Program Guide. March / April / May West 13th Street

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1 Program Guide Program Guide Marh / April / May 2018 Marh / April / May West 13th Street West 13th Street

2 Swami Sathidanandaji Maharaj His Holiness Sri Swami Sathidanandaji Maharaj (Sri Gurudev) founded Integral Yoga in 1966, the worldwide Integral Yoga Institutes, and Sathidananda Ashram Yogaville, a dynami Yoga ommunity in Bukingham, Virginia. He is regarded by many as an apostle of peae and served as a living example of the teahings of Yoga and its goal of Self-realization. Sri Gurudev oneived of and founded LOTUS (Light Of Truth Universal Shrine), a unique temple at the Ashram dediated to the elebration of all the world s faiths. He served on the advisory boards of numerous peae and interfaith organizations, reeived many humanitarian awards, and authored many books, inluding To Know Your Self, The Living Gita, and The Golden Present. He is also the subjet of the doumentary film Living Yoga. Mission Statement Integral Yoga Institute of New York is a nonprofit organization dediated to the pratie and teahings of Integral Yoga, as taught by Sri Swami Sathidananda. These teahings failitate an easeful body, a peaeful mind, a useful life, and, ultimately, the realization of one s true Self. We enourage interfaith harmony by respeting all the world s faiths. Our goal is to promote peae in the individual and in the world. Integral Yoga Programs Preregistration is reommended for all workshops and ourses, online at by phone with a major redit ard, or in person at Reeption. For anellations made more than 48 hours prior to a program, you ll reeive a redit minus a $10 handling fee. IYI reserves the right to anel any program; if we do so, you reeive a full refund. Students, seniors 65 and older, veterans, polie, firefighters, first responders, shoolteahers, and people on unemployment, with verifiable proof, reeive Yoga lasses for $10, $8 off workshops, and $14 off ourses. Disounts are available only in person. Please visit for more information on our Yoga Therapy redentials 227 West 13 th Street, New York, NY (phone) (fax) info@iyiny.org Mon. Fri. 8:45 a.m. 7:30 p.m.; Sat. 9:45 a.m. 7:30 p.m.; Sun. 9:45 a.m. 5:30 p.m. Closed for midday meditation Mon. Fri. 12:15 1 p.m , ext West 13 th Street, New York, NY 10011; Mon. Fri. 8 a.m. 9:30 p.m.; Sat. 8 a.m. 8:30 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m. 8:30 p.m. Hatha Yoga Fundamentals of Integral Yoga 4-Week Course for Beginners $90 Mon., Mar. 19 Apr. 9 6:30 8:30 p.m. Linda Botros Sat., Apr. 21 May 12 2:30 4:30 p.m. Marisol (Mandayanti) Working weekly with the same teaher, who will welome questions and personally assist you, you ll beome omfortable with all of the poses in the Level I lass, as well as deep relaxation, Yogi breathing, and meditation. The ourse will fully prepare you to attend regular lasses at IYI and/or pratie on your own. New Beginners Introdution to Level II A Safe, Gradual Path to Intermediate Pratie: 3-Week Course $68 Thurs., Apr p.m. Kali Morse Don t think of Intermediate Integral Yoga as a step up to another level or feel intimidated by what seems like a more hallenging pratie. Let Kali Morse a deades-long pratitioner, trainer of teahers, and devotee of a onsious and meditative pratie guide you to experiening new poses, going deeper in the breathing praties, and engaging your own reativity in Yoga. As with every Integral lass, you ll move at your own pae and monitor your own pratie. Experiened Beginners Yoga Sutras on the Mat Deepen Your Hatha Pratie with Anient Wisdom $27 Sun., Mar a.m. 1 p.m. Tim Satyam Groen Learn how to ombine your physial Yoga pratie with the wisdom of the Yoga Sutras. Apply ontentment and harmlessness, and ease into postures with pratipaksha bhavana, letting go of any hindering thoughts of self-judgment. We will look at what the Sutras say about asana and what we an onentrate on in order to alm the mind. By learning to apply these attitudes in your pratie, you ll be pratiing them in your daily life as well. Experiened Beginners and Intermediate/Advaned Pratitioners Speial Guest Programs Reset Your Inner Clok Yin Yoga to Invite the Light $45 Fri., Mar. 16 6:30 8:30 p.m. Corina Benner Changing the loks arries with it the antiipation of springtime, longer days, and the hope of fun and enjoyment. Many people, though, find the week after springing forward to be fraught with fatigue, whih an lead to listlessness, sadness, and depression. Sinking into Yin Yoga poses gives your body a hane to unwind. You let go of held tension while releasing energeti blokages and building inner energeti reserves. This entire pratie will be on the floor, offering you the opportunity to surrender effort and fall into the tender embrae of Mother Earth, who has been supporting you your whole life. As if you were plugging in your ell phone at night, you will be reharged by sinking, surrendering, and reeiving. Calling All Yin Yoga Teahers Yin Yoga Teaher Training One-Day Tune In, Tune Up $108 Fri., Mar. 16 9:30 a.m. 5 p.m. Corina Benner Open to Yin Yoga teahers from all training traditions. Visit for details. Chair, Chi, and Prana A Fusion : Chair Yoga and Qigong $22 per session Mon., Mar. 19 6:30 8 p.m. Melissa Mati Elstein, RYT, Esq. Mon., Apr. 23 6:30 8 p.m. Melissa Mati Elstein, RYT, Esq. Mon., May 21 6:30 8 p.m. Melissa Mati Elstein, RYT, Esq. Students should ome barefoot or wear indoor slippers or soks with tration. Visit for details. New Beginners and 2 Integral Yoga Institute To register, visit or all

3 Restorative Yoga in a Chair Two Great Praties in One $20 Sat., Apr. 7 10:30 a.m. 12 p.m. Taravati Tania Turinovi Learn to pratie a omplete Restorative Yoga lass without getting down on the floor. We will experiene all the benefits of a Restorative Yoga pratie from the safety, omfort, and support of the hair. Allowing the body to open and streth gently while being supported by bolsters and blankets an reate new spae and a sense of ease. All are welome to attend, inluding teahers and aregivers. New Beginners and Prenatal Partner Yoga Workshop Develop a Feeling of Connetion $40 per ouple Sun., Apr a.m. 12:30 p.m. Bhakti Cinzia Parma and Lakshmi Pidel Prenatal Partner Yoga provides an opportunity for ouples to enhane their awareness, intuition, and onfidene in the journey of pregnany and birth. The mother an bring anyone who is dear to her heart, someone with whom she wants to experiene and share the beauty and saredness of bonding, onneting, and relaxing. We will pratie Partner Yoga poses, gentle massage, breathing praties, relaxation, and a short meditation, all in a safe, undisturbed, and relaxing environment. Gay Yoga Sangha The Yama $25 Thurs., Apr p.m. Swami Chidananda and Tim Satyam Groen The Niyama $25 Thurs., May p.m. Swami Chidananda and Tim Satyam Groen In this new monthly series, strengthen your Yoga pratie and deepen your knowledge in the fun ompany of new friends with whom you share your LGBTQ+ identity and interest in Yoga. Eah month, a different theme will be explored during the all-level Hatha lass, led by Tim Satyam Groen, and in the leture and disussion, led by Swami Chidananda. In April and May, we will explore the yama and niyama, anient observanes for ultivating inner peae. Working with them an deepen your Yoga pratie and bring you more peae in everyday life. Sun Salutation Take It Apart and Put It Together $27 Tues., Apr. 17 6:30 8:30 p.m. Melissa Mati Elstein, RYT, Esq. Learn eah position and transition in the sun salutation, with time to disset it part by part and disover whih modifiations or versions work the best for you. This workshop involves disussion and pratie. Please bring a notebook and pen and your questions. Peaeful Praties Meditation I Workshop How to Meditate $25 Tues., Mar p.m. Rev. Sam Rudra Swartz, IYM Sat., May p.m. Rev. Sam Rudra Swartz, IYM This popular workshop, taught by ertified Integral Yoga meditation instrutors, provides a omplete overview of the pratie of meditation. You ll reeive instrution in and then the experiene of various meditation tehniques for beginners. The workshop will inspire you to make meditation a part of your daily life. No experiene required. Meditation Course 3-Week Immersion $72 Sat., Apr. 21 May 5 10 a.m. 12 p.m. Swami Chidananda For anyone new to meditation, as well as those who wish to enhane or strengthen their pratie, a ertified meditation instrutor guides the pratie of five meditation tehniques in depth. The experiene will help you deide whih tehniques resonate for you and inspire you to integrate meditation into your life. No experiene required. Inludes a free opy of the booklet Meditation by Sri Swami Sathidananda. Full Breath Experiene Pranayama on a Deeper Level $25 Mon., Apr. 23 6:30 9:30 p.m. Madhavan, RYT 500, C-IAYT The breath is now. Pranayama provides support for the body, fous for the mind, and enhanement of the spirit. Madhavan will delve more deeply into dirgha svasam, kapalabhati, and nadi suddhi and introdue more subtle and advaned breathing tehniques, inluding pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses), brahmari breath, bhastrika, and more. Oxygen is the only substane the body needs. Learn how to maximize the pratie and benefits of pranayama, the flow of the vital life fore, for strength and healing. Drawing from the Inside A Meditative Art Exploration $27 Sun., Apr. 22 2:30 4:30 p.m. Lakshmi Pidel Meditation an help to free the mind. Art making is a vehile for meditation and self-onnetion. Following a relaxing guided meditation that is aessible to all and designed to free the mind and body, Lakshmi will guide the lass through varying drawing tehniques that stem from her meditation pratie. This workshops is not so muh about a finished produt or even drawing as it is about exploring the at of making art to support one s meditation pratie. Supplies will be provided. No art experiene required. Integral Yoga Level I Summer 200-Hour Intensive Jun. 25 Jul. 27 Integral Yoga Level I Fall 200-Hour Sept. 8 De. 16 Integral Yoga Level III Advaned Sept. 10 De. 2 Open House for Level I Mon., Apr p.m. Mon., May p.m. Trauma-Informed Yoga Mar. 2 4 Tibetan Bowls Level I Mar Kidding Around Yoga Mar Yoga for the Speial Child Basi Level I Apr. 2 7 Aessible Yoga May 5 8 Prenatal Yoga May and Yoga for the Speial Child Continuing Eduation Jul. 7 9 Yoga for the Speial Child Continuing Eduation Jul Kidding Around Yoga Jun. 30 Jul. 1 Yoga for Teens Jul For more information about these and other trainings, please visit TeaherTraining@iyiny.org, or all , ext. 16. Kidding Around Yoga Aug Yin Yoga Foundational Training Sept Therapeuti Yoga Ot. 2 7 Deepening Into Therapeuti Yoga Ot Yin Yoga Continuing Training Ot To register, visit or all Integral Yoga Institute 3

4 Sared Wisdom Speial Sripture Study One Night Only By donation Tues., Mar :30 p.m. Rev. Sam Rudra Swartz The Mandukya Upanishads ontains only 12 stanzas. There is only one stanza that defines the Absolute. It tries to define what the Absolute or Divine is by saying what the Absolute is not. Join us to disuss this unique and suint sripture about how the Divine or Absolute an or annot be defined. Explore the Bhagavad Gita Yoga Philosophy and Psyhology By donation Tues., Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, :15 p.m. Swami Asokananda Integral Yoga New York s president Swami Asokananda shares insights based on his lifelong study of one of Yoga s most sared texts. The Bhagavad Gita offers guidane for the soul struggling to know itself and its plae in the world. Come and read the Gita, and disuss how to deepen your spiritual knowledge by drawing on its teahings in everyday life. Interfaith Sriptures Study Universal and Eumenial Teahings By donation Tues., Apr. 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, :30 p.m. Swami Chidananda This series of sriptures studies will look at the world s major religious traditions, highlighting those teahings that are universal and eumenial. We will over a different tradition eah week and inlude Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. As the anient sriptures say, Truth is one; sages all it by many names. Please bring with you the partiular sayings or teahings from any of those faiths that you find espeially inspiring, to share with others. Speial Programs Yoga Mind Book Release Party A Celebration of Swami Sathidananda s Teahings Free Wed., Mar p.m. Suzan Saraswati Colón Join Integral Yoga for the release of Yoga Mind: Journey Beyond the Physial, by the Integral Yoga teaher Suzan Saraswati Colón. Yoga Mind tells the inspiring story of how Suzan brought the teahings of Integral Yoga to a friend who beame paralyzed after an aident. The book features a 30-day program that shows you how to take Yoga s peae off the mat and into your life. Join us for refreshments, meditation, books, and a elebration. Yoga Mind Journey Beyond the Physial to Live Your Best Life $27 Wed., Apr. 11 6:30 8:30 p.m. Suzan Saraswati Colón In this inreasingly hallenging world, we look to Yoga for balane. But how an we take the peae we feel in lass off the mat and into our lives? On the basis of her new book, Yoga Mind, Suzan Saraswati Colón shares meditations, breathing praties, and the spiritual tools of Yoga that an help you deal with everyday stress and diffiult events. You ll leave with a spiritual toolkit you an use anytime, anywhere, to be more resilient and peaeful. Suggested reading: Yoga Mind: Journey Beyond the Physial. Bhakti Yoga Bringing the Heart into Our Spiritual Life $20 Wed., Mar :30 p.m. Swami Asokananda Bhakti Yoga, the path of devotion, is the art and siene of reonneting to the spiritual heart. Bhakti an melt even the hardest and most stubborn ego. In this workshop we will explore how to onnet with and form a relationship with the Pure Consiousness at our ore, beneath the waves of the mind; how to use this power to transform deeply ingrained mental patterns and onditioning; and what it means to be an integrated, mature adult. Speial Guest Programs Patanjali s Pulse Exploring the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali $27 Sat., Apr a.m. 12 p.m. Rev. Jaganath Carrera The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are ommonly referred to as Raja Yoga, the royal Yoga. They represent larity and authority on the inner workings of onsiousness, the purpose of reation, and suffering and the means to transend it. The Yoga Sutras are a step-by-step manual for unovering the unshakable peae that is your true nature. The Sutras are a deep well, full of knowledge on many levels, and the more you study them the more they reveal the sared teahings. For beginners and lifelong students of the Sutras. Meditation, Mudras, and Traditional Tea Brewing Elegant Mindfulness $27 Tues., Apr. 10 6:30 8:30 p.m. Nadiya Nottingham and DongMei Peng Give yourself the gift of this beautiful workshop. Pratiing the art of meditative tea drinking is a way of bringing mindfulness to a task that many of us do in some way every morning: making tea. In this workshop Nadiya will lead us through a meditation with Qigong and Yogi mudras and hanting. DongMei will share The Way of Tea, a meditative enjoyment of tea from the East. Speial Guest Programs What Are We Here For? Disover and Support Your Life s True Purpose $20 Sun., Apr a.m. 12:30 p.m. Swami Divyananda Ma This workshop is devoted to asking the deeper questions. It s a time to go beneath the surfae of our everyday onerns. We ll start with a set of written exerises to help you to identify your lifelong ore values. Then we ll explore how to align your lifestyle with your ore values, and we ll explore the Yoga tools that an bring about suh amazing transformations. Human life is far too preious to be taken asually! Less Is More The Yoga of Deluttering Your Life $20 Sun., Apr. 15 2:30 4 p.m. Swami Divyananda Ma We live in a ulture whose motto is More is better, and we keep finding ourselves trying to fulfill our spiritual needs with material things. This workshop aims to give you a omfortable pathway out of material and lifestyle lutter and guide you toward a simpler and more foused life. You will learn how to identify the lutter in your life (anything that does not make you happier), learn strategies for letting go, take home new tools for the ongoing work of simplifiation, and explore how what you own, owns you. Speial Guest Programs The Yoga of Relationships Guidane from Anient Texts $27 Thurs., May p.m. Prem Sadasivananda Life is an interplay of different types of relationships. How do the relationships you keep in your life impat you? How an you begin to feel whole in all your relationships? The Vedas reveal the fundamental priniples for a peaeful and sustainable world. It is through relationships that we grow, heal, and evolve, and Yoga shows the way. Beome lear about the meaning and purpose of relationships, and your life will beome lighter and brighter. 4 Integral Yoga Institute To register, visit or all

5 Kirtan Speial Guest Program Divine Harmony: Singing and Soial Justie A Chant Workshop $40 in advane, $45 day of event Sat., Apr p.m. Kirtan Soul Revival Bhakti Yoga has the potential to reate deep transformation, both inside ourselves and in the world. This pratie an help us to love ourselves and to love one another as we reognize sameness and differene, shadow and light. In this workshop we will use hanting, disussion, and journaling to release judgement of ourselves and others, to explore ways to open our voies and sing in harmony, and to find our individual voie inside the olletive voie. When we sing from the heart, we open to our Divine potential. We tune our voies and hearts to that whih is sared, so that we may use our voies as a tool for empowerment and soial hange. Speial Guest Program Infinite Heart The Yoga of Love $95 Sun., Mar a.m. 4 p.m. Carrie Grossman Take a journey into bhakti, the Yoga of love. This anient tradition draws on Kirtan, japa (mantra reitation), meditation, prayer, and various art forms to awaken the heart. In a relaxed setting, we will explore this rih path of devotion, with a fous on self-ompassion and forgiveness praties. Come immerse yourself in a day of inner nourishment, musi, and healing as we elebrate the beauty of Satsang a ommunity gathering to honor and explore our essential nature. There will be a lunh break 1 2 p.m. Chants of Freedom Sat., Mar p.m. $18 in advane with Kirtan Rabbi $25 day of event and Band Coming Home: Sat., Mar p.m. $20 in advane Carrie Grossman $25 day of event Kirtan Soul Revival Sat., Apr p.m. $20 in advane $25 day of event Simrit at Fri., Apr. 20 7:30 p.m. Tikets: Angel Orensanz Lovelight Festival Sat., May 5 8 p.m. $15 in advane Kirtan with Wynne Paris $20 day of event Brooklyn Raga Sat., May 19 8 p.m. $25 in advane Massive s Terry Riley $30 day of event Full Moon Kirtan Thurs., Mar. 1; Sat., Mar. 31; By donation Mon., Apr. 30; Tues., May 29 7:45 p.m. New Moon Kirtan Sat., Mar. 17; Mon., Apr. 16; By donation Tues., May 15 7:45 p.m. Coming in June: Kirtan College Weekend with David Newman/Durga Das June 1 3 The Spirit Room: Jai Uttal Solo at Churh of St. Paul and St. Andrew June 16 Visit for omplete Kirtan information. Satsang Eah Saturday evening, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. We will view a video of Sri Swami Sathidananda for 30 minutes and then share a 30-minute disussion with one of Integral Yoga Institute s resident Swamis or a senior IYI teaher. Satsang is by donation. Visit for shedule and presenters. Sound Healing Weekly Sound Bath Relax and Unwind $15 Sat., Mar. 3 May 26 4:15 5:15 p.m. $15 for everyone. Disounts do not apply. Restorative Yoga and Sound Healing A Journey Through the Chakras $27 Tues., Mar p.m. Niole Srimati and Rev. Laksmi Salise, RYT 500 Spring Equinox Gong Bath Refresh and Renew with Healing Vibrations $27 Tues., Mar. 20 7:30 9:30 p.m. Kozmi Shamans Gong and Reiki An Immersive Experiene $15 Sat., Mar :30 11:30 a.m. Rev. Laksmi Salise Sun., Apr a.m. 12 p.m. Rev. Laksmi Salise Thurs., May 24 6:30 7:30 p.m. Rev. Laksmi Salise $15 for everyone. Disounts do not apply. Yin Yoga and Tibetan Bowls Resonate with Stillness $27 Tues., Apr p.m. Bhairavi Andrea Downes and Rev. Laksmi Salise, RYT 500 Yoga and Gong Pratie to Healing Vibrations $22 Sat., Apr :30 a.m. 12 p.m. Chandra/Jo Sgammato and Rev. Laksmi Salise, RYT 500 Cosmi Sound Bath Healing on the Deepest Level $27 Fri., Apr p.m. Rev. Laksmi Salise, RYT 500, and Lois Harrison Laughter and Sound Healing Meditation Bring a Joyful Element to Your Pratie $27 Sun., May p.m. Swami Nadabrahmananda Dress omfortably, and bring drinking water and an eye over or a blindfold for deeper horizontal listening. Send Prana to Your Chakras Aess Your Own Healing Energy $27 Mon., May 14 6:30 8:30 p.m. Rev. Laksmi Salise, RYT 500 Yoga and Sound Healing for Arthritis and Chroni Pain Tools to Help You Feel Better $27 Tues., May 22 6:30 8:30 p.m. Amba and Rev. Laksmi Salise, RYT 500 New Beginners and For omplete program details, visit To register, visit or all Integral Yoga Institute 5

6 Life and Work Trauma-Informed Yoga Training Learn How and Why Yoga Works $395 ($350 until Feb. 9) Fri., Mar p.m.; Sat. Sun., Mar a.m. 5 p.m. Samara Andrade and Emily Pantalone For more information and trainee reviews, please visit and Drum Cirle Healing, Sared, and Fun Free Sat., Mar p.m. Steven Heurung and Theresa Arula Herron-Heurung Family Yoga Kamishibai Paper Theatre Stories from Japan Sun., Mar a.m. 1 p.m. Theatre Banana Kirtan Sun., May 6 11 a.m. 1 p.m. Gita Zember $15 for one adult and one hild, $5 eah additional person Speial Guest Programs Guided Sound Meditation Workshop Tibetan Bowls, Gongs, and Visualization $49 Tues., Mar p.m. Master Satya Brat Guided sound meditations bring you into a deep state of relaxation and help you reate an inner experiene of the hanges you are seeking to realize in your outer life. This workshop will begin with a brief audiovisual sientifi introdution to sound healing followed by an immersion in long, life-transforming group sound healing sessions. Listening to positive suggestions and the Divine healing vibrations of singing bowls is a blissful experiene that produes real and immediate benefits. Tibetan Bowls Professional Training Level 1 4-Day Intensive with Certifiation $799 Wed. Sat., Mar a.m. 6 p.m. Master Satya Brat For more information about Tibetan Bowls Professional Training Level 1 or to register, visit Speial Guest Program Ohashi s Oriental Diagnosis 2-Day Course $295 Sat. Sun., Apr a.m. 5 p.m. Ohashi Long before X-rays and CT sans, traditional healers used noninvasive methods to assess personal health, lifestyle, and harater. For the Oriental diagnostiian, the body is the physial manifestation of the soul both symptom and ause. Ohashi ompares Eastern and Western approahes to health on the basis of his profound experiene of 45 years, explaining the preepts in a language that all an understand. Ohashi disusses in-depth fae and body diagnoses, demonstrates hara diagnosis, and ends with his famous shoe diagnosis. This ourse will help you view the world with new eyes and disover physial, mental, and spiritual onditions in yourself and others. Open to all. The Yoga of Work Three Powerful Priniples $20 Sat., Apr. 28 1:30 3 p.m. Shankar Fern Make your work life better! Learn three powerful pratial priniples that reveal how to approah your work, manage your relationships with others, and manage your self to beome happier and more suessful at work. The workshop leader, Shankar Fern, is a longtime student of Swami Sathidananda s and a business exeutive who speializes in leadership and professional development. Reiki Level I Training: 2-Day Course Experiene the Healing Effets of Reiki Energy $195 Sat. Sun., Mar :30 a.m. 4:30 p.m. Hamsa Spagnola, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, T.R.M. You will be ertified in Reiki Level I through Loving Touh Center International Shool of Reiki. Visit for omplete program details. Introdution to Thai Yoga Massage Learn to Give a 20-Minute Massage $50 Thurs., Apr. 5 6:30 9:30 p.m. Renée Rie Thurs., May 17 6:30 9:30 p.m. Renée Rie Please wear a long-sleeved shirt and long, loose pants. Visit for details. Lotus Palm Thai Yoga Massage 2 5-Day Intensive $550 Wed. Sun., Mar a.m. 5 p.m. Renée Rie Prerequisite: Lotus Palm Thai Yoga Massage 1 Please visit for details about Thai Yoga Massage Intensives as well as required and reommended reading and for full ertifiation details and osts and information about ontinuing-eduation redits. Generosity and the Flow of Abundane The Invisible Power $27 Sat., May 5 11:00 a.m. 1 p.m. Marni Slaroff In relationships, at work, and in our praties, we often hide piees of ourselves out of fear of being vulnerable. Learn to harness the power of intention to ultivate natural generosity and reate more abundane. We will explore the transformative power of generosity and how it an empower and uplift everything that you do. Enjoy a philosophial talk, an all-levels asana pratie, and a guided meditation. You will leave feeling more grounded and more onneted to your inherent goodness. Mind and Body Health Yoga for Anxiety Disover Wonderful Tools $32 Sun., Mar p.m. Jennifer Gibson Anxiety an leave you feeling out of ontrol, ungrounded, and overwhelmed. Come disover how to apply the wonderful tools of Yoga to relieve anxiety and have a more peaeful existene. Experiene breathing praties, Restorative Yoga postures, guided meditation, and a luxurious deep relaxation that will leave you with the tools you need to make hanges toward a more peaeful balane in life. Shamani Womb Healing Ceremony, Song, and Water Prayer $40 Wed., Mar. 21 6:30 9:30 p.m. Nadiya Nottingham, RYT, and Jeanny Tsai By transforming old wounds to strengthen our female warrior selves, we beome ommunity healers. When unexplored, past events an leave a sar or an emotional hurt that you may have diffiulty addressing. Through a meditation and a forgiveness ritual irle, we ll take steps toward a new beginning, a fresh perspetive on the woman within. Bringing Nature to (Your) Life On and Off the Mat $27 Sat., Apr :30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. Sarah Wolf Nature alms and settles us, helping to bring stillness to mind, body, and spirit. Come you learn about how nature an help you aess inner peae and joy and, in turn, your own true nature. In New York City there is muh nature to enjoy. We will explore pratial ways of inorporating nature into your Yoga pratie both on the mat and off. You will also partiipate in a guided nature imagery meditation and a Restorative Yoga session. 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7 Healthy Anatomy Yoga for Bladder Health An Introdutory Workshop for Women of All Ages $35 Sat., Mar :30 a.m. 1 p.m. Leslie Daley, RYT 500, M.S., OTR/L New Beginners and Yoga and the Fasial System Connet with Your Connetive Tissue $35 Sat., Apr :30 a.m. 1 p.m. Leslie Daley, M.F.A., RYT 500, OTR/L Caring for the Pelvi Floor Strengthen, Coordinate, Relax $35 Sat., May a.m. 12:30 p.m. Leslie Daley, M.F.A., RYT 500, OTR/L Help for Hamstrings Lengthen and Strengthen $27 Thurs., Mar. 22 6:30 8:30 p.m. Madhavan, RYT 500, C-IAYT Knee Care and Yoga Proteting the Body s Most Vulnerable Joint $40 Sat., Apr a.m. 1 p.m. Madhavan, RYT 500, C-IAYT Fasting and Detoxifiation A Time-Honored Tradition $25 Sat., Mar p.m. Manu Dawson, C.Y.N.TH. Brain Wellness Vital Advie for Every Stage of Life $25 Sat., May p.m. Manu Dawson, C.Y.N.Th. How to Streth Easy Praties $27 Wed., Apr. 18 6:15 8:15 p.m. Sudama Introduing Lymphati Self-Care The Body s Cleansing System $27 Thurs., Apr. 26 6:30 8:30 p.m. Snow Shimazu, M.A., L.M.T., ARCB, RYT Therapeuti Yoga Aess Your Deep Healing Wisdom $20 per session Wed., Mar. 7, 14, 21, 28, Apr. 18, 25, May 2, 9 9:30 11 a.m. Jyothi Larson, RYT 500, C-IAYT, and Deborah Madhavi Matza, R.N., C-IAYT New Beginners and TRE (Trauma or Tension Releasing Exerises) 4-Week Open Series $20 per session Thurs., Mar. 15, 22, 29, Apr. 5 3:30 4:45 p.m. Phil Lynh For omplete program details, visit HeartMath Pratial Skills to Enhane Well-Being and Joy $45 Thurs., Mar. 29 6:30 9:30 p.m. Jaymie Meyer This program offers easy self-regulation and resiliene-building praties that help individuals beome more physiologially and emotionally balaned. You will learn how your response to events, interpersonal ommuniation, and irumstanes an deplete or renew your resiliene. This workshop will inlude pratial ideas for integrating HeartMath tools into everyday life, inluding the depletion-to-renewal model; tehniques for building resiliene in the fae of hange and unertainty; and a simple method for aessing intuition for improved deision making. Yoga-Based Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Anxiety Learn How to Heal Your Anxiety on Your Own $95 Sat., May 19 10:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m. Boris Pisman, LMHC Yoga postures will not be performed. Healthy Aging Joy and Potential in the Elder Years The Integral Yoga Way $25 Thurs., Mar p.m. Kali Morse Integrative Strategies for Healthy Aging Reset Your Biologial Age $25 Sat., Apr p.m. Manu Dawson, C.Y.N.Th. Yoga for Improved Memory Reover, Maintain, and Disover $20 Wed., May 2 6:30 8 p.m. Nina Priya Ma David, M.A., E-RYT 500 New Beginners and For omplete program details, visit The Musi Meditation Session A Psyhoative Musial Improvisation $27 Thurs., May p.m. Dawoud The Musi Meditation Session is a guided meditation that replaes words, imagery with a ompletely improvised psyhoative musial form alled the Sared Forbidden Musi. Eah session is speifi to a partiular time and plae. Partiipants will allow the musi to guide them to altered states of onsiousness. Eah partiipant will let his or her own, unique experiene form the musi. Past attendees report reovering repressed memories, deep meditation states, tranes and visions, and astral travel. Speial Guest Programs Introdution to Ayurvedi Mediinal Plants and Herbal Preparations Learn to Make Your Own Remedies $108 Sun., May 6 10:30 a.m. 5:30 p.m. Cory Tixier, B.S., Certified Ayurvedi Pratitioner, E-RYT 500 In this mini-retreat students will be introdued to some of Ayurveda s most popular plants and herbs. In the morning we will explore their bakground and mediinal properties, foraging, and wildraft and how to harvest and dry your own herbs. In the afternoon we will make simple infusions, deotions, lepas, and poulties. You will be able to take home the remedies you make. Marma Therapy Bridging Body, Mind, and Soul $48 Wed., May 9 6:30 8:30 p.m. Cory Tixier, B.S., Certified Ayurvedi Pratitioner, E-RYT 500 Marma provide one of Ayurveda s most powerful modes for applying therapy. These vital energeti points loated on the surfae of the body allow us to tap into the multidimensional nature of our whole being. In this workshop you will be introdued to the Marma points of Ayurveda, their history, their mehanisms of ation, their therapeuti uses, and muh more. Please join us! Speial Guest Program Empathy in Any Body Introdution to Yoga and Nonviolent Communiation $54 Sat., May 12 10:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. Cat MCarthy, E-RYT 500, YACEP Transform onflit into onnetion! By exavating what s beneath any frition, you an fous on the deeper motivation embedded within your habits and judgments. Nonviolent Communiation (NVC) offers tools of emotional intelligene to help generate new neural pathways for empathy. With ompassionate understanding of your own feelings and needs, you an reate stronger onnetion both inside and out. Get ready to shift your perspetive on a ellular level! Please bring a notebook and pen, along with an open heart and a urious mind Coming in June: Empathy in Any Body Curriulum: Part One. To register, visit or all Integral Yoga Institute 7

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Less Is More Teaher Training Open House for Level I Sun Salutation Explore the Bhagavad Gita: Open Series Therapeuti Yoga: Open Series How to Streth Cosmi Sound Bath Meditation Course: 3-Week Immersion Ohashi s Oriental Diagnosis: 2-Day Course Yoga and the Fasial System Fundamentals of Integral Yoga: 4-Week Course for Beginners Drawing from the Inside Chair, Chi, and Prana Full Breath Interfaith Sriptures Study: Open Series Therapeuti Yoga: Open Series Introduing Lymphati Self-Care Knee Care and Yoga Bringing Nature to (Your) Life The Yoga of Work Gong and Reiki May 1 Interfaith Sriptures Study: Open Series Therapeuti Yoga: Open Series Yoga for Improved Memory The Musi Meditation Session Generosity and the Flow of Abundane Meditation I Workshop Introdution to Ayurvedi Mediinal Plants and Herbal Preparations Family Yoga: Kirtan Laughter and Sound Healing Meditation Interfaith Sriptures Study: Open Series Therapeuti Yoga: Open Series Marma Therapy Gay Yoga Sangha: The Niyama Caring for the Pelvi Floor Empathy in Any Body Teaher Training Open House for Level I Send Prana to Your Chakras Interfaith Sriptures Study: Open Series Introdution to Thai Yoga Massage The Yoga of Relationships Yoga-Based Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Anxiety Brain Wellness Chair, Chi, and Prana Yoga and Sound Healing for Arthritis and Chroni Pain Interfaith Sriptures Study: Open Series Gong and Reiki CLOSED FOR MEMORIAL DAY 29 Interfaith Sriptures Study: Open Series Visit page 5 for the Kirtan shedule and for the Satsang shedule. 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