Yoga for All

Adaptable, accessible, trauma-informed, and body positive yoga classes that incorporate essential yoga principles. Yoga for All meets you where you are and teaches you the tools to safely practice yoga in your own unique body.

Weekly Teaching Schedule

Mondays

GENTLE HATHA
9:15 - 10:15 AM (EST)
Namaste Yoga Center
Royal Oak, MI
($20 studio/$16 virtual)

Wednesdays

ESSENTIAL HATHA
5:30 - 6:30 PM
Namaste Yoga Center
Royal Oak, MI
($20 studio)

Saturdays

SOMATIC HATHA
11 AM - 12 PM (EST)
Rose Gold Energy
Virtual via Zoom
(donation-based)

Sundays

YOGA IN THE PARK
12 - 1 PM
Normandy Oaks Park
Royal Oak, MI
(free class)

Yoga for All with Rachele Rose
Yoga for All with Rachele Rose

  • Gentle Hatha provides a safe and supportive environment for learning the foundations of yoga. This fully guided class incorporates postures that are intended to calm the mind and breathing. The class starts with a period of focus on your breath or pranayama. You will then be guided through a combination of gentle yoga poses as well as somatic movement. Somatic movement is a practice of re-educating the way your brain senses and moves muscles through body-mind integration. Small, slow and gentle movements and guidance are used to re-educate your brain so that you can relax and move your muscles more functionally. This class concludes with a 3-5 minute integrative savasana and offering of gratitude.

    Gentle Hatha offers cues on proper alignment, including multiple variations, providing you with the tools to safely practice yoga in your own unique body. In addition to being an inclusive and adaptable way to learn yoga, Gentle Hatha and Somatic movement have many health benefits. They works with the subtle energy bodies of yoga to release habitual patterns, chronic pain, and emotional stress, as well as support healthy habits, improve emotional health, and ease physical pain.

  • Essential Hatha provides a safe and supportive environment for learning the foundations of yoga. This fully guided class incorporates postures that are intended to calm the mind and breathing. The class starts with a period of focus on your breath or pranayama. You will then be guided through poses or asanas, which are a series of movements that help improve balance, flexibility, and strength. This class concludes with a 3-5 minute integrative savasana and offering of gratitude.

    Essential Hatha offers cues on proper alignment, including multiple variations, providing you with the tools to safely practice yoga in your own unique body. In addition to being an inclusive and adaptable way to learn yoga, Essential Hatha has many health benefits. It can help relieve stress, support healthy habits, improve emotional health, and ease physical pain.

  • Somatic Hatha Yoga is an innovative blend of Hatha Yoga, Somatic Experiencing, Pranayama (breathing techniques), and healing meditations.

    In this practice, we explore new movement patterns, referred to as “somatic movement flows” that combine classical hatha yoga postures.

    This class begins gently and gradually expands into a fully guided practice. You’ll have the flexibility to customize your experience, whether you want to modify or intensify movements.

    Somatic Experiencing can help you delve into the root causes of muscular pain, enhance your nervous system resilience, and empower you to reprogram outdated stress patterns stored deep within your body.

    Through these therapeutic and corrective exercises, you’ll actively participate in your own whole-being wellness journey.

  • This Essential Hatha class will be offered on Sundays from 12 - 1 p.m. at Normandy Oaks Park in Royal Oak, Michigan. Rachele will be teaching every other week starting May 5 - September 29, 2024.

    Essential Hatha provides a safe and supportive environment for learning the foundations of yoga. This fully guided class incorporates postures that are intended to calm the mind and breathing. The class starts with a period of focus on your breath or pranayama. You will then be guided through poses or asanas, which are a series of movements that help improve balance, flexibility, and strength. This class concludes with a 3-5 minute integrative savasana and offering of gratitude.

    Essential Hatha offers cues on proper alignment, including multiple variations, providing you with the tools to safely practice yoga in your own unique body. In addition to being an inclusive and adaptable way to learn yoga, Essential Hatha has many health benefits. It can help relieve stress, support healthy habits, improve emotional health, and ease physical pain.

  • A one-on-one private yoga class is an opportunity to work on specific yoga poses and principles that benefit your individual mind and body. Private classes can be helpful with injury recovery, mobility, and alignment adjustments. Rachele will create a custom class designed for your specific goals and lifestyle. Your private class will be centered on your specific needs and taught in the flow and style that best suits you.

    A private group yoga class is a great way to share the many physical and mental benefits of yoga with your family, friends, coworkers, or neighbors. It is a personalized yoga experience tailored to the needs of your group.

    Private classes are available in person at Namaste Yoga Center or through local travel as well as online via Zoom.

    Email Rachele at rachele@rosegoldenergy.com for availability.

Class Descriptions

Spiritual Lineage Acknowledgement

“I acknowledge India as the birthplace of the yogic tradition. I strive to actively assess my teaching and to practice in ways that only honor the yogic tradition and my teachers both on and off the mat.

Thus far, I have practiced and studied the lineage of Hatha yoga through the 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training program at Namaste Yoga Center in Royal Oak, Michigan. I have also completed the Transformative Restorative Yoga certification through Namaste Yoga Center, the Yoga for All certification taught by Dianne Bondy and Amber Karnes, and the Trauma-Informed Yoga certification through My Vinyasa Practice. I have worked in my life to follow the ethical observances of yoga. As I delve deeper, I have continued this process of self discovery to continually connect with my own true self.

As taught by my teachers in this tradition of liberation I vow to do my best to practice yoga to uplift all beings, the earth and all creatures. To untangle the roots of division and suffering within and without. To live for justice, equity and liberation, embracing yoga’s roots.

I practice yoga on and off the mat. I understand we are all united and it is my path to help us find union with each other, with ourselves and with our breath.”

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Yoga for Everyday Life

Rachele was a guest on Heather Danielle’s The Spiritual AF Life Podcast to talk about all things YOGA!

In this episode, they talk about the 8 limbs of yoga and how yoga is MORE than just a physical practice.

Episode Takeaways:

  • Learn about the 8 limbs of yoga.

  • Try out different yoga places to find your perfect yoga home.

  • Your daily yoga practice may not include a physical yoga session.

LISTEN TO PODCAST

FAQ

  • Yoga For All is an adaptable, accessible, and inclusive yoga program created by Dianne Bondy and Amber Karnes. Most yoga sequences are created for young, thin, able-bodied students. Yoga for All includes adaptable poses for older, larger, and differently-abled students.

    What if every movement you tried brought you joy? What could happen in your life and your body if that were true for you? It’s Rachele’s mission to teach folx in every kind of body how you can access and enjoy yoga!

    “I have been a lot of different sizes, as well as diagnosed with chronic pain and fibromyalgia. It can be challenging to feel good about moving my body with so many physical barriers in the way. Yoga for All meets me where I’m at and teaches me how to feel good in my unique body.” - Rachele Rose

  • Trauma-informed yoga assumes that everyone has experienced some level of trauma or significant life stress. The approach rests on a set of principles that supports a sense of safety, support, and inclusivity for all who participate.

    Drawing from neuroscience, developmental psychology, and interpersonal neurobiology, trauma-informed yoga is based on a particular understanding of trauma, one that emphasizes its impact on the entire mind-body system, as opposed to particular mental states.

  • All of Rachele’s classes are appropriate for any level of experience. Truly, if you have a body, you can practice yoga! You don’t need to know anything about yoga to attend class. Rachele gives very detailed, easy-to-follow instructions in all classes.

  • The practice of yoga has been scientifically proven to help with the following:

    Physical Benefits

    -Reduces chronic pain, such as lower back pain, arthritis, headaches and carpal tunnel syndrome
    -Lowers blood pressure
    -Reduces insomnia
    -Increases flexibility
    -Increases muscle strength and tone
    -Improves respiration, energy and vitality
    -Maintains a balanced metabolism
    -Improves cardio and circulatory health
    -Improves athletic performance
    -Protects from injury
    -and more!

    Mental Benefits

    -Stress management
    -Reduces anxiety
    -Mental well-being
    -Increased body awareness
    -Relieves chronic stress patterns
    -Relaxes the mind
    -Centers attention
    -Sharpens concentration
    -and more!

  • Using props is one of the best ways to avoid injury and learn the poses of yoga. They give our bodies much needed support as we build strength. Props are not cheating! You are still doing all of the work. There is no such thing as cheating in yoga. Props are enhancements to help find space and freedom in a pose, and they help your body feel more comfortable.

    Props can include: yoga blocks, blankets, bolsters, chairs, walls, and straps. At home they can include: towels, blankets, pillows, chairs, walls, and belts or neckties.

    Blankets or towels provide extra padding under the knees when doing poses such as cat-cow or child’s pose. A rolled towel or a set of blocks can be used under your hands to help reduce tension and load in your wrists. Using blocks under your hands can also help bring the ground closer to you. These are just some of the ways props can help enhance your practice, there are many more too!

  • Dress comfortably, in loose clothes that move and stretch with you! It is encouraged to practice barefoot to help avoid sliding on your mat, but you may wear socks if that helps you feel more comfortable.

  • Medical benefits are usually evident with 3 practices per week. The more you practice, the greater the health and well-being benefits. Rachele suggest you practice as often as you can. This may vary depending on how your feel or your schedule, and that’s okay! You can always come back to your yoga practice at anytime.

  • Email Rachele at rachele@rosegoldenergy.com to receive the FREE 5 Day Guided Meditation + Yoga Practice. You will receive a link to 5 daily meditations and 5 pre-recorded yoga sessions to practice at your convenience.

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Yoga Student Reviews

  • "I very much like the balance between gentle stretching and a few more active poses in the class. Gentle classes sometimes are just too slow for me, but Rachele found some good balance (so to speak!) among different activitiy levels in the poses. I also appreciate her inclusion of yoga concepts and teachings. I like to be able to end a class feeling both psychologically and physically restored."

    Hilary R.

  • "I thought Rachele was great! She was warm and welcoming and made me feel at home in the studio. She took a genunine interest in all of the students in the studio, as well as those attending virtually. The class was well thought-out, and the flow of poses was seamless. Her voice was soothing and put me in a very calm and peaceful state. I appreciated her follow-up email to check in on me too!"

    Karen H.

  • "As a beginner yoga student, Rachele made my first class so enjoyable. I felt included and able to participate, even though I'd never been in a class before. She smoothly led us through differnet poses and always offered a modification, which allowed me to engage in every single exercise. Really loved it!"

    Corrie K.

  • "Rachele's calming demeanor has improved the mental and emotional health of myself and my husband. Our yoga sessions have helped improved our minds and our bodies as well. She encourages us to move at our own pace and is a wonderful instructor. We love her sessions. She is amazing!"

    Joyce T.

  • "Rachele did a very good job focusing on pranayama breathing during class. She also encouraged her students to do what they felt they needed. Very relaxing class. I enjoyed it!"

    Martha M.

  • "I loved taking Rachele's class. It was gentle, yet very helpful in centering me. The focus on breath was especially nice! Rachele has a very gentle manner. Wonderful!"

    Julie W.

  • "The sequencing was excellent and unique. The options were well explained and offered frequently. Loved the class!"

    Kyla R.

  • "Peaceful voice, well-timed paced. Great class for anyone intimated to try yoga or those looking to go deep into the body and mind of practice. Thank you!"

    Stephanie M.

  • "She truly cares and you can absolutely feel it. Grateful to have such a connection - even virtually!"

    Lisa L.

  • "Rachele is very knowledgeable. Always offers mutliple ways to do things. Always feel better after her class."

    Judy M.

  • "I'm relatively new at yoga, so the encouragement is appreciated and I love the breathing reminders. She has a very calm voice that I found most relaxing. Thank you!"

    Peggy M.

  • “Rachele’s classes are awesome! I have learned poses that I have never done before (like assisted child’s pose, and goddess pose, and 5-pointed star). I loved that Rachele had modifications. When she first started, her voice was so soothing, almost like a recorded guided meditation that you'd hear on Youtube. Was lovely, all of it!”

    Heather D.

  • “I really like how Rachele walks us through the flows and talks about when to breathe in addition to including good descriptions of each pose. Rachele is a great teacher whose classes are well thought out, and she communicates clearly and peacefully!”

    Lauren D.

  • “I enjoyed the relaxed style for the end of the day to help unwind. It was a great pace! Rachele’s calm voice and mannerisms were so helpful. She did a great job showing the class how to do the poses along with guiding us verbally. Since I do yoga, it was easy for me to follow, and I think others would be able to follow as well with the way Rachele showed how to do the poses.”

    Rita B.

  • “I am new to yoga and Rachele made it very easy to follow. She was very knowledgeable and had a very calming voice. The session really helped me focus on my breathing and helped stretch to release tension. Loved it and will definitely join again.”

    Carrie F.

  • “Rachele’s yoga class brought me back to a place I didn’t know I had needed so badly. Her voice is calming, reassuring, and encouraging. The music was perfect and invoked some really good feelings. If you’re hesitating, try one class (I did virtual) and see if you too didn’t know what you were missing. I’m so grateful to have a sense of community again coupled with a yoga class that sent my body and mind to a place of peace. I was able to get lost in the moment and just be/just do. Grateful for the yoga practice Rachele offers.”

    L.B.