Slower yoga is a beginning and continuing yoga class for those who need a class which is slower than our regular beginning Level 1&2 class. Students in this class may be a little stiffer or weaker, sometimes older but not always, or not in the condition they would like to be in. They need a class that understands that and adjusts the practice accordingly.

This is a monthly course where fees are dependent on the number of weeks during the month.  4 Week month fees are $72 early/$77 late; 5 Week month fees are $90 early/$95 late.  Holiday months are prorated. To receive the early rate, please register by the last class meeting of the previous month, 7 days before the start of the New Course, unless there is a holiday break where the early fee ends at the last class meeting of the current month.

click here to see the current and upcoming course offerings for the slower yoga on Friday nights.

About the Teacher: Richard Schachtel

Richard Schachtel is Seattle’s most experienced yoga teacher trainer. He has taught special classes for those wanting to be trained to teach yoga since 1986.
Richard Schachtel has been training in Iyengar Yoga for over 40 years which emphasis developing a practice with a high degree of precision of alignment. He founded The Center For Yoga in 1980 and is a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher and an authorized Iyengar Yoga Teacher Trainer. He has made 22 yoga study trips to India to personally train with the Iyengar Family most recently in December 2017. Richard is the Seattle Area’s most Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher. Richard has been training teachers in Seattle since 1986 and has influenced several generations of yoga teachers. There are over 125 recent graduates of this program which is offered also on the weekends, and in 4 week immersions.

He has trained yoga teachers not only in Washington State but teachers from around the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia in his immersion yoga teacher trainings help several times each year in Seattle, and in Goa India each Winter.