Yoga
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Yoga is a practice. It is also a lifestyle. It can be a physical workout, a mental cleanse, or a deeply soothing reprieve. Find your yoga spark here…
Group Classes
Belief in Balance
February Yoga
Belief in Balance Yoga hosted by YOGA\VIVRE at the Wooster Country Club
Mondays | February 2025 | 5:30pm | WCC Indoors
Belief in Balance is about navigating twists and turns, riding ebbs and flows, giving equal attention to strengths and weaknesses. In this yoga class series, we acknowledge that life’s balance is always shifting, and to find balance within ourselves means that we, too, must shift. We make and hold space for exploring the spectrum, so that we can slide along the scale with ease and without resistance.
Starting from a foundation of traditional yoga poses, we layer-in functional movement exercises, breathwork, therapeutic practices, body-work, sensory exploration, and stillness.
Meet inside the main doors of the Wooster Country Club. Bring a yoga mat. Enjoy the view of the trees and rolling hills as you practice.
Clarity Yoga hosted by YOGA\VIVRE at the Wooster Country Club
Mondays | March 2025 | 5:30pm | WCC Indoors - NO CLASS March 24
In March, we start the process of sloughing off winter’s layers, take a breath of fresh, spring air and clear our hearts and minds for budding newness. We’ll work through the practice of yoga to uncover more clarity and move forward with the shifting of the seasons. By stretching the tissues, we create bodily connections. By moving across different planes, we find our center in space. By building postures, we gain perspective and bring into view the course we will chart. — All of which create clarity. It’s yoga, and so much more.
Meet inside the main doors of the Wooster Country Club. Bring a yoga mat. Enjoy the view of the trees and rolling hills as you practice.
Yoga Lunch
Yoga Lunch
Thursdays | 12:10pm | Miller Pavilion, Secrest Arboretum
NO CLASS: March 20, March 27, May 22
Step away from work... release tensed muscles and an over-worked mind... return to face the rest of your day with a renewed sense of energy. Everyone is welcome at this 45-minute, weekly, lunchtime class. No need to pre-register. Just show up!
Yoga Lunch is an abbreviated class at a reduced price: $5 payable via Venmo @JoieSchmitz or cash. Multi-class cards are available.
Library Archive
YouTube
Pre-Recorded Virtual Yoga Sessions
Library archive | YouTube
Access a wide variety of classes from short (15-minutes or less) sessions, to fun ways to move with your kids, to full-length practices. Morning momentum, meditation, breathwork, simple stretching, mantra, self-massage, simple acts and potent practices to easily incorporate into your day. Check out the YOGA\VIVRE YouTube Channel for this collection of free video classes!
Personalized Offerings
Taking care of your self and your health is essential. In-person private yoga, personal training sessions, and nutrition support are designed to help you develop a whole-health lifestyle.
Whether you are looking to refine your yoga practice with the dedicated attention of an experienced teacher, or you have specific fitness goals in mind, private sessions can be the perfect way to progress on your own, personal wellness journey. We tailor each private session to your preferences, goals, abilities, and schedule. Nutritional guidance, based in the University of Montana Culinary Medicine Certification, can be incorporated, and is often the key to a fully-integrated wellness routine.
Safely strengthen, energize, fortify, and nourish your body and mind - and feel the difference!
Partner-Up! Split the cost when you workout as a pair.
Private Yoga & Personal Training Sessions
Customized Small Group Sessions
YOGA\VIVRE can completely customize small group classes for 3 or more people! Contact us to wire the details: style of yoga or workout, schedule, location, special details and pricing. Charge-up with a single class, or surge with an ongoing series.
Small group classes are personalized and make practicing yoga or working out more approachable and comfortable. (And, they are great for birthdays, bridal parties, girls nights, office parties...)
Virtual Class Library
Virtual Offerings
During the span of social distancing, I compiled a library of yoga videos from the online classes I offered.
Join me in the virtual space anytime!
Access a wide variety of classes from short (15-minutes or less) sessions, to fun ways to move with your kids, to full-length practices. Morning momentum, meditation, breathwork, simple stretching, mantra, self-massage, simple acts and potent practices to easily incorporate into your day. Check out the YOGA\VIVRE YouTube Channel for this collection of free video classes!
The classes are a combination of Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga styles, appropriate for a mixed level of practitioners.
Kids Yoga at Home:
Move - Breathe - Stretch - Relax
Free video courtesy of the Mental Health & Recovery Board of Wayne and Holmes Counties.
Contact me for more youth yoga offerings!
Chair Yoga:
Take a Time-Out to Decompress and Refresh
Free video courtesy of the Mental Health & Recovery Board of Wayne and Holmes Counties.
Contact me for more chair yoga, mindfulness, breathing and meditation practices!
Collaborations
Yoga in Schools
Yoga can help students find a calm, steady focus or rev their minds for deep thinking. Yoga can help teachers stay centered during the most challenging days of the school year. And, yoga can teach everyone how to live a healthier and more balanced lifestyle. Many schools in the area are plugged into the power of YOGA\VIVRE.
Contact us to plan a program that zaps your school with yoga's powers.
In-person classes, live virtual sessions and recorded video lessons available!
Liberty Preparatory School Private Meditation & Mindfulness curriculum for students.
Wadsworth Middle School Quarterly sessions for Healthy Foods & Living class.
Killbuck Elementary School State Testing Stress-Management & Mindfulness + 9-week Yoga Curriculums.
Parkview Elementary School Staff Meeting Meditation.
West Holmes Local Schools Staff Mindfulness Training.
Wooster City Schools Free weekly Wellness Initiative Sponsored Classes.
Cornerstone Elementary Wellness Wednesday Contributor.
OSU ATI Campus De-Stress Day Yoga
Customized yoga sessions for athletic teams can enhance conditioning, strength training and performance, plus ignite players' mental game. Contact us to work with your team!
The College of Wooster Volleyball - Private yoga and meditation sessions to support the team throughout the 2017 and 2018 seasons.
Yoga for Teams
Mindfulness and Meditation Experiences
Mindfulness and Meditation practices give us an opportunity to see the world in a different way. Through a partnership with Comprehensive Internal Medicine, in which we co-host live and virtual programs, we share techniques for forming an authentic and consistent mindfulness practice.
More content in partnership with our friends at the Mental Health and Recovery Board of Wayne and Holmes Counties… coming soon!
MHRB Mindfulness & Yoga
Events
YOGA\VIVRE events fuse yoga with cool experiences. These events turn your appreciation for yoga into a complete yoga lifestyle. Past events have included: New Year's Eve Intention-Setting and Meditation, Thanksgiving Gratitude Flow, Power Foundations Workshop, Head-Heart-Hands Handstand Workshop, Wine + Yoga Organic Elements, Yoga in the Park, and many more!
Upcoming: Check back!