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Our new Beginner Yoga Class is offered at 4:00 – 5:00 PM for the next 5 Sundays, on the second floor, Studio A, at the First Street Community Center in Mount Vernon.

Beginner classes are $10.00 per class or $50.00 for the remaining 5 week session.

Have you always wanted to try yoga but felt too intimidated to jump into a class?

Our expert yoga teachers, Carol Daly and Jen Zimmerman-Bronder will put you at ease as they guide you through the basic poses and body movements that make up the foundation of yoga. They will focus on the fundamentals of alignment, breathing and relaxation throughout the practice of classical yoga postures.

Please come join us and roll out a mat for a new beginning.

For additional information please contact Kelly May at: [email protected]

New Yoga session begins this week, August 7 and runs for six-weeks through to September 13th.

RESTORATIVE YOGA CLASS DESCRIPTION:

In our busy day to day lives we often forget how important rest is for our overall health.  Rest promotes recovery from vigorous workouts as well as recovery from day to day stress by slowing the heart rate, boosting the immune system, and accelerating the body’s natural healing process.  A recent study comparing restorative yoga to a more active stretching routine found that women lost more subcutaneous fat with yoga!

Restorative yoga and other healing-based yoga practices such as yoga nidra are part of a thousands of years old wisdom tradition. Unlike the dynamic movement of a typical yoga class, restorative yoga is slow-paced and incorporates the use of props to fully support the body in a few simple postures.  As restorative postures are comfortably held for 5 – 15 minutes, we deeply relax to replenish our stores of energy and recover a sense of calmness. We hope you will join us soon for one of our new monthly Restorative Yoga classes. Class size is limited to 6.

CONTACT KELLY MAY AT [email protected] TO PRE-REGISTER.

SUMMER RESTORATIVE CLASS DATES:  July 8,  August 5

TIME: 4 – 5:30 pm

COST: One Class Punch (non-refundable) or $15 for Drop-In

TEACHERS: Jen Zimmerman-Bronder and Carol Daly

What sets yoga at FSCC apart from yoga at other studios?  The answer is our yoga teachers! Collectively our teachers, Jen Zimmerman-Bronder, Ann Fleckenstein, Devon Olberding, and Carol Daly, have over 1300 teacher training hours, 10 years of teaching yoga, and experience teaching at local yoga studios in Iowa City, Solon, North Liberty, and Cedar Rapids and nationally/internationally at yoga retreats in Colorado, Costa Rica, and Indonesia.  

Elliott’s Uptown Fitness hosts yoga classes at the First Street Community Center (FSCC). Yoga classes at FSCC range from Kids Yoga to Gentle Yoga to Hatha Yoga for all ability levels. The setting at FSCC is spacious with room for up to a dozen or more students and is comfortably air conditioned during the hot summer months.  Yoga mats and props are provided on site as well.

JOIN US for YOGA at FIRST STREET COMMUNITY CENTER this summer!  All classes are held on the 2nd floor of the FSCC in “Studio A”.

• Yoga for Adults

  • Tuesday, 10 am and 6:30 pm

  • Wednesday, 6 am

  • Thursday, 10 am

  • Saturday, 9 am

  • Coming Soon!  Monthly Sunday Restorative Yoga

• Yoga for Kids – contact Devon Olberding at [email protected]

  • Thursday, 3-4 pm, in June and July

 Students may pay per class, per 6-week session, with an unlimited 6-week session pass or a 10-class pass that is good for one year! For more information click here.

* Spread the word about our NEW STUDENT SPECIAL – $49 for one month of unlimited classes.  Register and pay at your first class or contact Kelly May at Elliott’s Uptown Fitness to pre-register.

SUMMER YOGA!!!

Summer is FINALLY approaching!  After months of winter and a cool spring, we look forward to summer’s most defining characteristic, HEAT.  Heat (whether you like it in the summer or not) is a necessary component of transformation, and one that was recognized by the early yogis as a vital component of our practice.  Yogis use the word, tapas, to describe the internal fire that is needed to build will power, stick to our resolutions, and overcome the resistance to change that we often feel when starting (or continuing) a healthy practice like yoga.  No matter what is going on for you this summer, getting to your yoga mat will make you feel better!

COME AND JOIN US for YOGA at FIRST STREET COMMUNITY CENTER this summer!

• Tuesdays, 10 am and 6:30 pm

• Wednesday, 6 am

• Thursday, 10 am

• Saturday, 9am