rebecca ambrose
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Owner / Founder of The Corner Yoga, Rebecca specializes in Trauma-Informed, Vinyasa and Yin Yoga. TCY is built on the back of many years teaching (since 2011) and even more years managing yoga studios (since 2007) around NYC, Astoria + BK. She is a Teacher Training Director and Continued Education Provider via Yoga Alliance. With CEU courses in Body Individuality, Organic Hands-On Assisting, and Autonomy + Accessibility.
Her classes are sequenced to focus on individual alignment, trusting your body, and riding the wave of the breath. Rebecca will get you to breathe a little deeper while encouraging you to explore and adjust your practice for your unique body. She will help you find space for deep fascial release but also room to play in your practice with options for all.
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"I promise: you will be seen, heard, deeply cherished and cared for. Service, elevating others, creating safe spaces and community is at the heart of The Corner Yoga. We will always make space for you & are so glad you are here!"
APRIL EVANS
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April incorporates her love of study into class by weaving philosophy, meditation, mantra, and humor throughout an intelligently designed sequence that blends the various asana techniques she’s studied since 2005.
Since 2010 she's acquired over 600 hours of training and numerous continuing education credits. April has worked with adults of all abilities and ages individually, publicly, in corporate environments, private mentorships, and through directing teacher trainings. She looks forward to meeting you at The Corner Yoga Studio.
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ANDREA LYNCH
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Andrea is a yoga teacher, MD native (current Queens resident), and Sagittarius sun (Leo rising, Libra moon). She's been practicing yoga since 2011 and teaching since completing her 200hr with Yogaworks in 2016. She teaches Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, Prenatal, Postnatal, and Yoga Nidra. She's a nerd for sequencing and alignment, creating accessible and inclusive classes that allow students to explore all levels of ability in unison with breath. She gives you the tools, variations, and guidance you need to build and curate your practice.
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kristin leal
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Soon after moving to New York City in 1993 to pursue her dance career, Kristin's friend dragged her to her first yoga class at the old Jivamukti Yoga School. While she had absolutely no idea what anyone was talking about she immediately fell in love with the poetry of meditation in movement. Kristin studied voraciously for many years and hungrily went to every workshop and studied with every teacher that passed through town. After taking many different Yoga teacher training programs and becoming a licensed massage therapist she began to see connections between the physical and energetic anatomies and started to realize that the closer you look at anything whether it’s the thymus gland, a Sanskrit word or a Yoga Asana you can’t help but be in awe!
Studying with many different lineages helped Kristin to dive really deep into various systems of Yoga but also allowed her to see that a dogmatic unyeilding approach would not be her path as a teacher. No two bodies are alike and cookie-cutter postures, theories, practices, alignment or verbal cues would just not work for the majority of students that she was seeing. Her own practice and teaching continues to evolve but currently leans towards the subtle exploration of breath, movement, energy, mind, questioning, listening, patterns, purpose and potential.
These days you can find Kristin in her new home in London, England writing books, studying in a nearby park full of swans - teaching virtually and producing offerings in my faux fur lined-plant and bone filled home yoga studio.
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KATE SORTINO
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Kate brings over 15 years of experience as a Yoga and Meditation Teacher. She is a 500 Hour certified vinyasa yoga teacher, training at Yoga High in New York City. Since 2010, she has taught at several NYC yoga studios, fitness clubs, and wellness companies including Yoga High, URBN Playground, Mercedes Club, Hiking Yoga, New York Yoga, The Yoga Room, Reflections Yoga, and Y7 Studio where she held a position of Teacher Mentor in Y7’s Mentorship Training Program. Along with MBSR Meditation trainings, she is a certified Prenatal Yoga teacher, having completed her certification through Living Now Yoga with Juliana Mitchell. In 2014, she trained with the Svastha Yoga Therapy program under the tutelage of Ganesh Mohan, in Yoga for Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction.
She is certified in Trauma Informed Yoga, with Exhale to Inhale. She also holds an essential certification for Thai Massage through Lotus Palm. Currently, she is the Global Director of Meditation and Yoga Therapeutics
for the wellness company, Culture of Fit. Having suffered through several years of depression and anxiety, Kate was drawn to yoga and meditation as a way to cope and manage these struggles. She has dedicated the last decade using what she has learned (and continues to learn), to support individuals experiencing these very real and common challenges. Kate lives in Astoria, Queens with her husband, daughter, and their dog, Disco. She is a giant live music fan. Follow her on Instagram:@sortinoyoga
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dana tarasavage
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Dana, E-RYT, YACEP, is an Authorized Level 2 Ashtanga Yoga Instructor with over thirteen years of teaching experience. She is currently a Master’s Degree candidate in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University with a focus on Yoga Philosophy and Sanskrit, and has also studied postural yoga, chanting and Sanskrit in Mysore, India. Dana was initially drawn to yoga in 2004 while living at home in Florida, but eventually moved to New York City where she attended NYU and FIT and cultivated a devoted Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga practice. In 2009, while also pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Communications, she completed a Registered Yoga Teacher Training at Urban Ashtanga Yoga Shala in Orlando, Florida. She has since completed additional training in Restorative and Vinyasa Yoga.
Beginning in 2011, she made five annual month-long trips to Mysore, India, to study Ashtanga Yoga at the KPJAYI and to further her connection to the roots of the practice. Since 2013, she has taught Mysore Ashtanga classes, and is also a Classical Pilates instructor with 600 hours of training from New York City’s Power Pilates, has served as co-director of New York Yoga’s 200-Hour Teacher Training, and is a published poet featured in the Poetry of Yoga.
Today, Dana teaches traditionally-rooted classes, workshops, and trainings in person at Humming Puppy and online through a Virtual Mysore Membership, offers private sessions, and mentors emerging yoga instructors. Her classes are supportive and precise, with a focus on helping students build and sustain a holistic practice that integrates physicality with philosophy.
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dani kipnis
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Hailing from New York, Dani is a dancing, outdoor-loving, bread-baking yogini. She has spent many years studying the body both intrinsically through dance and yoga, and scientifically through anatomy, physiology, and neuroscience. This research has led her to understand the body and the mind are inherently linked. Thus, through Dani's work she seeks to help others find this internal connection through movement. Dani specializes in creative, yet mindful sequencing and strength building that is grounded in anatomy and physiology. Her class is built around a keen understanding of movement science, breath, and body awareness. Practitioners are led through an empowering, artistic flow that leaves them feeling centered, calmed, and energized. She also specializes in yoga for individuals with movement disorders and chronic pain. Dani received her 200 hour yoga certification with Paul Toliuszis at Green Monkey in Miami Beach and 20 hour Trauma Informed certification with Jafar Alexander and United We Om. She holds an MA in Applied Exercise Physiology from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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jen copeland
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Jen Parker is an experienced 500+ hour certified Yoga teacher, leading Yoga classes in NYC since 2014. Her goal is to challenge you on a physical and mental level without producing burnout, help you achieve greater self awareness through mind-body connection, and at the end of the day have you step off the mat feeling like the work you did is relevant and creating a clear measurable difference in your life.
In addition to yoga, Jen has been a certified Pilates Mat and Apparatus teacher since 2016. She believes that teaching is the art of assisting discovery. You are your own true teacher, and she is grateful to assist you on your yoga journey!
