World Yoga Center

09/27/2025

Autumn Reset!
Therapeutic Anusara Yoga & Self-Massage
Sunday, October 19, 1:30-3:30pm
In-person and online with Jacalyn

As the seasons turn, we’re invited to pause, release, and re-align with nature’s rhythm. This 2-hour workshop offers a sanctuary to balance the body, quiet the mind, and reconnect with your inner radiance.

Through the therapeutic wisdom of Anusara Yoga and the grounding practices of self-massage, we’ll melt layers of tension and awaken a deep sense of inner freedom. Using balls, blocks, straps, and foam rollers, we’ll gently unravel the knots held in the body and create space for breath and ease.

In this inward journey, you will experience:

Gentle, therapeutic asana to harmonize body and breath
Deep guided relaxation bathed in the sounds of nature and Tibetan singing bowls
Pranayama and meditation to anchor us in presence and awaken inner calm

This workshop is more than a physical release—it’s a return to the Great Self within. By turning inward, we dissolve the limitations of ordinary mind and reclaim the lightness that is our birthright.

Price:$45
Sign up on our website
See you there!

09/25/2025

Join us tomorrow for Level 1/Gentle with Andrea!
Friday, September 26, 2025
12:30-1:45pm

Your Instructor:
When Andrea took her first yoga class, her teacher had asked her before class; "what do you expect from practicing yoga?" Andrea’s immediate reply, "everything!" The teacher responded, “Then you shall get everything.” Throughout her years of asana practice and meditation, that response holds true. Andrea has gained more from her practice than she ever thought possible, in fact so much that she just had to share this beautiful transformational gift with everyone by becoming a teacher herself. Her teaching and personal practice soared with the introduction of Anusara Yoga. She fell in love with the intelligence of the mechanics drawn from the universal principles and found liberation in the ta***ic philosophy of Anusara yoga. After moving to the city and attending her first class at the World Yoga Center with Jackie Prete, Andrea knew that she found her peaceful oasis in the swirl of Manhattan only two blocks away from her new home in the big city.

09/23/2025

Yoga is for everyone! In this workshop series, we will dive deeply into the mechanics of the basic poses and give you an understanding of what an authentic yoga practice entails.

Meet the Mat Fundamentals
4 Sessions: October 17 - November 7
Oct 17 - Nov 7, 2025
World Yoga Center w/ Amanda A, Sarah
Offered In-Person and via Livestream

This series is designed especially to welcome new practitioners, but is ideal for every level student. Through the 4-week series, you will develop a strong foundation supporting you to continue your practice with greater ease and confidence.

See our website to sign up!

09/20/2025

SATSANG RECORDINGS are on our website anytime you want to listen!

Satsang is a long-standing monthly, group meditation that began in 1995. It is open to all people, on any level of practice, who are seeking a conscious path. Participants have chosen a teaching we call a Theme and Rudrani offers an hour-long exploration followed by group chanting, meditation and sharing. These opening talks on the theme contain wisdom, both traditional and relevant personal tales, and we bask in co-created support of the inner journey for everyone present. How to apply these particular teachings in our daily lives emerges as the evening unfolds.

Our intention for making the opening exploratory talks online is to bring everyone into community at a time when we need to unite, whether you are able to there in person or not. (The chanting and meditation practices are not recorded)

May we all be nourished by shared wisdom and drawn deeper into relationship with one another and with our own Self!

09/16/2025

WYC Series: Meet the Mat
Fundamental Series
Four Friday Evenings, 5:30-6:30 pm
Begins October 17th
with Amanda & Sarah

Yoga is for everyone! In this workshop series, we will dive deeply into the mechanics of the basic poses and give you an understanding of what an authentic yoga practice entails.

Our approach will allow time and space for breaking down poses (called “asanas”) and exploring the Universal Principles of Alignment that guide Anusara Yoga. With intention and breath weaving through the physical practice, this series intends to establish greater awareness and recognition of the subtler realms that reach the full spectrum of our humanity, the evolution of our consciousness.

This series is designed especially to welcome new practitioners, but is ideal for every level student. Through the 4-week series, you will develop a strong foundation supporting you to continue your practice with greater ease and confidence.

Dates: Fridays
October 17, 24, 31, November 7

Tuition: $95*

*Full series only, not designed for drop ins
**Free for members, if you are willing to commit to the full series. This is a great opportunity to go back to the absolute fundamentals, and welcome and support new beginners in the extraordinary journey of Yoga.

09/14/2025

Fall Schedule Updates:

Sunday, 9:00-10:15am, Open Level with Susan is back in person, available for our community to practice in community-- at the school or virtually.

Wednesday, 7:30-8:30pm, Evening Asana with Amanda returns beginning September 17th for a midweek drop into the nourishment of practice.

We welcome to abundance of the Fall season!

09/13/2025

Reiki Circle Tomorrow!
with Jodi
Saturday, Sept 13th, 1pm - 3:15pm
See the World Yoga Center website to register

Reiki is the healing aspect of the supreme energy at the root of our very being, the potent beneficial force that flows through us all. Connecting to this energy through Reiki, as a practitioner and as a receiver, is a powerful tool for our own and others' healing.

Our Reiki Circle welcomes non-Reiki practitioners for the first hour. We will all be together for our opening meditation, and all will be able to offer names into the circle for healing. During this time, everyone will receive Reiki from Reiki practitioners. We will conclude with journaling and sharing.

The practice portion of our circle, 2-3:15, will be just for Reiki practitioners so that we may continue to practice our Reiki skills in community for the highest good of others.

Tuition
$20/30

09/11/2025

09/08/2025

World Yoga Center- School of Yoga
Meet Our Non-Profit

We are excited to expand our status as a non-profit institution, as this structure more accurately reflects the deep purpose of the World Yoga Center. We have always been an institution that holds students in the transformational journey intrinsic to the Yoga tradition. This refinement of the school’s business structure helps realign the school in its educational place in the world and in our city.

It's our commitment to protect the WYC's visionary beauty and stability for another half century. We want to stay true to its authenticity and deep ties to the blissful energy, the Shakti, and the wisdom that has always nourished our community, and to intensify that Shakti-rich field.

09/06/2025

The World Yoga Center has been able to thrive since 1972-- through ups and downs of collective life, economic change, Covid and world turmoil. In the midst of this, we have been blessed with what has always made the school strong: the hidden presence one cannot see that lies at the very heart of our practices and lies at the very heart of Yoga. This is the Grace principle which brings revelatory transformation. It pours into our lives and sustains us in shared endeavor.

09/05/2025

WYC daily Morning Meditations Classes
8:15am every day, hosted by our WYC teachers

We offer daily online classes of breathing and meditation practices guided by our beautiful WYC teachers. These classes are offered with love at no cost.

Meditation lies at the core of yoga and supports us to create a meaningful life. Seen as our natural birthright, meditation reduces suffering and is a significant means to inner freedom and well-being. All our hatha yoga classes and programs include this transformative practice.

09/01/2025

Practitioner Reiki Circle (Sept 13)
Sep 13, 2025
World Yoga Center w/ Jodi
Offered In-Person only

Reiki is the healing aspect of the supreme energy at the root of our
very being, the potent beneficial force that flows through us all.
Connecting to this energy through Reiki, as a practitioner and as a
receiver, is a powerful tool for our own and others' healing.

Our Reiki Circle welcomes non-Reiki practitioners for the first hour.
We will all be together for our opening meditation, and all will be
able to offer names into the circle for healing. During this time,
everyone will receive Reiki from Reiki practitioners. We will conclude
with journaling and sharing.

The practice portion of our circle, 2-3:15, will be just for Reiki
practitioners so that we may continue to practice our Reiki skills in
community for the highest good of others.