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Namaste Unity Woods Yoga Center YOGA IN THE IYENGAR TRADITION SINCE 1979 FALL 2014 • SEPTEMBER 18 – DECEMBER 21 First Class Namaste Free for New This year, 2014, marks the "Lilias, Yoga, and You" on 35th anniversary of the PBS and Richard Hittleman’s Students founding of Unity Woods book, Yoga: 28 Day Exercise Newcomers to Unity Yoga Center. We are proud Plan, introduced many area Woods may take their and honored to have been residents to yoga. During that first class free anytime around all these years, and decade, a lot of the WMA’s during the session to have been a part of the yoga activity centered around Contact us for details. amazing growth of yoga in the Sivananda tradition, the the Washington DC area, the method in which I began my 301-656-8992 country in general, and the practice. Sita Frenkel was a www.unitywoods.com world at large. Unity Woods has had a significant primary influence in the WMA. Sita had studied effect on yoga in Washington, and we have been directly with renowned yogi Swami Sivananda. She affected as well by the changes that have occurred moved to the WMA in the 70’s and founded the Yoga over that time, particularly in recent years. Sadhana Mandir. Sivananda style teachers taught at St. Marks Church in DC in the mid-70’s (and still Inside Yoga and the yoga scene are very different in 2014 do), and students of Swami Satchidanana and Swami than they were in 1979. Of course, yoga existed Vishnudevananda (who were themselves disciples of John’s Workshop in the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA) long Schedule ......................2 Swami Sivananda) offered classes in group houses in before Unity Woods Yoga Center came into exis- the city. Other influences included Ram Dass, who Special Events ...............4–5 tence. In the 1970’s, Lilias Folan’s television show Class Schedule .............6–7 See Namaste, page 2 Teacher Information ......8–9 Studio News .....................9 Unity Woods Yoga Center Course Descriptions .......10 ...is one of the best known and most widely re- All of our classes are based on the teachings Boutique Information ......10 spected yoga centers in the country. We offer of B.K.S. Iyengar. Named by Time magazine Registration Form ............11 classes for students at all levels in posture (asana) as "one of the 100 most influential people in Fees and Policies ............11 and breathing (pranayama), special courses for tar- the world", Mr. Iyengar is widely regarded as geted needs and interests, workshops with some of the world’s foremost living yoga teacher. His the world’s finest teachers, and programs covering approach develops self-awareness through various aspects of the science and art of yoga. precision in movement and attention to the © 2014 Unity Woods subtleties of body, breath, mind, and spirit. Yoga Center, LLC. At Unity Woods, our purpose is to offer uncompro- 4853 Cordell Ave, PH9 mising, expert yoga instruction to as broad an au- Bethesda, MD 20814 dience as possible. Our teaching staff is the area’s Phone: (301) 656-8992 most experienced, comprised of highly trained, Fax: (301) 656-7792 certified instructor s who help guide you to im- www.unitywoods.com proved health, serenity, and expanded awareness. HEALTH • SERENITY • AWARENESS - 2 - UNITY WOODS YOGA CENTER Namaste (continued) John’s came to Washington for several speaking en- venues, but by the mid-‘80‘s, I became weary of Workshops gagements, and Swami Muktananada, founder hauling blankets and books from pillar to post. September 26–28 of Siddha Yoga, whose disciples created a small, Committed to teaching as my livelihood as well Iyengar Yoga Institute but vibrant community in the city. as my passion, I decided to consolidate and fo- New York, NY cus my efforts and open a fulltime commercial These groups offered classes and satsangs in a http://iyengarnyc.org/ yoga studio. No such thing existed in the WMA low key manner, and most of them regarded as far as I know, but I felt that if I could make it October 17–19 money and business as necessary evils at best. work, I could not only make a living teaching Workshop for Teachers There was little or no advertising, and the cost SERENDIPITY yoga, but expand yoga’s appeal by reaching a of classes was very low. Rec departments in Berkeley Springs, WV broader audience. "Refinement and Integration" counties around the city offered yoga classes for www.unitywoods.com next to nothing. Yogi Bhajan, the Sikh founder So in 1985 I opened Unity Woods Yoga Cen- of 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy) which offered ter’s first and what I believe to be the WMA’s October 25 classes in Kundalini Yoga in the WMA, upped first fulltime yoga center on the third floor of Yoga For Health Potomac, MD the commercial profile of yoga by opening the Triangle Towers in Bethesda, in the former stu- A morning workshop with John. Golden Temple Restaurant and the Golden dios of WHFS, the hippie music flagship station. (301) 330-0430 Temple Emporium in the city. I had spent 12 years building up a following of students. That combined with an enhanced November 15 As interest gradually began to pick up, the yoga appearance of professionalism that came from Sun and Moon Yoga Studio movement began to organize. I was among an operating out of a fulltime business location and Arlington, VA informal group of yoga teachers that decided Two afternoon classes. the absence of any similar operations helped to create an organization that could focus the www.sunandmoonstudio.com Unity Woods become commercially success- energy of the yoga community and elevate its ful from the start. This success allowed us to November 16 profile in the larger community. We named move to the larger and more beautiful facilities Advanced Pranayama ourselves the Mid-Atlantic Yoga Association on the Penthouse floor we now occupy and Unity Woods/Bethesda (MAYA) and began putting on workshops with www.unitywoods.com subsequently to open studios in Woodley Park visiting teachers and publicizing our classes (1991) and Arlington (1996). December 5–7 and activities. B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Studio of The ‘90’s saw the rapid growth of yoga not just The more involved I became in practicing, teach- Dallas at Unity Woods but in the WMA as well. Among ing, and the yoga world, the more it consumed Dallas, TX my students during this period were dedicated www.dallasiyengaryoga.com me. By 1978, I had decided to pursue teaching practitioners who were or became prominent yoga as a fulltime profession and my life’s work. teachers: Suzie Hurley, Susan Van Nuys, JJ December 29 I didn’t know anyone who was doing this. For Yoga Sol Gormley, Annie Moyer. Several of these yogis all the teachers I knew, teaching was a part time Delray Beach, FL opened their own studios: Willow Street Yoga, avocation or part of life in an ashram setting. www.yogasol.com Health Advantage, Sun and Moon Yoga. Stan Nobody I knew of made their living teaching Andrzejewski also opened the Greater Baltimore January 2–4 yoga. But I loved yoga. I loved practicing it and Yoga Center and Joe Adlesic opened Blue Ridge Yoga Institute of Miami teaching it, the philosophy behind it, the people Miami, FL Yoga in Charlottesville, VA. Their business mod- involved in it, and what I saw as its power to For experienced Iyengar students. els imitated the Unity Woods approach by of- make a fundamental positive change in the www.yogamiami.org fering sessions of classes, using a similar system world. So I directed my time and energy toward of levels, and printing a newsletter that took its February 9–22 making this possible. 32nd Annual Yoga Vacation in format from the Unity Woods newsletter. Per- Jamaica One of the first things I thought I should do was haps this is why Washingtonian Magazine later John and co-teacher Barbara create a professional identity, a name under dubbed me “the father of yoga in Washington”. Benagh offer top notch yoga which to operate. Unity Woods Yoga Center, LLC classes in a setting of warm sun, This proliferation of studios served to enlarge was born. I signed contracts and advertised my turquoise sea, and the unique the yoga pie, and everyone prospered. This was classes under that name just as any professional Jamaican culture. happening all over the country. In May, 1994, www.yogastudio.org enterprise would do. U.S. News & World Report published an article At that time, most classes were held in people’s titled “Yoga Goes Mainstream”. It featured Unity See www.unitywoods.com homes, church basements, dance studios, and Woods and asana photos of my wife, Suzie, who for details recreation departments. I taught in all those has operated Yoga For Health since 1987. FALL 2014 - 3 - Namaste (continued) John Schumacher is the founder Yoga certainly did go mainstream. Yoga centers courages the systematic and progressive study and director of and teachers in the WMA and elsewhere popped and learning that lies at the heart of deepening Unity Woods. up everywhere. The idea that you could make one’s practice. He has prac- a living teaching yoga took hold, and by the ticed yoga for These days, new brands of yoga roll onto the turn of the century, many centers were running over 40 years market at a rapid pace, and centers combine teacher training programs to take advantage of and has taught yoga and everything from Pilates and Zumba the hordes of people who wanted to become in the Washing- to wine and yoga parties to attract customers.
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