Bronx Yoga Lab Inc.

I’ve been practicing yoga since 2005,  I certainly didn't know yoga would change my life when I took my first class. While my approach to yoga began as purely physical, I found a deeper meaning and liberation in my mental state.  I felt this emotional release which made me feel overwhelmingly friendly and happy after I would take class. I realized along the journey that yoga was more than just somethings I wanted to “do” but something I wanted to share with others. I discovered that practicing yoga was a natural method of quieting my mind and connecting with my body to create a deep realization. I’ve researched and experienced the immerse abilities of the body to heal itself physically, mentally and emotionally. 

I’m extremely mindful about aliment, breath and safely.  I teach yoga because I am passionate about spiritual growth and well-being and truly believe in the transformational power of yoga and meditation. I wish for everyone to find joy in their yoga practice and learn to listen to their own bodies. Yoga is for me a practice of awareness and a path to a more wholehearted life.

Kerry’s journey with mindful movement and its healing power began at an early age. Kerry was an elite, competitive gymnast. At a young age, she suffered severe injuries to her back and knee, simultaneously ending her gymnastics career and beginning a lifelong quest to move without pain. She began a journey through different mindful movement techniques: Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais, Yoga Nidra, Swedish Body Work, and Acupuncture.  Each of these helped improve her understanding of anatomy, kinesiology, organic movement and alignment but were all lacking a component to tone and strengthen muscles. She continued searching for a comprehensive mindful movement program that focused on alignment and proper form that would simultaneously strengthen and stretch muscles. At the age of 20, she was diagnosed with Lupus, and needed to find a serious form of exercise without impact that combined both strength and flexibility. She eventually found her way to classical Pilates and trained under Romana Krysanowska, a protégé of Joseph Pilates and opened, bodyscape a Pilates studio offering individual instruction in classical Pilates. Classical Pilates helped her live pain free for many years. In 2003, she took her first Bikram Yoga class and loved the way moving in a heated room made her feel. Bikram Yoga and Pilates have a great deal in common in balancing out the body and the spine with movements that complement one another, never repetitively overusing the same groups. The addition of heat was incredibly helpful for the circulatory and soft connective tissue issues associated with lupus. 

She believed so much in how Pilates and Bikram Yoga helped keep her able to walk, dance, and move freely despite serious injuries and a chronic disease. Kerry wanted to learn more about them and use them as a vehicle to help others in their movement journey to achieve their individual goals to feel better, offset the abuse the body takes from everyday life and was blessed to be able to build a career around mindful movement, sharing her experience using it to help others. 

Kerry’s interests include alignment, breath, balance, organic movement and helping people use their core muscles to help find smaller muscle groups in order to not overuse larger muscle groups. She enjoys helping others explore and learn about their bodies and movement habits and help them to achieve better physical and mental balance and avoid physical injury. She loves hearing students’ journeys and triumphs as they discover new ways to move and heal their bodies.  She is certified in Classical Pilates (1999), Yoga Nidra (2003), Bikram Yoga (2012), MELT: hands and feet (2015) and Yin Yoga (2019). She enjoys answering questions and individually assisting students in finding new ways to move.

“I have been practicing Bikram Yoga since 2012 and became a teacher in 2014.  I practice and teach in the Bronx.

I grew passionate about Bikram Yoga after realizing how much health benefits this yoga practice can provide.  Yoga is a great life style and everyone should do it.”

Native New Yorker & lifetime athlete Lee began her Yoga journey in 2008, she fell in love with the Bikram yoga sequence in 2009 at Bikram yoga Bronx. Instantly realizing the amazing benefits of this practice. In 2012 she had a car accident which changed her training program.  No longer be able to work out at the gym she delve deeper into her bikram practice and first hand receive the healing benefits unlike any medical prescription.  Lee Cardona became a 200ryt instructor Jan.2012 & a Bikram instructor Spring 2013. She is now an e-500ryt instructor and also received her Yin yoga, Restorative, Yoga nidra/meditation, Prenatal & Kid's yoga certifications. She describes this journey as always learning & always blessed.. and grateful for the opportunity to share this yoga self loving experience with others.
Currently Lee Cardona is Teaching individuals who are follwing their inner teacher calling becoming 200ryt & more.