Virayoga

Ambyr D’Amato

karen — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:24:33 +0000

Ambyr D’Amato loves to laugh, teach, sing and learn. She believes through our yoga practice we learn to focus on “creating a life you love.”

Ambyr is an E-RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance, and the co-director of The Yoga Sequence™. Ambyr was certified with Yoga Alliance in 2005 and has been teaching exciting and creative Vinyasa sequences ever since. She leads 200-hour Vinyasa teacher trainings and teaches workshops in Anatomy for Yoga, Prenatal Yoga, Partner Yoga and Adjusting. Ambyr loves teaching at The Standard hotels, both in NYC and abroad. Ambyr has been featured in Yoga Journal, Yoga International, on the cover of Kripalu’s catalog, and on nypost.com.

In addition to teaching, Ambyr has a great time performing with her awesome band around NYC. To hear her music, view upcoming performances or her yoga class schedule, visit www.ambyrdamato.com.

Julie Dohrman

karen — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:08:40 +0000

Julie is a Certified Anusara Yoga teacher and native New Yorker with a dedicated practice for 15+ years. One of the most sought after Anusara teachers in New York for her spirited and positive teaching style, Julie teaches Anusara’s Universal Principles of Alignment and the therapeutic aspects of the practice with clear instruction and natural flair for making yoga fun. Julie is known for her ability to make everyone feel welcome and encouraged – from the raw beginner, to the experienced teachers in the room – and creates an environment for everyone to access the yoga practice as a pathway to personal growth. Julie conveys yogic teachings in a real voice from authentic experience, and offers practical uses in every class. She leads classes, workshops, Anusara Yoga Immersions and Teacher Trainings with passion and commitment for the transformational qualities a sustained yoga practice can bring.

Philosophy, mythology and mysticism inform much of Julie’s teaching stemming from a decade of study with excellent scholars and teachers, our Living Masters of yoga. Julie’s practice has been elevated to a deepened awareness through her continued work with Paul Muller-Ortega and Blue Throat Yoga meditation, in addition to Douglas Brooks, Bill Mahoney, Sally Kempton, and apprenticing regularly with Anusara founder John Friend. Dedicated to bringing yoga to as many people that seek it, Julie will continue to learn from her deepening practice of living from the heart.

Jillian Turecki

karen — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:31:52 +0000

Jillian’s highest priority is to teach from her practice and to offer what moves her – to create space in the body in order to expand the space in our lives. Her class is an eclectic blend of cerebral, humor, and the synchronization of breath and movement, which is vinyasa. Her students are called upon to use their minds, and then lose them, continuing that dance throughout.

Over the years this has morphed into a blend of a unique and very refined style of Vinyasa yoga called Kula Yoga – as founded by her teacher of 11 years, Schuyler Grant, and an Anusara influence born out of Jillian’s 7 year immersion with Anusara Yoga under the consistent tutelage of Elena Brower. More recently, Jillian continues her studies in Iyengar yoga with Nikki Costello. Expect to see all of these influences incorporated into her class. Deepest gratitude for all her teachers along the way.

Ursula Scherrer

karen — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:52:58 +0000

Ursula Scherrer started practicing Yoga shortly after she moved to New York from her native Switzerland in 1988. She originally came here to dance and choreograph, but her art has since evolved to photography and video performances and installations. Her work is shown internationally.

In 1999 she gave birth to her son Karl. After Ursula explored different styles of Yoga for her own spiritual and physical well being, she did her first teacher training in 2002 and is teaching ever since. In addition to her skills and expertise as a Yoga teacher she is also a Pranayama Healer and certified Qi Gong instructor.

In her classes she brings together the experiences and knowledge of the different parts of her life to inspire her students to find their own unique way of being. Yoga, Breath Healing and Qi Gong accompanied her and gave her strength through all the many changes and challenges in her life. Ursula is deeply thankful for the gift of the Healing Arts and all her teachers on the way to where she is now.

Julia Pearring

karen — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:35:12 +0000

It was in her first Anusara yoga class that Julia set the intention of lifelong studentship. For her, the yoga practices are the means to living an authentic, consistently refining, joy-filled life, and they have transformed her completely. Knowing that each of us has the potential to live a life of transparent truth, wisdom and love, she invites her students into the ever-expanding freedom of moving intentionally from our core. Julia continues to study and deepen her understanding of yoga with her teachers Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, John Friend, Rudrani Farbman, Ross Rayburn, and Amy Matthews.

Shana Kuhn-Siegel

karen — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:29:37 +0000

Shana has an exceptional ability to create an environment where students come alive and access parts of themselves they have never encountered before. Her capacity to create this type of experience she attributes to her training with The Process founder International Scherick. The Process is a radical new healing technology that has been described by some as a practical application of the Yoga Sutras. This work, combined with her copious yoga training, has made Shana a very unusual and sought-after teacher. Shana teaches classes and works with private clients in New York City and The Hamptons.

Jessie Barr

karen — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:52:55 +0000

Jessie completed her Registered Yoga Teacher’s (RYT) certification with Yoga To The People. She is grateful to be doing what she loves, living in NYC working as an actor, voiceover artist and yoga teacher. Jessie discovered the practice of yoga while attending an International Theatre Workshop in Amsterdam. What was once a mysterious morning ritual transformed into a deep daily practice that continues to be an adventure. Her love of movement and fascination with physical expression began at an early age, encouraged by years spent training at The Washington School of Ballet. Her exploration of body awareness, conscious breath, and a search for balance and space in the body as well as the mind continued throughout college at NYU Tisch where she double majored in Drama and English & American Literature. Jessie draws inspiration from an eclectic group of teachers (Elena Brower, Lilia Mead, Amy Matthews, Matt Lombardo & Michael Hewett) and styles (Anusara, Ashtanga, Power Flow). Jessie encourages a playful approach to exploring the body and mind, and balancing energy and effort with a sense of lightness and curiosity. www.jessiebarr.com

Shaka McGlotten

karen — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:06:59 +0000

Shaka’s teaching emphasizes the aligned intelligence and dynamic playfulness of Anusara Yoga. He links these qualities to the underlying principles of affirmation that animate Anusara’s spiritual outlook, principles that celebrate life, embodied awareness, and the opportunity to come together in community. Teaching yoga since 2004, he completed a teacher training with Zhenja La Rosa in 2009. He is deeply grateful to her and to his teachers Charly Pivert and Mary Keator.

Shaka also teaches in other contexts; he holds a PhD in Anthropology and is a professor in the School of Film and Media Studies at Purchase College just outside New York City.

Narween Otto

karen — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:51:05 +0000

Narween Otto is an ethnic mix of Vietnamese and Australian. She has been a student of Yoga since 1995 and started teaching Anusara style yoga in Los Angeles in 2002. She studied extensively with Douglas Brooks and also John Friend before deciding to travel to India to live in the ashram of her Guru, Swami Chidvilasananda. In the ashram Narween taught Hatha Yoga as her seva and immersed herself in the study of meditation, yoga scripture and Ayurveda. While living in the ashram and suffering from chronic low- back pain Narween was introduced to Pilates and upon returning to the US embarked upon a rigorous apprenticeship with Joseph Pilates’ protégé, Romana Kryzanoswka. Narween teaches both Yoga and Pilates (mat and full apparatus) and endeavors to support her students on their unique journey towards the sublime. She particularly loves the deep practice of Restorative Yoga as well as more vigorous, alignment focused flow yoga-asana styles and her clear, detailed style and playful perspective are offered with enthusiasm and gratitude.

Elizabeth Rossa

karen — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:33:05 +0000

Elizabeth Rossa is the founder/director of Shriyoga. Voted “Best Next Generation of Yoga” by New York Magazine in 2005, Shriyoga and Elizabeth have continued to evolve. Offering a fresh perspective which allows both the ancient and esoteric to become modern and real, students are encouraged to cultivate curiosity as they pause, breathe, and deeply listen to what life is revealing right here, right now. Elizabeth, now teaching yoga for over 10 years, has received multiple yoga teaching certifications and studied extensively with master teachers Erich Schiffman, John Friend, Max Strom and Guru Singh. Her on-going studies are primarily with her long-time mentor, meditation master, Sally Kempton, and her main yoga teachers, the legendary Richard Freeman and his wife, Mary Taylor of the Yoga Workshop in Boulder, CO. Elizabeth just completed another 200 hour month long teacher training intensive in Ashtanga Vinyasa with them this past summer of 2011. Also a guest presenter at Kripalu, Elizabeth is a Level 3 Reiki Professional working towards mastership in 2012 with Wendy Miner of Sloane-Kettering’s Integrative Medicine Center. Philanthropically, Elizabeth spearheaded with Elena Brower a successful Give Your Yoga benefit for Women For Women International at Urban Zen in 2010 with plans underway for another in 2012.