BALANCE YOGA: Learn how to practice postural alignment that will help you to move pain free, with ease in your life. In the class, we practice standing, sitting, bending, lifting up, and lying down. Based on the work taught by Noelle Perez in Paris, France. See the book, Put Your Back at Ease, for more information. Or contact UMCS parents Julie Feinstein Adams and Scott Adams for a personal reference.

INSTRUCTOR BIO: Beth Greenfield Rodgers has been practicing yoga since 1982 and began teaching in 1988 while completing her Advanced Yoga Studies at The Yoga Room in Berkeley, CA. Beth studied and apprenticed with Rodney Yee for many years, and was one of his first students to become a teacher. Beth helped found the 4th Street Yoga studio with her yoga partners Clare Finn and Barbara Voinar. Beth studied Yoga in Balance with Jean Couch (www.balancecenter.com) while she was healing a back injury.

Beth's style of teaching blends precision of body alignment from her Iyengar training with gentle relaxation and skeletal realignment from her Yoga in Balance work. Beth's classes are suited for back and joint care, for beginners and all levels. Beth guides her students carefully through the subtle nuances of a pose. Her classes are straightforward and humble. All are welcome.