10-Pack of Sessions
An excellent way to jump-start your routine and embark upon a long-term commitment. Setting up a weekly, individualized yoga private at a set time, you will establish the regularity and develop the skills, focus and willpower to maintain the kind of consistent, dedicated practice that is so crucial to creating lasting change.
Tailor-Made Private Yoga
To target challenges of all kinds, we design tailor-made private yoga sessions to develop the most effective yoga practice that’s just right for you. Learn modifications to enable safer participation in group classes and other activities. Contact us to find out about our work in health, fitness and well-being on many fronts, such as: back pain, allergies, tension headaches, breathing, anxiety, fatigue, posture, gait analysis, foot pain, weight loss, stagefright, insomnia, vocal strain, motivation, concentration, digestion, etc.
Athlete's Tune-Up
Get back on top of your game, with private yoga for sports enthusiasts, the ideal cross-training. Maximize your endurance, strength and flexibility. Overcome plateaus. Rebound from injuries and other conditions that are a drag on performance. Prepare for competitions or for events like returning to ski season or the beach. This anatomically enlightened yoga practice caters to your personal goals and is the ultimate integrative approach working on multiple fronts— myofascial rebalancing, breath patterns, grounding and stability, gait analysis, core support, spinal health, range of movement— bringing you to new levels.
Adapted Practice of Yoga for elders, injuries, pregnancy, etc.
Drawing on a wide variety of time-tested techniques, in this modality of private yoga we adapt yoga practices for the client whose present condition makes it difficult to participate in a group class. Obstacles are our greatest teachers, and the greatest personal growth and self-improvement comes about as a result of our perseverence through the uphills of life, not when we coast through the occasional downhills. At times, we may want to give up, but when the going gets tough, the tough do not sit on a couch and pop pills. If you can breathe, you can do yoga!
Yoga Chikitsa For You
Yoga has an amazing power to heal. Known as chikitsa, therepeutic work with the healing power of yoga draws on ancient knowledge. It might sound mystical if described with the ancient metaphors, but the methodology is grounded in reality— in experience, in the human body. Yoga chikitsa is yoga therapy, the art and science of harnessing body, breath and mind to empower the body to heal itself. The work in this type of private yoga session can be described as purificatory— as removing obstructions, unlocking blockages, untying knots. We unravel patterns of holding that have thrown off the system's natural equilibrium. It is a process of "taking away," rather than "adding." No pills, herbs, special shoe inserts, or any other additives are offered. You could call it organic, integrative, wholesome. After all, the word "heal" comes from the same root as "whole."
Vinyasa Yoga Flow – Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Vinyasa yoga, taught to you either in the Ashtanga Vinyasa form or in various other modalities we offer, consists of a vigorous and challenging session that typically begins with standing postures, warming up the body, getting the breath to flow deep and smooth, after which you will progress to seated postures and perhaps inversions, often followed by the perennial favorite, savasana. The incorporation of chant, meditation, pranayama is always an option. Many practitioners love this approach because they find it engaging; it demands all one's energies and reins in a scattered mind to focus on the task at hand. Many folks have such a hectic everyday, that the only time they feel prepared to slow down and relax is after intense exercise.
Restorative Yoga Practice
Have you ever felt so exhausted that you wanted to practice yoga, but just couldn't motivate? At times it can be best to shift gears and opt for an ultra-low-impact approach. Employing bolsters that support the body in various rest positions held for several minutes each, in this type of private yoga session, we take you very slowly through a gentle and relaxing flow from one restorative pose to the next. With almost no effort, we weave a sequence of poses and counterposes that will restore and refresh, creating a profound state of harmony and tranquility.
Alignment Refinement
Yoga postures, or asanas, are taught differently by various schools of yoga. A multiplicity of perspectives may on one hand provide a nice variety, if you like to hop around from one type of practice to another. But the seeming contradictions and the differing advice, often causes confusion even for experienced practitioners. In the alignment-centered private yoga session, your yoga teacher methodically breaks down the details of the yoga postures (asanas). You will release the tight spots by engaging increased support in the weaker spots that need more grounding. The approach is firmly grounded in anatomical reality, yet open to exploration of multiple perspectives. Most important is a practical approach that provides a personal, felt experience of how true balance arises in the space between opposites.
Stress Less
Private consultations in stress management. With experience teaching yoga classes and stress reduction workshops for out-of-shape office workers, burnt-out execs and Wall Street lawyers, we are versed in bringing people with little interest or experience in yoga, into an experience of profound release and balance, when all they thought they were doing was a stress management seminar. Pretty soon, they are very excited about what yoga has to offer.
Inner Traditions
For the more seasoned practitioner, we also offer sessions focusing on Sanskrit chanting, traditional yogic breathing exercises, meditation, and the study of classical texts. These elements can also be incorporated into any other type of session.
Common to all of these approaches is the element of mind-body connection and the hands-on process of transmitting experiential knowledge that books and DVD's cannot offer.
Feedback and guidance from a caring and experienced teacher is what allows us to gain insights into how we have become used to doing things "our way" by force of habit.
When we feel (at first awkwardly) that there are other ways of moving, breathing, etc., our whole being is opened up to new possibilities.
We can either accept or reject advice we read or hear from outside sources, based on our biases and past experience. But when the body and mind have the opportunity to try new strategies and accept or reject them based on real experience, then we know in a deep and visceral way what it feels like to get outside of the "box" we keep ourselves in— our "comfort zone"— both in terms of what we believe to be our physical limitations; how we feel comfortable acting, thinking, and moving; and what inner dialogue is running through our heads.
Yes, we all talk to ourselves, inside, and let's be honest, the monologue is not always of the most positive and productive nature. We need not resort to the corniest "affirmations" to fluff our own egos, and we need not necessarily chant textual passages that are of a religious nature (although for many, this is the best). But at the very least, we can become aware that we are in a sense all chanting mantras to ourselves anyway (the aforementioned inner monologue.) So why not look closely into what it is we are telling ourselves, and if need be, make changes that will give us new outcomes.
What we gain from regular, devoted work that is executed in the right fashion, is the awakening of intuitive wisdom beyond the level of conscious thought.
When we then get to where our formal practice makes us more aware of our actions in all parts of our lives, then the learning process grows exponentially. With each step we take and every move we make, as we go through even the most mundane daily activities, we can amazingly take the greatest pleasure in simply observing natural everyday phenomena unfold.
As we cultivate this increased awareness, supported by regular practice and skilled guidance, the result is newfound freedom and love of life.
omagain Yoga | omagain.com
Ancient tradition adapted to present objectives | Private sessions in your home or at our Upper East Side location
Find out about our work in health, fitness and well-being on many fronts— such as back pain, allergies, tension headaches, breathing, anxiety, fatigue, posture, gait analysis, foot pain, weight loss, stagefright, insomnia, vocal strain, motivation, sleep, concentration and digestion. Develop an effective, individualized yoga practice that’s right for you. Learn modifications to enable safer participation in group classes and other activities | Serving New York since 2004
We also offer Corporate Yoga: consultations, workshops or classes for your company
