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Heading down to the Philly area this weekend, Nov. 18-20 for Gentle Yoga at the Yoga Garden in Narberth

admin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:15:59 +0000

Rudy and Joyce will be at the Yoga Garden in Narberth, PA this weekend. Rudy will teach on Friday evening, Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon. This will be Joyce’s first visit there since Rudy has started teaching there. She is looking forward to a good stretch and meeting folks that attend. If you live within driving distance, we hope you will join us! Learn more>>

October 15-16, 2011, Tarrytown, NY Gentle Yoga classes and workshops

admin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:50:58 +0000

Location: Yoga Shivaya, 15 N. Broadway, Suite 2, Tarrytown, New York ph: 914-584-1647

Rudy is looking forward to heading down to Tarrytown again! He will be offering three classes and you can choose one, two, or really treat yourself to some serious R&R and do all three. Please contact us if you have any questions for Rudy about the classes. Rudy’s famed teaching style accommodates all levels of experience and doesn’t require you to be flexible. He will make it possible for you to enjoy participating whatever your limitations may be. Check out the full descriptions at YogaShivaya.com

Saturday, Oct 15th from 2-5 p.m.

The Power of Breath – For vitality, focus and contentment

Saturday, Oct 15th from 7-9 p.m.

Gentle Yoga for stiffness, stress and recovery: Dynamic self-care

Sunday, Oct 16th from 8-11 a.m.

Meditation made easy: Connected within. Connected without.

Spirit of Yoga in the City of Brotherly Love

admin — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:51:46 +0000

This past weekend I travelled down to the city of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia.

I offered four classes at The Spirit of Yoga studio in West Chester, PA.

Studio manager, Sara Beck, was on top of all the details as she showed me the studio space and introduced me to teachers, Judith Curiel and Danielle, who came for their own nourishment and to offer any assistance during the classes.

Friday evening familiar faces and some new faces showed up for a 7–9 p.m. Sweet and Deep, Gentle Yoga class. Friends and dedicated students and yoga teachers from various schools came to nourish body, mind and spirit, the Gentle Yoga way.

My guests included a hard-working real estate man nursing a new asthma condition, a grad school psych student working with chronic fatigue, a dedicated and weary hospice nurse, a yoga teacher with some onset arthritis in her hands, and a 20 yr. old young woman, fresh back from studying pranayama in India, and others.

We had two, 3-hour workshops Saturday:
1. Expand Your Range of Motion
2. Connecting body, breath and mind: coordinating breath and movement.

Sunday morning, I met Pam Walsh, the owner/Yoga Teacher Trainer, who participated in the Exploring Freedom: Yoga and Meditation workshop. At The Spirit of Yoga Studio she has created a marvelous resource for the community with two yoga spaces, offices for privates, props and changing space to leave bags and hang coats.

The feedback this weekend was that while Gentle Yoga is a well-known and sought after “yoga brand”, there aren’t many workshops by Gentle Yoga Teacher Trainers to give students a well-developed, depth experience with mindfulness and ease.

On the way out of town, Monday morning, I met with Mark Nelson, owner/teacher of The Yoga Garden in Narberth, a suburb on the Main Line northwest of Philly. He had responded to the post below and said we might be able to schedule a weekend in June. After the tour, we talked and arrived at a three workshop weekend, June 17 – 19, Friday – Sunday. Go to yogagardennarberth.com for details.

Coming Soon! A website upgrade for gentleyogi.com

admin — Mon, 09 May 2011 20:07:36 +0000

My wife Joyce and I are excited to announce that our website is undergoing a transformation! If you aren’t on my email list, you can sign up here and we’ll let everyone know when the upgrade is published.

Currently booking studio workshops

admin — Mon, 09 May 2011 00:51:20 +0000

I am excited to be opening my schedule to hit-the-road and offer weekend workshops at yoga studios throughout the Northeast. I am currently booking classes, workshops and trainings for 2011 and 2012. Offerings available include Gentle Yoga, Men’s Yoga, Pranayama/Breath Training Intensive and a 200hr Yoga Teacher certification Training.

Let me know if you are interested in bringing me to your studio. I’d be happy to discuss the needs of your studio and yoga community and collaborate with you to create a satisfying successful event.

For a document with detailed descriptions of my workshop and training offerings, please drop me an email.

Workshops at Yoga Shivaya studio in Tarrytown, NY

admin — Sun, 08 May 2011 22:28:06 +0000

This past weekend, April 29, 30 I traveled down to Yoga Shivaya, a yoga studio in Tarrytown, NY owned and operated by Kathleen Hinge, a graduate of Rivertown Center’s Yoga Teacher Training Program. On Friday evening, the beautiful, hardwood floored studio on Main Street filled up with yoga teachers and students for a 2 hour Gentle Yoga class to shed the week’s stresses and enter the zone of peaceful contentment.

It was a beginning and a homecoming all in one. Just over a year ago Kathleen opened Yoga Shivaya, a Kripalu Yoga studio offering yoga, pilates and meditation classes as well as reiki healing arts. The weekly schedule of classes designed to serve the needs of this sweet Westchester County, Hudson River town, include Beginner, Gentle, Restorative, Moderate Kripalu Yoga, Men’s Yoga, Yoga and Meditation, Vinyasa, Pilates and Insight Meditation. This is one of the first weekend workshop events for Yoga Shivaya. Friday evening, I was greeted by Kathleen, and many long-time friends: Brahmani Holly Liebman, owner of the Rivertown Center who trained at Kripalu Center with Rudy back in the 1980s, Michael Doherty and his wife Phyllis, schoolteachers and yoga teachers form the Bronx, Deb Gorman and Andrea Naitove, also graduates of Brahmani’s Rivertown Center. An eager group of 40 people enjoyed the 2 hour beginner-level Gentle Yoga class, Sweet Beginnings. An evening of Gentle Yoga Rudy-style ended with a delicious relaxation. The next morming, Saturday, 37 people attended Rudy’s 3-hour intermediate-level workshop ” Going Deep, Expanding Your Range”.

One yoga teacher, Libby, who graduated from the same YTT as Michael and Deb, shared with me how profound Friday night’s class was for her. She was kind enough to reiterate her experience in a letter which is posted in testimonials.

Hi Rudy,

Good to hear from you and feel the connection to the wonderful time spent with you and participants last weekend at Yoga Shivaya. To help you “get” how I was feeling prior to that experience, here’s a little background info:

I am a middle school art teacher who has for many years had a very busy and active work life (and I am retiring this June!). I have also been a caretaker for an uncle, now 91 years of age, who has been increasingly dependent on me. Two months ago, he fell and wound up in what seems like an alternate reality, being moved back and forth between hospitals and a nursing home. Last Thursday (the day before your workshop) he was take by ambulance to a Veterans Hospital. I stayed with him through the E.R./ admitting
Process, talking with doctors and settling him in. I got back home just before midnight (this, incidently, happened following two full days of ceramics workshops for my students, assisting a visiting artist). I arose the Friday morning at 5:45 and went to work where I put in a full teaching day. I’d been feeling overloaded for a while and had been working weekends, but that day I felt extremely exhausted and drained. I wondered if I’d be able to participate in yoga that evening…or even manage to get there.

I know, as a yogini of many years, how magical and transformative the practice can be in shifting Energy and, so, in good faith got myself to your class. And then the magic happened. The guidance and practice that night was just what I needed….gentle, sweet, and deep. It brought my scattered energies into the core of my being…into my body, mind, and spirit. It got me in touch with how I was feeling and enabled me to replenish myself in a lovely way. I focused on your words, your instructions, and felt my body gradually heal and replenish itself. I felt entirely nurtured, from without and within. It really felt delicious. And dramatically different from how I had just been feeling (overwhelmed, depleted, nearly sick).

So, Rudy, you asked for the three levels where spoke of feeling better.” O.K…….

I focused on my body, in specific areas of my body, and thanks to you, was able to simultaneously calm and energize myself.
The breath work really helped me to go deep into my core.
I was able to let go of external concerns and stresses and be present with and for myself.
In shavasana and yoga nidra I went into a very deep and replenishing relaxation.
I left feeling SO much more centered and calm. It was a remarkable shift.

Hope this is helpful.

It was a pleasure to be with you and I look forward to a next time.

Namaste,

Libby