Upcoming Events
Pranayama Basics: 4-week Online Series with Birgit Reimer
This series offers the basic techniques of pranayama. Students new to pranayama are welcome as are ongoing students. It will be an informative, restful and slow paced practice.
The benefits of breath awareness and a regular pranayama practice may include:
deep physical and mental relaxation by balancing the nervous and endocrine systems
strengthened immune system
improved lung capacity and elasticity
better regulated high/low blood pressure
Sessions will be recorded and available to all registrants after the class for 2 weeks.
Single Day sign up is available for this course.
To register for a single day, please go to the schedule page on the day you’d like to attend, and register there.
Yoga for Bone Health with Miri
Strong bones create a strong foundation in our lives. While bone density naturally declines with age, the way we practice yoga can support bone density and work towards preventing further bone loss.
This workshop offers targeted actions and asana to promote bone health, helping you build strength, stability, and confidence in your practice.
You will learn & explore:
How to practice in a way that actively supports bone health
Which groups of asanas are most beneficial for building bone density
Which poses may be less recommended and why
Practical strategies to incorporate more bone-supportive actions into your daily practice
Open to all levels of students who care about long-term health and well-being, those diagnosed with osteopenia or osteoporosis, and teachers who want to better support their students in this area.
Give your bones the strength they deserve. Join us for this workshop and learn how to build density, stability, and resilience that will carry you through every stage of life. Reserve your spot today.
Sessions will be recorded and available to all registrants after the class for 2 weeks.
This series is hybrid. It is offered both in person at CYC and virtually.
Take Care of Your Hips - A 3-week series with Miri Aloni Rivlin
The hip joint is one of the body’s most powerful and versatile joints, providing stability while allowing a wide range of movement. It bears weight, transfers force, and plays a key role in balance and posture.
In this 3-class series, we will focus on unlocking hip mobility and safely expanding your range of motion.
Schedule:
Over three sessions, you’ll progressively explore movements that strengthen, open, and stabilize the hips to support your overall practice.
You will learn & explore:
The hip as a multiaxial joint that permits a wide range of motion
Forward extensions (flexion) and frontal thigh extensions
Abduction poses such as Utthita Parsva Padahastasana and Upavistha Konasana
Adduction poses including Garudasana and Gomukhasana
Dynamic exploration of external and internal rotations
Circumduction: transitioning smoothly through the above different positions
This workshop is open to all students with at least six months of yoga practice who want to improve hip mobility, work toward Padmasana (Lotus Pose) in a safe and moderate way, and for teachers seeking deeper insight into hip movement.
Join us for this focused series and give your hips the care, strength, and mobility they need. Reserve your spot today and expand the freedom of your practice.
This series is hybrid. It is offered both in person at CYC and virtually. Single session drop-in not allowed for this series.
Practice for Emotional Stability - 3-Part Series with Naomi Hiller Reynolds
According to a Harvard Health Digest review, up to 90% of all doctor visits can be attributed to stress-related complaints. Because the body, mind and breath are so intimately connected by our nervous system, when thoughts, feelings and emotions dominate our daily life, this has an impact on all of our physical systems; digestive, respiratory, endocrine, musculoskeletal and nervous to name a few.
This restorative and healing series is for anybody wanting to learn how to support, improve and/or manage their overall health with a focus on the mind and emotions. Through restorative asana, supportive variations, and breath awareness, you’ll learn how to shift from hyper-kinetic mental states toward grounded body and breath awareness. This process provides practical tools and habits for emotional health and resilience.
You will learn to:
Be more aware of the tension you hold in your body
Use restorative and supported asana and breathing to notice and develop helpful mind states
Tailor specific asana and breathing techniques to manage your unique situation/condition
Cultivate a feeling of spaciousness - in the body, the mind and the breath
This series is for anyone looking to:
Manage stress, anxiety, or depression
Build emotional resilience and intelligence
Ease tension from chronic conditions like IBS, high blood pressure, headaches, or general unease
Cultivate a sense of calm, focus, and well-being
Improve overall health
Conditions that may be supported include: depression, anxiety, GAD, IBS, headaches/migraines, high blood pressure, hypertension or just a general sense of unease or fear.
Schedule:
Each session will focus on a different sequence and group of asana to support your practice and healing. You can sign up individually or for all three workshops.
Saturday, September 13 from 1:00-3:00 pm - supported standing asana & supported inversions
Sunday, October 19 from 11:00am-1:00pm - Supported forwards bends & supported inversions
Saturday, November 15 from 1:00pm- 3:00 pm - Supported back extensions & supported inversions
Cost: $150 for entire series and $60 drop in
This series is in person and online.
Single Day sign up is available for this course.
To register for a single day, please go to the schedule page on the day you’d like to attend, and register there.
Holiday Open House
Holiday Open House
Celebrate the season with us. Come together for an afternoon of yoga, chanting, and community connection.
3:00-4:00 pm Join us for a short asana practice followed by chanting.
4:00-5:30pm Chai, snacks and chatting. Mix and mingle with your friends, fellow students and teachers to celebrate the season and be together in community.
Cost: FREEEEEEE
Relieving Jaw Tension and Pain with Yoga & Mindfulness with Cator Shachoy
If you clench your jaw or grind your teeth, this workshop is for you! Jaw Tension can be a factor in many conditions including headaches, sinusitis, sciatica, digestive and hormonal disorders among others.
Your jaw is intimately connected to the rest of your body. Yoga and mindfulness can be powerful tools for integrating awareness and relieving pain.
Participants will learn to create a self-care tool bag for relieving jaw tension.
Class time includes information on the causes and repercussions of jaw tension that can manifest throughout your body. This understanding lays a foundation for how we practice yoga and breath awareness.
Day 1: Understanding Jaw Tension - Learn about cause & effect within your body & your life
Discussion of causes & repercussions of jaw tension
Core actions & asana sequence to bring relief
Guided Meditations & Mindfulness practices
Day 2: Rewiring Your Nervous System to Relieve Jaw Tension
Your jaw and your nervous system are intimate partners
Gentle, safe self-massage to relax your face and jaw
Restorative yoga to soothe frayed nerves
Pranayama & Breath Awareness
This series is hybrid. It is offered both in person and online.
Single Day sign up is available for this course.
To register for a single day, please go to the schedule page on the day you’d like to attend, and register there.
The Art of Pranayama: Philosophy and Practice with Victoria Austin
A special in-studio opportunity: study with Victoria Austin, whose lifelong practice shines through in her wisdom, compassion, and gentle humor.
In this special session the focus will be on the philosophy, deeper meanings and psychology of Pranayama practice. We will explore the ancient origins of pranayama, sound and chanting as a way to support and grow your practice.
We will also cover how to establish a home Pranayama practice, the fundamentals of Savasana and Sitting and how to integrate philosophy to enhance your awareness and practice.
About
Victoria began practicing Zen in 1971. She trained in the U.S., in India, and in Japan, and is entrusted as a Dharma heir in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (1999), an international Soto Zen priest (2005), and a Dharma teacher at San Francisco Zen Center (1999). In addition to her deep study and daily teaching of yogic aspects of meditation, Victoria is a Level 3 Senior Iyengar yoga teacher with decades of experience having received direct teaching from BKS Iyengar on several occasions. In her offerings, she emphasizes inclusion, accessibility, trauma sensitivity, and appropriate challenge, grounded in awareness of the possibility and presence of liberation.
October 18th from 1 to 4 pm pt. In person only, cost $75
Restorative Practice with Yoga Nidra
Restorative Practice with Yoga Nidra
Please come enjoy a free community class and meet Malini.
Finding stillness and deep rest through restorative postures and guided Yoga Nidra. This practice invites the body to release tension, the nervous system to reset, and the mind to enter a state of spacious awareness. Ideal for replenishment, healing, and inner clarity.
Please join Malini in the free offering.
She will lead a gentle sequence of asana to prepare the body and mind for Yoga Nidra.
This is a great opportunity to unwind, release tension and open your mind and heart to the joy of Yoga Nidra.
About Malini
Malini is an RYT-Certified Vinyasa Yoga Teacher with over 17 years of training. She started her yoga journey in India learning the Vedas at an early age. Her teaching blends classical Hatha, Iyengar and traditional Vinyasa into a soulful and accessible practice that is rooted in tradition and informed by modern wisdom. Malini invites each student to incorporate breathing, movement and meditation to experience the joy of yoga.
Bandhas and Beyond - Ingredients of a Traditional Hatha Yoga Practice with Ganesh Balachandran Ph.D.
Is there more to yoga than just poses?
In this special workshop with guest teacher Ganesh Balachandran, Ph.D., you’ll explore the subtle practice of bandhas the internal “locks” used to guide and stabilize the body’s vital energy, or Prana.
Through practical techniques, breathwork, and insights from the Bhagavad Gita and Yoga Sutras, you’ll learn how the bandhas refine your breath, strengthen your core and digestion, calm the mind, and transform your asana practice from physical exercise into deep energetic work.
Whether you’re a dedicated student or a teacher looking to better understand and communicate these concepts, this workshop offers tangible tools to regulate energy, ground the mind, and bring yoga’s deeper wisdom into everyday life.
You will learn:
What Prana is and how it’s described in the Yoga Sutras
Where the bandhas are located in the body
How to activate and apply the bandhas in your practice
How working with Prana and bandhas enhances clarity, focus, and energy flow
Ways to use subtle work to support physical stability and inner awareness
This series is for students who want to:
Explore the deeper, more subtle aspects of yoga
Enhance their asana practice through breath, energy, and focus
Develop awareness of bandhas—no prior experience needed
Gain practical tools for stability, clarity, and inner stillness
Yoga is more than movement; it’s the art of turning inward.
This workshop offers a chance to explore that inward path through subtle but powerful techniques that awaken energy, focus the mind, and refine the breath. Whether you're new to these concepts or looking to deepen your understanding, this is an opportunity to step into the heart of yoga with guidance, clarity, and intention.
Click to learn more about Ganesh and his approach to Bandhas and subtle practice.
September 28th, Sunday 11-1pm.
Cost: $45
This series is hybrid. It is offered both in person at CYC and online.
Sessions will be recorded and available to all registrants after the class for 2 weeks.
The Art of Iyengar Yoga - Immersion Study Group: “Purusa & Prakriti: The Eternal and the Transient” with Naomi Hiller Reynolds
“Purusa & Prakriti: The Eternal and the Transient”
Known as unchanging and pure consciousness, Purusa is synonymous with the divine. Prakriti, on the other hand, is associated with the dynamic, material world of change.
Join the group for a lively discussion of these concepts.
This session will focus on:
Philosophy – Purusa & Prakriti
Family of asana – Arm balancing and inversions
Anatomy - Yogic components of consciousness – Manas, Citta, Ahamkara
Taming the Mind through Yoga with Marla Apt
Senior Iyengar instructor Marla Apt will be teaching Taming the Mind Through Yoga on August 23-24, in person.
This is a special opportunity to explore yoga philosophy and how asana can support mental clarity, physical freedom, and spiritual steadiness. Her teaching style is encouraging and strong to help you go deeper in the asana that you would on your own, whether it’s the standing poses or more challenging poses like back bends or inversions.
You can sign up for the full workshop here or individual Saturday or Sunday session registration.
Saturday Morning - 10.30 am to 1.00 pm PDT
Saturday Afternoon - 2 pm - 4 pm PDT
Sunday Morning - 10.30 - 1.30 pm PDT
This workshop is in person only.
The weekend is broken down into three segments.
Saturday morning Marla will work on the foundations of the asana. This will begin the process of taming the mind.
Saturday afternoon will leverage the newfound focus from the morning to continue drawing the mind to a more stable place, encouraging it to become more quiet.
Sunday we conclude with our last session, a combination of physically stimulating asana with an awareness beyond our bodies into our mind and consciousness.
We encourage Level 1 students to attend. Learning from a senior teacher like Marla can be deeply inspiring, and her clear, concise instruction can help you progress in your practice with confidence.
Single Day sign up is available for this course.
To register for a single day, please go to the schedule page on the day you’d like to attend, and register there.
The Art of Iyengar yoga - The Gunas – “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once” – the inherent quality of things with Naomi Hiller Reynolds
In this session of the Immersion Study Group, Naomi explores the three Gunas and how their inherent qualities shape every asana, our practice, and our lives.
The three Gunas are present in all things, Tamas, Rajas and Sattva. You may be familiar with them as inertia, activity and evenness or balance. Explore how each asana has an inherent quality of its own and how we can use this to bring about change in ourselves, our practice and our lives.
This session will focus on:
- Philosophy – The Gunas: Tamas, Rajas, Sattva
- Family of Asana – Back extensions
- Anatomy – Nervous system – CNS vs. PNS; Sympathetic vs Parasympathetic
- Pranayama – Viloma
- Chanting - Gayatrii Mantra
Future Dates - mark your calendars!
Sunday 9/14 Purusa and Prakrti
Saturday 10/18 Pranayama with guest teacher Victoria Austin
Sunday 11/16 Asthanga Yoga
This course is offered in-person only
Take Care of Your Stamina & Strength: 3 - week series with Miri Aloni Rivlin
There are myriad styles of yoga which could be viewed as separate, but yoga is one.
According to Patanjali in Sutra I.43 yoga is an opportunity to build healthy intelligent memories, and let go of old memories.
In this series we will stimulate the heart as well as improve stamina, concentration and coordination through Surya Namaskar (sun salutations).
We will focus on poses that build muscle strength, improve cardiovascular resilience and develop mindfulness to the different qualities of practice, both stimulating and calming. Iyengar yoga is not only to address illness and injury, but to nourish all the layers of the body. Expect jumping and strong arm and leg work.
This series is good for those who enjoy a faster pace class with jumping and like to be challenged. Not appropriate for beginners or those with health concerns or injuries.
This series is hybrid. It is offered both in person at CYC and virtually. Single session drop-in not allowed for this series.
Yoga for Scoliosis Part 2 with Elise Miller
Elise will present Part II of her internationally acclaimed Yoga for Scoliosis: Part 2 from Friday, July 25 to Sunday, July 27.
Senior Iyengar instructor Elise brings decades of experience and personal insight to her teaching. As someone living with scoliosis, she combines Iyengar Yoga principles with a deep understanding of the emotional and physical challenges one can face. Her focus on breath awareness helps create space, alignment and symmetry in the body and eases discomfort.
You can sign up for the full workshop here or individual Friday, Saturday or Sunday session registration.
Friday, July 25, 3:30 - 6:30pm PDT
Saturday, July 26, 11am - 1:30pm, 3 - 5pm PDT
Sunday July 27, 10:30am - 1:00pm PDT
This workshop is hybrid. It is offered both in person at CYC and virtually.
The first session includes concepts from Part 1: - Review the physical and psychological causes and effects of scoliosis - Identify different patterns of scoliosis - Introduce how to approach yoga for someone with scoliosis The remaining sessions will expand on the groups of poses introduced in
Part 1: standing poses, spinal strengthening and backbends, twists, and supported inversions. Deeper variations and modifications will be introduced to help you build confidence and clarity in your home practice.
You’ll explore:
Poses that support spinal alignment and reduce discomfort
Standing poses to build awareness and stability
Back strengtheners and supported backbends
Twists and inversions adapted for scoliosis
Personalized use of props and adjustments based on your curve pattern
Adjustments and props will be used to assist participants to work with their own specific scoliosis conditions.
This workshop is for students and teachers who have either completed the 10-hour Yoga for Scoliosis Part I or have at least 6 months of training with Elise Miller‘s Yoga for Scoliosis DVD or her book, Yoga for Scoliosis, A Path for Students and Teachers. Also, if you are a continuing student of Iyengar yoga or have been trained by one of Elise’s Yoga for Scoliosis trainers, you may attend. Teachers are encouraged to register their continuing students with scoliosis.
You can sign up for the full workshop here or individual Friday, Saturday or Sunday session registration.
If you missed Part 1, the recording is available for purchase by clicking here.
This will be Elise’s final scoliosis workshop of 2025.
Single Day sign up is available for this course.
To register for a single day, please go to the schedule page on the day you’d like to attend, and register there.