So What is Freestyle?

Free style is simply being in the present. It is moving with intention. Sinking into your breath and giving your breath to move you. Every day we have to think and then we overthink. We overthink why we should do things this way instead of that way. We overthink if we should make more of an effort than yesterday or tomorrow even.

With Free Style, Claudia does her practice side by side with her students. She shares what she is doing and if you want to do the same you can, but if you see your neighbor moving into a pose you are interested in doing then do it. You breathe into your yoga. You move into your yoga. You live your yoga.

No fears, questions always encouraged. Even conversations. We sometimes talk in class. Why, you ask? B/c when we don't share or connect to what is happening, let alone acknowledge our lives, then we hoard onto it all. We hoard onto the stress, onto the depression, anger, frustration, disease.

Where do you hoard it? Well, it depends: your tight jaw that you clench not just at night, but during the day. Maybe your hips, which explains if they are tight. Lower back issues when we feel like we are carrying the weight of the world on our shoulders. Lots of places. But most of all... we hoard onto it in our minds. Not b/c we want to, but b/c this is how we are trained. Don't share, stuff it in, and hope it doesn't resurface 3 years later.

Yoga is very simple. So simple at times that it seems hard. But anybody can do it. You can do it! Because giving yourself the time to live is worth it and, well, at the end of the day so are you!

Claudia creates a safe space at her sacred studio Y Respira where you can feel free to breathe and live and be simply you. She will practice by your side, answer any questions, share her struggles, laugh and even cry with you. Deep down beneath the surface she understands that sometimes the roots struggle to hold their big strong trees up.

FreeStyle happens every Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 6:30am and Tuesdays at 6pm. Give it a try and feel for yourself.