Subtle Yoga for Rejuvenation (Yogic warm-ups): Make the best use of "YogaDay Keene" by starting your day with SYR and experience yoga as practiced by the yogis in the Himalayas. Yogis sit in deep meditation throughout winters in their caves and use this unique sequence to rejuvenate their stiff bodies. This class includes a combination of asan, pranayam, mudras, bandhas, pratyahar and dharana practices and is suitable for beginners and experienced yogis alike. More information at http://www.yogacaps.net/SubtleYoga.html

About Jay Gupta: Presented by Jay Gupta: Jay began his study of yoga in India in 1983 and has been exploring the depths of yoga since then. He co-founded a 501 c(3) non-profit, YogaCaps Inc, with his wife Terry to help serve humanity by sharing healthy lifestyle practices. He holds a special place for sharing the joy of yoga with at-risk and under-served populations like cancer survivors and seniors. He has traveled from the Himalayas (India, Nepal, Tibet) to Kerala (southern most part of India) learning a variety of yoga and nature cure practices. He has served on the faculty of several Yoga Teacher Training programs, including an Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Program, covering 15 yoga studios from the greater Boston to Cape Cod area.

INTERMEDIATE VINYASA FLOW YOGA with Chant & Meditation~For the experienced practitioner. A vigorous practice to heat, cleanse and connect with spirit...followed by sanskrit mantra chant and silent meditation, moving to a place of deep inner stillness and peace.

About Gretchen Carmel: Gretchen (Rajeshwari)-Owner/Director of THE YOGA SPACE in Keene N.H. Gretchen has been practicing, studying, and living Yoga since 1993. Dancer, certified Kripalu and Vinyasa Flow Yoga teacher, Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist, and Traditional/Usui Reiki Master. She brings to her teaching a high level of commitment, love for her students, and the joy of mantra, inspired by her teacher Namadeva Acharya (Thomas Ashley-Farrand). Gretchen is also a certified Instructor of Sanskrit Mantra and its application to life problems/situations, as well as, a certified Pujari/Vedic Priest honoring the lineage of Namadeva Acharya and Sanatana Dharma Satsang.

The intention of this class is to gently guide and encourage the body, mind and spirit to the pure place of joyful bliss and peace that resides within all of us. Through the practices of pranayama, asana, meditation, creative visualization and being conciously grateful the physical and energetic bodies are quieted and given permission to be well.

About Deborah Callahan: Yoga has always been a part of me. I was introduced to it by my family at an early age and it has influenced and inspired me greatly. Ailments I have experienced throughout the course of my life have countless times been made so much more manageable by yoga. Through these experiences I have gained an immense love and appreciation for life and a massive drive to ease any pains or sorrows in any ways that I am able. I graduated from School Yoga Institute in June of 2009. I practice Sadhana Yoga, which consists of ancient traditions from India and South America including Shamanic healing, Ashtanga, Sivananda, Reiki and Kundalini yoga.

Using the chakras as a foundation, this class will move from root to crown in a balanced practice of breath, movement, mudras (hand gestures) and sound. All levels are welcome.

About Kathleen Vetter: Kathleen began studying Kripalu Yoga with Shirley Sherry of Walpole, NH in 1986. She completed teacher training at Kripalu and received certification in 2004, continuing her study with teachers at the Kripalu Center, with Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten, and with Shiva Rea. She is currently in a professional training in therapeutic yoga with Joseph & Lillian Le Page.

Kripalu yoga with a focus on breath and gentle stretch.

About John Wall: Kripalu yoga trained and certified I have taught yoga in the Monadnock region for five years. I am a member of the Kripau Yoga Teachers Association and an advocate for Yoga for Vets. My focus has been to introduce yoga to men in need of an outlet for the stress of providing for thier famlies. Providing free classes for all unemployed men and women and to our veterans who have given so much for us.

Come to explore one of the most complex postures: the triangle. Learn the details of alignment and meaning.

About Josephine: Josephine took her first yoga class on a slow boat to India in the 60's. It was in the 90's that her teacher said to her: "It's time for you to teach now." Today she is a teacher's teacher, teaching many yoga teacher training courses around the world.

Designed to introduce a basic understanding of Therapeutic Breathwork. Offered by POBI Certified Practitioners, the Power of Breath Intro includes a discussion of the body, heart, mind and spiritual benefits of breathwork, theory and practice, as well as full-length, safe, facilitated breath session.

About Jeremy Youst: Jeremy Youst is the founder of the Power of Breath Institute located in Spofford, New Hampshire. Since 2001 The Power of Breath Institute has offered private sessions, personal intensives, workshops, and a life-changing nine-month Empowerment Training. Jeremy serves on the International Breathwork Training Alliance board and is the author of numerous articles on breathwork and personal empowerment.

In this class we will focus on yogic philosophies as it relates to pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period through the teachings of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. We will explore:
-Yoga postures to assist in comfort during pregnancy and birth
-Meditation and pranayama techniques to help you focus and uplift your spirit
-Simple lifestyle choices for pregnancy and postpartum that promote the well-being of you and your baby.

About Jennie Gryczka:  Jennie Gryczka (Guru Sahai Kaur) teaches Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga. She has been practicing yoga for 13 years and completed her 200 hour Yoga Alliance training in 2002 and has recently completed Conscious Pregnancy teacher training. She brings her love of meditation, movement and interest in nutrition and healing to her practice and teachings. She enjoys teaching women in all stages of life and her teachings are inspired by her own journey toward health of body, mind and spirit and through her experience as a mother and labor assistant (doula).

The shoulder joint includes more muscles than any other part of the body. As a result, the neck and shoulder area tends to be where many people experience tightness, hold tension or have pain or injury at some time in their life. Yoga therapeutics and trigger point self-treatment for the neck and shoulders includes manual techniques and postures designed specifically to relieve muscular and neural pain related to this part of the body.

About Mark Rebillard & Kerry Doyle: Mark Rebillard, LMT is the founder of Deep Roots Massage and Bodywork in downtown Keene. His work incorporates techniques from Deep Tissue, Swedish Massage, Trigger Point, Myofascial Release and Sports Massage. Mark was voted #1 for Massage Therapy in the 2010 Monadnock Shopper News Readers poll. Kerry Doyle, RYT teaches Iyengar-based yoga classes Keene. She also teaches individual sessions and helps develop specialized home practices for people with chronic injuries, tension or areas of tightness.

Vinyasa means breathing and movement system. For each movement, there is one breath. In this way all asanas are assigned a certain number of vinyasas. The purpose of vinyasa is for internal cleansing. The combination of the asanas with movement and breath make the blood circulate freely around all the joints. The heated blood also moves through all the internal organs removing impurities and disease.

Ever wondered why you are comfortable doing yoga, except for the sitting pose? Or what is mountain-like about standing (mountain) pose? Or do we have to do another downward facing dog?! Then, this clinic on yoga basics is for you. Stop by for some alignment tips on any or all three of these great poses.

About Lixa: Liza Dupuis teaches Anusara style yoga in Keene. In a nutshell, her classes explore aligning body, mind, and spirit, in order to connect with our own intrinsic goodness. She is passionate about sharing yoga!

Get your body moving and have fun with yoga. Children’s yoga nurtures self-confidence, creativity, and strong supple bodies. While there are countless benefits from practicing yoga for the focus is to foster a positive sense of self and lasting inner peace. While children slither like snakes or jump around the room as frogs or they deepen their connection to the natural world and let their imaginations shine.

Hatha Flow a moderate paced yoga class focusing on asana and pranayama to strengthen the body and clear the mind. Postures will be held for varying amounts of time to deepen the experience. The class will end with a guided imagery relaxation.

About Justina Patrick: Justina Patrick is a dedicated yoga student and teacher. She earned her 200 hour certification from the SchoolYoga Institute. Justina is also a certified kids yoga instructor. She enjoys sharing yoga with all ages and abilities. Justina is the proud mother of two children and resides in the Keene area.

Join Lindsay for Yoga Through your Senses. In this gentle, vinyasa style class, we will explore postures that may be familiar, but look at them through the lenses of the five senses. This class will offer a chance for internal exploration, where we will awaken the senses!

About Lindsay: Lindsay Taflas is a 200 hr. certified yoga teacher through the School Yoga Institute. Lindsay began studying yoga in 2005, but it wasn’t until 2008 when she studied in Halkida Greece, with the Sunshine House Network, that she became truly passionate about yoga. Lindsay also studies movement across multiple disciplines: yoga, ballet, modern dance and improvisation. She is always searching, questioning and learning new ideas about movement and the relationship between movement and breath. Lindsay hopes that each student she works with will leave her class feeling that they made a new discovery, either about their practice, their movement, or about themselves.

Kripalu YogaDance is a joyous, fun-filled movement practice that combines
moving yoga, breath, energy, and free-spirited dance. It tones muscles, builds
flexibility, endurance, and cardiovascular fitness. YogaDance is appropriate for
everyone - from athletes and professional dancers to someone who may be
healing from an injury – or even someone in a wheelchair. Modifications and
variations abound. YogaDance provides an outlet for experiencing pure joy,
creative expression, relaxation, and comfort in our body.

About Robyn Andersen-Hannett: Robyn has been dancing her whole life for pure delight and enjoyment of dance. She has been practicing yoga for 10 years, and teaching yoga for four. She is
certified in Kripalu YogaDance and Creative Kids yoga.

Enjoy a backbend/hip-opening start to your day. Get ready to bare your heart in the middle of winter! Suitable for all levels, except absolute beginners.

About Liza Dupuis: Liza Dupuis teaches Anusara style yoga in Keene. Her classes use yoga to celebrate life and our connection to ourselves, our communities, and the world. All are welcome.

Embark on a journey to your Highest Self using the breath, sacred geometry and guided imagery to reach a place of stillness allowing you to journey to your inner sanctuary. This is a guided meditation, open to all levels, leaving you with the tools to return to your sanctuary as often as you wish.

About Anjili: Anjili has been traveling and studying yoga, meditation & various esoteric studies in India, Central America, Europe, & North America for the past 4 years. Her passion is to share with others the tools she has learned in her own discovery of self.

Hear a talk about the philosophy underlining the practice of yoga. The 8 limbs are from the Yoga Sutras by Patanjali.

About Josephine: Josephine took her first yoga class on a slow boat to India in the 60's. It was in the 90's that her teacher said to her: "It's time for you to teach now." Today she is a teacher's teacher, teaching many yoga teacher training courses around the world.

Ravi offers a deeply meditative and devotional Kirtan. Kirtan is the practice of Bhakti yoga, otherwise known as the yoga of devotion. It is the spiritual practice of singing the Divine name in call and response.

About Ravi: A talented musician and harmonium player, Ravi regularly offers kirtan at venues across New England and beyond, as well as accompanying several other kirtan artists. He plays live music for yoga classes and yoga retreats, and for many fundraising and charity events. A serious student of yoga, Sanskrit mantra and Indian classical music, Ravi offers a traditional style Kirtan.

Ravi views it as his dharma or sacred path to bring the powerful practice and benefits of mantra to others. He opens to grace, and allows himself to be guided in the process of leading Kirtan. Whether playing solo or accompanied by other talented musicians, he connects to grace to uplift and bring people to deeper states of bliss and meditation.
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We will use the various practices of hatha yoga--breathwork, posture, relaxation and meditation to immerse ourselves in the experience of mindfulness. Mindfulness has been defined as bringing one's full awareness to the present moment's experience without judgment; meeting whatever we discover with an attitude of welcome, allowing it be just as it already is, without adding to or diminishing any aspect of it. All levels of ability are welcome.

About Rebecca Marshall: Rebecca Marshall, M.Ed., holds a Master’s in Mental Health Counseling with a special interest in mindfulness-based interventions for working with mental health issues. She is also a Kripalu certified yoga instructor with 12 years teaching experience, and has been studying with various teachers in the Vipassana (Insight) meditation tradition since 2005. She currently teaches one public class per week at the Monadnock Mindfulness Practice Center, 103 Roxbury St. in Keene, on Fridays from 5:00-6:15pm.

Think you can't do yoga because you can't get up and down from the floor? This is a gentle class of modified yoga poses using a chair, straps and blocks.

About Cherryl Jensen: Cherryl has been teaching yoga for three years and is certified in Embodyoga at the 200-hour level and 500-hour level . Embodyoga is often called "yoga from the inside out" and emphasizes self-knowledge, self-acceptance and compassion. Cherryl also has certificates in teaching yoga to veterans with PTSD and trauma-sensitive yoga teaching. She is a writer and focuses on healing the body/mind through the powerful spiritual practices of writing and yoga.

An introduction for hospice workers, volunteers and lay people exploring the journey of the breath and dying, to ease transitions and suffering in this lifetime. Using simple breath exercises & practices, we will briefly explore their foundations in yoga and Tibetan teachings related to the Great Liberation yogas. Breath Facilitator Peter Hendrick.

About Peter Hendrick: Peter is an acting coach, a breath practitioner and a yogin of Phowa, one of the Six Yogas of Naropa. Peter teaches adults to act in classes and workshops by empowering their voice and being through the simple act of connecting breath to source.

This class will get your body moving, and still give you a chance to contemplate awareness within each of the postures. We will focus on correct alignment, breathing steadily and evenly allowing us to connect with our inner divinity.

About Liz Seaman: Liz Seaman is the owner of Cornerstone Yoga at 305 Park Ave., in Keene, N.H. She was originally certified to teach yoga through Kripalu in Lenox, Ma. in 2004, and continues her training through various workshops and classes. She teaches many different populations including high school sports teams, and addiction based groups. She also works with her husband, Dr. Brooks Seaman, as a massage therapist at Cornerstone Center for Wellness in Keene. She is a mom and proudly has 6 children ages 10-26 years old.

Intermediate level this class is designed for those who have practiced yoga for atleast 6 months. Michelle will guide you through a choreographed vinyasa sequence of sun salutations, warrior series, invigorating backbends, rejunenating twists, and reflective forward bends. Cleanse your body, mind, and spirit. Strengthen your muscles, increase your flexibilty, and cultivate both wellness and peace of mind.

About Michelle Davis: Michelle is Kripalu certified at the 200 hour level. She is also certified through The SchoolYoga Institute at the 500 hour level. Michelle spent some time in Guatemala with the SchoolYoga Institute during the summer of 2010 where she fullfilled a work study as an assistant to Vedantin Ping Luo, director of the SchoolYoga Instutite, upon completing her work study she recieved an 800 hour level certification allowing her to be an assistant facilitator for the SchoolYoga Institute. Michelle studied modern dance at Keene State College and holds a B.A. in Theatre and Dance from KSC.She considers her style an eclectic blend of both modern and classical yoga creating a fun and inspiring approach to her teaching style.

Refining poses is an interest of many yoga students. Both physical and energetic adjustments can enhance a yoga practice and help a student experience a pose in a new way. It can be the essence of increased awareness, new perception, and changed state. We will explore ways to adjust several poses in this workshop style class. Appropriate for yoga teachers and also students who are interested in learning how adjustments can influence their practice.

About Bryan Russell: Bryan has been teaching yoga classes in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire since 2005 and is also a facilitator for the Yoga Teacher Training Course in Keene and around the world offered through SchoolYoga Institute (www.schoolyogainstitute.com). Bryan is an active member in the local yoga community and has been involved with projects like YogaDay Keene, KeeneOnYoga.com, and many others. Bryan’s classes vary in style and ability and he enjoys having fun and being creative while still maintaining a disciplined approach to the yoga practice.

Experience a very deep relaxation that helps not only defragging our brain, but also improves memory and learning. RxRelax also gives an opportunity to all the body systems to restore them to peak efficiency. In this session, we will travel through the unconsious and subconscious, as we transcend the conscious mind.

About Jay Gupta: Presented by Jay Gupta: Jay began his study of yoga in India in 1983 and has been exploring the depths of yoga since then. He co-founded a 501 c(3) non-profit, YogaCaps Inc, with his wife Terry to help serve humanity by sharing healthy lifestyle practices. He holds a special place for sharing the joy of yoga with at-risk and under-served populations like cancer survivors and seniors. He has traveled from the Himalayas (India, Nepal, Tibet) to Kerala (southern most part of India) learning a variety of yoga and nature cure practices. He has served on the faculty of several Yoga Teacher Training programs, including an Advanced Yoga Teacher Training Program, covering 15 yoga studios from the greater Boston to Cape Cod area.

Intermediate, flowing, yoga class connecting the breath to the movement. This class will encourage students to work to their edge. Students should have some yoga experience although all levels are welcome to give it a try!

About Justina Patrick: Justina Patrick is a dedicated yoga student and teacher. She earned her 200 hour certification from the SchoolYoga Institute. Justina is also a certified kids yoga instructor. She enjoys sharing yoga with all ages and abilities. Justina is the proud mother of two children and resides in the Keene area.

All Levels Kripalu class is a great thing to try.

About Michelle Davis: Michelle is Kripalu certified at the 200 hour level. She is also certified through The SchoolYoga Institute at the 500 hour level. Michelle spent some time in Guatemala with the SchoolYoga Institute during the summer of 2010 where she fullfilled a work study as an assistant to Vedantin Ping Luo, director of the SchoolYoga Instutite, upon completing her work study she recieved an 800 hour level certification allowing her to be an assistant facilitator for the SchoolYoga Institute. Michelle studied modern dance at Keene State College and holds a B.A. in Theatre and Dance from KSC.She considers her style an eclectic blend of both modern and classical yoga creating a fun and inspiring approach to her teaching style.

Mindfulness Meditation sessions draw our attention to the breath and body in order to become more aware -- seeing our sensations, thoughts, and emotions with compassion and curiosity. Without judging, we train in kindly acknowledging whatever is going on in the present moment, holding our awareness open and receptive, breath by breath.

About Aylene Wozmak: Aylene Wozmak has been practicing meditation for over 10 years and is currently the Chairperson for The Monadnock Mindfulness Practice Center in Keene NH. She went to India on a Buddhist Pilgrimmage and has done silent retreats to deepen her practice. She holds a degree in Nursing and has a certificate for the specialty of Hospice Nursing. She has been working for Hospice at HCS for nearly 20 years.

 

About Amy King: Amy is a 200 hr. certified teacher from Frog Pond Yoga in Princeton, Ma. She is currently teaching all levels yoga at Yoga For Health in Lunenburg , Ma and she teaches Yoga & Meditation classes as well.

Get your body moving and have fun with yoga. Children’s yoga nurtures self-confidence, creativity, and strong supple bodies. While there are countless benefits from practicing yoga for the focus is to foster a positive sense of self and lasting inner peace. While children slither like snakes or jump around the room as frogs or they deepen their connection to the natural world and let their imaginations shine.