Very Beginner Yoga Series with Max Leeming
Sundays 12:30-1:30pm
Winter Session: January 17-February 7, 2010
Spring Session: April 11-May 2, 2010
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck
Fee: $65 for the series, or $20 per class

If you've never done yoga before, or are interested in exploring basic alignment, this series is for you. We step into the body to enter the vast potential of the heart. We systematically go over the Universal Principles of Alignment. Each class will build on the previous as we open and strengthen the body and deepen our relationship to our hearts.

Margaret (Max) Adams Leeming re-discovered yoga in Santa Barbara, California in 1995, during her graduate studies, twenty years after watching her mother perform strange movements (which turned out to be yoga) when she was four. She fell in love with Iyengar yoga in Albuquerque while healing from a car accident in 1998. Max continued her Iyengar studies and took classes and workshops with Nancy Roberts and Felicity Green for three years in Santa Barbara. She has also studied Mysore-style Ashtanga yoga in Tacoma, Washington. Her move to New York brought her to Moksha and classes with Alex Auder and Lauren Zittle. She completed a teacher training certification course in Vinyasa yoga based on the principles of Anusara at Satya Yoga Center with Co-directors Jessie Lee Montague and Sondra Loring. She continues to take classes at Satya and in New York City. Max lives with her six-year old daughter in Poughkeepsie and teaches yoga and the history of religions at Vassar College. Max sees yoga as an ever-continuing, mindfully meandering journey that heals and nourishes both body and soul.

Basics with Babes Workshop with Jessie
Saturday, February 6, 2:30-3:30pm
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck
Fee: $20 for one mom/dad and one child,
$5 for each additional adult and/or child

For parents and their kids! Join us for this fun workshop that will include some simple chanting and basic yoga practice that will encourage and connect us to each other!

Geared to grown-ups of any age and children ages 2-12, but age range is loose…so come even if you’re younger or older!

Please pre-register online or by calling (845) 876-2528.

Satya's 5th Anniversary Party
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Food, Festivities, and Kirtan
with Gaura Vani and As Kindred Spirits
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck
Tix: $15; Kids and Satya Students FREE

Please join us as we celebrate 5 years of Yoga at Satya! It'll be a very special evening, beginning at 5:30, with food, fun and doorprizes. Then at 7pm, it's Kirtan with Guara Vani and As Kindred Spirits.

What is Kirtan? It has been described as the beating of the heart of the soul; Kirtan is a form of devotional chanting whose roots go back over 500 years to India. It's a form of Bhakti Yoga (yoga of devotion) and has the power to open the heart. The singing is accompanied by musical instruments and rhythmic drumming and the audience is encouraged to participate by chanting, clapping and dancing. You will not be able to resist the urge to join in! To learn more, visit GauraVani.com.

Niroga Training Workshop
Saturday, April 17, 2:30-7pm
and Sunday, April 18, 2-7pm
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck
Fee: $310
Register online at Niroga.org by March 20
Download flyer pdf (152k)

Niroga brings Transformative Life Skills (TLS) to students, vulnerable youth, cancer survivors, seniors and people battling addiction. The work of Niroga directly uplifts thousands of people every week in schools, juvenile halls, homeless shelters, cancer hospitals and rehab centers.

During Niroga training, certified yoga teachers will learn how to address the needs of vulnerable children and youth in schools and alternative schools, homeless shelters and group homes, rehab centers and juvenile halls through Transformative Life Skills (TLS), a multi-modality intervention including yoga, breathing techniques and meditation. In addition to certified yoga teachers, educators and mental health professionals are also welcome to attend. Snacks provided.

For more info, please contact Kate Perna, kate@bentonchange.org

The Niroga Institute is committed to bringing yoga and meditation to at-risk and underserved populations; they have been highly successful in their efforts in Oakland, California and are now willing to share their expertise with professionals in our area.