Hands to Heart: A Yoga Alignment Workshop
with Jessica Bellofatto in New York City

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, a former dancer, teaches from a deep understanding of movement as art, movement as play, movement as therapy, and especially, movement as a spiritual practice. She is also interested in the stillness within and between the movement; the spaciousness of silence. Jessica Bellofatto has been a dedicated student of Hatha Yoga for the past seventeen years. 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 many notable teachers. Jessica co-founded Yoga Shanti in Sag Harbor, NY in 1999, often featured in noted periodicals. Jessica also co-led a 500 hr Teacher Training Program through the studio, certifying 20 new teachers through the Yoga Alliance.

Upcoming 2010 Dates:

No scheduled dates.

Past Workshops:

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Time: 9:00-11:00am
Location: The Giving Room, 56215 Main Rd, Southold, NY

April 17, 2010

Time: Saturday, April 17, 1:30-4:00pm
Location: Satsang Yoga Studio, Westfield, NJ