MELANIE FAWER HAS DEVELOPED THE LIFE YOGA SERIES CLASSES – LIFE YOGA BASICS and LIFE YOGA FLOW, which incorporates her 20 years of yoga experience, strongly influenced by her study in India and respect for traditional yoga practices.
All of the LIFE YOGA series include individual attention, hands on alignment, yogic breathing, movement to breath coordination, eye focal points and core awareness.
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10:15-11:15am | kid's yoga | aaron | ages 4-7 | july only - call to pre-register |
| 12:00-1:00pm | jivamukti | libby | ii-iii | starts august | |
| 4:00-5:00pm | kid's yoga | sharon | ages 8-12 | july only - call to pre-register | |
| 6:00-7:30pm | led ashtanga | melanie | ii-iii | ||
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7:00-8:30am | mysore ashtanga | melanie | all | |
| 12:00-1:00pm | yoga basics | nathalie | i | ||
| 6:00-7:30pm | vinyasa flow | nathalie | ii-iii | ||
| 7:45-9:15pm | intro to ashtanga | nathalie | i-iii | ||
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12:00-1:00pm | yoga basics | nathalie | i | |
| 6:00-7:30pm | led ashtanga | melanie | iii | ||
| 7:45-9:15pm | jivamukti | libby | ii-iii | starts august | |
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7:00-8:30am | mysore ashtanga | nathalie | all | |
| 9:00-10:30 | flow (yogaworks method) |
nathalie | ii | ||
| 6:00-7:30pm | yoga basics | nathalie | i | ||
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9:00-10:15am | yoga basics | nathalie | i | |
| 9:00-10:15am | kid's yoga | melissa | ages 4-7 | july only - call to pre-register | |
| 10:30-11:30am | mommy & me yoga | melissa | ages infant - 3 yrs | call to pre-register | |
| 3:00-4:00pm | kid's yoga | melissa | ages 8-12 | july only - call to pre-register | |
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9:30-11:00am | flow (yogaworks method) |
nathalie | ii-iii | |
| 11:15-12:15pm | kid's yoga | melissa | ages 4-7 ages 8-12 |
july only - call to pre-register | |
| 4:00-5:30pm | intro to ashtanga | nathalie | all | ||
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10:00-11:30am | yoga basics | sharon | i | |
| 11:45-12:45pm | free life yoga community class | nathalie | i | august tba | |
| 4:30-6:00pm | hatha blend | lindsey | ii |
* Please arrive early for sign-in and to ensure your place;
* It is suggested that you bring your own mat but you may borrow one or buy one at LIFE boutique.
COMING IN JULY! LIFE YOGA ADVISOR - Designed to address your goals and needs and help direct you to the right LIFE class for you. Director Nathalie Croix, provides free :15 consultations to any student.
All of the LIFE YOGA series classes – LIFE YOGA BASICS and LIFE YOGA FLOW, include individual attention, hands on alignment, yogic breathing, movement to breath coordination, eye focal points and core awareness.
LIFE YOGA BASICS – Level I - Designed for the beginner or intermediate student to learn the fundamental yoga postures of Hatha yoga. Focuses on correct alignment, form and breathing. A great foundation for Level II and III classes.
VINYASA FLOW – Level II and III – Designed for intermediate or advanced students who want a fluid, more challenging class. Invigorating, rejuvenating and relaxing.
INTRO TO ASHTANGA – Level ALL – Designed to introduce the fundamentals of Ashtanga yoga and the beginning postures of the Primary series in an approachable, modified, step by step manner. The basis for Mysore Ashtanga or any other LIFE YOGA classes.
MYSORE ASHTANGA – Level ALL – Students learn the Primary series of Ashtanga yoga and core principles of the practice at their own pace and level but in a group setting. It is a personally challenging yoga practice, perfect for the yoga student looking for a deeper yoga experience and to develop a home practice. No prior knowledge of Ashtanga is needed.
LED ASHTANGA – Level II and III – In this traditional form, the instructor leads the class through a set sequence of Primary series postures: sun salutations, standing, sitting, backbends and inversions.
JIVAMUKTI – Level II and III – Vigorously physical, stimulating and spiritually inspired. Integrates music, mantra, pranayama, and meditation.
FLOW (YOGAWORKS METHOD) – Level II and III – The signature class of YogaWorks studios, this class balances precise instruction and alignment with breath, movement and flow. YogaWorks Teacher Training Program is based on this clear and effective style of practice
HATHA BLEND – Level II – Designed to blend more than one Hatha yoga style and taught by teachers who study more than one yoga tradition. Creates an eclectic and integrative yoga experience.
KID’S YOGA – Ages 4-7 and 8-12 - A lighthearted kids class using animated poses, breathing and visualization to stimulate imagination and release energy in a fun, safe environment. Promotes strength, flexibility, coordination, focus, balance and body awareness.LIFE YOGA ADVISOR – Designed to address your goals, needs and to help direct you to the right LIFE class. Director Nathalie Croix, provides free :15 consultations to any student.
SUMMER SPECIAL - $25 UNLIMITED CLASSES FOR ONE WEEK!!
DROP-IN - $12
5 CLASSES - $55 (expires after 8 weeks)
10 CLASSES - $100 (expires after 12 weeks)
20 CLASSES - $ 190 (expires after 22 weeks)
MONTHLY UNLIMTED - $160 (expires one month from day of purchase)
PRIVATE INSTRUCTION:
1 HOUR - $70
30 MINUTES - $40
IN-CLASS PRIVATE - $85
LIFE YOGA KIDS -
Pre-registration is required so please call 504-267-0380; classes must have at least three children pre-registered or class will be cancelled with refund. These classes are offered per month.
SINGLE CLASS - $12
(expires at end of each month)
4 CLASSES - $40
(expires at end of each month)
8 CLASSES - $72
(expires at end of each month)
12 CLASSES - $96
(expires at end of each month)
MELANIE FAWER
Co-owner of LIFE YOGA, Melanie formerly operated The Yoga Room in New Orleans from 2002-2008. Traditionally trained in classical Ashtanga yoga in Mysore, India, by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, she has made ten trips there since ’94 and was certified in ’01. She is one of only 12 women certified by Jois worldwide. Melanie introduced Ashtanga to New Orleans and produced a DVD, “Mysore Style Ashtanga Yoga – Primary Series.”
Melanie taught Ashtanga at Jivamukti Yoga Studio in New York City from ’99-‘00. While finishing college in New York in ‘91, Melanie studied directly with David Life and Sharon Gannon, the founders of Jivamukti, which is inspired by Ashtanga and Sivananda yoga. It was David whom recommended Melanie to study with Jois in India and later invited her to teach at their studio.
Melanie worked at the original Yoga Works in Santa Monica, CA in ’96 with its founder Maty Ezraty, whom introduced her to Iyengar yoga, and Chuck Miller. Melanie met both in Mysore in’94 and invited her to work at their studio. Also in ‘96, Melanie took Maty’s teacher training course.
Melanie has practiced for 20 years and watched yoga grow from a personal passion to a national and international phenomenon. She has watched New Orleans grow from a city with one or two pioneering yoga teachers to a city with at least ten yoga studios. Melanie is proud to call New Orleans home and to be part of its evolving yoga community. A graduate of New York University, Melanie majored in psychology.
NATHALIE CROIX
Director of LIFE YOGA, Nathalie returns to New Orleans from Santa Monica, CA. where she has been a yoga teacher and yoga advisor at Yoga Works since ‘06 and a Professor of Kinesiology and Yoga at Santa Monica College since ‘05. While in Santa Monica, Nathalie completed her third teacher training program at Yoga Works with Annie Carpenter, formerly of the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Lisa Walford, a certified Iyengar instructor.
Nathalie moved to the United States in ‘99 on a scholarship from Southeastern University of Louisiana and traveled with their dance company, DanceWorks for five years. In that time, her focus shifted from the performing arts to the healing arts as she fell in love with yoga. Her first teacher certification was with Ganga White of the White Lotus Foundation in ‘02 and in ’03, she was certified with Becky Gelatt of The Yoga School in Covington, LA.
Nathalie and Melanie met at The Yoga School in ’98 and a lasting teacher/student relationship and later friendship has grown into LIFE YOGA! Nathalie apprenticed and taught at The Yoga Room from ’02-‘04 and has made three trips to India since ‘03 to study with Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.
Nathalie looks for the natural potential of her students. She believes that each student should practice at their own pace and respects the individuality of each student.
A graduate of Southeastern Louisiana University, Nathalie majored in kinesiology and journalism with a specialization in modern dance. She is fluent in Spanish, French, Portuguese and English.
LINDSEY CROWE
Lindsey is a student at Loyola College of Law who currently moonlights as an improv comedian. She is a native New Orleanian who spent four years working in Orleans Parish Public Schools and continues to teach yoga to children in local schools. Lindsey has passionately practiced yoga for five years and received her teaching certificate through Swan River teacher training.
LIBBY BRYAN
Libby has been practicing yoga in different forms since her teenage years and in 2003, she discovered Jivamukti yoga. In 2004, she relocated to Kufstein, Austria and continued practicing in Germany at the Jivamukti Center in Munich. Under the direction of her mentor, Petros Haffenrichter and the founders of Jivamukti yoga, Sharon Gannon and David Life, she completed Jivamukti Teacher’s Training in New York in May of 2007. Immediately following, she began her teaching career at the Anaratma Yoga Shala in Innsbruck, Austria until her return to New Orleans in November 07. For the last two years, she has been teaching yoga classes in the United States and Europe.
Libby earned her B.A. in Business Management in 1995 from Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri where she also studied ballet and modern dance.
LELA CLOUD
Lela Cloud Neff began studying Hatha yoga with Alvina in 1997, after several years of ballet and modern dance study, and a childhood gymnastics practice. Yoga and body awareness study continued with Nina Be Sandot and in 2001, she discovered Ashtanga yoga. Ashtanga greatly deepened her home practice and ultimately led her to study with Melanie Fawer at the Yoga Room following hurricane Katrina. With the close of The Yoga Room in ’08, Lela began practice at Balance Yoga and Wellness and has apprenticed there since May ’08.
In addition to Ashtanga, Lela has studied and practiced Anusara, Iyengar and Bikram yoga styles and has attained brown belts in both Kung Fu and T’ai Chi.
Lela loves Hatha yoga and believes that everyone in this stress-filled world needs the deep breathing, strengthening and stretching that it provides.
KIDS YOGA CLASSES INSTRUCTORS
MELISSA CLARK
Melissa Ann Clark began her yogic studies six years ago trying out different styles until finding Ashtanga yoga at The Yoga Room when she moved to New Orleans in ‘06. A graduate of the University of Georgia with a BA in Theater, Melissa has also studied the Alexander Technique and Contact Improvisation, two other body awareness and movement techniques. Melissa has taught kids yoga, puppetry and theater around the New Orleans Metro area. She brings warmth and humor to her practice and her students, welcoming each day as a gift of trial and error. She is excited to join Life Yoga and bring the yoga practice to kids and inspire them to open their hearts!