CLASSES
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.
ANNE CURTIS
Anne Curtis studied classical ballet and modern dance for 14 years in Berkeley, California. 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 using Yoga to heal from an upper back injury sustained by lifting both her newborn and toddler. In 2003 Anne did her Iyengar based teacher training studies in Palo Alto, California with Larry Hatlett. She then completed the Yoga Alliance 200 hour certification with Val Spies, founder/director of The Lotus Pond in Tampa, Florida.
Anne currently lives in Belmont, Massachusetts and is continuing her Yoga studies with Karin Stephan and other advanced Iyengar teachers. She now teaches a Monday morning class at The Loft in Cambridge and a Friday noon class at The Cambridge Friends Meeting House. She also teaches occasionally on Friday night at The Arlington Center.
Anne is devoted to teaching in a student-centered way, in which each student's unique characteristics are taken into account. Her goal is for each individual to find their way toward greater understanding of their own body and how to work with the Yoga poses to bring about a finely tuned mindful balance. Anne is loved by one and all for her kindness, her wonderful sense of humor, and her highly empathic nature.
SCHEDULE
fall semester| Monday in-person |
9:00-10:30 a.m. (taught by Anne) |
Levels I/II | 11 classes (9/18-12/18, no class 9/25, 10/2, 10/9) |
| Tuesday hybrid |
6:00-7:30 p.m. | Level III/IV | 16 classes (9/5-12/19) |
| Wednesday Zoom |
8:30-10:00 a.m. | Levels I/II | 16 classes (9/6-12/20) |
| Wednesday hybrid |
6:00-7:30 p.m. | Levels II/III | 16 classes(9/6-12/20) |
| Thursday Zoom |
9:00-10:30 a.m. | Levels II/III | 15 classes(9/7-12/21)
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| Saturday Zoom |
8:30-10:00 a.m. | Levels I/II | 16 classes |
| Sunday hybrid |
9:00-10:30 a.m. | All Levels | 16 classes(9/10-12/24) |
Class prices listed below.
All classes at The Loft • Porter Square area • Cambridge, MA
(call or email for directions)
SCHEDULE
Ongoing Fall 2023 Zoom Classes with Karin [1hr 15 min]| Tuesday | 11:00a-12:15p | |
| Thursday | 11:00a-12:15a | -- beginner's class |
| Saturday | 10:15a-11:30a |
Class prices listed below.
FALL HYBRID CLASSES (1hr 30min)
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$312.00 16 classes
$295.00 15 classes
$195.00 for a series of 10 classes
$80.00 for a series of 4 classes
$22.00 drop in
ONGOING LATE MORNING ZOOM CLASSES
(1hr 15min)
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$245.00 for 2 series of 8 classes
$135.00 for series of 8 classes
$70.00 for a series of 4 classes
$20.00 drop in
Year Long Unlimited Classes at The Loft:
$1100.00
Private Zoom or In-Person classes with Karin
[1 hour]
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$140.00 for 1 class
$345.00 for 3 classes
$550.00 for 5 classes
$1,000.00 for 10 classes
Special Private Consultations with Karin [1 hour 15 mins]
- Options: Yoga Asanas and Internal Organs or Alignment and The Asymmetric Body
$170.00/consultation
To make an appointment contact Karin directly at: karinstephanyoga@aol.com or (617) 529-1632 or (617) 497-0218.
WORKSHOPS
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.
WAYS OF SEEING:
The Art of Precision and Alignment in Yoga
An Iyengar Yoga Workshop with Karin Stephan
featuring guest teacher Denise Glueck with
An Intersection of Bartenieff Fundamentals and Iyengar Yoga
DATES: Friday December 1st, Saturday December 2nd & Sunday December 3rd, 2023
LOCATION: Warren Webster Community Center, 1500 Pass a Grille Way, St Pete Beach, Florida
In this workshop, Karin will teach a variety of ways of seeing and looking at the body in the context of the asanas with an emphasis on precision and detail. She will teach how to deconstruct the pose and rebuild it through powerful sequencing and incrementality. Students will learn how to adapt to their own asymmetries and misalignments by making use of modifications, while still working in the direction of the classical form. As Karin says, "The way there is also there." All sets of asanas - forward bends, backbends, twists, standing poses and inversions - will be taught and practiced, and Karin will help each and every student work through their difficulties so that the poses feel easeful and harmonious. This workshop will be about seeing and looking, practicing and doing.
Students will learn to:
- Use intelligent sequencing to arrive at more difficult poses
- Look at how actions in one pose get carried into other poses
- Identify the similarities & congruities within sets of poses and use this knowledge to deepen and grow our asana repertoire
- Observe and study the asymmetric body and learn how to work with it in our asanas
- Study more deeply Karin’s method of Observation and Analysis
As a bonus for workshop participants, on Saturday December 2nd from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, guest teacher Denise Glueck will teach an introduction to the work of dance therapy pioneer Irmgard Bartenieff, and will show how it can be integrated with Karin’s Iyengar work and the themes of the workshop. While Iyengar Yoga educates the body in structure and form, Bartenieff’s work focuses on expressive spatial movement. Both emphasize breath and the expressive mind, while reinforcing Bartenieff’s concepts of "inner connectivity, outer expressivity.”
This workshop is best suited for students who have studied yoga for at least a year.
For more information and how to register, please see this flyer.
