UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
May Intro To Ashtanga Five Week Workshop
Wanna start an Ashtanga Yoga practice? We’re ready for ya.
Join our five week, all levels, Intro to Ashtanga course that is designed to help you build an Ashtanga practice from the ground up and to help you stoke the fire toward building a sustainable, regular yoga practice.
This course includes 5 hour long intro sessions guided by our founder, Sarah Rae Nelson and includes an unlimited month pass to the Club.
Intro classes will be held on May 4th. 11th, 18th, 25th and June 1st from 9:30am-11am. Passes begin on May 4th and end on June 7th.
Investment: $99.00
Including:
Eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga + beginners guide to the Yoga Sutras
Asana Clinics to breakdown backbending, headstand and twisting, forward folds
Five weeks of unlimited practice at CAYC. These five weeks will help you create a super charged, sustainable yoga practice
Only 10 new members will be accepted into this co-hort. Sign up while it’s open
May 23rd + 24th: Kory Sheffer Workshop: The path to an honest, nurturing, and sustainable asana practice
Pricing: sliding scale pricing either $100 or $150 for the full workshop.
Individually priced workshops available!
No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Please email columbusashtangayogaclub@gmail.com to start a conversation around alternative sliding scale options.
May 23rdnd + 24th, 2025
Friday morning Led, 6am-8am (2 hours) ($20 for members + $30 for non-members)
Join this Friday morning Led taught "Tim Miller Style”, which includes a few additional asana including Sama Konasana, Hanumanasana, Trivikramasana, Eka Pada Bakasana, Handstands in between Navasana's, and 8 Urdvha Danurasana A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H - each letter corresponding with a name for Hanuman. Toward the end of savasana, Kory will read some pages from The Ramayana, an epic tale of Prince Rama's journey to rescue his wife Sita from the demon king Ravana, emphasizing the triumph of good over evil and the importance of duty. This class will have a specific focus on Hanuman, who a central figure in Hindu mythology, revered for his unwavering devotion, strength, and courage.
Friday evening discussion, 6—8pm ( 2 hours) ($40 priced individually)
Ashtanga Yoga - Myth vs. Reality: In this discussion, we will explore the history of Yoga, beginning with Vedic tradition and practices, traversing Classical, Early Mid-evil, Late Mid-evil, and arriving in the contemporary landscape. We'll look at each period's key texts, rituals, and practices to set a framework for a broader understanding of how the version of what we know as Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga came about. We'll then unpack the origins of what we know as Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga and examine the evolutions, setbacks, myths, dogma, and ultimately how we might use this wisdom to inform our practice so that we may find autonomy, agency, and freedom in our mind and body.
Saturday morning Mysore ($20 for members + $30 for non-members)
7:30-9:30am
Saturday afternoon workshop - 3 hours ($60 priced Individually)
The path to an honest, nurturing, and sustainable asana practice: One of the (many) paths to liberation is the path of Satya, Truth. When we are honest with ourselves and others, Trust is established. When Trust is established, we are able to rest within ourselves and others - breaking free from the binds of fear, uncertainty, and stagnation. When we apply this philosophy to our physical asana practice, we're able to clear out confusion, dissolve negative self-talk, and wield our perceived "weaknesses" as superpowers. In this workshop, we'll use the functional range conditioning system of C.A.R.S (controlled articular rotations) combined with a deep dive into foundational asana to get a real-time snapshot of each individual's unique joint and muscular availabilities and imbalances. Once we are established in this very personal knowledge, we can then apply the information to complex asana (struggle poses) in a way that is Honest, Nurturing, and Sustainable.
More about Kory:
Kory is the founder and director of Alchemy Studio + Ashtanga Yoga Cleveland. Formerly, Kory was the founder and director of Ashtanga Yoga Napa Valley (Napa, California) which flourished from 2015 - 2020. Yoga found Kory over a decade ago through common Western and gym styled classes. Intrigued by the source material, she sought a more meaningful and comprehensive Yoga experience, discovering Ashtanga Yoga to her delight. Kory began this journey with Vance Selover (Berkeley, California) and gradually ventured to Ashtanga Yoga luminary Tim Miller (Encinitas, California) where she engaged in regular practice from 2014 through 2019. During her years studying with Tim, she received 100 hour teaching certifications from him in The Primary and Intermediate Series of Ashtanga Yoga.
Fortunate geographic proximity led Kory to meet Harvard PhD candidate and founder of Yogic Studies, Seth Powell in 2018. His mastery of Yogic history, philosophy, and Sanskrit language encouraged her to further her curiosity in these subjects. She regularly participates in Seth’s Yogic Studies online courses and invites him to share his immense knowledge and engaging teaching style with her community of students. Kory now assists Seth in leading yearly pilgramiges to India through the Yogic Studies “Sacred Sites of India” tour. Kory credits Seth with catalyzing and fostering some of her most profound realizations in her time as a student of Yoga.
In June of 2019 Kory studied for one month in Bali under the guidance of Mark Robberds. She has been profoundly inspired by Mark’s experience and approach to integrating alternative movement modalities such as FRC and Kinstretch into the practice while maintaining the integrity of the Ashtanga Yoga method.
Kory has twice embarked on sojourns to Mysore India - November and December of 2016 and June and July of 2018 for intensive study with the late Sharath Jois at KPJAYI, now known as the Sharath Yoga Center.
Continuing her studies and fascination with body mechanics, in February of 2020 Kory received certification from FRS (Functional Range Systems) as an FRC movement specialist.
In the Mysore room Kory is a supportive and encouraging teacher. She recognizes that all students are different and will require a unique and individual approach. While Kory acknowledges the “traditional” framework of the Ashtanga Yoga sequencing and methodology, she is known to provide supportive and at times alternative suggestions - which may include deeper anatomical research or physical conditioning to ensure that each posture is appropriate for students to incorporate into their practice. When studying and practicing with Kory students can expect to be challenged in a supportive and positive manner; engaged in deep self-study, discovery & reflection; and inspired by the awakening of limitless potential.