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Full Circle Yoga KC Spring News

March 29, 2019 by Full Circle Yoga KC Leave a Comment

Happy Spring

The Season for Birth, Renewal, and Regrowth

Full Circle Yoga KC is blooming just like the spring flowers and green grass! We’ve added more classes and we have lots of events coming up!

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Tuesdays at 11:00 am- Tot Yoga with Amanda Garner- (children ages 16 months to 4 years)- Fly like a butterfly! Roar like a lion! Jump like a Frog! This playful class teaches yoga poses, yoga breathing, and savasana with song, animal movements, story, and games. Toddlers will learn impulse control, body awareness, locomotive skills, and ways to calm down in this fun class. Feel free to grab a coffee or tea before class or stop downstairs after class for coffee and community.

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Thursdays at 6:00 pm- Hatha $5 Community Yoga Class– Emphasizes strengthening the physical body by focusing on body posture and breath control. In this friendly flow class we work to find balance with mind, body, and spirit. Benefits of Hatha yoga include maintaining a healthy body, relaxing, improve flexibility, and build muscle strength and balance. This class is open to everyone! It’s a wonderful class for Mamas postpartum. Yoga isn’t about how one looks but how one feels with yoga. In April (date to be announced soon) Dead Beet Taco Shop will be offering tacos after class! Check out @deadbeettacoshop!

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Dance Tribe– Alcohol Free Dance For All Ages! Come join us and shake your tail feather to some bumping beats by DJ Clandestine. 🎶🎧. Event is being held first and Third Sundays 12:30pm-2:30pm of each month (with the exception of Easter April 21st). April 7th will be from 11:00m- 1:00pm
$10 Adults
$5 kids 3 years and up
Under 2 years Free
Cash Only at the Door

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April 13th- Do-What Now? What’s a Doula? Join Jessica Walker and Carly Crockett of Black Rabbit Doulas in a FREE informative workshop on what doulas do for expecting and new parents.

In this class, you will learn:
-an overview of what a doula is
-a brief history of our profession
-how a doula can help YOUR family
-our BONUS: we’re going to share our top 3 tips for labor!
-then we’ll open up the floor for any questions related to pregnancy, childbirth or parenting.
Partners are welcome!
Check out our website: www.blackrabbitdoulas.com

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May 4th- SAVE the DATE!!! Prenatal and Family Yoga at Brookside Art Fair! I’ll be teaching prenatal yoga outside at the tennis courts in Brookside! Please help me fill the tennis court with your beautiful selves! The event is FREE! I can’t wait to teach with the sun shinning upon us, striking your confidant Mama Bear Warrior Poses, and feeling the buzz of a great community. Prenatal Yoga at 9:00 am followed by lots more fun. A petting zoo from 10-noon, and a kids tent with crafts from 10-6. This event is in partnership with Brookside Babies.

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April 14th- May 19th- Mindfulness Family Classes- There are no members of today’s modern family that are immune from stress! Our contemporary lives of perpetual “doing” leave us all, parents and children alike, often overwhelmed and over-committed.
Learning the skills of mindfulness can help family members strengthen attention and focus, learn to handle life situations with less emotional reactivity and greater balance, while cultivating a sense of well-being and compassion for self and others.
6-Week Mindful Family Class
This Mindful Family class is designed for families with children ages 6-12, who are seeking practical skills and tools to reduce stress and create a calmer, happier and more connected family.
In this weekly one-hour class we will:
•Practice mindful movement
•Learn simple meditation practices that are accessible to all family members
•Learn about the brain and neural integration
•Have fun!
Spring Session
Sundays, April 14 – May 19
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Cost: $120 parent+1 child/$60 each additional family member
Contact amy@mindfulheartland.com for more information.

About the teacher: Amy Zoe Schonhoff is the founder of Mindfulness in the Heartland, a venture dedicated to providing training and education in mindfulness-based interventions. She is the mother of two beautiful humans, a qualified teacher of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and a trained Mindful Schools Educator.

What’s the refund policy?
Refunds will be provided up to one day prior to the start of class. Participants who need to drop after the session starts will be permitted to make up missed classes at a future offering. Session fees will not be prorated for missed classes.

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May 11th- Strawberry Swing Spring Fair. Full Circle Yoga KC is a sponsor for this event. Stay tuned for possible yoga events happening at the event!

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Changes in Schedule:

BYOB class will be changing from Wednesdays at the Overland Park Studio to the Kansas City Studio.

Full Circle Yoga KC is family centered yoga studio in Midtown Kansas City specializing in Aerial Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Baby Yoga, Power Vinyasa and more.

Is Power Vinyasa Yoga A Good Workout?

March 14, 2019 by Full Circle Yoga KC Leave a Comment

Is Power Vinyasa Yoga A Good Workout?

The quick answer is YES!!! Let’s flow into the many additional benefits!

Vinyasa yoga is a form of yoga that is rooted in hatha yoga. The challenge comes as powerful and regimented postures flow with breath. Vinyasa yoga is a full body experience that can help you tone up, sweat, build endurance and strength, and detox your entire system.

Power Vinyasa improves your strength by building lean muscle mass. One of the great advantages of power vinyasa over a gym workout is it gives attention to full body and all the muscle groups. Poses in a power vinyasa class include backbends, arm balances, inversions, and standing poses. It doesn’t take long to start feeling and seeing the results!

Who doesn’t need to improve their flexibility! The continuous movements and stretching while breathing is double the impact on the muscles. While moving full body movements and poses the muscles are able to release tension in muscles, joints and ligaments, and range of motion improves. Oxygen to the muscles is like grease to a bike chain. Increasing flexibility prevents injuries.

Power vinyasa helps reduce stress by shifting your focus from external to internal. It’s a practice the focuses on mind, body, and spirit. While the body is moving in rhythm with breath, the mind is offered cleansing through deep full body breaths. When the head is lowered below the heart it slows the central nervous system. Think sweat as a way to cleans the body of toxins and release the body of built up stress. When we release stress we improve our sleep, reduce risk for cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure.

Power Vinyasa is a fast paced class that will build heat and offer a full body cardiovascular workout, and a deep clearing of the mind. It’s a practice that feeds the mind, body, and spirit and will leave it wanting more.

Full Circle Yoga KC is family centered yoga studio in Midtown Kansas City specializing in Aerial Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Baby Yoga, Power Vinyasa and more.

Prenatal Yoga For Third Trimester

March 5, 2019 by Full Circle Yoga KC Leave a Comment

Prenatal Yoga For Third Trimester

“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers – strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.” – Barbara Katz Rothman

Your coming into the home stretch of your pregnancy journey. It may be the time when it all gets real for you and your partner, you’re bringing life into the world, you’re going to be a parent. You’re about to experience that rite of passage that makes you a Mama, BIRTH!

Your body and baby are working hard in unison, making the final preparations before birth-day. It’s often a time where it become more difficult to tie shoes, get up, roll over, walk, breath. Yet, it’s a crucial time to keep your body fit, comfortable, and relaxed. Prenatal yoga in the third trimester is a time to focus on preparing the body mentally and physically for labor and delivery. In addition to your body making final preparations, yoga can help get baby in optimal fetal position for arrival.

Stabilizing Pelvis- This can be done by simply sitting higher on sits bones on front of pelvis. Folding a blanket and sitting on the edge in easy pose will tilt the pelvis forward so baby’s head can engage. In easy-pose join the energy of you and your baby with cleansing deep breaths. This is a beautiful pose to recognize that every moment lasts only a moment and cultivate peace and calmness. Beginning your practice in this pose allows you to listen to your body, your intuition, and your baby. Deep breaths are what will ride you through the contractions, they will be your best friend. Take this time to connect deeply with your breath.

All 4’s- So much goodness in all-4 poses! This helps baby move into an anterior position and release pressure off the lower back. Think of this pose as cozy hammock for your baby as you sway, circle, feel a sense of lightness moving in time with your breath. All 4’s bring more flexibility and opens the pelvis. Cat/cow poses help get baby into optimal birthing position.

Hip Openers- Visualize strong open hips!!! Hip opener poses help bring balance and stability to the muscles and joints. Poses such as wide-angle forward fold, warrior II, child’s pose, seated squats, standing wide hip circles give full range motion in the hip joint.

Squats- For Mamas with a baby that is breech, this pose is not recommended for you. Squats are a pose that practices being okay with the discomfort and staying focused on keeping the body relaxed along with cleansing breaths. This pose will prepare Mama for the shaking and burning, the strength and confidence she will bring to her birth. Squats opens the pelvis and frees birthing muscles.

Savasana- While keeping the body active, it’s also just as important to create time for relaxation and tap into the inner power and wisdom. It’s an opportunity to hold space for quiet, self-care, and deep connection with baby. Savasana allows Mama to go inward as she will need to in labor and delivery, to trust and listen to her beautiful body.

Full Circle Yoga KC is family centered yoga studio in Midtown Kansas City specializing in Aerial Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Baby Yoga, Power Vinyasa and more.

What is Gentle Yoga?

February 12, 2019 by Full Circle Yoga KC Leave a Comment

“Be good to yourself. If you don’t take care of your body, where will you live?”

– Kombi Yamada

One of the things I love most about gentle yoga is that it welcomes everyone, it’s not limited by age or ability. I think it takes us back to the basics of true yoga, where one can be in union with mind and body. This is such a wonderful class for all types of people, especially when you have a wonderful teacher that wants to help you build your practice from the ground up and appreciates where you are on your life journey. Gentle yoga offers poses for one to move the body in a way that feels good and recharges the body both physically and mentally.

Gentle yoga reminds us that our body is a gift. In a gentle yoga class you become mindful of how your body moves. Breath and movements are pathways to overall wellness feeding the body and the soul. Gentle yoga creates a space where we slow the business life and surrender to the calming movements and restorative breaths.

Poses in gentle yoga are held just long enough to feel the body, to strengthen and stretch, yet repair where your body needs support and love. It’s a class that allows you to slow the pace and let go of the hustle and bustle of the day in and day out of life.

Gentle yoga is practically beneficial to those who are just starting to explore yoga. For those that are stiff and wanting to improve their fitness level, gentle yoga offers the slower practice that makes it easier to get into poses. Gentle yoga is also a wonderful practice for postpartum when Mamas are wanting to rediscover their body again after having a child or children. Those that are recovering from injury and need to explore postures more slowly, gentle yoga is wonderful option.

Full Circle Yoga KC is family centered yoga studio in Midtown Kansas City specializing in Aerial Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Baby Yoga, Power Vinyasa and more.

Full Circle Yoga KC February News

February 1, 2019 by Full Circle Yoga KC Leave a Comment

It’s been a cold in Kansas City but it’s heating up at Full Circle Yoga KC! Full Circle Yoga KC February News has lots of updates! Love is in the air in February and we want to share all the love with you!

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Our new classes are off to a great start! Grab a spot at the many classes offered during the week. There’s something for everyone! Every single one of our instructors is amazing and has a special gift in what they bring to you on the mat.

As much as us big kids need yoga, our little kids need yoga too! Amanda Garner is well known in the Kansas City area for her toddler yoga class! You can join her starting Tuesday February 5th to Tot Yoga! Fly like a butterfly! Roar like a lion! Jump like a Frog! This playful class for children 18 months to 4 years, teaches yoga poses, yoga breathing, and savasana with song, animal movements, story, and games. Toddlers will learn impulse control, body awareness, locomotive skills, and ways to calm down in this fun class. Feel free to grab a coffee or tea before class or stop downstairs after class for coffee and community.

Sarah Hockla will be joining FCYKC to teach $5 donation or pay what you can Hatha Yoga on Thursday evenings at 6:00pm starting February 14th.

Feb 9th Legacy Massage is joining with FCYKC to provide FREE prenatal massages to soon-to-be-Mamas before Prenatal Yoga. Love thy self and take advantage of the benefits of massage!!! The event will begin at 8:15 am and prenatal class will begin at 9:00 am. Both therapists are prenatal certified in massage. You are more than welcome to come to class at 9:00 am for prenatal and opt out of massage.

Feb 20th Prenatal Partner Yoga! This is always a fun, playful, and wonderful opportunity to connect with your partner! Love is in the air in February, meet your partner on the mat and share time to flow and celebrate this time of pregnancy together.

February 18th Groovy Kids Yoga! School is out and Kids Yoga is in! Parents grab and coffee and bite to eat while we let our inner yogi shine!

Coming in March- Our first Infant CPR class with Brookside Babies! and a workshop for parents who have experienced the loss of a child.

Make sure to follow us on Facebook @fullcirclyogakc to stay up to date on all the goodness happening at FCYKC!

Full Circle Yoga KC is family centered yoga studio in Midtown Kansas City specializing in Aerial Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Baby Yoga, Power Vinyasa and more.

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