Where to Take Your Asana This Week

Where to Take Your Asana This Week

This is YOUR guide to all the AMAZING Events on January 6th and 7th in NJ (which is shaping up to be the best weekend ever!)

2018 – let’s do this! We have one of the most fun weekends of yoga coming at you and we cannot wait to see where you decide to take your practice.

Make sure to hashtag #njyogacollective as you move and groove around NJ. We love seeing you!

Detox and Restore with Bridget Riepl

January 6  

1:30-3:30

Inlet Yoga Manasquan

As much as we love the holidays, we cannot deny the total sensory overload of the season: days and nights filled with edible indulgences, celebratory libations, shopping stresses, mounting obligations and NO time for self-care. Let’s make 2018 the year we change ALL of that! Join Bridget for a cleansing, nourishing and intention-filled practice, aimed to detoxify and restore your body. We will move and breathe to facilitate the removal of the emotional, physical and mental gunk that eventually but inevitably limits our ability to tune in and align with our highest selves.

Free Yoga Weekend

January 6-7

Joyful Living Yoga Center in Pt. Pleasant

To celebrate the New Year we are holding a magical Yoga Weekend Extravaganza! FREE! Please pre-register, as these classes fill extremely fast and we want to guarantee your spots!

Yoga for Runners

January 6  

2:30-4PM $24

Yoga Mechanics Montclair

This yoga class is geared specifically towards runners and triathletes of all kinds. With a dynamic sequence that focuses on pre and post-race warm-ups, you’ll also learn how to strengthen target muscle groups while improving your flexibility and range of motion. Plus, breathing exercises and mindfulness techniques for heightened mental focus. At the end of class, you’ll walk away with a set of practical, effective and accessible tools to help you stay healthy, strong and injury-free.

New Year’s Yoga and Yoga Mat Vision Board Workshop for Teens!

January 6  

12:30-2PM

Yoga Loft Freehold

Looking for a fun and different way to kick off the New Year? Start off 2018 with some yoga and yoga mat vision boards! Come meet new friends, gain strength and flexibility and leave officially leave 2017 behind! This workshop is designed for teens, girls and boys, from 13-17. We will begin with a small yoga practice focusing on setting an intention, or a “vision” for 2018. We will then use that positive energy and ideas to construct a vision board using a yoga mat and paint, focusing on your goals for 2018. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring whatever you feel you will need! Bring in the New Year with an awesome new start and vision!

Find Balance for the New Year

January 6  

1-3PM  

Powerflow Yoga Morristown

Set your New Year into motion with the perfect blend of a power vinyasa, yin and yoga nidra. In this workshop, we will explore the benefits of strength and flexibility on and off the mat. A strong vinyasa flow will make you sweaty and strong while yin yoga targets connective tissue to release tension. Yoga nidra, or yogic sleep, is designed to bring your body and mind into total relaxation. This workshop will leave you feeling balanced as you start the New Year.

90’s Hip Hop Flow  with Jennifer Cavalieri

January 6  

4:30-6PM

Tula Yoga Long Branch

An energetic Core Vinyasa Flow set to old school Hip Hop & R&B. Playlist will include the best of Biggie, Jay Z, Mary J Blige, 112, Lauryn Hill , Jagged Edge & more. The room will be heated 85-90 degrees. Come ready to sweat, burn some calories, and have fun!

Yin and Pin Workshop

January 6  

4-5:30PM

Yoga Essence of New Providence

Class will begin with yin yoga asana’s that will help release you physically at a deeper level. Poses will be held for longer duration so you can ‘get out of your head.’ Once things begin to open and you relax further Bret Kottler from Acupuncture Eden will offer a de-stress treatment. You are bound to feel the stress just melting away! After Yin Yoga and your healing you are in for a SWEET Savasana.

Anatomy Immersion (3 CEU credits)

January 6  

10AM-1PM

Pink Lotus Yoga Swedesboro

Understanding the anatomy of the human structure is vital to a safe and beneficial yoga practice. Knowing how you affect your anatomy will help elevate your practice. If you want to elevate your practice or your clients, then this workshop is for you.

Particularly, this workshop will focus on the muscles of the upper body. This workshop will focus on the shoulders, hips, trunk, spine and pelvis. All these muscles contribute to the stabilization of the core and extremities.

Back-bending Workshop: Journey through the Heart

January 6

3-5PM

Honor Yoga Princeton

In this workshop work on techniques to help dive deeper into back bends. Starting with basic postures, strengthen the necessary muscles to take more advanced variations. Explore these postures from front to back, opening up the muscles that allow us to move more freely from the heart. When we back bend, we work through the Anahata (Heart Chakra). This produces many benefits, including invigoration of the body and openness of our hearts, which lets us give and receive more love to those around us. Mixed level/some yoga experience suggested. $40 | member discounts

FREE Buti Yoga

January 6

11:30AM-12:30PM

Tula Yoga Long Branch

This calorie-scorching workout fuses power yoga with cardio-intensive tribal dance + body sculpting primal movement. Created by Celebrity Trainer Bizzie Gold, Buti Yoga utilizes the Spiral Structure Technique to sculpt + tone the deep abdominal muscles that stabilize and strengthen the body.

Bends and Brunch at Porta by Yoga by Bridget & Justine

January 7  

10AM-12PM

Porta Asbury Park

Start off your #SundayFunday with a slow flow yoga class, followed by a social boozy brunch!

Space is limited, so pre-registration is REQUIRED. Preregistration is $5.

$30 cash will be collected the day of the event. This gets you a 60 minute yoga class, a free mimosa and $5 off your brunch bill!

Silent Mini-Retreat

January 7  

2-6:30 PM

Devotion Yoga Hoboken

Realign with who you are in silent space. Through periods of silence, guided and silent meditations, relaxation, and being in a community of like-minded people, we learn that deep self-discovery arises out of a place of presence and self-love. Our experience will include: A calm space filled with compassion and devotion. Silence – time to unplug. “Sacred Stations”  with readings, activities, and contemplations to help you reconnect to your true self and to discover how the power of silence can help to gain clarity and focus. (All are optional) A 20-minute healing head and foot massage (if you chose one — limited spaces available). Healthy snacks and refreshments

$40 per person (no massage)

$65 per person (with head/foot massage)

Principles of a Still Practice: A Yin Yoga Workshop

January 7  

2-4PM

Inlet Yoga Manasquan

During this workshop you will learn: – the 3 main principles of Yin Yoga; – the reason for holding Yin postures several minutes at a time; – the difference between muscles and connective tissue; and – a Yin posture sequence you can practice at home. Both beginning and experienced yogis will enjoy this workshop.

Live Your Purpose: Set Intentions 2018 with Kim Copeland

January 7  

12:15-2:15PM

Powerflow Yoga Clifton

This workshop will take you to an introspective place and have you take a step back to look at your life. Our intentions should be set from this deep place of connection. Kim will take you through a writing exercise followed by an amazing vinyasa flow class geared toward sending your intentions out into the universe. You will leave feeling prepared and ready to truly live your purpose for 2018.

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May Louie first took yoga in college to fulfill a Phys-Ed requirement and immediately fell in love. She unfortunately did not continue with her practice but reconnected with it when she retired from her corporate job in 2002 and has since become a serious yoga enthusiast. After her second retirement last year, she completed her 200 hour RYT certification, studying with Dina Crosta, Ellen Mosko and Jamie Segal Hanley, with a focus on alignment based flow.[/box]