To help you prepare for the holidays and keep your cool, Lindsay will guide you through a combination of shoulder openers, forward folds, hip openers, gentle inversions, restorative poses…all with lots of breathing!  The poses will release tension, balance your nervous system, and calm your mind. Class is suitable for Level I students and above.

 

Cost: $16 drop-in fee.  Current students can use their class series.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join Cindy for her popular 6-week series, geared to students new to Iyengar yoga and those interested in the benefits of this time-honored, wellness-based approach. Perfect for students of all levels.

Cost: $60 for 6 continuous weeks (price applies ONLY to students new to One Center Yoga).  Ongoing students are welcome to drop-in at our standard $16 per class price or use their class series.

 

 

 

 

A balanced digestive system is vital to good health.  It efficiently delivers nutrients to our blood stream, ensures the proper elimination of waste, and strengthens our immune system.  However, as we all know, rich food, holiday libations, and all those Christmas cookies can take a toll on our digestion.  

 

Fortunately, you can improve your digestion, even if you "overdo" it during the holidays.  Join Letitia for an informative hands-on workshop that offers:

 

    --Practical solutions to offset the effects of holiday eating

     --A yoga sequence based on Ayurveda agni, the calm fire of digestion

     --Dietary options to decrease inflammation in the body

   --Ideas about how food is just one way we feed ourselves 

 

 

 

 

Join Cindy and Susan for an evening of experiential mindfulness exercises, coupled with guided meditation, and yoga.  This two-hour class combines these three practices to enliven the body, stabilize the mind, and cultivate compassion.

 

 

 

Click here to register for any of these 2-hour classes.  

 

Starting on Tuesday, January 6, Kris will take over Danielle's Alignment Level I /II class at 5:30 - 7 pm. 

 

Kris offers a comprehensive yet simple practice, rooted in alignment, breath, and mindfulness.  She believes the benefits of yoga and meditation are available to all, and encourages her students to build a consistent practice in order to integrate these benefits into daily life.  In a kind, patient, personable, and skilled manner, Kris invites students to discover this for themselves.

 

“I try my best to provide clear instructions, gentle reminders, and a supportive environment. Then I get out of the way, allowing students to have their own experience of yoga. As my teacher, Gabriel Halpern likes to say, ‘Research starts with me-search.’”  

 

Kris has been a dedicated student of yoga since 2007 and a certified teacher since 2011.  In India, she immersed herself in yoga and Ayurveda, Vipassana, and Zen meditation. She balances her training in the East with continued study in the West.  Kris completed Trauma-Sensitive Yoga training with Dave Emerson and Jenn Turner.  As apprentice to Gabriel Halpern, she trained in Iyengar-based asana, pranayama, and yoga therapeutics.  She deepened her understanding of meditation through Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program. What she offers as a teacher continues to evolve through advanced trainings and personal practice.

 

Named Jeong Hwa Moon by her Korean birth parents and Kristin Marie Krupa by her Polish-American adoptive parents, it is no surprise Kris likes cabbage! She also enjoys experimenting with words, learning from nature, and watching this wild and precious life unfold with her partner Paul. Kris would love to meet you, so please consider joining her for a shared practice, or reaching out to her at practicewithkris.com.  

 

 

Gabe Pickard-KarnowskI, an Iyengar Certified Instructor, draws on her training both as a physical therapy assistant and a professionally trained dancer.  As a dancer, she was often injured, and endured chronic knee, back, and neck pain. She began to take hatha yoga, but did not get any relief from the pain.  When she started taking classes in Iyengar yoga, her physical conditions improved, as did her mental and emotional state.

 

“I value the howness of Iyengar yoga—that sustained attention to how the poses are done.  The deep excavation, the peeling back of layers, the continual refinement of each asana, the curiosity that drives us to explore even deeper can lead to a profound awareness of ourselves.”

 

Gabe has been studying Iyengar yoga since 1997 and teaching since 1998.  She holds an Iyengar certification at the Introductory I and II Level, and is working towards the Intermediate Junior I certification level.  She has a sincere and deep respect for her teachers, who include Senior Iyengar teachers John Schumacher, Manuso Manos, Simon Marrocco, Chris Saudek, Gabriella Gubilaro, Swati Chanchani, many of the faculty at the Institute of New York, and other experienced instructors throughout the United States.

She majored in dance at SUNY Purchase in New York and later graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy.  She currently holds an Associates degree as a Physical Therapist Assistant.  She continues to take dance classes because she loves to move!

 

As of Saturday, December 27, Lynn will teach the 9 -10:30 am Alignment All Levels class formerly taught by Rachel. 

 

Starting on Monday, January 5, Rachel will teach the 9:30 -11 am, Alignment All Levels class formerly taught by Kay.

 

For our complete class schedule,

click here.

Help Jason form a minyan of mensches looking for something to do before movie theaters open on Christmas Day.  You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy this class...but it may help you understand some of the jokes.  From the opening "Oy" to the closing schnooze, we'll practice yoga for a couple of hours before carpooling to the nearest Chinese restaurant for a nosh. Then, anyone who wants to see a movie will see a movie.  Bring your shmatas, your alter kasher, and the whole mishpocha. Kvetches welcome, but nudges can stay home with the shvuntzes.  Come on up! You'd have to be mushugana to miss this.

(Jason is culturally Jewish but spiritually yogish.)

 

Thursday, January 1, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The new year provides an excellent opportunity to set resolutions that can increase our health and wellness for the 12 months ahead.  Invite focus and clarity into your life for 2015 with this two-hour class.  

 

 

Click here to register.  

Our discussion of The Tree of Yoga, by B.K.S. Iyengar continues!  Iyengar explains the beauty and benefits of the eight limbs of yoga in all stages of life. Using the metaphor of a tree with many limbs, he explores how yoga can enrich family life, love and sexuality, health, our role in society, and even how we face old age and death.  Based on lectures and discussions with his students, the book reads like a lively visit with B.K.S. himself.

 

Please join us on Sunday, December 21, at 5:45 pm, to discuss this remarkable book, written by a most remarkable man!

April 3-5, 2015 - Gabriel Halpern
May 1-3, 2015 - Elise Miller