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EXCEPTIONAL TEACHERS
Alice Wylie
Alice has been teaching yoga in the DC area since 2004 and is an E-RYT500 through Yoga Alliance. She received her training through Tranquil Space and Hot Yoga. Alice received her B.S. in Ballet and French from Indiana University and continued to dance professionally in ballet, modern, and contemporary companies for over 12 years, touring, performing, and teaching internationally. Her varied experiences with dance, for which she is deeply grateful, have helped inform and influence all of her teaching...
...Vinyasa
The class always includes a proper full body warm-up, mindful movement and sequencing, attention to safe alignment, and clear guidance of breath-initiated flow. While the class is geared toward the intermediate practitioner, modifications are made to suit newer students and variations for the more experienced student.This is not a hot yoga class. The studio temperature will be adjusted depending on outside weather conditions to suit the comfort level of students and to optimize the benefits of the practice. Usually, the temperature will range between 76 degrees and 80 degrees, with the maximum being the exception rather than the rule.
This class is foremost a space for breath work. It explores postures and observes the effects of breath, movement, and stillness on the body and mind. Through the use of adjustments and/or props, the student will learn to fit the postures to the body to experience their maximum benefits, and they will learn to breathe more freely so that both their mind and body find ease.This class may incorporate either, or both, continuous movement through vinyasa and/or time spent holding individual postures to explore them more deeply. The teacher will offer modifications so that the student can either increase or decrease the level of physical intensity of the class in order to fit individual needs. The class is taught without music, as students are encouraged to move to the sound of their breath.
The class is meant for those with knowledge of basic yoga postures.
This is not a hot yoga class. The studio temperature will be adjusted depending on outside weather conditions to suit the comfort level of students and to optimize the benefits of the practice. Usually, the temperature will range between 76 degrees and 80 degrees, with the maximum being the exception rather than the rule.
Audrey Roxas
Audrey has been practicing yoga for over 15 years and initially sought it as a way to take a break from the daily work pressures. As her practice matured, she has also realized the spiritual and quieting benefits of yoga – the ability to stop the chatter and just be still. Certified at the 500 hour level, her classes are fun, dynamic, and challenging. They are focused on building strength and stability (aiming for form versus depth) but offers plenty of room for students to work on expanding their own practice. With her continued desire to share her practice, she is also certified in the healing art of Thai Yoga (assisted yoga) and Restorative Yoga (through Judith Hanson Lasater). She attributes her love for yoga, her center, and grounding from all the wonderful teachers she has and had...
...Vinyasa
In class, students can expect to build heat in this flowing, well being practice. Breath and movement are syncopated to calm the nervous system and energize the body. Students will flush their joints, break into a sweat, and restore the mobility compromised by hours of sitting on a chair.
Cate Gaffney
Cate Gaffney started practicing yoga 20 years ago, but it wasn’t until she moved to San Francisco that she found her yoga community. She studied and practiced with a variety of teachers and completed 300 hours of Bhakti Flow training with Rusty Wells. With Rusty’s guidance her yoga practice deepened becoming more consistent and spirit filled. Always the seeker, Cate found other ways to engage with the spirit, studying energy medicine, shamanism, and hypnosis. Cate infuses her teaching with lightness and the idea of finding joy in one’s practice. Cate is a Bhakti Flow certified yoga instructor, Reiki II practitioner and a hypnotherapist...
...Flow
This class is suitable for the adventurous beginner to the advanced student.
It is a mindfully sequenced dynamic vinyasa flow practice. Students are given variations that enable everyone to practice at their own level while keeping up with the flow. Students should expect to move, breath and wake up with a little devotion added at the end.
The studio temperature is kept at a comfortable level, never overheated.
David Ingalls
David became certified to teach Transcendental Meditation in 1972 and has been teaching ever since! He first began the practice of Ashtanga in 1994 and soon after went to Mysore, India to study with Pattabhi Jois (founder of Ashtanga). He also studied in India with the renowned Adviata sage and author Ramesh Balsekar, A.G. Mohan, and his wife Indra (students of master Krishnamacharya). He is the first person In DC to be certified in the Svastha system. Currently David likes to combine the awareness of the breath work of Svastha with the physical form of Ashtanga...
...Ashtanga, Vinyasa
Who should attendAre you new to yoga, or simply looking to gain a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of yoga philosophy and postures? This workshop is limited to only 15 students so that each person can get more individualized attention. Join David Ingalls for this 4-part series where we will break down yoga basics!
What will be taught
Each session will begin with a brief discussion of yoga as a practice – covering the basics of the Eight Limbs of Yoga, history, lineage, and the practice of Yoga. That will be followed by a simple, but powerful, yoga practice, in which we will explore the elements of the basic yoga asanas. We will have time to answer any questions and concerns about each posture - including how to modify the postures to suit each individual's body.
What will be leaned
Expect to learn fundamental Standing, Balancing, and Seated Poses, as well as the important actions in traditional Sun Salutations.
You will leave with an understanding of the alignment goals and actions of basic postures, how to use the breath to deepen your experience, and yogic tools to calm & steady the mind. Please bring yourself, a journal and pen, and a willingness to learn!
*Space is limited! Only 15 spots available.
Fee: $75
Svastha is a breath first practice. This class works on going in and quieting the mind through the use of breath. Good breath work is essential to finding the quietness inside and deepening the practice.
Each class will teach the student how to establish good breathing habits in both the postures and in Pranayamas.The class finishes with 15 minutes of dedicated Pranayama.
This class is intended for students with some knowledge of yoga.
Dena Kahn
Gentle
Geneva Moss
At the age of twenty, Geneva's first teacher impressed upon her the long term benefits of yoga as choices to increase health and well being. Through the following years her practice has come to embrace the richness of the totality of yoga as her dharma. The wisdom and practice of yoga resonate with Geneva to the core of her being. She commits herself and her teaching to the study and exploration of the self through the practice of Tantra Hatha Yoga. Geneva began teaching yoga internationally in 2005, and is a certified ParaYoga teacher and registered 500-hour Yoga Alliance teacher. Her classes create the opportunity to explore balance and stability within the fire of effort. Geneva's students experience a personal, committed and connected practice with intelligent sequencing, curiousity and the balance of humor and depth. Geneva's goal in teaching is to help her students be empowered and connect mind, body and energy and bring awareness to their own inner teacher. She continues to study extensively with her teachers Yogarupa Rod Stryker and Pandit Rajmani Tigunait. Geneva writes, travels, and offers the light and wisdom of yoga and meditation both in private and public classes, workshops, festivals, and retreats. Prior to teaching yoga, Geneva was a successful technology consultant and business development specialist and manager. Geneva resides in the DC Metro area with her family...
...Gentle, Hatha
The movements are slow, mindful and breath centric - allowing each student the opportunity to discover new depths of practice and how each action has the potential to open, strengthen and nourish. The poses, employing dynamic movement, as well as holding poses allows the body to explore the steadiness of stillness. Students will feel restored, refreshed and nourished.
The studio temperature is kept at a comfortable level consistent with outside weather conditions.
Gurjeet Khalsa
Gurjeet Khalsa has been practicing and teaching Pilates since 2007. She has a 700 hour comprehensive teaching certificate from the Articulate Eye Teacher Training Program. She also has a background in yoga, teaching Kundalini Yoga for many years before discovering Pilates. She enjoys sharing the experience of strength and sense of wellbeing that Pilates brings...
...Mat Pilates
Whether you’re a new student or coming for a refresher, this 4 week series is for you. We will cover the fundamental Pilates exercises and concepts, preparing you for a Level 1 or mixed level class. Like yoga, Pilates is a mind/body form of exercise. It develops core strength and stability, balance and flexibility. In addition to all the basic Pilates exercises, we will focus on breathing, posture and alignment.
It is recommended to sign up for the complete series to get the full benefits.
Whether you’re a new student or coming for a refresher, this 4 week series is for you. We will cover the fundamental Pilates exercises and concepts, preparing you for a Level 1 or mixed level class. Like yoga, Pilates is a mind/body form of exercise. It develops core strength and stability, balance and flexibility. In addition to all the basic Pilates exercises, we will focus on breathing, posture and alignment.It is recommended to sign up for the complete series to get the full benefits.Fee: $80 for all 4 classes
$22 for a drop-in
Jen Dryer
Jen is a native New Yorker who moved to DC in 2009, after 14 years of living and practicing yoga in NYC. She began her journey into yoga in 1996 to help combat the stress of life as a NYC public school teacher, and since then has made yoga an integral part of her world. She completed a Vinyasa Yoga Teacher training in 2006, where she was trained to teach in both Prana Flow yoga and power yoga styles. Now a mother of 2, she has become well-trained on how to modify for pregnancy and post-partum yoginis. She has taught yoga to children, teens, expectant mamas and adults and loves sharing what yoga has given her. Her teachings embrace creative flow sequences and mindful movement, while retaining attention to alignment and breathing practices that you can easily bring with you off the mat. Her classes allow her students the chance to strengthen, lengthen, relax and let go of daily stresses. Her yoga teaching influences include Shiva Rea, Lauren Hanna, Jonathan Fields, Twee Merrigan, David Regelin, Jessica Lazar and Rob Hess...
...Flow, Vinyasa
The studio temperature will be adjusted depending on outside weather conditions to suit the comfort level of students and to optimize the benefits of the practice. Usually, the temperature will range between 76 degrees and 80 degrees, with the maximum being the exception rather than the rule.
Katherine Little-Richardson
Katherine began taking classical Pilates mat classes in the 1990's to augment her Athletic conditioning training. She continued taking Pilates classes and studying Pilates with second generation Pilates Instructors. In 2007, Katherine earned her first classical Pilates certification and began teaching Pilates. As she continued to teach and train through the years, she earned a second classical Pilates certification and a contemporary Pilates comprehensive certification. She firmly believes Pilates helped her improve posture, strength, coordination, balance, concentration, alignment, endurance, breathing, and the mind-body connection. Her training style embraces that belief and is applied in her classes...
...Mat Pilates
Katherine began taking classical Pilates mat classes in the 1990's to augment her Athletic conditioning training. She continued taking Pilates classes and studying Pilates with second generation Pilates Instructors. In 2007, Katherine earned her first classical Pilates certification and began teaching Pilates. As she continued to teach and train through the years, she earned a second classical Pilates certification and a contemporary Pilates comprehensive certification. She firmly believes Pilates helped her improve posture, strength, coordination, balance, concentration, alignment, endurance, breathing, and the mind-body connection. Her training style embraces that belief and is applied in her classes.Pilates Certifications:
Power Pilates: 1 & 2
Balanced Body: Comprehensive
Our classes strengthen and lengthen core muscles while opening joints and releasing tension. Making use of a stability ball, students learn how to modify the workout to a level appropriate for them, create and condition strong, elongated and flexible muscles that improve posture, strength and overall mobility. The deep abdominal and spinal muscles will be triggered, and the spine decompressed.Individual attention is provided to make beginners feel at ease while not-so beginners get to perfect their form and further strengthen their core.Recommended for all levels.
Lindsay MacDougall
Lindsay MacDougall has been practicing yoga since 2008 in the ashtanga, hatha, and Iyengar styles over the years studying with well-known teachers of these styles in the D.C. area. She holds a masters degree in acupuncture and has been a licensed acupuncturist in the Maryland and Washington, D.C. area since 2013. She completed a hatha style teacher training with Neva Ingalls of Inner Domain yoga in September 2017, and teaches a regular Vinyasa Flow class at a local gym. Since becoming a yoga teacher (she started a teacher training in 2009 but interrupted it to go to acupuncture school), she is overjoyed to be breathing and flowing with people mindfully outside of her practice, working with their wellness through asana...
...Vinyasa
The class begins with a short mindfulness practice and also ends with it. In the class students do variations of standing poses, varied twists, inversions (tripod headstand, forearm balance, shoulder, headstand, and handstand, as well as arm balances). Both Level I and II versions are offered.
The potential physical and emotional health benefits of these practices are increased stamina, flexibility, and strength in muscle groups not otherwise used. or practiced, a calmer mind, less anxiety, and a cleaner internal state of emotional and mental balance.
Come explore a perfect wellness pairing and total health reset in this two-hour workshop. We will start with gentle yoga asana to warm up and open up the body and then move into Savasana when needles at acupuncture points inserted at the hands and feet and top of the head. With supportive props to create a space of deep rest and restoration, enjoy feeling the body moving into deeper waves of relaxation and peace with acupuncture in this collective healing setting.
The studio temperature will be adjusted depending on outside weather conditions to suit the comfort level of students and to optimize the benefits of the practice. Usually, the temperature will range between 76 degrees and 80 degrees, with the maximum being the exception rather than the rule.
Neva Ingalls
Neva Ingalls has been on the journey of Yoga since her teenage years when she was initiated into Raj Yoga by her first and most important teacher Prem Rawat (Maharaji). Immersed in a lifelong study of classical ballet, Martha Graham technique and various forms of Jazz and international dance, Neva came to the Vinyasa practice later, in the late 1980’s, when introduced to simple breath guided sequences supported by bandhas, by a teacher who studied in India with Sri Krishnamacharya, the father of most of the asana practice lineages we know in the west. Not realizing the power and significance of these techniques before they were generally known, Neva nonetheless practiced them diligently and experienced spontaneous flow sequences that arose from her personal practice. Neva studied daily with yogis, such as Micheline Berry, Mark Stephens, Lauren Peterson, Max Strom and later, Shiva Rae and Annie Carpenter. She also practiced Ashtanga Yoga with Lauren Peterson and Chuck Miller, and completed Ashtanga teacher training with David Swenson in 2001. Neva is E-RYT500 and certified Yoga Therapist with IYAT, and developed the Yoga Alliance registered, Inner Domain 5 Element 200/300/500 Yoga Teacher Training School in 2006. She has been leading trainings and retreats in the USA and abroad since, and many gifted graduates are now successfully teaching in the Washington DC area or wherever they have moved. In Neva’s classes you can expect the challenge to be as much about letting go, as about applying effort and the latter will be encouraged with total balanced awareness arising from breath awareness. Neva’s sequences are spontaneous and creative and incorporate other movement healing systems such as Feldenkrais and Qi Gong. Neva’s studies continue and now include a certification in Ayurveda through Dr Frawley’s American Vedic Institute. Find out more about Neva and her offerings at www.innerdomain.org...
...Vinyasa
This class is geared to regular, serious and knowledgable students. Students will be guided to self awareness through breath awareness and through breath awareness to finding a perfect balance between ease and effort, strength and graceful flow. The class includes a variety of Sun Salutations, standing poses, balances, arm balances, inversions, backbends, forward bends,hip openers, twists, supine positions and savasana. Students will receive a thorough awakening of strength, vitality, range of motion, a centered, grounded emotional state and enhanced self awareness. Challenging sequences will build upon one another leading students into a new and invigorating edge while encouraged to maintain poise and equanimity throughout.
This is not a hot yoga class. The studio temperature will be adjusted depending on outside weather conditions to suit the comfort level of students and to optimize the benefits of the practice. Usually, the temperature will range between 76 degrees and 80 degrees, with the maximum being the exception rather than the rule.
Rajiv Dhar
Rajiv Dhar received his yoga teaching certification from Laughing Lotus in New York in 2011. He first began practicing to connect with his spiritual and cultural roots and reverse the effects of sitting at a desk and the other sedentary influences of modern life. Rajiv challenges his students to ground themselves in the present moment while working to mindfully create space and open the physical body for experiencing improved energy flow in daily life. He also maintains a regular meditation practice and has studied extensively at the Kadampa Meditation Center in NY and the Amitayus Buddhist Center in Philadelphia...
...Vinyasa
Rebecca Kanin
Becca completed her 200-hour RYT training at Hot Yoga, in Washington D.C. After rowing in college and long distance running for years, Becca found yoga as a great balance to the competitive strain on her body. Becca focuses her classes on breath and alignment. Come to her class ready to work hard or to take a break from your day. Becca grew up in the DC area and lived in New England for ten years before moving back to D.C. to escape the long winters...
...Vinyasa
After our 60 minute class, if time permits, stay for some extra minutes of meditation.
The studio temperature will be kept at a comfortable level.
Robin Glantz
Robin Glantz is a 500-hour Certified Yoga Instructor (RYT-500), and a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), both in the Viniyoga tradition under the guidance of Gary Kraftsow. Robin invites her students to begin from where they are, and practice with an intention of self-awareness and self-discovery. Connecting to our breath, Robin uses yoga poses ("asana"), breathwork ("pranayama"), and meditation to integrate mind, body and spirit. After class, you can expect to feel energized yet calm, peaceful and nourished. Viniyoga adapts to the individual needs of each student and is wonderful for all levels of practitioners. Robin teaches group classes, as well as therapeutic workshops on diverse topics such as Insomnia and Managing Stress. She also works with private clients on structural, physiological and emotional issues. Robin is a Level-1 Lifeforce Yoga practitioner and an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. Prior to teaching yoga, she spent her career at the World Bank after Harvard Business School, and lives in AU Park with her husband...
...Gentle
Ronnie Jersky
Ronnie has enjoyed a 30 year career as a traditional teacher, teacher mentor, and curriculum specialist. Concurrently, she was and remains a personal fitness trainer and group exercise teacher. In 2002, while visiting family in Philadelphia, Ronnie attended a yoga class led by internationally acclaimed yoga master Baron Baptiste and her whole perspective of mental and physical body transformation immediately changed. Having pursued myriad teacher trainings with the yoga world community’s highly reputed yoga teachers over the years, Baron remains her most inspiring influence. Ronnie incorporates her dedication to breath work, alignment precision, playfulness, and creativity in her challenging and accessible vinyasa flow sequences. She encourages hard work and lightheartedness throughout one’s yoga practice, the “sthira and sukha” of all poses and one’s life. Ronnie’s forte is her attention to every client’s amplification and modification needs within an all level’s class. She creates classes from an intuitive and organic perspective. Spiritual connectivity and laughter can be found in every practice. Yoga practice is a true celebration of who we are and the more we practice, the more we learn to live abundantly and courageously. Ronnie believes that there is a trustworthy road through whatever life brings. Loving yourself will help you find it. Yoga will help you find the love...
...Flow, Power, Vinyasa
Sarah Hull
Sarah, a Certified Iyengar Yoga Teacher (CIYT), stepped into her first asana class back in 2007 and started attending Iyengar yoga classes in 2009. Sarah offers classes focused on balance, strength, and alignment to explore the yogic principles of sithra and sukha – strength and ease. She maintains regular study with her mentor Doerthe Braun and further ongoing study with senior teachers including Lois Steinberg. In her classes, Sarah looks to honor and share the teachings of her teachers, their teachers, and inspire others.
...Iyengar
Sophia Spencer
Sophia Spencer received her teaching certificate in 2005. She went on to take more training and attended workshops with different master teachers. Sophia has been teaching Vinyasa Flow in DC and MD ever since. She taught at SEC, NASA and other government agencies, and she also taught three teacher trainings. Her classes are challenging yet accessible. She encourages students to explore their ability under her safe instruction and yet find their edge physically and mentally. Her focus is to help students build a stronger yoga practice and get all the benefits associated with a serious yoga practice...
...Flow, Vinyasa
As a level II/III Vinyasa class students will be guided to self awareness through breath awareness and through breath awareness to finding a perfect balance between ease and effort, strength and graceful flow. This class is geared to regular, serious and knowledgable students and will include a variety of Sun Salutations, standing poses, balances, arm balances, inversions, backbends, forward bends,hip openers, twists, supine positions and savasana. You will receive a thorough awakening of strength, vitality, range of motion, centered, grounded mental emotional state and enhanced self awareness. Challenging sequences will build upon one another leading you into new and invigorating edge while encouraged to maintain poise and equanimity throughout.
The studio temperature will be adjusted depending on outside weather conditions to suit the comfort level of students and to optimize the benefits of the practice.
Stanley Currier
Stanley first started practicing yoga in Kazakhstan in 2003, and has been blessed to study with teachers in different parts of the world including the US, Japan and India. He has trained in hatha and vinyasa style yoga, and most recently received his 300 hour certification in the Jivamukti Yoga method and 200 hour certification from Buddha B Yoga. Prior to moving to Washington, DC, Stanley taught yoga in Portland, Oregon and Almaty, Kazakhstan. He continues to study and explore the many paths of yoga, and strives to root his practice and teaching first and foremost in kindness and compassion. Stanley holds master’s degrees in education and peace studies, and works for an international non-profit organization in downtown Washington, D.C...
...Jivamukti
Susan Hanan
Susan Hanan (E-RYT, 500) received her ISHTA training in 2001 in New York City under Alan Finger. She is known for teaching well-sequenced, creative classes that focus on strength, flexibility, balance and alignment. Her teaching style is strongly influenced by her personal Iyengar practice of many years. Susan believes that alignment is the key to a sustainable and life-long practice and works closely with her students to help each and every one find success on their mat. In 2007 and 2008 she had the privilege of teaching weekly yoga classes at the White House to First Lady Laura Bush. Susan enjoys her personal practice and learning from others, as much as she enjoys assisting her students...
...Flow & Align, Yin
Susan Hanan (E-RYT, 500) received her ISHTA training in 2001 in New York City under Alan Finger. She is known for teaching well-sequenced, creative classes that focus on strength, flexibility, balance and alignment. Her teaching style is strongly influenced by her personal Iyengar practice of many years. Susan believes that alignment is the key to a sustainable and life-long practice and works closely with her students to help each and every one find success on their mat. In 2007 and 2008 she had the privilege of teaching weekly yoga classes at the White House to First Lady Laura Bush. Susan enjoys her personal practice and learning from others, as much as she enjoys assisting her students.
Suzanne Muro
Suzanne Muro has been teaching private and group classes in the area since 2011 and has pursued advanced studies and mentorship in private teaching, anatomy and sequencing. She has led three teacher trainings. In her group classes, she emphasizes physical challenge, curiosity and accessibility. Expect a challenging class that cultivates strength and mobility that will bring tangible benefits to the student's everyday life...
...Vinyasa
This moderately vigorous vinyasa flow class is ideal for advanced beginner to intermediate students but offers option for all levels to enjoy. We will explore mindfulness and breath using creative sequences and transitions that allow ample time to explore strength and alignment in each posture. Expect to move, breathe, sweat a little and set the pause button on your day. You will leave feeling refreshed. This class is set to music.
This is not a hot yoga class. The studio temperature will be adjusted depending on outside weather conditions to suit the comfort level of students and to optimize the benefits of the practice. Usually, the temperature will range between 76 degrees and 80 degrees, with the maximum being the exception rather than the rule.
Sydnea Lewis
What started out as a way to reach youth in D.C., Sydnea has been teaching yoga and dance in the D.C. area since 2015. Initially only certified to teach children through Circle Yoga, Sydnea went on to get her 200hr Hatha Certification from Yoga District which set her on a journey that she could have never expected.
Sydnea holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Howard University and a Master’s of Graphic Design from The Florence Design Academy, and has been working in the design and marketing field for almost 8 years. ...
...Vinyasa
What started out as a way to reach youth in D.C., Sydnea has been teaching yoga and dance in the D.C. area since 2015. Initially only certified to teach children through Circle Yoga, Sydnea went on to get her 200hr Hatha Certification from Yoga District which set her on a journey that she could have never expected.
Sydnea holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Howard University and a Master’s of Graphic Design from The Florence Design Academy, and has been working in the design and marketing field for almost 8 years.
Sydnea has been able to use her innate creative abilities to hone in on the movement and stillness of the mind, body, and spirit. Yoga has been a part of her life for almost a decade, and her practice has helped her grow stronger, more flexible and fearless, both on and off the mat.
With the certifications Sydnea has attained so far she has been able to move, touch and inspire not only the lives of children in schools but adults as well. She truly believes that yoga can be for everyone – regardless of age, race & background – and is striving to share that with her peers.
Wendy McGrath
Wendy is a former ACE (American Council on Exercise) certified fitness instructor with a background in dance. She has practiced yoga regularly since 1994, starting with the Kripalu and Bikram styles in Burlington, VT. She began practicing Ashtanga in 1999, and has had a daily Mysore practice since 2004. Wendy apprenticed with David Ingalls and began teaching at Ashtanga Yoga Center in 2011. She currently teaches at the Ashtanga Yoga Studio. Wendy has a Ph.D. in educational leadership and lives with her husband and two children in the Tenleytown area...
...Ashtanga, Vinyasa
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