Where is the line between what is outside and what is inside? Where does it come from?

Come and rest with these and more questions that take you to the heart of what constructs your reality. From a relaxed and meditative state, this deep and progressive Buddhist inquiry leads you to deconstruct your understanding of who you are and what separates you from others. Explore the line between what is outside of you and what is inside you, where that line comes from and how you can expand it. This wonderful practice prepares us to connect more fully and repair our relationships with others and with the world.

When we sit as a group, it offers a powerful container for the practice of meditation, often making it easier to drop into a calm state. This expansive state allows for sharper focus and can even yield unexpected insight.
 
Be part of this special sangha every Sunday in February after the Scoliosis and Fusions class. If you attend class, you will benefit from having just completed a full practice that prepares your mind to settle. We often sit up from savasana feeling ready for meditation!

You are also encouraged to join just for meditation when the class is over if you cannot make class or do not have scoliosis or a fusion. This meditation is open to everyone!

Sundays, 12:15-12:35p EST
February 7, 14, 21, 28

Contact me here to register. You can join even if you missed the first class.

Free and by donation.
All proceeds will be given to Invisible Hands, an organization of volunteers in NYC and elsewhere who have stepped up during the pandemic to deliver groceries to people who cannot safely pick them up.

Series of Five Saturdays, March 21, 28, April 4, 11, 18
12:15-1:45p

This 5-class series covers the foundational skills you need to participate in the Scoliosis Basics and Scoliosis & Fusion classes at Yoga Union. You will be in the company of others like yourself who are new to the practice and will learn how to work with your scoliosis to develop greater spinal length as well as balance, ease and strength throughout the body. Learning these skills through a series will help you make a commitment to your yoga practice and integrate smoothly into the Yoga Union Scoliosis or Fusion classes. 

Five-part series beginning March 21: $150
Early bird price: $140 by 3/14
Register here.

Tuesdays, June 4, 11, 18
9:30-11a

Tapas is the burning away of whatever stands in your way. Instead of being slowed and dominated by the heat of summer, generate tapas in your practice by gathering the wayward energies of the mind and re-directing its fire. 

This series will explore seated twists, backbends, and balancing poses on the side including bharadvajrasana, ardha matsyendrasana II, urdhva dhanurasana, vasistasana, and anantasana. Deconstruct and practice these poses along with pranayama, meditation, and mudras to help you cleanse and generate tapas in particular chakras, or spinning centers of subtle energy. This can, in turn, free the will to help you manifest a stronger and brighter version of you.  

Level 2 and up

Register here.
Pre-registration required by May 30.

Location: Yoga Union, 37 West 28th Street, Floor 4

Cost: $85 or three classes from your YU class card
Drop-in for $31 per class, space permitting

Sundays, 3/31, 4/7, and 4/14
4-5:30p

In this series of classes and workshops on Tapas and the Chakras, classes will help you harness the energy of the spring season with their focus on tapas (heat and discipline) and the chakras (spinning centers of subtle energy) to invigorate and stabilize your body, mind, and even areas of your life.

Each series or workshop will deconstruct specific poses and include pranayama, meditation, or other practices to help you cleanse and generate tapas in a particular chakra or chakras.

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In this series on Arm Balances, explore the lower chakras from the base up through the core and to the heart as you strengthen and invigorate the upper body to release and find levity in the hips. Deconstruct poses including urdhva mukha svanasana, tittibhasana, tolasana, adho mukha vrksasana, and pinca mayurasana.

Level 2 and up

Register here.

Location: 100 Smith St., Floor 2

Cost: $75
Drop in (space permitting ): $27

Sundays, January 20, 27, and February 3
4-5:30p

Practice navasana, boat pose, to heat your body and lift your spirits in the short and cold days of winter. Develop strength in needed areas especially the lower back, abdomen, and hip flexors. Learn various “inner smiles” to support your pose with ease and develop a sense of buoyancy. Tap into the fluid and powerful essence of the water element as you uncover the smiling nature of swadhisthana chakra, “one’s own abode.”
Level 2 and up. 

Cost: $80
Drop-in (space permitting ) for $27

Contact me to register. 

More info on the Sunday Chakra Classes…

This year, each Sunday series or workshop will analyze a pose in-depth. Learn preparations that build the necessary strength and range of motion to make the pose accessible and fun. Variations and prop use will be taught to help you challenge yourself appropriately. We will draw on last year's work and continue to explore the chakras in relation to the chosen pose. Expect a focus primarily on asanas, complimented by pranayama, meditation, mudras, and bandhas that help you stimulate and balance various chakras. 

Level 2 and up. 

Sundays, December 2, 9, 16

4-5:30p

Register here.

Build on the previous series and consolidate your work with the chakras throughout the year by practicing Samanu. This purifying pranayama practice coordinates silent repetition of the bija mantras and visualization of specific chakras with the breath through alternate nostrils and retention. By cleansing the subtle body, Samanu prepares you to end the year open and ready to envision new possibilities clearly. 

Level 2 and up

$75
Drop-in for $25, space permitting.

Register here.

Sundays, October 28, November 4, 11

4-5:30p

Register here.

Balance the right and left sides of the brain and body through deep side-releasing work. Free restrictions on the lungs while strengthening the back to sustain a steady, upright, and easeful posture that allows the body to adequately support, direct, and expand prana (life force). Nadi Shodhanna, or alternate nostril breathing, is a challenging and rewarding practice that balances the nervous system and cleanses the energetic channels of the subtle body. This brings deep quiet to the mind, exposing the witness within, strengthening you for the many unpredictabilies in the world without, and opening you to see the patterns that lie beyond these supposed dualities. 

This series will ease you into the practice of nadi shodhanna, which you will first experience reclining as a visualization. Learn different ways to sit and use props for adequate support so you can enjoy being upright with less effort. Time between classes allows you to practice on your own, essential to moving forward with this delicate work. 

Level 2 and up

$75
Drop-in for $25, space permitting.

Register here.

Sundays, October 7, 14, 21

4-5:30p

10/14 will be 4:15-5:45p

Register here.

As you fold your legs into Lotus, unfold the petals of these metaphorical flowers located at each chakra.  

Explore how balancing the root and sacral chakras can help you develop a suppleness in the hips that fosters graceful and secure movement through the legs, as well as the foundational stability and ease essential for seated pranayama and meditation practices. By grounding your seat, free the spine—and the central channel for the flow of life force— to lengthen and align. Track up through the remaining chakras to support your will, emotions, expression, and intuition, all under the guide of the umbrella of consciousness at the thousand-petaled lotus in the crown. 

Develop this foundation now to prepare for my upcoming series this winter, which address specific pranayama practices to balance the nadis and chakras. 

Level 2 and up

$75
Drop-in for $25, space permitting .

Register here.

Series: Saturdays, June 9, 16, 23, 30; 12:15-1:45p

This 4-class series covers the foundational skills you need to participate in the Scoliosis Basics and Scoliosis & Fusion classes at Yoga Union. You will be in the company of others like yourself who are new to the practice and will learn how to work with your scoliosis to develop greater spinal length as well as balance, ease and strength throughout the body. Learning these skills through a series will help you make a commitment to your yoga practice and integrate smoothly into the Yoga Union Scoliosis or Fusion classes. 

Four-part series beginning June 9.
$115
Register here. 
 

Sunday Level 2 Class Series

TUNE IN AND TUNE UP.
Spin the wheels of spiritual evolution.
In each series, explore asanas, complimented by pranayama, mudra, bandha, and meditation, to facilitate the awakening of a specific chakra. Use these tools to stimulate self-transformation by opening pathways between the body, emotions, thought, and soul.

All classes are Sundays, 4-5:30p
Location: 100 Smith St. (at Atlantic Ave.) in Brooklyn, Floor 2

Series 8: Padmasana and the Chakras
October 7, 14, 21

As you fold your legs into Lotus, unfold the petals of these metaphorical flowers located at each chakra.  

Explore how balancing the root and sacral chakras can help you develop a suppleness in the hips that fosters graceful and secure movement through the legs, as well as the foundational stability and ease essential for seated pranayama and meditation practices. By grounding your seat, free the spine—and the central channel for the flow of life force— to lengthen and align. Track up through the remaining chakras to support your will, emotions, expression, and intuition, all under the guide of the umbrella of consciousness at the thousand-petaled lotus in the crown. 

Develop this foundation now to prepare for my upcoming series this winter, which address specific pranayama practices to balance the nadis and chakras. 

$75  Register here.
(Drop in, space permitting, for $25)

Series 9: Nadi Shodhanna (Alternate Nostril Breathing) 
October 28, November 4, 11

Balance the right and left sides of the brain and body through deep side-releasing work. Free restrictions on the lungs while strengthening the back to sustain a steady, upright, and easeful posture that allows the body to adequately support, direct, and expand prana (life force). Nadi Shodhanna, or alternate nostril breathing, is a challenging and rewarding practice that balances the nervous system and cleanses the energetic channels of the subtle body. This brings deep quiet to the mind, exposing the witness within, strengthening you for the many unpredictabilies in the world without, and opening you to see the patterns that lie beyond these supposed dualities. 

This series will ease you into the practice of nadi shodhanna, which you will first experience reclining as a visualization. Learn different ways to sit and use props for adequate support so you can enjoy being upright with less effort. Time between classes allows you to practice on your own, essential to moving forward with this delicate work. 

$75  Register here.
(Drop in, space permitting, for $25)

Series 10: Samanu Pranayama 
December 2, 9, 16

Build on the previous series and consolidate your work with the chakras throughout the year by practicing Samanu. This purifying pranayama practice coordinates silent repetition of the bija mantras and visualization of specific chakras with the breath through alternate nostrils and retention. By cleansing the subtle body, Samanu prepares you to end the year open and ready to envision new possibilities clearly. 

$75  Register here.
(Drop in, space permitting, for $25)
 

Previous Series:

Series 7: Sahasrara (Crown) Chakra
September 9, 16, 23

Sahasrara Chakra, the crown of consciousness, is located on the top of the head. This peak of sushumna nadi (your central energetic channel) is also the peak of your awareness.

Through asana, pranayama, mudras, and meditation, develop consciousness and invite a greater sense of unity within yourself, with other people, and with your environment. 

Approach or develop your sirsasana, headstand, by learning safe preparations, modifications, and variations. Explore grounding the crown of the head in all relationships to gravity, accepting support from below, above, and all around you.

You do not need to have attended previous series to join. You can jump in now!

Series 6: Ajna (Third Eye) Chakra
July 15, 22, 29

Access this luminous site of imagination and strengthen your capacity to see within and without. Stimulate your intuition. Command your vision.

Series 5: Vishuddhi (Throat) Chakra
June 3, 10, 17, 24

Explore freedom in the throat and the purifying nature of sound at this powerful nexus of communication, expression, and creativity. 

Series 4: Anahata (Heart) Chakra
May 6, 13, 20

Explore the unknown desires hidden in this core of compassion. Anahata chakra is where the switch is made from Me to We as we learn to loosen the grip of the ego on who we think we are so we can harmonize with our environment. Respect and love for ourselves and others then radiates from this powerful center of healing. As our consciousness expands, we grow into unity.

Series 3: Manipura (Solar Plexus) Chakra
April 1, 8, 22, 29

Turn up the heat! 
Take advantage of the emergence of spring to explore what motivates and sustains you. This “city of hidden gems” is the buzzing center of your power to become. 

Series 2: Swadisthana (Sacral) Chakra
February 25, March 11, 25

This second chakra, located in front of the sacrum, is where we cultivate fluidity, adaptability, and healthy relationships. In asana, develop your balance as a dynamic and efficient place. Practice moving with ease, stability, and grace. Explore this further in pranayama and meditation, and carry it off the mat into your life.

Series 1: Muladhara (Root) Chakra
January 28, February 4, 11

Come explore your connection to the earth through muladhara chakra, your densest, foundational chakra. This chakra is the root of your vitality and the fear of losing it. Balancing it fosters a healthy relationship with material and spiritual abundance, one of comfort without attachment. Be bigger than life while honoring your source. Tuning in to your body, the house of your soul, explore how to receive the needed support to develop length and strength. Play with gravity. 
 

Series: Saturdays, October 28, November 4, 11, 18, and December 1 ; 12:15-1:45p

This 5-class series covers the foundational skills you need to participate in the Scoliosis Basics and Scoliosis & Fusion classes at Yoga Union. You will be in the company of others like yourself who are new to the practice and will learn how to work with your scoliosis to develop greater spinal length as well as balance, ease and strength throughout the body. Learning these skills through a series will help you make a commitment to your yoga practice and integrate smoothly into the Yoga Union Scoliosis or Fusion classes. 

Register here.
Five-part series beginning October 28: $125.
(Note: skips 11/25, Thanksgiving weekend)

Series: Saturdays, March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 15; 2-3:30p

This 5-class series covers the foundational skills you need to participate in the Scoliosis Basics and Scoliosis & Fusion classes at Yoga Union. You will be in the company of others like yourself who are new to the practice and will learn how to work with your scoliosis to develop greater spinal length as well as balance, ease and strength throughout the body. Learning these skills through a series will help you make a commitment to your yoga practice and integrate smoothly into the Yoga Union Scoliosis or Fusion classes. 

Five-part series beginning March 18: $125. Sign up here.

Series: Saturdays March 18, 25, April 1, 8, 15 from 12:15-1:45p

This popular 5-week series will cover the basic skills you need to participate in the Backcare and Backcare Basics classes. With other new beginners to Backcare Classes at Yoga Union, you will learn many of the basic actions, find your alignment and learn prop adjustments appropriate for your scoliosis, herniated disk(s), kyphosis, lordosis, spondylolisthesis, lumbar or neck pain... or any other back problem. Learning these skills through a series will help you make a commitment to your yoga practice and help you integrate smoothly into the Backcare classes.

5-Week Series (starts 3/18): $125. Sign up here.

Series: Saturdays November 5, 12, 19, December 3, 10), 12:15-1:45p
(Skips November 26, Thanksgiving weekend)

This popular 5-week series will cover the basic skills you need to participate in the Backcare and Backcare Basics classes. With other new beginners to Backcare Classes at Yoga Union, you will learn many of the basic actions, find your alignment and learn prop adjustments appropriate for your scoliosis, herniated disk(s), kyphosis, lordosis, spondylolisthesis, lumbar or neck pain... or any other back problem. Learning these skills through a series will help you make a commitment to your yoga practice and help you integrate smoothly into the Backcare classes.

5-Week Series (starts 11/4: $95 SOLD OUT.
LOOK FOR NEXT SERIES January 2017

Series: Saturdays June 25, July 10, 17, 24, 31; 12:15-1:45p
(skips Fourth of July weekend)

This popular 5-week series will cover the basic skills you need to participate in the Backcare and Backcare Basics classes. With other new beginners to Backcare Classes at Yoga Union, you will learn many of the basic actions, find your alignment and learn prop adjustments appropriate for your scoliosis, herniated disk(s), kyphosis, lordosis, spondylolisthesis, lumbar or neck pain... or any other back problem. Learning these skills through a series will help you make a commitment to your yoga practice and help you integrate smoothly into the Backcare classes.

5-Week Series (starts 6/25): $95; $85 by 6/10. Register here. 

Series: Saturdays May 14, 21, June 4, 11, 18; 12:15-1:45p
Trial Class: Saturday, May 7, 12:15-1:45p

This popular 5-week series will cover the basic skills you need to participate in the Backcare and Backcare Basics classes. With other new beginners to Backcare Classes at Yoga Union, you will learn many of the basic actions, find your alignment and learn prop adjustments appropriate for your scoliosis, herniated disk(s), kyphosis, lordosis, spondylolisthesis, lumbar or neck pain... or any other back problem. Learning these skills through a series will help you make a commitment to your yoga practice and help you integrate smoothly into the Backcare classes.

Trial Class May 7: $15 Register here. 
5-Week Series (starts 5/14): $95; $85 by 5/6. Register here. 

Series: Saturdays April 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30; 12:15-1:45p

This 5-week series will cover the basic skills you need to participate in the Backcare and Backcare Basics classes. With other new beginners to Backcare Classes at Yoga Union, you will learn many of the basic actions, find your alignment and learn prop adjustments appropriate for your scoliosis, herniated disk(s), kyphosis, lordosis, spondylolisthesis, lumbar or neck pain... or any other back problem. Learning these skills through a series will help you make a commitment to your yoga practice and help you integrate smoothly into the Backcare classes.

Trial Class March 19: $15 Register here. 
5-Week Series (starts 4/2): $95; $85 by 3/18. Register here. 

Series: Saturdays 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/5, 3/12, 12:15-1:45p

This 5-week series will cover the basic skills you need to participate in the Backcare and Backcare Basics classes. With other new beginners to Backcare Classes at Yoga Union, you will learn many of the basic actions, find your alignment and learn prop adjustments appropriate for your scoliosis, herniated disk(s), kyphosis, lordosis, spondylolisthesis, lumbar or neck pain... or any other back problem. Learning these skills through a series will help you make a commitment to your yoga practice and help you integrate smoothly into the Backcare classes.

Trial Class January 30: $15 Register here. 
5-Week Series (starts 2/13): $95. Register here.