Unfortunately, after reassessing his commitments for the year, Matt has decided not to teach with YAY for the fall semester. As a result, Monday's ashtanga class is cancelled indefinitely. We apologize for the last minute change, and are working on finding a class to take the Monday evening spot. If you have any suggestions, or if you are interested in joining our teaching team, please email Corinne at corinne.kentor@yale.edu.
Thank you all for your understanding! We hope to have all schedule difficulties worked out by the end of the week.
We are so excited to announce our new schedule for the fall semester! Classes will begin on Tuesday, September 10th, as Matt has a final this Monday and will not be able to teach until next week. All of our classes are free and open to undergrads, grads, and faculty! Classes are open level, so don't be afraid to try something new! For more information on the classes we will be offering this semester, please see our "class descriptions" page.
Now that shopping period has (almost) come to an end, we are nailing down our classes for the fall semester. We will be announcing our new schedule sometime this weekend and introducing some wonderful new instructors to the teaching team.
Classes will begin next Monday, September 9th. As always, all classes will take place in the Berkeley Multipurpose Room.
If you are interested in joining our teaching team, please email YAY's new president, Corinne, at corinne.kentor@yale.edu.
Have a beautiful weekend, and we'll see you next week on the mat!
Snowgis! Hope you are all holding up well in this whiteout. Three orders of yogi business:
1. Unfortunately, we have to postpone the Open House weekend we were planning to hold tomorrow and Sunday due to the storm. Stay tuned for the new date.
2. I'd like to introduce you all to a new teacher who is joining our team this semester,Gina Moreno-Valle! She is a rockstar yogi (yep that's her below) and first year student at the Yale School of Art. I'm very excited for her to join the YAY team and hope you will help me in giving her a warm welcome!
Gina will now be teaching a Vinyasa Flow on Wednesdays from 6-7:15 pm, starting next week, Feb 13th.
3. Updated time: Emily is pushing back her Monday Vinyasa Flow class to a new time: 5:45 - 7 pm on Mondays, starting next week.
And lastly, some yogi-inspiration for those of you practicing at home tonight (even if its a five minute child's pose). To you I say rock on, Gina-style:
(In fact, as soon as we teachers set our own academic class schedules.)
Classes should start the week of Monday, January 21st or Monday, January 28th.
Thanks for your patience. In the meantime, if you have any class requests, suggestions, or feedback, we'd love to hear from you! Just shoot us an email or catch us around campus.
Note that Emily's Monday class will be held as usual this Monday, October 22nd. All other classes next week (Tuesday through Friday) will be cancelled due to fall break. Have a great time off!
Below is our full schedule for Fall 2012. Classes start Tuesday, September 11th in the BK Multipurpose Room and are all free! We welcome Yale undergrad and grad students alike of all levels. Come join us!
We hope you all had wonderful refreshing summers and are happy to be back on campus. We are currently nailing down our class schedule for the next semester, so be sure to check back here in the next week or so for updates. Our goal is to begin classes Monday, September 10th.
If you are interested in teaching or becoming more involved with YAY, please reach out! Email cristina.poindexter@yale.edu with any questions.
Come join us for a screening of the film Yogawoman this Thursday, February 23rd from 7:30 - 9:30 PM in Silliflicks! There will be treats and/or some impromptu yoga breaks. Yogawoman is a very interesting documentary detailing the transformation of yoga from east to west and the role women have played in establishing a huge community of yogis in the US (fully synopsis follows). Preview their trailer below, or check out their website at www.yogawoman.tv
Synopsis: Yoga
was brought to the west from India by a lineage of male teachers. Now there’s a
generation of women who are leading the way. They’re strong, they’re inspiring,
and they’re radically changing people’s lives. From the busy streets of
Manhattan to the dusty slums of Kenya, from the golden beaches of Australia to
the serene piazzas of Italy, YOGAWOMAN uncovers a global phenomenon that
has changed the face of yoga forever.
Led
by a new generation of dynamic female teachers, this “new” yoga replaces the
male-centered, more rigid style with a distinctly feminine practice that honors
intuition, family, flow, connection, community, activism and the cyclical
nature of women’s lives.
Through
rich personal stories, YOGAWOMAN reveals how yoga has utterly
transformed the lives of millions of over-stimulated, overscheduled
multitasking modern women. With vivid detail and poignancy, YOGAWOMAN
shows how women have embraced yoga for easing health conditions like breast
cancer, infertility, heart disease, anxiety and depression. It has given a
lifeline to women in prison, cancer abuse survivors and those struggling with
body image or eating disorders.
In
intimate interviews with the world’s leading experts, many who have become
worldwide icons with rock-star status, YOGAWOMAN captures how these
teachers have blazed a new trail for women. World-renowned teachersappearing
in YOGAWOMAN include Patricia Walden, Sharon Gannon, Shiva Rea, Angela
Farmer, Cyndi Lee, Seane Corn, Donna Farhi and forward-thinking medical
professionals such as integrative physician Dr. Sara Gottfried and
world-renowned research scientist Dr. Shirley Telles. YOGAWOMAN is the
first film of its kind to bring together these luminaries, distilling their
wisdom and spreading their message of peace and empowerment for the benefit of
women everywhere.
See you on the mat and in the theater!
~ the YAY Team
Monday, February 13, 2012
Hi yogis ~ please note that unfortunately, today's 5pm Power Vinyasa class is canceled. Thanks for your understanding!
Come join Yale HappyHap's film screening of "Happy" this Saturday Feb 11 at 7 PM in Silliflicks!
Synopsis: Does money make you HAPPY? Kids and family? Your work? Do you live in a world that values and promotes happiness and well-being? Are we in the midst of a happiness revolution?
Roko Belic, director of the Academy Award® nominated “Genghis Blues” now brings us HAPPY, a film that sets out to answer these questions and more. Taking us from the bayous of Louisiana to the deserts of Namibia, from the beaches of Brazil to the villages of Okinawa, HAPPY explores the secrets behind our most valued emotion.
HAPPY combines cutting-edge science from the new field of “positive psychology” with real-life stories of people from around the world whose lives illustrate these findings. We see the story of a beautiful woman named Melissa Moody, a mother of three who had a “perfect life” until the day she was run over by a truck. Disabled for nine years and disfigured for life, amazingly she is happier now than before her accident. Manoj Singh, a rickshaw puller from the slums of Kolkata, India who lives in a hut made of plastic bags with his family, is found to be as happy as the average American. Through these and other stories HAPPY leads us toward a deeper understanding of how we can all live more fulfilling, healthy and happy lives.
