These classes are for the purpose of cultivating an atmosphere of accessibility and safety within New York City's healing arts community. This class will use a gentle, well-rounded approach to yoga, including visually guided meditation, basic asana practice, and breath-work to help each student achieve a greater balance of body, mind and spirit.

Please sign up if you identify within the LGBTQIA community and are looking to either begin your yoga journey as a new student, or are looking to strengthen and develop more agency over your own yoga practice. Come with a particular yoga-related goal or with an open-mind to try something new!

Alice Shockey Instructor Bio

My training is in the Indian yoga tradition of Tirumalai Krishnamacharya and his son TKV Desikachar. I studied intensively with Guta Hedewig, who trained privately and completed advanced yoga courses with TKV Desikachar at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in Chennai, for one year before receiving my 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification in June of 2020. The teachings of Krishnamacharya and Desikachar are focused not only on the asana practice, but emphasize all eight limbs of yoga, as is listed by Patanjali inYoga Sutra 2.29: “Yama-niyama-asana-pranayama-pratyahara-dharana-dyana-samadhayah” translating to “Social restraints, personal observances, physical discipline, expansion of prana through mastery of the breath, discipline of the senses, concentration, meditation and complete absorption.” Krishnamacharya's teachings aim to meet each individual student in a unique way by taking into consideration their particular (dis)abilities and life circumstances, and by offering the yoga practice to approach a common goal.