Yoga-Logic

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Yoga-Logic is a class taught by Nicole Schafenacker as part of the local business, Ninth Street Cycle Logic. These rejuvenating classes are open to students of all levels of experience but is geared towards people beginning their yoga practice. Tuesday and Thursday sessions follow a spin class and are a relaxing 45 minutes focused on poses to deeply stretch hamstrings, open up through the hips and release tension in the upper back. Sunday's class is an energizing hour and half focused on strengthening and releasing tension from a new area of the body each week. Teacher Bio:

Nicole is a performer and playwright from Edmonton and is the co-founder of the theatre company The Simple Theatre Emporium. She has been practicing Hatha yoga for 8 years and more recently, has become a student of Ashtanga yoga. As a theatre artist first and foremost, Nicole has extensive training in physical theatre including contact improvisation, mask performance, and clown. She also has a background in contemporary dance and most recently performed the lead role in Cowardly Kiss’s production of Night Time, choreographed by Ainsley Hillyard. Her solo show Circling that premiered at the 2011 Edmonton Fringe Festival was highly physical and used movement to tell the fantastical story of a woman trapped in an underground tunnel system and her daughter’s subsequent journey from Edmonton to Bryce Canyon, Arizona in search of her. Nicole has been very fortunate to study with such artists and teachers as Michael Kennard (of the clown duo Mump and Smoot), the One Yellow Rabbit theatre company in Calgary, the Good Women Collective Dance company of Edmonton, and Ashtanga teacher, Melissa Wasserfall of True Yoga . She is interested in movement in all forms and has explored Butoh, mitzvah technique, aerial theatre, Laban, Viewpoints and the Suzuki technique integrating everything that “grabs” her into her physical practice as a performer. With that passion in mind, she is thrilled to begin Ashtanga yoga teacher training at the True Yoga studio in Edmonton, led by Mark and Shankara Darby of Sattva Yoga Shala in Montreal. She is equally thrilled to share her knowledge of body work and yoga with the vibrant community of Old Strathcona.