Welcome to Junction Center Yoga Studio…

New Beginner’s 6-week Session:

starts on July 26 and runs through August 30 meeting once a week for 6 weeks on Mondays from 9:30-11 am

New Evening Level I Class! meets Wednesdays from 6 – 7:30 pm

Saturday’s Level I and Level II classes meet in separate sessions…

Level 1 class meets on Saturdays from 9:30 – 11 am

Level 2 class meets on Saturdays from 7:30 – 9 am

Please, see the Schedule Page for complete details on all classes.

Nov 5 – 8, 2010
Freeing the Body, Freeing the Mind: Integrating Yoga Practice and Buddhist Meditation with Michael Stone
Begins at 2:30 pm on Friday, Nov 5 and runs through 12:30 pm on Monday, Nov 8

Striking a Pose For the Safe and Gentle Sport of Yoga, How Mainstream Media Agrees

The Grim Facts Department reports that  more than 50,000 people wind up their exercise routines in the emergency room every year because of mishaps on gym equipment, according to numbers from the Consumer Products Safety Commission.

Worse yet, more than 17 million Americans are treated for sports-related injuries each year, including 3 . 5 million children under the age of 14.

While we at Junction Center Yoga Studio encourage you to maintain a focus on the bright side of life, it’s sometimes valuable to reflect of why yoga is such an important lifetime “sport” – one that should be taught in schools and practiced throughout life for optimal health and well-being.

It certainly appears that many more people including the mainstream media agree. On Point Radio recently featured Strike a Pose For Yoga that explains, “Yoga in America. How downward dogs and crow poses went mainstream.”

The New York Times recently featured When Chocolate and Chakras Collide.

“The words of Ziggy Marley’s ‘Love Is My Religion’ float over 30 people lying on yoga mats in a steamy, dim loft above Madison Avenue on Friday. All had signed up for a strange new hybrid of physical activity: first an hour of vigorous, sweaty yoga, then a multicourse dinner of pasta, red wine and chocolate…”

The fact that more peoiple are discovering the long-term benefits of paying attention to you physical and mental flexibilityis an encouraging sifn of the times. We hope that you are among them! And if not… Join us in the next Beginner’s 6-week series to learn more. The hardest part of change is often just taking that first step.

WORKSHOP: Finding Presence of Breath, Ease, Joy and Kindness in Asana Practice, June 1

Tuesday, June 1, from 6 – 8:30 pm

Finding Presence of Breath, Ease, Joy and Kindness in our Asana Practice

a workshop taught by Ranjani Cobo MD

Join us for the opportunity to work with one of Yoga’s longtime practitioners, a physician, dedicated gardener and master of the practice of asana, Ranjani Cobo, to explore the profound healing experience of yoga practice.

Using your body and breath to facilitate a greater depth of experience in asanas that are selected to be comfortable for yoga practitioners of all levels can have a profound impact on how we communicate in body language. Based on a deep understanding of individual postural alignment, core body balance and hands-on contact, this yoga workshop will also transform your individual practice in unexpected ways.

We will work with alignment through the concept of Therapeutic Partner Practices (TPP) and Hands-on Energy Practices in small groups. This gathering will be a celebration of our journey – many years of practice – in both life and yoga, crossing paths and ALL that we experience in between.

We will play with  New Ways of Relating and Caring for One Another

Suggested donation $65
If finances don’t allow making a dollar donation an exchange of energy in the form healing body work, garden work hours at our Junction Center farm or something else will also be gratefully accepted. Please, bring a donation of fruit to share.

Ranjani Cobo (aka Dr. Mary Elaine Cobo) has spent several decades studying and apprenticing in India under the guidance of Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois, B.K.S. Iyengar, Sri Desikachar, and Indra Devi. She has synthesized her experiences in India to bring to the yoga community a very rare blend of the Iynegar and Ashtanga traditions. She integrates the practice of yoga with a deep understanding of our connection to the Earth, our diet, and our relationships. Her life-long commitment comes through very clearly in the creative and enthusiastic spirit of her personal practice and teaching. Her workshops have been well received in over 20 countries including Latin America, Europe, India, and the U.S.

Among many modalities of the healing arts, Ranjani is certified by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York and has also extended knowledge in Oriental and Chinese Medicine. She continues to study with Charlotte Joko Beck in the Zen Meditation tradition.

Freeing the Body, Freeing the Mind: Integrating Yoga Practice and Buddhist Meditation

Nov 5 – 8, 2010

Freeing the Body, Freeing the Mind: Integrating Yoga Practice and Buddhist Meditation
a weekend with Michael Stone

Begins at 2:30 pm on Friday, Nov 5 and runs through 12:30 pm on Monday, Nov 8
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Limited to 25 students, this unique rural retreat will integrate sitting meditation and an in-depth practice of yoga postures. The retreat will include lodging and vegetarian meals. Meals will be served oryoki style, a formal way of eating which is in and of itself a form of Zen meditation. Lodging and bathrooms will  be shared.

The retreat is held in silence and is open for students of all levels and backgrounds.

Michael Stone is a psychotherapist in private practice, lecturer, yoga teacher and author. He co-leads the Centre of Gravity Sangha, a community of Yoga & Buddhist practitioners in Toronto and travels internationally, teaching in academic, yoga studio and conference settings. Michael offers courses and retreat that focus on integrating yoga postures, breathing practices, meditation and textual study. His research and teaching explore the intersection of committed spiritual practice and social action.

Michael’s academic background includes studies in psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy and comparative religion. He teaches yoga in the tradition of Krishnamacharya and his principal teacher is Richard Freeman. He has studied Ashtanga, Iyengar and other forms of hatha yoga in depth as well as sanskrit and Indian philosophy.

cost $325