Class Offerings

Tai Chi Roots - Yang style 64-move form With JOhn pence

mondays 6pm - 7:30pm - beginning january 12

This class teaches tai chi to integrate body awareness, balance, and breath in a way that acknowledges both the art's martial past and the realities of 21st-century life. 

Participants will find efficiency in their movement, tools for relaxation, and ways to integrate tai chi into other physical practices. Tai chi concepts can be applied in surprising ways to weightlifting, running, picking up wiggly children, sitting at a desk, martial arts, or returning a shopping cart to the corral. No previous experience is necessary and there's nothing to buy. We honor the teachers who came before us, but the class is informal. Most classes will feature some conditioning work with education available to take that further outside of class.

*The art is traditionally taught with touch and involves partner work, but please advise the instructor of any concerns over touch or other boundaries. Ages 18+.

$20 per class

sivananda Yoga Shangha With Shannon

thursdays 5:15pm

Sivananda yoga balances our minds, bodies, chakras, and emotions with a focused yet relaxed container. The pranayama (15 minutes), asana (45 minutes), and nidra (15 minute guided meditation) are all dedicated to experiencing satchitananda: truth-consciousness-bliss absolute.

Shannon Gorres, MDiv, MA, has taught classic Sivananda yoga for 15 years, and is moving their Kaw River Yoga Sangha inside Elevate studio for the winter months!

Her other indoor/outdoor therapeutic offerings can be seen at DivineNatureTherapy.com

Book Here:  https://www.divinenaturetherapy.com/booking-calendar/sivananda-yoga-sangha

Functional Movement with Evan Cleveland

Tuesdays 8am-9am

Thrusdays 8Am-9am

Sundays 9Am-10am

Evan Cleveland is a Mobility Specialist based out of Lawrence Kansas.

What is Functional Range Conditioning?

The functional range conditioning system is about building a human frame that can perform the movements you want to do safely and efficiently. It's not about the movement. Its about understanding how to build the tools that you will need to perform the movements you want. It's all about getting the body ready for the stress the the tissues are about to be put under during training. 

FRC is about building a base that is ready to withstand the insult that is training. It's not actually about any specific movement.  It's about building the prerequisites that is needed to perform the movement you desire.

We need to train how our internal body functions before we start piling on external load.

In other words, if you can't pull yourself in and out of the desired movement without any external load, then it's a bad idea to add weight to the movement.  It's a sure way to get injured or develop degenerate change to the tissues. 

Internal training > External training.