Yoga

 

 

Yoga is a technique of presence; of return to presence. Its common definition of union is complex, as its drive for union in practice generates a cleaving of habitual consciousness. The question of One is unanswerable –  but breathed.

 

I've been teaching since 1998, working with students across the spectrums of age (8-80s) and experience.

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My teaching and practice has grown from an ashtanga-vinyasa base – and I'm happy to teach this form – but when working one-on-one, it essentially is your yoga I'm there to learn, teach from, and amplify.

 

I'm drawn to working with those with or returning from injury or surgery; those active in or returning from addiction; and artists across the disciplines.

Yes, I just included 'artists' in a list of ailments.

I'm experienced in chair yoga as well.

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And although I already had worked for years with cancer patients & survivors, in April 2019 I was certified by Yoga4Cancer, an evidence-based methodology created by Tari Prinster.

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I hold and teach to the three fundamentals of the practice described by ashtanga, known as tristhani: posture, breath, and gaze.

 

Beginners form an excellent foundation with me; for more experienced practitioners an experience of return to their beginning's beginning is not unusual.

My verbal and hands-on assists are skilled – vivid, informative, therapeutic.

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I have no yoga guru, hold to no dogma … aside from all the above.

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Through unaggressive repetition progress through the practice slowly refines the experience of each moment's detail – details in and of body, breath, gaze, attention, thought; one's body suddenly is both no one's and profoundly yours; and a quality of spaciousness – as limpid and luminous as all the texts say it is – happens. A quality whose presence gradually is noticed during time off the mat as well.

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I do encourage a ritually bordered space, so, yes, we will chant OM.

Whether it's OM, shalom, salaam … it ends in mmm, because … it's … where the end begins.

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prices:

4 class packs:

Individual:  $370.

Two people: $400

I work with a sliding scale, and offer an initial ½ hour session/consult for free.

Currently, only remote sessions, unless we're in vicinity – upstate NY at present (9/22).

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To set up a first session, or any other questions, please get in touch.