Beginning in August, Sunstone Yoga will introduce a new Wood class in a 30 and 60 minute format.

This intense core stengthening class will use our new Pain Free Yoga™ techniques to help you tone and balance your body, waking up dormant muscles and strengthening your core, and helping you develop more stable strength and flexibility in your practice. Plus, it will be easier to fit the shorter classes into your busy week, or add an extra Wood class to your regular fitness routine.

We're also adding Wood to the existing Metal and Earth Series classes, with 1 hour of power yoga and 30 minutes of Wood strengthening. You'll love getting 2 classes in 1!

Look for new schedules to be announced soon.

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We need time to give our teachers the most advanced training and knowledge in fitness yoga technique available. So we will have reduced class hours on two weekends this summer to prepare for the launch of our new Wood Classes, Pain-Free Yoga™ techniques and Yoga Assessment programs.

Classes will be held as usual at the following times:

Saturday, July 15 classes:
8 & 10 AM @ Uptown and Preston Towne Crossing
9 & 11 AM @ Preston Forest Village

Sunday, July 16 classes:
4 & 6 PM @ Uptown and Preston Towne Crossing
3 & 5 PM @ Preston Forest Village

Saturday, August 5 classes:
8 & 10 AM @ Uptown and Preston Towne Crossing
9 & 11 AM @ Preston Forest Village

Sunday, August 6 classes:
4 & 6 PM @ Uptown and Preston Towne Crossing
3 & 5 PM @ Preston Forest Village

Yoga is known for its ability to heal - to reduce and even eliminate pain. Yet sometimes, it doesn't work, or worse, you get new pain. Pain Free Yoga™ is an advanced and applied understanding of the relationship between strength and flexibility in the body. Using the many types of stretching found in yoga, we can help you to achieve the ideal balance of strength and flexibility to keep your body moving pain free, in and out of practice. This is a way of thinking, teaching, and strengthening that will spill over into every aspect of our classes and business in the next few months - and all of it is geared toward helping you achieve, and maintain, a stronger, healthier body. Over the next few weeks, we're going to tell you a lot more about Pain Free Yoga, with workshops, yoga assessments, and specialized tools geared toward your specific needs.

Sunstone Yoga is committed to providing the most advanced yoga instruction possible, and our training programs are always growing and improving. Perhaps you've had a class with recent graduates Su, Angie, Lee, Sheri, Barb, or Lindsay. Yana, Tricia, Yong, Alexa, and many others will be joining them soon, practicing their skills and becoming strong, knowledgeable instructors.

Our next 9 week intensive program begins September 18, 2006, and we've got training candidates coming from as far away as Japan and London. Let one of your instructors know if you intend to take training this fall - the class is filling up fast and we need your deposit to reserve your space!

Continuing education is also critical to our existing teachers. All of our current teaching staff will be training in the new Pain Free Yoga techniques on July 15/16 and August 5/6, and we'll host workshops and seminars in the weeks following to show you what we've learned.

Beginning October 18, for 5 weeks, we will offer our first Certified Yoga Specialist Training. CYS Instructors will have a deep knowledge of anatomy and muscle movement. They will gain a mastery of the subtleties and advanced art of Pain Free Yoga, and will be able to help you understand and perfect your yoga practice in new ways.

CYS Training is open to any registered yoga teacher - ask us for more information.