Hatha Yoga with Charles MacInerney
IN AUSTIN, TEXAS AND OTHER CITIES

CLASS DESCRIPTION

Hatha Yoga classes & workshops in Austin, Texas are offered as ongoing programs and students can join at any time. In addition, Charles MacInerney regularly leads workshops in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and around the state, as well as retreats in Mexico, Costa Rica and central Texas.

Learn Yoga with one of Austin's most experienced and respected teachers. Charles teaches yoga asanas in a nurturing and meditative style. His primary goal is to help students improve their breathing and to increase their self-awareness, confidence, and independence. Charles blends the precision of Iyengar yoga with a the well balance structure of the Hymalayan Yoga tradition, and a playful, joyful approach to practicing yoga.

Hatha I Classes: These classes attract a mixture of new yoga students, more experienced students, and even teachers, working along side of each other. Classes are taught in such a way that each student feels challenged, with out feeling intimidated. Students are encouraged to listen to their own mind/body dialogue, then learn to move away from pain and into pleasure, until they discover for themselves, the joy of yoga. Thus students work at varying levels of intensity, and explore different variations of the same asanas.

Once students have learned to enjoy the practice of Hatha yoga, the emphasis is shifted to perfecting each pose, developing strength, flexibility, balance, precision, stamina, coordination, and grace.

Each class is carefully structured to give a well balanced workout for the muscles, joints, organs, glands and nervous system. The beginning and the end of classes are usually very similar and are taught in a more meditative atmosphere. The middle of classes differ from week to week, allowing for students to learn new poses, or explore familiar poses in more depth. Classes close with a deep guided relaxation. At the completion of class, students usually feel calm, centered, quietly energized and happy.

Hatha II Classes: These classes are for students who have studied with Charles for at least 6 months, or more experienced students who have worked with different teachers. The main requirement for joining this class is good body awareness, and willingness to take personal responsibility for not injuring your self. This allows Charles to teach in a more challenging style, and to experiment. Some classes are taught in silence, some are taught with music. Sometimes Charles teaches in a more Iyengar style, focusing on alignment and precision. Sometimes the focus is self exploration, or breathing, or meditative yoga.

Students in this class are not necessarily free of injuries or in great shape, but they do know how to look after themselves, and often choose to do alternative poses when Charles teaches a pose that is not safe for them to work on.

Charles MacInerney has extensive experience as a Hatha Yoga Instructor having practiced since 1971, and taught since 1989. For more information about Charles, please see his biography.