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All Levels Yoga
Suitable for all levels. Each class has a basic sequence with the option to try more challenging postures. Postures are held for 3 to 5 breaths, allowing students to transition from one posture to the other with ease.
At Home Gentle Yoga
Suitable for all levels. This 45 minute class involves entirely seated and reclining poses from the comfort of your home or wherever you may be. Props are optional and include: blocks, straps, and cushions. Carol offers modifications for all asanas and transitions to foster accessibility for everyone. A great choice for a post-workout, just waking up, or restful day practice. Participants choose their Zoom camera and microphone settings without judgement. SImply show up and feel better.
Hatha Yoga -
Suitable for all levels. In this class, postures are practiced to align, strengthen and promote flexibility in the body. Breathing techniques and meditative practices are also integrated. You can expect an emphasis on simplicity, repetition, and ease of movement. Full-body relaxation and balance are the goals, as we make a full circuit of the body’s range of motion with standing postures, twists, back bends, forward folds, and hip openers
Yin/Restorative
Suitable for all levels. Yin Yoga invites you to slow down and create space for stillness while nourishing joints, ligaments, tendons and fascia. Yin is yoga at its coolest, deepest, quietest, stillest moments. This class will have you on the floor most of the time, using as many props needed to create as little effort while holding poses. Poses are held for 2-5 minutes allowing joints and fascia to release. This class will complement your Vinyasa practice and will open and release areas in need of more stretching. Enjoy the feelings of rejuvenation and steadiness that arise from a Yin Yoga practice as you slow down, move from noise to silence, from agitation to calm, from complexity to simplicity.
MEET OUR INSTRUCTORS:
Alexandra (Alex) Schneider
Owner, Yoga Instructor
Alex Schneider is the co-owner of Pure with her husband Edwin. She has been practicing yoga for 19 years and teaching for 6 years, earned her 200 hour yoga teacher certification from Shoshone Yoga Ashram in Nederland, Colorado, and has taught at Pure Training Studio, Studio M, and Yogasemite. Alex earned her Personal Trainer certification from NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) in 2020. Alex has a background doing a variety of sports including show jumping horses, capoeira (afro Brazillian martial art), and rock climbing. She taught high school math until 2020, at which time she put her teaching career on hiatus to spend more time with her two sons, Edwin III and Armand Manuel. In addition to yoga Alex enjoys running outside, gardening, hiking, and spending time with her family, and reading.
Alex Schneider is the co-owner of Pure with her husband Edwin. She has been practicing yoga for 19 years and teaching for 6 years, earned her 200 hour yoga teacher certification from Shoshone Yoga Ashram in Nederland, Colorado, and has taught at Pure Training Studio, Studio M, and Yogasemite. Alex earned her Personal Trainer certification from NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) in 2020. Alex has a background doing a variety of sports including show jumping horses, capoeira (afro Brazillian martial art), and rock climbing. She taught high school math until 2020, at which time she put her teaching career on hiatus to spend more time with her two sons, Edwin III and Armand Manuel. In addition to yoga Alex enjoys running outside, gardening, hiking, and spending time with her family, and reading.
Carol Hart
Personal Trainer and Yoga Instructor
Carol relocated from Mariposa County in 2020 but continues to teach and personal train Pure clients on FaceTime and Zoom. She thrives in staying connected with new and long-ago established friends, in motivating each other from afar, into the foreseeable future. Carol is a certified Power Pilates Instructor, Yoga Alliance 200 Teacher, and NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) Personal Trainer. She has self-published a short piece on the unanticipated joys of personal training called “Hart Training” that is available on the Amazon Kindle Store. Carol also loves spending time with family, including two grown and fledged “kids,” dog walking, and backpacking in the Sierra Nevada with her husband Steve. She also serves on the Mariposa County Arts Council Board and as Trustee of the California State Parks Foundation. One of her favorite quotes is, “Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and all places.” – Frederick Douglass
Personal Trainer and Yoga Instructor
Carol relocated from Mariposa County in 2020 but continues to teach and personal train Pure clients on FaceTime and Zoom. She thrives in staying connected with new and long-ago established friends, in motivating each other from afar, into the foreseeable future. Carol is a certified Power Pilates Instructor, Yoga Alliance 200 Teacher, and NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine) Personal Trainer. She has self-published a short piece on the unanticipated joys of personal training called “Hart Training” that is available on the Amazon Kindle Store. Carol also loves spending time with family, including two grown and fledged “kids,” dog walking, and backpacking in the Sierra Nevada with her husband Steve. She also serves on the Mariposa County Arts Council Board and as Trustee of the California State Parks Foundation. One of her favorite quotes is, “Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and all places.” – Frederick Douglass
Clara Baena
Clara Baena, 200 RYT, was born in Colombia South America and currently lives in California. She has a degree in science and environmental education. She was a natural science teacher and an instructor of Karate for children. Since 2007 she has devoted herself to the study of Yoga and Reiki, its philosophies, techniques, and spirituality. In Colombia Clara shared her love of Yoga as an instructor for six years.
After living in Colombia for 35 years she arrived in the United States to start a new life with her husband and daughter.
“Today I have to opportunity of living in a new place, with new people, a new language, a different climate and a new culture. There have been many difficulties but thanks to my yoga practice I was prepared for the challenges I faced. Yoga shows me how to face the changes of life, to live in the present and to be happy where ever I may go. After three years of living the yoga practice of motherhood I had the opportunity of completing my 200 hour Wild Yoga Teacher course with Balanced Rock. I feel blessed and am grateful, I want to share with others through my service all these blessings and lessons.”
After living in Colombia for 35 years she arrived in the United States to start a new life with her husband and daughter.
“Today I have to opportunity of living in a new place, with new people, a new language, a different climate and a new culture. There have been many difficulties but thanks to my yoga practice I was prepared for the challenges I faced. Yoga shows me how to face the changes of life, to live in the present and to be happy where ever I may go. After three years of living the yoga practice of motherhood I had the opportunity of completing my 200 hour Wild Yoga Teacher course with Balanced Rock. I feel blessed and am grateful, I want to share with others through my service all these blessings and lessons.”
