schedule | spring 2008! (may 11 - may 17)

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

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Liana Brooks-Rubin / Instructor

Liana Brooks-Rubin integrated yoga into her life in 2001 at the urging of friends who believed it would mitigate anxiety and chronic insomnia. Regular asana practice not only improved her sleep and increased her physical flexibility, but profoundly impacted her overall sense of balance, clarity, and joy. Later, while pregnant with her son, Liana discovered the power of breath, meditation, and movement to prepare the mind and body for the journey of childbirth and mothering.

Liana wholeheartedly believes that practicing yoga creates space in one's body, heart, and mind and invites those who believe (as she once did) that "yoga is not for them" to her class. Liana has studied various styles of hatha yoga and draws particular inspiration from an alignment-based vinyasa. She is currently enrolled in the teacher training program at Boundless Yoga.

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open vinyasa (vinyasa 1 and 2):

a challenging yoga workout designed to increase strength, flexibility, and stamina. poses are linked together in a continuous flow, which generates internal heat and meditative awareness. understanding of bodily alignment is essential, and some comfort with inversions is recommended.

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Laura cavender / Instructor

Laura began practicing yoga to help her sleep after 9/11 and has been enjoying the physical, mental, and spiritual benefits ever since. Her practice deepened as she tackled a marathon and several triathlons over the last few years, as a means to counteract high-impact and high-intensity workouts and prevent injury. This year, as part of Boundless Yoga's teacher training program, she has explored the philosophical and spiritual sides of yoga and focuses her teaching on body and mind awareness through asana. She will be certified as a Hatha Yoga teacher through the Yoga Alliance by Boundless Yoga in August 2007.

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hatha 2:

students build on the basics, bringing into the mix such intermediate poses as inversions, standing twists, arm balances, and deeper forward bends and backbends. instructions become increasingly subtle and specific, and students are required to have some kind of home asana or meditation practice.

frequently asked questions

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Kristen Krash / Instructor

Kristen began her evolution from gym rat to yogi in 1999 when she walked into a Power Yoga class at the gym where she worked as a trainer. Seeking relief from multiple injuries she suffered in martial arts and while working as a bike messenger, she immediately felt the benefits of the postures and breathing. The experience led her to local yoga studios in Chicago and, within a few months, she knew that she would practice yoga for the rest of her life.

She began to study intensively with the Ukranian instructor Andrey Lappa who encourages and challenges his students through rigorous practice and mindful living to become their own gurus -- as Andrey would say, "Don't just look like yogi -- be yogi." Over the past seven years of her practice and five years of teaching, Kristen's style has evolved from the Vinyasa-based Astanga and Power Yoga to the alignment-based Iyengar Yoga and eventually to the realization that correct alignment must relate to the movement of energy within asana as well as the anatomical position. She also draws on her practice of Anusara Yoga with senior teachers Geri Blier and Douglas Brooks, and the healing power of Tibetan Yantra yoga with Lama Labsang Rinpoche.

Kristen's classes thus incorporate the dynamics of movement with longer, exploratory holds of postures and "mini-clinics" within a class that often focus on a particular part of the anatomy or an aspect of yogic philosophy. While using the body and the breath as her main teaching tools, she still strives to give her students an idea of the "bigger picture" of practicing asana so that they can fully receive the gift that is yoga.

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

frequently asked questions

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Kristen Krash / Instructor

Kristen began her evolution from gym rat to yogi in 1999 when she walked into a Power Yoga class at the gym where she worked as a trainer. Seeking relief from multiple injuries she suffered in martial arts and while working as a bike messenger, she immediately felt the benefits of the postures and breathing. The experience led her to local yoga studios in Chicago and, within a few months, she knew that she would practice yoga for the rest of her life.

She began to study intensively with the Ukranian instructor Andrey Lappa who encourages and challenges his students through rigorous practice and mindful living to become their own gurus -- as Andrey would say, "Don't just look like yogi -- be yogi." Over the past seven years of her practice and five years of teaching, Kristen's style has evolved from the Vinyasa-based Astanga and Power Yoga to the alignment-based Iyengar Yoga and eventually to the realization that correct alignment must relate to the movement of energy within asana as well as the anatomical position. She also draws on her practice of Anusara Yoga with senior teachers Geri Blier and Douglas Brooks, and the healing power of Tibetan Yantra yoga with Lama Labsang Rinpoche.

Kristen's classes thus incorporate the dynamics of movement with longer, exploratory holds of postures and "mini-clinics" within a class that often focus on a particular part of the anatomy or an aspect of yogic philosophy. While using the body and the breath as her main teaching tools, she still strives to give her students an idea of the "bigger picture" of practicing asana so that they can fully receive the gift that is yoga.

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stu turkelson / Instructor

stu feels like he came to yoga "pre-packaged" - that experience with acting, dance, martial arts, meditation, even the army and studying religion in college, all predisposed him to being a yogi. all the elements were there, and asana practice was a "just add water" experience. once stu commenced a regular, dedicated practice these elements blossomed. everything felt right, in sync. and he has been hooked ever since.

yoga is transformative, not giant robots transformative, but in an inner-outer/mind-body way. as noted scholar houston smith remarked, "the days just seem to go better when i practice yoga." as a mark of his committment to yoga and to this transformation, stu completed a 200-hour yoga alliance teacher training program with little river yoga of alexandria, va in 2006.

stu approaches teaching with a commitment to developing each student's own personal yoga. he belives that our bodies are our own best teacher, that within each of us lies the dormant potential of an inner guru. stu thus invites students to develop a deep, intimate personal awareness during their practice. he is fond of saying that there are as many different styles of yoga as there are genres of music: there's something for everyone that fits your likes, dislikes, and needs. "listening" to the body is the practice of mind-body, and each student has their yoga to learn which is in itself unique.

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intro to yoga series:

this class provides a solid foundation to ensure correct posture and mind-body knowledge; a good foundation will also help to guard against injury. in this weekly class you will learn: the basics of standing poses, seated poses, twists, backbends and forward bends; how to breathe in a yoga class; how to rest in a yoga class; and the overall purpose of yoga.

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susan ruether / Instructor

working through severe neck pain and seeking reprieve from a windowless office, susan began a serious yoga practice four years ago after several stops and starts. learning to move and breathe in the hatha-vinyasa style, yoga followed logically after nearly a decade of meditation practice. susan believes that teaching yoga is an opportunity to engage the principle of embodied consciousness through the wisdom of the integrated body and mind; linking movement and breath mindfully.

as the saying goes, "when the student is ready the teacher appears": susan is currently enrolled in the boundless yoga teacher training program where her teachers are nothing short of a boundless current of energy and vitality that guide the evolution of her practice as she shares it with others. email susan at susan.ruether[at]gmail.com

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meditation & breath:

this one-hour class on sunday nights prepares you for the work week by relaxing your body pary by part, taking you into an inner calm and awareness, as your blood pressure is normalized, immune system strengthened and brain totally relaxed. the aim of the class is to create a sense of sharper, invigorated awareness afterward, as a result of taking the body into this focused practice of deep relaxation.

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Orly Jalowski/ Instructor

Orly Jalowski is a teacher trainee at Boundless Yoga and is thrilled to have the opportunity to share her practice with friends in the Boundless community. She is a student of Buddhism in the Mahanayana tradition and is grateful to all the holy teachers she has had the great fortune of meeting and learning from. She believes that the goal of yoga is to help practitioners develop a heart so full of compassion and wisdom that we are better capable, as Ghandi said, of "[being] the change we want to see in the world.".

As Orly herself travails life's ups and downs, she continually strives to use Yoga as a system of living that, put simply, just makes life better. She's realized that when she's feeling her best she is most capable of incredible acts of love, kindess, and generosity - the kinds of which can change everything. She hopes to foster an environment where physical movement is skillfully intertwined with mental concentration and spiritual exploration.

Orly is a self-pronounced mystic who tries to see the magic in everyday life. She enjoys hangin with friends, vegan cooking, co-running her small Ghana-based educational travel program, doing projects, dancing, philosophizing, and thanks to her wonderful partner, embarking on a new and fascinating pastime - watching football. You can reach Orly at raven32@yahoo.com

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

frequently asked questions

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Chaka Freeman / Instructor

Chaka Freeman grew up in Santa Cruz California, watching his mother practice yoga before, during and after her pregnancy with his brother Aladdin. This planted the seed of a awe for the nurturing and trans formative process called yoga. This inspiration later bloomed into a practice that began in ernest at the beginning of his third decade.

Six years later his interest in tantra coupled with a love of hatha and an ongoing affair with vinyasa yoga forms three corner stones of his practice. Chaka strongly believes in the future of yoga as a therapeutic process, not just for the already healthy, but the injured and wishing to be healthy. The last foundation stone is comprised of a nearly a decade and a half practicing, studying and teaching the Afro-Brazilian martial arts capoeira Angola.

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Kim Weeks / Owner, Instructor

kim weeks has been devoted to yoga since 1994, stumbling into it with a hamstring injury she sustained while training for the new york marathon. encouraged by a co-worker at JPMorgan and her sister in Santa Cruz, she looked up yoga in the yellow pages and chose Integral Yoga® because it sounded like an "integrated" approach to a word she wanted to know more about. during the deep relaxation period of her first class, she felt changed.

after spending much of the late 90's in asia and europe with her wall street job, kim left the corporate world in in 2002 to start boundless yoga, a washington, dc-based yoga studio that honors all forms of yoga. classes at boundless draw specifically on the krishnamachariya tradition and focus on one student at a time. kim believes that yoga is evolving rapidly as we enter the 21st century full-swing--and that it is a form of solace and inspiration in stressful times.

kim is a trained Integral Yoga teacher and has continued extensive study with jj gormley, erich schiffmann, rodney yee, sarah powers, jinsung, and, most recently, paul grilley and ramanand patel. in 2004 she lived in oakland, california to take part in rodney's advanced studies program at piedmont yoga studio.

kim focuses on the body as a constantly changing object in time and space, encouraging her asana students to experience delight and forgiveness as they observe their bodies, with simultaneous discrimination and non-judgment, according to the breath's direction. she also has a private energy practice and believes deeply in the innate healing capacity of the body, which she seeks to honor with each client.

for more information on private yoga, energy work, or the boundless yoga teacher training program, email kim@boundlessyoga.com.

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yoga for guys:

this class has been in the making-for 5,000 years! men, take this class to gain flexibility and better use of your muscular strength. get rid of low back and neck pain, and learn to forgive those hamstrings. this class is meditative and physically challenging.

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Chaka Freeman / Instructor

Chaka Freeman grew up in Santa Cruz California, watching his mother practice yoga before, during and after her pregnancy with his brother Aladdin. This planted the seed of a awe for the nurturing and trans formative process called yoga. This inspiration later bloomed into a practice that began in ernest at the beginning of his third decade.

Six years later his interest in tantra coupled with a love of hatha and an ongoing affair with vinyasa yoga forms three corner stones of his practice. Chaka strongly believes in the future of yoga as a therapeutic process, not just for the already healthy, but the injured and wishing to be healthy. The last foundation stone is comprised of a nearly a decade and a half practicing, studying and teaching the Afro-Brazilian martial arts capoeira Angola.

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hatha 2:

students build on the basics, bringing into the mix such intermediate poses as inversions, standing twists, arm balances, and deeper forward bends and backbends. instructions become increasingly subtle and specific, and students are required to have some kind of home asana or meditation practice.

frequently asked questions

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Kim Weeks / Owner, Instructor

kim weeks has been devoted to yoga since 1994, stumbling into it with a hamstring injury she sustained while training for the new york marathon. encouraged by a co-worker at JPMorgan and her sister in Santa Cruz, she looked up yoga in the yellow pages and chose Integral Yoga® because it sounded like an "integrated" approach to a word she wanted to know more about. during the deep relaxation period of her first class, she felt changed.

after spending much of the late 90's in asia and europe with her wall street job, kim left the corporate world in in 2002 to start boundless yoga, a washington, dc-based yoga studio that honors all forms of yoga. classes at boundless draw specifically on the krishnamachariya tradition and focus on one student at a time. kim believes that yoga is evolving rapidly as we enter the 21st century full-swing--and that it is a form of solace and inspiration in stressful times.

kim is a trained Integral Yoga teacher and has continued extensive study with jj gormley, erich schiffmann, rodney yee, sarah powers, jinsung, and, most recently, paul grilley and ramanand patel. in 2004 she lived in oakland, california to take part in rodney's advanced studies program at piedmont yoga studio.

kim focuses on the body as a constantly changing object in time and space, encouraging her asana students to experience delight and forgiveness as they observe their bodies, with simultaneous discrimination and non-judgment, according to the breath's direction. she also has a private energy practice and believes deeply in the innate healing capacity of the body, which she seeks to honor with each client.

for more information on private yoga, energy work, or the boundless yoga teacher training program, email kim@boundlessyoga.com.

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

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Andrea Kiss / co-owner, instructor

Andrea Kiss has more than a decade of modern-dance performance and teaching experience. she first began teaching herself yoga from books in 1998, growing deeply interested while pregnant with her daughter, zora. andrea quickly began drew links between the movements in modern dance and the asanas of yoga. she feels that just as modern dance is a creative expression of the body, so, too, is the body/mind philosophy of yoga.

Andrea grew up in budapest and moved to washington in 1996. she is studying under jj gormley at sun and moon studio in arlington, va. like kim's teaching approach, andrea's style is well-suited to busy urban professionals, focusing not just on the movements of the outer body, but on the movements of the energetic body (chakras) and their role in mind/body health. email andrea at akiss@comcast.net

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

frequently asked questions

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Chaka Freeman / Instructor

Chaka Freeman grew up in Santa Cruz California, watching his mother practice yoga before, during and after her pregnancy with his brother Aladdin. This planted the seed of a awe for the nurturing and trans formative process called yoga. This inspiration later bloomed into a practice that began in ernest at the beginning of his third decade.

Six years later his interest in tantra coupled with a love of hatha and an ongoing affair with vinyasa yoga forms three corner stones of his practice. Chaka strongly believes in the future of yoga as a therapeutic process, not just for the already healthy, but the injured and wishing to be healthy. The last foundation stone is comprised of a nearly a decade and a half practicing, studying and teaching the Afro-Brazilian martial arts capoeira Angola.

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open vinyasa (vinyasa 1 and 2):

a challenging yoga workout designed to increase strength, flexibility, and stamina. poses are linked together in a continuous flow, which generates internal heat and meditative awareness. understanding of bodily alignment is essential, and some comfort with inversions is recommended.

frequently asked questions

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stu turkelson / Instructor

stu feels like he came to yoga "pre-packaged" - that experience with acting, dance, martial arts, meditation, even the army and studying religion in college, all predisposed him to being a yogi. all the elements were there, and asana practice was a "just add water" experience. once stu commenced a regular, dedicated practice these elements blossomed. everything felt right, in sync. and he has been hooked ever since.

yoga is transformative, not giant robots transformative, but in an inner-outer/mind-body way. as noted scholar houston smith remarked, "the days just seem to go better when i practice yoga." as a mark of his committment to yoga and to this transformation, stu completed a 200-hour yoga alliance teacher training program with little river yoga of alexandria, va in 2006.

stu approaches teaching with a commitment to developing each student's own personal yoga. he belives that our bodies are our own best teacher, that within each of us lies the dormant potential of an inner guru. stu thus invites students to develop a deep, intimate personal awareness during their practice. he is fond of saying that there are as many different styles of yoga as there are genres of music: there's something for everyone that fits your likes, dislikes, and needs. "listening" to the body is the practice of mind-body, and each student has their yoga to learn which is in itself unique.

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

frequently asked questions

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open vinyasa (vinyasa 1 and 2):

a challenging yoga workout designed to increase strength, flexibility, and stamina. poses are linked together in a continuous flow, which generates internal heat and meditative awareness. understanding of bodily alignment is essential, and some comfort with inversions is recommended.

frequently asked questions

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

frequently asked questions

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susan ruether / Instructor

working through severe neck pain and seeking reprieve from a windowless office, susan began a serious yoga practice four years ago after several stops and starts. learning to move and breathe in the hatha-vinyasa style, yoga followed logically after nearly a decade of meditation practice. susan believes that teaching yoga is an opportunity to engage the principle of embodied consciousness through the wisdom of the integrated body and mind; linking movement and breath mindfully.

as the saying goes, "when the student is ready the teacher appears": susan is currently enrolled in the boundless yoga teacher training program where her teachers are nothing short of a boundless current of energy and vitality that guide the evolution of her practice as she shares it with others. email susan at susan.ruether[at]gmail.com

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hatha 2:

students build on the basics, bringing into the mix such intermediate poses as inversions, standing twists, arm balances, and deeper forward bends and backbends. instructions become increasingly subtle and specific, and students are required to have some kind of home asana or meditation practice.

frequently asked questions

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Kristen Krash / Instructor

Kristen began her evolution from gym rat to yogi in 1999 when she walked into a Power Yoga class at the gym where she worked as a trainer. Seeking relief from multiple injuries she suffered in martial arts and while working as a bike messenger, she immediately felt the benefits of the postures and breathing. The experience led her to local yoga studios in Chicago and, within a few months, she knew that she would practice yoga for the rest of her life.

She began to study intensively with the Ukranian instructor Andrey Lappa who encourages and challenges his students through rigorous practice and mindful living to become their own gurus -- as Andrey would say, "Don't just look like yogi -- be yogi." Over the past seven years of her practice and five years of teaching, Kristen's style has evolved from the Vinyasa-based Astanga and Power Yoga to the alignment-based Iyengar Yoga and eventually to the realization that correct alignment must relate to the movement of energy within asana as well as the anatomical position. She also draws on her practice of Anusara Yoga with senior teachers Geri Blier and Douglas Brooks, and the healing power of Tibetan Yantra yoga with Lama Labsang Rinpoche.

Kristen's classes thus incorporate the dynamics of movement with longer, exploratory holds of postures and "mini-clinics" within a class that often focus on a particular part of the anatomy or an aspect of yogic philosophy. While using the body and the breath as her main teaching tools, she still strives to give her students an idea of the "bigger picture" of practicing asana so that they can fully receive the gift that is yoga.

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therapeutic yoga:

current series 4/21-6/23. the purpose of this six-week series is to assist those interested in using yoga to heal various discomforts or disease, or to mitigate against the constriction and compression that occurs naturally in the aging process. designed for yoga students of all levels, this series will be at times physically challenging, and at times aimed at releasing stress away from the sympathetic (fight or flight) nervous system through gentle forward folds, twists, and modified inversions and backbends. this class is appropriate also for you if you are reexamining what it means to be “intermediate” or “advanced­whether because of injury or new parts of yoga you have been exposed to.

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Kim Weeks / Owner, Instructor

kim weeks has been devoted to yoga since 1994, stumbling into it with a hamstring injury she sustained while training for the new york marathon. encouraged by a co-worker at JPMorgan and her sister in Santa Cruz, she looked up yoga in the yellow pages and chose Integral Yoga® because it sounded like an "integrated" approach to a word she wanted to know more about. during the deep relaxation period of her first class, she felt changed.

after spending much of the late 90's in asia and europe with her wall street job, kim left the corporate world in in 2002 to start boundless yoga, a washington, dc-based yoga studio that honors all forms of yoga. classes at boundless draw specifically on the krishnamachariya tradition and focus on one student at a time. kim believes that yoga is evolving rapidly as we enter the 21st century full-swing--and that it is a form of solace and inspiration in stressful times.

kim is a trained Integral Yoga teacher and has continued extensive study with jj gormley, erich schiffmann, rodney yee, sarah powers, jinsung, and, most recently, paul grilley and ramanand patel. in 2004 she lived in oakland, california to take part in rodney's advanced studies program at piedmont yoga studio.

kim focuses on the body as a constantly changing object in time and space, encouraging her asana students to experience delight and forgiveness as they observe their bodies, with simultaneous discrimination and non-judgment, according to the breath's direction. she also has a private energy practice and believes deeply in the innate healing capacity of the body, which she seeks to honor with each client.

for more information on private yoga, energy work, or the boundless yoga teacher training program, email kim@boundlessyoga.com.

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open vinyasa (vinyasa 1 and 2):

a challenging yoga workout designed to increase strength, flexibility, and stamina. poses are linked together in a continuous flow, which generates internal heat and meditative awareness. understanding of bodily alignment is essential, and some comfort with inversions is recommended.

frequently asked questions

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

frequently asked questions

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Kristen Krash / Instructor

Kristen began her evolution from gym rat to yogi in 1999 when she walked into a Power Yoga class at the gym where she worked as a trainer. Seeking relief from multiple injuries she suffered in martial arts and while working as a bike messenger, she immediately felt the benefits of the postures and breathing. The experience led her to local yoga studios in Chicago and, within a few months, she knew that she would practice yoga for the rest of her life.

She began to study intensively with the Ukranian instructor Andrey Lappa who encourages and challenges his students through rigorous practice and mindful living to become their own gurus -- as Andrey would say, "Don't just look like yogi -- be yogi." Over the past seven years of her practice and five years of teaching, Kristen's style has evolved from the Vinyasa-based Astanga and Power Yoga to the alignment-based Iyengar Yoga and eventually to the realization that correct alignment must relate to the movement of energy within asana as well as the anatomical position. She also draws on her practice of Anusara Yoga with senior teachers Geri Blier and Douglas Brooks, and the healing power of Tibetan Yantra yoga with Lama Labsang Rinpoche.

Kristen's classes thus incorporate the dynamics of movement with longer, exploratory holds of postures and "mini-clinics" within a class that often focus on a particular part of the anatomy or an aspect of yogic philosophy. While using the body and the breath as her main teaching tools, she still strives to give her students an idea of the "bigger picture" of practicing asana so that they can fully receive the gift that is yoga.

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semi-private series:

work with kim in a smaller class setting designed to focus on your specific needs in a yoga practice. take advantage of the boundless way as kim uses her skill and knowledge to craft a yoga practice just for you. though you will get this in all boundless yoga classes, this session will take you to a deeper personal practice much more quickly. the community aspect of the class is also fantastic.

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Orly Jalowski/ Instructor

Orly Jalowski is a teacher trainee at Boundless Yoga and is thrilled to have the opportunity to share her practice with friends in the Boundless community. She is a student of Buddhism in the Mahanayana tradition and is grateful to all the holy teachers she has had the great fortune of meeting and learning from. She believes that the goal of yoga is to help practitioners develop a heart so full of compassion and wisdom that we are better capable, as Ghandi said, of "[being] the change we want to see in the world.".

As Orly herself travails life's ups and downs, she continually strives to use Yoga as a system of living that, put simply, just makes life better. She's realized that when she's feeling her best she is most capable of incredible acts of love, kindess, and generosity - the kinds of which can change everything. She hopes to foster an environment where physical movement is skillfully intertwined with mental concentration and spiritual exploration.

Orly is a self-pronounced mystic who tries to see the magic in everyday life. She enjoys hangin with friends, vegan cooking, co-running her small Ghana-based educational travel program, doing projects, dancing, philosophizing, and thanks to her wonderful partner, embarking on a new and fascinating pastime - watching football. You can reach Orly at raven32@yahoo.com

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

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Leah barr / Instructor

Leah is an artist, a former elementary school art teacher, and a mother of two. She has practiced yoga for 15 years and is a certified Kripalu Yoga instructor. She is drawn to Kripalu Yoga because of its emphasis on bringing compassion, inner attunement, and creativity to bear on one’s yoga practice without compromising safety or the principles of physical alignment. Leah wants to share yoga with others because it has been a powerful force for change, happiness, and strength in her own life.

Kripalu Yoga is accessible to everyone and is rooted in the philosophy that anybody can have a rewarding yoga practice regardless of experience, age, body type or physical limitations!

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

frequently asked questions

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Andrea Kiss / co-owner, instructor

Andrea Kiss has more than a decade of modern-dance performance and teaching experience. she first began teaching herself yoga from books in 1998, growing deeply interested while pregnant with her daughter, zora. andrea quickly began drew links between the movements in modern dance and the asanas of yoga. she feels that just as modern dance is a creative expression of the body, so, too, is the body/mind philosophy of yoga.

Andrea grew up in budapest and moved to washington in 1996. she is studying under jj gormley at sun and moon studio in arlington, va. like kim's teaching approach, andrea's style is well-suited to busy urban professionals, focusing not just on the movements of the outer body, but on the movements of the energetic body (chakras) and their role in mind/body health. email andrea at akiss@comcast.net

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energy series

learn the basics of energy healing: how to develop the intuitive experience, how to self-heal, how to help others heal. session is january 17-march 16. email kim[at]boundlessyoga.com for more information.

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Kim Weeks / Owner, Instructor

kim weeks has been devoted to yoga since 1994, stumbling into it with a hamstring injury she sustained while training for the new york marathon. encouraged by a co-worker at JPMorgan and her sister in Santa Cruz, she looked up yoga in the yellow pages and chose Integral Yoga® because it sounded like an "integrated" approach to a word she wanted to know more about. during the deep relaxation period of her first class, she felt changed.

after spending much of the late 90's in asia and europe with her wall street job, kim left the corporate world in in 2002 to start boundless yoga, a washington, dc-based yoga studio that honors all forms of yoga. classes at boundless draw specifically on the krishnamachariya tradition and focus on one student at a time. kim believes that yoga is evolving rapidly as we enter the 21st century full-swing--and that it is a form of solace and inspiration in stressful times.

kim is a trained Integral Yoga teacher and has continued extensive study with jj gormley, erich schiffmann, rodney yee, sarah powers, jinsung, and, most recently, paul grilley and ramanand patel. in 2004 she lived in oakland, california to take part in rodney's advanced studies program at piedmont yoga studio.

kim focuses on the body as a constantly changing object in time and space, encouraging her asana students to experience delight and forgiveness as they observe their bodies, with simultaneous discrimination and non-judgment, according to the breath's direction. she also has a private energy practice and believes deeply in the innate healing capacity of the body, which she seeks to honor with each client.

for more information on private yoga, energy work, or the boundless yoga teacher training program, email kim@boundlessyoga.com.

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

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Chaka Freeman / Instructor

Chaka Freeman grew up in Santa Cruz California, watching his mother practice yoga before, during and after her pregnancy with his brother Aladdin. This planted the seed of a awe for the nurturing and trans formative process called yoga. This inspiration later bloomed into a practice that began in ernest at the beginning of his third decade.

Six years later his interest in tantra coupled with a love of hatha and an ongoing affair with vinyasa yoga forms three corner stones of his practice. Chaka strongly believes in the future of yoga as a therapeutic process, not just for the already healthy, but the injured and wishing to be healthy. The last foundation stone is comprised of a nearly a decade and a half practicing, studying and teaching the Afro-Brazilian martial arts capoeira Angola.

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

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open vinyasa (vinyasa 1 and 2):

a challenging yoga workout designed to increase strength, flexibility, and stamina. poses are linked together in a continuous flow, which generates internal heat and meditative awareness. understanding of bodily alignment is essential, and some comfort with inversions is recommended.

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stu turkelson / Instructor

stu feels like he came to yoga "pre-packaged" - that experience with acting, dance, martial arts, meditation, even the army and studying religion in college, all predisposed him to being a yogi. all the elements were there, and asana practice was a "just add water" experience. once stu commenced a regular, dedicated practice these elements blossomed. everything felt right, in sync. and he has been hooked ever since.

yoga is transformative, not giant robots transformative, but in an inner-outer/mind-body way. as noted scholar houston smith remarked, "the days just seem to go better when i practice yoga." as a mark of his committment to yoga and to this transformation, stu completed a 200-hour yoga alliance teacher training program with little river yoga of alexandria, va in 2006.

stu approaches teaching with a commitment to developing each student's own personal yoga. he belives that our bodies are our own best teacher, that within each of us lies the dormant potential of an inner guru. stu thus invites students to develop a deep, intimate personal awareness during their practice. he is fond of saying that there are as many different styles of yoga as there are genres of music: there's something for everyone that fits your likes, dislikes, and needs. "listening" to the body is the practice of mind-body, and each student has their yoga to learn which is in itself unique.

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prenatal:

empowers expecting moms with poses and breathing to create more comfort in a quickly changing body. students will learn how to ease the aches and pains of pregnancy and cope better with the intensity of labor.

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yogilates:

this new class at boundless combines the elements of yoga with the muscle strengthening and toning the core associated with pilates. The combination leaves you feeling stronger, with an increased sense of health and well-being especially in you middle.

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

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Orly Jalowski/ Instructor

Orly Jalowski is a teacher trainee at Boundless Yoga and is thrilled to have the opportunity to share her practice with friends in the Boundless community. She is a student of Buddhism in the Mahanayana tradition and is grateful to all the holy teachers she has had the great fortune of meeting and learning from. She believes that the goal of yoga is to help practitioners develop a heart so full of compassion and wisdom that we are better capable, as Ghandi said, of "[being] the change we want to see in the world.".

As Orly herself travails life's ups and downs, she continually strives to use Yoga as a system of living that, put simply, just makes life better. She's realized that when she's feeling her best she is most capable of incredible acts of love, kindess, and generosity - the kinds of which can change everything. She hopes to foster an environment where physical movement is skillfully intertwined with mental concentration and spiritual exploration.

Orly is a self-pronounced mystic who tries to see the magic in everyday life. She enjoys hangin with friends, vegan cooking, co-running her small Ghana-based educational travel program, doing projects, dancing, philosophizing, and thanks to her wonderful partner, embarking on a new and fascinating pastime - watching football. You can reach Orly at raven32@yahoo.com

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

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James Foulkes / Instructor

James Foulkes has been studying personal development for more than eight years. His diverse set of practices includes Yoga, Meditation, Chi Kung, Kung Fu and shamanic movement practices. He is also training in Cranial Sacral Therapy and Chinese Medicine. James enjoys finding parallels between these practices and feels the basis of them is unity, integration and wholeness.

James grew up in England and has recently moved to Washington, after eight years working within a corporate environment. He was initially drawn to yoga after a basketball career left him with a series of injuries. His approach to yoga is based on the work of Vanda Scaravelli, an Italian/ American who studied with J Krishnamurti, BKS Iyengar and TKV Desikachar for 2 decades.

James has recently completed a Teacher Training Course based on this approach, at Natural Bodies Yoga, Movement and Therapy Centre in Brighton, England. The approach is based on awakening the spine through an intelligent practice, which focuses on the breath and gravity. He is extremely interested in the spiritual and energetic aspects of the work and the ability of these practices to shift perception and connect the practitioner with the essence. His classes are suitable for all levels.

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open hatha (hatha 1 and 2):

students learn basic alignment of beginner-to-advanced-beginner poses, with instructions also offered to intermediate students for a more physically challenging class. principles of breathing, meditation, and mental focus are essential to these classes, which are paced more slowly than vinyasa and provide broader exposure to the practice of yoga.

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yoga and chi kung:

taught by british instructor james foulkes, this class is based on awakening the spine through an intelligent practice, which focuses on the breath and gravity. james combines the similar tenets of yoga and chi kung in a fresh look at the spiritual and energetic aspects of body/mind movement. Suitable for all levels.

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James Foulkes / Instructor

James Foulkes has been studying personal development for more than eight years. His diverse set of practices includes Yoga, Meditation, Chi Kung, Kung Fu and shamanic movement practices. He is also training in Cranial Sacral Therapy and Chinese Medicine. James enjoys finding parallels between these practices and feels the basis of them is unity, integration and wholeness.

James grew up in England and has recently moved to Washington, after eight years working within a corporate environment. He was initially drawn to yoga after a basketball career left him with a series of injuries. His approach to yoga is based on the work of Vanda Scaravelli, an Italian/ American who studied with J Krishnamurti, BKS Iyengar and TKV Desikachar for 2 decades.

James has recently completed a Teacher Training Course based on this approach, at Natural Bodies Yoga, Movement and Therapy Centre in Brighton, England. The approach is based on awakening the spine through an intelligent practice, which focuses on the breath and gravity. He is extremely interested in the spiritual and energetic aspects of the work and the ability of these practices to shift perception and connect the practitioner with the essence. His classes are suitable for all levels.

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open vinyasa (vinyasa 1 and 2):

a challenging yoga workout designed to increase strength, flexibility, and stamina. poses are linked together in a continuous flow, which generates internal heat and meditative awareness. understanding of bodily alignment is essential, and some comfort with inversions is recommended.

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Liana Brooks-Rubin / Instructor

Liana Brooks-Rubin integrated yoga into her life in 2001 at the urging of friends who believed it would mitigate anxiety and chronic insomnia. Regular asana practice not only improved her sleep and increased her physical flexibility, but profoundly impacted her overall sense of balance, clarity, and joy. Later, while pregnant with her son, Liana discovered the power of breath, meditation, and movement to prepare the mind and body for the journey of childbirth and mothering.

Liana wholeheartedly believes that practicing yoga creates space in one's body, heart, and mind and invites those who believe (as she once did) that "yoga is not for them" to her class. Liana has studied various styles of hatha yoga and draws particular inspiration from an alignment-based vinyasa. She is currently enrolled in the teacher training program at Boundless Yoga.

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hatha 1:

students learn the foundations of yoga poses. we highly recommend this class before vinyasa 1 or 2. instructions cover basic standing and seated poses, increasing strength, balance, flexibility, and body awareness. instructions also focus on breath, relaxation, and meditation.

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