Virayoga

Naoko Morita

karen — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:44:16 +0000

Naoko’s classes are playful and spirited. Her detailed instruction and focus on body alignment, conscious breathing, and quality of movement are therapeutically beneficial for all levels of experience. A former modern dancer, Naoko has worked with students on all levels from beginner to advanced, and has a broad range of experience teaching children, adults with developmental abilities, pregnant women, and seniors. She has completed Vinyasa and Anusara Training, along with Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Jennifer Pettit. Naoko is particularly skilled in therapeutic yoga and is particularly honoured to serve pre/postnatal women. Naoko is registered with the Yoga Alliance RYT-500.

Ali Schechter

karen — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:14:06 +0000

Approaching movement as meditation, Ali Schechter invites her students to find nourishment in simply being. She completed her 200-hour certification at OM Yoga under the generous guidance of Margi Young and Christie Clark. Ali is a graduate of Leslie Kaminoff’s Advanced Anatomy program, and is also certified in Judith Hanson Lasater’s Relax & Renew restorative yoga. Ali received her BA in Dance and English from Columbia University, and is currently earning her Master’s at Sarah Lawrence College in Dance/Movement Therapy. Ali’s classes encourage students to care for themselves, listen to their bodies, and find lightness and play within effort and precision.

Kate Bailey

karen — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:21:23 +0000

Kate began teaching movement for over ten years beginning with Pilates and dance. In continuing her investigation of anatomical and movement practices, she chose to combine dance and pre-medical studies at Mount Holyoke College where she participated in stem cell research, original movement research and earned recognition for the development of the Volution Method®, a teaching methodology targeting joint stabilization, posture aligning and correcting movement patterns. After first experiencing yoga in high school, Kate found a lasting practice in New York City beginning at OM yoga studio, where she became certified under Cyndi Lee. Continuing her investigation into the depths of the yogic path she certified under Judith Lasater, and Yoga Shanti with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee.

Ally Bogard

karen — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:11:19 +0000

I participate in life with a passion for making what is ancient and time-tested relevant for a modern day nervous system with a commitment to celebrating and expanding the Light. Teaching yoga has always been about communicating my own experience of reality and consciousness and then sharing with people my travel tips for negotiating their own journey through the cosmos. With a reverent irreverence and a profane sense of humour regarding the sacred – I practice presence to wake up, to remember, and to reunite – and hope I teach in the same manner.

As owner and head teacher of the Gaiatri Yoga Teacher Training Program and the Sutra 33 Charity Project, Ally has taught group style classes, retreats, workshops, immersions, and 200/500 hour teacher trainings for dedicated students and teachers throughout the world.

Eli Jacobowitz

karen — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:35:52 +0000

Eli Jacobowitz has a background in information technology, which has revealed to him the value of fundamentals, clear information and working gently but persistently. He’s studied western and eastern philosophy, as well as martial arts. Eli is OM Yoga certified at the 500 hour level and taught at OM from 2009 until its close. His teaching helps us become more sensitive to detail, less habitual, and more genuinely engaged with our practice and with life.

Rosalyn Mok

karen — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:25:18 +0000

Rosalyn Mok’s teachings support and encourage women in life’s most sacred journey through the transitional state of pregnancy. Rosalyn’s own transformative experience through pregnancy and motherhood serve to influence her teachings and own yoga practice. In 2009, after 7 years of study and practice, Rosalyn completed her Anusara Yoga Teacher Training at Virayoga with Zhenja LaRosa. She continued her practice all throughout pregnancy and postpartum, learning to incorporate modifications and therapeutics in her practice, with the guidance of her mentor Jennifer Pettit. Her prenatal yoga practice served to encourage bonding with baby and also provided tools and the courage to manage labor and birth. Rosalyn is honored to support women through their own personal journey and to share her own insights with the community. Rosalyn’s had careers in art and in teaching children, and is currently teaching in a parent-child program called the Brooklyn Forest School. Rosalyn extends deep gratitude to all the Virayoga teachers, including Zhenja LaRosa, Jennifer Pettit, Eric Stoneberg, and Elena Brower, who’ve enlightened her path along the way.

Joseph Hall

karen — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:38:39 +0000

Joseph moved to NYC to study at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center , and went on to perform with the Linda Diamond Dance Company. After leaving the dance world, Joseph found a passion for martial arts, and has Black belts in both Kung fu and Karate. Searching for new ways to deepen his practice, he began studying to become an Ordained Interfaith Minster. Since then he’s discovered the healing arts of Reiki, Crystals , Shamanism and Yoga; received his 200-hr Teacher Certification in teaching yoga, and became a Reiki Master. Teaching from his heart, Joseph integrates all of these disciplines to create an environment in which we receive cues to awaken, listen to, and cherish our experience.

Vinyasa- slow & faster pace, Llnger Holds, Meditation, Shamanic Ritual, Pranayama

Rian Bodner

karen — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:17:34 +0000

Combining asana and the vibrational power of sound, Rian teaches spacious, tangible, blissfully grounded yoga. Rian completed his 200 hour certification with Sonic Yoga, 500 hour certification with Yogamaya. Rian’s teaching is skilled, sensitive and strong. He’s spent over a year adjusting Elena’s noon classes, and Elena calls his work “impeccable, heartfelt and accurate.”

Giuliana Hazelwood

karen — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:25:02 +0000

Giuliana Hazelwood teaches yoga, writes, coaches, and crusades to help people care for themselves, and each other. You may expect in her classes to connect to your strength, love, and capacity to heal. A graduate of the Open Hearts Yoga School 200-Hour Foundational Training, her classes fuse principles of Vinyasa, Kundalini, Anusara, and Forrest Yoga. As a dancer, track athlete, and total anatomy nerd, Giuliana also incorporates elements of ballet, modern dance, and embodied movement in her teaching. She’s currently studying to be an Ayurvedic doctor through the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, and training in Level I Reiki. Giuliana created Lovely Healthy, a health and wellness blog + channel. She’s also a contributing writer for Greatist and an ambassador for Urban Detox Club and SolYoga Trips. www.giulianahazelwood.com

Glenna Bedoya

karen — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:09:01 +0000

Glenna began practicing yoga in 1994. Through mindful alignment and intelligent boundaries, Glenna’s teaching helps transmute conditioned patterns of thought and action into empowerment and understanding. In 2003 she completed her first Teacher Training with Ana Forrest, learning the potential of will and its power of transformation. With Angela Farmer she studied the inner workings of the human heart, mind, body, and soul. Most recently, Glenna completed her 200-hour Anusara Yoga Teacher Training with Zhenja La Rosa, and has been in mentorship with Elena Brower since 2011. Her greatest accomplishment: bringing yoga to young women in underserved communities and seeing the light of self-love gleam in their eyes. Glenna’s mission is to help young women discover their own inherent power through their practice.