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

youtube.com/user/kikiflynn

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.

 

 

 

 

 

where?
pranamarvillas.com

how much?
prices range from $2,080-$2,930

Many options including:
ocean front, poolside, single, double, triple or quadruple occupancy.

want to reserve a spot?
$500 non-refundable
deposit soon

more questions?
email us at: bverrochi@gmail.com

 

 

The Rewards of Practice

Workshops with Kevin Gardiner

In Light on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra I:17 BKS Iyengar comments, “Through Practice and Detachment four types of awareness develop: Vitarka (deliberate thought), Vicarra (subtle thought), Ananda (bliss), and Asmita (contemplation of the Self).”  He calls them “The Rewards of Practice.” During each workshop, Kevin will discuss the four types of awareness in relationship to asana practice.

tuesday, july 21st 2:00–4:00
standing balances

tuesday, august 11th 2:00–4:00
seated twists and arm balances

tuesday, august 18th 2:00–4:00
restorative and pranayama

$25 for each workshop

Kevin Gardiner, a native New Yorker, began studying yoga in 1970 and has been teaching Iyengar Yoga since 1982. He has had the great good fortune to have studied on numerous occasions in India with the Iyengar family,  some  for extended periods each time. He is indebted and eternally grateful for the genius and compassion of BKS Iyengar, his daughter Geeta and son Prashant whose tireless dedication to the subject is the heart of Inspiration.

He was a co-founder of the Iyengar Institute of Greater New York serving on it’s Executive Committee and in various leadership roles continuously since it’s inception. In the States Mary Dunn has been a guiding light and his primary teacher since the early 80’s and he has been inspired by the teachings of Manouso Manos, Ramamand Patel, John Schumacher, Faeq Biria, Jawahar Bangera, Dean Learner, to name a few. In 2009 Kevin was honored to recieve his Intermediate Senior I Teacher’s Certificate from Guruji himself.

Until December 2006 Kevin also had his own yoga studio in Manhattan. He then married Erika, also a certified Iyengar teacher, and relocated to Erika’s home town of Budapest where they have set up a new home and are now teaching at their own studio, the Amrita Yoga Center, http://www.amritajoga.hu. Over the years he has travelled extensively, teaching in North and South America, as well as many years and countless workshops in his ancestrial home of Ireland.

A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Kevin was a professional actor, director and teacher for 15 years, including seven years of touring Shakespearean productions in traditional repertory style. Along the way he also sustained a ten year practice of Tai Chi and Shaolin Kung Fu.

His teaching is highly detailed and textured, seamlessly incorporating many components of yoga philosophy and the sutras, while continuously challenging students to gain greater sensitivity and awareness in each asana. He has a tremendous pracaitcal understanding of the living anatomy of the human body, and a lighthearted and off-beat sense of humor.

“From the Head to the Heart with Love and Devotion the understanding happens. We understand that “I” am not in the body, the body is in me.”  —Kevin Gardiner