Vyana Yoga

08/30/2025

ASANA OF THE WEEK✨
MALASANA / GARLAND POSE / YOGIC SQUAT

This week have an incredibly special student Deb C. demonstrating a grounding malasana or garland pose!

mala ~ garland
asana ~ pose/posture

✨ An incredibly beneficial posture
✨ Develops ankle flexibility and strength.
✨ Deep flexion in the hip joints & stretching the groin.
✨ Said to assist digestion by supporting apana, the downward-flowing energy that governs one’s elimination processes.
✨Toning abdomen and pelvic floor.
✨grounding posture, helpful with Mulahadra or Root Chakra.

- Always honor your unique self and practice. Modify when necessary!
- if you’re tendency is to drop into your felxability, try to maintain engagement of the legs and glutes.
-Torso comes between the inside lines of the thighs as the tail drops towards the earth.
- Modify your practice whenever needed!
-If heels are floating, place a blanket underneath them
- Find support from bolster, block, or even a couple of blocks underneath your sits bones.
-Lay on your back facing a wall, put your feet up onto the wall on your malasana posture for a different variation, possibly feeling more restorative for some.
-Squeezing in on your shoulders with your knees and inner thighs can possible help with SI joint dysfunction and sciatica pains.

Remember practice and progress and never perfection!

🌱What are some of your favorite benefits of malasana?
🌱Do have any variations that you just LOVE in your malasana?

Share with us in the comments or tag us in your very own photo! 📸
We would love to see and share in our story everybody’s variations!

08/30/2025

08/27/2025

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C O M E. G E T. Y O U R. S T A C K. O N !
Get on the mat with Matt
Stack Up !
We could go on and on about this upcoming incredible weekend.
We are sure you are going to love everything that you learn. !
THE STACK WEEKEND WORKSHOPS with MATT
MASTERING THE STACK
with Matt Phippen
September 19, 20 & 21, 2025
Sign up today - early bird special until Sept 1,2025

FULL WEEKEND PRE~REGISTRATION PRICE:~
4 CLASSES $280/ AFTER SEPT. 1ST -$340

SINGLE CLASS ~ ALA CART ~ $85

08/25/2025

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“Meditation takes us from survival to creation;
from separation to connection;
from imbalance to balance;
from emergency mode to growth-and-repair mode;
and from the limiting emotions of fear, anger, and sadness to the expansive emotions of joy, freedom, and love.”


the m a g I c of meditation.

Join Helena twice a week
for breathwork & meditation class.
Every Monday & Friday 11am - 12 pm.

This class is a 60-minute powerful breathwork session, ayurvedic breathing techniques, active kriyas, and meditation practice.
Mindful breath techniques and meditation help shut the mind off long enough to access stuck energy in the body. This gives us an opportunity to release the painful emotions and allows us to move forward with determination and clarity.

Pranayama (breathwork) is the most powerful tool in any yoga practice to reset the brainwaves, complement the energetic pulse, and calm the nervous system.

Breath techniques may increase metabolism (agni), bring about mental clarity, help with chronic physical discomfort, release unresolved emotional pain, inspire creativity, and nourish your soul.

Breathwork is for everyone!

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Head over to www.Vyanayoga.com to see our entire class schedule, class descriptions, workshop information, as well as our entire warming & nourishing tea lounge menu.

We look forward to seeing you!

08/23/2025

Matt phippen is BACK this September !
WE are so excited to have him teach the entire weekend
at Vyana Yoga in the heart of CNY and Manlius NY!

Come for one -
but we know you will stay for all so get your discount pricing before they increase.This is a tremendous masterclass taught by an amazing brilliant teacher !

Mastering The Stack Weekend with Matt Phippen
September 19, 20, 21, 2025
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September 19 Fri 6pm - 8pm:

Mastering The Stack

Join Matt Phippen for an in-depth workshop on The Stack— a powerful approach to aligning and stabilizing the body by stacking the respiratory and pelvic diaphragms. Through intentional core engagement, intra-abdominal pressure, and hamstring activation, you’ll learn to create an unbreakable core canister. This technique not only enhances core stability, but also supports injury prevention and rehabilitation, while improving overall movement efficiency. Perfect for anyone looking to optimize their strength, mobility, and resilience. All are welcome.

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Saturday September 20, 2025

10am - 12pm Unlocking Rotation

Discover the transformative power of rotational and lateral movements in this workshop with Matt Phippen. Focusing on transverse and frontal plane mechanics—essential for proper human locomotion—you’ll explore how to move beyond the sagittal plane and reclaim the dynamic range of motion your body was evolved for. Learn how precise, intentional movement can counteract the sedentary patterns of modern life, unlocking strength, mobility, and natural locomotion. Movement is medicine, and it’s time to reconnect with how your body was meant to move. All are welcome.

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Saturday September 20, 2025 1 pm - 3 pm:

Grounded Strength—Connecting Feet to Glutes

In this workshop with Matt Phippen, you will explore the powerful relationship between your feet and your butt. Dive into the mechanics of foot pronation and hip extension, and discover the critical role cortical awareness and sense perception play in effectively activating your glutes. Your feet are the first point of connection between your body and the external world—learning to sense the ground, particularly under the arch during mid-stance, is essential for glute activation and optimal movement. Rediscover how grounding yourself—physically sensing the ground—can refine your posture, enhance movement mechanics, and help you cultivate a deeper connection to the world around you. All are welcome.

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Sunday September 21, 2024 11 am - 1 pm

Effort + Ease—The Art and Science of Functional Breathing

Come discover the transformative power of functional breath mechanics. Through science-based tools and exercises, you’ll learn to improve the alignment of the ribcage and pelvis, creating space for better, more efficient breathing. The session will begin with intentional effort—essential for repositioning and restoring optimal function—but will conclude with soft, restorative poses that will leave you feeling deeply relaxed and nurtured. You'll experience how effort and ease work together to cultivate a breath that supports your body, mind, and overall well-being. All are welcome.

Full weekend Pre~registration price: All 4 Classes $320

Single Session $85

Please note:

*NO REFUNDS less than 72 hrs of this event.

08/22/2025

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✨ASANA OF THE WEEK✨
Forearm Stand variation/ Pincha Mayūrāsana prep

This week we have .balance offering a beautiful variation of for arm stand or Pincha Mayūrāsana.
This is a prep variation at the wall, a bridge between Dolphin Pose (Ardha Pincha Mayūrāsana) and the full forearm stand (Pincha Mayūrāsana)
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Pincha - feather
Mayūra - peacock
Asana - seat, pose, posture

Strengthens shoulders & arms & Builds the stability needed for inversions.
Opens the chest & upper back to counter hunching & improve posture.
Prepares for inversions while building confidence while using the wall as support.
Engages the core & improves focus & patience .

08/21/2025

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A Y U R V E D I C L A S S I
This is a yogurt parfait you can really enjoy and digest easily.
Did you know, according to Ayurveda, that digestion starts with our eyes and sense of smell, touch is also a factor as the food is felt with our fingers and then on our tongues.
As we chew we prompt the enzymes in our mouths and stomach to help digest our food and then:
Voila
On to the Pitta organs of the small intestines to further aide in digestion
We are as healthy as our AGNI which is how we digest through the five senses.
Next time you eat - eat slowly chewing with pleasure to truly enjoy the process and take time to SIT to eat your food to experience complete satisfaction and fullness.
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08/18/2025

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“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
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Did you know that Henry David Thoreau shared this almost 100 years before the term “neroplasticity” was coined a term?
Neuroplasticity according to Oxford language dictionary is
“the ability of the brain to form &
reorganize synaptic connections,
especially in response to learning or
experience or following injury.”
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Did you also know that Henry David Thoreau drew much inspiration from ancient yogic texts like the Bhagavad Gita.
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He was aware of what science has now caught up to, our infinite potential.
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Yoga, breathwork, and meditation along with time, repetition, & dedication are all wonderful allies as one works to develop new mental pathways.

The first steps will eventually lead to a well-trodden path.

Join us for yoga, breathwork, & meditation classes 7 days a week.
Head to www.vyanayoga.com for class schedule, descriptions, & sign ups. You will also find out nutritional tea lounge menu as well as our exciting upcoming workshop with Matt Phippen!

08/15/2025

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✨ASANA OF THE WEEK✨
Astavakrasana
Eight Angle Pose

asta = eight
vakra = bent, curved
asana = seat/pose/posture

This week we have our very special yoga teacher offering an incredible demonstration of astavakrasana or eight angle pose & with a smile!
💪🏼 thank you Deb! We love you!

~ An arm balance posture
~ Muscles of the back, arms, & abdominals are activated & stretched along with thighs, core, chest, arms & arms
~Great activation & strengthening of the wrists (wrist extensors and flexors) which is fantastic to counteract cell phone & computer use.
~ Improves core strength, proprioception, posture & balance
~ Fantastic pose for improving posture and counteracting chronic holding patterns in the body due to prolonged sitting with the slight twist of the lumbar spine and complete activation of the body

~ From Dandasana (staff pose) - bend right knee and bring it to your right side, booking the knee towards over your right shoulder (you can imagine like the strap of a backpack)
~ Firmly press your right leg into the outside of your right arm arm to stabilize
~ Tilt yourself slightly forward and place your hands on the floor on either side of your hips
~ Press your hands into the mat and engage your abdominal muscles while you lift your hips and left leg.
~ Hook your left ankle over your right ankle and press your ankles together. Draw your inner thighs toward your upper arm & bring your chest forward while you bend your elbows and move your legs right in space.
~ Press through both heels to begin to straighten your legs.
~ Balance and breathe in your ASTAVAKRASANA.
~If you find it challenging to balance in this pose, rest your bottom hip and leg on a bolster or find support with blocks.

~Arrive with a willingness to play with this shape, it is one that takes practice & patience
~Be sure to appropriately warm the body - work with your wrist mobility.
~Practice for progress and never perfection!

Join Deb this September for a new schedule
every week at Vyana Yoga!

Wednesdays
4:30 pm Rope Wall Yoga level 1

Thursdays
11am Dynamic Chair Yoga
12 n Power Lunch