Downtown Ann Arbor parking:
Structure on Maynard St.,
or off Washington
2-hour metered parking on Washington St.
Street parking free after 6 pm and on Sundays
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STUDIO LOCATIONS
SANTA BARBARA, CA : (map)
1905 Cliff Drive | 93109
phone: 805-448-1320 |
ANN ARBOR, MI : (map)
215 S. State Street | 2nd floor | 48104
phone: 734-834-0507 |
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email us at: talk@russayog.com |
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| RussaYog is a style of yoga for a person engaged actively in modern life. The modern lifestyle, where technology is closely intertwined with daily life, provides tremendous opportunities for learning, working and playing. It can, however, place many challenges to personal and communal wellness. Intense competition, deadlines, responsibilities, as well as tedium and mental and physical fatigue can offer challenges that can cause life imbalances. Negative stress, anxieties and worries can drain creativities and productivity. It is important to learn tools that can release the negative stress, and tools that allow us to have well-balanced minds and bodies. RussaYog sessions are designed to be accessible yet challenging to everyone. The focus is on learning tools to help keep the mind calm and alert during any stress, and to build a strong, muscular physique. |
The RussaYog experience,
a unique, muscular yoga using ropes and fabric, strives to create holistic wellness by using:
Pranayam (breathwork),
Kriyas (movements),
Asans (postures),
Vishram (release and rest)
a five-layered holistic fitness based on:
Flexibility: reach, open, bend, twist
Strength: hold, pull, press, squeeze
Stamina: give sustained effort
Balance: focus the body and mind
Release: rest and reflect |
What Happens During a Typical Class?
You enter a room with brightly-colored mats, jute ropes suspended from anchors, gentle music playing. The ropes help you stretch your body, feeling a sense of release. The instructor takes you through pranayam (breathing exercises), kriyas (movements), asans (postures), ending in shavasan (rest). Afterward spend a few minutes meeting friends as you enjoy the fruit of the session. Your muscles and ligament groups are strengthened. Your balance is challenged, symmetry is tested. russaYog embodies the strength and power of a weight-training workout, the inner calm and outer awareness provided by yoga. Your body and mind become light and alert. |
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Bring the benefits of RussaYog to your workplace
Shvas (breath in Sanskrit) is an integrated wellness tool designed to address challenges to wellness in the modern work/learning setting where deadlines, competition, responsibilities, and exhaustion can cause life imbalances.
Three main tools are used in the workplace and can be performed in as little as 2 minutes each hour.
The ingredients of pranayam, asan, and kriyas accomplish the goals of increasing self-awareness, be able to diagnose yourself to modify poor posture while working and using good breathing techniques, and enhancing flexibility, strength, stamina, and balance while releasing negative burdens.
Contact RussaYog to learn how you may incorporate these powerful tools to improve your work environment. |
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Announcements
- RussaYog Wellness Series by Prof. Jasprit Singh. This series devles deeper into the meaning of yoga and why practicing RussaYog improves your well being. The lectures can be viewed online. (click here for pdf files)
- RussaYog offers SHVAS: breathing & postures to do anywhere, anytime with the DORA (colorful fabric)!
With each class pass, get a Dora, a DVD and booklet gift set.
Or receive a gift set for a loved one (for only $25).
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