Be Love Yoga, Tolland

All for Love & HOT All for Love – Our signature all-levels class is featured on our schedule with and without heat. HOT All for love is gently heated to a comfortable 85 degrees (approximate) and follows a LivFree® Yoga format. This 60-minute class brings you the beautiful benefits of a vinyasa* flow, pairing breath and movement, while honoring the traditional foundations of a yoga practice.

Barre – A workout inspired by ballet and yoga, Barre combines strength, flexibility and posture; classes often incorporate a ballet barre. All bodies are welcome in this class, previous dance or yoga experience is not required. Barre focuses on more repetitions of movement with a smaller range of motion, which provides for a complete workout.

Barre Boot Camp – This 45-minute, total body workout is inspired by the movements of a traditional barre class, with the intention of elevating your heartrate, strengthening lean muscle and building a strong heart. This class is appropriate for all; modifications as well as amplifications will be offered.

Begin to Love –Begin to love is the perfect place to start if you are new to yoga or returning to your practice after a break. Postures are taught in accessible ways and students are guided through a flow at a different pace. While this class is foundational for beginners, you need not be a beginner to attend; all levels and all bodies are welcome.  

Flow & Sculpt (Consider changing to Love to Sculpt) – Focusing on the major muscle groups that support movement, our flow and sculpt class will appeal to the student looking for challenging movement, while honoring physical yoga’s intentions. This class aims to target muscle strength and conditioning. While this class is appropriate for all levels, it progresses at an “intermediate” pace.

Gentle Love (?) – Gentle yoga is excellent for all students, regardless of experience level. All the benefits of a vinyasa* practice are discovered in this class, with the comfort of ease and supportive, gentle movement. Whether you are returning to practice after an injury or have a desire to slow down, you will feel welcome and at hOMe in any of our gentle classes.

Nurture- Nurture is a gentle and restorative yoga class, taught from a “trauma-informed” perspective; every detail from the music selection to the temperature of the room has been carefully considered. The class is conducted in a way that invites everyone to take ownership of their individual bodies, empowering students to honor their choices for movement and stillness. This class meets monthly.

Pilates – Pilates movements are slow and controlled, allowing space for all levels of students to attend. This class is a complete workout that will increase your coordination, mobility and core strength. Pilates strengthens the muscles in a unique and targeted way, creating ease of motion for daily life.

Pop Pilates – When you combine total body Pilates, dance-like choreography, and high energy music you have a complete workout that is fun and effective. Students are challenged to flow from one movement to the next, developing and strengthening along the way. This fun, upbeat class is appropriate for all students; dance experience is not required.

Power of Love – Our power class is fun and challenging but also inclusive and accessible. Taught in LivFree® format, power of love follows a flow of warming up the body and then increasing the heat with moderate movement. Reinforcing balance work and longer posture holds brings the second half of class towards a restful savasana.

Restore the Love – Escape to a place of complete relaxation with our restorative practice. Restore the Love will transform you to a place of serenity, where stress and tension will melt away. Restorative yoga will reset your overtaxed nervous system leaving you feeling refreshed and tranquil.  

Strength Training – Using functional movement exercises and weights, this class reinforces muscle strength for life. Weights are provided; students are asked to bring their own mat. Our expert teaching staff will guide you through a workout that will be a compliment to any movement routine.

*Vinyasa is Sanskrit for “flow” and describes a type of movement in yoga. Pairing movement and breath contributes to a flow and is often found in many yoga classes. The speed and depth of flow is dependent on the type of class.

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