Jay's Vinyasa and Flow classes are a breath-inspired balance of fluidity and stillness. Infused with a blend of intention and freedom, each class is an invitation to access your Self through a creative sequence of poses designed to promote more soulful and ecstatic living though a felt connection with our body's own natural rhythms and seasons. Within the ritual of each class, Jay combines poetry, pranayama, meditation, laughter, and inspiration from the natural world and the yoga of every day living.
Though experience in yoga is helpful, a longing to move and a commitment to breathe are far more vital to enjoying Jay's classes, as the emphasis is less on what the poses look like and more on exploring your individual and ongoing relationship to your Self through the poses as a way of honoring the fullness of yoga as a life practice and as a spiritual path through the body, heart, mind, and soul.
Current Classes in Portland:
Root Whole Body
2526 NE 15th
Tuesday; 12-1pm (Vinyasa)
Thursday;12-1pm (Vinyasa)
www.rootwholebody.com
Wing Rock Sanctuary
Monday; 6:15-7:30pm (Flow Yoga-Initiation)
Tuesday; 6:15-7:30pm (Flow Yoga-Ecstatic)
Wednesday; 6:15-7:30pm (Flow Yoga-Initiation)
$10 drop-in/$108 for 9 class series
*Please contact Jay for more information or directions.
Mandala Sadhana--Circle Practice
First Sunday & Third Saturday of every month
10am-12:30pm
$20
*Please contact Jay to reserve your place in the cirlce.
Class Descriptions:
Initiation:
A beginning-level conversation with flow yoga; a class that flows but won't move so fast that you get left behind. Emphasis on remembering to breathe and on learning the basic poses. At a slower pace, alignment is addressed and anatomical guidance is offered so that you can learn how and why to keep yourself safe as you begin to change your basic-level conversation with your body into a more poetic and creative expression through yoga.
Ecstatic:
A deeper conversation for those more fluent in yoga. These classes are a place to tend to your own flow while steeping in the energy of the collective; a led class in which you are encouraged to follow your own impulses to move, be still, make sound or make up your own pose. The pacing is still slower than a traditional vinyasa class, but will include more challenging yoga postures and more encouragement to make your yoga your yoga.
Mandala Sadhana:
A meeting of the circles (mandala) of yoga and council , two practices (sadhana) that offer us the possibility of having conversations that matter, of telling the stories of our bodies and hearing how they weave into the collective story.
When we move through our yoga practice, much shifts and often wants to be witnessed. Instead, we usually find ourselves rolling up our mats, gathering our belongings, and walking back into our life without a sense of grounding for what we just experienced. This is a practice for those of us who have come to the end of a yoga class and had a profound or subtle awareness or insight that wanted to be shared; for those of us who want support in how to carry what we experience on the mat into our daily life; for those of us who want to find a deeper connection to ourselves and to others through our yoga practice.
Each practice begins with a check-in council circle in which everyone is invited to share their intention. Letting that inform our yoga, we move into the ritual of our yoga practice for an hour and a half. After savasana, we come back together in the richness and clarity that we've steeped in, and share from our own experience.
Jay Fields:
Since 2000, Jay has taught yoga around the country in private studios, universities, corporations, kindergarten classrooms, and impromptu sessions on the trail or at the crag. Although she possesses a firm understanding of the principles of alignment and anatomy from her national certification in Iyengar-style yoga and her degree in kinesiology, she is more interested in supporting the organic unfolding of each individual’s yoga practice, allowing the student to become her own best guide on her yogic path. She believes that our bodies are the meeting place of the mysteries of nature and of the wisdom of the divine, and infuses her yoga classes with her experience as an eath-based ceremony guide.
Please contact Jay to schedule or inquire about private and small group lessons and retreats. Namaste. |
