Intro to yoga is a 5 evening workshop specifically for students with little or no yoga experience. This small-class setting is an ideal way to learn the fundamentals of a safe, healthy yoga practice.
SOUL-Salutations is a chance to take your Sun Salutation practice to the next level. After the traditional 1 hour practice, we will spend 30 minutes practicing "Lila Explorations": how to listen to our intuition and move our bodies freely. This optional segment is also a free-moving warm up for the following Soul Dance class.
Start your weekend off with COMMUNITY + FOOD! In celebration of State College’s Yoga Community Week, join us for a Lila Open House + Community Potluck! Step away from your phone and meet new people, share yummy food and delicious conversations, and laugh, laugh, laugh! And don’t forget to bring a dish or treat to share! Let’s make this our
Soul dance is a mindful movement practice that invites you to let down your burdens and freely dance. Each class is skillfully guided by Rachel (and the music) to take you through the 5 elements of life: earth, fire, water, air, and space.
Soul dance is not like a traditional dance class. There’s no choreography. At first that might sound scary, but what it means is that there’s no way to get it wrong. There are no mirrors. We aren’t coming together to make ourselves look performance-perfect so we can hope to be judged as worthy. There is no judgement. Instead, we come together to listen to our bodies and express our hearts. We move to the rhythms of life as we practice our yoga of self-awareness and self-acceptance.
Join us for the FREE American premier of Maalai Mangum Neram, a sweet Indian Romantic Comedy, conversation, and chai tea! This film is co-presented by the Advancement of Indian Development, the Indian Graduate Students Association, and Lila Yoga Studios.
This week is the perfect time for us to congregate, practice yoga, share stories, laugh, cry, have fun, love, mediate, share great food, hear music, dance freely, get real, tell the truth, find the truth, meditate, drink tea, and meet Lila’s amazing yoga teachers.
Workshop Description: Discover how yoga can support healthy eating and positive body image. Explore mindfulness-based practices for tuning into hunger and fullness signals. Experience the main components of the Eat Breathe Thrive program: four simple and applicable principles to support a healthy relationship with food, body, and oneself. Learn how to use your unique skills and talents to help individuals
Description: What is the Underscore? The Underscore is a long-form dance improvisation structure which began developing in the 1990's by Nancy Stark Smith. "The Underscore is a vehicle for incorporating Contact Improvisation into a broader arena of improvisational dance practice; for developing greater ease dancing in spherical space-alone and with others; and for integrating kinesthetic and compositional concerns while improvising.
Workshop Description: AcroYoga blends the wisdom of yoga, the dynamic power of acrobatics, and the loving kindness of healing arts. Come join Acro Revolution and Partner Acrobatics teacher John Marquiss and Lila Yoga founder Erica Kaufman for two introductory sessions into this beautiful practice. Experience Needed: This class is perfect for beginner practitioners! All are welcome. What to bring: We
Description: Body Image: Body image is how you see yourself when you look in the mirror or when you picture yourself in your mind. It encompasses: What you believe about your own appearance (including your memories, assumptions, and generalizations). How you feel about your body, including your height, shape, and weight. How you sense and control your body as you
