ESSENTIAL YOGA

Welcome to Essential Yoga,

Our intention is to offer you practice, support, information and community.
We offer group and private classes including: prenatal yoga, Mom & Baby Yoga, Hatha Yoga for moms; a diverse series of workshops, comprehensive childbirth education series, and maternal postpartum care.

We are two women who came together through yoga practice and have grown to become friends and mothers as well as working partners. We believe deeply in the power of women helping women, in the power of inter-generational communication and in empowering women through shared knowledge.

We are enriched by working with women of all ages and stages of life including our work with pregnant teenagers. We intend to continue developing our offerings to include classes for women and couples before conception, retreats outside of the city and a website that will serve as a resource for information and service referrals.

Beth Donnelly Cabán has been teaching Yoga and Meditation since 1997. She is a certified yoga instructor (Integral Yoga Institute), a certified midwife assistant (The Farm) and a labor support doula (DONA). She is a certified childbirth educator (CEA/MNY) and has trained with Janet Balaskas and Michel Odent at the Active Birth Centre in London. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son, Kai.

Lara Kohn Thompson is an Integral Yoga certified Hatha, Prenatal and Postpartum Yoga instructor. Her work with women through the childbearing years integrates a profound understanding of anatomy through movement learned during 20 years as a dancer and teacher with leading companies in France.
She uses imagery, breath and postural work to access specific muscle groups such as the pelvic floor and abdominals. She incorporates this specific work into a holistic awareness and awakening of the body enabling her students to regain confidence and strength.
Lara has trained with Blandine Calais Germain, Bernadettte de Gasquet and Irene Dowd, among others, and is certified in APOR (approche posturo-respiratoire).
She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.

To find out more about APOR, see our link on "essential links".