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Beginners are always welcome to join our classes at any time. In fact, most of our classes are geared towards beginners and intermediate students. Some of the classes are more gentle than others, and you may contact us to inquire which would be more suitable for you. Enjoy the journey...
IYENGAR YOGA with KAREN WENC
Iyengar is a style of yoga which emphasizes anatomical precision and alignment to promote both strength and flexibility. Its use of props (such as blocks and straps) helps to enable students to more readily experience the essence of poses (asanas).
Karen Wenc has been a student of Iyengar yoga since 1981, and has been teaching for over 18 years. A former competitive runner, swimmer and cross-country skier, Karen's teaching style emphasizes developing strength and flexibility to prevent sports-related injuries. A Brookline resident, Karen teaches full-time throughout the greater Boston area, and has taught at the Yogashala in Santiago, Chile among other international venues. Karen is a longtime student of Patricia Walden, who Time Magazine called one of yoga's "leading luminaries."
Karen's illuminating classes provide you in-depth, technical cues on how to fully experience the asanas, while keeping your mind present as she describes the eight limbs of yoga and decodes obscure Sanskrit terminology. Towards the end you will be busy floating off to some other time and space, at which point she brings you back with her tiny bells to close out the class. Invigorating, mindful and relaxing.
IYENGAR with KEITH BEASLEY
After more than 15 years of study and teaching in the Zen martial arts, Keith transitioned from martial artist to yoga student and teacher. For more than 10 years, he studied a variety of yoga traditions before deciding to focus on the Iyengar method with its attention to detail and alignment. This was probably due to his training and experience as an engineer. He is a registered teacher (RYT 200) with Yoga Alliance and is currently working on his Iyengar certification. Keith enjoys helping students deepen their practice through the development of stronger, more relaxed postures and achieving heightened mental concentration while in the pose. He encourages each student to find the joy in their practice and discover the physical, mental, and spiritual benefits of practicing yoga.
VINYASA FLOW with CARO CLARK
Vinyasa Flow integrates the true traditions of Yoga, from those that focus on the holding of poses or asanas for many minutes - breathing and achieving the meditative benefit of the pose - to those traditions that emphasize movement from one pose to another in flowing sequences. This creates a very different experience both physically and mentally, allowing the student to ease safely through poses while maintaining a deep awareness of the breath and the self. All Vinyasa classes emphasize the precision and care of Iyengar Yoga while incorporating the movement and heat-building of Ashtanga Yoga and the therapeutic focus of Viniyoga. Vinyasa Flow is performed in a peaceful, open space with no heat. Through flowing practice, heat is naturally and safely created within the body to warm, soothe, heal and strengthen from the inside-out.
Open Class on Saturday morning is aimed at students with varying levels of expertise, special needs or at various stages of life. These classes integrate an energizing vinyasa class with a deeper look at specific poses, or themes that will help you to build a stronger yoga practice. This class is great for people who want to learn about the benefits of yoga for the first time, and also for those who are looking to expand and deepen their Iyengar or Vinyasa practice.
Carolyn ( "Caro") is a long-time student of Hatha Yoga, Integrative Nutrition, Developmental Psychology and Dance, and holds an advanced Instructors certification with YogaWorks in NYC. Through Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Caro incorporates a deep physical practice into an inspirational class that highlights the benefits of awareness and the process of yoga coming into, maintaining, and moving out of a pose on the breath over the goals of simply perfecting a pose. Classes are founded upon graceful and continual movement that generates a natural warmth and release in the body, strengthened and deepened through advanced breathing techniques and pranayama.
Caro is a graduate of Wesleyan with a major in International Affairs, a passion for children and their rights, a world traveler and fluent in French (she is half French). She is a patient and passionate teacher who loves to work with students from all backgrounds and all levels of practice. Through her early work in nonprofits and international welfare service, Caro grew a deep respect for the role of personal boundaries in daily life ?to acknowledge and accept our capacity in the moment allows us to develop and progress without force or harm. This idea of development through self-awareness inspires all of her classes, and serves to deepen both the challenge and healing art of all yoga practice.
LINDA DEL MONTE
Linda has been practicing yoga for over 30 years and teaching since 1999. A certified Kripalu yoga teacher, Linda has also studied Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Anusara yoga. She is grateful for the many teachers who have inspired her and who continue to offer guidance and inspiration, including Arthur Kilmurray, Jennifer Harvey, John Friend, Desiree Rumbaugh, and Chandra Cantor. Linda‘s teaching emphasizes finding alignment in the body, using the breath to balance energy, and remaining in the spirit of the heart. Her passion as a teacher is to guide students toward inquiry, love, acceptance, and contentment - to connect with their true self.
VERONICA WOLFF
Veronica has been studying yoga since 2001 and has taught since 2004. She began teaching by implementing her own vinyasa yoga program while deployed to Kyrgyzstan with the USAF. Veronica studies with Patricia Walden, Liz Owen, and her mentor, Annie Hoffman; she has also recently completed a 200hr Yoga of Energy Flow teacher training program. Veronica weaves both Iyengar and vinyasa styles through her teaching and truly enjoys bringing the experience of yoga to her students while maintaining a sense of humor. She is passionate about natural health and is currently working on her Associates of Applied Science in Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the American College of Healthcare Sciences and is completing the Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant course at the Kripalu School of Ayurveda. "Yoga has completely changed my life, allowing me to see more clearly into my own heart. My goal is to bring yoga to as many people as possible and help them align with their true potential."
SARA DiVELLO
Sara has been practicing yoga since January 2000. She originally began in the Ashtanga tradition before finding a deeper resonance in slower-flow styles. Having experienced the transformative effects of yoga in her own life, she is now dedicated to deepening and expanding her students’ practices. Sara teaches both Vinyasa and Restorative yoga. She is certified with the Yoga Alliance at the 200-hour level, holds a B.A. in communications, and is also passionate about travel and great food.
Slow-Flow Vinyasa
Enjoy a meditative yet vigorous class that will both challenge and support you. During this 75-minute mixed-level class, Sara provides modifications and options for each pose, allowing you to custom-tailor your practice to your experience, ability, and energy level at any given time. With strong focus on breath, intention, and internal awareness, this class is designed to deepen your practice and enhance mindfulness. Through the practice, students can release stress and anxiety and increase energy and strength, providing an opportunity to move inward to a place of stillness and deep relaxation.
INYENGAR YOGA with Annie Hoffman
Annie has been teaching yoga since 1988 after a Kripalu teacher training. Her studies have continued in Boston with Patricia Walden over the past 20 years. She went to India in 1994 and was certified that same year. Other than Iyengar yoga her influences are experiential anatomy, yoga philosophy and poetry. These days her classes combine awareness development through movement, surrender and relationship building. Her interests have been teaching children, elders, women and everyone in between.
SARAH JANE SHANGRAW
Sarah Jane has been practicing yoga for eight years and completed two yoga teacher trainings, including the YogaWorks method of vinyasa flow with Natasha Rizopoulos and slow flow with Barbara Benagh, and attended yoga workshops with teachers from across the country. Sarah Jane keeps things fresh by studying various styles of yoga with master teachers across the country. Right now she is particularly interested in the history of yoga in the west, and using yoga to improve the symptoms of chronic conditions (as well as chronic conditioning!). Beyond her yoga and meditation practice Sarah Jane spends time editing books, playing guitar, and traveling.
Sarah Jane’s slow flow yoga is characterized by mindful use of the breath, flowing sequences of common poses that give way to deep static holds, and a pace that allows attention to the details of each moment. Linked lunges, dynamic Warrior sequences, deep twists, and exploratory forward folds are treated as opportunities to gain insight into physical and mental habits and capacities. To complement this practice in self-awareness, Sarah Jane encourages self-acceptance. Under such conditions and over time, physical and mental transformation is not uncommon. Modifications are integrated into the sequencing so all sorts of students, even those who are working with injuries or vulnerabilities, can practice safely.
JOVIELLE GERS
Jovielle has been teaching yoga for over ten years, including two years specializing in yoga for eating disorders in clinical settings. She received her teacher certification from Barbara Benagh, having also studied over 10 years with Patricia Walden, and intensively in India. A lifelong yoga practitioner, she started her training as a child with mother and yoga teacher Jennifer McEwen. From 2002-2004 she was photographer and primary documentarian at the Norbulingka Institute in India (a center to preserve Tibetan arts & culture), and was an official photographer for the Kalachakra taught by H.H. the Dalai Lama in 2005. She is a certified Mindfulness-Based-Stress-Reduction teacher, through Jon Kabit-Zinn’s Center for Mindfulness at Umass Medical School. Jovielle holds a BFA from Tufts and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
"Yoga with heart"
This class helps you build strength and deepen flexibility, in equal proportion, while attuning you to your anatomical alignment. Incorporating teachings from the Krishnamacharia lineage: Iyengar, Ashtanga, and Viniyoga. Taking the Buddha’s middle path, the class balances flow and stillness. As a great Yogi, Richard Freeman, said, “yoga begins with listening.” Silence is woven into the class, in order to help develop the ability to listen, and the patience to focus -- more lovingly and more subtly. Together we will grow our strength, inner and outer, while experiencing the beauty, mystery, and uniqueness of each breath and each moment. The sequences focus on merging intention with attention, and yoking that intelligence to the body and the breath; in order to unveil your own innate inner radiance.
RAEA ZANI
Raea is a Yoga Alliance registered yoga teacher having graduated from the 200hr Yoga of Energy Flow® teacher training program and the Rasamaya® Aerial Yoga teacher training program. She has studied with Liz Owen, Daniel Orlansky, Annie Hoffman, Doug Keller, Lynnae LeBlanc, and Carrie Tyler. She began teaching by constructing and implementing a yoga program at Families in Transition, a non-profit organization providing social services and affordable housing to homeless families, in Manchester, NH . Raea’s teaching style integrates Iyengar and Vinyasa, focusing on alignment and breath work. Raea is known for her cheerful demeanor, teaching with enthusiasm and an open heart. Raea will be taking over Veronica's classes until mid-April.
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