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Ready for a Yoga studio that will become your home? A place to get centered and grow? This is it!

02/11/2026

I’m practicing yoga on the mat and OFF the mat.
I’ve been prepping for Tim Feldmann, coming here in May.
I’ve been setting up for skiing.
Learning to be still like the Pines.
I’ve been practicing.
I’ve been loving my dog.
I’ve been absorbing.

It’s easy to NOT practice.
I tell students that sometimes the most advanced pose is leaving the house to go to yoga.

PRACTICE.

02/03/2026

The path is not always clear.
It’s blurry, we get lost, we lose our way.
We get aggravated. We despair.
We look around and wonder, why is it so easy for so-and-so?!
Perhaps it’s not?
So…
We regroup, we plan, and often, we stumble again.

The stumble, the despair, the lost way…this is not what defines you.
What defines you is
how you pick yourself up
how you start again.

Starting again is ALWAYS an option.

We have a gorgeous workshop for beginners this Saturday, 12:30-3. Not only for beginners, but also for lifelong students, aspiring teachers, or “experts” who would like:
-seated meditation practice
-learn a pranayama technique
-learn how to adjust the body
-learn the most basic of yoga sequencing

Under the “teacher training” workshops in our profile.

Sun Salutations Workshop
Saturday Feb 7
12:30-2pm

01/22/2026

Especially now, I find solace in the practice.
I need this place and time to center and stay grounded, especially when the news is too much, and the reports are heartbreaking, and the images feel like my heart is torn out of my chest.

I need this quiet place to stay grounded
… so that I can continue to stand up.

01/21/2026

Tim Feldman is coming to the Hudson Valley. He is coming to teach a six-day Mysore retreat. This is a program that’s open to beginners and more experienced people. (we see you third series.)

The early bird special ends February 15th.
Sign up in the bio or check the website.

01/18/2026

Turn towards the light.
Look for the beauty.
Have pancakes.
Dance a wee bit (or a lot).
Learn something new.
Call a friend.
Light a candle.
Walk amongst trees.
Listen to a song.
Read something, anything, on paper.
Hold someone’s hand.
Hug too long and too hard.
Do yoga.
Practice.
Practice and practice and practice.

01/14/2026

NEW class alert!

Beginning tomorrow night, our fabulous Courtney, a.k.a., is starting our new $10 Vinyasa class!

The vinyasa class will be from 5:15 to 6 PM. And then afterwards, an hour and 15 minute restorative class!

Tomorrow is the inaugural class. See you there 💚🤩

01/12/2026

There is injustice. Searing, heart ripping, injustice. It’s around us, sometimes within us, and often, it’s palpable...Like a candle we can’t quite blow out. And denying the injustice or denying the pain that we see and feel is not a realistic choice. It’s a choice some make, but more often than not, not a great choice. Only a choice that leads to more suffering.

And yet, YET, there is beauty. People standing up, shouting, protesting, speaking up. There’s awe inspiring beauty in the natural world. There’s people who light our fire, people we draw inspiration from. There’s community. Remember to look, around the corners, and I swear, community is still there.

So we show up. We take breaks when we need to. Maybe we amend our practice, we allow for the tears, or laugh from deep in our belly. We continue to feel.

We’ll show up here for yoga. We’ll keep our doors open. We’ll make space for community, for the soul searching, for the quizzical. We’ll be wonderful, we’ll be mundane, we’ll be glorious. We’ll keep showing up…because that’s what we do.

01/01/2026

Hi! My name Rachel and I’m the owner of Chatham Yoga Center. If you’re not familiar with our Shala (school), or yoga studio, we are a traditional Hatha Yoga center. We offer Ashtanga, Vinyasa Flow, and Viniyoga classes. We also are non traditional in that we offer Mat Pilates, as well as gentler forms, like Yin Yoga and Restorative Yoga.

I am also trained and teach ’s Black Lotus Yoga. That’s available both in our Mysore rooms as well as on Tuesday and Thursday at 8:30am. If you are familiar with Ty, you’ll know that’s a bit less traditional 😉

In many of our classes we use the Sanskrit names for poses, as well as chanting. I can also introduce students to pranayama during Mysore classes.

If you’re new to us, I look forward to meeting and working with you!

Happy New Year’s Day! ❄️

12/21/2025

Movement is medicine.

Winter is deep. Holidays can be chaotic. Activities, even fun ones, can be overwhelming.
It’s easy to skip yoga, to be TOO BUSY.
My suggestion: focus on how you AFTER you do yoga.
Rarely does someone say, “UGH, I’m so upset I went to Yoga!”

Movement is medicine.
It will bring stillness amidst all this action.
Come move.

Monday Schedule:
7am Vinyasa with Rachel
8:30am Mysore with Rachel
5:30pm Yin Yoga with Claire

12/20/2025

Empty Space comes to the Chatham Yoga Center in 2 weeks time. With the widest range of sound instruments you could imagine, you'll be treated to an immersive experience of sound that will be truly meditative. This is the way to ring in the New Year...

Saturday, January 3
12:45 - 2pm
$30

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sound

12/16/2025

Melissa. Melissa is one of our secret weapons. Her soft personality belies decades of experience, her approachable asanas rooted in Viniyoga a testament to the transformative power of her teaching.
Tomorrow is her last class till early Spring of 2026…take advantage 💚💚💚

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Chatham, NY

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https://chathamyogacenter.com/

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