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Barlett’s Ocean View Farm 33 Bartlett Farm Rd, Nantucket, MA 02554
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Dharma Mittra – Maha Shakti
Sri Dharma Mittra shares a lifetime of experience through his powerful and challenging vinyasa sequence to help bring radiant health and fitness quickly to all students. Dharma Maha Shakti regenerative and invigorating posture practice purifies the physical and causal body of toxic impurities, resulting in a sattvic body and mind, and leading to heightened states of health and consciousness. Practice includes a healing and restorative Deep Relaxation and meditation practice. (Mostly Asana with Pranayama and Deep Healing Relaxation.) Suitable for all levels.
Sadie Nardini – Love, Sweat, Flow
Heart-opening poses or backbends feel amazing, and can be safe too—when anchored in deeper core alignment. Join Sadie for a creative flow that will inspire your spirit and open your whole heart—in new, surprising—and much more accessible ways, What you thought you knew about backbends (and how your energy responds) is about to be revolutionized! Mostly asana.
Devarshi Steven Hartman – The Power of Breath
Invigorate, rejuvenate, and energize your cells and consciousness in this intense practice of purifying pranayama techniques. Come ready to raise the roof on your prana and have your body vibrating with powerful healing energy and oxygen—releasing emotional stagnation, reducing the effects of stress and tension, and culminating in the deepest Savasana you have ever encountered. Come discover how the clarity gained from these ancient and simple techniques can shift the way you experience yourself and the world.
David Magone – Blissful Hips
Short on time to practice? This workshop will help you experience how the PranaVayu Accelerated method can be used to cultivate rubber band like flexibility in your hips and hamstrings in as little as one hour per week. This class will begin with a short 30 minute lecture designed to introduce you to key principles and techniques that you can use to transform your own hip and hamstring opening practices, and will conclude with a flowing floor based vinyasa practice designed to introduce you to the wonders of insta-bendy legs, light as air arm-balances, and the bliss of guided meditation.
Yoga Slackers – Slackline Yoga FUNdamentals
We guarantee that you will learn to SLACK in 90 minutes, or your money back!!! The Slackline Series is a unique practice that teaches complete body awareness, helping you to redefine your sense of balance and mental focus. Slacklining is great for yogis, climbers, couch potatoes, and athletes of all kinds.
In this 90 min Slackshop you’ll learn the basics of the Slackasana series. This includes standing (commitment), kneeling (core strength), sitting (focus), arm balancing (breath), as well as exercises for more seasoned slackers to expand their comfort zone on the line. All skill levels encouraged to come. No experience necessary.
Claire Hartley – Warrior Spirit, Yogi Mind
The second sutra of Patanjali’s Yoga sutras; Yoga is liberation from the mind stuff, is said to be the most important sutra of all. Get this sutra and liberation will be attained!
In this strong flow class we will cultivate practices to hold the mind steady that includes pranayama, drishti, and mantra. The asana practice will move between flow and a steady holding of poses to spread the awareness through each cell and to bring an experience of oneness onto our mat and into our lives.
This will be short lecture followed by a vinyasa flow class. Not for absolute beginners. 1.5 hrs
Taylor Wells – Best Life Ever
This workshop incorporates a vigorous inspiring 60 minute Prana Power Yoga™ flow and a fun, accessible and interactive presentation and discussion about how to utilize and integrate into your life TODAY Taylor’s proven BEST LIFE EVER principles from her best-selling book and Inspiration Card Deck, “Create The BEST LIFE EVER: Real Life Stories to Get Inspired.” WARNING! You will feel happy, inspired, hopeful, grounded and excited after this workshop.
Yoga Slackers – Acro Yoga
Ever wished you could fly? Come to this play-shop and learn the basics of human flight. AcroBalance blends yoga with acrobatics to create a playful partner practice. Students learn the fundamentals of acrobatics though partner yoga, basic human pyramids, counterbalances and collaborate conditioning drills. These exercises will give you the power to safely explore this fun and rewarding practice. No partner necessary, some basic yoga is helpful. All skill levels welcome. No experience necessary.
Lindel Hart -Restorative Yoga To Shed Stress
Give yourself the gift of renewal! Restorative Yoga is a profoundly simple and practical technique for releasing stress from the body and mind, opening the heart and deepening your connection to spirit. This gentle class incorporates props like blankets and blocks to support the body as it opens to the possibility of living with less stress. Accessible to absolute beginners as well as experienced yogis, Restorative Yoga is practiced on the floor in a quiet setting designed to encourage contemplation, connection and relaxation.
Dharma Mittra – Dharma III-IV
Sri Dharma Mittra is a master at helping students develop the confidence to surrender on and off the mat. The glowing heart of this practice is a challenging, meditative and unique sequence that involves complete movement of the spine in order to unleash the life force or Prana within it. Regular practice will bring an end to problems and disease, help you attain health and stamina, and create the opportunity to attain Self-realization. Evolving over 50 years of intensive practice and teaching, this sequence is loved by students from all backgrounds. The session includes guided Deep Relaxation, breathing exercises, scriptural truth lessons and an ecstatic and deep experience of Asana. (Mostly Asana with Pranayama, Spiritual Discourse, Deep Healing Relaxation and Meditation.)
Hari Kaur – The Secrets of Kundalini Yoga
Secrets of Kundalini Yoga is a workshop available to students at all levels who want to study, practice and discuss the power of Kundalini yoga, meditation and the energy sciences. Join Hari for honest discussion and solid practice of kundalini kriya and meditation. Time for questions – find out what you have been longing to ask about energy, subtle bodies, kundalini and practice.
All that is important to know is in the fundamental teachings of the Gurus. All that is important to practice is in the fundamentals of yoga and meditation and the energy sciences. Live now, as you are, in this body, with this miraculous energy, and in these miraculous times. 30 min Q&A and lecture 1.5 hours kriya, exercise and meditation and relaxation and chanting.
Sita Devi Love – Bhakti Vinyasa Yoga
Bhakti Vinyasa Flow is a heart opening intentional practice combining Kirtan, the art of ecstatic chanting with Hatha Vinyasa Flow Yoga. The practice often begins with a meditation and some intention setting and creative visualization. We then join together in a kirtan to begin our practice which takes us into our bodies moving into our hatha vinyasa practice. The practice slowly builds heat in the body and the practitioner is free to move at his or her own pace, finding his or her own personal flow. Once enough heat is generated we move into some deep stretches and make our way to the floor, ending with a nice long savasana, or final relaxation and close our practice with kirtan.
The practice is accompanied by live chanting of Kirtan and Bhajan by Sita, and other musicians. The goal of this practice is to experience Bhava, the nectar of devotion, through union of the body mind and soul.
Lama Yeshe Palmo – Introduction to Tibetan Buddhist Meditation
Learn how to meditate. In this workshop, we will learn and practice shinay, or “calm-abiding” meditation, an ancient (and still used!) technique to settle the mind into awareness. Includes discussion and opportunity for Q&A. Open to all levels (beginners to advanced) of meditation.
Sadie Nardini – The Physics of Flow & Flight
Wonder why your “flying” poses always feel so heavy or frustrating, or why you can’t attain them at all? Or, are you already flying but want to fly higher, more easily and safely? This brand-new physics lesson will blow your mind—and your poses—into the stratosphere. Whatever your level, you’ll always be in mastery as you build poses from the ground up and work where you are. Use the awesome laws of physics to your advantage and create true freedom. Mostly asana.
Larissa Hall Carlson – Ayurveda Yoga’s Sister Science
Join Kripalu Yoga teacher Larissa Hall Carlson for an exploration of Ayurveda, the “science of life,” the world’s oldest continuously practiced health-care system, which originated in India thousands of years ago. This workshop covers the fundamental principles of Ayurveda, investigating the Ayurvedic perspective on health and providing and in-depth introduction to the constitutional doshas (vata, pitta, kapha). We discuss simple diet and lifestyle techniques that yoga and Ayurvedic practitioners have been using for centuries to restore and maintain health.
Develop a deeper understanding of nature’s cycles and apply proven tools for balancing your own unique constitution. Learn to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature and reap the benefits of sustained vitality, tranquil balance, and glowing health with Ayurveda.
Claire Hartley – Freedom from Suffering
“The sadhaka must learn to locate the sources of the afflictions, in order to be able to nip them in the bud through his yogic principles and disciplines” -BKS Iyengar
In this workshop Claire will introduce the 5 causes of suffering according to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, and how we identify with them to try and attain happiness. An exploration of these causes will be brought into one of her signature flow classes that combines intelligent sequencing and deep dharana. We will orient away from the suffering and into a state of peace and contentment.
Lindel Hart – Bliss Out! Restorative Yoga for Mind, Body and Spirit
Unplug your technology and tune in to your innate sense of tranquility. Restorative yoga is a simple yet profound way to tap into the core of stillness that resides within us. Using props like blankets and blocks to gently support floor-based poses, you will peel away layers of resistance and settle into the deep relaxation this practice offers. Embody the meaning of the word Yoga (“union”) by reconnecting mind, body and spirit into a unified whole.
Dharma Mittra – Master Sadhana
All the best of Sri Dharma Mittra’s 50 years of yoga practice, teaching and experience, compressed into this one marvelous session. The most efficient Ashtanga Yoga (8 limbs of classical yoga) techniques are revealed for swiftly acquiring physical, mental and spiritual powers. You will be showered with lots of Divine Knowledge combined with esoteric secrets that will instantly clear to some degree the psychic channels (nadis) allowing the mind to experience spiritual bliss and, as a result, develop more enthusiasm for practice. With constant practice comes success in concentration. This is followed by enlightenment of the mind. Afterwards, there is almost nothing else left to be known. What a relief! Especially recommended for those seeking answers and success. (Asana, Pranayama, Concentration techniques, meditation and spiritual discourse.)
Gadadhara Pandit Dasa – The Bhagavad Gita and the Matrix
The Matrix blends together two opposing genres – modern sci-fi and ancient wisdom from the East. We will walk alongside Neo and Arjuna as they try to understand who they are, why they are here, and what is the purpose and meaning of life.
This engaging, discussion based presentation will allow the audience to wrestle with these existential questions, as together, with help from the practical spiritual wisdom of the Gita, we learn to cut through the matrix of the material phenomena. Clips from the movie will be shown and the audience will be engaged in a thought provoking, enlivening dialogue.
David Magone – Mangalam Yantra Yoga
Interested in experiencing what a traditional yoga practice was like 1000 years ago? This workshop will introduce you to the basics of Mangalam Yantra Yoga, a Buddhist yoga practice that was originally introduced to Tibet by Indian masters in the 10th century A.D. Rarely taught outside of Tibetan Monasteries, this profound technique will help you discover your inner Buddha nature through a series of heart opening meditations, guided breath work, and simple physical exercises designed to increase your life force and release emotional and energetic blockages. As a participant in this workshop, you will receive a traditional mantra and become part of a living line of meditation practitioners that extends in unbroken succession for over 1000 years.
*Please note: Due to the emphasis on strong breath retention practices, this workshop is contraindicated for expectant mothers
Hari Kaur – The Power of the Radiant Body
The goal of yoga practice is to live an authentic life with awareness of body, mind and soul. When your awareness increases your radiant body automatically shines and your authenticity shines with it. Hari will help you understand the process of experiencing and activating the radiant body through the psychic channels through kriya, meditation and short Q and A. Suitable for all levels including beginners.
15 min lecture – 1 hour practice with 15 min Q and A at the end.
Lama Yeshe Palmo – Perceiving Reality: Milarepa’s 12 Examples of Illusion
Tibet’s great poet-yogi used everyday images from “real” life to help us discern the illusory nature of all phenomena, to lessen attachment and clinging to appearances as real, and to approach the wisdom of equanimity. Yogic songs, experiential teaching, meditation instruction & practice, discussion, Q&A, and fun!
Dharma Mittra – Dharma Yoga Nidra
Experience “after death” while still living: the experience of complete peace, the loss of physical and mental consciousness while still embodied. Divine guidance in a precise method of specific relaxation techniques developed by the Enlightened Ones (Yogic Sages) that quickly results in mental and physical pacification, rejuvenation, recharging and healing is offered as part of each session. Since Psychic Sleep is a form of active meditation as well, psychic abilities such as concentration and inner perception are greatly enhanced. Yoga Nidra is the best antidote for impurities and just a few minutes of it corresponds to an hour or more of regular deep sleep. (Yoga Nidra with Pranayama and meditation.)
Sita Devi Love – Yin Yoga
Yin yoga is a slow grounded practice. The word yin, comes from yin and yang, the balance of fire and water, masculine and feminine, strength and softness. Yin refers to the water, the feminine, the softness and this practice encompasses that energy. It is comprised of long holds and deep relaxation with an extended savasana and accompanied by sweet, gentle music.
Gadadhara Pandit Dasa – Illuminations from the Bhagavad Gita: Attributes of an Enlightened Mind
The Gita explains: our mind has the potential to become our best friend or our worst enemy. Too often we see the latter taking place in our lives. The mind has a tendency to go down the road of negativity and despair. In order to slow down and stop the downward spiraling of the mind, we need to understand the nature of our mind and why it’s so distracted. We will learn how to give it the proper nourishment it needs to be satisfied, healthy, and eventually enlightened.
To do this, we will engage in short meditation practices which will include breathing, focusing, and conclude with an introduction to the ancient practice of mantra meditation – the recitation of sacred sounds.
Sri Dharma Mittra
Legendary yoga teacher Sri Dharma Mittra first encountered yoga as a teenager before meeting his Guru in 1964 and beginning his training in earnest. Sri Dharma Mittra founded one of the early independent schools of yoga in New York City in 1975 and has taught hundreds of thousands the world over for nearly a half century. He is the model and creator of the “Master Yoga Chart of 908 Postures”, the author of ASANAS: 608 Yoga Poses, has released two DVD’s to date – Maha Sadhana: The Great Practice, Levels I and II, and the Yoga Journal book, Yoga, was based on his famous Master Chart. Sri Dharma continues to disseminate the complete traditional science of yoga through daily classes, workshops, and his “Life of a Yogi” Teacher Certification programs at the Dharma Yoga New York Center and around the world. For more information on all things Dharma, please visit: www.dharmayogacenter.com.
Claire Hartley
British born Yoga teacher, Claire Hartley, found her passion for the practice of Yoga in the early 90s at the Jivamukti Yoga Center in New York. In 2001 she moved to LA and pursued a full-time career as a teacher and apprenticed with Iyengar teacher Lisa Walford.
In April 2006 she opened the Rising Lotus Yoga Studio a busy and thriving studio in Los Angeles, attracting practitioners seeking alignment based vinyasa yoga classes with healthy doses of dharma talks, chanting and joyful community. Since 2007 it has won 3 Los Angeles “Best of” Awards. In 2008 she created the Rising Lotus teacher-training program, which balances Vinyasa Yoga training with Iyengar influences and has trained many talented teachers.
One of Claire’s proudest accomplishments is the Rising Lotus Seva project, which she formed in 2010. This non-profit branch of the studio sends teachers out to organizations all around Los Angeles providing free yoga to the underserved, and raises money for the most needy.
Claire teaches daily and is always in such deep gratitude for the amazing life that Yoga continues to provide and unfold in front of her. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband John and her daughter Nova.
David Magone
In addition to teaching PranaVayu classes and workshop worldwide, David serves as a faculty member at the Kripalu center for health in Lennox MA and is one of a small handful of teachers authorized to teach Mangalam Yantra Yoga under the guidance of Harvard University Buddhist Chaplain Lama Migmar Tseten. David has been featured regularly in the press with mentions in the Wall Street Journal, Self Magazine, Women’s Health, Travel + Leisure, Boston Magazine, Shape, and many other publications. He is also a regular contributor to Huffington Post’s Healthy Living section.
http://pranavayu.com/
Devarshi Steven Hartman
Devarshi Steven Hartman, RYT, Dean of the Kripalu School of Yoga, has been a yoga student and teacher for 30 years and is a former longtime Kripalu resident. Devarshi is the creator of the best-selling audio series The Essence of the Bhagavad-Gita. He leads workshops and retreats throughout the country and, in addition to teaching yoga, is a healing arts practitioner, a bodyworker, and a teacher of A Course in Miracles.
www.stevenhartman.com
Gadadhara Pandit Dasa
Gadadhara Pandit Dasa (also known as Pandit) is a monk, lecturer and the first-ever Hindu chaplain for Columbia University and New York University. He speaks at the nation’s leading universities, yoga studios, and retreat centers, inspiring audiences with India’s spiritual wisdom. His unique approach combines teachings of the ancient classic, Bhagavad-Gita, with popular Hollywood movies such as “The Matrix.”
Pandit spoke at a recent TEDx conference at Columbia Univeristy and was featured in the NPR piece “Long Days and Short Nights of a Hindu Monk.” He appeared in the PBS Documentary on the Bhagavad Gita, as well as The New York Times. He is also a regular contributor for the Huffington Post.
Pandit was born in Kanpur, India and moved to Los Angeles in 1980 as a child. After the collapse of his parents’ multi-million dollar family business, Pandit began to introspect on the deeper meaning and purpose of life which led him to join a monastery in India, in 1999. Today, he is an urban monk living in New York City and uses his life experiences, teachings of the Gita, mantra meditation, and vegetarian cooking to guide and encourage people to live more balanced and wholesome lives. http://nycpandit.com/
Hari Kaur
Director and Founder of Hari NYC – Kundalini Meditation and Jazz – directs and teaches Kundalini Classes and Teacher Trainings, Level 1 and Level 2, in the US and abroad. Hari is co-author of “A Woman’s Book of Yoga: Embracing Our Natural Life Cycles” (Penguin 2002) and author of “A Woman’s Book of Meditation: Discovering the Power of a Peaceful Mind” (Penguin 2006). Prior to that Hari taught classes and training programs to all ages and levels. She shared Kundalini Yoga in high schools, taught specialized classes in area Boston hospitals, founded the Illumined Woman courses that highlight the Kundalini yoga practices and teachings for women at all stages of life including pregnancy, taught classes focused on creativity and the arts at Berklee College of Music, and more.
For ten years Hari served with Yogi Bhajan, directing his Level One Teacher Trainings in New Mexico and India. Over the years, Hari has directed over 50 level one Teacher Training courses, is a certified Level Two Trainer and has presented to groups of all sizes, including groups of several hundred students. Hari has received service awards from International Association of Kundalini Yoga Teachers, and was a founding board member of Yoga Alliance, serving on the board for 6 years, and committees for several years after that. Hari is a caring, inspiring, and down to earth teacher, making the powerful and healing teachings of Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan accessible to students of all levels. Inspired by years of study with Yogi Bhajan, Hari continues to serve all who come with smiles, and spirit.
Married to jazz musician Dave Frank, Hari and Dave make their home in New York City bringing music and kundalini to uplift the spirit. http://www.harinyc.com/
Lindel Hart
Lindel Hart is a certified yoga instructor working in the tradition of B.K.S. Iyengar. Through his focused sequences of poses and individualized instruction, he conveys his knowledge and experience of yoga to beginners and experienced practitioners alike. Lindel infuses his teaching with compassion, joy, enthusiasm, and humor, emphasizing anatomical integrity and a constant dialogue between mind and body. Through the practice of yoga he encourages students to explore and deepen their connection to themselves and to whatever they regard as divine.
Lindel likens yoga to a river: every person steps into the water at a unique place, joining the flow with a distinctly individual perspective. In this sense the journey has no beginning and no end, only an expanding and deepening awareness of the movement of life.
He has studied extensively with Carrie Owerko (Iyengar Yoga Institute of New York) and Marilyn Hart (Green River Yoga and Movement Arts, Greenfield, MA), and completed his teacher training with Eileen Muir (Karuna Center for Yoga and Healing Arts, Northampton, MA). He has also studied with Rodney Yee.
Lindel formerly taught in New York City and has taught classes and conducted workshops at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, the Martha’s Vineyard Yoga Festival, the Nantucket Yoga Festival, Karuna Center for Yoga and Healing Arts, Green River Yoga and Movement Arts and BYS Yoga (Pittsburgh, PA). He has taught at Northfield Mount Hermon and currently teaches yoga at Deerfield Academy. Lindel is available for private instruction. Lindel lives in Greenfield with his husband Rod and their 7-year-old son. And completely unrelated to yoga, Lindel and his family have appeared twice on The Real Housewives of New York City.
Larissa Hall Carlson
Larissa Hall Carlson, RYT 500, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher, Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher, Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant, and Yee Yoga teacher. A program leader and Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher for Kripalu’s Institute for Extraordinary Living, Larissa has taught yoga, meditation, pranayama, and yogic philosophy for the Tanglewood Music Center, Berkshire Opera Company, Juilliard School, and Boston Conservatory. She is also Assistant to the Dean for Kripalu’s School of Ayurveda. Creator of the CDs Meditative Yoga Flow: A Kripalu Sadhana and Ayurvedic Pranayama and Meditation for the Doshas, she teaches workshops, directs yoga trainings, and provides Ayurvedic consultations.
Lama Yeshe Palmo
Lama Yeshe Palmo founded Dharma Nantucket the winter of 2011/12 to make available the teachings of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism to island residents and visitors. She was ordained a nun in 1996, entered the traditional Three Year Retreat at Kagyu Thubten Choling Monastery in Wappingers Falls, NY where she completed two Three Year Retreats back-to-back, then was asked to continue as the main caretaker for the women’s seminary program for the next successive two retreats, a total of 15 years. She has taught throughout the eastern US & holds the title of “Tripon” or “Teaching Lama.”
Raquel Hernandez-Cruz
Marine Biologist, Scientific Diver, Yoga Teacher (500 hrs), Reiki Master, Pranic Healer, Yoga Slacker, AcroYogi, Adventurer, Triathlete, Traveler, Ironwoman and more…Raquel can be described by many labels; however, if you were to ask her which one describes her best she would simply say ‘all and none’. After finishing her Masters Degree, she traveled to India to get her first certification in Yoga. Two years later, she decided to drop her PhD studies to pursue several yoga certifications, to dedicate all her efforts to the practice and to other adventures that made her heart smile. Raquel’s former life as a scientist keeps her mind busy while her athletic nature keeps her body active. Her passion is finding new challenges that need to be solved and explained with simplicity.
Sam Salwei
Sam Salwei, a modern day Nomad, traveling coast to coast living a lifestyle that is uniquely his own. Initially driven by his passion for Eco-Adventure, life on the road began in 2004, quickly leading into a diverse career encompassing adventure-racing, rock climbing and slacklining. In 2005 Sam co-created the company “Yoga Slackers”, specializing in combining Yoga poses on a Slackline as well as integrating other body awareness practices such as partner acrobatics. Despite the misleading nature of the name, the “slackers” are quite accomplished athletes gaining the support of over 20 different sponsors, who share in the desire to promote ecologically sustainable living.
Sadie Nardini
Sadie Nardini is a fierce Ultimate Wellness and Yoga expert who hosts a daily yoga and lifestyle hour on Veria TV, the 24/7 national wellness channel. She tours internationally, bringing the real-world experience of accessing their true inner and outer core strength to students and teachers everywhere. She is the founder of Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga, which blends personal empowerment with new anatomy knowledge, all wrapped in a creative flow style for all levels. Sadie is on the faculty at the prestigious mind-body institutes Omega and Kripalu. Her Total Body Transformation DVDs are No. 1 bestsellers on Amazon, and she is regularly covered in media such as CNN, theNew York Times, Glamour, CNN, Self, Yoga Journal, and more. Learn more at sadienardini.com.
Sadie Nardini
Sadie Nardini is a fierce Ultimate Wellness and Yoga expert who hosts a daily yoga and lifestyle hour on Veria TV, the 24/7 national wellness channel. She tours internationally, bringing the real-world experience of accessing their true inner and outer core strength to students and teachers everywhere. She is the founder of Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga, which blends personal empowerment with new anatomy knowledge, all wrapped in a creative flow style for all levels. Sadie is on the faculty at the prestigious mind-body institutes Omega and Kripalu. Her Total Body Transformation DVDs are No. 1 bestsellers on Amazon, and she is regularly covered in media such as CNN, theNew York Times, Glamour, CNN, Self, Yoga Journal, and more. Learn more at sadienardini.com.
Sita Devi
Sita Devi is a yogini, Kirtan artist and ecstatic dance facilitator in service to the divine. She teaches Bhakti Vinyasa Flow Yoga, a combination of hatha vinyasa yoga and Kirtan, the art of ecstatic chanting and Modern Yoga a combination of Modern Dance and Yoga.
Sita holds a BFA in dance from the University of California Santa Barbara, and performed professionally with Method Dance and Ledges and Bones Dance Project in Los Angeles. She has been teaching yoga for 8 years most exclusively at Bhakti Yoga Shala in Santa Monica, CA.
As a Kirtan Walli, Sita sings and plays harmonium, guitar, kartals and mrdanga and has performed with Jai Uttal, David Starfire and Freq Nasty in Dub Kirtan Allstars, C.C. White, Jaya Lakshimi, Arjun Baba, Dave Stringer, Govindas and Radha, Prema Hara, Joey Lugassey, Saul David Raye, Steve Ross and Craig Kohland of Shamans Dream. Sita has performed and taught at – Lightning in a Bottle, Wanderlust, Symbiosis, Gaia, Pranafest, Bhaktifest, Shakitfest, Earthdance, Yoga Rocks the Park, Hawaii Spirit Festival and Mystic Island Festival.
She has accompanied yoga classes with live Kirtan for Shiva Rea, Baron Baptiste, Elena Brower, Annie Carpenter, Janet Stone, Micheline Berry, William Duprey and Govindas. Sita’s devotional service is intended to include all beings in experiencing divine love and light.
Taylor Wells
Taylor Wells, M.A., M.Ed., RYT
Founder of Prana Power Yoga™ & Author
Taylor is an Author; founder and owner – with her husband – of Prana Power Yoga™ (5 studios in Massachusetts and New York); United Nations Yoga Peace Ambassador; Boston Herald Columnist; Clinical Psychologist; Boston Herald Blogger; Master Yoga & Spiritual Teacher; Creator and sole writer of Super-mom.com; and Healthy Lifestyle Activist. A graduate of of Brown University (A.B.) and Columbia University (M.A., M.Ed.), Taylor trains over 75 yoga teachers a year in her renowned Prana Power Yoga Teacher Training Program in both Massachusetts and New York. She is a happy Super-mom of five, including twin two-year-old boys, and resides outside of Boston.
The Yoga Room
On May 1st 2001, The Yoga Room opened its doors to the Nantucket Community as a year-round yoga studio. The
dream of providing a haven of study in a practice which had personally transformed my life began as I gazed out my backyard and the saw the potential for what became a grassroots effort bringing together much of the island yoga community.
The Yoga Room has flourished with a staff of experienced, diverse and dedicated teachers, each offering something very special and unique. The classes, workshops and privates we offer incorporate an eclectic blend of many styles and traditions. Our integrity as teachers is paramount and evident to all those that walk through our door. http://nantucketyogaroom.com/
Circus Yoga
Throughout our lives, we tend to be grouped with others close to our own age, and, as a result, often end up learning mostly from our peers. In CircusYoga, we co-create an inclusive practice and become a diverse tribe of life-long learners and teachers discovering balance, joy, courage, agelessness and appropriate risk.
This diversity makes CircusYoga a rich experience—everyone benefits as the wisdom of age collaborates with the energy of youth. And transformation happens as all ages practice together and build self-confidence, focus, trust and teamwork. We invite parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents to participate with their kids, and welcome anyone aged 6 and up.
This includes adults without kids.
Classical Hatha Yoga
Renew and recharge your body, mind, and spirit in this Hatha Yoga class. Class will incorporate breathing techniques, vinyasa, a combination of balancing, twisting and inverting postures and will end with a deep relaxation. Suitable for all levels including beginners as variations will be given based on each student’s level of experience.
Dharma Yoga Nantucket
We believe Yoga is for everyone. Regardless of your age, weight, or flexibility, Yoga will meet you where you are and support you in your growth through regular practice. All you have to do is “be receptive.”
Derived from the Sanskrit word meaning union, Yoga enables us to achieve a balance of mind, body, and spirit. Yoga allows us to get in touch with our true selves, calming the nerves and clearing the mental clutter. By embracing all eight limbs of Yoga, we establish a foundation for a life that is centered and strong, one in which we are able to connect well with others and motivated to make wise choices. http://dharmayoganantucket.com/
The Studio ~ Nantucket
The Studio ~ Nantucket Ballroom opened its doors on May 31, 2010 offering classes in Dance, Yoga, Pilates, and Zumba. We are located in the heart of downtown Nantucket, upstairs at 48 Main Street.
Drop-ins of all levels are welcome to our classes. Private sessions are also available for Yoga, Pilates, and Dance with any of our experienced teachers. http://thestudionantucket.com/
Marjory Trott
Marjory is honored to be sharing her love of intergenerational play through Circus Yoga at the Nantucket Yoga Festival. Marjory holds an MS in Dance/Movement Therapy from Hunter College. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CMA) a Registered Dance/Movement Therapist (R-DMT), a level 3 CircusYoga teacher, and a Connective Tissue Therapist. She has been bringing the joys of movement and yoga to children, teens, adults and families for over 20 years. Her extensive experience with all ages includes teaching movement, dance, yoga, acting and art, work as a dance therapist at special needs preschools and on acute child/adolescent and geriatric/mood disorders psychiatric units, and children’s theatre performances. Marjory designs and runs classes, creative programs, parties, and professional development workshops for schools, libraries, private and corporate groups, families, individuals, and children with special needs. She is known on Nantucket for her kid’s classes at the Children’s Beach Bandstand. In addition, Marjory works with people of all ages using movement and bodywork techniques including: Laban Movement Analysis, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Connective Tissue Therapy and Yoga. Information on her programs may be found at: www.marjorytrott.com
Mindful Yoga Flow
Mindful Yoga Flow With The Yoga Room’s Shannah Green, Clay Twombly & Susan Browne
Sheri Perelman
In the spring of 1989, a profound experience at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts led me to choose a new path of study, practice and instruction. I became a Kripalu Yoga Instructor and began teaching in early 1990. I pursued further studies in the Iyengar and Anusara traditions and earned my certification in Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy. I have enjoyed my continuing study of Para Yoga with Rod Stryker, who has been my teacher since 2003. My study of Jin Shin Jyutsu, which began in 1997, continues to the present day and I opened my practice in 1999. After completing a two-year program at the Kripalu School of Ayurveda, I graduated in 2009 as a Yoga/Ayurvedic Specialist and Ayurvedic Lifestyle Coach. By sharing the holistic practices of Yoga, Ayurveda and Jin Shin Jyutsu, I hope to provide my students and clients with pathways to greater self-knowledge and a more balanced life.
Kriplau Yoga
Our focus will be on aligning the body through the strength of our core, all the while threading an intention throughout the practice which is formed during a deep centering. Our practice will include asana, pranayama, concentration and deep relaxation.
Free Community Class
Info coming soon.
