Class Descriptions
Hatha is a good place to start for new practitioners – or to stay – if this style resonates with you. Hatha is a slower practice with a focus on alignment and form. You’ll be introduced to basic foundational yoga asanas (postures), yogic breath and meditation technique. Strength, flexibility and body awareness are just some of the fruits that this yoga practice bears.
Acro at Phoenix Gym
Phoenix Gym offers a safe and padded place to play acro yoga. Meet every Monday and enjoy a drop in practice place with your acro troupe.
Restorative Yoga
Restorative yoga might be coined as 'lay about yoga'. There are no real standing poses, just laying poses with all the support you need to sink and soften into relaxation. Though it seems a little low key, never underestimate the power of softening and the amazing effects on the nervous system. Every body needs rest and quiet time.
Yin Yang Flow
Using awareness of the two energies, feminine and masculine and how they interplay, this class will take that knowledge into the body, the being. Friendly to beginners and challenging enough for more experienced practitioners. Learn the philosophy that underpins the ancient asian yin/yang.
Gay Yoga
A class geared to the Queer community and organized through Team Edmonton. Join Jason Morris and other Gay yogi's as they explore differerent styles of yoga. This class is geared for beginners to intermediates so come have fun, meet some of your community and stretch your mind and body while having a gay ol' time.
Family Yoga
Centre for Autism is happy to combine efforts with Lion's Breath to offer Family Yoga. Please see attached poster for more information.
Hatha I
More advanced postures, breath work, and inspired infusion of yogic concepts and philosophy to help students expand their practice “off the mat,” and into the rest of their life.
Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini Yoga classes are open to all levels. This is a dynamic, powerful and effective form of yoga that produces quick results. Benefits include relief from stress and insomnia, enhanced creativity, lymphatic cleansing, liver detoxification, balancing the heart and mind, and developing will-power. Kundalini Yoga stimulates the nervous system, glandular system, respiratory system and the immune system as it balances the mind and opens the spirit. These results are achieved through a kriya (specific yoga posture set) and meditation. Each class includes mantra, warm ups, a kriya, deep relaxation and meditation.
Inspired by Iyengar
Focusing on precision and alignment using props where needed for support and deepening experience of postures. Improve strength, flexibility, and forge a stronger mind-body connection in a safe, supportive environment. Work to your appropriate level and receive adjustments from an instructor who will guide you to your “intelligent edge.” Grow from the ground up. Previous experience recommended for higher levels.
$5 or Food Bank Class!
Classes are $5 with a donation to the Food Bank! Support our trainees and get a cheap class while you are at it!
Gentle Hatha & Meditation
Ease into an integration of hatha poses with meditative practices that will leave you relaxed and centred. Stretch, flex, focus and connect to your inner essence. You can expand your awareness of body, mind and spirit through breath, postures, various meditation techniques and relaxation. Suitable for beginners or experienced students.
Hatha All Levels
Experience the best of Hatha and its endless variety, but do so at your own level. All-levels allows all level of practitioners by offering adaptations and variations suitable to where you are in your yoga experience.
Hatha Beginner
This class is designed for those who are new to yoga. This is a gentle introduction to the asanas, breathing and tradition of yoga. Each asana will be explained in detail with instruction for proper alignment, adjusting postures for your own body and level of capability.
Yin Yoga
Yin Yoga or Taoist yoga is a very distinct style of Hatha yoga that focuses on the connective tissues in the body rather than the Yang tissues of Muscle and skin. All 35 postures or Asanas in Yin yoga strengthen and open the hips, pelvis and lower spine by targeting the body's ligament and tendons in the joints and spine.
This is a calm, meditative class where postures help relax muscles by holding the pose for several minutes at a time.
Hot Yin Yoga
Yin Yoga or Taoist yoga is a very distinct style of Hatha yoga that focuses on the connective tissues in the body rather than the Yang tissues of Muscle and skin. All 35 postures or Asanas in Yin yoga strengthen and open the hips, pelvis and lower spine by targeting the body's ligament and tendons in the joints and spine.
This is a calm, meditative class where postures help relax muscles by holding the pose for several minutes at a time.
Hot Yin adds the heat of radiant heat to increase the pliability of the muscles in a healthful way.
At approximately 30 degrees celsius, Lion's Breath Yoga & Pilates Centre facilitates a safe, heated environment to deeply stretch and detoxify your body through infrared heating technology. Promoting healthier, cleaner air - infrared heat destroys bacteria, viruses, mold, mildew and other organic organisms that cause respiratory distress, colds, flus and allergies. They produce healthy infrared heat waves which improve cardiovascular circulation, decrease joint stiffness, increase flexibility, increase blood flow, and assist in the removal of inflammatory free-radicals from the body.The system hets the water molecules in the air and in your body rather than the air. Experience the difference.
Practice in an infrared environment, which is both comfortable and eco-friendly, without sacrificing breath, alignment and meditation.
