Dear Om Factory Community,

As we transition into 2012, it's an auspicious time to pause for reflection and to let the dust settle from the momentum of life. It's a time to choose how you will change *your* life in the new year. This is a time to ask big questions and to remain wide open to possibility.

We are honored to offer you many opportunities to tap into the transformative nature of your yoga practice and to harness its potential to fuel your new year's intentions. Teacher training offers one of the most direct paths to deepen your yoga practice with the support of community and provides a gateway to learn how to share the benefits of yoga with others.

If you are considering teacher training, now is the time to apply... we have extended the deadline for early registration to January 8. Check out our Teacher Training page for more details about Om Factory School of Yoga 2012.

If you're looking to jump start your year, nothing says bring it on like 108 Sun Salutations on New Year's Day with Emilia Conradson. Alternatively, if you need to rejuvenate and restore after the holiday season, Shelly Bomb’s AntiGravity Restorative Immersion is the perfect resolution.

Finally, we want to thank Yasoda & all of the amazing musicians who shared their heart and souls at our 6-hour Kirtan last month... and thanks equally to all who attended the event and made it one of the most memorable evenings of 2011. If you missed it, check out some of the videos on our facebook page.

Please read on for information about featured workshops, new classes and other updates to our schedule. Thank you for making Om Factory your home... we couldn't do this without you!

With Love and Blessings,

The OF Family

Annual Membership

We want to continue to encourage you to remain dedicated to your yoga practice by maintain affordable membership rates and class pack options. We value your studentship tremendously and want to give you an incentive to share your practice often with us... So we've lowered our Annual Membership rate down to only $1,200 for a year of yoga! That works out to $100 per month! If you are ready to commit, you can purchase your Annual Membership online right now!

Monthly Membership with Automatic Billing

In addition, we continue to offer Monthly Membership with automatic billing for only $125/month!
Please inquire at the studio to sign up!

Special Offer for New Students!

New students can get their first month for only $100 by signing up for the Winter Yoga Club.
Why wait? Please inquire at the studio to sign up!

Here are some updates for January's weekly class schedule with some exciting additions: Mike is now teaching on Saturday mornings...Yay! Adam is back on the schedule and will be teaching a Yoga Philosophy class on Thursday evenings. And if you're new to Ashtanga, Arthur will be leading Ashtanga Basics on Sundays. Remember to visit our online schedule for the most current schedule of classes and teachers, including updates regarding substitutions.

Mondays Morning Vinyasa (Open), 7:30-8:30am with Bettina Goolsby Forrest Yoga (Open), 6:30-8:00pm with Emilia Conradson Wednesdays Forrest Yoga (Open), 6:30-8:00pm with Ramona Bradley Vinyasa (Foundations), 5:15-6:15pm with Adam Rinder Thursdays Philosophy of Yoga, 7:15-8:45pm with Adam Rinder Saturdays Vinyasa (Open), 10:30-11:45am with Mike McArdle Sundays Ashtanga Basics (Foundations), 10:45-11:45am with Arthur Roldan AntiGravity Yoga (Open), 12-1:15pm with Tyler DuBoys

January 27 - April 15, 2012 (Weekend Course)

Om Factory School of Yoga: 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, Spring 2012

Lead Instructors: Amanda Wentworth & Holly Coles
Please click here to review the online application
Early registration deadline has been extended to January 8, 2012!

Whether you're wanting to pursue the path of a teacher or simply wanting to deepen your personal practice, Om Factory School of Yoga offers one of the most innovative and comprehensive 200-Hour teacher training programs. Perhaps graduate Bianca DeRise Johnson says it best:

“If you’re looking for abundant yogic philosophy, you’ll get it. If you’re looking for in-depth dissection of asana form, you’ll get it. Looking for challenge? It’s all here. Take the leap and begin a dynamic journey that you will never regret.”

Please visit our Teacher Training page for detailed information about the program.

TUITION OPTIONS
Early Registration: $2,850 paid in full by January 8, 2012
Tuition: $3,000 paid in full by January 27, 2012
Installment Plan: $3,200* payable in installments
Tuition includes a 3-month unlimited membership at Om Factory

Sunday, January 1, 2012, 1:30-3:30pm

New Year's Day Yoga Class:
108 Sun Salutations of Gratitude with Emilia Conradson and Friends

Price: $30 pre-registered / $35 at door. This event is expected to sell out so please register in advance!
Click here to register online for this event
Celebrate your transition into 2012 with a vibrant ceremony of community and GRATITUDE for the amazing future that lies ahead. Release all you are ready to leave behind through a deep and sweaty moving meditation of 108 transformative salutations. Our spirits will vibrate high to the music of an unbelievably fun and upbeat playlist! This will be fun, this will be special, this will be something you remember for years to come. You need not have ever done a single salutation to join us. The initial salutations will be led though you will soon be carried away in the wave of your own moving meditation. Each salutation will be counted for, so your only responsibility is to show up, open up, breath, have fun, and flow!

Saturday, January 7, 2012, 9:00am-4:00pm

AntiGravity® Yoga New Year Restorative Immersion with Shelly Bomb

Full Tuition: $150.
Click here for registration details for this immersion
Join Developer and Master trainer Shelly Bomb for a full day of Restoration in the AntiGravity hammock. This all day journey flows like a moving meditation, integrating the healing aspects and inward awareness of meditation and conscious breathing in combination with the revolutionary physical benefits of the AntiGravity hammock. Soar through sequences designed to open your hips, lubricate your joints, elongate your spine and expand your body awareness. Heart-opening laughter and a longer, healthier spine are guaranteed.

This immersion is especially suited to those wishing to delve into AntiGravity’s therapeutic aspects, as well as those students looking to deepen their personal meditation and/or yoga practice. AntiGravity Yoga teachers and students of all levels are welcome, from curious beginner to experienced practitioner.

Sunday, February 12, 2012, 6:00-8:00pm

AntiGravity® Yoga for Couples with Emilia Conradson

Price: $85 per couple, pre-registration required.
Click here to register online for this workshop
Celebrate Valentine's Day in a healthy, creative way with partner massage and AntiGravity Yoga! Come with a lover or a close friend to explore the blissful feeling of giving and receiving therapeutic touch and the fun of balancing two people with one AntiGavity Yoga hammock. In this special workshop, you will nurture intimacy by moving playfully through partner asana, connect energetically through breath and gaze, and practice deepening your relationship with an unconditional loving kindness (metta) meditation. No experience is necessary to attend!

Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 7:00-9:00pm

Cuddle Puddle: Thai Massage Playshop with Chris Loebsack & Greg Franklin

Price: $75 per couple.
Click here to register online for this workshop
Chris and Greg will guide you in a series of partner flows that will help cultivate receptivity and mutual support in your partnership, as well as open new channels of non-verbal communication. The practice of Thai massage informs us that by serving others, we can truly serve ourselves in an organic cycle of giving and receiving. Both partners will have an opportunity to give and receive during the session, and will be guided through the sequence step-by-step. Comfortable clothing recommended.

 

March 10-14, 2012

AcroYoga Lunar Immersion:
Rejuvenation Through Healing Arts with Adam Rinder & Jennifer Yarro

Tuition: $495 before Feb 14, $595 thereafter.
Please click here for more details

The Lunar Immersion focuses on the healing, relaxing and rejuvenating practices of Thai massage and therapeutic flying. The Lunar Asana Sequence teaches basic body mechanics and with a focus on self-love cultivation, in preparation for the dance of Thai massage. The techniques learned on the floor are then translated to the flying work, using the element of gravity to amplify the healing flow of prana (life force). Often, we will work in teams of three for safety and support, and everyone will have the opportunity to base and fly, heal and be healed. This training offers invaluable tools for yoga teachers, massage therapists, and energy workers who wish to develop a new dimension of healing touch for students or clients.

Skills covered:
• Lunar Asana Sequence
• Thai massage in Supine, Prone, Side Lying, & Seated positions
• Forward, Backward & High Flying Whale Therapeutic Flying Sequences

February 18 - March 3, 2012

Yoga Retreat to Kerala, India!
Experience India with Chris Loebsack, Paul Gruen & Special Host Faramarz

$2300 includes all food, hotels and local transportation.
Price does not include international airfare.
Click here for more details about this India retreat
Mythical, ancient, and mysterious, India has stolen many hearts throughout history. To the typical tourist, Indians can sometimes come off as overwhelming, but are, in truth, the most guest friendly people. When we understand their hospitality and respect the local culture, the real tour begins! We will be traveling “off the beaten tourist path” in a minibus, mingling with the endless varieties of locals, from beggars and hustlers, swamis and gurus. Journey with us and open your heart and minds to soak in the Samsara of this blessed country. We suggets the book “Holy Cow: an Indian Adventure” by Sarah Macdonald for trip preparation.

Kerala, located in the southeast of the country, is where India slips down into second gear. It’s a place to stop to smell the spices and mingle on a dirt road talking to strangers. A strip of land between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats, its perfect climate flirts unabashedly with the fertile soil, and everything glows. It’s an easy-going, successful socialist state and has a hospitality that stands out as its most laudable achievement.

The Kerala backwaters are a chain of brackish lagoons and lakes running parallel to the Arabian Sea coast (known as the Malabar Coast.) The network includes five large lakes linked by canals, both manmade and natural, fed by 38 rivers, and extends virtually half the length of Kerala state. The backwaters were formed by the action of waves and shore currents creating low barrier islands across the mouths of the many rivers flowing down from the Western Ghats range. Read more about this retreat

We've officially opened Studio Arte, our sister studio and event hall on the west side of the 17th floor. This gorgeous 4,000 square foot space offers the perfect venue for large workshops, events, party rentals and more. The facility is well equipped to host a variety of events, offering the warmth of a yoga studio blended with the clean sophistication of a designer's showroom. Contact info@studioartenyc.com for a tour, rates and more information about the space.

Om Factory provides work exchange opportunities for students who wish to trade service hours for class credits and discounts on specific workshops. By joining our Karma Yoga program, you do us a great service. Our staff is the foundation of this studio and its community, and one of the most essential elements of our administrative team. The Karma Yoga program is a great way to explore a yoga practice while giving back to the community. Please email staff@omfactorynyc.com to inquire about our Karma Yoga program.

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!