Join us for 2 daily yoga classes, meditation, 3 meals a day, boutique hotel accommodations, beach, fun and friends all set on the Caribbean Sea! Spa services and excursions available. Airfare not included.
Early Bird Prices from $1250 to $1950 (depending on occupancy).
After November 1st $1350 to $2050.
To register or for more information please email ashleydorr@hotmail.com.

Limited space available. Secure your spot with a non-refundable $500 deposit by October 31st.

This Fall’s Metta Project will support two causes: Project Lift who provide psychosocial and expressive arts therapy for Syrian Child Refugees in Turkey. And Operation Shanti who support Orphans and Disadvantaged Youth in India. Proceeds will be divided up amongst both of these wonderful organizations who support children in holistic ways.

Metta is the pali word for lovingkindness: a practice where we offer kind wishes of peace and well being to others. We believe that by building awareness, dedicating our practice and making small offerings, we can work to make a difference in the lives of others, ourselves and the world around us.

This will take 1 mins of your time…tops !! Please read (and hopefully donate to)  this most awesome cause that myself and a group of magnificent women, including Julianne Moore, Molly Guy,  Jemima, Domino, Lola Kirk  and Frances Tulk-Hart, are trying to raise money for.  In this day and age it’s shocking  that 1 in 3 women still die in childbirth and that so many children are in such awful danger.  Let’s try and start bringing an end to this pain.

Our efforts will culminate in afternoon party at the Mccarren Hotel on November 14th featuring all of the hosts above as well food, drinks, music, tarot, flower crowns, balloons, talks and more. Click here to donate inhershoes.cohintl.org/kristin-leigh.

Have you ever wanted to try your first yoga class, but lacked the confidence to take that first step? Or have actually taken that first step only to find an absence of guidance needed to meet your beginning needs

When we decide to commit to that first yoga class, an attentive and skillful teacher is one of, if not the most necessary ingredients needed to cultivate a positive long lasting experience with our budding practice.

Join Now Yoga teachers as in an offering of foundational teaching towards building an asana practice from the ground up. This course will include 4 one hour and fifteen minute classes designed with the intention of developing a steady and growing understanding of how to work with the poses to support your own particular set of needs.

Of course you won’t be a yoga master by the end of the 4 weeks. However, you will have more confidence, knowledge and awareness to enter an open level class with enough poise to enjoy a safe, yet fulfilling yoga practice.

This is where it all begins.

In the early days in Mysore, Guruji sat with each student individually guiding and counting through the finishing sequence while closely observing each breath as well as steadiness of drishti and asana yet today these final asanas are often rushed or overlooked.

This led partial Primary class focuses on the finishing sequence sharing techniques for a balanced and complete practice with a powerful padmasana experience.

In 1993 I began my studies with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois in his groundbreaking classes in New York City. In 1995 I took the first of a dozen trips to study with him at AYRI in Mysore. My first glimpse into the tiny back shala of his Lakshmi Puram home left an indelible impression. Daily I was overwhelmed by the generosity of his teaching in both his early morning classes as well as his daily afternoon conferences. 15 years ago Guruji set me off to learn Sanskrit chanting and since that time I have also been a student of Dr. M.A. Jayashree.

1n 1996 I opened Ashtanga Yoga Shala in Los Angeles. Now I teach workshops and trainings around the world, create yoga programming for Spinal Cord Injury and MS as well as share wellness and yoga as a blogger and on YouTube as Kiki Says. Every Wednesday I teach Yoga Sutra Chanting at Jivamukti.

www.KikiFlynn.com

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Join senior teaching partners Margi Young and Mimi Kuo-Deemer for an afternoon of vinyasa and restorative yoga. We will move through an alignment based, philosophy rich vinyasa yoga practice with an abundance of hands-on adjustments to wake you up in all new ways. We will then rest in a deeply supported restorative pose followed by a guided savasana. For those newer to yoga as well as seasoned yoga teachers, this class will be sure to deepen your understanding of the practice, both intellectually and physically and give you a break from life as you know it!

Mimi Kuo-Deemer and Margi Young have joined together to do yoga, travel, eat good food and appreciate life for over 14 years. They both teach strong, alignment and breath focused vinyasa flow as well as restorative yoga. For many years, they have co-taught yoga retreats in Umbria, Italy, and Tulum, Mexico, where they have honed the skill of co-teaching with infectious joy. They are thrilled to be sharing their offerings in NYC at The Shala.

“ The yoga and meditation instruction on Margi and Mimi’s retreat was of the highest caliber. As teachers, both Margi and Mimi are wonderfully clear, precise and knowledgable, while also being kind caring and supportive.”  – former OM student Pam Newton

Margi Young had a wonderful 10 year career at Cyndi Lee’s OM Yoga Center right across the street from the Shala. She now teaches in San Francisco and Oakland as well as retreats and teacher trainings around the world. www.margiyoung.com.
Mimi Kuo-Deemer is a Chinese-American Brit born in upstate New York and currently residing in the U.K, where she is a senior teacher at London’s triyoga. She’s a faculty member on triyoga’s two-year teacher training course, the author of the DVD “Vinyasa Yoga: A Steady Mindful Practice,” and a contributor to MovementforModernLife.com. www.mkdeemer.com.

In retrospect, Aaron couldn’t escape becoming a yoga teacher. From her childhood training in theater, dance and song; to her adolescent obsession with spirituality in all forms; to her teenage talent for teaching and tutoring; to her enthusiastic absorption in philosophy studies as a college student and her predilection for hosting lively gatherings, all of the seemingly disparate roads led straight here.

Students keep coming back for her guided meditation experiences, her intelligent, challenging and creative flow sequences, and her ability to disentangle esoteric philosophies so that their insights can be woven back into daily life.

By watching her own transformations over 15+ years of practice, and those of her students for the past 5, Aaron has come to a fierce conviction that every person has her own profound and unmediated access to universal wisdom. She has devoted her life to serving as a sweet-space-maker, sticky-obstacle-remover and mindful midwife for all those in search of Truth with a capital T.

shala teacher, timothy lynch visits us from oakland, calif where he runs an ashtanga program. mysoreoakland.com

He will teach half of the primary series of ashtanga in its traditional form.