CLASS LOCATION
Christ Church community room
35 State Street at 5th Avenue (in the red door)
Downtown Troy, NY 12180
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35 State Street at 5th Avenue (in the red door)
Downtown Troy, NY 12180
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Ali Kenner leads this mixed-level yoga class suitable for everyone, from beginners to experienced students. Come to gain awareness of the present moment, increase physical flexibility, and reduce stress.
Martha Moscowitz leads this vinyasa-style class, flowing through postures mindfully with vigor and care. Postures will edge into the adventurous end, including working on balancing poses and preparing for inversions, but always mindful of our limitations above all else. Experience with yoga or confidence with your practice and adjustment needs recommended.
Ali Kenner has been practicing yoga for six years. As a doctoral student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ali began practicing yoga to help with back pain and stress. Yoga not only changed her life, but transformed her research as well (to learn more, visit her website at http://www.alikenner.com). She completed her teacher training at Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation in 2010, and now offers mixed level classes that focus on meditative movement. Ali practices Thai Yoga Therapy and offers private yoga sessions as well. For more information, contact her at ali.kenner@gmail.com.
Martha Moscowitz has been practicing yoga since her teen years in Western Massachusetts, where her first yoga-love was Kripalu. Always a fan of exertion, she has since been drawn to the more fiery side of practice through vinyasa-based approaches, but still cares very much about pausing, analyzing, and letting individual poses evolve with the breath. She completed her 200-hour teacher training in March of 2011 at Bliss Yoga in Woodstock, NY, where her teachers came from the Jivamukti and Om schools. Martha is also inspired by the energetics of yoga as introduced to her by a teacher of the Forrest school, and continues her efforts to reach past the athleticism of yoga and into the energy and consciousness of the Self. You can contact Martha at marthamoscowitz@gmail.com.
Andrew Kasius, RYT began practicing yoga ten years ago. He sees yoga as a pathway for enhancing health, groundedness, and increased awareness. He completed his yoga training through the HeartSpace Holistic Yoga Teacher Empowerment Program in Albany, and has been teaching in the region for the past several years. You can contact Andrew at andrew.kasius@gmail.com.
Elizabeth Kasius, RYT completed her yoga teacher training from the HeartSpace Holistic Yoga Teacher Empowerment Program, an Albany-based 10-month long certification program that explores a variety of yoga traditions. Her influential teachers include Robert Cuozzi, Laurin Toolin, Cyndi Lee, and Jenny Otto. Elizabeth's yogic focal point is stress relief and well-being, and she loves teaching to beginners. Elizabeth is also a musician and composer, and is a Creative Arts Therapy faculty member at Russell Sage College in Troy. Elizabeth can be reached at elizwood@nycap.rr.com.
Adrienne Stiles completed her yoga teacher training in early 2010. She builds on a foundation of education as a Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner through the Kerala Ayurveda Academy of Seattle and Master level Reiki Training through the Usui lineage. She has spent time in the hospice setting practicing Reiki with individuals and their families, and has lectured and taught workshops on Ayurveda in addition to doing private consultations.
These studies have directly impacted and enriched her experience of herself and how she lives in the world, and she is passionate about creating an atmosphere for others to cultivate their own unique resonance and harmony.
Adrienne is available for individual and small group restorative yoga sessions with the inclusion of Reiki.
Joely Johnson Mork has been practicing yoga since the age of 18 and teaching for more than 10 years. Her teaching style and personal practice are strongly influenced by the Sivananda school, but she also has years of experience in Iyengar yoga and often uses props in class. Joely is certified by the Integral Yoga Institute to teach yoga to people with cancer and by Karma Kids Yoga to teach yoga to children from toddlers to teens.
