yoga for bliss

Neem Dewji has been the director of Yoga for Bliss for 21 years. She also teaches meditation and stress management, leads groups that focus on health and well-being, and teaches therapeutic, gentle and chair yoga.

"It's wonderful to have been able to create a wellness community in Riverdale and Yonkers and online. In these stressful and difficult times, we offer a space where people can come together with similar intention: to stop and recenter, to improve their well-being, to remember their more expanded and sacred sense of Self, and to make a difference to others."

                                  

Immersed in Iyengar yoga since 1995, Nancy Preston has visited India three times to study with master teachers Ramanand Patel, Pandit Mukesh Desai,  Swami Dayananda Saraswati, and the Iyengars. She has passed the rigorous Iyengar Yoga Certification process. Nancy believes the principles of asana practice can guide us to live our daily lives in harmony.

Stephanie Brooks has been a yoga practitioner for over seventeen years, and has found yoga to be an incredibly healing modality - physically, mentally, and spiritually. Her 2019 Teacher Training focused not just on asanas (postures), but on the timeless, philosophical elements of yoga, which have deepended both her self-awareness and her practice. Stephanie offers a gentle, grounding class with an emphasis on self-exploration and self-care.

Gina Callendar has been practicing yoga for over 17 years and has completed several Teacher Trainings. To Gina, yoga is a transformative philosophy, beyond the physical poses that yoga is associated with in the West. Yoga teaches us to slow down, and has huge physical and mental benefits when practiced regularly. "We become more conscious of our bodies, minds, and hearts, and notice how we affect the world around us."