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Yoga at the Brooklyn Museum
Kelly Morris will be teaching yoga at the Brooklyn Museum (not on it) on July 24
Renowned New York City yoga instructor Elena Brower has lead yoga classes at MoMA and the Rubin Museum. So it’s no stretch for the popular Anusara practitioner to teach at the Brooklyn Museum next week, one of three classes which will be lead by top NYC yogis during July.
The two-hour yoga classes, held over three Sundays in July, will take place in the museum’s fifth floor Cantor Rotunda. How cool is that?
So why is the venerable art institution willing to allow a slew of sticky mats and sweaty yogis into its velvet rope areas? “The museum wanted a 3-class series to complement the Vishnu exhibition,” explains Brower. Attendees are encouraged to tour the exhibit—Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior (showing through October 2)—before each yoga class.
From left: Brower, Morris, and Costello
Brower selected the other yoga instructors—Nikki Costello and Kelly Morris. “They are among the most well-respected teachers in New York City, both are dear to me, and both have high levels of virtuosity with regards to the asana practice,” she says.
It’s the first time teaching in an arts institution for instructor Kelly Morris, who practices a style she calls Conquering Lion Yoga. “It feels sweetly appropriate to have the offering of yoga in such a beautiful, hallowed space, and Garth Stevenson, the heart-opening bassist, will be accompanying us…. For us, yoga is a unspoken collaboration between student and teacher, a sacred act of creation. The Brooklyn Museum is the perfect venue to generate this mutual consecration. We are thrilled!” —Melisse Gelula
"Krishna Fluting for the Gopis," who stop what they are doing in order to listen. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Yoga in the Rotunda Series Schedule
Sunday, July 10 at 2:00 Anusara with Elena Brower
Sunday, July 17 at 2:00 Iyengar with Nikki Costello
Sunday, July 24 at 2:00 Conquering Lion Yoga with Kelly Morris
Cost is free with museum admission ($10). Bring your own mat. Reservations are strongly recommended. Call 718-501-6326 or visit Museumtix.com. For more information, visit www.brooklynmuseum.org
[...] There will be three yoga classes this month inside the Brooklyn Museum. The two-hour classes will be held over three Sundays at 2:00 pm, starting this Sunday, and will take place in the museum’s fifth floor Cantor Rotunda. The three-class series will complement the Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior exhibit. All you have to do is pay the museum admission (suggested at $10), bring your own mat, and reservations are strongly recommended. I love the low-key Brooklyn Museum and its neighboring Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and during the summer there’s nothing like sitting outside the Brooklyn Museum watching the kids run through the water fountains. Throw free yoga into the mix? Sounds like a perfect Sunday to me. More information here. [...]
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