfort. In each class you’ll be encouraged to listen to your own breathing, pay close attention to sensations, thoughts and emotions, or repeat a mantra or word to bring about a state of self-awareness and inner calm.

Early Bird Flow

Wake up on the RIGHT side of the bed with an early morning yoga practice! Together we’ll start the day energized and focused, lighting up the spirit of the heart. This level 1-2 flow is inspired by Hatha and Vinyasa yoga styles. Students will explore warming breath work, core strengthening, therapeutic alignment, creative sequencing, and challenging yet accessible balancing postures to build strength, endurance, flexibility, and mental focus. May you soften into the present moment, align into your center, and tap into the peaceful presence of your spirit, before you begin your today. The room may be gently heated according to seasonal needs.

Sunrise Hatha

The early bird gets the worm! An early morning practice helps soothe tight muscles before the work day and prepares the mind for mental clarity. This class focuses on alignment , breathing and mindfulness. Each month has an asana theme (eg. inversions, back extensions, twists etc). The last week of every month is a gentle/restorative class. This is not a flow styled class. There will be a therapeutic focus on the use of yoga props. This class is suitable for beginners, seasoned practitioners and welcoming of all body types.