Hands to Heart: A Yoga Alignment Workshop
with Jessica Bellofatto
This workshop is not currently scheduled
Join Jessica Bellofatto, a longtime practitioner and teacher of Yoga, in this workshop focusing on the hands communicating with the heart. We will explore the use of the hands in many poses, but most specifically in weight-bearing asanas, such as downward facing dog, plank, inversions and arm balances. You will be taught how to correctly relate the hands, arms, and shoulders and how to connect to and refine the communication between the hands and the back window of the heart – the shoulderblade/upper back region. In true KamaDeva Yoga style, this workshop will include a bit of chanting, meditation, intelligently and creatively choreographed vinyasa sequencing, and rockin’ music.
All levels of student are welcome. Be willing and prepared to align and re-align your body through your own moment to moment observation, guided by your breath (the inner teacher), to move, to sweat, and to let go.
Jessica Bellofatto, owner of KamaDeva Yoga in East Hampton, NY has been a dedicated student of Hatha Yoga for the past 17 years. Her interest in Yoga was piqued at the age of 19, while she was majoring in Dance at New York University. She completed the intensive year-long Teacher Training Program at the Jivamukti Yoga Center with beloved teachers Sharon Gannon and David Life in 1996 and has been teaching ever since. First and foremost a student, Jessica has studied extensively with such notable teachers as Genevieve Kapuler, Richard Freeman, Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten, John Friend, James Murphy, and Lara Brunn. She has been featured in The New York Times, The NY Post, The Daily News, Hamptons Magazine, and more. She was just selected as one of Athleta's "featured athletes" for 2011, along with only nine other women nationwide. Jessica teaches a style of Yoga that is clearly her own, incorporating her extensive training in various styles of Yoga, as well as other body-related disciplines such as Thai Massage and Reiki. She is also the mother of two amazing children, and does triathlons, stand up paddleboarding, surfing, and any other sport she can get her hands on!
Past Workshops
July 11, 2010" The Giving Room, Southold, NY
April 17, 2010; Satsang Yoga Studio, Westfield, NJ
