Dear Friends,
 This month marks our first year in partnership with AntiGravity Yoga, during which we have hosted 3 instructor trainings and expanded our offerings with the support of a very inspired and innovative staff of instructors. We will continue developing our program in collaboration with Christopher and the AGY instructors to keep you at the leading edge of this burgeoning fusion practice.
Please check out the following link to view a slideshow entitled "Alternative Asanas" presented by the NY Times to profile AntiGravity Yoga & AcroYoga!
In addition to our monthly selection of AntiGravity Yoga Masterclasses, we are pleased to present the following guest teachers & workshops: Ecstatic Hip Opening with Catherine Allen, Yoga of Classical Indian Dance with Mandakini Trivedi, Acupuncture & Sound Therapy with Carrie & Coni, and an innovative Hoop Vinyasa Playshop with Jewels!
Coming up next month, mark your calendars for a Yantra Painting workshop centered around the Heart Chakra with our dear friend and special guest teacher from the Netherlands, Pieter Weltevrede.
Please note that we will be closed on Monday, September 6 in observance of Labor Day, and will resume classes on Tuesday, September 7. We wish you a wonderful holiday weekend!
In Gratitude,
Adam & OF Family
 New Family Member
We are excited to announce an addition to our staff of Forrest Yoga teachers... Doreen Kramer! She will be teaching an Alignment Flow class on Tuesdays at 1pm.
Holiday Closure
We will be closed on Monday, September 6, in observance of Labor Day. We will resume our normal class schedule on Tuesday, September 7.
Time Change
Forrest Yoga: Thursdays @ 6:30pm with Denise Hopkins
September Community Class Schedule
Tuesdays @ 11am with Tamara Behar
Tuesdays @ 4pm with Andrea Borrero
Wednesdays @ 11am with Maren Bush
Wednesdays @ 4pm with Yelimar Rodriguez
Temporary Substitutions
Vinyasa: Mondays @ 12:30pm with T'ai Jamar Hanna
Vinyasa: Fridays @ 12:30pm with Krissy Shields
Class Cancellations
Vinyasa: Mondays @ 6pm
Please visit our online schedule for a complete list of classes and teachers, including the most current updates regarding substitutions.
Saturday, September 11, 11-1:30pm
Ecstatic Hip Opening with Catherine Allen
 $30 Pre-registered / $35 at door
Click here to register online for this workshop
Catherine will lead you through a Forrest Yoga heat-building asana sequence that will unlock even the most stubborn hips and unleash energy to improve flexibility, strength, and poise in your asana practice. In this workshop, we will explore hip opening poses combined with muscle-activating exercises that will prepare you for deep forward bends, arm balances, and inversions. Stretching hamstrings and building arm strength is not enough! Feel how integrating the intelligence of pelvic muscles with deep back muscles and legs can deepen your forward bending and lighten inversions and arm balances.
Saturday, September 11, 1:30-3:30pm
AntiGravity Yoga Masterclass: Hips, Flips and Tricks with Emilia Conradson
 $40, Pre-registration Required
Click here to register online for this workshop
Were you a monkey in your past life? Do you love to swing and flip? Or maybe you'd like to amp up your self-esteem through a sequence that will sure conquer any fears of surrendering to gravity? Learn how AntiGravity Yoga is truly an artistic expression with a link to the Aerial Arts. Improve your kinesthetic awareness, and fine-tune your agility as you learn to execute advanced tricks and skills with beauty and precision. This workshop is recommended to students with a regular AntiGravity Yoga practice, or those with experience in AcroYoga, Aerial Dance, or Acrobatics.
Sunday, September 12, 2-3:45pm
AntiGravity Yoga 101 with Emilia Conradson
 $35, Pre-registration Required
Click here to register online for this workshop
Are you curious to try AntiGravity Yoga for the first time, or establish a solid foundation in this unique system? This workshop is designed to give you a secure and detailed understanding of AntiGravity Yoga fundamentals while having a ton of fun! You'll learn to fly, hold and balance in challenging yoga poses longer, gain better kinesthetic awareness and build cardiovascular and muscular strength In a safe and supportive environment. Gain a new perspective on how you can increase your flexibility, joint mobility, balance, and ability to be upside down for way longer than you ever imagined.
Saturday, September 25, 3-5pm
Resonant Midline: Acupuncture & Sound Therapy with Carrie Cegelis and Coni Lewis Lopez
 $40 Pre-registered / $50 at door
Click here to register online for this workshop
Community Acupuncture in a Soundscape of Himalayan Singing Bowls: Carrie will administer acupuncture to each individual that resonates and opens the central meridians while Coni invokes a rich and harmonic tapestry of sound using Himalayan singing bowls. Together with guided visualization and engagement with the breath, we will open the door to the deeply restorative experience of aligning body, mind, and spirit with the expressive, living pulsation of the midline as it manifests in both movement and stillness.
Sunday, September 26, 2-6pm
The Yoga of Classical Indian Dance with Mandakini Trivedi
 $35 per session / $60 full program
Click here to register online for this workshop
Join us for this rare opportunity to experience Indian Classical Dance through one of its top most exponents! Read more about Mandakini-Ji's prolific career on her website.
Session 1: Philosophy, Discussion & Performance, 2-4pm
This lecture - performance will unravel the grammar of Indian dance, and describe how it is a translation of Indian thought and philosophy into a system of design and a technique of movement.
Session 2: Classical Dance Instruction, 4-6pm
Embody the concepts discussed in the lecture, and explore the vocabulary through a guided practice in the forms and expressions in the Mohini Attam style, a Classical form that focuses on circling, swaying and undulating movements similar to that of the bodies of water in Kerala (from where this style originates).
Sunday, September 26, 8-10pm
AntiGravity Yoga Flotation with Shelly Bomb
 $40, Pre-registration required
Click here to register online for this workshop
Surrender to the experience of a floating meditation combined with the gentle movement vocabulary of AntiGravity Restorative Yoga to open new pathways of communication within one’s own body, mind, and spirit. A gentle, guiding voice leads you first to your own center, helping to create a sanctuary of your own truth, and then opens the doors to the many realms of the subconscious.
Sunday, October 3, 2-4pm
Hoop Vinyasa Playshop with Julie "Jewels" Ziff Sint
 $35 Pre-registered / $40 drop-in
Click here to register online for this workshop
Join Jewels in a playshop that seamlessly weaves together two magical forms of meditation and joy: hula hoop dance and vinyasa yoga. We will begin with a short vinyasa class to get the muscles warm and joints lubricated, then loosen it up with hula hoop dance fun and tricks, focusing on techniques that will be integrated into a yoga practice. Ultimately, vinyasa yoga and hoop dance will come together in unique flow, pushing new boundaries and finding balance between stillness and movement, focus and fun. Hoop vinyasa is open to students with experience in either yoga or hoop dance... or both... or neither!
Sunday, October 3, 8-10pm
Float in Bliss: AntiGravity Yoga Workshop with Shelly Bomb
 $40, Pre-registration required
Click here to register online for this workshop
Imagine all the moving parts of your body flexing and extending while floating weightlessly in space. Restorative Antigravity Yoga utilizes the hammock to float the body in mid-air through a series of gentle gyro kinetic motions, deeply opening the entire spine, hip girdle, shoulders sockets, and more. The weightlessness provided by the hammock allows the body to safely glide to the extent of its flexibility with zero compression on the joints and connecting tissues. This groundbreaking technique is beneficial in both the prevention and rehabilitation of injuries.
Saturday & Sunday, October 23-24, 10am-5pm
The Heart Chakra: A Yantra Painting Workshop with Pieter Weltevrede
 $180, Pre-registration recommended
Click here to register online for this workshop
Join our special guest teacher from the Netherlands, Pieter Weltevrede, as he guides us through painting the image of the Heart Chakra. Pieter's artwork is a spectacular example of artistic mastery, divine inspiration, dedication and love. Please click here for more examples of his spectacular artwork.
Pieter spent many years under the tutelage of Sri Harish Johari, and the transmission of his teachings and beautiful artistic gifts will make this a workshop to remember. It is one that can bring the sacred into your life through the beautiful and mystical. This ancient practice will release layers of mental and physical stress and open you up to your healing energies within.
December 4-8, 2010
Acrobatics Immersion with Jason Nemer and Adam Rinder
 $495 before 11/4/2010, $595 thereafter
Registration: please fill out this online application
This course fulfills the Retreat/Immersion pre-requisite with Jason or Jenny for eligibility to apply for the 2011 AcroYoga Teacher Training.
In this immersion, students will be empowered with the techniques of acrobatics. The foundation of acrobatics is spotting, and with this skill in place, students will be able to take jumps in their practice that they did not know were possible. Strength training, and inversion techniques blended with skillful spotting brings about a new sense of potential.
Mark your calendars... please note that space is limited. Priority will be given to students who have already completed a 5-day General Immersion and a 5-day Therapeutic Thai Massage & Flying Immersion with Jenny or Jason. Read more
Private sessions are great for establishing a yoga practice. Or, if you are a regular student, you can deepen your practice and gift yourself a session with your favorite Om Factory instructor! Together we can individually tailor yoga sequences for:
- Stress reduction
- Relaxation and mood elevation
- Developing strength, balance, and flexibility
- Preventing/protecting injuries
- Deepening your relationship to your breath
- Pre/Post Natal Yoga
Contact info@omfactorynyc.com to schedule a private yoga or semi-private yoga session that fits your schedule!
 Om Factory Yoga Center is dedicated to hosting events that enhance health and well being and cultivate inner harmony and happiness.
Please contact info@omfactorynyc.com for information about hosting a workshop or event at our facility. You may also use this email address to inquire about other services, including psychotherapy, acupuncture, massage, private yoga lessons, holistic health counseling, and more. Let us be of service to you and your community!
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