Join Rudy Peirce and other Gentle Yoga Teachers for breath-focused compassionate yoga – explore gentle practices that calm the nervous system and restore serenity
Enjoy increased resilience, calm, flexibility and strength.
Open to All. Beginners always welcome.
Gentle Strength
Improve Muscles, Bones & Balance
Breath Practice Chair Yoga
Change Your Life
Yoga Nidra
Soothe Your Soul
These longer themed classes on selected Saturdays feature a variety of teachers and themes. All workshops are suitable for beginners and include a spacious experience of slow movements into accessible yoga postures, gentle breathing practices, time for relaxation, and meditation.
Online Weekend Modules
Learn to lead an accessible, inclusive and empowering gentle yoga practice focused on chair-supported yoga and connect to a group of yoga teachers dedicated to the power of gentle practice.
There are many kinds of meditation, but most begin with concentration practices that can still the mind so that its patterns are exposed. In turn, there are many concentration practices. Each leads to the same end, but some work better than others for different individuals. On six consecutive Thursday evenings, you’ll have the opportunity to learn and practice major concentration practices to see which one (or ones) resonate with your personality.
Here’s a chance to learn a little more about Brian. He teaches Breath Practice Chair Yoga at least weekly on Fridays followed by guided Metta Meditation. He guides a new yoga nidra once a month and has created over 30 unique journeys available in the video library. He also teaches yoga online for The Thread (for yoga teachers) and in private practice in
Enjoy Tammy’s interview of Debbie Vigneri, a Gentle Yogi’s sangha member and nature-lover (you might never guess what kind of work she has done related to nature!) She shares her passion for yoga and how she feels “in wholeness” participating in this community. Be inspired by her gratitude and intention to carry the spirit of yoga into her daily life as a yoga
When I told a student of mine last summer that my next advanced teacher training would be for chair-supported practice, she was surprised and curious. She attended Dynamic Gentle Yoga Teacher Training when we offered it online during the pandemic while I was guiding and training standing and floor postures–the training included only a short discussion about using a chair. Back then I
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“I am so grateful to be a part of the community that you have created! Each and everyone of your instructors have a gift they share with us.”
“It has been incredibly grounding for me to do the [breath] practice with you. It’s like being with a friend and feeling connected to myself at the same time. In a time when things feel uncertain, practices through the lens of Kripalu are deeply meaningful… I’m very grateful for the steadiness of the everyday practice.”
Thank you so much for giving so generously of your time and expertise during this most difficult and stressful time in all our lives. I have taken several of Rudy's classes during numerous visits to Kripalu. What a blessing you have been to my life and well being. I so enjoy your zoom practices. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. What a blessing you are to our entire online community.
