Karin Stephan

Welcome to Iyengar Classes and Workshops

CLASSES

Karin working with student

Karin Stephan's yoga classes are based on her studies with B.K.S. Iyengar, Geeta Iyengar, Dona Holleman and senior teachers of the B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga system. Karin's classes are small in size. This allows her to teach each student through direct observation.

Karin focuses primarily on refinement in the asanas related to alignment, balance and working from within. Paying attention to small details alters how the entire body moves.

Students are encouraged to study their own movements without having a preconception of the pose. The teaching develops a sense of stillness in the work as well as a relaxation of the mind and will. Karin bases her work on intuition, observation, an aesthetic sensibility, metaphor and thirty years of teaching experience.

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INTRODUCING ANNE CURTIS

Anne Curtis studied classical ballet and modern dance for 14 years in Berkeley, California where she grew up. After her undergraduate studies, Anne earned a PH.D. in biology at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1996 Anne started studying Yoga and slowly began to devote herself to Yoga as a way of life after sustaining an upper back injury from lifting both her newborn and toddler. In 2003 Anne did her Iyengar based teacher training in Palo Alto, California with Larry Hatlett.

Anne currently lives in Belmont, Massachusetts and is continuing her Yoga studies with Karin Stephan and Liz Owen. She recently completed one of Karin's Advanced Studies Courses in The Art of Yoga Therapeutics and Healing and now teaches both in Winchester and at The Loft. Anne is passionate about the healing powers of Yoga and loves helping other people discover this for themselves. Her focus is on creating a warm, student-centered and relaxing environment where everyone feels safe to explore the physical and emotional benefits of Yoga.

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SCHEDULE

spring semester
April 1st - June 30th, 2008
Monday 9:00-10:30 a.m.
(taught by Anne Curtis)		 Levels I/II 11 classes(4/7-6/30)
no class 4/21
no class 5/26
Tuesday 6:00-8:00 p.m. Level IV 13 classes(4/1-6/24)
Wednesday 8:30-10:00 a.m. Levels I/II 13 classes(4/2-6/25)
Wednesday 6:30-8:00 p.m. Levels II/III 13 classes(4/2-6/25)
Thursday 9:30-11:00 a.m. Levels II/III 13 classes(4/3-6/26)
Saturday 8:30-10:00 a.m. Levels I/II 13 classes(4/5-6/28)
Sunday 9:00-10:30 a.m. All Levels 13 classes(4/6-6/29)

Class prices and Early Bird Special listed below.
All classes at The Loft • Porter Square area • Cambridge, MA
(call or email for directions)

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SPRING SEMESTER
1½ hr classes

2 hr classes (Tues night)

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WORKSHOPS

Karin working with student

Workshops taught by Karin Stephan are: Yoga Asanas and Internal Organs, Yoga for Depression, Alignment and The Asymmetric Body, Yoga for The Injured Body, All About the Feet, Building Strength in Your Upper Body and The Advanced Studies Course in The Art of Yoga Therapeutics and Healing.

These workshops will help students deepen their understanding of themselves and their own bodies and will offer an opportunity to look at the Yoga asanas from a number of different perspectives. They will enrich the student's understanding on how to heal oneself through Yoga and how to stay healed throughout one's life.

SCHEDULE

2008

(Workshops are held at The Loft and various Yoga Studios around the country. See schedule below and Upcoming Events for more details including registration.)

Learning The Basics:
A Macrobiotic Cooking Class With Mary Creighton		 Cambridge, MA May 15th
6:30p–9:00p
Hands and Feet - Yoga and the Art of Equilibrium New York, NY May 17th–18th
All Levels Workshop at The Yoga Union New York, NY May 19th
12:00p–2:00p
Building Strength in Your Upper Body (two days, three classes) Lebanon, NH May 31st–June 1st
31st: 10a–1:00p 31st: 3:00–5:00p
1st: 10:00a–1:00p
Learning The Basics:
A Macrobiotic Cooking Class With Mary Creighton		 Cambridge, MA June 12th
6:30p–9:00p
Building Strength in the Upper Body: An Iyengar Yoga Workshop Lenox, MA
(Kripalu)		 June 20th–23rd

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Workshop Listings

Learning The Basics:
A Macrobiotic Cooking Class With Mary Creighton
(May 15th, June 12th in Cambridge, MA)

6:30—9:00 p.m.
$40.00 per session advanced registration
$45.00 per session at the door

Come and learn how to make delicious meals for you and your family with a macrobiotic cook who has been cooking all her life. In this cooking class—a series that takes place on the last Thursday of every month—Mary will go over a number of basics essential to preparing macrobiotic meals. She will also show you how to make these meals tasty and healthy. Each class in the series is separate, so feel free to attend individual sessions or come for the whole series.

Come and enjoy a lovely evening around the wonderful aromas of cooking with grains, vegetables, and a variety of other savory food. At the end of her class Mary will have you taste each individual dish she has prepared.

Registration/information: Call or e-mail Karin

 

Hands and Feet - Yoga and the Art of Equilibrium
(May 17th and 18th in New York, NY)

Sat, May 17: 9:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M., 2:00 P.M–5:00 P.M.
Sun, May 18 9:00 A.M.–12:00 P.M., 2:00 P.M–5:00 P.M.

Yoga Union
32 W. 28th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 532-1512 • Yogaunion@nyc.rr.com

Iyengar once said, "How can I teach you to stand on your head if you can't even stand or your feet?" He could have said, "How can I teach you to stand on your feet if you can't even stand on your hands?"                     

In this workshop we will deal with finding our equilibrium in our body by observing the way we work with both our hands and our feet in the yoga asanas. Each session will look at this approach from a number of different angles and will focus on both our individual strengths and  our individual weaknesses and how to integrate both these aspects  into a harmonious and balanced whole.                    

While each participant can most benefit by attending the entire workshop, it is also possible to take each session separately and  still understand how one can apply these ideas to our yoga practice.

$225 for entire workshop
$125 for each day; Saturday or Sunday
$75 for each 3 hour session

 

Building Strength in the Upper Body (2 days, 3 classes)
(May 31st and June 1st in Lebanon, New Hampshire)

Sat May 31st: 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m., 3:00–5:00 p.m
Sun June 1st: 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Ancient Healing Arts Yoga Studio
2 Whippleplace, Suite 2
Lebanon, NH 03766

Registration: mail your check made payable to AHA to Ancient Healing Arts, PO Box 735, Lebanon, NH 03766.

Are you interested in working on yoga poses which involve upper body strength but are not sure how to get there? Or are you already working on some of them but want to learn others or perfect the ones you already know, perhaps adding variations? Do you think your limitations are due to lack of strength?

Contrary to what you may think, you don't have to be strong to be strong. You have to be balanced to be strong. This workshop is designed for students who wish to improve their ability to practice handstands, forearm balances, headstands, shoulderstands and backends by better understanding their individual asymmetries in the upper body and by learning how to correct them. Weaving in and out of asanas which develop alignment and those which develop strength, we will learn how to create an internal muscular balance allowing us to do these poses with grace and ease.

More information: here
$200 for both days or $70 per class

 

Building Strength in the Upper Body: An Iyengar Yoga Workshop
(June 20th–23rd at Kripalu in Lenox, Massachusetts)

Kripalu
Lenox, MA

Full details including registration/accomodations: here