Babette Godefroy - babgod yoga, Brooklyn, NY (2026)

02/05/2026

Over the years of teaching - whether in Yin, Yoga Nidra, Restorative, or after a demanding Vinyasa flow - I’ve watched the same truth reveal itself again and again.

When physical tension begins to dissolve, the mind softens. When the mind softens, emotional holding has a chance to loosen.

This is why we come back to the body. Not to perform. Not to perfect. But because working with the body as we process life - especially during times of overwhelm - can reach places that analysis, insight, or conversation alone simply cannot.

And so tomorrow I begin a three-year professional training in trauma physiology and nervous system regulation with Somatic Experiencing® International, developed by Peter Levine, to deepen my understanding of how experience lives and resolves in the body.

The body has an extraordinary capacity to hold what the mind cannot yet process. When that holding is met with enough safety and regulation, integration becomes possible. In times when the bandwidth and resilience of our nervous systems are under strain, learning how to meet the body with care, pacing, and respect feels vital.

I feel grateful to be able to commit to another long-form training, and clear that this work will ask something different of me than anything I’ve studied before.

I’m stepping in fully. Slowly. With deep reverence for the intelligence of the nervous system, and curiosity about how this work will shape the way I teach, practice, and relate to the body over time.

More to come, once I’ve had some time to embody the work 🤍

10/28/2025

I’m honored to share that I’ll be joining my alma mater, , as part of the faculty for their upcoming Yin Yoga Therapeutics on-demand module.

As part of this course, I’ll be leading a live online session on November 25th, exploring how to teach and apply Yin therapeutically - bridging anatomy and subtle energy, meridian theory, meditation, and self-care through fascia-informed sequencing.

It’s a full-circle moment to return to the institute that shaped my own journey as a yoga therapist, and to now contribute to the collective exploration of Yin as a language of stillness, somatic intelligence, and healing.

✨ Early-bird pricing is available until November 11th - for more details, see the link in my bio.

10/19/2025

What I thought would be an intellectual, cerebral and scientific experience - four days in a dissection lab in Boulder, Colorado, studying under Tom Myers and master dissector Todd Garcia - turned out to become a spiritual experience that I had no way of preparing for: a direct encounter with life itself, and with everything that makes it precious precisely because it ends.

I thought I had seen death; ten years ago I sat by my father’s bedside when he took his last breath, felt the stillness that followed, and washed his body. But seeing the inner architecture of the human form - the way a lifetime of breath, emotion, and adaptation writes itself into tissue - was something else entirely.

We worked with six donors, each a final gift of generosity. Layer by layer - skin, fascia, muscle, viscera, bone - we witnessed that patterns of protection don’t die when the person does. Even after death, the body remembers its shapes of survival.

There were countless moments of anatomical awe: feeling the fragile fabric of fascia, tracing the psoas into the diaphragm, seeing the web of the brachial plexus, holding the heart and cerebellum in my hands. And then there were moments that stopped me cold - the strength of the aorta, the tenderness of the uterus, the elegance of the vagus nerve, and the realization that the “tension” we speak of in living bodies is not theoretical; it is visible, palpable - a record of a life lived.

Somewhere, the line between science and spirit dissolved - the body revealed itself as both map and mystery. Yes, I had the honor of experiencing anatomy in its truest form - but more than anything, I was gifted a deeper understanding of how sacred and intelligent beyond true comprehension the body is: an expression of relationship between matter, movement, memory, and meaning.

I’m profoundly grateful that I get to dedicate my life to studying the soma - the alchemy of being alive inside a body that feels, remembers, protects, and, if we’re lucky, feels at home in its own skin. I’ll be carrying these lessons into my teaching, not as more information, but as a deeper invitation to remember the miracle of being alive in motion.

05/26/2025

✨ I’m thrilled to share some exciting news! ✨

This week I’m joining Repose Wellness Center Union Square as a yoga therapist, working alongside an incredible team of clinicians who offer psychotherapy, somatic therapy, and EMDR therapy. It’s an honor to be part of a community so deeply committed to holistic healing and integrated wellness.

As part of this new chapter, I’ll be offering three public group classes each week:

🧘‍♀️ Somatic Slow Flow + Sound Bath
Tuesdays & Thursdays at 6:00 p.m.

🌙 Yoga Nidra + Sound Bath
Saturdays at 2:30 p.m.

I believe that nervous system regulation is at the heart of all healing. I’m grateful I get to share some of my favorite nervous system regulating and rewiring practices at Repose, like embodied unwinding, interoceptive awareness, and conscious relaxation but also with sound vibration, visualization, breath work, and meditation—I can’t wait to welcome you into the space.

Through these practices we learn to listen to the language of our body, teaching us that we can honor our story but that we don’t have to carry it with us in our tissues.

I’ll also be available for 1:1 yoga therapy sessions, tailored to your unique needs and goals.

If you’re interested in joining a class or scheduling a private session, feel free to reach out—I’d love to connect.

📷: (at 5-year anniversary last month)

12/13/2024

Five weeks in Bali, and this is the only “yoga photo” I managed to take - it reminds me that not all yoga we practice can be captured on camera.

My time in Bali wasn’t so much about asana, putting our body into a shape, but about how the body shapes in reaction to inadequately processed events, experiences and emotions. Our body can hold onto these narratives and unfelt feelings deep within our tissues and nervous system, which may leave us with a mind-body connection that doesn’t feel aligned; it can show up as tension, fatigue, anxiety, irritability, depression, disassociation, pain and even illness.

I gained some very valuable new insights during my Yin and Restorative trainings (deep gratitude to & ) and I was able to add significantly to my teaching toolbox. As much as I treasured embodying this new knowledge, these trainings and my time in Bali turned out to primarily be an opportunity to have a humble and honest conversation with myself - with the added support of quite a few facilitators in a variety of healing arts disciplines - about what I was holding onto mentally and physically that needed to leave my system. This internal inquiry is far from done and I’m committed to tend to it daily.

Learning to let go of limiting thoughts in the mind and the shedding of stuck stories in the body may be where our greatest liberation lies.

The unwinding of our life’s story within the body can be a powerful portal to true freedom, peace and happiness, as long as we’re willing to listen and engage with compassion, kindness and love.

This time of year can be triggering for many and our bodies might react to things/ places/ people in a way that our conscious mind doesn’t fully understand. May we stay gentle with ourselves and the people around us, as many may be struggling with a challenging internal conversation that we (and possibly, they) have no idea is taking place.

Our body never lies and is never against us. Our body is, literally, our closest friend and ally, may we love and listen to it unequivocally and unconditionally.

Wishing you a holiday season of connection (to self), kindness (to self) and (self) care 🤍

11/08/2024

BACK TO BALI - see you in five weeks, NYC.

Never not learning, I’ll be a forever student of yoga. I’m immensely looking forward to immerse myself into two 100-hour yoga trainings, Yin-Yang with Paul Teodo and Restorative Yoga & Nervous System Rewiring with Tina Nance at the magical in Ubud, Bali.

Our body holds a wisdom that we are very good at ignoring - I’m grateful I can take the next few weeks to dig deep and connect to my body and nervous system in a way I never have before, under the guidance of industry experts in one of the most soothing places on this planet.

Looking forward to bring back that Bali magic and peace when I return mid December.

You can still practice with me while I’m away! After a three year hiatus from uploading, all of my weekly yoga sequences from this last year are on my channel (link in bio). I made YouTube Partner last week, so I was finally able to remove all mid-roll ads, please enjoy - undisturbed.

Let me know how you get on 🩵

📷: .ritchie

09/09/2024

Couldn’t be more thrilled about these shiny new offerings - LONG FORMATS have arrived!

Now teaching four weekly 75-minute vinyasa yoga classes; we’ll hold for longer, go further, breathe deeper and explore so much more.

FALL 🍁 SCHEDULE

MONDAY
12.15pm EQ Williamsburg • 75min Vinyasa (heated) (NEW!)
5.30pm Sui Yoga • Advanced Vinyasa (heated)
7.30pm Humming Puppy • 75min Advanced Vinyasa

TUESDAY
8.15pm EQ Gramercy • Yin & Meditation (heated)

WEDNESDAY
6pm Sui Yoga • Power Vinyasa (hot)
8.15pm EQ SoHo • Sonic Meditation

THURSDAY
7.45pm EQ Hudson Yards • Restorative
8.45pm EQ Hudson Yards • Sonic Meditation

FRIDAY
4pm EQ SoHo • Sonic Meditation

SATURDAY
9am EQ SoHo • 75min Power Vinyasa (NEW!)
12pm Humming Puppy • Vinyasa
1.30pm Humming Puppy • Yin & Restorative
3pm Humming Puppy • Sound Bath Mini
4.30pm EQ NoMad • Power Vinyasa (heated) (NEW!)

SUNDAY
9am Sui Yoga • Vinyasa & Yin (hot)
10.45am EQ Printing House • Power Vinyasa
2.30pm EQ Williamsburg • 75min Power Vinyasa (heated) (NEW!)
4.15pm EQ Williamsburg • Sonic Meditation
5.30pm ALO Williamsburg • Yin & Meditation

DM for a guest pass 🤍

📷✨: .ritchie

12/27/2023

✨ Thank you for sharing with us

Been sitting on this news for a couple of weeks as I was waiting for my certificate to arrive - it’s here now, I’m officially a certified Yoga Therapist! (C-IAYT)

I quoted Henry David Thoreau when I announced on social media 2.5 years ago that I was starting my Yoga Therapy training program: “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

I wrote that I was thrilled about all the new things I was going to learn and about becoming a Yoga Therapist but that I was also very much looking forward to how the training would transform me, as a yoga teacher and as an individual.

Thoreau was right - our learning journey is one that lasts a lifetime; the incredible faculty has given me so many tools that I now share with my students and clients to lead more mindful, embodied and connected lives.

However, my time with gave me so much more than a certification and a license to practice yoga therapy - it gave me insight into my body, my mind, my practice and my existence that I may not have found without PYI.

I will never be able to express my gratitude for that gift.

Stay curious about the journey, my friends. 🧡

07/06/2023

I often remind myself and my yoga students to “Move through what you’re going through.” After three years of not having done any long distance bike rides, I finally got another 100+ mile ride in today.

Movement is therapy for me and I’m so grateful I get to do that with my yoga community but also by myself on a long distance solo bike ride.

Thank you all that inspire me to continue to move, to keep going. We can surely take breaks, catch our breath, but we gotta keep moving.

There is no real destination, only a long ride - let’s make it a good one.

01/05/2023

Happy 2023, friends! Last year was a powerhouse of abundance and change.

I’m immensely grateful for having joined some magnificent yoga communities Equinox, Humming Puppy and SUI YOGA I’m honored to teach and practice alongside so many incredible humans.

However, with change and forward motion unequivocally comes letting go; so as I leave some things and places, allowing me to stay on course for expansion and growth, I’m excited to share there will be more opportunities to practice with me this year.

As of this month, you can now also find me Alo Yoga New York. Keep an eye out for my “Schedule” story highlight.

See you on the mat, yogis. Wishing you all a healthy, happy and prosperous new year. Keep moving, keep breathing.

08/17/2022

This morning I had the privilege to experience my two great loves, yoga and New York City, illuminated by a perfect summer sunrise.

Teaching two yoga classes for high up in the sky on was pure magic.

Special thanks to for putting me up there with the clouds.

06/21/2022

Happy International Yoga Day and summer solstice - we get to enjoy the longest day of the year today and celebrate the light.

Join me tonight at 6pm for a special midsummer sun salutation class or treat yourself to a relaxing Yin practice at 7.30pm.

For more class offerings this week, check out my schedule story highlight.

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