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The following on-going classes are offered by the school and instructors as a form of gratitude and appreciation for the support we receive as a non-profit organization.
Suggested donation is $10.
Call 310.581.0097 for more information.
 
Mondays 7pm - 8:30pm
This class explores ways to find the inner support necessary for helping you on your path. Focused meditation, chanting, gentle free-form movement and writing. Inspiring, fun and joy inducing, the class helps you gain more energy to focus on your goals.
 
Tuesdays 4:30pm-6:30pm
Class includes asana sequences, partner yoga, assisted inversions, basic partner acrobatics, therapeutic flying and Thai massage. No yoga experience required, no partner needed. Come support and be supported.
For more info, check out www.acroyoga.org.
 
Wednesdays 5:00pm - 6:00pm
A traditional Hatha Yoga class that offers a holistic practice, which is adaptable to the individual needs of each student, regardless of age, gender or previous experience in yoga. Presence yoga emphasizes yoga’s vast potential as a transformative discipline that works on every aspect of our being, and includes a thoughtful, and time-honored array of tools, such as carefully sequenced postures linked with focused breathing exercises, yogic philosophy, and meditations, that support us in our path to balance and wellness. Everyone is welcome. Please bring a mat.
 
Forest Yoga with Jillian Wintersteen
Wednesdays 6:15pm - 7:45pm
Developed by Ana Forrest, Forrest yoga uses deep breathing and vigorous sequences to free physical and emotional tensions held in the body. It has been evolved to fit the needs of today's culture, with emphasis on unlocking habitual tension held in the neck, shoulders and lower back. Forrest Yoga will teach you to go deeper, find your truth and encourage you to take these gifts you have earned beyond the mat into the rest of your life. This class is suitable for yogis of all levels, please bring a mat.
 
Thursdays 6pm - 7:30pm
Integrative Yoga that brings yoga back to its roots as a healing art and tool for gaining self knowledge.
Visit mettariver.com for more info.
 
Fridays 7:00pm- 9:00pm
With the support of a partner we will embody support, receptivity and trust. Students will solidify spotting techniques in basic inversions as the foundation for acrobatics. The progressions lead to basic partner acrobatics cultivating strength and flexibility while working as a team. A playful, safe, supportive environment will empower the whole room to be upside down and connect to the divine! Recommended for students with an intermediate yoga practice.
 
Qi-Gong & Doin with Grand Master DoAnn T. Kaneko
Last Friday of each month 5:00pm - 6:30pm
A self-healing workshop, Dr. Kaneko kindly offers the Doin class as his gift to the community. Doin is a practical self-healing program. It's very effective in increasing one's natural healing power through tanden breathing, microcosmic meditation, Chi Gong, eight steps brocade and Anpuku. Dr. Kaneko's Doin is simple, effective and natural, without side effects. As a holistic and safe practice, Doin is designed to tune us with Tao, the divine order of the universe. Dr. Kaneko seeks to help people achieve excellence in health and life and to realize the infinity of life.
 
Qi-Gong for Body Workers and Healing Artists with Lee Tran
Saturdays 7:15am - 9:00am
Come join us in Qi-Gong practice, a coordination of Body-Mind-Breath training to stay healthy and strong and generate and cultivate Qi for your practice.  This class is suggested for body workers and healing artists without high blood pressure or heart problems as the class can be vigorous.  This practice is best done on an empty stomach.  Please dress in loose clothing and bring water. 
 
Class takes place on the lawn at the corner of Barnard Way and
Fraser Ave. (5 blocks from SMSC) Contact Lee at (213) 364-2900
 
TRX with Morgan Bennett 
Saturdays 10:00am-11:00am
TRX stands for Total Body resistance exercise. TRX is a new form of “suspension” exercise that allows you to use your own body weight for resistance. This form of exercise allows for people of all levels of experience to participate in safe and effective exercise. TRX can be made as easy or as hard as you want. TRX is a great way to get a great total body workout (especially the core) without having to go to a gym. Come check it out! Bring a towel and a mat and be ready to sweat…

Qi-Gong for Everyone with Leas Maria
Sundays 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Qigong for Everyone is a series of beginning, intermediate and advanced practices in Qigong and meditation, and is both preventative and restorative.  Based on Classical and Medical Qigong, this class welcomes all levels of health. Each class contains a warm-up, several practices, corrections in form and practices for closure. There are several levels of each form presented. Shengong and Meditation is taught as the natural experience obtained by proper posture and form and varies for each student.