From the hip: pelvic opening for backbends.
Long, open hip flexors are the key to light, strong backbends. Explore a sequence, focused around tuning into the root of your body for supported, energized backbending practice.

Iyengar Yoga Institute of NY -hybrid in person and online

Get off on the right foot (and the left!) for 2025.

Join Michelle for this detoxifying and rejuvenating workshop to start the year with a fresh, open perspective.

Jaipure Yoga -Montclair, NJ -in person

The lotus posture is iconic. It embodies the grounded concentration and joyful spirit of the Yogi, rooted in the Earth and open to the sky. You don't need to be able to practice the full lotus to benefit from this all levels workshop.

JaiPure Yoga, Montclair, NJ

In the fall we do more stabilizing and strengthening after a summer of opening releasing and cooling poses.

By popular demand! Michelle will guide you through some of her most requested hip opening and stabilizing sequences, woven together to bring more depth and joy in your practice. Prepare to be happy.

Addressing Students’ Problems in Class: for CIYTs and aspiring teachers working with a CIYT mentor

Matt and I will will guide you with modifications and adjustments to help students with common problems, and strategies for managing these students in the context of a group class.

Iyengar Yoga Institute of New York

We learn the fundamentals of back bending postures and symmetrical poses such as Ustrasana, Dhanuranasa, Urdva Dhanurasana
Once we have a solid foundation, we can start opening the body to explore the asymmetrical backbends.
Join Michelle for an engaging and fun afternoon of yoga, challenging your boundaries while making the practice accessible for everyone.

Iyengar Yoga Institute of New York

Revolved asanas bring a surprising, unexpected freedom. They are a gateway to releasing our bodies and stabilizing our minds, and help us improve our access to movement in all directions. They especially benefit the abdominal organs and digestive system, supporting good circulation and a free flow of energy.

In this workshop you’ll learn how to move through and dissolve patterns of holding and tension that build up over the winter months. We’ll create space and length in the outer body, and move toward a deeper internal experience.

Jaipure Yoga, Montclair, NJ

Practicing Yoga with ropes adds a dimension of rhythm, movement, freedom and lightness. Come and learn how you can go further and feel lighter with this innovative way of practice developed by BKS Iyengar.

Habitual tension and the pull of gravity can leave our neck and shoulders tight and uncomfortable.  Learn how to release tension and cultivate ease and relaxation, supporting your overall sense of well being.

Zen Space Hoboken, NJ

We learn the fundamentals of back bending postures and symmetrical poses such as Ustrasana, Dhanuranasa, Urdva Dhanurasana
Once we have a solid foundation, we can start opening the body to explore the asymmetrical backbends.
Join Michelle for an engaging and fun afternoon of yoga, challenging your boundaries while making the practice accessible for everyone.

Twists give a unique access and freedom to the whole body. Combined with abdominal asanas, they help tone, lengthen and release the abdominal muscles and organs.

Yoga practice can be done anywhere with house hold props or with 1 belt and block. While you’re out traveling the world, practice and take care of yourself.

Learn simple methods to release tension, create length and ease through your neck and shoulder region.

Twisting asanas offer a distinct pathway to freedom throughout the entire body. When integrated with abdominals poses, they tone and rejuvenate the abdominal muscles and organs.

In challenging times, we need to be grounded- in touch with the earth. We will bring a special focus on the feet and lower legs, and you will be amazed how your whole body and sprint feel lighter and more free. From opening and releasing to balancing and stabilizing, feel how you are supported by Mother Earth.

JaiPure Yoga Montclair, NJ

Practicing Yoga with ropes adds a dimension of rhythm, movement, freedom and lightness.Come and learn how you can go further and feel lighter with this innovative way of practice developed by BKS Iyengar.

Iyengar Yoga Institute of New York

Addressing Students’ Problems in Class: for CIYTs and aspiring teachers working with a CIYT mentor

Matt and I will will guide you with modifications and adjustments to help students with common problems, and strategies for managing these students in the context of a group class.

Zenspace Hoboken, NJ $45

As life is getting busy, forward bends become more and more valuable. learn how to open and integrate your hips to feel peaceful, connected and refreshed in forward bending practice.

We'll focus on the hips and groins, mobilizing and stabilizing.

A tree with strong roots grows, expands and flowers. When you learn to support, stabilize and mobilize yourself from your root, the muladhara chakra region, you will feel strong, light and free. Michelle will lead you through a sequence that will reveal how you can use the external muscles of the hips and pelvis and integrate the more subtle actions of the pelvic floor to find an empowered, stable fluidity.

We'll focus on backbends, working on the relationship between the neck, shoulders, wrists and hands. To sign up, email me

Zenspace $45

Get refreshed in this special twisting workshop.

Revolved asanas bring a surprising, unexpected freedom. They are a gateway to releasing our bodies and stabilizing our minds, and help us improve our access to movement in all directions. They especially benefit the abdominal organs and digestive system, supporting good circulation and a free flow of energy.

In this workshop you’ll learn how to move through and dissolve patterns of holding and tension that build up over the winter months. We’ll create space and length in the outer body, and move toward a deeper internal experience.

Cultivate lightness and warmth from inside to support you through the winter months.

We will do an accessible sequence of twisting and backbending postures to uplift, bring spaciousness and create a sense of positivity.

JaiPure Yoga, Montclair, NJ

KULA YOGA PROJECT

Saturday, February 25 3:00-5:00pm In-Person & Online

Suggested Donation $25 - $50

Participants: Naghmeh Ahi, Nil Akin, Deidra Demens, Matt Dreyfus, Michelle LaRue, Tzahi Moskovitz, Dmitri Shapira

In collaboration with Kula Yoga: Nikki Vilella and Sri Sri

Proceeds will be split between Turkiye Earthquake Relief Fund & Doctors without Borders

Hosted by Kula Yoga SOHo 481 Broadway, 3 FL, New York, NY 10013

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JaiPure Yoga Montclair, NJ - in person

January 29, 2:30 - 4:30pm

Join us for a nourishing and rejuvenating backbend workshop designed to open up the entire front body and strengthen the back body. In this workshop, we will explore a variety of back bending with and without support.

Iyengar Yoga Institute of New York - online/in person

When the days are dark, bring lightness from inside. Engage with an accessible sequence of twisting and backbending postures to uplift, bring spaciousness and create a sense of positivity to support you in the winter months.

Summer is the perfect time to cultivate the supple and fluid qualities that help us attain Padmasana (the lotus pose).
Learn how to address the different aspects of mobility and stability in your hips, knees and ankles to pratice this iconic asana with stability and ease.

JaiPure Yoga Montclair, NJ

Learn how opening the hips and toning the abdomen brings ease in arm balancing poses.

Online $35