There are many great events and workshops in NYC happening this month! I have listed some standouts below, in no particular order.

Integral Yoga Institute | Winter Solstice Reiki and Gong Temple

Monday, December 22 | 6:30 - 7:30 pm | $30 | Link

Treat yourself to a session of healing with Reiki and Gong Master Rev. Laksmi and a team of superb Reiki practitioners. Sitting in a circle, you’ll receive the healing vibrations of Reiki while being immersed in the sacred cosmic sound vibrations of Tibetan bowls and gongs. Every cell in your body will receive complete healing. Tension will be eased, and obstacles to your peace will be removed.

Heatwise Yoga | Winter Solstice 75

December 21 | 1:00 -2:15 pm | $38 | Link

Shameless Plug! I’ll be leading a 75 minute flow to honor the solstice at Heatwise. We will set intentions, flow through many surya namaskara, and restore.

Broome Street Yoga | Yoga Therapy

Weekly on Wednesday & Thursday evenings | Link

Yoga Therapy is a guided practice designed to cultivate inner peace, clarity, and connection. This class blends breathwork, beginner-friendly yoga, sound healing, and meditation to help you release tension and restore balance. This class offers a space to reset, recharge, and realign with yourself.

One Yoga House | Restorative Yoga & Reiki Workshop

Sunday, December 14 | 3:00 - 5:00 pm | $50 | Link
Join Francesca Valarezo for a soothing restorative yoga and reiki practice to start your week with a balanced nervous system. This workshop is an invitation to breathe, restore, and balance your energy so you can reconnect with the most aligned and radiant version of yourself.

Bhakti Center | Full Moon Activation

Friday, December 5 | 6:00 -8:00 pm | $55 | Link

This full moon, treat yourself to a healing experience through the powerful practice of yoga nidra combined with a sound bath. The full moon’s energy will be an opportunity to integrate deeper parts of ourselves and feel renewed as a result.

Sonic Yoga | Power Transitions + Reiki

Saturday, December 20 | 2:00 - 4:00 pm | $45 | Link

Join Jessica Brunetti for a workshop to master techniques for complex arm balancing transitions. The class will start with a flow that focuses on core strength and mobility drills to prepare the body for various arm balances, teaching you how to transition and flow seamlessly from one arm balance to another. The wind down of class will feature passive stretches and restorative poses, held for an extended period, while each yogi receives Reiki - a deep relaxation and natural healing practice where the practitioner channels universal life force energy to activate the body’s natural healing processes and restore physical and emotional well-being

House of Flow | Final Flows

This well loved Brooklyn studio led by Erica Chen is closing December 19th! House of Flow has offered New York City accessible yoga, a vibrant community, mentorships for new teachers and much much more.

Studio Schedule Link

As we move toward November, and begin considering how giving thanks relates to our yoga and meditation practice, understand that giving yourself the ability and permission to rest is a big “thank you” to your body and mind for all they do. Remember that you don’t need to do anything at all to deserve or earn rest.

Now onto the NYC Yoga News. I’ve gathered and listed below (in no particular order) all the November happenings that stood out. Enjoy!

NY <3s Yoga | Yoga Basics Series with Gina Cunningham

November 1, 8, 15 | 4 - 5:30pm | $150 | Link

New to yoga or getting back into yoga after a hiatus? Join Gina Cunningham for a the Yoga Basics series. Learn or reacquaint yourself with essential yoga poses, breath awareness practices, and yogic philosophy that has applications both on and off the yoga mat. We encourage couples and friends to come and learn together.

Everyone Yoga | Fascia Release for Wellbeing

November 15 | 3 - 4:30pm | $50 | Link

You’ve probably heard the word “fascia” in our classes many times – this workshop will focus on teaching you practical and accessible tools to learn how to release it – all to add on to your wellbeing! Taught by Founding Teacher, Mackenzie.

Combining gentle pressure and mindful movement, Mackenzie will guide the group through techniques from the feet up including:

-Roller sequences (3 balls of varied sizes and firmness INCLUDED in tickets!)

-Facial massage (a great tool for any of our pals with jaw pain!)

There will be pauses for short “check-ins” in yoga poses to notice changes in sensation and alignment, and of course plenty of space for questions throughout the class.

These techniques are perfect for days when you just don’t have the time or energy for a full yoga class (*cough all of us new yorkers cough*) or when you need targeted relief for tight, tender areas. They also can seamlessly integrate into your daily lives:

-Rolling your feet during a meeting

-Releasing your legs while watching TV

-Pain support during a road trip or travel

Learn how to ease tension and support recovery with us this fall, no experience (yoga or otherwise) necessary. You will walk out feeling well equipped to continue your practice outside of the studio!

Souk | Hold Nothing: A Full-Spectrum Evening Practice with Elena Brower

November 18 | 6:30 - 7:45pm | $45 | Link

Bringing her new book to NYC, teaching for the first time here in several years, Elena will offer a practice at Souk based on her new book, Hold Nothing, on its actual launch day. Published by Shambhala, replete with stories, artwork, prompts and practices, Hold Nothing invites you to turn inward and fortify yourself to be a force for steadiness in our world. Expect a vigorous yet spacious practice with a meditation to close.

Last weekend I embarked on my journey to becoming a 500 hour RYT. We began with the basics: Sun Salutations / Surya Namaskar. No matter how many Sun Salutations I do, or how many times I review their framework, there is always something more to learn about them.

Heatwise | Yin & Essential Oils Workshop

November 22 | 5:30-6:45pm | $55 | Link

Join Amy for this sensory 75-minute yin yoga experience featuring restorative yin yoga shapes supported by props and paired with the scents of seasonal essential oils. The experience will balance a practice of grounding yin postures alongside meditations and reflections experienced through carefully curated essential oils designed to ease the transition into the warmer months, leaving you feeling thoroughly nourished and restored. *This workshop will be gently heated*

Brooklyn Flow | Shoulder Shape-Up & Tech Neck Reset with Denise Hopkins

November 8 | 12:30 - 2:30pm | $45 | Link

This workshop is designed to reverse the effects of tech neck and shoulder tightness by targeting the root causes: poor posture, shallow stress breathing, and underused support muscles.

We’ll blend yoga, therapeutics and therapy ball massage to target stuck fascia and chronic tension. You’ll learn how to retrain your posture and breath for less pain and more energy.

Integral Yoga Institute | The Bhagavad Gita in Daily Life

November 5 - 26 | 7-8pm | $5-$36 | Link

The Bhagavad Gita, a foundational scripture of Yoga, provides guidance for facing the everyday challenges of modern life. Its message is that Self-realization is achieved through skillful living in the world, not by retreating from it. We will draw from the Gita practical lessons of how our current challenges can be leveraged to unleash our inner strength and cultivate clarity and peace.

Whether you’re new to the Gita or returning with fresh eyes, this group offers a welcoming space to deepen your relationship with yogic wisdom and discover how its timeless guidance can help you live with more purpose, peace, and strength.

Swami Asokananda draws from years of dedicated practice and personal experience to make this ancient scripture accessible, relevant, and transformational.

Yoga Space | Headstands: Strength, Balance & Trust with Ozzy

November 1 | 4:30-6pm | $55 | Link

In this workshop, we’ll explore the physical, mental, and energetic dimensions of Sirsasana. We will blend theory, mindful preparation, and step-by-step practice to help you approach inversions with safety, confidence, and clarity.

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Fall is a time to remember abundance. Like bears, we may find ourselves foraging and storing things for winter. Last week, my partner rolled in a waytoobig flat screen TV for our waytoosmall apartment. I found myself stocking up on sweets. Be tender with yourself while you consider that you may already have exactly what you are searching for. Hint: It’s right there, within you.

These next few weeks, as we experience the Fall equinox, practice yoga that is slow, warm, and grounding.

1) Retreat to Hudson with Sky Ting’s Krissy Jones

Sky Ting | October 10-13 | Link to sign up

This is not technically New York City, but I can’t think of a more beautiful place to be during October. Krissy will lead yoga and breathwork. Lauren will cook. You will relax.

2) Take a Heated class

There are many great options for sweaty studios in NYC, whether you are looking for Bikram at Bodē or a feel good flow at Heatwise. Other well known and well loved hot studios include.. Sui Yoga (Soho), Yoga Room (Astoria), YO BK (Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint), Fyra Yoga (Williamsburg).

3) Advanced Sequencing with Britton Schey

Vera Yoga | October 18-19 & 25-26 | 1-6pm | $975 | Link to sign up

Calling all yoga teachers! Learn how to create intelligent, creative classes that integrate anatomy informed movement in this continued education course.

4) Sign up for a Fall Teacher Training

There’s still time! Here is a list I created with all the FALL YTTs in NYC.

5) Foundations of Kirtan

Bhakti Center | October 25-26 | 9-5pm | $400 | Link to sign up

Designed to give you fundamental musical skills, tools, and knowledge, this training will take you deeper into your kirtan practice. It feels so good and rejuvenating to sing with community.

6) Naked Yoga

I’ll just leave this here: Link to sign up

Here are some of the best yoga events September has to offer (in no particular order).

Heatwise Yoga Studio | Yoga Nidra Teacher Training

September 5 - 14 | $500 | Link to sign up

My girl Stephanie Wallace is offering a look into the deeply relaxing and restorative practice of Yoga Nidra. These 2 weekends will have you feeling ultimate bliss.

New Love City | Sit With It: A Meditation Workshop

September 6 - 7 | $75 | Link to sign up

Speaking of meditation, here’s another workshop opportunity for our friends in Greenpoint.

Souk | MC Deep Flow, Ecstatic Dance, Concert & Relaxation 3-hour Class

September 26 | 6:30 - 9:30pm | $65 | Link to sign up

If you practice yoga, you know MC YOGI (even if you don’t realize it, all your favorite teachers play his songs in class!). Expect a yoga flow, ecstatic dance, great music, and even better vibes.

Yoga Tribe | Classic 26+2 with Energy Anatomy with Dr. Rose Erin Vaughn & Caro Lokah

August 30 | 12 - 3pm | $40 | Link to sign up

This is technically in AUGUST! But it came highly recommended. If you are into original hot yoga, this workshop seems pretty interesting. Learn how “Energy Anatomy” and myofascial pathways, organs and emotions can enhance and illuminate the magical 26 posture hot yoga sequence.

Sign up for a Fall Yoga Teacher Training

If you haven’t checked it out yet, I created a spreadsheet with all the YTTs in NYC starting this Fall. SPREADSHEET LINKED HERE

(I’ll be signing up for my 300 hour YTT this September and will definitely be writing about the experience!)

High Yoga NYC | Yoga at Frass Box September Edition

September 7 | 8:30 - 9:45am | $15 | Link to sign up

High Yoga NYC’s tagline is Conscious Consumption of Breath, Movement, and Cannabis. They offer events all over the city where you smoke weed and practice yoga. Sounds amazing. These events are “designed to help you reset, immerse yourself in a deep stretch, and set the vibes right for the month.”

Kula Yoga Project | Breathwork Circle

September 28 | 4 - 5:30pm | Link to sign up

This is a space to feel what’s present, soften the mind’s grip, and reconnect with the quiet wisdom beneath it all.

That’s a wrap on your September NYC Yoga News! Please comment, share, subscribe, like, engage, review… you get the idea.

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There are so many programs in NYC, it can be overwhelming to choose which is best for you. Ultimately, choosing your yoga teacher training is a very personal decision, but finances, dating, lead teachers, styles, location, etc. can also come into play while making your decision. Not sure where to start? Here is the ultimate guide:

THE LIST

**This list only includes trainings that are happening this FALL**

**This list will continue to be updated as trainings are announced**

**This google sheet can be edited by viewers. Please feel free to add comments directly to the document**

Here are a few additional tips & tricks:

1. If you are not sure whether you can afford a training right now, reach out to the studio and ask about payment plans and scholarship opportunities! Many studios will be willing to work with you, you just have to ask.

2. 200 hour trainings come first. 300 hour trainings come next.

3. If there is a particular studio you really want to teach at, then take your training there! It will be a great opportunity to get your foot in the door.

Below is the Student Teacher Chant which blesses the exchange of knowledge:

Om Sahanaa Vavatu

Saha Nau Bhunaktu

Saha Viryam Karavaavahai

Tejas Vina Vathitamastu

Maa Vidvishaavahai

Om Shanti, Shanti, Shantihi

Om, May that protect us, the teacher and the student

May that cause both to enjoy the Bliss of Liberation

May both exert to find out the meaning of the scriptures

May our learning be brilliant

May we never quarrel with each other

Om, Peace, Peace, Peace.

It’s almost August?! Where has the summer gone?!

Here’s your August line up.

Fyra - 31-Day Bingo Challenge

August 1 - 31 | $179 | Link to sign up

The newly re-branded “Fyra” is hosting a month long challenge that is a great deal for yogis who practice a lot. For $179, you get 21 classes at both NYC locations between August 1-31, unlimited mat and towel rentals and 3 guest passes.

Jivamukti Yoga Collective - CONT ED: HANDS ON ASSISTS WORKSHOP

August 2 | 12-3pm | $120 | Link to sign up

If you missed the July iteration of master instructor, Jules Febre’s continued ed at Souk, there is another opportunity at Jivamukti this August! I have heard amazing things about this course.

Om Factory - Aerial Yoga Teacher Training 50-Hour One-Week Intensive

August 23 - 29 | $2500 | Link to sign up

Aerial yoga feels sooo good, so get upside down at Om Factory! Om Factory has been at the forefront of training safe & smart aerial yoga teachers for two decades. Faculty includes Janie Prince, Amanda McDonald, Kevin Bigger, Mae Cabrera & Tingting Huang

Three Jewels - Summer Fridays

August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 | 7 - 8pm | Donation based | Link to sign up

Themed meditations, discussions, songs, and exercises every Friday to fundraise for the Meditation Teacher Training scholarships. Mocktails are served after each session!

Brooklyn Yoga Project - Dreamweaving: Sound Healing + Reiki on the Lion’s Gate Portal

August 8 | 6 - 7:30pm | $45 | Link to sign up

“In this immersive workshop, we’ll explore the art of dreamweaving, clarify your greatest desires, reflect on how fate has been working in our favor, and tune our nervous systems and frequency through a restorative sound bath with ancient Tibetan Singing Bowls and Reiki. Come receive, realign with your dreams and leave restored.”

PREMA - FLOW Women’s Circle

August 2 | 6:30 - 8:30pm | $25 | Link to sign up

Because I couldn’t make the July women’s circle, I’m including it again for our August list.. Maria Cutrona is truly the best!

“FLOW A New Moon Woman’s (intentional woman) Circle

For all female identified we are here for you .

From breath to muse to pen.

Join Maria Cutrona as we honor the New Moon - an opportunity to pause and dive into the flow of our own consciousness.

Please bring a journal and a pen. We will discuss the moon , take some breath work, meditate, write and share. The Circle is an opportunity to step into community and encourage language around what motivates us and what we desire.”

If you have time and the ability to try a local yoga studio, you must! Do not fear language barriers. I have taken classes in Hebrew, Spanish, French, Portuguese.. Seeing how different cultures experience the practice is well worth the occasional looks of confusion..

Below is a yin sequence I designed for the post-flight tightness we all know so well. 1) A mat is not needed! If you have a towel and/or pillows to support you in these positions, use them! 2) For my practice, I chose to use the ocean waves as the soundtrack; I have linked a Spotify Yin Playlist here for your use if you so choose! 3) When I practice Yin alone, I count up to 60 in each pose. In traditional yin practices, you hold each pose for 3-7 minutes. I have found that as my body relaxes, I count to 60 so slowly that I end up staying in the postures for much longer than 60 seconds. It works for me. If you don’t feel like counting, there are a few apps like Insight Timer that will “gong” for you and gently alert you to change poses.

Childs Pose - Wake up your hips. Relax your face muscles. Start to ground.

Twisted Childs Pose - Thread your right arm under your left. Relax your right cheek into the earth. Relax your neck and your jaw. Feel the tension in your right shoulder release. It may feel nice to find some gentle cat/cows before you transition to the second side.

Thunderbolt Post - Sit back on your heels. Place your hands on your lap. Reset. Relax your right ear to your right shoulder, and then relax your left ear to your left shoulder. It may feel nice to tuck your toes under and stretch the balls of your feet in this posture, but this can also be very intense. It may feel nice to bind your hands at your lumbar spine as your roll your head side to side.

Swan Pose - Send your right knee forward and ease your upper body over your shin. In Yin, do not worry about bringing your right shin bone forward. Instead, find a place where you can feel deep relaxation. Then, switch sides. It may feel nice to find a downward facing dog between sides.

Wide Legged Forward Fold - Let the backs of your legs lengthen. It may feel nice to place a pillow under your chest or forehead.

Reclined Twist - Take the variation that your body is asking you for. Take up space. Inhale to expand, and exhale to go deeper.

Bananasana - Lay on your back and make a star shape with your arms and legs. Cross your right ankle on top of your left ankle and catch your right wrist with your left hand. Feel a gentle stretch along your right side body. Do not strain your thighs. Relax your shoulders. Find the second side.

Fish Pose - Place your forearms and the top of your head on the earth. Feel opening in your heart. If this is too much, place a pillow under your spine for a supported variation.

Rest - I chose to find meditation in a seat. You may choose to stay lying down. Whatever you do, be still.

Confidence by Ethan Nichtern

Holding Your Seat Through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds

Written by Brooklyn based Buddhist teacher, Ethan Nichtern, this book delves into the eight common human experiences that can cause suffering: gain and loss, fame and insignificance, praise and blame, and pleasure and pain. The book relates Buddhist concepts to real life experiences - I found myself writing notes all over the pages and reading it to my yoga students constantly.

Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère

“..the French author celebrated for his deeply personal accounts of tragic events embraces meditation as a means of learning to write ‘without fabrication.’ But telling the truth is complicated.” - NYT Review

This book has it all, meditation, murder, romance, psych wards and yoga.

Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness meditation in everyday life

This is an oldie but a goodie if you want an accessible introduction to “mindfulness, both as a formal meditation practice and as a way of being in wise relationship to life as it unfolds”. I go back to this book time and time again.

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

A perfect summer read, Remarkably Bright Creatures is a novel about an elderly widow who forms an unlikely friendship with the curmudgeonly Marcellus, a Pacific octopus at the aquarium where she works.

This book has nothing and everything to do with yoga. A truly sweet story about love and loss, new beginnings, and humanity. I couldn’t recommend it more. And, there is a Netflix adaptation coming soon!

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

How can we go on living when things fall apart—when we are overcome by pain, fear, and anxiety?

Pema Chödrön is an American-born Tibetan Buddhist. She is an ordained nun, former acharya of Shambhala Buddhism and disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Pema’s writing get’s the point across in a no nonsense type of way. Someone recommended When Things Fall Apart to me when my mom was diagnosed with the big C, and it didn’t disappoint. This is a book I will continue to go back to.

On Friday my partner and I enjoyed an afternoon at World Spa , a global-themed bathhouse with saunas, pools, steam rooms, a restaurant and “spa experiences”. PS - It’s my new favorite bathhouse in NYC because its actually CLEAN (However.. you still cant escape the Tik-Tok spa goers, who film all over the bathhouse, which is my ultimate NYC bathhouse pet-peeve). After hours of sweating out my entire liquid profile, I hung out on my rooftop, where I continued to sweat, had a few beers, and then retired to sleep. It may not come as a surprise that when it was time to teach 2 back to back hot yoga classes the next morning I was feeling woozy.

HYDRATE -

All of this is to say, Hydration is key if you are planning to continue practicing in the heat. I have survived several hot summers as a yoga instructor, and every year I see students and teachers (including me this past weekend!) forget how much the heat affects us. This weekend reminded me that the heat can be dangerous.

I am still finding my favorite hydration methods; Liquid IV and sports drinks work intermittently. There is only one surefire way to feel completely COOL in a hot yoga class, and it is to drink a lot of water the night before a class. Take care of yourselves yogis, and don’t push past comfort. This is Ahimsa in practice.

UNHEATED CLASSES -

If you are a hot yoga fiend like me (in it for the flexibility, calorie burn, increased heart rate, or detoxification, etc..) heatwaves are a great time to try unheated studios. They will still be hot, trust me.

Some of my favorite studios that offer unheated classes in the city, are: The Shala, Souk, Yogamaya, Yogis & Yoginis, Baby Cobra , St Marks Yoga, Three Jewels, Bhakti Center

(There is a post about the best HOT yoga in the city incoming..)

THE HEART FIRE -

In her book tending the heart fire, Shiva Rae talks about the summer heat and how yogis can care for themselves during this time of depletion. She notes the 5 anchors for the summer season, which I have summarized here: 1) Balance excess fire that overstimulates the pitta dosha by staying relaxed, calm, and cool and by tending the fiery emotions like impatience and irritation, 2) Shift your rhythm from manifestation to celebration. Take time to slow down. Avoid overexerting, 3) Breathe fresh air, 4) Focus on cooling the skin, 5) Eat and drink in ways that balance the pitta dosha by enjoying in-season fruits and vegetables and sipping warm water to maintain and regulate body temperature.

Shiva later encourages restorative walking, and asanas that remove excess heat from the body like backbends and forward bends..

Stay cool friends!

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1. Daya Yoga Studio - Summer Solstice Sadhana

   Saturday, June 21 | 4:30am - 7am | Donation based

   Long Ek Ong Kar, also known as the Morning Call, is a powerful meditation that liberates you from the cycles of time and karma

2. Ishta Yoga - Summer Solstice Restorative Workshop

   Saturday, June 21 | 2:30pm - 4:30pm | $40

   Cathy Lilly, a certified yoga therapist, will guide you to relax, reflect, and reset, while heightened solar energies shift. Release into spacious restorative yoga poses while welcoming the gifts of midsummer.

3. Souk - Summer Solstice Cacao Ceremony

   Saturday, June 21 | 5:00pm - 8:00pm | $65

   The summer solstice marks the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, a day to celebrate light! Let us honor the beginning of summer, a season of sunshine, growth, and expansion. Using cacao and sound healing, we will honor this sacred day in a community ceremony.

4. Samadhi - Somatic Bliss: A Summer Solstice Ritual

   Sunday, June 22 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm | $50

   Somatic Bliss is an embodied breathwork journey combined with guided contemplation designed to help you attune to the rhythms of nature, your body, and your inner world. Through dynamic breath, reflection, and intentional stillness, we’ll explore how darkness creates depth, and how the body can be a vessel for both release and radiance.

5. FYRA - Elemental Yin & Sound Summer Solstice

   Thursday, June 26 | 7:00pm - 8:30pm | $35

   A seasonal event offering an immersion into the 5 Element Theory (5 Phases) of Daoism and TCM, focusing on the Fire Element for the Summer phase of our yearly cycle. This event is supported by a Yin practice, focusing on the meridians of the Fire phase, accompanied with the healing resonance of Singing Crystal Bowls.

*As of 6.18.25. Schedules are subject to change*

*Listed in no particular order*

1. Heatwise Yoga Studio - Some Like it Hot (Upper West Side)

   Sweaty, kick-ass, energetic

   9:30 - 10:30am & 11 - 12pm | Taquice Campell

2. Center Yoga - Master Class

   Classical, refreshing, fun

   10 - 11:30am | Kacper Chudzik

3. Sui Yoga - Sui Power Soul 75

   Fierce, dynamic, anchored in music and pace

   9 - 10:15am | Victor Cotto

4. Yogamaya - Big Juicy

   Big. Juicy.

   10:30 - 12pm | Bryn Chrisman

5. Lifetime Fitness - Flow Vinyasa (Dumbo location)

   Healing, flow on your own, playlist on point

   9:30 - 12:30am | Elise Fletcher

6. Broome Street Yoga | Yoga Sangraha Open Level

   Traditional, devotional

   8:30 - 10:15am | Eddie Stern

7. Jivamukti Yoga | Jivamukti Open Level 95

   Nurturing, meaningful, physically challenging

   10 - 11:35am | HaChi Yu

8. New Love City | Vinyasa

   Balanced, great sequencing

   Sunday 10-11am | Conor Yates

9. Shala Yoga | Vinyasa | Level 2-3

   Spiritual, thoughtful, transformative journey

   12-1:30pm | Maria Cutrona

10. Yoga Room | Vinyasa Open Level

    Intentional, balanced, calm

    11-12pm | Jan-Orland

Let me know if you try any of these classes and if so, what you thought!

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The serendipity of summer in New York

For those of us who haven’t already escaped to the Hamptons or retreated to Europe, there is still much to do in the Yoga & Wellness space in New York City this July. The scene has been steadily (re)growing since the pandemic, and as a yoga fiend living in Brooklyn, I feel overwhelmed by options. So, if you have a summer Friday off, or a weekend for R&R, here are the best options (IMO) New York has to offer this July.

*In no particular order*

1. Sound Healing at Humming Puppy

That’s right. This Flatiron based studio is known for it’s Hummmm, so what better place to sound bath?

July 18th | 7:30 - 8:45pm | $50

Link to sign up

2. New Moon Women’s Circle

I am a huge Maria Cutrona stan, so her name will be popping up on this newsletter.. This July, Maria is hosting a women’s circle (think yoga, journaling, discussion) at Prema (a Brooklyn sanctuary located at 976 Fulton Street).

July 26th | 6:30 - 8:30pm | $25

Link to sign up

3. Souk Souk Souk

Between Rima Rabbath’s limitless energy, the disco ball hanging from their beautiful high ceilinged studio, and the training offerings, when you are at Souk, you know you are at one of the best yoga studios in the world. That’s so New York of you!

This summer, Souk is hosting a Mentorship Program; If you can’t cough up the $2,800 fee (like me…) you are still in luck! Many of the workshops and classes will be open to the public, including a 3 hour workshop called “Anatomy of a Class” with Jules Febre & Martyna Eder. Think: Sequence, Theme, Pace, Atmosphere.

July 19th | 1:30 - 4:30pm | $75

Link to sign up

4. Summer 1 Month Immersion at Yogamaya

If you are looking to earn your 200 hour yoga teaching certification, a summer immersion is a GREAT option (that’s how I did it!). Bryn at Yogamaya is a super empowering female leader in the New York City yoga space, and I have only heard great things about their YTT programs. If you are feeling ready, then here is your sign.

July 7 - August 3rd | $3,800

Link to sign up

5. Annie Piper at The Shala in Fort Greene

This one i’m going to regret because it is ALWAYS sold out. I think we can all agree that MONDAYS SUCK. Well mine don’t, and that’s because they go a little like this:

9:00 - 5:00pm | Sad corporate day job

5:20 - 5:40pm | FREE meditation led by The Shala’s co-owner, Barbara Verrochi

6:00 - 7:15pm | Vinyasa at The Shala with Annie Piper (this is the juiciest class you will ever take!)

7:15pm - onwards | Think about next Monday

6. Mushroom Yoga at Baby Cobra

I’ll just leave it at that.

July 13, 20, 27 | 12:30 - 2:00pm | $35

Link to sign up