Embrace Yoga ~ Fridays 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Join an invigorating and restorative class designed for parents, pregnant or post-partum moms, seniors, those who work at home and want a break and any who crave a yoga practice midday. The class will combine vigorous poses and more internally focused relaxation. The focus will be on alignment and community building but the class will morph to the desires of the community. Come share your lunch time with us and help support the EMBRACE Infant warmer project which is piloting in India; spread the warmth through yoga.

About EMBRACE Infant warmer project: EMBRACE a newborn, embrace the world. Globally, more than 20 million vulnerable newborns, or those with low birth weights are born each year. EMBRACE infant incubator is a revolutionary invention, a simple portable device that looks like a small sleeping bag, but carries lifesaving warmth to those who need it. It requires no electricity, is easy to use and is re-usable; good for infant health, good for the environment. Created by a team of Harvard and Stanford Engineers, MBA and Public Policy students, and launched in India in 2009, the project goal is to save the lives of more than 100,000 babies and improve the lives of nearly a million more in the next five years. Embracing the worlds at risk newborns one warm EMBRACE at a time: embraceglobal.org.

ABOUT DARYA
Darya Mead has been practicing yoga for more than 20 years. She came to yoga through dance and has explored and studied Jivamukti, Ashtanga, Bikhram styles but connects most deeply with Iyengar yoga. She has studied with Manouso Manos, here in San Francisco for more than 10 years. She is a writer, producer and mother and loves to teach yoga. Darya is a trained Doula and teaches pre-natal, mom and baby as well as kids yoga at her son’s pre-school; The Little Bear School in the Excelsior. Darya also loves teaching seniors and folks in all stages of life and often enjoys taking on flow classes. Her style relates yoga to real life, providing more than just a workout and respite from fast paced SF life. She seeks to teach her students to not only become more aware of their own bodies, minds and moods but how their yoga can affect others. Darya teaches with compassion, warmth, rigor and humor.