Designed to empower you with profound tools for managing stress, healing past traumas, and stepping into your most balanced, radiant, and confident self, this expanded 5-week series deepens your engagement with Kundalini yoga. Each session aims to cultivate inner strength to handle external pressures gracefully, balance emotions, fortify mental resilience, and uncover yogic secrets to stress relief, healing, and self-empowerment. Discover how to tap into your power, release past pains, and rejuvenate your energy, paving the way for a more balanced, energetic, and empowered life.

Week 1: Foundations of Emotional Balance and Stress Relief

Sunday, April 13, 2025 5:30-7PM

Focus: Understanding Stress from a Yogic Perspective

Begin your journey with an exploration of the yogic view on stress and its effects on the body and mind. This class will introduce basic Kundalini yoga postures, breathwork, and meditation techniques aimed at releasing tension and fostering emotional equilibrium. Learn to identify triggers and use yogic practices to maintain calmness in the face of daily challenges.

Week 2: Building Resilience and Calm

Sunday, April 20, 2025 5:30-7PM

Focus: Techniques for Calmness and Resilience under Pressure

Dive deeper into Kundalini yoga techniques that enhance your ability to remain poised under pressure. This week focuses on strengthening your mental endurance and emotional resilience through targeted meditations and breathing exercises. Experience how Kundalini yoga can be used as a tool for emotional fortitude, helping you stay centered in stressful situations.

Week 3: Enhancing Vitality and Reducing Stress

Sunday, April 27, 2025 5:30-7PM

Focus: Keys to Vitality and Sustainable Stress Management

Learn the secrets to sustaining high energy levels and reducing overall stress through advanced Kundalini practices. This class combines dynamic yoga poses with powerful meditations aimed at invigorating the body and calming the mind. This comprehensive set of practices will help manage stress and boost your overall vitality, preparing you to lead a more vibrant and balanced life.

Week 4: Healing and Release

Sunday, May 4, 2025, 5:30-7PM

Focus: Releasing Past Traumas and Pain

This week introduces powerful kriyas and meditations designed to heal and release emotional blockages and past traumas. Learn to let go of what no longer serves you, facilitating deep emotional and spiritual healing, and clearing the path to personal growth and empowerment.

Week 5: Stepping into Your Radiant Self

Sunday, May 11, 2025, 6-7:30PM Later start time!

Focus: Cultivating Radiance and Confidence

In the final week, focus on kriyas and practices that enhance your self-esteem and personal power. These techniques help you step into your most radiant, balanced, and confident self, fully equipped to navigate life's challenges with grace and strength.

Join Harlem Yoga Studio and the Harlem Wine Gallery for a rooftop celebration of rest, relaxation & rosé! Enjoy an invigorating and expansive flow, led by Harlem Yoga Studio community teacher Corinne Flax, Transporting your senses through breath and movement with a focus on the organic nature and rhythm of winemaking.

Then we'll mingle with our fellow Yogis and enjoy some carefully curated wines poured by Daneen, co-owner of HWG, who will be on hand to talk about the spring selection.

Light snacks will be provided, and you will have the opportunity to purchase your favorite wines directly from Harlem Wine Gallery!

Join us for a relaxing open level practice to invite stillness, renewal and rejuvenation taught by HYS teacher, Jessica Cullen. Slower, gentle sequencing and longer-held postures will facilitate fluidity and a deeper stretch. Paired with mindful breathing this flow will help regulate the nervous system to unwind the body and mind.

The session will be accompanied by a Lithuanian-born and New York based artist Simona Smirnova. Simona plays a Lithuanian national instrument that is called kanklės, reminiscent of a harp and has a soothing and warm sound that will elevate your practice to the next level. Simona is the only kanklės player in the United States and she brings this unique instrument around New York venues, clubs and to our Harlem Yoga Studio!

Afterwords there will be a chance to socialize over some light refreshments!