Kids' Yoga!
with Jessie Lee Montague, Satya Co-Director
Thursdays, January 19–February 9
4:00–4:45pm
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck
Fee: $50 for the series, or $15 per class
Please pre-register!
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Move, Laugh, Live, Sing, Soar, Sigh, Surrender!
Take the leap and learn what creates joy time and time again...
Age range is (loosely) 5–9 years old.

Jessie loves her two beautiful kids! Jessie loves Yoga! Jessie wants to combine her loves to share with YOU and Your LOVES!

EASY DOES IT:
A Yoga practice for body, mind and spirit
Next Workshop:
Friday, February 17
6-7:15pm
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck
Fee: $15
Reserve online (see below)
or call (845)876-2528

Join Fran Conway (RN, RYT) for a monthly yoga workshop created for beginners or for those who simply prefer a more gentle and restorative practice.

We will explore the effects of connecting movement, breath, and awareness on the mind, body and spirit. You will be guided through intelligent sequences at a slower pace, exploring more deeply how we can transform all aspects of our being with the guidance of universal spiritual visualizations. The last half hour will be devoted to restorative yoga poses and we will end with a longer and deeper meditation and relaxation phase.

This will be an interactive workshop where questions are welcomed, and conversations established around the practices. Everyone welcome!

Fran Conway came to yoga due to the fear and anxiety she experienced after 9/11. A friend suggested that the grounding effects of yoga would help with these symptoms. In discovering this for herself, she has been committed in offering this healing practice to the patients she works with at New York Presbyterian Hospital. She has been a Registered Nurse for over 30 years, currently working in the Department of Urology/Oncology and established the Holistic Health Center there.

Fran has received certifications from Prana Yoga with Jeff Midgow M.D., Integral Yoga's Gentle Yoga, Judith Lasater's Relax and Renew, and maintains ongoing studies with Leslie Kaminoff. She is honored to have just completed the Satya Yoga Teacher Training in 2011 with Jessie Montague and Sondra Loring.

Asana from the Inside Out:
Iyengar Yoga with Zack Dixon
Saturday, February 25 (snow date: 2/26)
2:30–5:00pm
$40/advance, $45/door
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck

Zack teaches classical yoga poses with particular attention to detail and alignment to bring you closer to your body. In this workshop you will be taught to use the outer form of the yoga poses to quiet the mind and move closer to the Self. Includes specific asana instruction, yoga philosophy, and beginner's pranayama (breath control).

Zack Dixon is from Cape Cod, Massachusetts where he lives and teaches yoga full time. With a style that is accessible to beginners and adepts, he strives to create a supportive environment in which to learn. Zack has a B.A. in Human Development: Wellness and Holistic Health from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is a certified Kripalu Yoga Teacher, but currently is immersed in the study, practice and teaching of The Iyengar Method. He studies with classical Iyengar teacher Patricia Walden in Cambridge, MA.

Very Beginner Yoga Series
with Jessie Lee Montague, Satya Co-Director
Sundays 12:30–1:30pm
Winter Session: Jan. 22–Feb. 12
Spring Session: April 15–May 6
Summer Session: July 15–August 5
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck
Fee: $65 for the series, or $20 per class
Please pre-register!
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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.

"What I love about Yoga is that it's an exploration of our entire being: body, mind, heart and spirit. I come to these practices with joy first and foremost. The intention is to gently navigate our bodies into these beautiful postures which reflect the natural world so that we can better explore our deepest potential and connection to each other and to our planet with grace and lightness of heart." —Jessie Lee Montague

Non-dual Conscious-Awareness Self Inquiry
with Delilah Praete
2nd & 4th Friday of every month, 7:00–8:30pm
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck
Fee: First class is free; then $22

Today, all over the world, practitioners of the process of non-dual conscious-awareness self inquiry are discovering that by asking the mind very simple questions they can find freedom from stress, anxiety, trauma, addiction, grief, anger, procrastination and more. Self inquiry allows old and limiting patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving to dissolve. The body-mind clears effortlessly and acquires new levels of self-mastery in all the areas of our lives.

Delilah Praete, LMSW, CSMC has a BA from Bard College, a BS from Columbia University, and an MSW from Columbia University. She is the Founder and Director of the Accord Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy, and the Institute for Bio-psycho-spiritual Integration and Manifest VIII. She has been studying non-dual teachings and practices since 1985. She offers workshops and facilitates individuals and organizations all over the world in discovering and directly experiencing their infinitude.

Observation, Relationship and Synthesis: Approaches to Yoga Therapeutics
with Amy Mathews, CMA, IDME, BMC Teacher, RSMT/E
Saturday, March 24
2:30-6:30pm
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck
Fee: $50
Call (845)876-2528 for more info

Amy Matthews, CMA, SME, RYT, RSMT/RSME has been teaching movement since 1994. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst, a Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner, an Infant Developmental Movement Educator, and a yoga therapist and yoga teacher.

Amy co-authored with Leslie Kaminoff the best-selling Yoga Anatomy (published by Human Kinetics). Together Amy and Leslie lead The Breathing Project's Advanced Studies Program.

She co-teaches the BMC™ & Yoga programs in NYC and Berkeley, CA for the School for Body-Mind Centering®, and was on the faculty of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies for 10 years. She has taught embodied anatomy and movement workshops for programs in New York, Philadelphia, Florida, Nebraska, and Berkeley, CA in the USA, and internationally in Canada, Israel, Ireland, England, Slovakia, Switzerland and Japan.

Amy also works privately as a yoga teacher and movement therapist, integrating Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, yoga, Body-Mind Centering® and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF).

Amy is certified as a yoga teacher by Yoga Union and Heart of Yoga, and as a Motherhand Shiatsu practitioner. She is registered with ISMETA as a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, with IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) and has been registered with Yoga Alliance as an E-500 RYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher).

Amy has participated several times in Gil Hedley's dissection workshops, and studied kinesthetic anatomy with Irene Dowd, and BMC™ with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. She has studied yoga with Alison West, Mark Whitwell, Genny Kapular and Kevin Gardiner, and full-contact karate with Sensei Michelle Gay.

The Alchemy of Alignment
with Erin Burch, PT
Saturday, May 5
2:30-5:30pm
Satya Yoga Center, Rhinebeck
Fee: $40
Please pre-register

This workshop will identify common misconceptions and malalignments and address strategies to deepen the effectiveness of, connection to, and precision regarding the specific "how" of a handful of representative yoga postures. Through recognizable anatomical concepts, learn how to enrich your own and your student's experience by discovering the "inner" asana. This discovery will change the way you interact with your yoga, both on and off the mat!

For over 32 years, Erin Burch has been passionately focusing on the most effective way to integrate her scientific and intuitive perspectives. She brings her physical therapy training, clairsentience, a sense of wonder for the human body and the wholistic paradigm of yoga to her powerfully healing approach. The journey has brought her to a deep understanding for how the body functions and what creates dysfunction and pain. She enters into an intuitive and kinesthetic "conversation" that dictates the direction of the treatment. Clients have the feeling of "Coming Home" again to their bodies. She brings a level of integrity, presence, intelligence, commitment and talent that is unsurpassed.

Erin offers fresh and original perspectives to her programs on Posture: The Vertical (R)Evolution (at Kripalu Center, Lenox, MA), Yoga Alignment: The Alchemy of Alignment (at Devotion Yoga, Hoboken, NJ) and bodywork.

Erin Burch is the founder of Limitless Body and the inventor of The Vertical (R)Evolution approach to posture.

"Mapping the Path: Yoga Instruction
for a Home Practice"
New CD by Sondra Loring

Satya Yoga Center is proud to announce a new CD by SONDRA LORING (with music by acclaimed musician Steve Gorn) called Mapping the Path. This CD is designed to help you with your home practice and is an intermediate/advanced Vinyasa yoga class that you can jump right into or grow into more slowly. Take it home, on the road, or on vacation.

$17 includes shipping directly to you! ENJOY!