Gold Country Yoga

On-Demand Membership

he change and transformation a dedicated Yoga practice can bring about is priceless.  And the great news is that anyone can benefit from Yoga; whether you are new to Yoga or have taken classes for a while, whether you are strong to begin with or not, whether you are stiff or flexible, in shape or not—Yoga will simply help you feel better!

Yoga is meant to be a practice–something you engage with on a regular or even daily basis. Of course there are days that simply get away from you, but you’ll be amazed how even a few minutes of Yoga every day can go a long way in supporting your physical health and emotional well-being.

Gold Country Yoga offers different length classes and a broad variety of themes and styles that will make it easy for you to find just the right class for what you need every day.

Benefits of a Home Yoga Practice

Feel more comfortable and at home in your body

Increase your strength, mobility and flexibility

Find relief from common aches and pains

Feel grounded & resilient in the face of challenge

Learn how to effectively reduce stress and tension

Become more accepting of yourself & others

Invaluable chance to care for your health & well-being

Greater ease falling asleep and staying asleep

What’s Included in Your Membership

Hundreds of professionally produced Yoga Classes right at your fingertips 24/7

Active Movement, Restorative Yoga, Yin Yoga, Relaxation & Mindfulness classes

Specialty Yoga Workshops and Special Series on a wide range of topics

Multi-day Yoga Challenges and Retreats for a truly guided experience

Targeted practices to address your changing daily challenges and needs

Expert guidance with plenty of skillful modifications for different levels

Membership pages and On-Demand Library are easy to use and navigate

Give Yourself the Care and Support You Deserve!

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Are We the Right Fit?

It is crucial to find a teacher that you trust—someone who is skilled, experienced, creates meaningful practices and communicates Yoga in a way that resonates directly with you.  Ellen’s warm personality, dedication, depth of knowledge and consistent teaching principles will help you deepen your understanding of Yoga and move towards your goals of improved health and well-being.

Try Ellen’s Teaching for Free

Curious to learn more about how you can feel your best every day? Sign up, become a Member today and enjoy our entire library of On Demand classes for 14 days; cancel anytime if it’s not for you!

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What We Offer

• Yoga for physical and emotional well-being
• Movement that is much more than just exercise
Postures that respect your unique body
• Yoga that includes reflection and mindfulness
• Support to create a home Yoga practice
• A family-run business dedicated to good health

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What We Do Not

• Extremely fast-paced or power Yoga classes
• Practices solely focused on exercise and cardio
• Gymnastic, extreme poses and practices
• ‘No pain, no gain’ as a motto
• Excessive fixation on aesthetics or appearance
• Bland, corporate Yoga with high-paid execs

Meet the Family Behind the Scenes

Ellen, Teacher & Owner at Gold Country Yoga, brings over 25 years of Yoga, movement & dance experience to her classes.  She skillfully combines traditional postures and creative movement sequences with mindfulness practices for a truly unique and engaging Yoga experience.

Mark, an Emmy Award-winning television and film professional, has extensive experience producing instructional Yoga videos.  He records all classes with multiple cameras, crystal-clear audio and carefully edits each one to highlight teaching details and create a seamless, flowing experience.

The Felines: Our cat family of four adds a little extra sweetness and delight to our classes. You may see Speedy climbing onto Ellen’s back in a Yoga pose, Mr. Smokes leaping up the cat tree, Tulane taking a nap on a Yoga blanket or Maddie parading her cuteness across the room.

Want to See More?  Browse Our Library

 Preview the On-Demand Library below: hundreds of Classes, Specialty Workshops and Multi-Day Yoga Challenges.

Recently Added Classes

We add classes regularly, often several new ones each week.  Here’s what we’ve been up to lately.

Tending to Yourself
A deeper class with some gentle movement, but with an invitation to turn inward and care for yourself.
Gentle Care
Slow down and extend some gentle care toward yourself!
Grounding Floor Practice
Let's stay on the floor for 30 minutes of movement and exploring the nature of grounding.
Feeling Untethered?
Take a closer look at the reasons you might be feeling untethered, and how to be more grounded.
Group Centering 1
A settling practice to share with others before a meeting or gathering.
Group Centering 2
A settling practice to share with others before a meeting or gathering.
Gentle Movement • 10-04-23
Join Ellen and Maddie for a complete, gentle class to move and relax!
Sweet, Simple Settling 5
Continue to explore the nature of settling through these simple practices.
Sweet, Simple Settling 6
Take 15 minutes to settle mind, body and spirit in this gentle, relaxing class.

Active Level 1

These beginner-friendly active practices are a great way to start exploring our Library and evoke your curiosity about this rich practice.

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Active Level 2

Ready for a bit more? Here we explore a little more depth with active movements and strength enhancing postures.

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Active Level 3

Up for a challenge? After an active warm up fluidly linking one pose with the next we’ll explore longer-held postures to help increase strength & stability.

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Gentle & Seated Practices

If a mat-based Yoga practice is not right for you try one of our Chair Classes. We start seated with easy upper-body movements followed by a few standing postures for balance and a short relaxation that can be done on the floor or couch.

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Meditation & Breathing Practices

The title of this category speaks for itself: practices focusing on mindfulness, inward attention, breathwork and exploring the quieter mysteries found within.

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Yin & Restorative Yoga Practices

Let’s slow down! Restorative Yoga disconnects offers time relax, nurture and renew; Yin Yoga’s long-held stretching poses release tension and invite a deep inward reflection and surrender.

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Yoga à la Carte

Build Your Perfect Class! Shorter, partial practices meant to be mixed and matched together. I recommend mixing Active and Relaxing practices, in that order; but trust your body, experiment, and create your very own perfect class or longer sequence.

Grounding Floor Practice
Let's stay on the floor for 30 minutes of movement and exploring the nature of grounding.
Feeling Untethered?
Take a closer look at the reasons you might be feeling untethered, and how to be more grounded.
Yoga Warmup 5
Take 20 minutes to enliven and warm up the body and refresh your spirit!
Self-Embrace
Give yourself a big hug—literally and figuratively—with this 23-minute class focused on self-care.
Simply Delicious
30 minutes of absolutely delicious Restorative Yoga with lots of room for quiet introspection.
Yoga Nonstop 1
A short, flowing practice that never stops moving with gentle, accessible postures and transitions.
No-Prop Restorative Yoga
A 30-minute Restorative Yoga practice that you don't need a bunch of props to do—just normal household items!
Moving Into Meditation
Let's use some movement as a natural transition into silence, stillness and meditation.
Yinsights
Turn inward with this quiet practices focusing on exploring insights through Yin Yoga.

Instruction & Inspiration: Talks and Practices

Here you’ll find a mix of inspiration talks, philosophy, detailed instruction—plus practices linked with a deep inner inquiry to explore the subtler, essential questions we all face.

Yoga Details • Frontside Fascia
Frontside Fascia explores the anatomy and movement of these important connections.
Yoga Details • Vinyasa
A short walk-through of the various stages of this classic movement sequence.
Confrontation & Comfort
An Inspiration & Support talk about the nature of confrontation and the comfort we seek.
Yoga Details • Mindfulness
This is a 5-minute talk on the role of Mindfulness in Yoga practice and daily life.
Yoga Details • Breathwork 1
A 21-minute instructional class discussing the basic details of using the breath during practice.
Yoga Details • Backside Fascia
A 36-minute instructional class in the Yoga Details series called Backside Fascia.
What Is Yoga
Ellen Cremer explains what Yoga means to her and what inspires her about practice and teaching.
Greetings and Support
Ellen offer encouragement and advice on maintaining your inspiration to practice.
Yoga Details • What's a Flat Back?
A 6-minute Yoga Details video looking closer at the idea of a flat back.

Office Breaks: Practice at Work

These 5 to 10-minute practices help during long hours at work; a few minutes of movement and simple stretches can relieve a tight back, sore wrists and tired legs.

Office Break • Easy Movements
A 6-minute Office Break called Easy Movements. Another great reason to get up from your desk, move and release!
Office Break • Move, Stretch & Relax
An 18-minute Office Break offering a short but complete sequence: Move, Stretch & Relax!
Office Break • Mindfulness
A 9-minute Office break called Mindfulness. It's a guided meditation practice to help relieve stress and slow down peacefully.
Office Break • Back in Shape
A 23-minute Office Break focusing on strengthening your back.
Office Break • Calming Breath
A 10-minute Office Break focusing on relaxing breath work for stress-reduction.
Office Break • Neck Check
9:00, Neck, Neck, Shoulders, Spine
A 9-minute Office Break to stretch and relax your neck!
Office Break • Shoulder Sweetener
A 7-minute Office Break to help with your shoulders!
Office Break • Wrist Wake-Up
A 5-minute Office Break to help energize and wake-up your wrists!
Office Break • Wrist Relief
An 8-minute Office Break to stretch and de-stress your wrists.

Workshops and Special Series

These Workshops and Special Series explore practices around a specific theme. Workshops dive deeper with longer, single classes; Series explore a topic over a range of classes.

Coming Home 1
Let's use mindfulness and a few gentle movements to explore the idea of home, and how to return to ourselves.
Daily Trio 12
Three simple postures to get you moving and stretching in a short time!
Stretch Break 2
Take 30 minutes and treat yourself to a break with great stretching and gentle movements!
Daily Trio 11
Another great Trio practice, short and sweet; this time the focus is on the back, legs and twists.
Daily Trio 10
Another installment of our popular 3-posture mini series focused on the back and legs!
Daily Trio 9
Another in our great series of short, sweet and simple practices to get you going.
7th Chakra • Knowledge & Wisdom
This is the 7th and final installment of the Chakra Yoga series, focusing on practice and understanding of the crown chakra.
Daily Trio 8
A trio of poses for your busy day: focus on leg strength and enlivening your spine!
Mindful Pause 1
Take a short pause in your day and enjoy this guided, mindful practice.

Therapy Balls & Self-Massage

Sometimes an additional tool is needed to get those stubborn knots in our muscles to let go. The use of therapy balls is a fun and creative way to address discomfort in specific areas while learning more about the architecture and anatomy of your own body.

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Yoga with Cats!

Enjoy a practice with our resident Yogis: Maddie, Mr. Smokes, Tulane or the ever-present Speedy!

Self-Embrace
Give yourself a big hug—literally and figuratively—with this 23-minute class focused on self-care.
Moving Into Meditation
Let's use some movement as a natural transition into silence, stillness and meditation.
Rise & Shine • 02-06-23
50:22, Maddie, Twists, Rise & Shine
Our first Rise & Shine of 2023! It's a great start to your morning or a new year!
Yinsights
Turn inward with this quiet practices focusing on exploring insights through Yin Yoga.
Mindful Pause 1
Take a short pause in your day and enjoy this guided, mindful practice.
6th Chakra • Vision & Perception
Ellen explores the 6th Chakra in this complete practice. This is part of a 7-class series.
30-Minute Moves 7
Take 30 minutes to move! Focus on your back, core, legs and shoulders.
Restorative Yoga • 11-28-22
A complete Restorative Yoga classes with bends, inversions and twists.
Rise & Shine • 08-15-22
A complete, active practice to wake up and get you going in the morning or any time you need it!

Explore our Multi-Day Yoga Challenges

Ellen’s carefully hand-chosen practices will guide you over 7-28 days,
focusing on topics like strength building, relaxation, meditation and anatomy.

Try Ellen’s Teaching for Free

Curious to learn more about how you can feel your best every day? Sign up, become a Member today and enjoy our entire library of On Demand classes for 14 days; cancel anytime if it’s not for you!