BARBARA BORIS Yoga

Here’s your chance to get inspired for the winter season. Our local Bhagavad Gita pandit (scholar) Ira Schepetin will be teaching a 3 week mini-course on the Gita and Vedanta. The Bhagavad Gita is one of India’s holiest books. We are fortunate to have such a scholar like Ira in residence. I don’t know what chapter he will be discussing, but it’s sure to be interesting.

Thursday, February 1, 8, 15,   6:30-8:00 pm
at the home of Shari & Major Gold
37 Boggs Hill, Woodstock
email Shari at ssgold@courts.state.ny.us

All are welcome.

I’m very excited to have gathered a **TEAM** of Iyengar teachers to continue all the classes while I’m gone. Please keep up your practice and let me know how the subs are working out. It’s inspiring to me to create this network of Iyengar Yoga in the Hudson Valley.

JOE BARTUSIS has been teaching yoga since 2003 when he became a certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher. At that time he also began practicing Iyengar Yoga with Barbara. As his interest in Iyengar Yoga increased he began to take workshops and regular classes at the Iyengar Institute in New York City with Kevin Gardiner. This training and his continued practice led Joe to begin teaching Iyengar Yoga and to join Joan White’s Iyengar Yoga Teacher Training Program in Philadelphia in 2006. Telephone: 845 656-7355

SUSAN TVEEKREM has been teaching yoga since 2002 and is certified by the Yoga Institute of Houston. Currently a student of Barbara’s, she began her Iyengar studies ten years ago with Sandra Kopell in Connecticut, and has taken intensive courses with Peentz Dubble, Joan White, and Kevin Gardiner. Susan holds an MA in World Music from Wesleyan University, where she studied south Indian classical music with T. Viswanathan. She has been to India twice to study and perform, and toured for several years with the Balasaraswati Music and Dance ensemble. Susan continues to study Sanskrit, Hinduism, and Indian philosophy, and currently teaches yoga for the Master of Fine Arts program at Bard College. Telephone: 845 380-1846

TRACI CHILDRESS is dedicated to creating space for exploration, play, and discovery in her yoga classes. A Program Coordinator at Omega Institute, she is a long time practitioner of yoga. She has completed a 2-year teaching apprenticeship with her first Iyengar teacher, has studied at the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Institute in Pune, India, and is currently in a 2-year teacher training program with Patricia Walden.

It’s time for me to leave for India. This year, after a short respite at a yet unnamed beach, I will be traveling to Calcutta to explore this holy and crazy city. After that, I’ll be on a private retreat in Rishikesh before my Iyengar Intensive Course starts in March. There is still space available if you are interested in coming. Click on Rishikesh Retreat at the right for more information.

The last class I teach will be Sunday, February 4th, 2007.
I will begin teaching again on Sunday, April 15th, 2007.

IT WILL BE A NORMAL CLASS SCHEDULE THIS WEEK.

The City of Brahman from the CHANDOGYA UPANISHAD is now posted in full under CLASS SEQUENCES at the right. This is the text I read in Savasana on Wednesday night Pranayama Class.

Baird Hersey & PRANA with Shubhra
Sunday, January 14, 6 pm, $15
Mountain View Studio, Woodstock
845 679-3804

This special evening will be an intertwining of the music of Prana with the Vedantic teaching and chant of Shubhra. The aim of both the music and the teaching will be to open the heart through sound.

Shubhra, a close disciple of renowned Vedantic Master H.H. Swami Chinmayananda, is originally from India and studied with Swamiji for twenty years from the age of thirteen. Since coming to the US in 1993 Shubhra has been teaching spiritual studies, meditation and scriptural texts like the Bhaghavad Gita and Upanishads. These are part of the ancient Vedanta philosophy of India, which is universal in its appeal. She has interacted with diverse communities in the course of her spiritual works.

Baird Hersey and PRANA apply the fundamental overtone techniques to the “natural voice” to sing two mellifluous pitches at once. By using their natural singing voices, PRANA can move between any pitches that they can sing with overtones added above them. This completely opens up the possibilities for use of harmonics in singing. Singing as a group in this unique style they create beautiful rising harmonies, shimmering vocal textures, and high arcing melodies.

CD’s by both PRANA and Shubhra will be available for purchase at the event.