classes & events
Gentle Yoga with Claire McCarty
This basic level class moves at a gentle pace, using chairs and props to accommodate personal needs when necessary. Gentle Yoga is ideal for older adults, those recovering from illness or injury, and anyone seeking a less physical class that still has the joy of breathing, moving, relaxing and quieting the mind. Also appropriate for students that are new to yoga.
Open Level Vinyasa Yoga with Flannery Houston
This well rounded class is designed to challenge all ages and levels. Class begins with a short period of meditation and restorative postures, then moves on to poses that are maintained for a moderate period of time to build strength and endurance, while focusing the mind. From here we move through a flow of asanas designed to connect us with our breath and invigorate our body. This class offers modifications for those new to yoga and challenging variations for the more advanced student.
Slow Flow Vinyasa Yoga with Marissa Nielsen-Pincus
This slow flow Vinyasa class will take you deeper into a supportive yoga practice allowing your body to let go of old holding patterns, opening up new possibilities for strength and balance. You will explore how your muscles, connective tissue, joints, and organs actively support you and help you move. This class is both physically challenging but also restorative, with space for students to move at their own pace. Open to all levels.
Prenatal Yoga with Adele Loux-Turner
The changing female body is honored and guided through a gentle and fluid practice developing strength and energy, releasing tension and allowing deep relaxation. Classes are a blend of movement, breath, relaxation, meditation and visualization all of which help prepare you for labor and birth. Practicing yoga can alleviate common discomforts felt during pregnancy such as varicosities, swelling, hip pain, cramps, and low back pain. Prenatal yoga brings better sleep and digestion, connection to your developing baby, and a sense of feeling inwardly centered.
Morning Awakening: GYROKINESIS® with Alexandra Berger
This morning class focuses on "Awakening of the Senses", a series within GYROKINESIS®. Using breathwork, spinal movements, and self-massage techniques, this practice brings awareness to the entire body. The sequence helps to heat up the core and activate the nerve endings, delivering the energy needed to start the day focused and invigorated.
GYROKINESIS® with Alexandra Berger
Come explore the possibilities for movement in your own body. Certified Gyrokinesis instructor, Alexandra Berger, will take you through the natural movements of the spine and joints that bring the body into its fullest movement potential, developed by Julie Horvath. Gyrokinesis is a system for every body, using gentle, fluid motions to awaken all of the senses and give one a more expansive sense of self.
Community Based with Caroline Ferran
This class introduces basic postures and alignment principles for those new to yoga, just returning to classes, or those looking to strengthen the basis of their practice. We focus on establishing a foundation of healthy alignment by gradually entering into basic postures while recognizing and exploring our breath and mind in each pose. The class then builds to sequencing poses designed to stretch and strengthen the body, while calming and focusing the mind. Basic meditation, breath work (pranayama) and mindfulness techniques are introduced and incorporated into every class.
Postpartum Yoga with Adele Loux-Turner
This class is for women who want to address issues that are common in the postpartum body. Emphasis will be placed on rebuilding the strength of the abdomen and pelvic floor and on mobilizing and opening the shoulders. This work is particularly beneficial for women in their first year after childbirth, but mothers of any age are encouraged to join.
Yoga and Meditation with Claire Larsen
This weekly class, open to students of all levels, is centered around building the foundations of a meditation and mindfulness practice. We define mindfulness as a practice that allows us to bring the focus, awareness and calmness we experience in meditation to our everyday life experiences. Alternating between seated meditation and a gentle yoga asana practice, this class is designed to allow students to enter into a meditation practice without the anxiety and discomforts that often arise in traditional seated positions. The simple techniques introduced in this class will provide an opportunity for all students to deepen their practice and to view the body as a resting place for the mind.
Parent and Baby Yoga with Adele Loux-Turner
A yoga class for parents and care givers with babies 6 weeks old to crawling. This class provides a relaxing space where you can reconnect to your body and breath while nurturing your connection with your baby. The class is designed specifically to help build core stability and improve posture in a gentle yet effective way as well as address other body aches and pains of a new parent or care giver. Learn baby massage techniques, change and feed your baby as needed and interact with your baby in the centering, compassionate space that yoga creates.
Hatha Yoga with Barb Golub
Using therapeutic alignment principles, with deep care and personal attention, Barb will teach you to build strength and flexibility that will stay with you on and off the mat. Join Barb to smile, engage and cultivate the deepest intentions you can for yourself. This class is appropriate for all levels and each class will end with a meditation.
Eat Well, Live Well 2012 with Jeanine Abraham
January 19th - Febuary 23rd, $350
Over the Course of a 6 week period this workshop will teach you how to start and maintain a plan for eating well to live well! If you are looking for a way to jump start 2012, solidify your resolutions and bring your health goals to reality then this is the program for you. This is not an intensive liquid diet or a quick fix but a way to make lasting changes that you can sustain on your own. In a supportive environment, you will be guided through menu planning, juicing, group health coaching, movement planning, information on nutrition and more. This program is based on a real food philosophy for omnivores (though it can easily be adjusted for vegetarians) and incorporates all aspects of your life to find the balance that is right for your individual long term health. Lose weight, renew your energy and awaken your spirit this January!
Important Dates:
At Element:
Sunday, January 8th: Free Info Session (for those considering the program) 5:00pm-5:30pm
Thursday, January 19th, 7:30pm-9:00pm:
Intro Meeting
Thursday, February 2nd, 7:30pm-9:00pm:
Juicing Demo and Mid-Cleanse Meeting
Sunday, February 5th, 10:00am-11:30am:
Journey Dance Workshop
Thursday, February 16th, 7:30pm-9:00pm:
Final Meeting
Conference Calls:
Thursday, January 26th & Thursday, February 9th
(times to be decided by group).
What's Included:
Weekly Meetings and Group Coaching
Menu Planning
Hands on Juicing Demo
Nutritional Teachings on BMI, seasonal foods, sugar cravings, and much more
Movement Planning
Journey Dance Workshop
Kit includes: step-by-step workbook, recipes, food samples, detox tea, and journal
*10% off supplements purchased at Element from 1/19-2/23/11 for program participants.
*Optional 3 class card for $25 for any cleanse participants from 1/19 - 2/23/11.
Journey Dance Workshop with Jeanine Abraham
Sunday, February 5th 10:00am - 11:30am, $25
JourneyDance is a celebration of the human spirit combining yoga, freestyle movement and improvisational theater. Danced to spectacular world music, we move in a space with no mirrors and no judgment. Jeanine provides a safe space for the dancer to explore and experience pure joy through movement. Jeanine's movements also fill the room with energy and inspire students to leave their hang-ups behind. Get out of your mind, and into your body!
HypnoBirthing® with Leslie Newman
Tuesdays, February 7th - March 14th (No Class 2/14) 8:00pm - 10:00pm
HypnoBirthing® is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress free birth. This amazing program teaches you, along with your birthing companion, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner. For further details, please visit our website or contact Leslie Newman at 212-864-0456 or lfn210@aol.com.
Partners Yoga & Meditation Workshop with Claire Larsen
Saturday, February 18th 5:00pm - 6:30pm, $60/couple
This workshop focuses on how incorporating love, kindness and sharing into a yoga practice can deepen the experience for both individuals. Students will be guided through some poses that incorporate both partners, creating an opportunity for mutual support. This workshop is appropriate for the new yogi and a wonderful opportunity for the advanced student to rediscover the asanas in a new way. Friends will be able to encourage each other and loved ones can connect on a vital and personal level while we laugh, breathe, meditate and explore together.
Restorative Yoga Workshop: A Focus on the Eyes with Marissa Nielson-Pincus
Thursday, February 23rd 10:00am - 12:15pm, $30
Living in NYC, the constant barrage of sound and images can leave us feeling exhausted. This workshop will focus on releasing the tension that builds up in our eyes and spreads into our bodies and minds. This is a deeply restorative practice, transitioning from a slow flowing vinyasa into supported postures, pranayama, and meditation. Experience a place of profound support, space, and possibility while balancing your nervous system and deepening the bond between mind and body.
Yoga for Labor and Delivery with Adele Loux-Turner
Sunday, February 26th 4:00pm - 6:30pm, $60/couple
This workshop for is for expecting partners preparing for labor and delivery. Couples will learn and practice yoga-derived comfort techniques that can help to ease all stages of childbirth. We will practice breathing techniques, positions and simple massage. Couples at all stages of pregnancy are welcome!
Healthy Cooking At Home with Chef and Health Coach Janine T. Abraham
PRICING
2 students: $300
4 students: $400
Prices do not include groceries. GROCERIES: Students will be sent a detailed shopping list prior to class so they will have the necessary groceries on hand. (There are several online grocery delivery services that make this a breeze.)
Students will learn how to cook the foods they love to eat in a relaxing environment. To make the most of these classes, students begin by creating their own customized lesson plans and menus with the help of an encouraging and experienced chef-instructor. Classes are approximately 2 ½ hours and are centered around the preparation of a complete meal.
Menu Ideas:
Romantic Dinner for Two
Goat Cheese Soufflé
Filet Mignon with Wild Mushroom Ragù
String Beans with Pistachio-Shallot Butter
Dark Chocolate Mousse
Vegetarian
Barley Risotto with Shiitake Mushrooms and Goat Cheese
Tuscan Braised Escarole with White Beans
Moroccan Vegetable Tagine
Curried Red Lentil Soup with Coconut and Spinach
Northern Italian
Roasted Lemon-Rosemary Chicken
Parmesan Risotto with Spinach & Basil
OR
Ricotta Gnocchi with Toasted Sage Butter
Garlicky Broccoli Rabe
Tiramisú
Element Healing Natural Healing Arts Class Descriptions
Gentle Yoga with Claire McCarty
This basic level class moves at a gentle pace, using chairs and props to accommodate personal needs when necessary. Gentle Yoga is ideal for older adults, those recovering from illness or injury, and anyone seeking a less physical class that still has the joy of breathing, moving, relaxing and quieting the mind. Also appropriate for students that are new to yoga.
Open Level Vinyasa Yoga with Flannery Houston
This well rounded class is designed to challenge all ages and levels. Class begins with a short period of meditation and restorative postures, then moves on to poses that are maintained for a moderate period of time to build strength and endurance, while focusing the mind. From here we move through a flow of asanas designed to connect us with our breath and invigorate our body. This class offers modifications for those new to yoga and challenging variations for the more advanced student.
Slow Flow Vinyasa Yoga with Marissa Nielsen-Pincus
This slow flow Vinyasa class will take you deeper into a supportive yoga practice allowing your body to let go of old holding patterns, opening up new possibilities for strength and balance. You will explore how your muscles, connective tissue, joints, and organs actively support you and help you move. This class is both physically challenging but also restorative, with space for students to move at their own pace. Open to all levels.
Prenatal Yoga with Adele Loux-Turner
The changing female body is honored and guided through a gentle and fluid practice developing strength and energy, releasing tension and allowing deep relaxation. Classes are a blend of movement, breath, relaxation, meditation and visualization all of which help prepare you for labor and birth. Practicing yoga can alleviate common discomforts felt during pregnancy such as varicosities, swelling, hip pain, cramps, and low back pain. Prenatal yoga brings better sleep and digestion, connection to your developing baby, and a sense of feeling inwardly centered.
Morning Awakening: GYROKINESIS® with Alexandra Berger
This morning class focuses on "Awakening of the Senses", a series within GYROKINESIS®. Using breathwork, spinal movements, and self-massage techniques, this practice brings awareness to the entire body. The sequence helps to heat up the core and activate the nerve endings, delivering the energy needed to start the day focused and invigorated.
GYROKINESIS® with Alexandra Berger
Come explore the possibilities for movement in your own body. Certified Gyrokinesis instructor, Alexandra Berger, will take you through the natural movements of the spine and joints that bring the body into its fullest movement potential, developed by Julie Horvath. Gyrokinesis is a system for every body, using gentle, fluid motions to awaken all of the senses and give one a more expansive sense of self.
Community Based with Caroline Ferran
This class introduces basic postures and alignment principles for those new to yoga, just returning to classes, or those looking to strengthen the basis of their practice. We focus on establishing a foundation of healthy alignment by gradually entering into basic postures while recognizing and exploring our breath and mind in each pose. The class then builds to sequencing poses designed to stretch and strengthen the body, while calming and focusing the mind. Basic meditation, breath work (pranayama) and mindfulness techniques are introduced and incorporated into every class.
Postpartum Yoga with Adele Loux-Turner
This class is for women who want to address issues that are common in the postpartum body. Emphasis will be placed on rebuilding the strength of the abdomen and pelvic floor and on mobilizing and opening the shoulders. This work is particularly beneficial for women in their first year after childbirth, but mothers of any age are encouraged to join.
Yoga and Meditation with Claire Larsen
This weekly class, open to students of all levels, is centered around building the foundations of a meditation and mindfulness practice. We define mindfulness as a practice that allows us to bring the focus, awareness and calmness we experience in meditation to our everyday life experiences. Alternating between seated meditation and a gentle yoga asana practice, this class is designed to allow students to enter into a meditation practice without the anxiety and discomforts that often arise in traditional seated positions. The simple techniques introduced in this class will provide an opportunity for all students to deepen their practice and to view the body as a resting place for the mind.
Parent and Baby Yoga with Adele Loux-Turner
A yoga class for parents and care givers with babies 6 weeks old to crawling. This class provides a relaxing space where you can reconnect to your body and breath while nurturing your connection with your baby. The class is designed specifically to help build core stability and improve posture in a gentle yet effective way as well as address other body aches and pains of a new parent or care giver. Learn baby massage techniques, change and feed your baby as needed and interact with your baby in the centering, compassionate space that yoga creates.
Hatha Yoga with Barb Golub
Using therapeutic alignment principles, with deep care and personal attention, Barb will teach you to build strength and flexibility that will stay with you on and off the mat. Join Barb to smile, engage and cultivate the deepest intentions you can for yourself. This class is appropriate for all levels and each class will end with a meditation.
Special Classes and Workshops
Eat Well, Live Well 2012 with Jeanine Abraham
January 19th - Febuary 23rd, $350
Over the Course of a 6 week period this workshop will teach you how to start and maintain a plan for eating well to live well! If you are looking for a way to jump start 2012, solidify your resolutions and bring your health goals to reality then this is the program for you. This is not an intensive liquid diet or a quick fix but a way to make lasting changes that you can sustain on your own. In a supportive environment, you will be guided through menu planning, juicing, group health coaching, movement planning, information on nutrition and more. This program is based on a real food philosophy for omnivores (though it can easily be adjusted for vegetarians) and incorporates all aspects of your life to find the balance that is right for your individual long term health. Lose weight, renew your energy and awaken your spirit this January!
Important Dates:
At Element:
Sunday, January 8th: Free Info Session (for those considering the program) 5:00pm-5:30pm
Thursday, January 19th, 7:30pm-9:00pm:
Intro Meeting
Thursday, February 2nd, 7:30pm-9:00pm:
Juicing Demo and Mid-Cleanse Meeting
Sunday, February 5th, 10:00am-11:30am:
Journey Dance Workshop
Thursday, February 16th, 7:30pm-9:00pm:
Final Meeting
Conference Calls:
Thursday, January 26th & Thursday, February 9th
(times to be decided by group).
What's Included:
Weekly Meetings and Group Coaching
Menu Planning
Hands on Juicing Demo
Nutritional Teachings on BMI, seasonal foods, sugar cravings, and much more
Movement Planning
Journey Dance Workshop
Kit includes: step-by-step workbook, recipes, food samples, detox tea, and journal
*10% off supplements purchased at Element from 1/19-2/23/11 for program participants.
*Optional 3 class card for $25 for any cleanse participants from 1/19 - 2/23/11.
Journey Dance Workshop with Jeanine Abraham
Sunday, February 5th 10:00am - 11:30am, $25
JourneyDance is a celebration of the human spirit combining yoga, freestyle movement and improvisational theater. Danced to spectacular world music, we move in a space with no mirrors and no judgment. Jeanine provides a safe space for the dancer to explore and experience pure joy through movement. Jeanine's movements also fill the room with energy and inspire students to leave their hang-ups behind. Get out of your mind, and into your body!
HypnoBirthing® with Leslie Newman
Tuesdays, February 7th - March 14th (No Class 2/14) 8:00pm - 10:00pm
HypnoBirthing® is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress free birth. This amazing program teaches you, along with your birthing companion, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner. For further details, please visit our website or contact Leslie Newman at 212-864-0456 or lfn210@aol.com.
Partners Yoga & Meditation Workshop with Claire Larsen
Saturday, February 18th 5:00pm - 6:30pm, $60/couple
This workshop focuses on how incorporating love, kindness and sharing into a yoga practice can deepen the experience for both individuals. Students will be guided through some poses that incorporate both partners, creating an opportunity for mutual support. This workshop is appropriate for the new yogi and a wonderful opportunity for the advanced student to rediscover the asanas in a new way. Friends will be able to encourage each other and loved ones can connect on a vital and personal level while we laugh, breathe, meditate and explore together.
Restorative Yoga Workshop: A Focus on the Eyes with Marissa Nielson-Pincus
Thursday, February 23rd 10:00am - 12:15pm, $30
Living in NYC, the constant barrage of sound and images can leave us feeling exhausted. This workshop will focus on releasing the tension that builds up in our eyes and spreads into our bodies and minds. This is a deeply restorative practice, transitioning from a slow flowing vinyasa into supported postures, pranayama, and meditation. Experience a place of profound support, space, and possibility while balancing your nervous system and deepening the bond between mind and body.
Yoga for Labor and Delivery with Adele Loux-Turner
Sunday, February 26th 4:00pm - 6:30pm, $60/couple
This workshop for is for expecting partners preparing for labor and delivery. Couples will learn and practice yoga-derived comfort techniques that can help to ease all stages of childbirth. We will practice breathing techniques, positions and simple massage. Couples at all stages of pregnancy are welcome!
Healthy Cooking At Home with Chef and Health Coach Janine T. Abraham
PRICING
2 students: $300
4 students: $400
Prices do not include groceries. GROCERIES: Students will be sent a detailed shopping list prior to class so they will have the necessary groceries on hand. (There are several online grocery delivery services that make this a breeze.)
Students will learn how to cook the foods they love to eat in a relaxing environment. To make the most of these classes, students begin by creating their own customized lesson plans and menus with the help of an encouraging and experienced chef-instructor. Classes are approximately 2 ½ hours and are centered around the preparation of a complete meal.
Menu Ideas:
Romantic Dinner for Two
Goat Cheese Soufflé
Filet Mignon with Wild Mushroom Ragù
String Beans with Pistachio-Shallot Butter
Dark Chocolate Mousse
Vegetarian
Barley Risotto with Shiitake Mushrooms and Goat Cheese
Tuscan Braised Escarole with White Beans
Moroccan Vegetable Tagine
Curried Red Lentil Soup with Coconut and Spinach
Northern Italian
Roasted Lemon-Rosemary Chicken
Parmesan Risotto with Spinach & Basil
OR
Ricotta Gnocchi with Toasted Sage Butter
Garlicky Broccoli Rabe
Tiramisú
