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Short Description:
A haven for Yoga students for over 37 years, the World Yoga Center was created with a pioneering and idealistic spirit at a time when many people were passionate for higher consciousness and Truth. Its vision today – as it was in 1972 – is to encourage students to develop their relationship with their own essential Self so they can live life more fully, from the vantage point of higher awareness.
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Category:
Yoga Studio/Center
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Full Address:
265 West 72nd Street,2nd Floor New York City,
New York,
United States,
10023
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Geographical Area:
North America
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URL:
www.worldyogacenter.com
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone:
(212) 877-4153
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FULL DESCRIPTION OF LISTING
Welcome to the World Yoga Center
Home of Anusara Yoga, Meditation and Other Awakening Practices
For a daily update on who is teaching and when, call 212-787-4908
A haven for Yoga students for over 37 years, the World Yoga Center was created with a pioneering and idealistic spirit at a time when many people were passionate for higher consciousness and Truth. Its vision today – as it was in 1972 – is to encourage students to develop their relationship with their own essential Self so they can live life more fully, from the vantage point of higher awareness.
The World Yoga Center welcomes students of all ages, traditions and backgrounds, at every level of ability. Through the Yoga practices, students embark on a transformative journey of awakenment while developing bodies that glow with health and fitness.
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Yoga Styles
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Anusara Yoga, Pranayama, Yoga Therapy, Meditation, Mantra Chanting, Yoga Philosophy/Theory, Bhajans/Singing, Seva
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Class Level
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Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
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Teacher Profiles
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Jackie Prete
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Jackie Prete is a Certified Anusara Yoga Instructor, a Licensed Massage Therapist and Yoga Therapist. She is also Certified by Om Yoga Center and The White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara,California. Her training includes 7 years of study at the Iyengar Institute of NYC. Jackie has studied yoga therapeutics extensively with John Friend and practices the techniques learned in his therapeutic trainings. She is the owner of Ram Sangha Retreats leading retreats in the Catskills and Costa Rica for the past 7 years.
Jackie brings 18 years of teaching experience to her Anusara yoga classes. She draws on her experience as a body worker to help her students deepen their practice in a safe yet challenging environment. Her spirited yet playful classes are characterized by precision of alignment with freedom to connect with the essence of this sacred and heart-filled practice.
Since joining the World Yoga Center staff, Jackie and Rudrani Farbman Brown (WYC director) have co-led Anusara Immersions, Teacher Trainings and retreats. Their work together is a profound and joyful exploration of the weaving of Tantric yoga philosophy through the study of Anusara yoga and yoga scriptures.
Jackie has appeared on Good Day New York and The Sally Jesse Rafael Show. She has been published in Family Circle, Elle, Real Beauty and First Woman magazines. She currently also teaches at NYC's premier Equinox Fitness Clubs.
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Rudrani Farbman Brown
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Rudrani began her study of Yoga in 1966 and founded the World Yoga Center in 1972 with a vision of spreading the greatness and luminosity of Yoga in the West. Originally certified as an Integral Yoga teacher in the late 60's, she served on the Integral Yoga Institute's National Board and as a staff lecturer, counselor and Hatha Yoga instructor. In 1974 she began a joyous life-long study of Siddha Yoga, having met her teacher, Muktananda Paramahamsa. Part of his original core of teachers, she ran a Siddha meditation center in NYC and led programs and meditation intensives throughout the U.S. She traveled with Swami Muktananda as a speaker/teacher for many years and lived for three years in his Ashram in India engaged in spiritual practices and the study of Yoga scriptures and philosophy.
On the west coast during the eighties, Rudrani was a meditation and yoga teacher in residence in the Santa Monica and Oakland S.Y. ashrams. She was also on faculty at the JFK Graduate School of Consciousness Studies and the California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology and gave Yoga programs throughout the Bay Area.
Rudrani directs the World Yoga Center, leading the teacher trainings, meditation courses and Satsangs. She has been a teacher of meditation, philosophy and transformational practices for 33 years. Rudrani is trained in several styles of Hatha yoga, and is an Anusara Inspired yoga teacher who began her study with John Friend in 1994. A charismatic teacher, her hatha classes are woven with Yoga teachings and are known for their clarity of instruction, and depth. An innovative counselor, Rudrani also maintains a private counseling practice since 1986 and heads the WYC Mentoring Program.
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THE WORLD YOGA CENTER, New York City, New York
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