Fall Community Yoga Schedule🍂

A New, More Flexible Format This Fall!

We’re doing things a little differently this fall, so please review the information below before registering.(P.S. Read the note & class descriptions at the bottom of the schedule)

When you register for either the Monday or Wednesday session, you may choose any 12 classes from the complete fall schedule. Attend 12 Mondays,12 Wednesdays, or create your own combination of both! 

Take a look through the schedule maybe even print it out and choose the classes, teachers, and special offerings that resonate most with you.

Register Here For This Fall Session

September

Monday, September 14

Teacher: Jean Marie
Class: Moderate Kripalu Yoga

Wednesday, September 16

Teacher: Clare
Class: Gentle Kripalu Yoga

Monday, September 21

Teacher: Katrin
Class: Alignment-Based Yoga

Wednesday, September 23

Teacher: Mary
Class: Gentle Kripalu Yoga

Monday, September 28

Teacher: Jean
Class: Moderate Kripalu Yoga

Wednesday, September 30

Teacher: Clare
Class: Gentle Kripalu Yoga

October

Monday, October 5

Teacher: Jean Marie
Class: Moderate Kripalu Yoga

Wednesday, October 7

Teacher: Clare
Class: Gentle Kripalu Yoga

Monday, October 12

Teacher: Katrin
Class: Alignment-Based Yoga

Wednesday, October 14 — Special Event

Teacher: Allison
Class: To Be Announced

Monday, October 19

Teacher: Katrin
Class: Inner Balance Qigong

Wednesday, October 21

Teacher: Clare
Class: Gentle Kripalu Yoga

Monday, October 26

Teacher: Jean Marie
Class: Moderate Kripalu Yoga

Wednesday, October 28 — Halloween Special

Teachers: Mary and Izzy
Class: Let Your Yoga Dance!

Let Your Yoga Dance class: Join Izzy and Mary for a joyful celebration of body, mind, and spirit combining gentle yoga, dance, and meditation in motion as we engage the seven chakras moving energy from the tips of your toes to the crown of your head. Sure to bring smiles and joy!

November

Monday, November 2

Teacher: Katrin
Class: Alignment-Based Yoga

Wednesday, November 4

Teacher: Mary
Class: Gentle Kripalu Yoga

Monday, November 9

Teacher: Jean Marie
Class: Moderate Kripalu Yoga

Wednesday, November 11

Teacher: Clare
Class: Gentle Kripalu Yoga

Monday, November 16 — Restorative Week & Community Goods Drive for Samaritan House

Teacher: Stacey
Class: Restorative Yoga Class

Wednesday, November 18

Teacher: Mary
Class: Restorative Yoga

Monday, November 23

No Class — Thanksgiving Week

Wednesday, November 25

No Class — Thanksgiving Week

Monday, November 30

Teacher: Katrin
Class: Alignment-Based Yoga

December

Wednesday, December 2

Teacher: Mary
Class: Gentle Kripalu Yoga

Monday, December 7 — Special Event

Teacher: Stacey
Class: Sound Journey

Wednesday, December 9 — Final Fall Session Class

Teacher: Mary
Class: Gentle Kripalu Yoga

Holiday Charity Offerings All Proceeds go to the CanTeen of CNY 

Monday, December 14 — Charity Yoga Class for the CanTeen

Teacher: Allison
Class: TBD

Wednesday, December 16 — Charity Yoga Class for the CanTeen

Teacher: Clare
Class: Deep Holiday Rest and Rejuvenation Yoga Nidra

Class Descriptions

Gentle Kripalu Yoga (75 minutes)

A slow, supportive practice combining gentle movement, mindful breathing, and relaxation. This class encourages greater flexibility, ease, and body awareness while inviting you to honor your needs and move at your own pace.

Moderate Kripalu Yoga (60 Minutes)

A balanced, moderately paced class combining mindful movement, breathwork, and periods of stillness. You’ll build strength, flexibility, and body awareness while honoring your body’s needs and moving at a pace that feels right for you.

Alignment-Based Yoga (75 minutes)

Alignment-Based Yoga is a mindful and accessible practice that explores the relationship between structure, stability, mobility, breath, and embodied awareness.

Through thoughtfully sequenced postures and clear alignment cues, you’ll discover ways to adapt each pose to honor the unique architecture, abilities, and needs of your body. Classes weave together mindful movement, breath awareness, functional alignment, and moments of stillness to cultivate balance within the body, mind, and nervous system.

Inner Balance Qigong (60 Minutes)

Inner Balance Qigong is a gentle, meditative movement practice rooted in the ancient wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Taoist philosophy.

Through flowing movements, breath, intention, and mindful awareness, we cultivate and harmonize Qi—our vital life-force energy. Accessible to all levels, this restorative practice invites greater balance, vitality, inner stillness, and connection among body, mind, and spirit.

Let Your Yoga Dance (60 Minutes)

Join Izzy and Mary for a joyful celebration of body, mind, and spirit! This uplifting class combines gentle yoga, dance, and meditation in motion as we explore the seven chakras and move energy from the tips of the toes to the crown of the head.

No dance experience is needed—just come ready to move, connect, and have fun. This class is sure to bring plenty of smiles and joy!

Restorative Yoga (60 Minutes)

A deeply restful practice using supportive poses, mindful breathing, and guided relaxation to help release tension and invite a greater sense of ease.

Props such as bolsters, blankets, and blocks will support the body, allowing you to slow down, settle in, and leave feeling renewed.

Sound Journey (60 Minutes)

Settle into a comfortable position and allow yourself to be immersed in the soothing sounds and vibrations of live instruments. This deeply relaxing experience invites you to slow down, turn inward, and enjoy a restorative pause during the busy holiday season.

Deep Holiday Rest and Rejuvenation Yoga Nidra (60 Minutes)

Step away from the busyness of the holiday season and enter a state of deep rest. Yoga Nidra, often called “yogic sleep,” is a guided meditation practiced while resting comfortably.

No yoga experience is needed. Simply settle in, listen, and allow your body and mind to relax and renew.

 Community Yoga Scholarships This Fall

These scholarships are available to both new and returning students. There are no complicated applications or specific qualifications. If the cost of the session would prevent you from joining us, and you have a desire to be part of this supportive community this fall, we encourage you to reach out. We believe everyone deserves access to movement, connection, and a place to simply be.

Welcoming the Fall Season

We are so excited to begin our fall session! Fall is a natural time to reorganize, release what is no longer needed, and reorient ourselves toward the newest version of who we are.

As we take our cues from nature, we also have some exciting changes happening at Breath Body Community Yoga.

The Prop Closet Is Back!

As you may have already seen, we have brought back the prop closet! After storing everything at my house for five years, I am thrilled to return our props to their rightful home in the Christmas tree closet on the second floor of the community center.

This small but meaningful change will allow us to offer more restorative yoga classes while making props available during our regular practices. You may want a bolster beneath your knees during Savasana, an extra blanket for warmth, or additional support during a pose.

As teachers, we see a growing need for slow, gentle, and mindful yoga in our fast-moving and ever-changing world. We plan to offer more restorative experiences while continuing to provide moderate classes for those seeking more movement, physical challenges, and strength-building opportunities.

Growing Into a Teaching Collective

For nearly a decade, Community Yoga has been associated with Monday and Wednesday classes taught by Jean and Clare. While those familiar faces will remain, we are ready to expand beyond that traditional structure to continue to keep our  community fresh!

Community Yoga is growing into a teaching collective where we can introduce you to more teachers, voices, styles, and experiences. You will begin seeing some of the wonderful instructors who joined us during our summer sessions and charity classes woven more consistently into the schedule.

It is important that we do not become too stagnant in our practice. Growth might mean exploring a new way of moving into Warrior I or trying an entirely different style of yoga.

Some things will feel familiar, while others may feel completely new. We invite you to experience the change and growth alongside us!

Your Classes, Your Choice

Beginning with the fall session, signing up for Monday or Wednesday yoga simply means you are registering for 12 classes. You may attend those classes on either Monday or Wednesday.

This gives you the freedom to look at the schedule as a whole and select the class that will best serve your body, interests, and availability each week. You no longer need to think of yourself as strictly a “Monday person” or a “Wednesday person.”

If you usually register for both Monday and Wednesday, nothing has changed—you will continue to receive 24 classes.

Our registration system does not reflect this new format just yet, but we hope that beginning with the 2027 calendar, the options will simply say “12 classes” or “24 classes.”

For now, please review the complete fall schedule below and begin marking the classes that resonate with you. You may still choose 12 Mondays or 12 Wednesdays but you are completely free to mix it up and try something new!

As a housekeeping note you will still need to register for Monday or Wednesday as you usually do. 

 More Teachers and Special Experiences

You will continue to see your familiar favorite teachers, but we will also regularly feature additional instructors who have taught with us during our summer sessions and charity offerings.

This will help us build a true teaching community while highlighting different voices, perspectives, and approaches to yoga.

We also plan to offer both a Sound Journey and a Yoga Dance experience during each session. These special offerings feel a little different from a traditional yoga class, but they can add wonderful energy and depth to your practice.

If you have not experienced them yet, we encourage you to step outside your comfort zone and give them a try!

Taking Our Yoga Off the Mat

The yoga of service is called Seva Yoga.

“Seva” is a Sanskrit word meaning selfless service—helping others without expecting recognition or anything in return. It is a way of practicing yoga beyond physical poses by bringing compassion, generosity, and connection into everyday life.

We also want to weave more acts of service into our yoga community—bringing the spirit of yoga beyond the mat and into the world around us.

During our fall session, we will offer two opportunities to give back:

* During November, we will hold our Gratitude Weeks necessities drive to collect much-needed goods for the Samaritan Center. We had tremendous success with this last year, and more details will be shared soon.

* During the holiday season, we will once again hold our special fundraising classes to benefit The CanTeen of Central New York.

We would love to explore even more ways to serve during our spring and summer sessions. Perhaps we could organize a charity walk or support another meaningful local cause.

If you have an idea, please share it! This is your community, and we are always open to hearing what would feel meaningful to you.

Thank you for growing, practicing, and serving alongside us. We cannot wait to begin this next season together!

With gratitude, Jean & Clare 

Register Here For This Fall Session