Yoga Shivaya in Tarrytown, NY

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Past Workshop at Yoga Shivaya studio in Tarrytown, NY

April 29, 30, 2011:   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