Come To Yoga with Barbara Lyon
at Cambridge Health Associates
335 Broadway
(between Prospect & Inman streets
free parking lot in back!)
at Cambridge Health Associates
335 Broadway
(between Prospect & Inman streets
free parking lot in back!)
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About Barbara Lyon
What students are saying:
The yoga sessions are always inspiring and relaxing. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I hate to drive and do so only if something is truly important to me. Every Wednesday for the past several years your yoga class is what has helped me get through some very tough personal times; job loss, the closing of my business, departures and deaths. You were always that inspiration that made me feel I could handle anything. I feel so lucky to know you. —SH
I have been teaching Kripalu-style yoga for 16 years at Cambridge Health Associates and elsewhere, special classes for organizations (often yoga for relaxation) and a variety of ongoing private lessons.More recently (2011), I earned an Advanced Teacher Training Certificate called The Art of Teaching, from The Yoga Studio (Barbara Benagh), a 200-hour program.
Many years ago I learned to teach yoga by studying with the wonderful Danielle Levi Alvares for 10 years, from 1986-1996; she trained me, then hired me to teach at her studio. It was she who encouraged me to become a yoga teacher — I wanted the pleasure of always being a student.
But she persevered, and I'm so glad she did! Teaching yoga is one of the most rewarding, renewing experiences in my life. It feels ever-fresh to me — topics and approaches for explorations of the body are limitless and fascinating. One week this year we did a 12-minute segment on "yoga for the eyes." In another we did a class on "yoga to help prevent breast cancer." In late March we do a "spring cleaning" that focuses on twists and includes a lymph system massage to help bolster our immune system. In allergy season, we do yoga to help combat overreactions to allergens; at other times yoga to help us sleep, battle depression, energize or relax us.
I have continually studied many forms of yoga since 1986, particularly Iyengar style, as well as taken many workshops and immersion weekends focusing on different topics like backbends, restoratives, breathing, twists and yoga for the subtle body.
In 2010, I completed a three-month Structural Integration series with Eli Thompson that focused on recognizing physical imbalances in the body and helping to correct or balance them.
*Danielle retired from teaching yoga in 1997 and now teaches meditation in California.
