Green Tara Yoga & Healing Arts

08/22/2025

Karen’s Yoga Practice Tip: Reach out into the space around you
• In a standing pose such as Half Moon Pose, extend your energy outward from the center of your body, out through your limbs and into the surrounding space.
• Imagine the reach of your energy moving far beyond the confines of your physical structure.
• Lengthen your spine and imagine space being created between all your joints.
• Notice how this spatial intention affects the pose. Observe how reaching into the periphery changes your balance, your breathing, and your ease in the pose.

08/20/2025

Join Karen on Friday, August 22, from 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm (In -Studio and Online) for her Focus Fridays class on Freeing the Hips, where she will guide you through a series of asanas designed to improve the mobility and stability of your hips, creating improved alignment in seated and standing poses. Sign up here: https://greentarayoga.punchpass.com/calendar. Remember: everyone who signs up for the class will have two weeks of online access to the recording, so you can take – and retake – as often as you’d like!

08/17/2025

Sun salutes help develop strength and mobility while generating heat. They can become a practice in themselves, and are also a good preparation for standing poses, backbends, or arm balances.

08/15/2025

Karen’s Yoga Practice Tip: Open the Palms
• Take a pose in which your bear weight on your hands such as Downward Facing Dog Pose.
• Press all parts of the hand down - the outer edges of the hands, the center of the palms, the undersides of the knuckles and the fingers.
• Especially press the index finger mound, the area below the index finger knuckle.
• Observe how the even, firm pressure of the hands onto the floor effects your arms, shoulders and shoulder blades.
• Connecting the palms strongly to the floor is a way of working with the earth element, which brings stability and steadfastness to the posture.

08/13/2025

08/10/2025

Geeta Iyengar often taught rocking and rolling motion to help improve our freedom in twists and forward bends. Here, Karen enjoys the controlled momentum and ease of these gently swinging movements, preparing her for the final Head of the Knee Pose.

08/08/2025

Karen’s Yoga Practice Tip: Practice with awareness of your skin
• Your skin is the largest organ of your body. Moving with awareness of the skin brings sensitivity and lightness to your postures.
• Stretch your arms out to the side and lengthen the arms further by moving from the skin. Let your breath move into the skin of the breastbone and side ribs.
• Now do a familiar pose such as Triangle Pose. Stretch your limbs and soften your breath while focusing on skin awareness.
• B.K.S. Iyengar writes that the skin is associated with the air element. We feel the touch of the wind on our skin. Moving from the skin brings discernment and awakens our subtle intuitive intelligence.

08/06/2025

Back by popular demand! Karen’s workshop on starting your day with yoga to enhance your physical well-being, mental clarity, and emotional poise and contentment filled up so quickly that she opened another session for this Saturday, August 9 from 1:00-3:30 pm (In-Studio and Online)! Join Karen as she guides you through five different 15-minute sequences that will help you adopt the habit of doing yoga upon rising – one of the best practices you can incorporate into your daily routine. All students will receive handouts outlining the sequences so you can practice them regularly at home. Open to all levels of students. Register here: https://greentarayoga.punchpass.com/calendar

08/03/2025

Twisting postures help develop the rib cage and hip mobility needed for arm balances. Here Julie shows a balance of mobility, strength and lightness in her One Arm and Shoulder Pose.

08/01/2025

Iyengar Yoga is an innovative form of classical yoga focused on alignment and awareness. Green Tara Yoga was voted the FutureHeights Best Place to Practice Yoga in 2025. We offer weekly classes and a variety of special workshops. Your first class is free!

Is there a Focus Friday class that you weren't able to attend? With these recordings, you can take the class at your convenience, and even repeat it. The pass for each topic gives you access to:

08/01/2025

Karen’s Yoga Practice Tip: Have affection for your body
• B.K.S. Iyengar writes that we must have love and affection for our body and what it can do for us.
• We should treat ourselves with maitri, friendliness, and mudita, compassion. (See Yoga Sutra I:33)
• The love we experience toward ourselves can then radiate out to others.
• Read more about these ideas in Light on Life by B.K.S. Iyengar, in the section entitled Perfecting: Always Be Happy with the Smallest Improvement starting on page 54.

07/30/2025

Starting the day with yoga enhances your physical well-being, mental clarity, and emotional poise and contentment. On Saturday, August 9 from 1:00-3:30 pm (In-Studio and Online), Karen will lead her workshop focused on five different 15-minute sequences designed to help you adopt the habit of doing yoga upon rising – one of the best practices you can incorporate into your daily routine. Each sequence will have a slightly different emphasis, including asanas for hip mobility, shoulder mobility, spinal elongation, and deep, relaxed breathing. All students will receive handouts outlining the sequences so you can practice them regularly at home. Open to all levels of students. Register here https://greentarayoga.punchpass.com/calendar