KellyYoga (2026)

25/01/2024

Mantra for Meditation Workshop📿

“Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.”

- Krishna Das

A mantra is a sacred chant, a numinous sound, a syllable, or group of Sanskrit words which are chanted repeatedly as part of meditation. It means to free one’s self from their mind.

Mantra is a sound form of meditation, a type of energy prayer which can help you in everyday life: overcoming obstacles, achieving goals, reducing stress and anxiety, improving concentration, and creating a sense of calm in the mind and body, just to name few.

The ultimate the goal of mantra chanting is spiritual, and to attract union and peace in our lives.

This workshop is for:

⭐️Beginner mantra students

⭐️Yoga teachers who want to complement their teaching and practice with mantra

⭐️Anyone interested in spirituality

⭐️Anyone searching for grounding and deeper connection to oneself

⭐️Anyone interested in meditation and being more present

⭐️Yoga Alliance registered teachers who need CE hours

What you will learn:

💫Ancient Vedic mantras

💫Bija mantras (seed mantras)

💫How to use a mala (108 beaded garland mediation tool)
💫Japa meditation (repetition of mantra with mala)

💫Mantra yoga practice

💫Introduction to the Sanskrit language

💫Overview of Hindu mythology (gods and goddesses)

💫Improved focus and concentration

💫How to reduce stress and calm the mind

💫The auspicious power of mantras and the ancient practice of chanting

Sunday, February 25, 2024
1:30-4:30pm ET

Open to all levels

YACEP Accredited Continuing Education Course

Pricing:

Before February 4, 2024: $85

After February 5, 2024: $100

⭐️Price includes a mala for you to keep and continue your new mantra practice at home.📿📿📿

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📍Lift Vida
299 Alhambra Circle
Suite 222
Coral Gables, FL 33134

10/05/2023

Like many Yoga teachers, I've felt very frustrated with the current yoga scene: the corporate-like yoga studios popping up everywhere, the lack of legitimate teacher trainings, the spiritual bypassing, and the misguided newer generations of teachers— just to name a few.

I decided to write an e-book to both educate new teachers and inspire experienced ones to restore the integrity, respect, and honor of Yoga in the West.

If you have felt misguided on your yogic path or frustrated with the current yoga scene, I invite you to download my free e-book: “How Yoga Philosophy Can Transform Your Teaching” to learn how you can transform your teaching and your yoga community.

I also invite you to join my Facebook Group: Yoga Off The Mat - Philosophy for Daily Life

If you're not a teacher, but would like to learn more about what's happening in the current yoga landscape, I encourage you to read my latest blog post, Why I Wrote an E-Book.

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19/04/2023

From the beginning, I knew it was a privilege to be a Yoga teacher, and this came with great responsibility. Integrity, honor, and respect are everything. But I’ve seen an alarming trend over the past six or seven years: Younger generations think there is some sort of fast track to becoming a yoga teacher, when the reality is that continual study, practice, and experience is the only way to become a true Yoga teacher. There is a growing misunderstanding between Yoga and yoga āsana (postural practice), which is leading to this pseudo-healing course of narcissistic navel-gazing & spiritual bypassing, and it’s only getting worse.

Head over to my latest blog post: “Why I wrote and E-Book” to learn how identifying this trend has inspired me to share my knowledge with & train the next generation of true Yoga teachers.

I want to thank for forcing me to write this book last year lol, for telling me I needed to write a book on Yoga philosophy after my first philosophy lecture for her YTT, for the inspiring chat on this topic at a London cafe last summer, for the extra courage and final push to publish my e-book, to my mentor Robyn and our teacher Chase Bossart who is the most brilliant, practical, and relatable Yoga philosophy teacher I’ve ever had the honor to study under, to all of my beloved teachers over the past 16 years, and lastly to all of my students and trainees who have embraced the philosophy and ancient texts of Yoga into their lives and allowed me to teach my passion and share my love for this sacred science of life.

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02/03/2023

Bottoms Up!
Skills & Drills for Inversions

Yoga Workshop
with Kelly Brandon

This workshop will help you feel like “your hands are your feet” and “Bottoms Up” is the natural way up!

We’ll cover tips and techniques for different inversions and arm balances, while also building strength, flexibility, and confidence to make the process less strenuous and more fun!

First we’ll fire up the body with drills and stretches designed to help you build solid and safe alignment and technique. Next, we’ll play with specific postures and break them down so they are easier to understand and feel in the body.

Then, we’ll play a little more and explore different ways to transition in and out of arm balances and inversions.

Open to all levels

Price: $40

Sunday, May 7, 2023

12 - 2pm

Pinecrest Community Center

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09/01/2023

The yoga world has lost a great one today.

I met Jason Lawner in his early 20s but it was obvious (even back then) that he was an old soul.

I had the honor of working along side him for many years. We were part of the original team of teachers when Corpo Yoga Studio opened in Spring of 2010, we both served as two-time Lululemon ambassadors in South Miami at the same time, and taught community fundraising classes together over the years.

We did not always see eye to eye on postural alignment or technique and yoga philosophy, as we were each devoted practitioners of our different Yoga lineages — his being Anusara and Ta**ra, and mine being Ashtanga Vinyasa and Raja — but we always had great respect for one-another and our mutual devotion to Yoga. In fact, our styles were so different that back in 2015 we were asked to speak at a conference together, essentially being pitted against one-another, but there was no scandalous debate after all because we always treated each other with kindness, respect, and were open to learn from one-another, like true yogis.

Jason was one of the most brilliant, kindest, and knowledgable teachers I’ve had the honor of knowing. A truly special human being.

In a city like Miami where yoga has become so spiritually bypassed and traditionally diluted — with shirtless male teachers selling their physique and thong wearing female teachers selling their ass to pack their classes — Jason had integrity and never sold out.

A teacher of teachers himself (even for being so young at the time) Jason walked the walk and knew the talk: he was quite fluent in Sanskrit, philosophically astute, and could chant and play the harmonium like no other.

Jason was a ray of light, an exceptional teacher of great integrity, and despite our differences, I was truly honored to call him my friend.

Jason, you carried the flame bright my friend, and now us, your friends and colleagues, will carry our flames bigger and brighter because of you.

In reverence, I honor and bow to you and your luminous light 🔥✨🔥

Rest in Peace and Power old friend 🙏🏼♥️🔥✨🕊️

08/01/2023

The third kleśa (affliction) discussed in Kriya Yoga is rāga. Rāga means desire.

As defined in sūtra 2.7 Sukhānuśayī rāgah, rāga translates to “the consequence of a pleasurable experience.”

Many times, when we want to repeat a pleasurable experience, we will take actions or make decisions that are not right, appropriate, or correct. In other words, we want things in our life to feel comforting and easy, but when we take actions to repeat a desirable experience (and those actions are not appropriate to the situation we’re in), suffering will follow.

To learn more about rāga, how we tend to fall into cycles of harmful behavior, and how it affects us in our everyday life, head over to my blog to read more.

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05/01/2023

Winter Five Day Vinyasa Yoga Intensive with Kelly Brandon

Join me for a special five day journey into the dimensions of a dedicated Vinyasa Yoga practice.

This one week practitioner intensive is designed to help you find the keys to unlock both the physical and mental challenges in your practice, identify energetic pathways, and bring more awareness, strength and joy to your practice.

During your journey, Kelly will take you through a detailed, technical, intense, and exciting exploration of traditional Vinyasa Yoga.

Each class will focus on a specific element of the Vinyasa method to deepening the practitioner’s knowledge and understanding of the practice:

🧘🏽‍♀️ Implementation of correct breath to asana connection

🧘🏼‍♀️ Healthy individualized alignment

🧘🏽 Isometric movement

🧘🏻 Proper use of the bandhas (energy locks within the body)

🧘🏾‍♀️ The roots of the sun salutations and fundamental asanas

🧘🏼 Opening of the hips and upper body

🧘🏻‍♀️Unlocking the spine for backbends

🧘🏽‍♀️ Breaking down arm balancing and inversion technique

🧘🏽 Building strength and stamina

January 30 - February 3, 2023

Limited to 10 Students

Open to all levels

For Yoga Alliance Registered Teachers: This course is recognized as a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Program. Upon completion. you will receive a Certificate of Completion with 11 continuing education contact hours.

Schedule:

Monday: 7 - 9:30am
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday: 7 - 9am
Friday: 7 - 9:30am

🔗Registration link in bio

Pricing:

Before January 8th: $275

After January 8th: $290

Daily drop-in rate: $60.

💲Teacher discount available — DM me for details

19/10/2022

Asmitā is the second kleśa (affliction) discussed in Kriya Yoga.

Asmitā is defined in sūtra 2.6 Drgdarśanaśaktyoh ekātmatā iva asmitā, which means that false identity results when the capabilities of the seer, along with the capabilities of the mind, are viewed as one thing. Commonly translated as wrong ego — which is neither entirely incorrect nor correct — asmitā more accurately means wrong identity.

The word ego in the West has a derogatory cultural connotation of one’s own self-importance, an overpowering confidence in one’s personality. However, philosophically speaking, ego more accurately means the essential parts one’s personality used to define the many different versions of self — a conscious thinking subject. The translation of asmitā as wrong ego leads to misunderstanding of this kleśa. Again, context is everything!

Asmitā means we come from perspectives that are not correct to the situation we are in.

To learn more about asmitā, its context in Yoga, and how it affects us in our everyday life, head over to my blog to read more.

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16/09/2022

Mantra for Meditation Workshop📿✨

“Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It's an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it's a way of being present in the moment.” -Krishna Das

A mantra is a sacred chant, a numinous sound, a syllable, or group of Sanskrit words which are chanted repeatedly as part of meditation. It means to free one’s self from their mind.

Mantra is a sound form of meditation, a type of energy prayer which can help you in everyday life: overcoming obstacles, achieving goals, reducing stress and anxiety, improving concentration, and creating a sense of calm in the mind and body, just to name few.

The ultimate the goal of mantra chanting is spiritual, and to attract union and peace in our lives.

This workshop is for:

* Beginner mantra students
* Yoga teachers who want to complement their teaching and practice with mantra
* Anyone interested in spirituality
* Anyone searching for grounding and deeper connection to oneself
* Anyone interested in meditation and being more present
* Yoga Alliance registered teachers who need CE hours

What you will learn:

* Ancient Vedic mantras
* Bija mantras (seed mantras)
* How to use a mala (108 beaded garland mediation tool)
* Japa meditation (repetition of mantra with mala)
* Mantra yoga practice
* Introduction to the Sanskrit language
* Overview of Hindu mythology (gods and goddesses)
* Improved focus and concentration
* How to reduce stress and calm the mind
* The auspicious power of mantras and the ancient practice of chanting

Sunday, October 16, 2022
1 -3:30pm ET

Open to all levels

Pricing:

Before September 30, 2022: $75

After October 1, 2022: $85

⭐️Price includes a mala for you to keep and continue your new mantra practice at home.📿📿📿

📞To register call: 305-284-0900

Pinecrest Community Center
5855 SW 111th Street
Pinecrest, FL 33156

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