music • yoga • magic • you

deborah bagg • bob doto • tobias fields • kristin leigh • bibi lorenzetti
• annie piper • julianna takacs • barbara verrochi

live music all weekend

$395 before august 1
$450 after august 1

includes all classes, music, meals and camping.
cabins and rooms also available.

registration & more info at yogahoedown.com

CELEBRATE THE SHALA FORT GREENE’S4TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Sunday, June 7th
6:15 to 7:00 Kirtan
7:00 to 8:00 Pot Luck Party
The Shala Fort Greene

and

CELEBRATE THE SHALA UNION SQUARE’S 13TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY & NOW:YOGA’S 3RD YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Sunday, June 14th
6:15 to 7:00 Kirtan
7:00 to 8:00 Pot Luck Party
The Shala Union Square

We are excited to be hosting a benefit class for Circle of Health International. Circle of Health International is doing great work with women around the world in times of crisis to ensure access to reproductive, maternal, and newborn care. Some of the places they have worked include: Haiti, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Texas, Oklahoma, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Philippines and Israel.

Class will be int/adv and restorative and taught by Kristin, Julianna, Annie Piper and Barbara. Seth Lieberman will be playing music and Sera Bonds, the Executive Director of Circle of Health will be there to say a few words about the work they do and where they do it. 

Learn more about Circle of Health at their website, cohintl.org

Circle of Health International’s is taking donations for this Mother’s Day to be used to provide life-saving care for mothers in Nicaragua, Haiti, and in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas. Here is how you can participate:

Step 1: Make a donation to COHI.

Step 2: Let COHI know the name of the mother YOU are honoring in your donation by tagging @circleofhealth (instagram) and/or #COHIntl (twitter) and Circle of Health International (Facebook) with a photo of the mama you are honoring.

Step 3: Share on YOUR social media the news of the donation you made, and invite others to do so.

yoga, meditation, hiking, delicious vegetarian meals, community
all on the banks of the deleware river. one of the most pristine rivers
in the northeast.

for more information email mariagracecutrona@gmail.com

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.”

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18th 2:00–4:00
THE FOUNDATIONS OF STILLNESS AND SPACE: APPENDICULAR
STABILITY IN THE ARMS AND LEGS IN STANDING POSTURES. VITARKA

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1st 2:00–4:00
EXPANSION OF STILLNESS AND SPACE: BACKBENDS,
TWISTS, AND INVERSIONS. VICARA

TUESDAY, APRIL 7th 2:00–4:00
RESTORATIVE AND PRANAYAMA. ANANDA AND ASMITA.

$25 FOR EACH WORKSHOP

“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

Cooking club features
The soup club
with
Bibi Lorenzetti & Julie Peacock

at The Shala Yoga House
Saturday, March 14th
1:00 – 3:00 pm

It’s time to get cooking at The Shala! Whether you consider yourself a chef, a competent home cook, a complete beginner, or are just curious to learn more about cooking as an extended part of your yoga practice, this class is for you! In this session we will explore what a ‘detox diet’ is and how to structure and put together healthy soups!

Bibi Lorenzetti, Shala teacher & holistic health coach, and Julie Peacock, Shala teacher & nutritionist, will join forces for this special edition of The Shala’s Cooking Club.

Julie will share with us some of her soup making secrets from her new book ‘The Soup Club Cookbook’ co-authored with her three friends and just published by Clarkson Potter about their soup making and sharing project on the Lower East Side.

You don’t want to miss out on the delicious soup menu we have co-created for you. Discussion topics:

– What is a detox diet

– How to detox naturally: food, lifestyle & self care practices

– How to make simple & nutritious soups

– Yoga and cleansing
Class includes:

– a meal

– a hands on demo of 3- 5 recipes

– Q&A

– Special book signing from one of the authors of ‘ The Soup Club Cookbook’ , our lovely Julie Peacock (Books available for purchase online or at the Shala)

Register by march 12th

$45

Learn about common injuries among yoga practitioners, including knee, hip, spine and shoulder injuries. For each body part, we’ll outline the anatomy, discuss how to prevent common injuries and how to modify your practice if you are injured.

Great for yoga teachers, practitioners and those who are struggling with injuries. Take one day or both.

saturday, jan 31
3:30 to 6:30pm
introduction, knee and hip injuries

sunday, feb 1
3:30 to 6:30pm
spine and shoulder injuries

$35 per day or $60 for both