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Sunset Yoga at Wave Hill

August 9th, 2010 |

Author: freddibear

When:Wed, Aug 11, 2010 6:15–7:30PM

Where: Meet at the Perkins Visitor Center

Enjoy yoga under the setting sun on the sumptuous lawns of Wave Hill. Decrease stress and increase your energy by focusing on your posture, breath control and meditation. Classes are led by Neem Dewji and Yoga for Bliss-certified Hatha yoga instructors. For all levels, recommended for ages 12–112. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and bring your own mat. Sessions are held outdoors only and are weather dependent. Call 718.549.3200 x245 by 8AM on the day of the class for weather updates. Final Sunset Yoga session of the summer!

Glow in the Dark Yoga at Moomah

July 26th, 2010 |

Author: freddibear

Our signature glow-in-the-dark yoga class. Think Hayden Planetarium meets Mahatma Gandhi. A full sensory experience. Children learn how their bodies work while exploring ideas about compassion, kindness, gratefulness and love. Classes will relate to topics like the elements, senses, colors, animals, planets, organ functions, emotions and the total energy of the season. Some days they’ll visit an imaginary forest, other days they’ll go underwater to discover water worlds and sea creatures.

Classes include yoga postures and exercises, breath work, mantra, mudras and sound vibration.
Come wearing white for extra glowiness!!!!

Mommy & Me Gloga Yoga for Pre-Crawlers (accompanied by caregiver): $375/semester, $30/drop-in
Thursdays: 9:30am – 10:15m

161 Hudson Street – Downtown Tribeca
(between Laight and Hubert Streets)
New York NY 10013
Tel 212 226 0345
Fax 212 226 2078
info@moomah.com

Little Flower Yoga

July 13th, 2010 |

Author: freddibear

CLASSES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Little Flower offers private and small group classes for kids and families that address the needs and interests of your child. Join us at one of our partner locations, or let us come to you and bring the healing benefits of yoga into your home.

Our teachers have experience working with various types of physical, emotional and learning related challenges. Yoga helps children of all ages feel great, stay healthy and connect with their tremendous capacity for joy.

Contact us at jennifer@littlefloweryoga.com for a free consultation and find out if our yoga programs can help your children become the best possible version of themselves.

BABY AND ME YOGA AT THE GARDEN SCHOOL
CLASSES FOR TODDLERS AND THEIR CAREGIVERS

33-16 79th St.
Queens NY

Join Little Flower Yoga and The Garden School for a New Six Week Summer Yoga Class Series. We welcome children from 18 month to 3 years, and their caregivers.

Thursdays: 9:30am – 10:15am
Class Dates: July 15, 22, 29; August 5, 12, 19
Cost: $160 for full summer series
Contact: The Garden School for more information and to register: 718.335.6363

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ABOUT THE GARDEN SCHOOL

Abhaya Yoga in Dumbo

July 6th, 2010 |

Author: freddibear

Introductory Specials for New Students

One Week of Free Yoga – for first time students (Brooklyn and Manhattan residents only). Through August 31st.

$70 -Beginner Series- Never done Yoga before? Tight, stiff, intimidated, … have no worries. Come to this no pressure class to learn the very basics, foundation, and forms of the poses with Abhaya Teachers.

Anusara Immersion Level 3- Song of the Soul Study of the Bhagavad Gita

Summer Immersion
Sundays and Wednesdays in July
Sundays 12-4pm ( July 11, 18, 25* )

* July 25th class extended 6-9pm as well

Wednesdays 6-9pm ( July 7, 14, 21, 28)

Throughout the process of Immersion 3, Tara will shed light on the Bhagavad Gita, a beautiful and poetic, ancient, yogic text still very applicable to life today. In level 3 we take the Anusara Principles of Alignment to another level of understanding while continuing our studies of meditation, contemeplation, and pranayama. Those interested in pursing an Anusara Teacher Training are now ready and and have their necessary pre-requisites met.

Cost: $700

Anusara Teacher Training 2010

with Tara Glazier

Abhaya Yoga – DUMBO

Yoga Alliance 200 Hour Certification

Weekly sessions at Abhaya Yoga – select Sunday and Wednesday evenings

Sundays 12-4pm, 6-9pm

Wednesdays 6:30-9:30pm

September: 26, 29

October: 6, 10, 13, 17, 20

November: 3, 7, 10, 17, 21

December: 1, 5, 8, 12, 15

Mentored program : Teacher Trainees will additionally have a special mentoring session 1/ week with a highly trained Anusara teacher to hone their teaching skills

Cost: $2500. Includes Unlimited Studio Classes during the training.

Early Registration $2250 (before Sept 10)

Get your application now by emailing : tara@abhayayoga.com

Application deadline: August 1, 2010

This 100 hour Anusara Level 1 Teacher Training will focus on the art of teaching. Since the trainees have been through a deep study of the Anusara method in the Immersions, the Teacher Training program can put a great emphasis on teaching the skills necessary to become a magnetic teacher.

Program will focus on :

Theming – learning how interweave heart opening and empowering themes into an asana class
Sequence- skillfully sequencing to prepare the body for more advanced postures
Hands on Adjusting
Therapeutics- Anusara is known for it’s wonderful healing method. Trainees will learn hands on therapeutics as well as how to diagnose issues
Speaking skills- how to language and articulate the principles gracefully
Empowering the individual to focus on their own inherent gifts

About Tara:

Tara Glazier, the owner of Abhaya Yoga has been teaching yoga for the past 11years in New York City. She has taught all over the world and most recently at Virayoga in Manhattan. Tara is a professionally trained dancer and spent many years performing before making yoga her career. She has a BFA in Dance Pedagogy / Performance from the Hartt School at the University of Hartford. While studying Pedagogy,( the art of teaching), she became inspired by the craft and realized that it takes something very special, very intrinsic to become a teacher. She was asked to join staff at the Hartford Ballet and was honored with the Excellence in Pedagogy Award. Tara, later moved to NYC to begin a professional dance career. During this time, she transitioned into teaching yoga and became the Faculty Director at Ballet Tech, under the direction of Eliot Feld. After becoming Anusara Certified, Tara made the move to full time yoga teacher and has made teaching Anusara Yoga her life’s dharma. She has been training various types of teachers since 1999 and finds great fulfillment in offering skills that help others to awaken. She attributes much of her passion and success to her teachers, John Friend, Zhenja LaRosa, Elena Brower and to her parents.

Mindful Yoga Workshop

June 2nd, 2010 |

Author: freddibear

Sankalpah Yoga Studio located at 254 Fifth Avenue in New York City is offering a wonderful workshop on mindful yoga this summer. The event will combine yoga and meditation practices for any level student- great for beginners and advanced alike!

Mindful Yoga with Heather

Saturday, June 26
2:00-4:30pm

In this workshop, we will weave together the practices of yoga asana and mindfulness meditation. We will do this by bringing gentle awareness to our mind as we move through a slower, thoughtful flow of postures.
By practicing in this way, each asana reveals a unique opportunity for profound insight and transformation. This approach educates the mind to stay present to all that opens within us during our practice and opens up the potential for rapid progress in our physical practice.
We will begin the workshop with a discussion of philosophy and instruction on mindfulness meditation techniques. We will then move into a guided seated meditation before applying our awareness to a 90 minute yoga flow.

Beginning/Intermediate students welcome. The workshop is best for those with basic yoga experience, no meditation experience needed.
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As a practitioner of Insight Meditation, Heather first came to yoga with a curiosity of the interconnectedness of the mind and body – after years of practice, yoga has become a meditation in itself. Heather is interested in the profound channels of healing that meditation and yoga tap into and the potential for complete wellness that the complimentary modalities offer through breath, movement and conscious transformation.

Yoga Styles Explained

April 26th, 2010 |

Author: freddibear

There are many different styles of yoga being taught and practiced today. Although all of the styles are based on the same physical postures (called poses), each has a particular emphasis. Here is a quick guide to the most popular types of yoga that can help you decode the schedule at your gym and figure out which class is right for you.

HATHA

Hatha is a very general term that can encompass many of the physical types of yoga. If a class is described as Hatha style, it is probably going to be slow-paced and gentle and provide a good introduction to the basic yoga poses.

VINYASA

Like Hatha, Vinyasa is a general term that is used to describe many different types of classes. Vinyasa, which means breath-synchronized movement, tends to be a more vigorous style based on the performance of a series of poses called Sun Salutations, in which movement is matched to the breath. A Vinyasa class will typically start with a number of Sun Salutations to warm up the body for more intense stretching that’s done at the end of class.

ASHTANGA & POWER YOGA

Ashtanga, which means “eight limbs” in Sanskrit, is a fast-paced, intense style of yoga. A set series of poses is performed, always in the same order. Ashtanga practice is very physically demanding because of the constant movement from one pose to the next. In yoga terminology, this movement is called flow. Ashtanga is also the inspiration for what is often called Power Yoga. If a class is described as Power Yoga, it will be based on the flowing style of Ashtanga, but not necessarily keep strictly to the set Ashtanga series of poses.

IYENGAR

Based on the teachings of the yogi B.K.S Iyengar, this style of practice is most concerned with bodily alignment. In yoga, the word alignment is used to describe the precise way in which your body should be positioned in each pose in order to obtain the maximum benefits and avoid injury. Iyengar practice usually emphasizes holding poses over long periods versus moving quickly from one pose to the next (flow). Also, Iyengar practice encourages the use of props, such as yoga blankets, blocks and straps, in order to bring the body into alignment.

KUNDALINI

The emphasis in Kundalini is on the breath in conjunction with physical movement, with the purpose of freeing energy in the lower body and allowing it to move upwards. All asana practices make use of controlling the breath. But in Kundalini, the exploration of the effects of the breath (also called prana, meaning energy) on the postures is essential.

BIKRAM/HOT YOGA

Pioneered by Bikram Choudhury, this style is more generally referred to as Hot Yoga. It is practiced in a 95 to 100 degree room, which allows for a loosening of tight muscles and profuse sweating, which is thought to be cleansing. The Bikram method is a set series of 26 poses, but not all hot classes make use of this series.

ANUSARA

Founded in 1997 by John Friend, Anusara combines a strong emphasis on physical alignment with a positive philosophy derived from Tantra. The philosophy’s premise is belief in the intrinsic goodness of all beings. Anusara classes are usually light-hearted and accessible to students of differing abilities. Poses are taught in a way that opens the heart, both physically and mentally, and props are often used.

JIVAMUKTI

This style of yoga emerged from one of New York’s best-known yoga studios. Jivamukti founders David Life and Sharon Gannon take inspiration from Ashtanga yoga and emphasize chanting, meditation, and spiritual teachings. They have trained many teachers who have brought this style of yoga to studios and gyms, predominantly in the U.S. These classes are physically intense and often include some chanting.

FORREST

Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and gaining popularity around the U.S., Forrest Yoga is the method taught by Ana Forrest. The performance of vigorous asana sequences is intended to strengthen and purify the body and release pent-up emotions and pain so that healing can begin. Expect an intense workout with an emphasis on abdominal strengthening and deep breathing.

KRIPALU

The name Kripalu is associated both with a style of hatha yoga and a yoga and wellness center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Both were founded by yoga guru Amrit Desai, who came to the United States from India in 1960. Kripalu is a yoga practice with a compassionate approach and emphasis on meditation, physical healing and spiritual transformation that overflows into daily life. Kripalu also focuses on looking inward and moving at your own pace.

INTEGRAL

Integral yoga follows the teachings of Sri Swami Sachidananda, who came to the U.S. in the 1960s and eventually founded many Integral Yoga Institutes and the famed Yogaville Ashram in Virginia. Integral is a gentle hatha practice, and classes often also include breathing exercises, chanting, kriyas, and meditation.

SIVANANDA

The first Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center was founded in 1959 by Swami Vishnu-devananda, a disciple of Swami Sivananda. There are now close to 80 locations worldwide, including several ashram retreats. Sivananda yoga is based upon five principles:

1. Proper exercise (Asana, focusing on 12 poses in particular)

2. Proper breathing (Pranayama)

3. Proper relaxation (Savasana)

4. Proper diet (Vegetarian)

5. Positive thinking (Vedanta) and meditation (Dhyana)

OM Factory Acro Yoga Program

April 2nd, 2010 |

Author: freddibear

AntiGravity Yoga Workshop: Zero Compression Inversions with Emilia Conradson

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Time: 1:30-3:30pm, Price: $40
pre-register required
Click here to pre-register online

Discover how the AG Hammock can support you in zero compression inversions. This workshop is designed to refresh the lymphatic system and stimulate the release of neurotransmitters in the brain to leave you in a state of bliss! This workshop is perfect for those who love to be upside down. This is also a safe and supportive environment for people who have never been upside down in their life!

No inversion or AntiGravity Yoga experience required. Please plan to arrive about 15 minutes before class begins.

NOTE: Space is limited, and each participant must be registered individually in order to reserve a space for this workshop.

AntiGravity Yoga 101 with Emilia Conradson

Sunday, April 11, 2010

2:00-3:45pm, $35, Pre-registration Required
Click here to pre-register online

Sunday, May 8, 2010

2:00-3:45pm, $35, Pre-registration Required
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Are you curious to try AntiGravity Yoga for the first time, or establish a solid foundation in this unique system? This workshop is designed to give you a secure and detailed understanding of AntiGravity Yoga fundamentals while having a ton of fun! You’ll learn to fly, hold and balance in challenging yoga poses longer, gain better kinesthetic awareness and build cardiovascular and muscular strength In a safe and supportive environment. Gain a new perspective on how you can increase your flexibility, joint mobility, balance, and ability to be upside down for way longer than you ever imagined.

IMPORTANT: ONLY REGISTER ONE PERSON UNDER YOUR ACCOUNT. MAKING MULTIPLE PURCHASES FOR A SINGLE WORKSHOP UNDER ONE ACCOUNT WILL RESULT IN ONLY ONE INDIVIDUAL BEING REGISTERED.

Om Factory Upcoming Events

March 15th, 2010 |

Author: freddibear

No Nonsense Acrobatics Weekend with Jaqui Wan & Tobias Frank

Saturday & Sunday, March 20-21, 2010

Time: 9am-5pm(includes a 2 hour break – You’ll need it!)
Price: $75 per day / $125 for weekend
Visit www.omfactorynyc.com to Register

Delve deeper into the practice of acrobatic balance with Jaqui Wan from London and Tobias Frank from Cologne, Germany. They will be offering their unique blend of no nonsense acrobatic partner flows that will challenge, excite and help transform your acrobatics practice.

Strength Building & Flight Training (Open Level)

Saturday, March 20, 9am-5pm

We all have the potential to be acrobats and achieve superhuman skills that appear to be impossible. Learn how to tap into that power by using acrobatic training methods and working with power lines. Soon you will be doing things you thought were not possible! In the morning we will focus on acrobatic conditioning techniques to build on strength and alignment. In the afternoon we will work on acrobatic flying techniques, exploring basic acrobatic sequences. A playful, safe, supportive environment will empower the whole room to be upside down! We will end the day with therapeutic flying to help ground and balance our energy. Tap into your strength, roar out loud and end with day with a deep sigh.

Flying on the Wings of Grace (Intermediate Level)

Sunday, March 21, 9am-5pm

We will delve deeper into the acrobatic flying sequences that are often referred to as washing machines, and refine clarity in communication. Build on your confidence, trust and inner strength. We will start the morning with the AcroYoga asana sequence, followed by inversion training and max-outs. In the afternoon, we will refine our acrobatic flying and basing techniques, focusing on hand and foot placements, and thereafter work on washing machines and dynamic transitions in tempo. A brief therapeutic flying session will conclude the day.

Prerequisite for Sunday: Familiarity basing or flying acrobatic flying positions: front bird, shoulder-stand & star. Students should also be competent with inversions, including free-balancing headstand in the middle of the room and a handstand against a wall.

Menla Catskill Mountain Retreat

March 10th, 2010 |

Author: freddibear

While enlightenment in Mahayana Buddhism and Vedantic Hinduism is described as indescribable, it is evoked as experiencing the infinite universe as your very own body (Dharmakaya), while still energetically maintaining your effortless continuity of wisdom and compassion to help other beings also discover their own liberating oneness. The doorway to such enlightenment is a critical concentrative meditational search for knowledge of the ultimate ground reality, which is described as “vajra” or Brahma, meaning adamantine, unbreakable, supremely powerful, or divine, and is equated with “bliss-freedom-indivisible” or “being-awareness-bliss.”
The yoga tradition evolves through Indian spiritual history as the practical way of full body-mind realization of such exalted insight, gradually, delicately, and inexorably liberating the ordinary body-mind complex from its ego-centrist ignorance and corresponding constrictedness. In this workshop we will explore, intellectually and experientially, some of the texts and practices from the yogic technologies associated with both major nondualist traditions, with the aim of better understanding the potential and actuality of the Vajra or Brahma Body. We will refer to texts from Buddhist and Hindu traditions during the retreat.

For all levels of interest & yoga experience.

Richard Freeman has been a student of yoga since 1968. He has studied various traditions in Asia which he incorporates into the Ashtanga yoga practice as taught by his principal teacher, K. Pattabhi Jois. Richard is an avid student of both Western and Eastern philosophy, as well as Sanskrit.

John Campbell started practicing Ashtanga Yoga in India eighteen years ago with the late Shri K. Pattabhi Jois. He began teaching in 1995 with Eddie Stern at the first center in New York City devoted to this traditional practice, and was honored in 2003 to become one the few Certified teachers of Ashtanga Yoga worldwide. While a graduate student in Sanskrit, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies he became a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. His teachers include HH the Dalai Lama and Denma Lochoe Rinpoche. In 2009, he received his Ph.D. in the Religion Department at Columbia University with a dissertation on Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Tantric yoga systems. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Seton Hall University in New Jersey and teaches daily classes in Ashtanga Yoga at Pure Yoga West in New York City, where he lives with his wife and their three children.

Robert Thurman is Professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, President of Tibet House U.S., a popular lecturer on Tibetan Buddhism, the translator of many philosophical treatises and sutras, and author of numerous books including Inner Revolution, Anger, & his most recent book Why the Dalai Lama Matters.

Tuition – $425 (per person); $383 (THUS members)

Accommodations - please refer to the tab below for options and pricing.

Click here to register online

Event Details

Who: Richard Freeman, John Campbell & Robert Thurman
What: Weekend Retreat
Where: Menla Mountain Retreat in Phoenicia, NY (Catskills)
When: Thursday, April 15, 2010 At 03:00 PM
How: Please follow the link above to register online. If you cannot attend the entire program or have an unusual registration request, please email menla@menla.org or call 845.688.6897 ext.0
Details: Tibet House members receive a 10% discount on program tuition.

New Age Health Spa Yoga Weekends

March 5th, 2010 |

Author: freddibear

March 12-14 : Awaken your Mind-Body-Spirit with Anna Raimondi
Most exercise dropouts claim boredom as the main excuse for quitting. Think about all the hours you have spent exercising and letting your mind drift away from the work you that are doing. When you work your body without engaging your mind, you are performing only half a workout. By engaging our minds at work without considering the physical toll today’s jobs take on our bodies, we are setting ourselves up for a fall.

Using visual images to engage the mind is the fastest way to gain access to our complex anatomical system. You present your mind and body with a challenge that unites their efforts to achieve a goal. This is what mind in body work is all about!

This weekend will give you the tools to shift from mindless movement to analyzing and being the movement. Focusing on your body calms the mind and central nervous system, enlivens your spiritual awareness, nourishes and expands your soul.

We will explore your spiritual dimensions through Pilates, Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Trance Dance, Pranayama and Meditation. Connecting to your Mind, Body and Spirit will bring balance and inner peace to your life, and may be one of the most meaningful gifts you can give to yourself.

Join Anna Raimondi for a workshop that will help you recognize your psychic gifts and learn how to use them. Using hands-on practice, you will gain more trust and confidence in yourself and how to focus this awareness to benefit yourself and others. In one exciting day you will enjoy particpiating in fun and experiential excercises and learn valuable techniques that will become life-enhancing intuitive tools.

April 9-11 & July 9-11: Energy Shift Yoga with Ed Alvear
This weekend’s yoga will be a blend of Kundalini, Hatha and Shamanic Yoga. You will experience beginner to intermediate postures in all 3 yoga disciplines. The main focus of the weekend will be to tune into your Physical Body with emphasis on breath control and re-energizing and strengthening yourself for the purpose of releasing stress.

When the body is filled with stress energy it manifests as a negative influence throughout the body like fatigue, irritability, depression, tight muscles and even illness. When this stress energy is released from the body, one is then able to draw in fresh, clean energy or Life Force (Prana or Chi) from the surroundings. This recharges us and leaves us feeling healthier and happier.

This weekend you will experience the release of stress energy and an Energy Shift within your body, transitioning you to a healthier state. Learn, practice and experience yogic skills through breath, postures and movements.

We invite you to join Ed and learn techniques for transitioning towards a healthier and happier state of mind and body.

Contact Information

Reservations: 800-682-4348
845-985-7600

Fax: 845-985-2467

Mailing Address: PO Box 658 Rt. 55 Neversink, NY 12765

Delivery Address: 7491 Route 55, Neversink, NY 12765-5103 US.

Email For general inquiries and reservation requests: office@newagehealthspa.com

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