Classes

Enjoy Yoga Classes with Tara in the New Orleans area
New summer schedule with added classes begin in June.
Ongoing private study for 200 hr Teacher Training via The Yoga Alliance

Weekly Classes
Monday
noon-2 Form and Function Private Study
Tuesday
8:20am Centered Flow Yoga TM @ Metairie Country Club. 
1pm-2:15 Centered Flow Yoga TM @ Metairie Country Club.
Wednesday
Teacher Training Study, please email for times
Thursday
8:20am Centered Flow Yoga TM @ Metairie Country Club
12:30pm-2:30 private study
Friday
11:15 to 1:15 Form and Function (private study)

Private Yoga Classes with Tara are a wonderful way to explore your practice and can help you to move into a deeper place within your body! Each private is a personal experience depending on your intention of what you would like to achieve.
Each class is unique and may be a combination of yoga, meditation, breathing exercises, and core integration. You will feel and see results!
Privates may be organized for individuals and groups
Intensives are offered to deepen your practice. Studies with Tara may be registered with the Yoga Alliance.

Master ClassesPlease contact Tara if you are interested.
Phone: 504-452-4088
Email: tara@lavenderskyoga.com or tara.engeran@ymail.com

Centered Flow Yoga TM This style of yoga uses the 8 Vital Principles which with creative sequencing to allow the body to feel balanced, energized, and calm. It is a practice of Intelligent Alignment with complete Awareness.

Centered Heart Flow TM level 3 class. For experienced students. Learn to deepen your practice with dynamic, creative sequences, backbends, and inversions. (closed class, please call) *please call for directions, thank you.
Form and Function this class will focus on the anatomy as a tool for better understanding the postures with their alignment and lightness; and how to intelligently sequence in the Centered Yoga System.

Other Instruction:
Master Classes and Intensives Please email Tara regarding dates and topics.
Pre/post natal instruction is available. Please call.
Private instruction for individuals, small groups or Corporate groups is available.


Your yoga investment
Privates: $80 for one hour and fifteen minutes. Please add $25 for additional person. Privates are a wonderful way to deepen your practice, or work on a special situation for your body. Package rates are available.

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Yoga Benefits
Standing Poses The standing poses build strength and endurance in the legs and ankles and bring flexibility to the hip joints. This will become a strong support for the spine and prepare the body for more difficult positions. Energetically the body starts to open to a deeper place so the prana, the chi energy, can move through the blocks in the body. We start to feel more grounded with the Earth and feel the connection with the cosmos.

Sitting
The sitting poses are calming. They remove fatigue, refresh the brain and soothe the nerves. They regulate blood pressure and promote a healthy sleep. They also act as important counterposes during the sequences.

Inversions
Inversions revitalize the whole system. They take the weight off the legs, relieving strain. By inverting the inner organs, they activate parts that are sluggish bringing more energy to the area. They improve circulation and tone the glandular system. They help with concentration and change our awareness to see things differently. They can also help aid in sleep. Sirasana in particular activates the pituitary gland. Sarvangasana strengthens the nervous system and the emotions; it activates the thyroid and parathyroid glands.

Balancing Poses
These develop lightness, strength and agility. Tremendous control and strength are created and felt in the body as we connect to the the Hara, and feel the balance on the gravitational axis as we play with the gravity. Muscle tone is developed. Coordination and concentration increase.

Backbends
Backbends are rejuvenating. They give energy and courage to the whole system and can help alleviate depression or low energy. They open the chest and make the spine more flexible which can open any blocked energy in the area; and become a better conduit for the Chi energy. The arms and shoulders become strong. The mind and body become alert and more joyful.

Pranayama
Calms and strengthens the mind and body. The lungs, diaphragm and energy body become stronger. We create a field of energy in us and around us. We become part of a continuum of space/time in which we all have our being.

Savasana
A special time to integrate and let go; feel the infusion of energy from your practice move through your body.

Asansas
The Asansas can be practiced in four different modes. This is nice for you to explore for yourself as you create your home practice:

1. Performing each position separately and holding for one minute.
2. Vinyasa: Connecting the poses with the breath by flowing from one to the other.
3. Mala: Connecting the poses through Surya Namaskar (sun salutation).
4. Taking only a few poses and holding them for five minutes each.