Upcoming Fall Workshop:
An Anchor in the Storm
A workshop series to find calm, gain clarity and lean in during anxious times
Thursdays, October 15 - November 12, 2020
This experiential yoga workshop aims to bridge the gaps that fear and anxiety create, and to help us feel more centered, creative, and committed to the things we value. Five weekly meetings weave together powerful yoga techniques, experiential movement, breath work, meditation practices and self-study to shift your body and mind in ways that help us to experience each moment from a place of calm, compassionate understanding.
Our sessions together will involve yogasana (physical postures), pranayama (breathwork) and meditation. We will then use practical, accessible aspects of yogic philosophy to discuss and reframe our individual circumstances, creating space for our deepest desires and inquiries emerge. Self-study and group practice in this format evokes meaningful questions for how we can more fully participate in our lives.
Who this series is for
This series is open to people from all backgrounds and life experiences who are interested in harnessing powerful, yet simple strategies to manage anxiety and live in alignment with one's values. The workshop is intimate, capped at 10 participants, to foster a sense of connection and support.
Whether what you’re up against feels enormous or seems trivial--- if its providing for your family during Covid, battling anxiety, depression and isolation, or standing up for civil and human rights--- the stresses of our current climate can be all too overwhelming. An anchor in the storm facilitates an increased capacity to navigate uncertainty and worry, and inspires a leaning in to what’s in front of us.
Dates- October 15, 22 & 29 and November 5 & 12
Times- 5:30-7:30pm EST
All classes will take place wherever you are, on zoom. *Continuing Education Units available
*Because of the intimate nature and ongoing study within this workshop series, it is strongly recommended you attend all 5 sessions. Please reach out if you know you have a conflict but would still like to join!
This workshop is intentionally set to arc the 2020 election, amidst the coronavirus pandemic and civil unrest. Though these circumstances provide context for our work together, we will not focus our time discussing current events. Instead, the aim is to grow and become more resilient in facing the challenges these and other situations bring to our lives currently.
Total payment for 5 weeks: $150
We would like everyone to be able to attend regardless of financial situation. Payment plans are available as well as scholarships.
For Questions and Registration, please email- czachca@gmail.com
Ongoing Yoga & Dance Classes, & Meditation Offerings:
Donation-based Yoga classes on Zoom
*All times Eastern Standard
Wednesdays & Fridays 12:00-1:00pm
online Studio classes $15
Mondays 12:00-1:00pm
Classes are donation based with the suggestion of $5-20 for Hatha Flow classes.
You make these classes possible by donating through PayPal or Venmo. PayPal- czachca@gmail.com; Venmo- @Carly-Czach
*No one will be turned away for lack of funds*
Hatha Flow w/Meditation
Classes are open to all levels of experience and are 60 minutes long. We will move our bodies in and out of postures to cultivate strength and stability, develop healthy range of motion, use breath practices to bring our focus from the external chaos to an inner calm, and use meditation to create space and possibility at a time where we are physically contained. *Mats are props are not necessary but may be helpful (ie. yoga blocks or books, a blanket, a pillow).
Email to register, and receive the link to join: czachca@gmail.com
“Midday Flow” Yoga at Shambhala Yoga and Dance, online
Open to all levels of experience. We will move our bodies in and out of postures to cultivate strength and stability, develop healthy range of motion, use breath practices to bring our focus from the external chaos to an inner calm, and use meditation to create space and possibility at a time where we are physically contained.
Register here: https://shambhalayogadance.com
Personalized Meditation Practices
Guided meditations customized to meet you where you are in your life.
As individuals, we respond to life events and stresses uniquely. Today's unprecedented circumstances challenge us in new ways- from deep concerns for our health and that of our loved ones, to social distancing, to homeschooling, changes in employment, and so on. This is new territory, and it is stressful. Whatever the your present scenario (and perhaps daily adaptations of it), you feel and respond to it in specific (and likely patterned) ways that have a big impact on your body, your mind and your emotions.
Having a hard time focusing on the task at hand?
Sitting at your computer or working more than ever?
Chronic or acute pain?
Trouble sleeping? Physical restlessness?
Feeling withdrawn, hopeless?
There is no one-size-fits-all.
Simple, specific meditation techniques bring you back to balance so you can respond to the challenges in your life.
Reset your mind through short, guided practice you can listen to from your computer or phone on repeat, on your own schedule.
Send me an email to learn more or get started:
czachca@gmail.com
Click below for a brief, guided meditation to expand your perspective and calm your mind.
dance classes:
Movement research
Eden’s Expressway
537 Broadway, SoHo
Gibney Dance Center
280 Broadway, Lower Manhattan
Wednesdays in January & March, 2020 6:30-8:30pm
All levels of experience welcome.
This class offers the opportunity for both new and seasoned Contact dancers to build skillsets, while exploring nuanced qualities of dancing, that may lead to the fluid and easeful or dynamic and athletic.
Thursdays in July & August, 2020 6:00-8:00pm
Contact Improvisation Basics.
Come learn fundamental CI skills and practice improvising in a safe and incredibly fun setting.
Past Workshops & Trainings
Shambhala Yoga 200-Hour registered Yoga Teacher Training
Shambhala Yoga and Dance Center’s 200-hour Yoga Alliance certified Teacher Training Program
March 20-June 14, 2020
Click here for more info & registration
Using (Your Empowerment & Self-Discovery) YES Yoga as a framework of study, students first learn to explore their own relationship with yoga. Our strength as a teacher relies heavily on our own unique and authentic experiences. So we’ll take a considerate amount of time diving in to the history, philosophy and science of yoga. This deep study will guide our approach to the asana (postures) and meditation practice. Through active practice and a diverse range of skill sets, we’ll explore the beauty of teaching. Students map sequencing and theming classes which can be applied to your home practice, private instruction or group classes.
Lead Instructors- Deanna Green, Carly Czach
Moab Workshop & Jam
Contact Improvisation Intensive and Jam in beautiful Moab, Utah May 17-25, 2020
Co-taught by Tim O’Donnell and Carly Czach, and co-facilitated by many other incredible teachers!
Workshop theme: Floor-work, Fluidity & Flight
Contact Improvisation has the potential to be a wellspring of joy, presence and wonder. That is what is has been for us—a wellspring, and we are delighted to have the opportunity to share our dancing and ourselves with you. Our teaching draws upon the rich history of Contact Improvisation and our current individual and shared research in the field, steeped in a deep sense of listening and embodiment.
In this intensive we will focus on cultivating responsiveness rather than re-activeness, recognizing and then altering known pathways, and hone listening skills through dialogue. We will create new layers and textures that deepen our dancing.
Class scores and exercises are rooted in functional anatomical principles that emphasize clarity, momentum, precision, and release. We will build kinesthetic awareness necessary for a broad range of dancing, from the gentle and subtle to the acrobatic and fluidly athletic.
Registration opens March 14, 2020 https://www.moabjam.com/registration-1
A weekend of Contact Improvisation classes, scores & jams. F
acilitated by Tim O'Donnell & Carly Czach
Thanksgiving Weekend Workshop and Jam, 2015-2019 at Earthdance Creative Living, Plainfield, MA.
Form into Freedom
Weekend Workshop & Jam in Contact Improvisation
Burlington, Vermont May 3-5, 2019
How do we experience the fullness of being alive in our bodies? How can we explore our own movement potential while remaining available to listen to and negotiate sharing an axis with a partner? How can we organize our bodies with efficiency and yet inhabit a space of improvisation?
Contact Improvisation offers itself to your imagination, cultivating curiosity in the paradoxes of the form—structure and improvisation, weighted-ness and weightlessness, stability within fluidity.
This workshop begins with form; laying the foundation with CI skills as a jumping off point. Finding inspiration from connection with the floor, ourselves and our partner, our dancing becomes more embodied as we go from shaping to listening, and challenging ourselves to respond to what each moment asks for.
As we become more adventurous, we find ways to invite our partners into novelty, exploring 360 degrees of movement potential; falling and soaring together, unbound.
Yoga to Beat the
Winter Blues
Saturday, Feb 10, 2019 Shambhala Yoga, Brooklyn
Winter is here and there’s no denying the influence of the elements on our state of well-being. The components of water and earth create a cold, damp, and heavy environment--qualities that affect our bodies and minds, and can make us more prone to illness, lethargy, and depression. Using ancient yet accessible yoga techniques, we will shift our experience to be one of joy, well being and contentment-all of which are a part of our true nature.
This workshop includes a movement practice with specific techniques to boost your energy & mood, and discussion on building physical & emotional resilience for this season.
*All humans with any or no experience are welcome.
Want to find the sweetness in all of your asana, and daily living?
Contact me to schedule a private session today.