News and Upcoming Events at Heartspace
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September Sale
: Our Six-Month Unlimited Pass is on sale from now until the end of September for only $499, regularly $570. This works out to only $83/month. Buy now and all your yoga classes are covered for this fall and most of the winter of 2019. The Six-Month clock starts with your first visit on the pass so you can purchase now and use later.
Click here to purchase.
Upcoming
: Meditation 101 with Meghan Hogan; Brand New Beginners Series; Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Series; Sound Healing Events and Gong Bath; Yoga for Ample Bodies; Yoga for Managing Stress and Anxiety Series; Restorative Yoga and Sound Healing Restorative Yoga and Therapeutic Bodywork Workshops with Diane Simpson and Jeanne Korn. Acroyoga!
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Troy and Albany Fall Drop-In Schedules
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Body Bliss! Live Music Yoga and
Kirtan with One Love Sept 29 in Albany.
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Body Bliss! A Transformational Yoga and Kirtan Live Music Experience with One Love. Saturday September 29, Class 4 - 6PM
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We're thrilled to welcome back One Love,based in Ithaca NY, to Heartspace. This inspirational yoga workshop will include a vinyasa posture flow, and free-form movement, ecstatic chanting and meditation, with live improvisational music provided by the ONE LOVE chant band. Kripalu Yoga instructor Jyoti (Jody Kessler), along with the multi-instrumentalists of ONE LOVE, will lead participants on an inner journey through an energizing and uplifting co-creation of body, breath and sound. This is a moderately-paced class, but all levels are welcome to participate and modify as needed. Some familiarity with basic yoga postures is recommended. Kirtan will follow the class with live music accompaniment to traditional chant music.
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Yoga for Brand New Beginners -
Four Week Series in Albany and Troy
Next Series in Troy Begins Sat 10/6
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Yoga for Brand New Beginners, Levels 1 and 2 in Albany and Troy this Fall and Winter. Four Week Series Saturdays 11:45AM - 1PM.
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If you are new to yoga and are interested to gain a solid understanding of the fundamentals and foundations of yoga, please join us for this four-week series. We will introduce key foundational concepts regarding the practice of yoga including postures (asana), breathing (pranayama), and meditation. This series will present you with background on yoga, principles of alignment for accessing and coming out of postures, proper yogic breathing, and how yoga can help you to live a fuller and healthier life. No experience required; just an open mind.
Cost is $60 for any of the series. Instructors Rebecca Volpe in
Albany
and Kathi Burke in
Troy
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These Four-Week Series are presented as level 1 and level 2 and are recommended to be taken in order but are not prerequisites. Click on either of the locations and any date below to register for Albany or Troy.
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Master Classes with Lauren Toolin
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Foundations and Fundamentals, Saturday September 29, 9-11AM. Albany Studio.
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Join Lauren for an in-depth exploration of your yoga practice. In this workshop of Foundations and Fundamentals, you'll work with precision and skill to retune and dive deeper into the foundations and subtleties of alignment and form. Fall in love with your foundation and explore and adapt elements and properties of Tadasana, or Mountain Pose, into numerous other postures for greater safety, stability, and depth. Please note, this workshop is concurrent with ongoing teacher training so space is limited.
Cost: $30
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A Practice for Peace: Sunday Oct 7, 2-4PM, Troy studio.
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A Practice for Peace: Is conflict a theme in your life? We fight the clock, ideology and even our own thoughts. This therapeutic workshop will help you gain access to a deeper, calmer, clearer space that is free from inner squabbling through a very special asana practice, visualization and meditation. This class is taught in conjunction with the 300-hour advanced teacher training and a few spaces are made available to register for this single class.
Cost: $30
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Meditation 101: Study and Practice
with Meghan Hogan
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Meditation 101: Four Week Series with Meghan Hogan. Mondays 5:45 - 6:45PM. Troy Studio. Oct 1-Oct 22.
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Meditation 101: Four-Week Series with Meghan Hogan. Mondays 5:45-6:45PM, Troy studio.
This four-week series will provide individualized instruction describing technique, practical guidance for home practice, wisdom derived from foundational yogic texts and modern research. The series will include:
- Breath centered meditation:Brief overview of Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga to provide context and purpose for practicing meditation.
- Yoga asana as a preparation for meditation: Open and stabilize the body to establish a comfortable seat for meditation.
- Mantra meditation
- Withdrawal of external senses in meditation. In a short restorative series, learn techniques to moderate input from the external world and tap into the inner knowingness beyond the cravings of the sense-fed mind.
- Light your inner fire through meditation. How to maintain your motivation and discipline for meditation with “Tapas” and how to tap into the transformative energy at the navel center.
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Restorative Yoga and Therapeutic
Bodywork Workshops with Diane Simpson and Jeanne Korn in Troy this October
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Restorative Chakra Yoga and Bodywork Workshop with Jeanne Korn and Diane Simpson, RYT's and LMT's Heading, Thursday Oct 4, 6-8PM Troy Studio
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Restorative Chakra Yoga and Bodywork Workshop with Jeanne Korn and Diane Simpson, RYTs and LMTs
Join these two skillful yoga teachers and experienced body workers in this exploration of the chakras through gentle restorative yoga poses with bodywork to ground, open and enlighten. We will guide you with a chakra balancing breath practice to take away as a tool for wellness. Students of all levels are welcome.
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Restorative Yoga and Massage Healing Therapy with LMT's Diane Simpson and Jeanne Korn, Saturday Oct 6, 4-6PM. Troy Studio
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This wonderful seasonal offering from Diane and Jeanne combines the healing power of gentle and restorative yoga with the therapeutic touch of massage.
Join RYT/LMT's Diane Simpson and Jeanne Korn for a unique healing experience of Gentle Yoga, Guided Meditation, and nourishing touch therapy and massage to foster robust health, a calm and clear mind, and restored energy. You'll receive lots of nurturing touch and learn lots of valuable self care tools. No experience needed, everyone is welcome.
Cost $40.
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Yoga for Ample Bodies: Four Week Series in Albany and Troy.
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Yoga is for all people, ages, and builds but it isn't a one size fits all approach. We all come together in the breath but sometimes the external form of the postures needs to be adapted so that all bodies can enjoy its benefits. Yoga for Ample Bodies recognizes this and presents a yoga practice approach that is accessible to those with larger body types. Four week series. $60. Instructor Nadia El-Fawal.
Saturdays, 11:45AM - 1PM
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Acroyoga with Team Willco, Saturday October 13, 1:30 - 3:30PM Troy Studio.
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Acroyoga is an invitation to connect with others through awareness, breath and movement. Connection created a safe and playful environment in which we can explore accessible and empowering acrobatic movement.
In workshop style classes, new skills are demonstrated and students are given opportunities to explore them at their own pace, with the support of the instructors and other students. Find yourself hovering above the ground, floating in a supported inversion and supporting others in flight. You can expect a yoga based warm-up, partner drills, games, and the introduction of acroyoga poses and transitions.
Whether you are hearing about acro for the first time, or have some experience already, this workshop is for you! Yoga experience is not necessary. Each workshop explores a theme and builds skills and confidence progressively. The sequences provide beginners with a starting point for the practice of acroyoga and the more advanced student with insight to refining their practice.
Cathy and Scott live in Albany and teach acroyoga and slackline yoga. They have trained with, and teach in the styles of AcroYoga Montreal and the Yogaslackers.
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Nourishing Yoga for Athletes and Others with Samara Anderson
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Nourishing Yoga for Athletes and Others: Focus on Core and Obliques. Saturday Oct 13, 2-4PM, Albany Studio. Instructor Samara Anderson
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Whether you're a runner, biker, athlete or anyone who would like to reclaim movement, comfort and function in your body, please join us for this series of monthly workshops with Samara Anderson. Each session will work towards a specific therapeutic goal for the body. Warm the body with a series of flowing movements and postures, and then settle and soothe with longer-held yin yoga to lengthen and restore. Be prepared to learn about the function and form of specific regions of your body and how to nourish and support them with movement and intention.
Cost $25.
2018 Schedule Yoga for Athletes and Others:
- November 10 - Shoulder Complex / Upper Back
- December 8 - Overall Body Destress
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Upcoming Sound Healing Events
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Restorative Yoga and Sound Healing with Cody Gillham and Victoria Rutledge. Sunday October 14, 5:30 - 7PM Troy Studio.
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Restorative Yoga and Sound Healing
Join Cody Gillham and Victoria Rutledge for an evening workshop featuring restorative yoga and sound healing. Cody will lead you in and out of the poses and offer grounding touch while Victoria serenades you with her singing bowls, harmonium and lovely voice. These two sweet instructors are excited to collaborate together to offer a special Sunday of renewal and rest.
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Gong Bath, Saturday November 3, 4PM. Troy Studio. Gong Lab.
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A Gong Bath is a sonic environment which uses resonant instruments like gongs and singing bowls to promote relaxation and meditation. If you have never been to a Gong Bath before they’re a unique sensory experience. You first hear the gongs vibing out, then you feel the vibration throughout your body. Pull up a mat and sit for a while and let the sound wash over you or enjoy movement during the session.
$20. Preregistration strongly encouraged as attendance is capped.
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Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Four-Week Series
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This Fall and Winter, Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga returns to Heartspace with Instructor Melissa Hurt.
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Postnatal Yoga: Baby and Me Four Week Series. Albany Studio. Fridays 11AM - 12PM
This post-natal yoga series is for mothers and babies, six-weeks old up to six-months approximately, about when your baby is ready to seriously crawl and move around. Breathe, stretch, discover your core strength, make friends, have fun and connect with your baby. $60 for the series.
Upcoming Series
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Prenatal Yoga: Four Week Series. Albany Studio. Sundays 12 - 1:15PM
This prenatal yoga series is designed to nurture the foundation of a life-long bond between mother and baby. Instruction will mindfully support the preparation of the mother’s body for birth, while providing essential skills for relaxation. The expectant mothers will learn breathing/relaxation techniques, exercises to support the back, postures to open the hips, methods to comfort the body during the journey of pregnancy and birth, while forging a community with other families.
Cost: $75 for the series.
Upcoming Series
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Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Instructor Melissa Hurt
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Melissa Hurt, RYT, PhD. Melissa earned her 200-hr yoga teaching certification in 2012 from Sun and Moon Yoga Studio in Arlington, VA and will complete their advanced 300-hour program in Sept 2018. She has devoted her research and teaching projects for her certifications to prenatal and postnatal yoga. Melissa has her Level 1 certification of completion in Mindful Resilience for Trauma Recovery with Dr. Daniel Libby of the Veteran’s Yoga Project. Melissa has been a certified trainer of Lessac Kinesensics, an embodied voice, speech, and movement modality, since 2010. Melissa has experience teaching many levels of yoga, including gentle, levels 1-3 of Hatha Yoga, vinyasa, kid's yoga, family yoga, and prenatal/postnatal.
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Mindful Yoga for Managing Stress and Anxiety
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Mindful Yoga for Managing Stress and Anxiety - Five Week Series. Sundays Oct 14 - Nov 11, 3- 4:30PM with Instructor Bruce McEwen. Troy Studio
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Fear and anxiety are important psychological responses that enable us to avoid danger and prepare for challenging situations. This course will explore evidence-base methods to manage and befriend these emotional responses so that we are able to meet the social, professional, environmental, and other challenges of modern life while becoming less overwhelmed by stress and anxiety.
Series cost is $80. Click here for more information on the course content and dates.
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Yoga and Massage Go Great Together!
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Massage is a great compliment to yoga for fostering health and well being. We are now offering massage services at our Troy studio. Joining us on Fridays is Becky Kendall, Licensed Massage Therapist and baker/pastry chef extraordinaire. Becky offers Swedish, deep-tissue, and pregnancy massage. Contact us via
email
if you'd like to book a massage. 60 minutes is $75 and 90 minutes for $110. Appointments available Fridays in Troy, 10AM - 5PM (4:30PM if requesting 90 minutes ending by 6PM) Email
info@heartspacealbany.com
to request an appointment.
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Heartspace Yoga and Healing Arts | 518.512.3390 | info@heartspacealbany.com | www.HeartspaceAlbany.com
Studio Locations: Troy: 10 Second Street and Albany: 747 Madison Ave. (back right corner of building)
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