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Welcome to the Academy of Yoga. We offer dynamic Hatha Yoga, Iyengar Style, with classes seven days per week, Ashtanga style classes and Pilates classes. We also offer special monthly workshops from our beautiful downtown Grand Junction, Colorado yoga center, as well as special Teacher Training Courses for those who wish to become Yoga Teachers. Our teacher training courses are also designed for conscientious students who wish to expand and deepen their knowledge, experience and practice of yoga.
We welcome casual students. If you are passing through Grand Junction, please come by and visit.
About Us
Owner/instructor Monica Zielke-Cullinane has practiced yoga since 1994 and has taught for three years in Grand Junction, Colorado and New York.In 1998, Monica traveled to India to study with B.K.S. Iyengar, and Geeta and Prashant Iyengar. She has studied at the International Iyengar Institutes in London, Paris, Amsterdam, Florence, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Los Angeles, Denver and New York.In 2001, after Monica attended the Yoga Odyssey with Geeta Iyengar in Pasadena, CA, she came to Grand Junction for another Teacher Training course and received her 200-hour teacher training certificate and began to teach.
In 2002, Monica took part in another Teacher Training course and in 2003 began to substitute teach for the Academy's previous owners and again attended the seven-week Teacher Training course. Monica is always involved in the “yoga scene” and has attended workshops, conferences and conventions all over the country. She has studied for the past decade with the most prominent yoga instructors in the world.
Now residing in Grand Junction with her husband and co-director of the Academy, John Cullinane, Monica is grateful for her past teachers, friends and cohorts who encouraged to commit to the “business”. She especially thanks her husband, John, for teaching her what Yoga really is, and for making her dreams come true.
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ASHTANGA- Ashtanga yoga is an ancient and traditional system of Hatha Yoga. Based on the teachings of Sri K. Pattabi Jois, it is composed of several specific sequences of postures that are linked through a series of connecting movements called Vinyasa. Vinyasa is the conscious connection of breath to movement both within and between postures. Ashtanga is a deeply vigorous practice which purifies and realigns the body, cultivates mental acuity, calms the nervous system, builds strength, and cultivates a feeling of inner peace.
IYENGAR- Iyengar yoga teaches the postures through a deep awareness of correct anatomical alignment, breath control, and precise action in the body. The techniques of Iyengar yoga help refine your practice in a very specific manner. The poses and breathing techniques are structured and categorized in a way that allows a beginner to progress surely and safely from basic postures to the most advanced as they gain flexibility, strength and sensitivity in mind, body and spirit. Classes taught in the Iyengar tradition require sequential learning and therefore students are strongly encourages to attend Beginners classes, then gain competence at Level 1 prior to Level 2 and at Level 2 prior to Level 3.
- Beginners - These classes are designed for people that are new to yoga or have been away from yoga for an extended time or those who would like a review of the fundamentals. The focus of the class is on basic fundamentals of postural alignment and yogic breathing.
- Level 1 - Still basic instruction in the fundamentals of postural alignment and breathing for continuing beginning students. Basic standing poses, forward bends, backbends, twists, hip openers and other basics are introduced and practiced with close attention to correct alignment and energetic actions.
- Level 2 - These classes introduce more challenging poses and offer students the opportunity to explore yoga as a vigorous discipline involving the conscious balance integration of mind, body, breath and spirit. These classes offer expanded study of inversions and backbends. Students should have prior Level 1 experience.
- Level 3 - Advanced asanas and pranayama are introduced for students developing a home practice from a solid working knowledge of postures. Students should be proficient with inversions and be interested in doing deep, challenging and transforming work.
PILATES- Pilates was developed in the 1920's by German-born fitness pioneer Joseph Pilates as a complete philosophy of training both the mind and the body to achieve uniform precision and control. The essence of all Pilates work, the mat work is a series of floor exercises designed to create long, lean muscles, core strength, and breath control. As the class progresses together, the mat work becomes an aerobic workout. Pilates mat classes are not recommended for students with serious or chronic back injury.
YOGA-TO-GO - The Academy of Yoga provides private yoga instruction at you place of business, or at your home. You can also schedule yoga for your business at the studio if no space available at your office.
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