Classes
The weekly schedule
Nine classes a week, the same nine every week, at the same times. Six of them are standing only; one is mixed; one is entirely supported by a chair or a wall.
| Day | Starts | Length | Class | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 45 min | Wake Up Standing | Standing | |
| Monday | 60 min | Balance Hour | Balance | |
| Tuesday | 60 min | Warriors | Standing | |
| Wednesday | 45 min | Wake Up Standing | Standing | |
| Wednesday | 75 min | Long Wednesday | Mixed | |
| Thursday | 60 min | Feet and Ankles | Balance | |
| Friday | 45 min | Wake Up Standing | Standing | |
| Friday | 30 min | Half Hour at the Wall | Chair/Wall | |
| Saturday | 60 min | Saturday Standing | Standing |
What each one actually is
Wake Up Standing
Third and last of the week.
Balance Hour
Tree, Warrior III and the standing balances, every one of them offered with a wall or a chair.
Warriors
The warrior family, slowly, with long holds and plenty of time between them.
Long Wednesday
The longest class of the week. Standing for the first hour, then fifteen minutes on the floor.
Feet and Ankles
Everything built from the ground up. Barefoot, and the one class where we spend real time on the feet themselves.
Half Hour at the Wall
Entirely supported. A chair or a wall is used in every single pose, by everyone, including the teacher.
Saturday Standing
The busiest class. Book earlier in the week if you want a place.
The things worth knowing before you book
- Times are Eastern Time — UTC−5 from early November to mid-March, and UTC−4 the rest of the year. The United States and Europe change clocks on different weekends, so for two weeks each spring and autumn the gap between Burlington and London is an hour off what you expect. Convert before you book.
- Fourteen places per class. Not a marketing number — it is the point at which one teacher can still see everybody's gallery tile well enough to be useful. Saturday fills first.
- Book with a credit from a pack. One credit, one class, whichever class you like. A 30-minute class costs the same single credit as a 75-minute one.
- Cancel up to 24 hours before and the credit goes straight back. Inside 24 hours the credit is used, because the place was held and somebody else could have had it. Email us if something genuinely went wrong and we will almost certainly sort it out.
- Credits expire 12 months from purchase. We will email you when a pack has a month to run and again at a week.
- Classes start on time. The link opens fifteen minutes early and we start at the published minute. Joining late is fine and nobody will comment, but the class will already have started.
Choosing which class
Four questions that between them settle it for most people.
Can you get up and down off a floor comfortably, and do you want to? If the answer to either half is no, avoid Long Wednesday and take any of the other eight. Nothing else in the week goes near the floor.
Is this your first class of any kind? Start with one of the three Wake Up Standing mornings. They are the shortest at 45 minutes, the sequence is the same shape every time so the second one feels familiar, and 7am classes are usually the smallest of the week, which some people find easier and some find worse.
Do you want to work specifically on balance? Monday evening's Balance Hour and Thursday morning's Feet and Ankles are the two built around it. Thursday is the gentler of the pair and is the better first one — it spends most of its time on the feet themselves rather than on one-legged standing.
Are you short of time, or unsure about committing an hour? Friday lunchtime's Half Hour at the Wall is 30 minutes and entirely supported. Every pose in it uses a chair or a wall, by everybody, so there is no question of whether you are using the full version. Several people treat it as their only class of the week.
And if you pick wrong, you have lost one credit and learned something. The classes are different enough from each other that trying two is worth more than reading about all nine.
When we are closed
Published rather than announced, so you can plan a pack around it.
- Thanksgiving Day and the Friday after
- December 24 through January 1
- The first full week of July
- Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day
If a class is cancelled at short notice for any other reason — illness, a power cut, the internet in Vermont in February — the credit goes back automatically and you get an email. You do not have to ask.
This happens a handful of times a year rather than monthly, and we would rather cancel than teach a class badly with a voice that has gone. There is no substitute teacher, because there is one teacher, and putting a stranger in front of a group that booked for a particular way of working would be worse than a returned credit.
The schedule itself is deliberately stable. It has been the same nine slots for a long time and we do not move classes around seasonally or rotate the timetable, because a timetable people have to re-check every month is not much use to anybody planning around it. If a slot does change, it is announced at least a month ahead by email and here.
Ready, or nearly
If you know which class you want, a pack is the next step. If you do not, the how a class runs page describes the whole hour minute by minute, and the FAQ covers the questions that come up most.