I want to help you do yoga everyday.
When you build a YogaHabit your life will change, a little every day.
Before you decide yoga everyday is impossible, what are you doing instead?
If you are like most of us, you spend a good amount of time worrying, feeling tired and overwhelmed, wishing for calm.
You probably rely on things that distract your mind, mute your fears, or just help you disconnect. There’s a reason Netflix and alcohol sales are through the roof.
But you don’t need any of it.
Commit to a daily practice with us, as non negotiable as brushing your teeth and as important.
Start with 10 minutes a day and one longer class per week. Build from there. Watch as the pieces of your life start to fall into place around your practice.
Here’s what you can expect from a daily practice:
Better choices around food, relationships, and reactions
Cultivated moments of courage that start to seep into your life
A better relationship with your body
More focus
The ability to rest
Simplification of your life
Daily Yoga Will Help You
Feel better so you can be better
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Manage Stress
Yoga is one of the best nervous system regulators we have. Daily practice helps regulate our hormones and teaches us how to access our parasympathetic nervous system on demand all of which helps us deal with difficult situations better, sleep better, and manage the demands of daily life with more ease.
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Be at Home in your Body
The physical practice of yoga helps you pay attention to how your body works. Shine’s classes in particular are geared towards body awareness and using the knowledge you gain in class to be stronger, more flexible and more aware of how your body works both on and off the mat.
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Structure Your Life
For thousands of years, yoga has been a practice focused on bringing balance or satva into people’s lives. The ancient yogis knew that it took tapas or discipline to live a happy healthy life. It works today too. When we practice the physical and mental parts of yoga, we are calmer, steadier, and make better choices.
Here’s how we make the YogaHabit happen for you
It takes a little time and it takes consistency, but yoga will help you structure your day and live the life you hope for, all while making you stronger, more flexible, and resilient in body, mind, and heart.
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Step 1: Check us out
New students, get your intro special and use it to it’s fullest! Make sure we are a good fit for you.
Old friends, it’s been a while. We were closed for longer than expected and the studio is different. I hope you will love it just as much as the old version of Shine, and maybe even more. Get the Founders Package and settle in.
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Step 2: Decide what you really want
Meet with Sara to talk about your goals and how to make them happen.
If you decide to become a Shine member, we’ll meet every quarter to reassess and plan your path.
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Step 3: Put together a plan
We’ll put together a package personalized to you that takes into account your schedule and needs.
And most importantly helps you to invest in yourself.
From there, it’s just a matter of keeping steady, with our help.
We make it convenient. Live Streamed, On Demand, or In Studio. 10 minutes or 90. Shine yoga fits into your life.
The last two years have made yoga much more accessible. We’ve discovered that when we live stream a class or even watch a recording by an expert teacher, we still benefit from yoga. Very technical or restorative classes are sometimes even better and more intimate from our own homes. Technology, rather than being a barrier, keeps us connected.
And it sure makes fitting in your daily practice easier. We offer classes of all lengths and styles to help you build the habit and fit yoga into your day.
I’ll create an individualized plan with you.
Our modern lives give us access to lots of styles of yoga. But more choice doesn’t mean better outcomes. In fact, what I hear over and over from students is that they are overwhelmed by the options they have in their lives and in yoga. They want to simplify and use what works for them.
I will be your guide. Every new Shine student has the opportunity to meet one-on-one for a free 15 minute session where we talk about your goals and create a path for you to easily integrate yoga into your lives.
We give you tools to learn and grow in every class and through Special Classes, Webinars, and Workshops
We are a technique heavy studio because knowledge makes yoga possible for everyone. It gives you control of your body and your experience doing yoga. We are committed to you having a light bulb moment in every class you take.
We also offer on demand foundational classes in everything from technique, to anatomy, to philosophy and meditation to help you build a strong knowledge base.
We offer webinars and discussions to help build our community.
We offer workshops to help you stretch your knowledge and confidence along with your bodies.
Please note that we are just reopening after moving our studio and surviving the pandemic. We are starting slow, but are committed to building webinars and workshops back into our schedule soon.
Join us for the daily class you need
There are many styles of yoga.
You may have heard these names Vinyasa, Hatha, Iyengar, Yin, Restorative, Kundalini.
While each of these styles has a different emphasis—Vinyasa is more choreographed with few holds and more constant movement; Hatha includes more held postures to increase strength and flexibility, Iyengar focuses on anatomical alignment and body awareness, Yin and Restorative are both focused on calming the nervous system and easing physical tension; and Kundalini emphasizes targeted repetitive movements to produce a specific energetic response—they all have the same roots.
The truth is that the best yoga classes are all of these things. Yoga is breath and body awareness that supports strength, mobility and balance while targeting our nervous system through specific techniques.
What is Shine Yoga? It’s all these things.
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Move
One of the great gifts of yoga is syncing movement with breath. Find your joy in classes that get you in the zone. Our Steady Vinyasa, Shiny, Happy People, movement portion of The Details, and the flow part or Flow to Rest all emphasize movement as a pranayama practice and meditation in motion.
Move classes are available for all levels and abilities.
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Learn
There is a concept in yoga called Nyasa which means to place your mind and attention in a part of your body. We mix our expertise in anatomy and technique into detailed classes to help every student learn to do yoga safely and progress in postures, strength, and range of motion. We aim to have you come out of every class having learned something, but it is a key focus in The Details and Resilience.
Suitable for everyone, all you need for these classes is attention and curiosity.
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Rest
We have forgotten how to rest. And it is killing us. We have an epidemic of stress, worry, and sleeplessness in our culture. These classes use neuroscience backed approaches to calm your body, mind, and heart.
Find peace in Flow to Rest, Restorative, Yin and MFR, Gentle and Kind, Yoga Nidra, and the resting portion for the evening Steady Vinyasa.
All classes include a guided relaxation and all evening classes are designed to help you begin to downgrade. It’s a daily structure we’ve lost and that we need.
What People Are Saying
“I came for a restorative yoga class with Sara after my mother died. That Sunday morning I cried and cried through the entire class. I felt held and safe in a way I hadn’t allowed myself to in the months since her death.
I kept coming, and as simple as it seems, taking that class every week served as my touchstone and set me up emotionally for the whole week.”
— Nora
“My life was so busy. I couldn’t imagine fitting another thing in. When Sara asked me to describe my life in a word, it was overwhelmed.
I have a lot of responsibility at work and small children at home. I felt exhausted all the time. To be honest, the idea of adding in another obligation seemed impossible. But, I decided to take it on and it’s worked. Life is still really busy, but I have time everyday for myself. And I feel less reactive to everything. If I miss a day, I can tell the difference. “
-Andrea
“I’m so grateful for Shine. I was an on and off student of yoga for years and had been going to Shine classes a couple times a week for a while. Then I was diagnosed with cancer. I did private sessions and daily classes. The private sessions helped me manage my fear and keep up my stamina during treatment and the daily classes gave me a community of support and daily movement.
I’m six years out now, and yoga has become an essential part of my life and is my commitment to my health. ”
— Jessica
Your Personalized Structure
Online or in-person, our personalized, prescribed approach fits yoga into your life, so that you can live the life you envision.
You are complicated.
Your life, your body, your schedule all have lots of demands and needs that are individual to you.
Just like we don’t offer cookie cutter yoga classes, we don’t offer cookie cutter packages. We’ll make a package that works for you, for how you’ll use Shine to support your life.
Come in for your intro special to find out what you like. Before you finish the intro special we’ll meet up and find a package that meets your needs and accomodates your life.
Group Class Intro Special | $47/two weeks unlimited yoga | Get started
If you want to take just one class, the rate is $25 for a drop in.
Begin the journey with your complimentary, personalized 15 minute goal setting and yoga prescription session with Sara. Members will check in every 3 months to make adjustments and set new goals.
One-on-One Private Yoga Session
Online or in-person, we begin by talking about your goal for private sessions, followed by a range of motion and strength evaluation. We’ll carve out a practice together, with personalized step-by-step instruction. Within 24 hours of your session, you’ll receive your home practice document so you can apply what you learned on your own. A recording of online sessions will also be available. With each subsequent session we will measure progress.
Private Intro Special : 3 one-hour sessions within one month | $199 ( that’s one free session) | Get started
Single session rate | $100 | Get started
Like group classes, we will find the best price for your life before your intro special month is over.
Here are some of the reasons people decide on private sessions:
You are new to yoga and don’t feel comfortable in a class yet.
You want to make sure your technique and alignment is right.
You are dealing with an injury or illness and are looking for targeted help.
You are dealing with a lot of stress and emotional weight and need direct support.
Join ShineLife
Take your growth to the next level. Incorporate complete lifestyle change through personalized, structured, research-based practices baked into a year of yoga.
ShineLife is available both completely virtually and as a hybrid in person and virtual program.
I live it. I use a daily yoga practice to structure and improve my own life.
We aren’t your typical yoga studio. And I’m not your typical yoga teacher. I believe in yoga everyday, not as a hashtag, but because it has worked for me. I changed my life through the daily practice of yoga.
I have been in your shoes and found a way to feel better through knowledge, curiosity, and years of study.
Check your insurance.
If you live in Western New York and have a Blue Cross and Blue Shield or Independent Health debit card, we take it!
Many insurance companies will reimburse you for yoga classes as well. We are happy to send you a copy of your payment and the classes you took for reimbursement.