I ❤️ teaching yoga! I’m so excited to be teaching a Yoga Basics class at this awesome new studio in Ditmas Park starting tomorrow, Sundays 10:45am! Come check it out, your first class is free! 🙏🏼💪🏼😌

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Restorative yoga is a great way to unwind after a long week, promote healing in the physical body and subtle body, and gently increase your flexibility to bring fuller expression to the rest of your yoga practice (like the poses I’m doing here). Come see for yourself in my Restorative Yoga class tonight at 7:30, and my Warm Restorative Yoga class tomorrow night at 5:50, both at Area Yoga Court Street! 

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Happy Friday everyone!!! The next yoga class I teach is Monday 1/25 4:00-5:10pm at area yoga park slope (45 5th ave at Bergen). So enjoy your weekend and then start your week off right! 😁 
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  I’m excited to teach two yoga classes on MLK day! // Writing a dharma talk about love and power 💜💪🏼 // Join me for 11:00am Basics and 12:15pm Open at Area Yoga Court Street // areayogabrooklyn.com // reneegaubert.com

  
Wish I had this answer when I was on vacation and asked one milllllion times whether or not I was single and why 😹
Join me for yoga today and help align your chakras! Even you taken peeps!
12:30 Express and 5:30 Open at Area Yoga Park Slope on 5th Ave and Bergen (areayogabrooklyn.com)

It’s been a bit of a rough week for me. I made several careless mistakes that brought stress on myself and others. I tied these mistakes to bad habits that I have developed recently, like not making sure I have my keys before leaving the house, and not caring for my pets as frequently and thoroughly as I should. My anxiety grew and negative thoughts overran my mind. I thought, “What is wrong with me? I’m usually so responsible. Is this who I am now?” Knowing that these thoughts would not solve the problems my mistakes created, I tried to quiet them. There’s a passage in the Yoga Sutras that I found that helped:

“If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself.” – 67

I like the idea that just because we make mistakes and develop bad habits, that doesn’t mean they have taken root in who we are. We are not doomed to repeat our mistakes. Rather than beating myself up about not practicing good habits, I can focus on creating a less hospitable environment for the mistakes or bad habits to occur (e.g. clipping my keys to my wallet, not scheduling so much time away from home so I have more time to care for my pets).

The asana sequences I’ve planned this week have centered around the root chakra- finding the pelvic floor, feeling centered, grounded, building inner strength, rooting down to rise up and fold inward. As the sun is in Capricorn whose element is Earth, it is a perfect time to work on these areas, and this passage is all the more apropos. If we give our time, energy, breath to our roots, making sure our center is stable and strong, then even when we develop bad habits (certain leaves growing out of the roots), we can let those habits wither and die without disturbing who we are at our core. Like ivy that will grow new leaves from even the tiniest bit of root, we can regrow good habits from our roots, nourish those, and let the others wither away.

Today being the final day of 2015, I’m ready to start the new year by focusing my energy on my roots and letting the bad habits of 2015 wither away.

I’m teaching 5 more classes this week, so come get rooty with me! (Rooty like my hair, bt dubs…#notanaturalblonde)

friday 1/1
12:30 basic/express @ area yoga bk heights (montague)
5:15 open/restorative @ area yoga bk heights (montague)

baby new year needs help with janu sirsasana!
start the new year with yoga and you’ll be a happy baby! (haha that’s a yoga pose too y’all, ‪#‎yogapuns‬)

friday 1/1
12:30 basic/express @ area yoga bk heights (montague)
5:15 open/restorative @ area yoga bk heights (montague)

  
 
I’m teaching Sweat, Stretch, and Relax 5:00pm at Area Yoga Carroll Gardens (399 Court) and Open 8:00pm at Area Yoga Brooklyn Heights (144 Montague) Both awesome, both $15 

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I’m teaching 2 yoga classes today at Area Yoga Brooklyn heights: 12:25 Basics and 1:45 Open/Restorative, both perfect for beginners. Perfect for rainy Sundays. Purrrrfect for youuu. 144 Montague $15
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Need help recovering from yesterday’s festivities? Come take my restorative yoga class tonight 5:10-6:20pm at Area Yoga Park Slope (45 5th Ave. at Bergen) $15
For full schedule click menu/yoga