The Yoga Room Berkeley

07/14/2025

🌱 Ready to go deeper? Year 1 awaits you

Since 1988, our Advanced Studies Program has been transforming yoga practitioners who crave depth, detail, and authentic learning. Year 1: Personal Practice & Discovery is designed for students with at least one year of experience who want to explore yoga's many layers.

What makes our program unique:
🌱 Flexible and modular - adapts to your individual needs
🌱 Experienced faculty and mentorship with primary teachers
🌱 Comprehensive curriculum covering asana, anatomy, pranayama, and philosophy
🌱 Supportive community of dedicated practitioners

What you'll discover in Year 1: Breath work, balanced practice for mind and body, wisdom studies, and yoga anatomy. Develop your understanding of yoga and cultivate a sustainable home practice through in-depth classes on asana practice and theory.

This flexible, modular program runs September to June and adapts to your individual needs. Applications now open.

📧 info@yogaroomberkeley.com
🌐 yogaroomberkeley.com/advanced-studies

07/10/2025

Deepen Your Yoga Journey with Our Advanced Studies Program

Since 1988, The Yoga Room Berkeley has been helping students transform their practice through our comprehensive Advanced Studies Program. Whether you dream of teaching or simply want to enrich your personal journey, we meet you where you are.

Year 1: Personal Practice & Discovery
✨ Develop your understanding of yoga philosophy
✨ Cultivate a meaningful home practice
✨ Explore breath work, anatomy, and alignment
✨ Learn from experienced practitioners

Year 2: Teacher Training & Steady Practice
✨ Master teaching and observation skills
✨ Deepen your asana studies
✨ Build confidence through practice teaching
✨ Beneficial for dedicated practitioners, teaching or not

Ready to take the next step? Our program runs September to June, and applications are now open. Whether you're called to teach or simply want to go deeper, we're here to support your journey.

📧 info@yogaroomberkeley.com
🌐 yogaroomberkeley.com/advanced-studies

07/08/2025

The Advanced Studies Program is back!

Starting this September, dive deep into the transformative world of Iyengar-inspired yoga with our comprehensive ASP program. Founded in 1988 by Donald Moyer and Mary Lou Weprin, it's an intensive journey into philosophy, practice, and teaching methodology that has shaped our community for decades.

✨ What makes it special?
- Learn from senior teachers who've studied directly with the Iyengar family in India
- Decades of wisdom from East Bay's most experienced teachers
- Alignment-based approach that transforms both practice and understanding

Ready to deepen your practice?
📧 info@yogaroomberkeley.com
🌐 yogaroomberkeley.com/advanced-studies

04/04/2024

Introduction to Yoga for Back Care
with Deborah Wolk
Saturday, April 20 | 2:00 - 5:00 pm
$65 (in-person on online)
​
One of yoga’s stated goals is the avoidance of pain. For those of us suffering from back pain, learning
about one’s movement and postural patterns can be the key to avoiding pain and addressing back issues.
Practice for back care is not the same for each individual but in this workshop you will learn the steps each
of us needs to take to address our situations.
● Awareness
● Extension (making space between the joints)
● Realignment
● Stabilizing the new alignment

Join Deborah Wolk, renowned expert on Yoga for Back Care and founder of Samamkaya Yoga Back Care & Scoliosis Collective, one of very few studios dedicated solely to Back Care in the world, for an enlightening approach to yoga practice specifically adapted to address your disc injuries, SI joint problems, Scoliosis, Stenosis and more —in other words, yoga to heal your back!

This workshop is open to all levels including brand new beginners and teachers wishing to learn techniques
to help their students.
•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Deborah Wolk, C-IAYT, working with students with back issues, scoliosis, and other injuries for over two decades. Her yoga practice working with her own scoliosis informs her work and her teachings are based on the principles of Iyengar style yoga and Body Mind Centering (BMC) techniques. She is warm and funny and her teachings are subtle yet explained at a level everyone can understand. Deborah teaches workshops, retreats, and teacher trainings on Back Care & Scoliosis and related topics in New York City, across the US, and around the world. To learn more about Deborah or make an appointment for a private lesson please visit www.dwolkyoga.com.

01/29/2024

✨Meet our NEW yoga teacher Nicole Stone.
Nicole Stone is a lover of movement and embodied spiritual practice. Yoga has been in her life since she happened upon a class in 1997. She has a background in Dance and for the last 11 years has studied and taught Qigong. She is delighted and honored to be graduating from The Yoga Room’s Advanced Studies Program this December.

Weekly Midday Monday Yoga, Level 1-3,~ Inspired by the practice of BKS Iyengar, author of Light on Yoga
12:00-1:30 pm ~ IN-PERSON in Studio A at

The Yoga Room in Berkeley
This beginning to intermediate level class will be both gentle and strengthening. By creating a stable foundation, we will extend the spine and limbs to create internal space for the organs to receive nourishment. By aligning our bodies with gravity, we will ground our weight to find lightness and full breathing. Props will be used to meet you where you are. You will leave class feeling both relaxed and awake, with a new sense of balance within.

Weekly Midday Thursday Noon Yoga, Level 2-3 ~Inspired by the practice of BKS Iyengar, author of Light on Yoga

12:00-1:30 pm ~ IN-PERSON in Studio A at The Yoga Room in Berkeley
This intermediate level class will be similar to Monday’s class, but will move at a slightly faster pace and incorporate a few more challenging poses. The focus will be on lengthening and strengthening.

#

01/24/2024

Two-Day Yoga Rope Wall Workshop

with Sandy Zirulnik

Saturday & Sunday, February 24 and 25

2:00-4:00 pm | $120

In-Person Only

This two-day Yoga Rope Wall immersion workshop at The Yoga Room will explore many aspects of working with the wall. We will discuss and experience the Rope Wall as both a versatile prop to facilitate an accessible practice for all bodies and as a tool for development of alignment, precision, stability, and strength.

This work will increase your awareness of structure, core body, and movement within gravity, while providing new tools to deepen your practice of yoga asanas. Each day will include a mix of discussion, floor work, and wall work, with time for questions, individual instruction, and experimentation.

With an attitude of inquiry and fun, we will take yoga asana basic concepts to the wall to experience a changing relationship to gravity. We will also learn to use the wall for restorative practice. All levels are invited to attend. Yoga instructors are welcome. Attendance will be limited to 10 participants. As we will be practicing supported inversions, please contact the instructor prior to registering if you have a health condition that may preclude inverting safely or if you have other questions about the program.

Sandy Zirulnik, E-RYT 500, YACEP, leads yoga classes that explore structure, movement, strength, and balance through the practice of asanas, breathing awareness, and the study of anatomy. They are enjoyable and appropriate for students of all ages and interests. Sandy began studying Yoga in 1998 and graduated from The Yoga Room’s Advanced Studies Program. On the rope wall, he explores pushing, pulling and weightlessness.

01/16/2024

✨NEW CLASS✨
Starting on January 30th.

Tuesdays - 6:00 – 7:15 p.m.
Beginning Yoga / studio B

Joe’s Hatha Yoga classes will be focused on alignment as well as body
awareness with an emphasis on safe and effective use of props to aid
in accessibility for all levels of flexibility. As well as personal
attention to each student’s needs. His goal is to offer you a practice
that is genuine, nourishing and encouraging.

Joe’s began his personal yoga practice at 62 years of age using the method
inspired by BKS Iyengar. In 2013, he graduated from the Berkeley Yoga
Room’s 500 hour Advanced Studies Program. Joe then started teaching at
numerous East Bay yoga studios as well as hospitals, the Hayward Area
Recreation Department’s Aikens Senior Center and the Castro Valley and
San Lorenzo public libraries. He is committed to yoga as community service and
He says “ I believes in the healing and sustaining power of yoga for myself , my family, and my community.”
He is also a certified Yoga for Healthy Aging instructor and a Yoga
12-Step Recovery Class teacher.

For more information about how to register for the class please visit our schedule on our website.

01/12/2024

Saturday February 3, 2–5pm
Yoga Movement with Gay White

A group yoga practice of connected asanas, fluid, unbroken phrases and strengthening movement variations. We move through balanced asana sequences, with natural breath awareness and an inner focus. Movement and yoga can create a deep experience of stillness. This practice invites joy, gratitude and fresh movement possibilities from one’s whole self.

To register please go to the graduate seminar link on our bio or visit our website.

01/09/2024

Meet our new teacher Sara Saberi. .yoga is an alignment-based Hatha yoga instructor whose teachings weave a deep connection between body and soul. From Tehran to India, Sara’s yoga odyssey is a tapestry of courage and dedication. Join her in the East Bay for a unique yoga experience, including a serene Savasana guided by her soulful vocals and Persian classical tunes. Experience healing, transformation, and spiritual connection in every moment.

1) Sara, what is your special interest that you would like to offer to people through yoga?
Yoga means “to unite,” so my hope is that people leave my classes feeling more connected to their inner selves, the universal consciousness, and those around them. Now, more than ever, we need connection, love, and kindness in this world.

Sara’s classes are on
Saturday 11-12:30pm
Studio B
Online and In-Person with Reservation (sarasaberi7@gmail.com)

Join our class led by Sara Saberi, centered on promoting healthy alignment through asanas and breath. Whether you’re new to yoga or an experienced practitioner, Hatha Yoga with Sara emphasizes fundamentals, creating a space for both the curious and seasoned yogis. All levels are encouraged to join – everyone is welcome! 🧘‍♀️✨

Personalized attention is given to meet each student’s unique needs.

To learn more about Sara please visit our website yogaroomberkeley.com

🧘‍♀️🎶 ”

01/08/2024

BASIC TEACHING SKILLS
with Gay White
Wed, 5:45–7:15pm, 1/10–2/28 | 8 classes, $265
We will consider the fundamental skills required to teach a safe and effective class for beginners, including verbal instructions, organizing a group and examining various teaching topics.

To register please go to our website yogaroomberkeley.com

01/06/2024

FOUNDATIONS OF ASANA
with Mary Lou Weprin
Tues, 5:45–7:15pm, 1/9–2/27 | 8 classes, $265
This asana class will examine the basic principles of movement and alignment, and the spiritual and philosophical values inherent in the Iyengar method of hatha yoga.

01/02/2024

DEVELOPING A HOME PRACTICE
with Tasha Hansen
Tues, 5:45–7:15pm, 1/9–2/27 | 8 classes, $265
We will talk about how to structure a practice session, from time-management to effective warm-ups and preps for the main poses you plan to practice. We will explore important poses in all the pose categories around which a practice can be structured. Suggestions will be given for ways to vary practices.

🔗 To register please go to Advance Studies Program link on our Instagram bio.

Founded in 1978, The Yoga Room offers classes and workshops based on the teachings of B.K.S. Iyengar