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YOGA for ALL®


(212) 472-YOGA (9642)

Affordable Private Instruction

Experience the true power of Yoga in the style of teachings given to Paul at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in India. By taking a private class you will be taking a solid step in the advancement of your personal discipline, which can be enhanced by group classes. Our teaching follows the principles of the former Viniyoga school.

Making the Practice Yours!

YOGA for ALL Viniyoga

is a form of Yoga that seeks to meet the needs of the individual. From person to person, methods, levels, and sequences of possible practices can be applied in different ways. This ancient tradition of Hatha and Raja Yoga has been passed on from one teacher to one student for thousands of years. The teacher considers the energy and physical ability of the student in finding a safe, vigorous, and effective practice.

Paul is now making it possible for students to experience the true power of Yoga in the style of teachings given to him at the Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram in India. Students have the opportunity to request personalized, sessions wherein Paul will guide each student, effectively addressing individual concerns and encouraging the development of a more rewarding home practice.

Even in a class of 5 people, there are many differences in the way each person may need to work. One student may suffer from back pain while another has depression, again the next student may suffer from a weak heart as another may have constipation, and the fifth mentioned may be perfectly healthy looking for a spiritual connection. Each of these situations requires a different approach to the practice. One way of practice could be perfectly fine for heart weakness but ineffective for depression, mildly effective for constipation, troublesome for back pain and less than appropriate for the healthy. This is the beauty of Viniyoga. Paul had been taught in this way, and wants to pass this knowledge on to his students.

This program is highly recommended for anyone wishing to go beyond the possibilities offered in group classes. The deeper level of practice you can achieve through one on one instruction will set the foundation of a home practice, opening the doorway to the discovery of your unknown self.



"It is far better to be with the teacher on a private basis once in a while and practice at home, than to go to class daily finding yourself dependent on a teacher. The dependent student will unknowingly be led in the wrong direction, for a teacher that permits dependency is her/himself in the wrong direction."

PJJA

Private Schedule/Rates

Available Tuesday thru Sunday
Call for appointment
1 212 472-YOGA (9642)

One on one
(or with a partner with whom you share the fee)
allows you to intensify your practice
at your own level.

First 3 one hour private sessions $260
(advance payment only)

1/2 hr $60

1 hr $100

1 1/2 hr $135

Off site $140 / hr
(1 1/2 hr $175)


Each additional half hour $35

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We believe - no matter what mental / physical condition you are in - no matter what age you are - you can maximize your potential for a more balanced life.

YOGA for ALL is...

a true vinyasa form of Hatha Yoga - which synchronizes movement and rhythmic deep breathing to obtain strength, flexibility, mental clarity, health and spiritual awareness.

You can expect through regular practice:

  • Reduced desire for social, antisocial & medical drugs, tobacco, alcohol, etc.
  • Improved relationships and sexual functions.
  • To effectively face premenstrual or menopausal difficulties.
  • Tone the digestive/elimination system.
  • Energy maintenance and productivity increase.
  • Extended or restored range of body movement.
  • Heightened coordination for sports and physical activities.
  • Refined understanding of self and others.
  • Development of lucid, clear, uninterrupted concentration.
  • Achievement of exceptional comfort in difficult postures.

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Private Instruction

Continuing in the tradition of one-on-one instruction, YOGA for ALL ® understands that for each individual the method of practice varies. The intendment of YOGA for ALL is the proper application of the methodology of yoga practice to the individual. Movement, breathing, meditation, chanting, etc. are selected with sensitive consideration given to your present condition, your potential, and the outcome you desire. After observing your practice, Paul applies principals tested since ancient times in ways appropriate for today's world and your lifestyle. By working intelligently from where you are, may you realize the freedom within.

Excerpt from The Heart of Yoga, by TKV Desikachar

Q. It seems a little paradoxical that such a wise person a J. Krishnamurthi decided that he needed yoga.

A. The teachings of my father are special. Where a human being wants to be healthy, physically and mentally free from illness, this yoga is very useful. People such as Krishnamurthi believed in yoga. Krishnamurthi practiced yoga to keep himself fit and feeling vital in his older age. Some thought he was too old for yoga but we adapted the yoga for his age and medical condition and he always enjoyed it. This is what is special about my father's teaching. His teaching of yoga is not meant to make a person go to the moon or do the best and most complicated gymnastics. It is to provide what a person requires. There is something in this teaching for everyone.


StarSeed
Montclair NJ

Paul will be available before or after scheduled StarSeed Teacher Trainings for private sessions.

1/2 hr $60

1 hr $108

11/2 hr $126

Discounts are available for teachers in the training program and actively teaching at Starseed.

356 Bloomfield Avenue
Montclair, NJ 07042
973.783.1036
Fax: 973.783.5028
INFO@STARSEEDYOGA.COM

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Q. Does this exclude the highest realization of yoga that we may call enlightenment?

A. As I said, it provides something for everyone. Whatever is required for growth can be provided. I know some people who gave up their religion and returned to it in a renewed way once they had begun this yoga.

Q. Many of today's spiritual organizations teach some form of yoga as part of their recommended path. But many of these yoga practices seem to be quite different from your father's recommendations, or they seem to emphasize certain aspects.

Call in advance to reserve space.
5 students/class maximum.

(212) 472-9642

Due to our small classes not exceeding 5 students...
Cancellations are required BY PHONE, 24 hours in advance.
OR will incur the cost of the class.

Email cancellations not accepted.

 

A. What finally matters is what these great organizations provide, then membership is right for that person. I have good friends who have greatly benefited from belonging to such organizations. They are not my students but they have learned to practice yoga in my father's way. Their lives in these organizations have become much richer and brighter through practicing yoga.

Q. Can some one stay loyal to their chosen teacher and learn a yoga practice on the Krishnamacharya way?

A. Yes. Take the case of somebody like the Shankaracharya. He is the teacher par excellence for the Hindus. They have their own philosophy and their own religious practices, but these things did not prevent the Shankaracharya from doing yoga. The Hindus asked us to teach them yoga and we did. They are not loyal to my father. They practice as a practical requirement of the human system and they are loyal to their own tradition. There is something good about my father's teaching: it is possible not to interfere in a person's spiritual and cultural life and yet still do yoga to encourage his or her development.

Q. There is a wide variety of yoga practices taught, and talk of many different kinds of yoga. Why is this?

A. Because yoga is not fixed. Yoga is creation. I know the way that you teach will be different from the way I teach, and the way I teach is different from the way my father taught. We all have different experiences, different backgrounds, different perspectives of yoga and why it is important for us. So it is not a surprise that different people find different things through the same yoga teaching. Even in our own yoga institution different teachers will teach in different ways according to their own perspective and priorities and interests in yoga. The Yoga Sutra says that each person gets different things from the same teaching based on his or her own perspective. There is nothing wrong with this. This is how it is.



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More on YOGA for ALLViniyoga

YOGA for ALL is a name inspired by the teachings of T.KRISHNAMACHARYA.Viniyoga

His main contribution to the practice of Yoga was that it should be adapted to the individual, and not the individual to Yoga.

Krishnamacharya's son TKV Desikachar used the word 'Viniyoga' to name the practices he implimented from his father. Viniyoga implies that we incorporate effective methodology for each individual. (Not simply one practice for everybody.)

YOGA for ALL offers variations in practice to respect the differences we may be feeling from day to day, year to year, lifestyle to lifestyle, person to person.

For each student we consider the proper use of postures, their sequencing, all with ideation on our breath. These should be taught at the correct time in relation to a persons maturity and needs/desires.

YOGA for ALL is a Hatha Yoga based on Raja Yoga inspired by the YOGA SUTRAS of PATANJALI.