Samamkaya Yoga Back Care & Scoliosis Collective

08/08/2025

August 9-10
Saturday 9:30am-12pm & 2:30-4:30pm
Sunday 9:30am-12pm
Full Workshop: $165
Saturday All Day: $110
Saturday or Sunday Morning Only: $65
Saturday Afternoon Only: $50

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Joint structure, surrounding ligaments, connective tissues, and fluids allow us to move with flow and grace. But compensatory patterns, wear and tear from age and life events cause uneven weight bearing, injury, arthritis, and/or pain. In this workshop, Deborah will lead you in an exploration of the anatomy of the shoulders, hips, and knees, their relationship to the spine and the asana practices to help you avoid and heal these types of misalignments and injuries, recovering your fluidity, strength and “equipoise” in movement.

Saturday Morning: Upper Limbs

Saturday Afternoon: Lower Limbs

Sunday Morning: Integrating the work holistically

6 months yoga asana experience is recommended for this workshop

Deborah Wolk, C-IAYT, has been teaching and working with students with back issues, scoliosis, and other injuries for over two decades. Her yoga practice working with her own scoliosis informs the work she does to help others.
Deborah’s teachings are based in 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, and has a thriving private practice. Deborah is the Founder and Program Director of Samamkaya Yoga Back Care & Scoliosis Collective. To learn more about Deborah please visit www.dwolkyoga.com.

07/15/2025

Join us at Samamkaya in-person or virtually for this in-depth workshop focused on joint health and healing. *GET 10% OFF Using the Code EARLYBIRD if you register on our website before July 28th. August 9-10. Register for individual sessions or the whole workshop.

06/28/2025

06/02/2025

Our 6 week Adaptive Yoga series is back!

Join us every Monday from 2:30-3:30 PM. This class is designed for students with special needs or disabilities. Register on our website for individual sessions or the whole series. Sessions are hybrid and available in person or online.

06/02/2025

Join us at Samamkaya for an impactful weekend workshop focused on strengthening the pelvic floor and repairing the nervous system. Get 10% off if you register on our website by June 9th with code EARLYBIRD.

BOBBY CLENNELL: Bobby’s study of lyengar Yoga began in 1972 in the UK. She was certified to teach by B.K.S. lyengar in 1977, and has made subsequent trips to Pune at one to two yearly intervals. She began teaching yoga in London in1975, and combined this with a twenty-year career in cartoon animation. She began teaching yoga in New York in 1995. Bobby considers herself blessed to have studied directly with B.K.S. lyengar. The profound and cathartic effect of the six or so intensives of his that she attended remains with her to this day. She also considers herself fortunate to have studied with Geeta Iyengar who inspired and informed her work with women; and Prashant lyengar, whose knowledge of yoga philosophy and its history and culture is unsurpassed. Bobby also remains grateful to Mary Dunn for her teaching and her selfless work in establishing the New York Institute. Bobby is a core faculty member of the IYINY, and currently teaches: The women’s class, level II, level III, and the Restorative class. • Bobby has taught workshops throughout the US, Australia, the Middle East, China, Japon, SE Asia and Europe. She has written three yoga manuals: The lyengar Yoga Glossary, Props and Ailments (currently being re-worked) and A Cosmic Body Map. She has three published books (which she also illustrated): The Women’s Yoga Book: Asana and Pranayama for All Phases of The Menstrual Cycle, Yoga for Breost Health, and her children’s book: Watch Me Do Yoga. Her animated film, Yoga Yantra, which is generated from film footage of B.K.S. Iyengar can be viewed at www.bobbydennell.com or search for it on YouTube.

05/14/2025

May 31-June 1
Saturday & Sunday 9:30am-12pm & 2-4:30pm
Full Weekend: $220
Three Sessions: $170
Two Sessions: $120
One Session: $65
Use the code EARLYBIRD to get 10% off by May 19
In this workshop both yoga and ayurveda are presented to enhance your understanding of how to support the bones and corresponding tissue to build a resilient body. Applying the aligned movements of yoga we will explore modified postures from the ground up. Standing poses, backbends, forward extensions and even safe inversions.

Ayurveda describes seven types of dhatus, or tissues that make up the structure of your body. These include lymph, blood, muscle, fat, bone, nerve and reproductive. Any imbalance affects bone health. An increase or imbalance in the vata dosha, causes a decrease in the bone tissue.

Saturday: AM standing poses, PM forward extensions & inversions
Sunday: AM back arches and core stability, PM restorative & pranayama

Jeanne-Marie Derrick is an Iyengar Yoga and Yoga for Scoliosis Instructor with over 40 years of teaching experience. She specializes in yoga therapeutics, restorative, gentle yoga and pranayama. Jeanne-Marie is a Clinica

05/05/2025

Jon Musgrave’s upcoming intermediate back care series starts this Saturday! Yay! ✨Register online or drop in with class card. For students with mature yoga practice or who have been taking the Yoga & Scoliosis or Back Care class on a regular basis for a minimum of 1 year. All poses will be modified with props and awareness techniques so each student can move along with their practice. There will also be some focus on inversions. This Intermediate series is not for new beginners.
Jon Musgrave, LMT, is a therapeutic yoga teacher and bodyworker. He is a founding member of Samamkaya Yoga, and has been on the teaching faculty since 2019. Jon has studied lyengar yoga since 2011, and has found this approach to yoga to be an essential part of healing and managing his own scoliosis and back issues. He has studied and apprenticed extensively with Deborah Wolk since 2014, and is certified as a Yoga for Scoliosis Teacher Trainer by Elise Browning Miller. His other primary teachers are Genny Kapuler and Jaki Nett, and he has studied in workshops on various topics with many other senior lyengar teachers and specialists in yoga therapeutics and anatomy. Jon has an active bodywork practice, specializing in helping clients manage issues around scoliosis, injuries, chronic pain, and trauma using deep massage, neurofascial techniques, and biodynamic craniosacral therapy. A former conductor and tuba player, Jon fell in love with anatomy while studying the Alexander Technique in college, and is particularly interested in helping students embody their own anatomy, and correct and clarify vague or incorrect ideas we have about our structure. Visit jmbodywork.com to find out more about his bodywork practice.

05/05/2025

This Saturday! 2-5pm. Registration on our website. NETA KATZ has been teaching Iyengar Yoga since 1998 (certified Junior 1). Her style of teaching is deeply rooted in her architecture background, and her love of anatomy. With thoughtful understanding of structure and space, Neta guides students towards a profound understanding of the body and its potential. With over 25 years of teaching experience, Neta has worked with a wide range of students from beginners seeking an encouraging introduction, to longtime practitioners looking to deepen their practice and understanding. Always fascinated in how balance is experienced differently in each and every body, Neta encourages students to go deep into their own particular set of body conditions, and find a center that is unique and individual. A place of balance, harmony, and equilibrium. In addition to teaching asana, Neta was a faculty member at the School of Visual Art where she taught Yoga Philosophy. She now leads a yoga philosophy study group that meets monthly online.