Our Classes

Whether you are an experienced yogi or a complete beginner, need a space to meditate, want to discover the magic of cacao, or flow with candle lights and live music… You will find a home at Daya.

 
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Good to Know

Please arrive 15 min before class to get comfortable in the space and meet the community!

Daya provides mats, blocks, blankets and bolsters!

Inform your teacher about any injuries, pregnancy, or discomfort

Avoid eating two hours prior to your class and drink enough water!

Be honest, kind, and safe with your vessel

Enjoy yourself - Your practice is for no one else


 

Beginner’s Yoga

Whether you’re looking to learn the basics, or are a seasoned yogi seeking a refresher, welcome to Daya! Practice the foundation of all poses, link your movement with breath, and discover proper alignment to receive the full benefits of a healthy yoga practice. Open to all levels!


Meridian Vinyasa

Get in tune with your body! Each pose stimulates specific meridians throughout the body, encouraging a balanced energy flow of from head-to-toe, and promoting a greater sense of mental wellness through physical mindfulness.


Get Up & Flow

Get Up & Flow is fresh and invigorating - the perfect way to start your day. This class will replace your morning cup of coffee, easing you into an active practice without the jitters, setting your body and mind up for success regardless of what the day may hold.


Gentle Vinyasa

With a gentle touch, this class offers a dynamic flowing sequence to energize and awaken the mind and body - emphasizing pranayama (breath work), marrying physical asana (pose) with the breath, focusing alignment, and practicing compassion for one’s self. New and experienced yogis alike, seeking a slower more relaxed practice, are welcome!


Community Classes

The idea of selfless service (Seva) is an important concept in Yoga - Because everything is perceived as one, serving other people is considered an essential practice in serving your Divine Self. This class is a great way to support graduates of the Daya Teacher Training as they explore their craft, while the community recieves a more accessible practice through . Instructors rotate weekly, so check our schedule to meet our Graduates!

(Community classes are included within our memberships and class-packs, however Cash & Venmo donations $5 and above are encouraged at the door! // Venmo: Daya-Yoga)


Power Hour (intermediate)

Breath, meditation, and movement - all you need packed into one sweet hour! Come take a strong Vinyasa-style class designed to get you moving and break a sweat. Prior yoga experience is strongly advised.


Core Strength Yoga

Get ready to breathe, move, and strengthen your core! This class not only focusses your core - promoting better posture, stability, and balance - but will also help to cultivate mental focus and resilience as we challenge ourselves and our core muscles.


Ashtanga Inspired Vinyasa

The Ashtanga primary series - also known as Yoga Chikitsa, meaning yoga therapy - is practiced for its cleansing and toning effects on the mind, body and spirit. It’s sequenced practice grows into poses, class after class, as your body marries with the muscle memory of repetition. This class will be physically challenging as we follow pieces of the traditional Ashtanga sequence. All levels are welcome as this is a great introduction to a powerful practice. 


Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Yoga is a science of the mind and body - to elevate the spirit of which has no boundaries and holds no discriminations. It is universal and nondenominational. Known as the Yoga of Awareness, its focus is on self-awareness and delivering an experience of your highest consciousness. Classes consists of Asana (movement), Mantra & Chanting (sound current), Pranayam (breathwork), and meditation to relax and heal your mind and body.


Pranayama

In Sanskrit, "Prana" means life force and "ayama" means control or regulation. Through a regular Pranayama practice - otherwise referred too as Breathwork - we can reduce stress and anxiety, improve respiratory function, increase overall energy and focus, and promote a sense of calm and wellbeing.


Hypno-Breathwork

Hypno-Breathwork is a method used to clear energetic patterns through traditional breathwork, hypnotic affirmations to reprogram subconscious beliefs, and stimulating new neural pathways for to promote sustainable behavioral change. In applying ourselves to this practice we transform our bodies hearts and minds - In each class we will work through different blockages as a means to gain clarity, access inner wisdom, tap into our creativity and take soul-aligned actions to bring our greater visions to life.

Avoid heavy eating at least one hour before class, and bring a pen and paper/notebook for better integration into the session. Eye-coverage is encouraged, though optional.


Lunar Flow

In its most basic form, the Vinyasa style of yoga is the marriage of breath and movement - Each breath transitions a new pose, allowing the body a lightness and power as the movement itself becomes meditation. This Vinyasa class veers gentler to help you let go of daily stresses and prepare for a good night’s sleep. Open to all levels!


Yin Yoga

Yin Yoga is known as the yoga of Joint and Bone - A slow paced class perfect for sore bodies, runners, athletes, and those who crave a deep relaxing practice. Prepare to dig deep and discover parts of the mind and body you didn't know existed.


SEER Dance (women only)

 

SEER Dance (Sacred Earth Embodied Ritual Dance) is a form based on the sacred roots of Belly Dance, inspired by nature’s elements (earth, water, air and fire) and interwoven with energies, journeying, storytelling, and embodied prayer.

Every class includes a gentle warm up, some technique learning a few core movements within the roots of belly and classical Indian dance, an introduction to four Indian Goddesses and their archetypal qualities, creating our own dance phrases, and a final integrated circle.

During this series we will welcome the archetypal teachings of Parvati, Durga, Saraswati and Lakshmi.

This is a healing and spiritual dance form aimed to bring our body, mind, heart and soul into union - to slow down and connect with our inner world - to tap into our different qualities and unearth our unique essence - to support and inspire each other with strength, love and compassion.


Cathartic Yoga

Cathartic Yoga is a dynamic whole-body flow rooted in Vinyasa, strength training, and mindfulness to help you feel your best. This barefoot, mat-based, music-driven practice intentionally blends Asana and bodyweight exercises to tone your muscles, cultivate inner resilience, and harness your power to transform your body and mind.


Oui Oui Baby

Join us for a fun and interactive 40 minute story and sing-song class designed to nurture and stimulate the creativity and imagination of young children in a foreign language. Enter a world of original French stories, songs, puppets, and humorous props and share the adventure with your child. Nurture your child's natural enthusiasm for rhythm, and experience the joy of singing French songs together! No French experience required for child or caregiver.

Diara Bamba - your storytelling guide - is a former high school French teacher and entrepreneur with years of experience in early childhood education. Hailing from Paris, she now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and 5 month old baby girl.


Power Vinyasa
(advanced)

Prior Yoga experience required. This class is perfect for those looking to deepen their practice and bring it to the next level. You will build confidence by practicing inversions and handstands against the wall. A constant flow with synchronizing breath and movement, this class builds heat and is sure to make you sweat.


Dynamic Flow

To move dynamically is to evoke the force of change - To use movement as a form of self expression and self exploration is to remain curious to an ever evolving life force within the body and yourself. This Vinyasa-style class moves gracefully through poses, balancing out, opening up and turning upside down with a heavy focus on fluid awareness. This is an intermediate class and prior yoga experience is recommended. 


Yin-Yang Mantra

Duality becomes unity - start with a series of long-held passive poses to stretch sore muscles and open joints. Once our bodies and minds are made open we begin to explore more active movements, squeezing muscle around bone to pull the body together and reintroduce life as heat within the body - poses requiring a greater range of motion become accessible - and end in collective song. How deep do you want to go?


Cosmic Sound Bath

Immersive soundscapes empower ourselves to understand and harness vibrations and live a life more in tune with our hearts and soul. It's easy to lose track of still frequencies within us in the noisy and chaotic world we live in - with the resting power of Yoga Nidra and the art of Sound we hold stillness and portals ourselves to other dimensions of consciousness and open a connection to frequencies of the soul itself.

Join us in an altered state of consciousness and access our subconsciousnesses together - untangle tired neural networks stuck in the past and rewire your brain towards a brighter future!


Hatha Yoga

The Hatha style asks us to explore each pose in a deeper manner - holding for several breaths. We invite students to consider alignment and become more in tune with the meditative and energetic nature of each pose to cultivate physical and mental stamina. Open to all levels.


Yoga of Sacred Geometry

This class will focus on the use of reference to Great Nature and archetypal shapes within to find functional forms within the body - creating a space for healing, insight, and revelations. Every form within yoga should have function - this class will help students better understand these functions as well as how to build their postures from the ground up with proper measurements and folds.


Cacao Ceremony

Authentic Meditational Movements, repetitive thoughts, ideas and promptings from our inner-self (Core Awareness) as indicators of the next steps we are guided to apply as well as offering solutions in the form of sequence, form, and feeling. New spiritual activations and extra-sensory experiences are changing the way we can view ourselves and the world around us. By allowing our organic gifts to flourish through dream, study, prayer, meditation and ritual dance.

A few things for preparation:

  • Light meal up to two hours before.

  • Avoid Coffee in the morning until after the ritual

  • Hydrate!

  • Comfortable clothing

  • Bring a journal and pen if you'd like to stay for the extra time of journaling (this is optional).

  • Open Heart Open Mind


Cacao Flow

Join us for a practice in the celebration of the love medicine: Cacao. It is chocolate, in it's purest form.

Through a ceremonial yoga experience combining ancient traditions in a contemporary way. Creating a safe container to share the multidimensional layers of our being in a collective adventure.

Once our hearts are wide open, movement and breath are introduced through a Vinyasa flow. Finding the comfort in the expansion of the soul manifested through the body. The experience is finished with shavasana in a journey of Sound. Open to all levels.


Candlelit Lunar Flow

This dimly lit class is the perfect way to decompress from a typical New York day. A sweet, smooth flow accompanied by live music, a transcendent experience. Open to all levels.


Chakra Flow

Chakra Flow is a container for knowing and loving yourself, your innate and beautiful powers and impulses, and your connection to all that is in the fullest way possible. Each class focuses on a different chakra, which we explore through traditional yogic asanas and breathwork, guided meditation and somatic movement exercises, following what feels the best in our individual bodies. In honoring the pleasure principle and all of the wisdom therein we offer ourselves and each other deep, holistic nourishment through which we are able to expand our capacities to let go, become stronger and fuller, and more empathetic to all creatures, life forces, and the world in which we live. Open to all levels.


Daya Dance

Daya Dance is a space to greet your body and explore its pathways. Through awareness exercises, guided movement, contact improvisation, and elements of yoga, students will be encouraged to experiment and ultimately find joy in their groove! Open to all levels.



Kripalu Flow

Inspired by a traditional Kripalu approach. We begin with meditation and breath, followed by an energizing physical practice. The asana style blends Vinyasa and Hatha, combining flowing transitions with longer-held poses. A class that gracefully balances the physical and mental aspects of the practice. Open to all levels.


Restorative Flow

 Unwind with this sweet, slow, mindful practice. Opening with a gentle flow, the class is slower-moving with a strong emphasis on deep breathing and drawing in the vital life force. Return to your center, “fill your cup" and sit with yourself in unconditional love. The second portion offers a bliss-conjuring restorative sequence that will invoke juicy deep relaxation and insight into higher levels of spiritual awareness. Open to all levels.



Somatic Study

Somatic study is the study of the body, more specifically of your unique body and how it relates to your energetic and psychological experience. Expect to move, sweat, breathe and rest. Untethered to any one practice, we will weave through different yoga styles (Vinyasa, Hatha, restorative, yin, kundalini, pranayama) as well as other movement practices (ie Qi Cong, Alexander Method), pressure point massage, essential oils and Body mapping . You will leave with tools for self-care and intuitive physical therapy. The class is open to all levels and abilities.


Vinyasa II

Prior yoga experience required. Marrying breath with movement, this practice will introduce more advanced Asana & dynamic sequences. Come bring your Vinyasa practice to a new level!


Women's Rejuvenation Circle

Women's Rejuvenation Workshop is a co-created experience of women supporting women in reclaiming our bodies, beings, and sexualities as our own. We draw power from the archetype of the triple goddess: the Maiden, Mother, and and ever-wise Crone that lies within each of us, and in gathering together, we are able to tap into our deep reserves of wisdom, and healing potential. We believe that the healing and empowerment of women is vital for the healing and empowerment of the world. Through our structure of forming a sacred circle, guided meditation, emotional check-in, ritual, and honoring our bodies' sacred sensuality, we create a healthier, juicier means of being, healing the earth and inviting a more kind and conscious society, one empowered woman at a time.



Sound Healing

Full body flow combining movement and breath followed by a long restorative meditation guided by healing vibration of sound.


Mantras & Cupping

Gentle flow and taste of Bhakti yoga - chanting mantras and long Savasana, with optional 15min cupping session. Cupping is an ancient Oriental medicine technique where small cups are used as suction devices placed on the skin to disperse and break up stagnation and congestion. Open level, everyone is welcome.