Yoga & Slackline Classes
BKB offers a number of classes to supplement your climbing experience. We have daily yoga lessons that are open to everyone, as well as a seasonal series of slackline classes and a monthly yoga workshop.
Daily Yoga Class Schedule
Brooklyn Boulders offers yoga classes in our studio every day except Saturday. The classes are free for members and we offer a $5 add-on for our day pass. Our instructors are warm and friendly, and the classes are open to all levels. Come enjoy the tranquil atmosphere while you hone your flexibility, strength, and focus. Yoga poses target shoulders and hips in ways that are necessary for anyone who climbs! BKB provides the mats, blankets, blocks, and belts, so just show up ready to stretch and strengthen. More information, including our yoga calendar and yoga staff profiles, can be found here.
The Slackline Series is taught seasonally by Adi Carter of the YogaSlackers and offers a basic introduction to finding balance on the slackline through the practice of developing core strength, focus and stability. The course is offered once a month and is limited to a small number of students so as to develop these skills through partner work, conditioning and learning how to kneel, sit, stand and arm balance on the line. Starting with the fall series there will be an advanced slacker class offered after the basics class. The advanced class will be for students who are comfortable walking across the line and ready to work on transitions, turns and jumping on the line. For more information on the slackers please visit www.YogaSlackers.com or contact Adi@AdiCarter.com.
Slackline Series 2012
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Yoga Instructors
Tyler Pearce
Yoga Program Coordinator
I have been a devoted yogi since 2005, practicing Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Zen Mediation over the years. After suffering a back injury playing college squash, trainers recommended yoga. Though initially skeptical, after just the first class I felt immediate relief, both physically as well as a noticeable calm and focus I’d never experienced before. I’ve been hooked ever since.
I received my 200-hour certification in Vinyasa from Tranquil Space in Washington, D.C. My classes combine my desire to push physical limits with the calm and focus of meditation and yogic spirituality. I believe our bodies are our greatest vessels guiding us through life, and by tuning in to them we can develop an incredible awareness of the body, breath and our own true nature. Yoga continues to inspire, guide and show me the uniting light in each of us. I look forward to connecting and sharing this with you.
Namaste.
For questions, concerns, or awesome ideas contact Tyler@BrooklynBoulders.com and visit her site at TylerPearceYoga.com
Jessie Conrad
Jessie Conrad has been practicing yoga for over ten years. She is certified in Hatha, Prenatal and Children’s yoga. She is gentle in her approach to teaching and she encourages students to practice introspection as they move through the postures. Jessie’s yoga emphasizes proper body alignment, awareness of breath, connecting the breath to movement and creating peace of mind. Her personal practice, which is constantly evolving, heavily influences her teaching style. Jessie’s classes blend traditional Hatha postures with the breath/movement flow of Vinyasa. Jessie is also an avid rock climber and she is grateful for the opportunity to partner with Brooklyn Boulders and share yoga.
Joanna Warchol
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Joanna is a Yoga Alliance Registered Teacher who received her training through the Sacred Strength Earthrise Yoga program. Joanna is also an American Council on Exercise Personal Trainer serving Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. She holds a Bachelor’s in Dance Education from the University of Georgia, Tier 3 Personal Training Certification from Equinox, Pre-Post Natal Certification, and Power Pilates Beginner Mat Certification. A yoga practitioner for many years, Joanna has always found solace and renewed physical and spiritual energy in the rhythmic sequences and grounding postures of yogic practice. Her classes emphasize developing clean strong body lines through breath, flow, and focus. Class participants cultivate postural awareness, core integration and strength, mental focus, and inner calm.Joy S. Chen
Joy S. Chen is a 500-hr certified teacher through YogaWorks in NYC. First exposed to yoga at a young age in dance and gymnastics classes, Joy studied and performed traditional chinese dance and sword forms for many years before deciding to focus intensively on yoga in 2009. Joy’s teaching style draws upon a wide-range of yoga and movement traditions and is a creative blend of Iyengar yoga, acrobatic strength training, as well as the dynamic flow and flexibility of dance. In her classes, she seeks to help students find better balance, energy and well-being through working with the bodies geometry and breath to fold, unfold and transcend the plane of the ordinary. Just as an origami cup can hold water and an origami knife can slice bread– Joy believes that yoga has the potential to make a person’s mind-body-spirit more functional, vibrant and alive in the world! She teaches group classes and privately throughout NYC and is grateful and excited to bring her challenging style of shape-making to the Brooklyn Boulders community!
Emory M. Moore Jr.
With over twenty years of experience, Emory Moore has immersed himself in the study of a myriad of disciplines, including meditation, massage, Pilates, and Capoeira Angola. He is a certified personal trainer, well-versed in sports-related injuries, and holds a black belt in karate. Having traveled from New York to London, Munich, Florence, and a host of other cities, Emory has had the privilege of studying with the masters in their respective fields.
Emory’s fitness methods explore the fundamentals of movement through his own unprecedented combination of yoga, Pilates, dance, and martial arts. Accessible to the most bashful beginner and challenging enough for the most seasoned athlete, Emory teaches techniques to improve one’s own understanding of balance, flexibility, and strength training with a pointed emphasis on breath.
Jolene Festa
Jolene has been teaching yoga since 2002. She completed her 500-hour training in Ishta yoga under Yoga Master Alan Finger. Ishta yoga brings together the science of Hatha yoga, Tantra and Ayurveda. Jolene takes a holistic approach to her yoga practice and she wants each student to own their practice as well. The beauty of yoga is to find you own practice on your mat while also enjoying the community atmosphere of class. One of Jolene’s beliefs is that through our yoga practice we can nurture the physical, emotional and spiritual: Taking care of all parts of ourselves better enables us to be of service to others. Jolene has taught all levels- from restorative to power- she tailors each class to the students and their individual needs. Besides teaching at Brooklyn Boulders, Jolene is currently the yoga instructor for a private school in Manhattan and is the co-founder of co-found of the Red Hook Boaters in Red Hook Brooklyn.
Christian McCarthy
I found Pilates after hurting my back skateboarding. It took me one session to feel the difference it made in my body… Like my muscles that support my spine (my core) had been found! What is Pilates?? A system of exercise that targets the deep muscles of the abdomen and spine and strengthens the abdominals while protecting your lower back. Pilates lengthens muscles as they are strengthened, resulting in long, lean STRONG muscles without the bulk. It works on improving alignment without gravity so that muscle imbalances are corrected and posture is improved. Compliments yoga AND climbing!
Ge Wang
Honestly, I used to be one of those guys who made jokes about yoga until I took my first class. It was truly amazing to see how everyday-people can perform at such levels. I like to mix yoga with pilates, dance, and gymnastics: It is great to learn such a long, historied fitness, but we can always be a bit more ambitious! I also like to incorporate modern philosophies in my class. I take students from where they are in the moment; we are only human beings, not saints. I would love to have everyone enjoy the movements and transform themselves in my class.
Jen Whitney
Jennifer Whitney has been practicing vinyasa yoga since 2003, and teaching since 2006. In 2007 she received her 300-hour Jivamukti Yoga teaching certification, studying the integrated form with masters Sharon Gannon, David Life, and Manorama. She began climbing in 2010, and has loved exploring the ways in which these two practices can complement and inform each other.
Lokah Samasta Sukinoh Bhavantu.
Yuuki Hirano
When Yuuki was introduced to yoga in 2003, things started to shift as over time his practice became an integral part of his life. He found such great benefit from it that he enrolled in the teacher-training program at Yoga to the People and became an RYT 200-hr certified instructor at the end of 2008. As his practice and teaching continued, through breath, asana and attention he came to sense the subtler transformations, realizing that beyond the physical there is more, much more. This is what Yuuki wishes to share with his students, to be curious and continue exploring the greater reaches within the human body and mind. In 2011, he studied Yin Yoga, receiving his certification through Corina Benner. The training exposed Yuuki to The Yin approach which allowed him to explore the complexity of the human body structurally, emotionally and energetically from a different vantage.
Yuuki will forever be a student exploring through his own practice and with a multitude of amazing and knowledgeable teachers wherever and whenever he can. With all of this incredible wisdom in the world, Yuuki does his best to bring his understanding of it into class to share with his students. Being grateful for every moment and every breath.
Tess Kretschmann
Tess Kretschmann has been reaping the benefits of practicing yoga since 2004. She completed her 200-hr training at the Yoga Alliance certified Long Island Yoga School and teaches vinyasa and hot yoga flow group and private classes on Long Island and in Brooklyn. What started out as an activity to support her other athletic interests (basketball, running, climbing, cycling, etc.), later became a way to manage the stress of her engineering consulting job, and turned into a rewarding and unparalleled lifestyle, while developing into a practice she wanted to share as a yoga teacher. Tess welcomes everyone to her classes; whether you want a sweaty workout, a centering or meditative opportunity, or a strengthening and stretching supplement to your typical activity. Her classes address not only your physical movement and state, but also your breathing and mindfulness. Please feel free to contact TessKretschmann@gmail.com. Enjoy the day!
Andrew Belcher
Andrew has practiced yoga for six years at Space, Kripalu and Yogaworks. He first came for the workout and discovered something infinite that has kept him curious ever since. After being a teacher in a traditional classroom for years Andrew is happy to shift to a non-traditional classroom where there are less words, more sensory experience and the inquiry is completely student driven. Teaching yoga postures creates a structure from which we can observe ourselves in time and space and how we are moment to moment. You aren’t just stretching your hamstring; you are your hamstring and much more. Andrew’s classes flow while paying particular attention to alignment so students can take with them what they learn. Andrew hopes that his classes not only rock your body but also draw you deeper into the bliss that resides within yourself.
Vanessa Fleming
I’ve been practicing yoga for 9 years, but became serious about it 5 years ago, when my doctor prescribed it to me to help relieve
depression and anxiety-related symptoms. I completed my training at YogaWorks in June 2011. My teaching focuses on strength building vinyasa blends while incorporating breath and awareness to show my students how to let their own bodies be their guides and teachers, as well as to let their minds be free and flow in the direction that the body is supposed to go. My classes are not solely about being physically the most flexible or acrobatic, but finding mental balance and flexibility through the asanas and building a careful, thoughtful and steady practice, on and off the mat. @rideinmyyogivan
Amelia Estrella (Zumba Instructor)
Amelia Molina has been instructing fitness classes such as Cardio Kickboxing, Interval training, Dance and others since 2006. Her specialties include Break Dancing and Belly Dancing Since, she discovered an interest in a fitness program called Zumba® fitness. Zumba aims to make exercise fun with upbeat music, a positive environment and fairly simple movements that beginners can pick up on right away. The full-body routine typically leaves participants sweating and satisfied with their workout. Zumba makes use of up-tempo Latin music styles such as salsa, cha-cha, reggaeton, mambo and merengue as well as other international and urban rhythms to create an enjoyable, productive workout atmosphere. She is very excited to be apart of the Brooklyn Boulders staff!
Bud Burdick (Capoeira Instructor)
Bud Burdick is a Capoeira practitioner with extensive experience teaching Capoeira to people of all ages at universities, academies, gyms, yoga studios, and teen centers. While attending college, Bud taught and inspired Capoeira students in the clubs he ran. With experience as a personal trainer, dancer, and yoga student, Bud teaches Capoeira with care for proper form, function, and alignment, as well as understanding and efficiency of movement. Bud’s classes will challenge individuals within their limits, creating an atmosphere conducive to learning and growth.
Adi Carter (Slackline Instructor)
Adi has been a life long student of practicing yoga off the mat in all shapes and forms especially when it involves being outdoors. Her passion for movement and the environment have taken her on countless adventures around the world and she currently travels and teaches as part of the YogaSlackers sharing the modalities of redefining balance through yoga, slacklining, AcroYoga, climbing, surfing, mountain biking and just about anything else you can think to do on the Earth’s terrain. With her car as a home base you can find her somewhere in the vicinity of an ocean, climb site, mountain or legit climbing tree as she works with students on and off the mat to discover a new sense of balance, strength and focus in whatever their form of practice might be. For more info please visit www.YogaSlackers.com / www.adicarter.com
Slackline Series 2012
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Enjoy this video preview of what the Adi Carter and the YogaSlackers have to offer and take a look at the YogaSlackers Youtube channel for more insight into their unique meld of disciplines.
