The Yoga Room Berkeley

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

This method emphasizes proper alignment and develops body awareness, strength, and flexibility. Follow us on Twitter at .

A preview of Yoga & the Vagus for Self-Regulation & Resilience with Cator ShachoyThis transformative workshop invites yo...
10/15/2025

A preview of Yoga & the Vagus for Self-Regulation & Resilience with Cator Shachoy

This transformative workshop invites you to:
🌿 Understand how vagal tone shapes your well-being
🌿 Learn to identify your nervous system states
🌿 Practice yoga postures that stimulate the vagus nerve
🌿 Explore breathing techniques for regulation
🌿 Gain scientific insights into the mind-body connection
🌿 Transition smoothly between Freeze, Activation, and Relaxation states

Sunday, October 19, 1:00–4:00 PM
$65 (in-person and online)

Register here: 🌐 yogaroomberkeley.com/workshops-intensives

Don’t miss these opportunities to practice with Mary Lou Weprin! ✨Mary Lou has been teaching at The Yoga Room since 1980...
10/03/2025

Don’t miss these opportunities to practice with Mary Lou Weprin! ✨

Mary Lou has been teaching at The Yoga Room since 1980 and is Co-Director of the Advanced Studies Program. She has trained many of the Bay Area’s teachers together with Donald Moyer since 1988. The Intensives and workshops she offers throughout the year are well attended even by out-of-town teachers looking to deepen their ability to observe and assist their students.

Transform Your Yoga Practice with Personalized GuidanceThe Yoga Room's Advanced Studies Program offers mentorship with e...
07/25/2025

Transform Your Yoga Practice with Personalized Guidance

The Yoga Room's Advanced Studies Program offers mentorship with experienced practitioners who've walked this path before you.

What makes our mentorship special:
🌿 Choose your primary teacher from our graduate & faculty community
🌿 Weekly classes with your mentor throughout the program
🌿 Learn from practitioners with decades of experience since 1988
🌿 Personal guidance as you explore asana, alignment, breathwork, anatomy & yoga philosophy

The flexible, modular structure allows you to deepen your foundation of yoga and cultivate a home practice with the guidance of a mentor.

Ready to learn from the experience of longtime practitioners? Your yoga journey deserves this kind of personal attention.

Starts in September. Registration open now!
📧 info@yogaroomberkeley.com
🌐 yogaroomberkeley.com/advanced-studies

Join us at The Yoga Room Berkeley for classes that meet you where you are—from relaxing Restorative and gentle Pranayama...
07/24/2025

Join us at The Yoga Room Berkeley for classes that meet you where you are—from relaxing Restorative and gentle Pranayama to energizing asana classes.

All levels welcome
In-person, hybrid, or online options

🌐 Full schedule on yogaroomberkeley.com/classes
📧 Contact our teachers directly or reach out to info@yogaroomberkeley.com

When we find proper alignment in our poses, we create space for deeper understanding - not just of our physical bodies, ...
07/21/2025

When we find proper alignment in our poses, we create space for deeper understanding - not just of our physical bodies, but of our whole being.

The body teaches the mind, and the mind discovers itself. Each practice becomes a quiet conversation between who we are and who we're becoming.

The wisdom of alignment has guided our practice at The Yoga Room since 1978.

🌱 Ready to go deeper? Year 1 awaits youSince 1988, our Advanced Studies Program has been transforming yoga practitioners...
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

Deepen Your Yoga Journey with Our Advanced Studies ProgramSince 1988, The Yoga Room Berkeley has been helping students t...
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

The Advanced Studies Program is back! Starting this September, dive deep into the transformative world of Iyengar-inspir...
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

Introduction to Yoga for Back Carewith Deborah WolkSaturday, April 20  | 2:00 - 5:00 pm$65  (in-person on online)​One of...
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.
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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.

✨Meet our NEW yoga teacher Nicole Stone.Nicole Stone is a lover of movement and embodied spiritual practice. Yoga has be...
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.

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Two-Day Yoga Rope Wall Workshopwith Sandy ZirulnikSaturday & Sunday, February 24 and 252:00-4:00 pm | $120In-Person Onl...
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.

✨NEW CLASS✨Starting on January 30th.Tuesdays - 6:00 – 7:15 p.m. Beginning Yoga / studio BJoe’s Hatha Yoga classes will b...
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.

Address

2530 San Pablo Avenue, Ste D
Berkeley, CA
94702

Opening Hours

Tuesday 8am - 9pm
Wednesday 8am - 9pm
Thursday 8am - 9pm
Friday 8am - 9pm
Saturday 8am - 9pm
Sunday 8am - 9pm

Telephone

+15102049322

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