Welcome to Atlanta Yoga!
After a year away from our long-time home in Atlanta’s historic West Midtown we are moving back! Our new home is located at Blue Mark Studios at 892 Jefferson St NW, Atlanta, GA 30318. Blue Mark Studios is a beautifully renovated historic church off Joseph E. Lowrey not far from our former King Plow Arts Center Space. Please see the post below for more information.
We have been practicing Ashtanga Yoga in Atlanta since 1988. Our approach to yoga is first and foremost as a practice of mindful movement capable of creating spaces in mind and body that allow for increased focus and refined awareness, increased capacity for movement both physically and subjectively. We offer small group classes and individual sessions as well as small group and individualized teacher training. We feel strongly that yoga is best approached through an individual relationship between teacher and student. We take the time to get to know each student and through small group and individual work assist each student in developing a singular practice that can grow and change with them across a lifetime. We teach from a foundation grounded in the Ashtanga Vinyasa Tradition as passed down by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.
If you are new to Atlanta Yoga, please contact us the day before your first class so we can reserve a space for you. We only teach small group classes so space is limited. We look forward to practicing with you!
Current Events and Updates:
Foundations Series Sept 25-Oct 30
Please join us for a six week Asthanga Foundations course with Elizabeth Rogers. This course is designed for those completely new to yoga as well as those experienced beginners or intermediate practitioners new to the Ashtanga tradition. Elizabeth will work with each practitioner to develop a core practice that will prepare the practitioner for our regular Foundations classes as well as for the development of a self-practice. We will cover the foundational asanas and breathwork with a focus on using movement to create new spaces in body and mind. Along the way we will also explore basic anatomy and alignment and several key concepts of this yoga tradition.
Sundays 11:45-12:45 beginning Sept 25th
Fees: 108.00
Limited to 8 practitioners: please email Elizabeth to register at atlantayoga@atlantayoga.com.
Back in West Midtown’s Arts District!
Our new home in Atlanta’s Historic West Side community is a beautifully renovated church over 100 years old. The church is now Blue Mark Studios, an event space, art gallery, and artists’ studios. We are in one of the artists’ studios upstairs. Please join us! Our goal is to work with each individual in a class to support them in developing a practice of mindful movement that will support them across a lifetime. All class are small group classes and space is limited to eight practitioners for each class. Please contact us the day before your first class with us so that we can reserve a space for you in a class suited to your needs. Email is the best way to contact us: atlantayoga@atlantayoga.com. You may also call us at 404-273-4388 and leave a voice message. Messages will be responded to within 24 hours.
Asthanga Yoga Small Group Class Schedule:
Ashtanga Foundations Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m. If you are new to Atlanta Yoga this is our entry level class!
Ashtanga
We are moving back to our long-time home in Atlanta’s Midtown West Arts District!
After a year away I am very happy to be moving back to the West Side! Atlanta Yoga’s new home is located in Blue Mark Studios at 892 Jefferson St NW, Atlanta, GA 30318. Blue Mark Studios is a beautifully renovated historic church off Joseph E. Lowery Boulevard not far from our former home at the King Plow Arts Center. Blue Mark Studios is home to artists, graphic designers, and an event space.
I will be altering the Atlanta Yoga class schedule slightly when we move. The new schedule will be posted here, on the schedule page and on the Atlanta Yoga facebook page. Classes will continue to be small group classes — no more than 8 practitioners per class — so it will continue to be important that you pre-register by email. If you are new to Atlanta Yoga, please simply contact me by email at atlantayoga@atlantayoga.com at least one day before your first class. If you are a regular, I ask that you email your weekly practice schedule to me before 9 p.m. on Sunday.
Classes will
We become more delicate and we recognize the importance of the flow of energy and information through our body in all directions. We learn to apply our force in an efficient way and we learn to use “other” forces. We discover the advantage of soft flesh and sensitive hands. We learn to connect to groove even when there is no music. We are aware of people in the room and we realize that we are not in the center of it all. We become more aware of our form since we never look at ourselves in a mirror; there are no mirrors…. We change our movement habits by finding new ones, we can be calm and alert at once. –Ohad Naharin
Breath moves. Body moves. Gaze moves. In movement, they grow dense, gather energy. There is a taste of stillness. And the impulse to move rises, again. We extend out. We grow light, fade. We feel the weight of bones and stretch of skin. We feel a weight in the pelvic floor and we remember, we recoil, we return, we pull in again…and we unfold, extend out. In a constructed space of emptiness we find form, and in form, emptiness. To repeat: In movement-the movement of the breath, the body, the gaze, we construct a certain density-within the body, within the psyche. We may call this density derived from movement, paradoxically, stillness; it functions like a weight, an anchor…and in this density, this stillness, we find, again, movement. –Elizabeth Rogers
