YOGA STYLES

ISHTA means "Individual" meaning I address practice to your individual needs per day, whether you're a group class or a private session. ISHTA Yoga is also my lineage: Certified in 2002 as E-RYT 500 by ISHTA Yogiraj Alan Finger, and teaching full-time since then. See my schedule for weekly classes. Pure and Equinox are member studios, so you may investigate membership with them; you might also email me to be a day guest to a class.

VINYASA means breath linked to movement; thus  it is a moving flow that stimulates heart, lungs, and muscles for strength, and joints for flexibility, and addresses all directions of the spine, whether in standing, seated, floor, and balancing postures, all smoothly linked, for an all-over workout of body and mind that calms and energizes.

RESTORATIVE Yoga is deeply restful, fully supported poses using gentle propping of pillows and blankets, for restoring our body's own natural healing rhythms, through our "rest and digest" parasympathetic nervous system. It is recommended that an active yoga practice requires Restorative at least once a week to balance; more often if your life is busier or more active mentally or physically. I have been leading Restorative Teacher Trainings since 2010.

YIN Yoga cultivates calm and deep stretch, with poses held 3 to 5 minutes, to promote more health, longevity, and suppleness in all joints, bones, and the nervous systems supplying blood and circuitry through our fascia. 

YOGA NIDRA MEDITATION is purely restful, reclined meditation in Savasana, the Relaxation Pose, in which your body sleeps, and the mind floats between wake states after setting an intention, letting the voice of the teacher guide you through five deepening layers of "sheaths" of awareness. Deeply calming, Yoga Nidra relieves stress, increases clarity, aids sleep, supports all other meditation practices, and can be deeply transformative on multiple levels.

Mary also offers REIKI and SOUND HEALING sessions privately, semi-privately, and in groups.

Since 2010 Mary has led MOTHER MARY RESTORATIVE ARTS TEACHER TRAININGS in New York City in partnership with Pure Yoga New York, and since 2015, YOGA NIDRA TEACHER TRAININGS. Reach out with interest.