WHERE TO MEET
All classes meet at the standing surfer boy statue at the entrance of Kapiolani Park. The statue is across the street from the zoo, next to the Sunset on the Beach movie screen frame, which is where the university plays beach volleyball. If you were walking from a Waikiki Hotel, you would walk towards Diamond Head, and then, after the last hotel you will pass the intersection of Kapahulu and Kalakaua Ave. Just keep walking two more minutes and you will arrive at Kapiolani Park, and the Surfer Boy Statue.
Note: We do not provide mats for any of the yoga courses.
- The indoor classes also use circus ropes, climbing silk for inversions and strength training, rings, thera balls, and balancing tubes.
- The Beach Yoga class is on the sand of waikiki beach in the shade of a Banyan tree. Expect to be very sandy, and to get wet during the last ten minutes.
- The Park Yoga class in Kapiolani Park is on the grass, under the expansive boughs of a large Banyan tree.
The result is a deliciously therapeutic series of ‘pose-motions’, detailed body instruction, and a nice balance between having fun and broadly expanding your physical potential.
One of the reasons normal Hatha yoga poses are beneficial is because they make you use all of your body with each pose.
Did i just say “…all of your body?…” oh, pardon me. I meant to say, “…all of your body and awareness.” Detailed, sequential, expansion via isometric oppositional movement with inhales, and receding further into softness with each increasingly deep exhale.
Of course, each pose is different, so you get to use ‘all of your body’ in a balanced set of strengthening poses. Adding the movement fundamentals from dance conditioning, especially Labon’s ‘X’ing sets, etc., to Hatha yoga gives you a chance to take the precise yoga movements, and then drop, swing, gather and release into motions, both subtle and large.
Anybody can take any of the classes, but, check the schedule for beginner/intermediate days.
All levels are welcome. If you think you can’t do yoga, think of this: If you can breath and walk, you can begin to improve your overall health through condition appropriate exercise. If you are athletic, Dennis’s classes will take your practice to new levels!
“Aloha!”
