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About the Studio

Sonic Yoga is ‘yoga for the people’

About to celebrate our 10 Year Anniversary in November, Sonic Yoga began it’s journey in 2001 in the heart of New York City’s bustling Hell’s Kitchen district and quickly blossomed into a mecca for NYC’s cultural community  looking for a super-friendly place to come together and practice yoga.  Since then, they’ve welcomed more than 50,000 students into their family and trained hundreds of teachers, from nearly every continent on Earth (save the North & South Poles, but we’re working on that).  In 2005 -2010, they  were rated NYC’s #1 yoga studio by Citysearch and the studio holds a 4 Star status on Yelp.com

At Sonic, the students are like family (without the awkward Thanksgiving brawls).  When you come to play in their house, you’ll have the opportunity to cultivate a healthier, more-vital body, a peaceful, centered state of mind & an awakened spirit!  Oh, and you might make a lot of great friends and sweat a bit, too!

Class Descriptions

Flow 1
This practice is about creating a balance of heat and calm in the body. It begins with a minute or so of cleansing breath, moves into a gentle flowing warm-up, 5-minutes of core (ab) work and then 40-minutes of moderately-paced standing flow, drawing upon postures that are challenging, yet accessible to a wide range of students. It then returns you to the mat for the balance of practice and ends with a few minutes of breathwork, savasana and meditation.

Flow 1-2
This practice is about creating a balance of heat and calm in the body. This practice and ends with a few minutes of breathwork, savasana and meditation. Flow 1 has a stilling quality that leaves you refreshed and restored. Flow 2 Often sweat drenching practice cultivates cleansing heat in the body and builds strength, stamina and focus. Flow 2 is a vibrant/alive journey that leaves you refreshed, inspired and alive. This blended class will cater to all levels and will provide the opportunity for students to experience a intelligent multi-level practice.

Flow Fundamentals
Once you have graduated from a workshop or simply become acquainted with the basics on your own, you are ready to begin flowing a bit more. This gentle, interactive practice is designed to instill newer students with the comfort, strength and knowledge needed to explore their blossoming practice or give more accomplished students a gentle, more fundamental practice option and a focus on specifics. The flow is stopped to provide more detail and give more opportunity to explore and learn at your own pace.

Flow 2
This powerful, often sweat drenching practice cultivates cleansing heat in the body and builds strength, stamina and focus. Flow 2 begins standing and moves into a 50-minute dynamic standing flow, incorporating a wide-range of arm-balances and “sense of adventure poses.” The pace is brisk, yet intelligent, and the intensity and heat come more from the pace than from the holds or complexity. From here, we move to the mat for deeper, longer forward, back and hip-opening postures, 5-minutes of dynamic core work and deliver you into a scrumptious savasana and final meditation. Flow 2 is a vibrant/alive journey that leaves you refreshed, inspired and alive.

Hatha Flow
This practice places a large emphasis on the breath (pranayama) to explore commonly practiced postures (asana) and uses variations with different energetic focus (bandha) to increase the benefits of the postures and allow accessibility in more complex postures using the techniques of Hatha Yoga. Expect to hold postures longer than you might in a standard vinyasa class.

Center
This yummy 1-hour experience is perfect for students of all levels looking for a deeply centering experience. We open with a gently flowing, classical 30-minute flow, sequencing individual poses and counterposes with each other. We then come to the mat for 15-minutes of cleansing and centering breathing exercises and end with a delicious 15-minute guided meditation and relaxation.

Donation Community Class
An opportunity to study with our most talented new teachers at a discounted rate. These classes are Level One and give our budding teachers the experience they need, while providing you with a beautiful yoga experience. Pay what you can!

Prana Flow 1
Prana Flow is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of Teachers. Students of all levels are empowered to experience prana – the universal source of breath, life-energy and conscious intelligence – as the navigating source of yoga practice and vital living. Practitioners learn classical and innovative approaches to vinyasa yoga and the state of flow drawn from Krishnamacharya’s teachings, Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Somatics and Shiva’s teaching experience from the last fifteen years.

Prana Flow 2
Prana Flow is an energetic, creative, full-spectrum approach to embodying the flow of yoga cultivated by Shiva Rea and the Global Vinyasa Collective of Teachers. Students of all levels are empowered to experience prana – the universal source of breath, life-energy and conscious intelligence – as the navigating source of yoga practice and vital living. Practitioners learn classical and innovative approaches to vinyasa yoga and the state of flow drawn from Krishnamacharya’s teachings, Tantra, Ayurveda, Bhakti, Somatics and Shiva’s teaching experience from the last fifteen years.

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Teacher Training

Sonic Yoga offers 200 + 300 hour certifications that enable you to change people’s lives and and earn a great living teaching yoga!

Sonic Yoga is The Center For Yoga Studies at Sonic Yoga NYC. Since 2001, the school has offered a highly-regarded 200-hour Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Certification Program.

Over the last 5-years, Sonic has graduated hundreds of teachers and grown from one to nearly 10 graduating classes a year in two different languages. You will benefit not only from the experience of the amazing faculty and strong-reputation, but from the voracious quest to constantly improve, add-to and refine the program every time it is presented. From cutting-edge, multimedia anatomy presentations to ancient healing mudras, you will experience the best in professional yoga education in an easygoing, super-friendly and supportive environment.

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Click here for more information on 300-hour Prana Flow teacher training

Testimonials

“In the city there are so many studios now offering a full 200 and 500 hr training programs. But both during the training and before, there was a very welcoming sense of openness, innocence and encouragement led by the teachers and the overall vibe of the Studio. I can’t say that intrigued me elsewhere. The benefits and the gift I received from my time in the program exceeded my expectations and more than anything,, I am feeling grateful that I have a sense of excitement and confidence about teaching at the present, and in the future. This, I attribute to cool, well versed, and approachable teaching. That and the many friendships and teacher-student relationships that organically developed remind me the studio is not a quick-certification, but a grounded, thorough, honest program. Whoo hoo!” – Christine C.

“This was one of the best month’s of my life, I grew so much. The teachers were so welcoming, compassionate and open. Being told to make mistakes and accept where we are was a fantastic thing to be told at the start. All the people in my group were amazing, so open, loving and understanding, as well as very inspired and great future yoga teachers! I also feel I am doing something ‘right’ for me, which is a blessing. Sonic is a great place to have found that.” – Harry T.

“Sonic Style is a joyful expression of life! It’s about the dance between mind, body, and spirit.  I feel at home at Sonic because I am free to express my natural energy, whatever it may be that day, without fear of judgment.  And it’s always a spiritual up-lifter, too!” - Kira S.