 Here is part 2 of our Teacher Feature with my colleague and co-host of ‘The Wild Heart’ Yoga retreat -which is right around the corner - the amazing Luna Castilho. Get to know her a tad more... and come meet her March 31 - April 6 at Villa Pescadores in Tulum Mexico during our yoga getaway.
QUESTION: What are challenging poses for you? What pose are you looking to advance in? LUNA: Surprisingly backbends have always been challenging for me. But the pose I'd like to truly master is the handstand. QUESTION: How would you describe your classes? LUNA: My classes are weird, playful and grounding! You can expect powerful flows combined by mindful contemplations and grounding experiences, as well as somatic release, working the body, mind, soul and spirit. On vinyasa I love giving space for people to play and have fun (arm balances, handstands) and tons of pranayama. On Yin yoga classes, meditation, restorative or sound baths, my goal is to help you release, reflect, quiet the mind and heal. QUESTION: Do you like working out at night, or during the day? Time you like to practice? LUNA: I don’t like early mornings, you will see me rarely working out at that time. I feel the most alive and energetic from 11-6pm, so usually that’s the time I practice power vinyasa or other modalities of strength training, cardio or martial arts. QUESTION: Standing one-legged poses or arm balances? Why? LUNA: I don’t even need to think about it too much to answer this question. (Laughing) Although I appreciate a full rounded practice and I learn to appreciate so many different layers of yoga, I absolutely looooove arm balances. I can safely admit they were the reason that I got into yoga in the first place. And that’s the reason you see me teaching them so much and giving plenty of opportunities for my students to play. Arm balances make me feel like a kid again. I was never a flexible person, but I have always been strong, so arm balances were my doorway to yoga. As my practice evolved I started to appreciate so many other aspects of yoga, meditation, stillness, etc. But I still love the surprise look at someone’s face when they realize how strong a woman can actually be! QUESTION: What are you looking forward to on our "The Wild Heart" Retreat? LUNA: Every single thing!! (laughs) The Wild Heart Retreat will be special!! I’m excited about every single thing we are planning, from the crafted yoga classes and workshops, to the mayan jungle, pyramid, cenotes, hikes and experiences. Plus the incredible community that is joining us!! Looking forward to connecting with like-minded people, the stunning beaches, the Mexican sun, the blue water, the daily yoga classes, meditation, journaling and breathwork. The Retreat is a true opportunity to reset, reconnect and set new goals, release, re-start, re-center. Yoga retreats have always been a true healing experience for me! I can't wait to hold space and connect with all of you! QUESTION: What do you love about Sui Yoga? LUNA: I’ve been at Sui since day one. I saw Sui grow from one studio with 2 students attending, two with a full day full schedule, 2 simultaneous studios with 45 people each. We’ve grown! And I think what is special at Sui besides the well crafted teachers and space, is that Sui provides us a place to be ourselves! We don’t ask the teachers to fit a certain box, every single one of us is so different and yet we have so much to offer. As we allow the teachers to be themselves and share their craft, we allow the students to connect with teachers on a deeper level. Sui is not meant to be a workout place, Sui is meant to be a holistic healing space, that among many things allow us to move. We aim to incorporate the true meaning of yoga, union of the body, mind and spirit. Follow Luna on Instagram HERE and check out her official website: HERE. To secure your spot to our wonderful retreat, go here: https://suiyoga.com/retreats/ Tulum Mexico… from March 31 - April 6, 2024. Villa Pescadores will be our venue… lock in NOW!
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"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you." – Maori Proverb  Springtime is all about cleansing the old and nourishing the new. Sounds a lot like everytime we step on our yoga mat... right?
When we move through our sun salutations, move into our spines with twists and invigorate with our backbends, have a heightened sense of your pranayama to enhance not only the range of your shapes, but bring an awakening and rebirth as we blossom into the Spring season. A powerful & disciplined breathing practice during our pose work lets us cleanse away the winter’s density and begin to lighten up. Also, our voices and words hold great power. The throat chakra connects to the air element, which brings in a lightness to combat the Winter's heavy qualities. So inviting more affirmations and mantras to bring a connection and confidence into the revival season. Renew your energy with powerful expressions to help set a tone, inspire and get you into a positive rhythm daily. Try chanting for 3 minutes or repeating phrases or mantra to yourself at the start of a movement session, or as you catch yourself in the mirror day-to-day. Polish your luminous body and mind by revamping not just your yoga poses, but yourself, with innovative practices that renew body, mind, and spirit. YOGA AT OHHHMMM VIRTUAL SCHEDULE: MONDAY: 5/9/2022
*ALL CLASSES EST *SESSIONS 45/60 MINUTES *WAIVER STATEMENT: I understand that I must be in good physical health to participate in these classes, that my participation may cause an injury and that I should consult with my physician before I take a class. I am taking these classes at my own risk. I waive any claim for personal injury and any other damages that I may have against the school, studio and/or the teachers who are offering these classes. RATES:(when submitting payment, in note section state email for delivery of services)
PAYMENT: VENMO -- @Vicyasa Paypal -- [email protected] NAMASTE, Victor Cotto www.YogaWithVictor.com Instagram: CottoVic Facebook: Yoga With Victor - Vicyasa™  This week's 'Teacher Feature' highlights one New York's most skillful yoga instructors... Dina Ivas (Instagram: @dinaivas).
QUESTION: What is your favorite yoga pose/why? Dina Ivas: "Chair. No fuck that! Chair is NO ONE’s favorite pose. I love arm balances and inversions because they force me to face my fears, and make me feel like a badass." Q: What is your least favorite pose right now/why? Dina: "Ugh, probably anything that requires open hamstrings because mine are tight AF." Q: What lessons from the yoga mat have you applied off your mat? Dina: "Patience! Though as a raging Aries I still struggle with that A LOT, but yoga truly has helped me accept that some things take time, and most good things are worth waiting for." Q: Do you have a guilty pleasure/binged watch anything etc., during quarantine? Dina: "90 Day Fiancé, and Caribbean Life!" Q: What is your post-class meal craving? Dina: "Wine!" We'll have more Q&A with Dina in the coming weeks... and guess what? Part two of the 'Teacher Feature' with Karen Hyland. Stay tuned for more news and more teacher additions!!! YOUR YOGA AT OHHHMMM VIRTUAL SCHEDULE: (Outdoor Classes/Events this week for active subscribers only) MONDAY -- 10/12/2020 9:00 am -- Flow Yoga with Karen Hyland (Instagram: karenyogahy) 5:30 pm -- Sweaty 45 Minute Flow 7:00 pm -- Power Hour TUESDAY -- 10/13/2020 7:00 am - Wake up Vinyasa Yoga 12:00 pm -- 45-Minute Flow 6:30 pm - Vinyasa Flow with Dina Ivas (Instagram: dinaivas) WEDNESDAY -- 10/14/2020 8:00 am -- Morning Vinyasa 12:00 pm -- FREE 10 minute Meditation 6:15 pm -- Power Hour THURSDAY -- 10/15/2020 7:00 am -- Vinyasa Yoga 10:00 am -- Flow Yoga with Karen Hyland (Instagram: karenyogahy) 12:00 pm -- FREE Meditation 10 minutes 6:30 pm -- Flow Yoga FRIDAY -- 10/16/2020 7:00 am -- Saluting the Sun Vinyasa Flow 12:00 pm -- 45 Minute Invigorating Flow SATURDAY -- 10/17/2020 10:00 am -- Sweaty Saturday Fun SUNDAY -- 10/18/2020 10:00 am -- Church of Vicyasa™ *ALL CLASSES EST *SESSIONS 60 MINUTES UNLESS NOTED RATES:
PAYMENT: VENMO -- @Vicyasa Paypal -- [email protected] NAMASTE, Victor Cotto www.YogaWithVictor.com Instagram: CottoVic Facebook: Yoga With Victor - Vicyasa™ “In asana practice we learn to cherish each breath, to cherish every cell in our bodies. The time we spend on the mat is love in action” – Rolf Gates  It is true that a consistent yoga practice will lead to a healthier body physically by helping to increase flexibility and build stamina. It will also encourage you to be more mindful about how you treat your body and mind. When you fall in love with another person you honor that person and value their thoughts, feelings and behaviors -- when you yoga, you have self-love!
Yoga and meditation encourage you to turn your focus inward and to listen to your deeper, more intuitive thoughts. As you gain more insight into your true nature, your values and your goals become much clearer. From such a loving, sacred place within yourself, you can make decisions about what you want, and don’t want, in life. By living such an authentic life you are showing nothing but love for yourself. Regardless of where you are in your practice, yoga will teach you to appreciate your body and its abilities. It’s common to start yoga and think you should immediately be able to do an inversion or arm balance and when you can’t - we beat ourselves up for it. It doesn’t take long, however, before the essence of yoga grabs you and you become aware of the negative self talk and find a way to switch it off. The more you turn up and tune in, the easier this gets. The more you come to see your body in a different light and realise that it is truly amazing. We then cherish what we can do, what we can accomplish and not look at ourselves with judgement, but with a love that only comes through when we embrace a practice that is devoted and adoring the self! Here's the schedule for this week: MONDAY -- 5/25/2020 (Memorial Day) 8:00 am: Vinyasa 11:00 am: Vinyasa TUESDAY -- 5/26/2020 7:00 am: Vinyasa 12:00 pm: Vinyasa 7:00 pm: Vinyasa (45 minute quickie Flow)* WEDNESDAY -- 5/27/2020 8:00 am: Vinyasa 6:30 pm: Vinyasa THURSDAY -- 5/28/2020 7:00 am: Vinyasa 6:30 pm: Vinyasa FRIDAY -- 5/29/2020 7:00 am: Vinyasa 12:30 pm: Vinyasa SATURDAY -- 5/30/2020 12:30 pm: Vinyasa SUNDAY -- 5/31/2020 10:00 am: Vinyasa *ALL CLASSES EST *ALL SESSIONS 60 MINUTES RATES:
(If you want to know how many classes you have remaining, when is your subscription date ending or any other inquiries, feel free to reply to this email. If you do not receive emails during the week when classes are about to begin, it means your subscription has ended or you don't have any more classes.) PAYMENT: VENMO -- @Victor-Cotto-9 THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT! NAMASTE, Victor Cotto www.YogaWithVictor.com Instagram: CottoVic Facebook: Yoga With Victor - Vicyasa™ 
Hello OHHHHMIES...
Due to the recent events, studios suspending classes and closing, I've taken my yoga classes to Zoom.us for LIVE streaming! I've been offering classes daily (AM sessions and PM offerings), trying to keep a sense of order since the events that have shaped the world we are currently living in. As I stated on Instagram (@CottoVic):
There's nothing routine about the happenings in the world and how are daily rituals have been interrupted, but keeping a regular learning, creative and structured schedule is a must. My online streaming LIVE classes will help us with structure, building forward-moving habits, and creating momentum that will carry you on the days when you feel like you don't have the strength to carry yourself. Following a daily routine can help you establish priorities, limit procrastination, keep track of goals, and even make you healthier. It lowers your reliance on willpower and motivation because, habits are
“action[s] that you take on a repeated basis with little or no required effort or thought." ​Having NO routine or structure is so much more draining mentally, physically, and emotionally than any routine could ever be! If you haven't become a subscriber to my daily yoga classes, direct message me here, or send me an email at: [email protected]. We have aired glitch free for a few days, have facilitated community during this time of social distancing and have created UNION - to YOGA means to yolk, to come together, to bind... breath, body, mind, something more divine.
 Earth YogaNYC is excited to announce two Arm Balance Workshops on Saturday November 3rd and Saturday November 10th!
On November 3rd -- Victor Cotto -- 3pm to 4:30pm -- IG: CottoVic On November 10th -- Claudia Jasper -- 3pm to 4:30pm -- IG: ClaudiaJasperYoga Has arm balancing & inversions been a mystery to you? Ever caught yourself looking around in class during those poses? Want to enjoy the sandbox that is your yoga mat? Then this workshop is for you. In this series of workshops you will learn the fundamentals of inversions & arm balances. We will discuss & practice:
Pricing: $50 per session, $85 for both sessions! Register online HERE! Earth YogaNYC 328 E 61st Street New York, NY 10065 Telephone: 646-726-4710 E-mail: [email protected] 4 5 6 N R W trains to 59th Street/Lexington Avenue • F train to 63rd Street and Lexington Avenue • We're located on the side of 61st Street and 1st Avenue.  What's up, Ohmies?
Hope everyone had a happy and safe 4th of July. The spirit of Summer in the city continues on Sunday, July 16th at Gantry State Park. Brought to you by The Yoga Room, yours truly will be leading a one-hour vinyasa class beginning at 10:00am. Bring your own mat, a few loved ones and your appetite for asana. Located in Long Island City, overlooking the East River, Gantry State Park is the perfect location to savor the sights of The Big Apple in tree pose and recalibrate your body and mind in savasana while laying on the pier. Hope to see you there! Click HERE for info on how to get to Gantry State Park, accessible by car and just minutes away from Manhattan on the 7-Subway line. Love, Vic  Amy Apgar, Myself & Sigrid Pichler As of December 31, 2016, Prana Power Yoga closed its doors for good at both the Brooklyn location and its long time New York space in Union Square. Prana was a vital piece to the hot vinyasa yogi community in the Big Apple for many years. With its departure from the scene, many long time practitioners have been left with an empty space in their hearts and scrambling to find a new home to get their asana fix. Spearheaded by accupunturist and yoga instructor Deborah Stotzky, and long time client of Prana Barri Budin, the Prana community of teachers will be hosting classes at Athleta on 5th avenue and 18th street. The chain retailer, which offers amazing sportswear and accessories, has a lower level studio at their 5th avenue location that will be the home for displaced Prana teachers, clients and all yogis looking to hone their practice with some of the best teachers NYC has to offer. There will be a schedule of classes throughout the week at the heated space which offers dressing areas, free props, mats, changing rooms, lockers, bathroom, free filtered water (B.Y.O.Bottle) & music set up. The suggested donation is $15 at the door, cash only. Spread the word, bring a friend or two and lets foster a safe and fun home for exploration and practice. Whether you practiced with us at Prana, or not... if you are looking for a new home for your asana practice or just looking to get start the New Year learning more about Yoga, the team put together for these classes would be a perfect gateway for you to get started or advance your practice. If you want to learn more about the space, you can check out Athleta's web site here. On Facebook, Prana at Athleta has set-up a page to keep a tab on scheduling, teaching times and other news as we transition into Athleta and eventually, into another space when that's available. Click here and place like, subscribe and follow us on Facebook. I'll be teaching classes there weekly and bi-weekly over the next few months. You can keep track of that on my Schedule page here as I update daily where I will be and at what times. As of today, here are my current dates at that space:
Peace & Love, Victor Cotto   New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard after taking class with Victor Cotto in New York City. What's going on Yogis? Hope all is well with all of you... just checking to say what's, and to keep you informed about some Holiday scheduling that could be coming up. Keep checking my 'Schedule' page to keep up to date with that.
Dina Ivas & Vicyasa will tandem for another Yoga House Party -- OH YEAH, more glow sticks, asana action, fun flow and post class libations! It will be version 3.0... we did the House music thang, we traveled back to the 1980s, & now we are going to hit-up Boy Bands & Pop Stars. Registration as always at The Yoga Room's website, on their workshop section. Reserve your spot before it goes BYE, BYE, BYE! If you are a friend... and want to drop in to any of my classes at Earth Yoga, Makara Studio, Prana or Yumcha, let me know. We can arrange to get you into the class as my guest. It will be my pleasure. Peace out Ohmies! Vic  Breaking News: I've added classes to my schedule at Prana Power Yoga (Union Square location). On March 14, 21 and 28 -- all Saturdays -- I'll be bringing Vicyasa™ to 862 Broadway.
All class start times will be at 2:00 pm and we'll go for 75-minutes. If you like hot vinyasa, and you like flowing to an eclectic playlist, then come to Prana and let loose on your mat. Check out all changes to my schedule here, including another sub date at Earth Yoga NYC -- on a Monday night -- I'll be covering for Halle Becker and switching up homegirl yoga... to homeboy yoga. Namaste, Vic |
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