05/20/2025
Yoga with Naomi is a safe space for everyone in the LGBTQ2SIA+ community. Always. No exceptions. Peace, fellow yogis.
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If you can breathe, you can do yoga. Yoga with Naomi is always gentle—not always easy, but always gentle. I'm also trained in restorative therapeutic yoga.
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I have been practicing yoga off and on for more than 20 years and teaching since 2010.
For a few years, my daily personal practice was Iyengar, which partially explains my fondness for props. I also dabbled for a time in Bikram yoga, a hot, sweaty form of hatha yoga, which is practiced in a studio where the temperature is kept at a minimum of 105 degrees and 40 percent humidity. Ultimately, I found that the heat and humidity of Bikram were too much for me—I frequently passed out in class—and eventually gave it up and went searching for another form of yoga.
In 2004, I came to my first Anusara class. It was taught at my alma mater (Smith College) by a young alumna, Amy Reed. At first, I felt very angry in my practice. But I felt drawn to come back. I came back and back and back and I found that for the first time in my life, there was room for my anger. I simply practiced angry yoga. I welcomed whatever emotion came to me in practice, and eventually my anger washed away and was replaced by the most radiant joy. In that first year of weekly (or sometimes twice or thrice weekly) Anusara classes, I became deeply and irrevocably connected to the joyful heart of my practice.
So, what kind of yoga is Yoga with Naomi? It is hatha yoga, influenced by BKS Iyengar, infused by my personal heart-centered Anusara (“flowing with grace”) practice, and with little tastes of Kundalini thrown in here and there. We often start with a Kundalini meditation, for instance, or we listen to Kundalini music while we practice.
