CURRENTLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
FOR 2012 INTERNSHIP PROGRAM!
The Yard is currently accepting applications for the 2012 Internship. If you are interested in applying please visit the info page here.
All application forms and supported materials should be emailed to Michele Sasso, our Director of Communications & Artist Services at MicheleSasso@dancetheyard.org no later than Thursday March 1st, 2012 by 5pm EST.
Yoga @ the Yard
The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life. --B.K.S. Iyengar
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.
The Yard's yoga classes take place during the summer season from June-September. Please check back in later months for more information on the 2012 Yoga schedule. Between the variety of instruction and the beautiful open air barn studio, yoga at The Yard is a great way to start any morning.
Pricing: 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 (Mondays & 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 continues to study with master teachers from around the country – Nikki Doane, Richard Freeman, and Heidi Fokine to name a few. Mollie is Rodney Yee Certified and a member of the Yoga Teachers Alliance. She is honored to be a member of the Martha's Vineyard Yoga Collective and is Director of Yoga at the Yard.
Mollie's classes focus on intelligent sequencing, linking breath to movement, and building a practice that brings consciousness to the mind, ease to the body and light to the heart. www.molliedoyle.com Primo Lombardi (Sundays)Primo Lombardi is an Anusara certified and registered yoga teacher. 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. He 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. To learn more about Primo and his retreats, www.blissbrothers.com.
Sherry Sidoti (Wednesday and Fridays)Sherry Sidoti, E-RYT, is owner and creative director of FLY Yoga and FLY Yoga School, offering classes, privates, retreats and a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training on Martha's Vineyard since 2003. Sherry is a senior student of Saul David Raye, with whom she is certified in Holistic Atma Yoga, and assists and guest teaches at Saul's Atma Holistic Immersion and Yoga Teacher Training, offering her program MAMAste: Yoga for Pregnancy. Sherry also has Advanced Yoga Teacher Training with Ana Forrest, Gurmukh, Pradeep Teotia, Swami Nirmalananda Saraswati, Jasmine Tarkeshi, Erich Shiffman. She is particularly inspired by the learning she's received from all her students.
Sherry teaches a soulful, fluid and dynamic practice. We link our breath to our movement, stack poses from basic to more complex, move towards balance between our active and receptive selves, and seek compassion, truth, and acceptance in body mind and spirit. Sherry weaves in the spirit, magic and integrity of the yoga teachings and the practice of self awareness into every class without taking it all too seriously. Each class is a celebration of life itself.
Sandra Washburn (Tuesdays) Sandra Washburn has been a dedicated student of yoga practice since 2005. She has extensive training in Anusara Yoga, completing a 200 hour teacher training program. Her classes offer a supportive, playful, loving space which allows students to gain truth into their own authentic nature and sense of well being as it connects to the whole. It's a privilege to help facilitate an inner unfolding witnessing the multitude of ways the expression of the heart vibrates. Sandra guides with a clear understanding of alignment principles and years as a licensed massage therapist has given her skilled therapeutic hands on adjustments. All are welcomed, especially those who are willing to be curious and vulnerable in the practice. Any further questions or concerns please contact at foundationalmassage@gmail.com.
