Beginner Basics and Beyond

Beginner Basics & Beyond
A Weekly Class for Yoga Beginners
Mondays @ 6pm w/ Karen O’Neil (beginning Sept. 11th)
@ Revolution Community Yoga in the downstairs Lotus Room
Register with regular class passes at https://yogaacton.com/class-schedule/
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Beginner Basics & Beyond is the perfect opportunity for new students and current community members to explore fundamentals of poses, alignment, breath-work and philosophy. The structure and slower pace of this weekly class encourages questions, prop support, safety, and how to cultivate a practice that fits your body.

Karen O’Neil
I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 1977, and from that day forward I knew that daily physical exercise would be part of my treatment plan. In the early years, I went from being a runner to a cycler to doing step aerobics, always going to the max. Yoga floated in and out of my life, but wasn’t a regular thing. Then, I fractured my spine in a horseback riding accident, and after a year of pain, I had surgery and slowly began to recover. Yoga was the perfect companion, never too demanding, always letting me get my own way and yet healing me in ways I didn’t expect. The mind-body-spirit connection really resonated with me, and became a blueprint for my daily life that continues today.

As a senior myself, I want to be able to do the things I love and remain independent for as long as I can. Isn’t that what we all want? I want people to know that lack of movement causes aging, not the other way around. There really is something we can do to make our later years more mobile, and that thing can be yoga. My hope is that I can be a part of someone’s discovery that this really is possible in their own life.

I am a 200hr registered vinyasa yoga teacher, and have done extensive additional training in Senior Yoga, Chair Yoga and Yin Yoga.