Yoga Classes: Yoga Asana, Pranayama, Meditation, Sound Healing, Kirtan, Satsang
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All Levels, All Bodies, All Ways are Welcome Always!
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu ~ May all beings be happy. May all beings be healthy. And may all being be free everywhere.
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Thank you for your continued support!! This has been such a tremendous journey – – your commitment to your yoga practice and to our community and studio specifically, has touched our souls and hearts to the core! We would not still be here if it weren’t for your tremendous support. We Love You!
We cannot wait to see you on your mat – – whether it’s in person, online, or outdoors, we cherish your presence and have so much gratitude to the energy you add collectively!
Mind Over Matter, Heart Over Mind!
Yoga: is a practice, way of life, and healing modality that all bodies can do. It helps to balance mind, body, and spirit and supports the integration of all parts of a person. While cultivating a compassionate and loving inner voice, it allows one to sit with self while noticing, honoring, and processing not only the times of abundance, balance, and flow but the harder, challenging, even darker times of struggle, hardship, pain and suffering. It builds compassion for self, others, and the collective experience both on and off the mat. Pleasure Point Yoga is here for you. We support growth and healing to empower individuals and build a healthy and happy community. Cultivating a lifelong yoga practice requires a sustainable approach and methods which continue to challenge, as well as relax us on a daily basis. Located in the heart of the Pleasure Point neighborhood we serve all of Santa Cruz County. Our dedicated and highly trained teachers are here for you 7 days a week. Whether you are brand new to yoga or have been practicing for years, you will feel warmly welcomed as you step through our doors. Each breath is an opportunity to grow, each breath is an opportunity to change. A mindful practice, yoga asks us to pay attention, to become aware of what we’re doing while we’re doing it, and to take responsibility for our mind, body and spirit. It is a practice of coming home to what we already know to be true. To support you on your path of well-being, we offer 30+ classes per week. We are a Yoga studio and loving container, holding space for our community to go inward on a journey deeper to self, to the jewel of your heart, and your soul’s calling.
All Levels, All Bodies, All Ways are Welcome Always!
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu ~ May all beings be happy. May all beings be healthy. And may all being be free everywhere.
Holiday SALE 
20 Class Pass $250
10 Class Pass $130
Monthly Unlimited $125
Yearly Unlimited $1008
FREE Satsang Community Circle: Yoga Philosophy – Mantras, Mudras, & Sutras (Livestream)
INSTRUCTOR: Sherry Cassedy
DATE: Every Monday
TIME: 7:30 – 8:30am
COST: Free and open to all!
LOCATIONS: Livestream
Mantras, Sutras and Mudras, Oh My!
Pleasure Point Yoga’s Monday morning Satsang is a unique (and free) opportunity to delve deeper into the esoteric teachings of Yoga in the company of one another. It is a great introduction for anyone who is curious to learn more, and an open invitation to revisit and share in the supported space of the Sangha as we deepen our practice.
Come clear your mind and refresh your soul.
In Satsang, we gather together, in community to seek truth or, more simply, to be with the truth. We create the space with chanting, light, and intention, gentle rituals that help us to dedicate this hour to our study and practice and to one another.
FREE Self Care for the Soul 
INSTRUCTOR: Jaime McFaden & Sam Kabert
DATE: Thursday, December 15
TIME: 12:30pm – 1:30pm
COST: FREE! or By Donation
LOCATIONS: In Studio Only
LEVELS: All Levels
DESCRIPTION:
Join local soulful entrepreneurs, Jaime McFaden and Sam Kabert for a mindful break in the day. Expect movement, a motivated sharing circle and meditation.
All you need is a yoga mat and a journal.
Community Kirtan 
INSTRUCTOR: Vaidehi Amair
DATE: Friday, December 16th 7:30 – 9pm
COST: Regular Class Pricing
LOCATIONS: In Studio Only
LEVELS: All Voices Welcome!
DESCRIPTION:Kirtan is the glorification of the spiritual plane through song. It is also known as mantra yoga, a way to connect with the divine through sound. Join this kirtan practice as a way to reconnect, re-align, open your voice and heart, and learn new songs, words, concepts, and stories about the meaning behind the mantras and songs with sing together in this workshop. Come join us for a community, prayer, and offering your voice.
NEW CLASS! “Traditional Yoga” (Master Sivananda’s Enlightened Practice)
INSTRUCTOR: Hemie Ramirez
DATE: Saturdays
TIME: 12:15pm – 1:30pm
COST: Regular Class Pricing
LOCATIONS: In Studio Only
LEVELS: All Levels
DESCRIPTION: Traditional Yoga: For all levels! This class is rooted in the wisdom of the great Indian master, Swami Sivananda. Sivananda renounced his career as a medical doctor to follow his vocation as a sage and yogi and devoted his life to the service of humanity. His background in medicine helped him design a yoga practice that aimed to touch all parts of the physical body including all the interior organs, muscles, and tissue as well as, activating the energy centers stored in the energy body. This class breaks away from modern styles of yoga and takes you back to the roots of yoga.
INSTRUCTOR BIO: Hemie is a spiritual practitioner and devout yogi whose focus is on healing both the physical and energy body. Over the last 15 years of being in the healing arena, she has crafted the art of holding space for others, and guiding them through their pain and into their empowerment. As a Coach, she spends her time leading workshops, yoga classes, retreats, and online courses.
She brings the unique practice of Swami Sivananda’s Traditional style of yoga to Santa Cruz. After practicing for a decade she received her 200 YTT while on a spiritual journey in Mexico. She is a Healer with a gentle but fierce disposition to help her students transform. Inside her classes, you can expect to go deeper than going through a yoga flow.
Yoga Asana: Vinyasa Flow Based Classes IN STUDIO & Livestream
CLASS NAME: Mixed Flow, Slow Flow, or Sweaty Flow
LEVEL: Mixed Levels
COST: $18 Drop-In / Regular Class Pricing
LOCATION: “IN STUDIO” or “Livestream”
- IN STUDIO: 3707 Portola Drive – Main Yoga Studio
- Livestream: via Zoom
PAY/REGISTER: Please Pre-Regiser via MindBody CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR CLASS
Drop Ins are always welcome!
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS:
- MIXED FLOW: Vinyasa Flow – All Levels: Vinyasa Flow builds strength, flexibility, balance, and helps to align mind, body and spirit by consciously directing, using, and linking each breath to movement seamlessly from one “asana” or posture to another. Each class is a dynamic, flowing practice, that builds on itself – no two classes are alike. Each class will use yoga elements of Pranayama (breathwork), Asana (physical postures), and Meditation and hopes to promote a pathway to inner peace and happiness. It’s an awesome full body physical workout too! Expect one breath per movement, intelligent sequences with queued Chatarangas, that will include standing postures, balancing postures, sitting poses, twists, and a final resting position (Shavasana). Welcome to All Levels, All Bodies, All Ages, All Ways!
- SLOW FLOW: A slower paced Vinyasa Flow – All Levels: Slow Flow builds foundation, strength, and proper alignment. Poses are held for longer periods of time, allowing students to find their edge (that place in between exerting too much and not enough) and soften into the fire. Extended pranayama and meditation practice is also weaved into this all levels practice.
- SWEATY FLOW: A more vigorous Vinyasa Flow – Mixed Levels: Be ready to move, flow, sweat and let go! A ramped up version of our mixed flow class with a faster pace and more vigorous flavor. Expect more challenging sequences. Please modify to your experience. Although we may heat the room slightly (78 – 83 degrees), we mainly build heat from our core generating personal fire and sweat, hence the name. Previous yoga experience and foundation is required.
What to Bring IN STUDIO:
Yoga Mat and Water
Props are Available for Use
Pre-Registration is Requested to facilitate an expedited check-in process
Walk-Ins are Welcome!
Slow Joint Mobility Flow w/Tara Maria Ford
CLASS NAME: Slow Joint Mobility Flow
DAY / TIME: Wednesday 9:00am – 10:30am
LEVEL: All Levels
COST: $18 Drop-In / Regular Class Pricing
LOCATION: In Studio or Livestream
- IN STUDIO: 3707 Portola Drive – Main Yoga Studio
- Livestream: via Zoom
Drop-Ins are always welcome!
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Moving slowly, we’ll find the full range of motion of all the joints to lubricate and open up the body. You’ll leave feeling fluid, relaxed, and strong in mind, body, spirit. FEELS SO GOOD!
Gentle Yoga & Gentle Yin Classes (Deep & Functional Stretch) IN STUDIO
CLASS NAME:
- GENTLE YIN: Wednesdays 11:00am – 12:15pm
- GENTLE YOGA: Fridays 11:00am – 12:15pm
LEVEL: All Levels – Great for Beginners or experienced yogis who want a more gentle yoga practice
COST: $18 Drop-In / Regular Class Pricing
LOCATION: 3707 Portola Drive – Main Yoga Studio
PAY/REGISTER: Please Pre-Regiser via MindBody CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR CLASS
Drop Ins are always welcome!
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS:
- GENTLE YOGA:L Gentle & Deep Stretch + Functional Movement – All Levels. Imagine the possibility of finding a way to combine deep stretch, functional movement and yoga all together. This yoga class focuses on moving from pose to pose linking the movement with breath and deep stretch. The instructor will offer a variety of modifications to encourage Participants to enjoy a deep and connected practice. This class helps you to slow down, take a breath and deepen the connection with your mind movement and breath. We are able to explore how to adapt each pose to ourselves and benefit from the gentler and kinder approach to movement. Melissa has combined her 21 plus years of training in aquatic therapy, massage therapy and yoga to share this movement with her class. This class is perfect beginners and seasoned yogis who are welcome to intensify their practice. Paired Class: Gentle Yin
- GENTLE YIN: Gentle Yin Yoga & Relaxation – All Levels
This Yin Yoga class helps participants with balance and flexibility. It works deeply into the connective tissues of the hips, pelvis, and lower spine. This class is suitable for all levels of students. It gently incorporates breath connection and is a perfect blend of stretch and relaxation. Melissa has combined her 21 plus years of training in aquatic therapy, massage therapy and yoga to share this movement with her class. This class is perfect beginners and seasoned yogis who are welcome to intensify their practice. Paired Class: Gentle Yoga.
What to Bring:
Yoga Mat and Water
Props are Available for Use
Pre-Registration is Requested / Walk-Ins Welcome!!
Yin Yoga: Relax, Rejuvenate, & Renew IN STUDIO & Livestream
CLASS NAME:
- Yin Yoga (In Studio & Livestream
- Gentle Yin (IN STUDIO Only
LEVEL: Mixed Levels / All Levels
COST: $18 Drop-In / Regular Class Pricing
LOCATION: “IN STUDIO” or “Livestream”
- IN STUDIO: 3707 Portola Drive – Main Yoga Studio
- Livestream: via Zoom
PAY/REGISTER: Please Pre-Regiser via MindBody CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR CLASS
Drop Ins are always welcome!
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS:
- YIN YOGA: Relax, Rejuvenate, Renew – All Levels
The perfect compliment to your vinyasa practice. In Yin Yoga, passive floor postures are held for several minutes in order to create a positive and safe ‘stress’ on the deep layers of connective tissue in the body. Yin poses help to maintain healthy joints especially shoulders, spine and hips while restoring optimal energy flow in the body and preparing the mind for a deeper state of relaxation and meditation. Props are provided and used to encourage a more supported and relaxed state for deeper physical and mediatative practice. - GENTLE YIN: Gentle Yin Yoga & Relaxation – All Levels
This Yin Yoga class helps participants with balance and flexibility. It works deeply into the connective tissues of the hips, pelvis, and lower spine. This class is suitable for all levels of students. It gently incorporates breath connection and is a perfect blend of stretch and relaxation. Melissa has combined her 21 plus years of training in aquatic therapy, massage therapy and yoga to share this movement with her class. This class is perfect beginners and seasoned yogis who are welcome to intensify their practice. Paired Class: Gentle Yoga.
What to Bring:
Yoga Mat and Water
Props are heavily utilized and provided
Pre-Registration is Requested
Beach Yoga: Offered All Year Round!
CLASS TYPE: Slow / Gentle Vinyasa Flow (unless otherwise specified)
CLASS LEVEL: Welcome to ALL Levels / All Bodies / All Ways!
COST: $18 Drop-In / $150 10 Class Pass / $145 Unlimited Monthly
Outdoor Yoga is here to stay! Practice outdoors in a safe, fun, and beautiful environment with your friends. Breath in that fresh, crisp air while looking out into the sea or up into the cosmos. Ground down, find your center, and let go of what no longer serves. In with the good, out with the no longer needed! In with a fresh start, out with the old.
Outdoor Yoga is offered Year Round – – weather permitting. Please see live schedule for updates. You will NOT be charged for any class cancellations due to weather and you will be notified via email if/when cancellations happen. Please understand weather cancellations may happen last minute and are hard to plan for – – PLEASE check the live schedule for any cancellations when in doubt!
- Sunday 9am-10:15am – Slow Flow w/Katie or Bianca
- Wednesday 9am-10:15am – Slow Flow w/ Katie Jacobson
- Saturday 9am-10:15am – Gentle Yoga with Melissa Mikolitch
- Yoga mat and / or large beach towel
- Water, Sunscreen, Sunglasses and Layers of Clothing (particularly in the winder / colder mornings)
- Wintery / Misty / Foggy Mornings: Suggest sweatshirt, socks, hat / beanie, sweatpants over your yoga clothes (get cozy in Shavasana)
Pilates Flow IN STUDIO & Livestream (Conditioning: Pilates + Yoga Poses)
INSTRUCTOR: Elizabeth Charlton
DAY / TIME:
- Mondays 4:00 – 5:00pm IN STUDIO (Dance Studio)
- Wednesday 4:00 – 5:00pm (Main Yoga Studio)
COST: $18 Drop-In / $150 10 Class Pass / $145 Unlimited Monthly
CLASS DESCRIPTION: PILATES FLOW: ALL LEVELS.
This is a refreshing one-hour, mind-body workout. Pilates Flow emphasizes proper breathing, correct spinal and pelvic alignment, and concentration on smooth, flowing movement. The class consists of classic Pilates exercise and Yoga positions that are choreographed to music and flow from one move to the next. This low-impact workout treats the body as an integrated whole, focusing on the core, lower body and upper body strength as well as flexibility and posture. This is a class for all levels, all bodies and all ages. Modifications are taught alongside the most challenging moves. Come and give Pilates Flow a try!
Excercise Method: low-impact flexibility, muscular strength, and endurance movements
Benefits: proper postural alignment, core strength, and muscle balance
Instructor Bio: Elizabeth has loved dance her whole life. When she was five, she began ballet, jazz, tap and gymnastics classes and was a member of her dance and gymnastics clubs in high school. She continued with ballet throughout college and after. Elizabeth has spent 33 years as a public school educator in Santa Cruz County. She always incorporated movement and dance into her classroom instruction whether teaching spelling, math or Zumba for kids.
She discovered the joys of dance fitness with Zumba and has been a Zumba instructor in town since 2009. Elizabeth took Pilates Mat 1 training six years ago and later became a certified POP Pilates instructor.
Elizabeth’s Pilates Flow class is a synthesis of classic Pilates Mat and POP Pilates. She is looking
forward to sharing her love of Pilates with Pleasure Point Yoga.
Sound Bath Journey (Every Thursday 7:15pm)
INSTRUCTORS:
DATE: Thursdays
TIME: 7:15 – 8:15pm
COST: $18 Drop-In / $150 10 Class Pass / $145 Unlimited Monthly
Props are available for use
Livestream Yoga Classes & Process
COST: $18 Drop-In / $150 10 Class Pass / $145 Unlimited Monthly
For those who prefer to practice in the comfort of their own home or hotel while traveling, please join us via Livestream!
Step 2: Please check your email for the link to class. We will email you this roughly 15 minutes before the start of each class. The email will come from pleasurepointyoga@gmail.com. Please click on the link in the body of that email. This will redirect you to the Registration step with Zoom. If you cannot find this email in your inbox, please check your Junk folder.
Step 3: Register with Zoom: Please check that the First Name, Last Name, and Email you see on the registration step matches with your account info you used to enroll in class via MindBody (Step 1). If this matches, Zoom will let you into the livestream environment.
Step 4: Drop in and enjoy class. Gather your mat, props, and water.
Props For Sale: We have props and mats for sale. Complete Prop Package for $150 (what a deal!) includes Bolster, 2 Blocks, Blanket, Strap, and Eye Pillow. Please email info@pleasurepointyoga.com for purchase.
Please check the live schedule via MindBody for the latest and greatest. CLICK HERE to register!
Yoga Price List & Pricing
Drop-In: $18 / 10 Class Pass: $150 ($15/Class)
Monthly Unlimited: $145 / 6 Month AutoPay: $108/Mo
Yearly Pass: $1,200 / Half Yearly: $750
Intro Week: $20 (limit 1 per customer) / Intro Month: $49 (limit 1 per customer)
Prop Package: $150 (Includes 1 Blanket, 2 Blocks, 1 Bolster, 1 Strap, and 1 Eye Pillow)
Commit to your personal yoga practice and create a pathway to peace, health, and happiness. Yoga passes are good for any of our in studio, livestream, or outdoor yoga classes.
For purchase, please email info@pleasurepointyoga.com or purchase directly via your account within MindBody.