Yoga with Rebecca Faye

02/17/2026

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Today's practice 😂

Cartoon by David Gomberg

02/16/2026

No holiday for yoga! We're on tonight at Yoga Loft at LeeAnn Nelson Physical Therapy for Gentle Yoga. And I'll return there Sunday for a very special offering of Restorative Yoga & Yoga Nidra, Feb. 22nd. Registration link in comments. See you this week!

02/13/2026

See you Sunday!

02/11/2026

How are we going to keep ourselves well balanced? We find ourselves just on the other side of the halfway point between winter and spring and we're in for a bit of a wild ride with the weather. Winter is dominated by vata (think dry, cold, mobile) and spring is dominated by kapha (think earth, wet, stable). Our bodies/minds can easily go out of balance if we're not paying attention during seasonal transitions. Today we find ourselves moving out of extreme cold and dryness (vata) and into windy conditions (further aggravating vata) paired with warmth and a lot of muddy wetness (kapha) all while we're still pretty squarely here in the middle of winter.
So tonight, we're going to ground ourselves through pranayama and meditation to open and close class (calming vata) and we're also going to move a little more vigorously and build some heat so we don't get stagnant and stuck in the muck (calming kapha).
See you tonight!

02/09/2026

Warm up tonight at Yoga Loft at LeeAnn Nelson Physical Therapy! We're going to do a warming physical practice as well as explore the subtle body through two practices of nadi shodhana pranayama.

02/07/2026

Solid advice.

02/02/2026

See you tonight at Yoga Loft at LeeAnn Nelson Physical Therapy ! We're gonna get warm with a more physically rigorous practice before settling in for some pranayama (all levels welcome).

01/28/2026

We're gonna flow like water tonight with a practice focusing on the hips and pelvis as well as tending to anything ailing you from snow shoveling. We'll also spend some time with pranayama, including Bhramari pranayama, which we started to explore last week. See you tonight! P.S. Don't forget about Restorative Yoga, Feb. 1!

01/26/2026

No class at Yoga Loft at LeeAnn Nelson Physical Therapy tonight but I'll see you the rest of the week at the co-op- don't forget about Restorative Yoga, Feb. 1! Hope you're staying warm!

01/22/2026

Snow day! The co-op will be closed and there will be no Newark Yoga Community class this Sunday.

To keep our staff and members of the community safe, we will be closed this Sunday due to the upcoming snow storm. We will be keeping an eye on the forecast and may have to adjust our plan accordingly, so check back to our page for the latest hour changes.

01/22/2026

A lot of folks think that by shunning props they are working harder, but that's the ego playing tricks with you. The real work in the body comes from specificity, not from contorting yourself and pretending like you're in the fullest expression of a pose because you think that's what it looks like from the outside (p.s. that's not what it looks like to your yoga teacher). If you're losing the specificity and the integrity of your movement you are both risking strain and injury as well as developing a lazy (yeah, I said it) asana practice all under the ego's guise of "doing it the most challenging way." The most challenging (and beneficial) way to practice asana is with intense specificity and integrity and if that means using a prop, that's the way to go. Can your use of props become a crutch? Can you use props in a way that keeps you from going as deep into a pose as you are capable? Sure, but that's your choice. Props are also integral to a restorative practice where they are meant to hold you in the asana and allow you to let go (after you have very specifically moved yourself into a good pose). A stack of blocks can also make a nice end table:) How do you use props?

Read more at the link in the comments!