This Week @ the Yard
Bridgman/Packer Dance
Friday, July 16, 8:00
Sunday, July 18, 6:00
Lois Greenfield Lecture w/Slides
Saturday, July 17, 5:30

2011 Dance Company Residency
June, 2011
Application Deadline: October 11, 2010
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Yoga @ the Yard

Burn all the maps to your body. --Richard Brautigan

Yoga at the Yard is an extension of the Yard’s dedication to physical exploration, experience and performance. As with the community class dance program, resident dancers and community members come together to inhale, exhale and move. Alignment, breath and body awareness and community are the guiding principles for all of our teachers. Classes are held in our open-air studio where practitioners gaze out at trees and flowers as they find their own tree poses and lotuses. Downward dogs not dogma..

Schedule:

Mondays 7-8:30 am Robert Sidoti
Tuesdays 7-8:30 am Mollie Doyle
Wednesdays 7-8:30 am Sherry Sidoti
Thursdays 7-8:30 am Bennett Coffey
Frindays 7-8:30 am Stephanie Mashek
Saturdays 8-9:30 am Mollie Doyle
Sundays 9-10:30 am Primo Lombardi

single class = $16
10 class card = $140
20 class card = $240

Teachers:

Bennett Coffey (Thursdays)Bennett’s yogic journey began five years ago when she walked into her first yoga class. She came away with a sense of calm and stillness that she never before experienced. This peaceful feeling intrigued her and she wanted to explore it further. She has been practicing diligently ever since, in places like Charleston SC, Hawaii, California, NYC, Washington D.C., Costa Rica and here on Martha’s Vineyard. She received her 200 hr teacher training in Charleston S.C. while still in college. After graduation, she moved to a yoga retreat for four months in the mountains of Northern California where she immersed herself in karma yoga and self inquiry. Among many things, yoga has taught her to have more self awareness and compassion for all living things. In her classes, she encourages her students to respect and listen to the wisdom of their bodies moving through the poses slowly so that the tension we build up each day can be released.
Bennett is also a certified holistic nutrition counselor and a Certified Pranassage Practitioner as well. To find out more visit her website at www.bennettcoffey.com.

Mollie Doyle (Tuesdays & Saturdays)Mollie Doyle attended her first yoga class in 1990 when her mother took her to an Iyengar class in Providence, RI. She was hooked enough to sign up for a month long service commitment at Kripalu. But it was too much too soon and she only lasted there for two weeks! Then, in 1994, a friend dragged her to the original Jivamukti yoga studio on Second Avenue in New York City. There she was inspired by both the physical dexterity and happy glow that Sharon Gannon, David Life and all of their students exuded. Since then, Mollie has studied many forms of Hatha yoga – Iyengar, Ashtanga, Anusura, Vinyasa – with many masters – Sri K. Pattabi Jois, Richard Rosen, Ruth Lauer-Manenti. She is grateful to call her students, Kristen Leigh and Barbara Verocchi of New York’s The Shala and Colleen Saidman and Rodney Yee of Sag Harbor’s Yoga Shanti her teachers. Mollie is Rodney Yee Certified and a member of the Yoga Teachers Alliance. And, this winter has been participating in an eight-month intensive training with Rodney Yee, Colleen Saidman, Richard Freeman, Richard Rosen, Heidi Fokine and Sanscrit scholar Menorma.
Mollie’s classes focus on intelligent sequencing, linking breath to movement, and building a practice that brings consciousness and ease to the body and mind. www.molliedoyle.com.

Primo Lombardi (Sundays)Primo Lombardi is an Anusara inspired, registered yoga teacher.  Video is currently under review for Anusara certification.  Primo has completed Level 1& II teacher training, along with therapeutics and art of adjustments with John Friend, the founder of Anusara Yoga.  Primo has also studied with renowned Tantric scholars Douglas Brooks and Paul Muller-Ortega.  Primo strives to transform his yoga classes into a celebration of life from the inside and then to express it outwardly.  The practice is unlimited, elegant and expansive rather than limited, mechanical and controlled; letting your practice take you to where your heart wants to go. blissbrothersyoga.com

Stephanie Mashek (Fridays)Stephanie Mashek has had a dedicated Vinyasa yoga practice since 2000. Studying primarily with Bo Forbes, she has also studied Iyengar and Anusara styles of yoga. She completed the Elemental Yoga 200-hour Mind-Body Teacher Training with Bo Forbes and continues in the 500-hr advanced program. Characteristic of Elemental Yoga she brings a slow-flow Vinyasa style to her classes, incorporating props, isometric stretches and creative sequencing. Through the long holds, a slow flow of poses linked by the breath and the detailed alignment instruction of Elemental Yoga, she has found enhanced self-knowledge and body awareness for herself and her students.

Robert Sidoti (Mondays)Growing up outdoors in Southern California made Robert an avid athlete/outdoors man since childhood. Robert was surfing by five; spent family vacations hiking, fishing and biking, was a star player on his school age baseball, tennis & soccer teams, and took up basketball and golf in early adulthood. Robert was certified as a personal trainer through National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) in 2002, where he began helping clients improve their athletic performance through strength training and functional fitness techniques. He discovered yoga around this time and was amazed at how yoga helped him improve his own game and stay in the "zone", helped with concentration, and his breath capacity. Robert has always enjoyed the playfulness of yoga- handstands at the beach are his favorite!
In 2008 Robert was certified by Swami Sitaramananda at the Sivananda Vendanta Centre in the "Yoga for Athletic Peak Performance" Program. Robert has continued his Hatha Yoga studies to complete the 200 RYT certification with Kira Ryder, founder of Lulubandhas and the Ojai Yoga Crib in his hometown of Ojai, California. Robert also trained and certified with Karma Kids NYC and works in the MV Public Schools bringing yoga to school children. He has created the anticipated program BROga™ Yoga and Strength for Men (and women who dare).


Sherry Sidoti (Wednesdays)
Originally from NYC, and transported from Los Angeles, CA, Sherry has lived on Martha's Vineyard, MA since 2002. She feels fortunate to offer private and group fitness and yoga classes to many wonderful people from around the world and founded her business FLY Yoga in 2007.
Sherry is particularly drawn to the change that is experienced through yoga - the "play" within the body; to use breath and movement to get to know herSelf and her divine nature better; and to harmonize the body and mind so that true spirit has a place to call home. Sherry is humbled by the process of unfolding-peeling through layers- and is stricken by the sweet power of quiet mind and seat.
She is inspired by and so grateful for her teacher, Saul David Raye, with whom she is certified in Holistic Atma Yoga, celebrating the whole of yoga through the Bhakti/Tantra tradition. Additionally, she is lucky to have done Advanced studies with Ana Forrest, her Vinyasa YTT with Jonathan Fields & Lauren Hanna, Prenatal and Postpartum training with Gurmukh, as well as studies with Pradeep Teotia, Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati, Jasmine Tarkeshi and Dana Flynn, Shiva Rea, and many other amazing teachers. She is most inspired by the many beautiful souls that have participated in her classes