Mission Statement:
Brooklyn Vindhya Yoga provides service to family and communities by creating lasting physical health, well-being and a positive mental attitude through the study of traditional Hatha Yoga.
We are committed to maintaining the highest quality of yoga practice and training in a way that fosters the development of each individual student; a safe, clean space for students to practice; respectfully honoring the traditions of yoga while welcoming creativity; facilitating a community environment that provides the foundation for students to live positive and fulfilling lives while having fun and being challenged.
Our Programs
Our Introductory Program:
We offer you an opportunity to try our program for only $19.95. You will receive a one-one-one session with one of our qualified instructors, during which we’ll introduce you to some of the basics of Hatha Yoga. This lesson will be a great chance for you to meet our instructors, view our facilities, and find out if our program is right for you. There is absolutely no obligation. Call us at (718) 331-5487, mention this program and receive a FREE YOGA MAT.
Our Adult Basic Program:
The Basic program is designed to introduce you to the basics of Hatha Yoga asana (posture). The goal of the Basic program is to provide a solid foundation for an understanding of Hatha Yoga; movement and transitions into and out of postures, while beginning to condition your mind and body for a balanced lifestyle of strength AND flexibility, emphasizing both equally.
Our Adult Advanced Programs:
After completing the Basic program, you will have the opportunity to enter the Advanced programs. Over the course of these programs, you will learn new asanas, improve strength, and expand upon your knowledge.
At this level of training, you will have already established a firm foundation in Hatha yoga, and will be able to build the basics into a more comprehensive understanding of physical endurance and efficiency. The Advanced programs offer traditional Hatha yoga postures as well as Vinyasa flow and a greater emphasis on detail and mastery.
History and Origins
Yoga, meaning Union, is a broad range of disciplined forms of meditation that share the goals of freeing the mind from attachment, and distraction and opening the way for an experience of oneness with everything.
Hatha Yoga, is also known as hatha vidya or the “science of hatha” yoga. The word Hatha comes from combining the two Sanskrit terms “ha” meaning sun and “tha” meaning moon. The word “ha” refers to the solar nadi (pingala) in the subtle body and “tha” the lunar channel (ida). However, when the two components of the word are placed together, “hatha” means “forceful”, implying that powerful work must be done to purify the body. Yoga means to yoke, or to join two things together, hence hatha yoga is meant to join together sun (masculine, active) energy with the moon (feminine, receptive) energy, thus producing balance and greater power in an individual.
“The Vindhya Range is a range of older rounded mountains and hills in the west-central Indian subcontinent, which geographically separates the Indian subcontinent into northern India (the Indo-Gangetic plain) and Southern India.” - Wikipedia
Brooklyn Vindhya Yoga denotes, in its name, acknowledgment of each students goals and achievements, and the pathways and levels attained on their journey. While the path or the terrain may be different for each, the destination of oneness and community is the same. There is no comparison or competition, as we believe that when you reach the top of a mountain, or achievement, you have come to the foot of another.