classes & events
Beginner Yoga
This class introduces basic postures and alignment principles, while giving more experienced students the option to go deeper. We focus on establishing a foundation of healthy alignment by maintaining basic postures for a moderate amount of time, noticing and exploring our breath and mind in each pose. From here, we take these asanas (poses) into a flow that is designed to stretch and strengthen the body, while calming and focusing the mind. Basic meditation and mindfulness techniques are introduced and incorporated into every class.
Gentle Yoga
A gentle, easy paced class. Chairs and props can be used to accommodate personal needs. This class 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.
Open Level Vinyasa Yoga with Claire Larsen
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.
Restorative Yoga and Meditation with Lauren Fecarotta
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.
Open Level Vinyasa Yoga with Jennifer Phillips
This primarily vinyasa-flow based yoga method enables the practitioner to pass through many of the poses allowing an integration of asana practice into everyday functional movement. Qualities of stability and freedom will be explored, working the muscles efficiently and opening up areas of tightness, and encouraging ease and softness in the joints. Awareness of connecting the breath, body and mind will be encouraged.
Open Level Vinyasa Yoga with Lauren Fecarotta
This open level vinyasa practice moves through a creative sequence of traditional poses linked by breath, integrating awareness, alignment, balance, strength, flexibility and grace. Students will practice a series of challenging and restorative asanas while learning to connect to and move with the rhythm of their own breath, thus creating strength in the body and stillness in the mind.
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 Kate Jetri Pollock
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.
Meditation with Claire Larsen
Begin your weekend cultivating peace within. Drawing on basic Buddhist meditation techniques and philosophy, this class provides a supportive environment to calm, focus and restore your mind. Utilizing the breath as our main source of support, we will take time to better understand our mind by observing our thought patterns and learning to come home to the present moment where anything is possible, even in the most difficult of times. You will learn "do anywhere" meditation tools that can support you in your home practice or on a crowded subway car during rush hour. No previous meditation experience is required, all levels are welcome.
Meditation with Claire McCarty
This open level class will help you explore the connection between your breath, your body and your mind. The one hour class includes several seated meditations, gentle breath work and easy movements. The meditation leader provides basic instructions for sitting postures, breathing and specific technique or focus for each seated meditation. The class is suitable for beginners as well as for those with a meditation practice.
Pilates Mat with Loni Markman
This fun and invigorating full body class focues on core strength, postural symmetry, and breath control. Pilates mat workouts are designed to create long, lean muscles while enhancing strength, flexibility, balance and improve joint mobility. All levels are welcome.
Group and Private Pilates Mat: Pilates mat classes offer a full body workout focusing on core strength, postural symmetry, and breath control. Pilates exercises concentrate on the core postural muscles which help keep the body balanced and are essential in supporting the spine. This class will help increase strength, endurance, and coordination as well as improve flexibility and joint mobility.
Hypnobirthing with Yael Quittner
August 17, 24, 31, September 7, 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. You will learn how to call upon your body's own natural relaxant and thus lessen, or even eliminate, discomfort and the need for medication. When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and when mind and body are in harmony, Nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all animal mothers in Nature.
HypnoBirthing® will teach you the art of using your own natural birthing instincts. With HypnoBirthing®, you will not be in a trance or a sleep state. You will be aware and fully in control, but profoundly relaxed.
For more info and to RSVP for the class please call Yael Quittner at (347)451-0876.
4 Week Gyrokinesis Series with Alexandra Berger
September 12, 19, 26, and October 3 (12:00pm - 1:30pm)
Gyrokinesis® 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 developed by Juliu Horvath that bring the body into its fullest movement potential. Gyrokinesis is a system for every body, using gentle, fluid, organic motions to awaken all of the senses and give one a more expansive sense of self.
8 Week Parent & Baby Yoga Series with Marisa Bonfanti
September 13 - November 1 (Mondays) (12:00pm - 1:15pm)
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, interact with your baby in the centering, compassionate space that yoga creates.
6 Week Weight Management Series with Loni Markman
September 13 - October 25 (Mondays) (7:00pm - 8:00pm)
Or September 16 - October 21 (Thursdays) (12:00pm - 1:00pm)
$25 off when signing up with friend
This 6 week program of self transformation will help you better understand your personal relationship to food. You’ll learn how to reduce food cravings, put an end to emotional eating and lose weight naturally. Program includes recipes and meal plans, cooking tips, informational handouts, recommended exercises, and unlimited email support.
5 Week Pilates Mat Series with Loni Markman
September 20 - October 25 (Mondays) (8:30pm - 9:30pm)
Receive a FREE “Loni Markman Pilates DVD”
This 5 week Pilates series adds strength training and stretching to traditional Pilates mat workouts in order to improve core awareness and posture and to increase flexibility and strength. By the end of this 5 week series you’ll not only feel stronger and leaner, you’ll also gain greater body awareness.
Alexander Technique with Jenna Zabala
Intro Class: September 17th (6:30pm - 8:00pm)
4 Week Series: Oct 1st, 8th, 22nd, and 29th (6:30 - 8:00pm)
Improve your posture, release tension, and experience greater ease in all your activities. Learn posture awareness and techniques to release holding patterns to help you regain the capacity to move naturally, easily, and painlessly in everyday activities. This class is useful for everyone from computer users to performing artists.
Dinner Party with Mark Simmons
September 18th (8:00pm)
RSVP required by Wednesday, Sept. 15th
Menu
Amuse: Truffled Organic Egg with Quinoa Cracker
First: Chilled Corn Soup with Avocado and Pop Corn
Second: Wild Striped Bass with Steamed Jasmine Rice
Thai Yellow Curry and Seaweed Salad
Third: Coffee Rubbed Pork Loin with Potato Gratin and Cola Braised Cherries
Dessert: Lemon and Poppy Seed Panna Cotta with Raspberry Gazpacho
Please note that there is no refund for cancellations made with less than 5 days notice. All charges become final on the evening of Monday, September 13th
8 Day Ayurvedic Yoga Detox with Lauren Fecarotta
September 20 - 27 *$240 (Register with a friend and save $25 each)
Start the season off right with a deep cleansing of the body, mind and spirit. Join us for an 8 Day Ayurvedic Yoga Detox from September 20-27 as we cleanse and refresh with yoga, meditation, breath work, and nutrition. Lose excess weight, experience brand new levels of energy, glowing skin, and a strong sense of accomplishment and strength this Fall. For more information, please contact Lauren Fecarotta at lauren.fecarotta@gmail.com
Includes:
8 Day Detox Daily Checklist
Detox Supply Kit Liver Cleanse
Colon Cleanse
Kidney Cleanse
Immune Booster
Detox Recipe Pack
8 Day Healing Meditation
Pre-Detox Information Meeting on Sunday, September 19th from 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Release and Restore Yoga Workshop on Wednesday, September 22nd from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Revitalize Yoga Workshop on Friday, September 24th from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Optional detox friendly home cooked meals and juice available for order and pick up at Element.
Save 10% off one 60 or 90 minute massage or Abhyanga to assist the detox process (9/20-9/27 only).
Element Healing Natural Healing Arts Class Descriptions
Beginner Yoga
This class introduces basic postures and alignment principles, while giving more experienced students the option to go deeper. We focus on establishing a foundation of healthy alignment by maintaining basic postures for a moderate amount of time, noticing and exploring our breath and mind in each pose. From here, we take these asanas (poses) into a flow that is designed to stretch and strengthen the body, while calming and focusing the mind. Basic meditation and mindfulness techniques are introduced and incorporated into every class.
Gentle Yoga
A gentle, easy paced class. Chairs and props can be used to accommodate personal needs. This class 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.
Open Level Vinyasa Yoga with Claire Larsen
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.
Restorative Yoga and Meditation with Lauren Fecarotta
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.
Open Level Vinyasa Yoga with Jennifer Phillips
This primarily vinyasa-flow based yoga method enables the practitioner to pass through many of the poses allowing an integration of asana practice into everyday functional movement. Qualities of stability and freedom will be explored, working the muscles efficiently and opening up areas of tightness, and encouraging ease and softness in the joints. Awareness of connecting the breath, body and mind will be encouraged.
Open Level Vinyasa Yoga with Lauren Fecarotta
This open level vinyasa practice moves through a creative sequence of traditional poses linked by breath, integrating awareness, alignment, balance, strength, flexibility and grace. Students will practice a series of challenging and restorative asanas while learning to connect to and move with the rhythm of their own breath, thus creating strength in the body and stillness in the mind.
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 Kate Jetri Pollock
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.
Meditation with Claire Larsen
Begin your weekend cultivating peace within. Drawing on basic Buddhist meditation techniques and philosophy, this class provides a supportive environment to calm, focus and restore your mind. Utilizing the breath as our main source of support, we will take time to better understand our mind by observing our thought patterns and learning to come home to the present moment where anything is possible, even in the most difficult of times. You will learn "do anywhere" meditation tools that can support you in your home practice or on a crowded subway car during rush hour. No previous meditation experience is required, all levels are welcome.
Meditation with Claire McCarty
This open level class will help you explore the connection between your breath, your body and your mind. The one hour class includes several seated meditations, gentle breath work and easy movements. The meditation leader provides basic instructions for sitting postures, breathing and specific technique or focus for each seated meditation. The class is suitable for beginners as well as for those with a meditation practice.
Pilates Mat with Loni Markman
This fun and invigorating full body class focues on core strength, postural symmetry, and breath control. Pilates mat workouts are designed to create long, lean muscles while enhancing strength, flexibility, balance and improve joint mobility. All levels are welcome.
Special Classes and Workshops
Group and Private Pilates Mat: Pilates mat classes offer a full body workout focusing on core strength, postural symmetry, and breath control. Pilates exercises concentrate on the core postural muscles which help keep the body balanced and are essential in supporting the spine. This class will help increase strength, endurance, and coordination as well as improve flexibility and joint mobility.
Hypnobirthing with Yael Quittner
August 17, 24, 31, September 7, 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. You will learn how to call upon your body's own natural relaxant and thus lessen, or even eliminate, discomfort and the need for medication. When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and when mind and body are in harmony, Nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all animal mothers in Nature.
HypnoBirthing® will teach you the art of using your own natural birthing instincts. With HypnoBirthing®, you will not be in a trance or a sleep state. You will be aware and fully in control, but profoundly relaxed.
For more info and to RSVP for the class please call Yael Quittner at (347)451-0876.
4 Week Gyrokinesis Series with Alexandra Berger
September 12, 19, 26, and October 3 (12:00pm - 1:30pm)
Gyrokinesis® 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 developed by Juliu Horvath that bring the body into its fullest movement potential. Gyrokinesis is a system for every body, using gentle, fluid, organic motions to awaken all of the senses and give one a more expansive sense of self.
8 Week Parent & Baby Yoga Series with Marisa Bonfanti
September 13 - November 1 (Mondays) (12:00pm - 1:15pm)
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, interact with your baby in the centering, compassionate space that yoga creates.
6 Week Weight Management Series with Loni Markman
September 13 - October 25 (Mondays) (7:00pm - 8:00pm)
Or September 16 - October 21 (Thursdays) (12:00pm - 1:00pm)
$25 off when signing up with friend
This 6 week program of self transformation will help you better understand your personal relationship to food. You’ll learn how to reduce food cravings, put an end to emotional eating and lose weight naturally. Program includes recipes and meal plans, cooking tips, informational handouts, recommended exercises, and unlimited email support.
5 Week Pilates Mat Series with Loni Markman
September 20 - October 25 (Mondays) (8:30pm - 9:30pm)
Receive a FREE “Loni Markman Pilates DVD”
This 5 week Pilates series adds strength training and stretching to traditional Pilates mat workouts in order to improve core awareness and posture and to increase flexibility and strength. By the end of this 5 week series you’ll not only feel stronger and leaner, you’ll also gain greater body awareness.
Alexander Technique with Jenna Zabala
Intro Class: September 17th (6:30pm - 8:00pm)
4 Week Series: Oct 1st, 8th, 22nd, and 29th (6:30 - 8:00pm)
Improve your posture, release tension, and experience greater ease in all your activities. Learn posture awareness and techniques to release holding patterns to help you regain the capacity to move naturally, easily, and painlessly in everyday activities. This class is useful for everyone from computer users to performing artists.
Dinner Party with Mark Simmons
September 18th (8:00pm)
RSVP required by Wednesday, Sept. 15th
Menu
Amuse: Truffled Organic Egg with Quinoa Cracker
First: Chilled Corn Soup with Avocado and Pop Corn
Second: Wild Striped Bass with Steamed Jasmine Rice
Thai Yellow Curry and Seaweed Salad
Third: Coffee Rubbed Pork Loin with Potato Gratin and Cola Braised Cherries
Dessert: Lemon and Poppy Seed Panna Cotta with Raspberry Gazpacho
Please note that there is no refund for cancellations made with less than 5 days notice. All charges become final on the evening of Monday, September 13th
8 Day Ayurvedic Yoga Detox with Lauren Fecarotta
September 20 - 27 *$240 (Register with a friend and save $25 each)
Start the season off right with a deep cleansing of the body, mind and spirit. Join us for an 8 Day Ayurvedic Yoga Detox from September 20-27 as we cleanse and refresh with yoga, meditation, breath work, and nutrition. Lose excess weight, experience brand new levels of energy, glowing skin, and a strong sense of accomplishment and strength this Fall. For more information, please contact Lauren Fecarotta at lauren.fecarotta@gmail.com
Includes:
8 Day Detox Daily Checklist
Detox Supply Kit Liver Cleanse
Colon Cleanse
Kidney Cleanse
Immune Booster
Detox Recipe Pack
8 Day Healing Meditation
Pre-Detox Information Meeting on Sunday, September 19th from 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Release and Restore Yoga Workshop on Wednesday, September 22nd from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Revitalize Yoga Workshop on Friday, September 24th from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Optional detox friendly home cooked meals and juice available for order and pick up at Element.
Save 10% off one 60 or 90 minute massage or Abhyanga to assist the detox process (9/20-9/27 only).
