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CLINIC Alternative Medicines

CLINIC Alternative Medicines
(old Valley Ayurveda)
98 Main Street
Northampton, MA 01060


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Parking

If you drive to class, the parking garage offers dry and well-lit parking. The first hour is free and only 50 cents/hour after that. You can walk through Thorne's Marketplace and stay warm!

Your first Svaroopa Yoga class at River of Grace
is just $5.


Svaroopa Yoga

Beginner Hatha Yoga in the Svaroopa Style

Thursdays, 7:30 - 8:45am
 (doors open at 7:15 am)

This class will focus on the basic poses of Svaroopa Yoga, a style of yoga that is deeply healing and easy to do as a home practice.

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Deep Relief for Back Pain

4-class Series
Sundays in April , 4 - 6pm
Registration Required

Unwind your lower spine with a 4-week series of special classes which will soften your back, restore your mind, and sooth your nerves. This series will be led by TWO instructors ensuring ample supoort, adjustments and personal attention.

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Our classes are now held at CLINIC, 98 Main Street, Northampton
Monday 7:15 - 8:45 pm
doors open at 7pm		 Svaroopa® Bucky Sparkle Svaroopa Yoga 5 days a week at River of Grace
Tuesday 9:15 - 10:45 am
doors open at 9am 		Svaroopa Bucky Sparkle
Wednesday 6:15 - 7:45 pm
doors open at 6pm 		Svaroopa Shivani
Thursday 7:30 - 8:45 am
doors open at 7:15am		 Beginner Hatha Yoga
in the Svaroopa® Style		 Emily Sparkle
Saturday 12:15 - 1:45 pm
doors open at noon 		Svaroopa Shivani

 

Rates & Details

Svaroopa Yoga

Yoga & Movement Prices *

Drop-in $15
15 week 10-class card $120

Senior & Student Prices

Drop-in $12
15 week 10-class card $100

Students must present current ID. Senior discount age 62 with ID.

Payment

Payment for River of Grace classes is handled by CLINIC at their front desk before or after class. You can also pay online for class cards, drop-ins. (Choose "Book Online")

Arrivals

Please feel encouraged, especially NEW STUDENTS, to arrive up to 15 minutes before class for paperwork, conversation and settling in before our opening meditation.

All of our classes welcome beginners

You will need comfortable clothes. Layers are useful. Water bottles with tight lids are welcome and encouraged. Mats, straps, blocks, eye pillows (lavender & unscented), tissues, and svaroopa blankets are available to use free of charge. You are welcome to bring your own mat or gear.

 

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WHY YOGA?

We feel that life is not slowing down on its own. The increasing pace of existence continuously ties our bodies and minds into knots. That is why it is increasingly more important to find ways to slow down and release the knots. It is important to do yoga.

Our classes and teachers will bring you back to a state of physical and mental ease.

A Brief View of Yoga

Yoga is for the purpose of stilling the "modifications of the mind*." It is not a religion, but a way of looking at things. It let's you see the world and yourself more clearly and connectedly. From this perspective, life is easier and more joyful.

Yoga can be interpreted and practiced in many ways. The best known way is through doing asana, or poses. But working with breath, immersing yourself in meditation, and other paths can achieve the same yogic goal: stilling the mind.

Once the mind is still, the body and spirit are at ease. This state of ease is remarkably healing and uplifting. Do yoga to experience this state daily.

Yoga's Benefits

Yoga is deservedly famous for it's wide ranging physical and mental benefits. It offers systematic ways to cleans the body and balance the mind; a healthier body and happier mind are the result. Relief from physical pains is almost a side-effect compared with the opening of your heart and mind, made possible through yoga.

* yoga citta vritti nirodhah. Patanjali's Yoga Sutra, 1.2