Greener Postures Yoga

11/23/2025

This Thanksgiving, join us in practicing gratitude in motion and in action with our Thanksgiving Day Donation-only Yoga Classes:

✨ South Portland Studio
8–9 AM with Heidi
All proceeds benefit the South Portland Food Cupboard

✨ Falmouth Studio
9–10:15 AM with Conor
Donations support Sea Change Yoga, bringing yoga to under-resourced communities 💚

Suggested class donation: $20 (or whatever feels right). Advance registration required. Invite your loved ones—multiple registrations welcome.

📦 GPY Food Drive | Nov 13–27
Drop off donations at either studio to support our local food cupboards! Here’s what’s most needed:
Macaroni cups
Microwaveable meals and side dishes
Pop-top cans of ravioli or SpaghettiOs (no pork)
Pull-top lid canned meals: chicken noodle, chicken with rice
Hearty stews: beef stew, chili with meat, chili without meat, vegetarian & vegan stews
Pouches of chicken and tuna
Plain pasta sauce (no glass jars) & pasta
Rice (boxed or bagged)
Peanut butter (no glass jars)
Single-serving oatmeal, cereal, and fruit cups
Healthy snacks (individually packaged)
Kitchen staples: flour, sugar, cooking oil, canned veggies
Jelly (no glass jars)
Hot chocolate packets
Ensure protein shakes (for older adults or recuperative care)
Pancake mixes
Condiments (no glass jars)
Can openers

Let’s warm hearts and bellies this season. 💚

11/19/2025

As the temps drop your practice can be the steady warmth that grounds and energizes you. Whether it’s been a week, a season, or a few years… we’re here when you’re ready to return to your mat. Our heated vinyasa classes are the perfect reset—offering movement, mindfulness, and warmth from the inside out 🔥

Why flow in the heat?
🌀 Increases circulation & cardiovascular health
🌀 Enhances flexibility & joint mobility
🌀 Encourages deeper detox through sweat
🌀 Helps reduce stress & calm the nervous system
🌀 Boosts endorphins and mental clarity
🌀 Builds strength, balance & body awareness
🌀 Warms muscles safely and supports injury prevention
🌀 Feels amazing in the cold months!

Come move with Alex and/or Philomena at
💚 All levels welcome

✨ Alex teaches
📍Falmouth – Mondays 7:30am
📍SoPo – Tues & Thurs 6am

✨ Philomena teaches
📍SoPo – Sundays 9am & 11am

Let this be your season of return. You don’t need to start over—just begin again. Your mat is waiting.

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11/18/2025

SCROLL 👇 for more ON BENEFITS OF BACKBENDING + Join Gretchen for a playful, empowering exploration of advanced backbends. Whether you’re ready to explore variations of wheel pose or want to take your spinal extension practice to new places (including the wall!), this 90-minute workshop will give you the tools to go deeper—safely and joyfully.

You’ll warm up fully (hips, shoulders, wrists, spine), explore inversions, use props creatively, and move beyond your everyday mat space. Come ready to play, sweat, and surprise yourself.

🗓 Sunday, Nov. 23 | 1–2:30PM
📍 Greener Postures Falmouth
💲 $30 (Registration link in bio)
⚡ Best for students confident in wheel (Urdhva Dhanurasana)
🚫 Not suitable for those with acute injuries

Backbending isn’t just about flexibility—it’s about strength, openness, and resilience. These poses energize the nervous system, boost spinal mobility, improve posture, and increase lung capacity. More than anything, they ask us to meet our edges with curiosity and courage.

Backbends strengthen the posterior chain—glutes, hamstrings, spinal extensors—while opening up the front body. They counteract hours of sitting and slouching by improving postural alignment, strengthening the spine, and increasing flexibility through the shoulders, chest, and hip flexors.

Backbends are known as heart openers for a reason. They physically expand the chest and energetically encourage vulnerability, courage, and emotional release. Practitioners often report feeling lighter, more open, and less weighed down after a deep backbending practice.

Backbends are energizing. They stimulate the sympathetic nervous system, helping to banish fatigue and sharpen focus. When paired with breath and mindful movement, they also build resilience—supporting better stress response, nervous system regulation, and inner confidence.

Expand your heart, deepen your practice.

11/18/2025

11/18/2025

✨ Upcoming Prenatal Yoga Offerings at GPY ✨ Mindful movement during pregnancy or tools to support labor, we’ve got you covered this December in Falmouth 💚

🤰 Prenatal Yoga 4-WEEK SERIES
Mondays, Dec. 1–22 | 6–7:15 PM
This 4-week series creates space to connect with your body and growing baby while preparing for childbirth. Each class includes gentle yoga, breathwork, and restorative postures to support strength, calm, and emotional resilience. All trimesters and experience levels welcome.

💫 Breath and Movement for Childbirth WORKSHOP
Friday, Dec. 5 | 6–8 PM
Designed for pregnant students and their birth or support partner, this hands-on workshop explores breath techniques, partner massage, and labor-supporting movement. Led by experienced prenatal yoga teacher Abby, it’s a grounding and empowering way to prepare together. NOTE: Only the pregnant student needs to register—bring your birth partner or any support person if your partner is unavailable.

🧘‍♀️ No yoga experience needed. Bring a mat, water, and wear comfy clothes.

🌐 Sign up at greenerposturesyoga.com or via the Union app.

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11/16/2025

Sound on 🔈❄️ As the first flurries fall + the memories of summer fade, we’re reminded of the beauty in shifting seasons. This selection is from Heidi’s weekly meditations from the mat, part of her Inkwell series—posted on our website under Teachers > Inkwell. 💚

“Life is not about finding perfect harmony,
but about dancing with the rhythm of opposites—
light and dark, joy and sorrow, stillness and motion.

It is in these contrasts, these ebbing tides,
that we find our truest selves.

The moments of quiet ground us,
and the moments of chaos remind us of our resilience.

In the delicate balance between the two,
we learn the art of becoming—
of embracing what is and trusting that both
the storms and the calm are necessary to shape our soul.”

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11/13/2025

💚 Give Thanks, Give Back 💚 This Thanksgiving, join us for Thanksgiving morning donation classes that give back to our community—with movement, mindfulness, + meaningful support.

📍 South Portland Studio | 8–9 AM
✨ Led by Heidi | All proceeds benefit the South Portland Food Cupboard

📍 Falmouth Studio | 9–10:15 AM
✨ Led by Conor | All proceeds benefit Sea Change Yoga

Suggested donation: $20
Advance registration required.
You can also register friends and family!

🍽️ Plus: GPY Food Drive – Now through Nov. 27

Drop off food donations at either studio to help stock our local food cupboards. We’ve got boxes at the ready—and a list of most-requested items to guide you. Let’s fill them up, together!

Gratitude flows in many forms. Move your body, nourish your soul, and help nourish others this holiday season 💚

11/11/2025

Backbending isn’t just about flexibility—it’s about strength, openness, and resilience. These poses energize the nervous system, boost spinal mobility, improve posture, and increase lung capacity. More than anything, they ask us to meet our edges with curiosity and courage.

Join Gretchen for a playful, empowering exploration of advanced backbends. Whether you’re ready to explore variations of wheel pose or want to take your spinal extension practice to new places (including the wall!), this 90-minute workshop will give you the tools to go deeper—safely and joyfully.

You’ll warm up fully (hips, shoulders, wrists, spine), explore inversions, use props creatively, and move beyond your everyday mat space. Come ready to play, sweat, and surprise yourself.

🗓 Sunday, Nov. 23 | 1–2:30PM
📍 Greener Postures Falmouth
💲 $30 (Registration link in bio)
⚡ Best for students confident in wheel (Urdhva Dhanurasana)
🚫 Not suitable for those with acute injuries

Expand your heart, deepen your practice.

11/09/2025

📦 GPY Food Drive • Nov 13–27 • Let’s come together in gratitude and generosity this season! For two weeks—Nov 13 through Thanksgiving—Greener Postures Yoga is collecting non-perishable food donations at both studios to support our local food cupboards.

As you plan your contribution, here’s a helpful list of most-requested items to make the biggest impact:

Macaroni cups
Microwaveable meals and side dishes
Pop-top cans of ravioli or SpaghettiOs (no pork)
Pull-top lid canned meals: chicken noodle, chicken with rice
Hearty stews: beef stew, chili with meat, chili without meat, vegetarian & vegan stews
Pouches of chicken and tuna
Plain pasta sauce (no glass jars) & pasta
Rice (boxed or bagged)
Peanut butter (no glass jars)
Single-serving oatmeal, cereal, and fruit cups
Healthy snacks (individually packaged)
Kitchen staples: flour, sugar, cooking oil, canned veggies
Jelly (no glass jars)
Hot chocolate packets
Ensure protein shakes (for older adults or recuperative care)
Pancake mixes
Condiments (no glass jars)
Can openers

📍 Look for donation bins at both our Falmouth and South Portland studios!

Let’s fill those boxes with love 💚

11/07/2025

BREATHWORK WORKSHOP: Sun, Nov. 16 | 1–3 PM | Famouth with Tania Zuckerman: Breathwork Journey for Renewal & Nurturance

We all know what it means to show up for others and provide nurturance and care for those in our lives. But what if the most radical thing we can do is provide this same attention and presence to ourselves?
Whoever we are, wherever we are, the world can sometimes feel just beyond our ability to “keep up”. This continual fast-paced life along with “over-giving” to others can make us feel we have nothing left to give to ourselves.

Thankfully, our breath offers a calm respite for renewal and strength. Guided in a deepening self-care journey of reclamation and hope- discover how Breathwork can be a catalyst for positive change in your life.

The truth is, when we open up our breathing, we have more energy for ourselves and the people around us. Further, when we breathe deeper, we help to increase our energy, speed up cellular metabolism, improve confidence, and initiate a greater sense of connection with ourselves and the world around us.

Additionally, Breathwork helps promote healing on all levels, as we give ourselves the opportunity to integrate life experiences more somatically.

A supine practice guided with soulful music, Breathwork is not just a physical practice, but a soul practice for the body, mind and heart to help you remember that you are enough and there is enough for you to receive.

Using conscious, circular breathing, this journey-style practice helps us to interrupt stress-response patterns and create more harmonious ways of interacting with others and caring for ourselves.

This workshop, led by Tania Zuckerman, Spiraldance Breathwork begins with a quiet centering practice, followed by a guided conscious breathing exercise for personal attunement and recalibration. After instruction for the longer practice, you will be guided on a 45-minute supine journey using conscious, circular breathing- a therapeutic processing technique for release and opening.

11/05/2025

Did you know that slowing down can boost your immune system? Read more 👇

At GPY, our Yin, Stretch & Mobility, Nidra, and Restorative classes help gently guide your nervous system into more of a parasympathetic state — your body’s natural healing mode. When you’re in this “rest and digest” state, inflammation lowers, cellular repair increases, and your immune system gets the support it needs to thrive.💫

Join us on the mat where healing begins. Your Nervous System is the Gateway to Immunity 🌿

11/03/2025

💚 ARE YOU OUR NEXT STUDIO ASSISTANT!? 💚 We’d love it if you were! All practitioners encouraged, here’s the deets:

Our studio trade program is a wonderful way to have access to a significantly discounted $20 all access yoga pass (in-person and virtual), a discount on workshops and be part of the GPY community. We ask that you are 18yrs or older, and have taken 5 classes prior to participating in the studio trade program and that you can commit to at least 3 months.

Studio Assistants: Arrive 30 minutes before class, greet and check-in students, help with clean up after class. 2 shift per week commitment. 1.5-2 Hrs./week

Cleaning Assistants: Clean 2 sections at one of the two locations (bathrooms/dressing rooms or large studio/lobby). 1 shift per week commitment (the same day/section each week). 1.5-2 Hrs./week

Link in bio or on our website! Apply today!
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