Ambá Yoga NYC — Local services in New York

My yoga journey with Ann-Marie was full of joy, healing, self knowledge and the deepest care. I was seeking a teacher who could help me connect with my body and relearn what I knew about yoga over the years. My experience with yoga in the past has been challenging, especially in NYC.

While I've met some wonderful and experienced teachers and I'm grateful for the classes and communities I've been a part of, I still felt so much shame for not "getting it." I felt that the classes were focused on speed, athleticism and "aesthetics" rather than yoga as truth.

Working with Ann-Marie, as a first generation South Asian American, was a gift. She used her beautiful background as an Integral Yoga teacher to help me relearn the practice, explaining the meaning of each asana.

Yoga is more than a library of movements and poses, it's a way of life. And she fully embodies that when you work with her. She held space for me on the days I felt out of tune with my body, deeply listening to what I needed and allowing me to show up...as I was.

And it's from that space where I felt a sort of blossoming. I started to appreciate my body even more when I worked on my Adho Mukha Shvanasana, that I was capable of doing it. And she was so patient with me, which helped me feel safe.

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Amba Yoga NYC, is one of the best private yoga classes I have taken in years. What makes her one of the best is that she listened to me first, and was able to create a session that met my needs at that point in time. During this time period of my life with all that is happening with the pandemic, Amba taught me in a way, I felt uplifted and strengthened. She is a very comprehensive yoga teacher, she taught me breathing techniques, various meditations and some yoga poses that no one has never shown me before. I felt very supported in our session and afterwards I was able to recall what we did to enable me to practice on my own. Thank you...

Amba is, for me, the very definition of not just a yoga teacher but a yogic soul as well. She brings the beautiful harmony of her own spiritual energy blended with her experience as a teacher to the class. The environment is always serene despite the physicality of the practice. I feel many students new or familiar with yoga practice will benefit not just from her knowledge but also from the Healing sounds of her tuning forks or gongs. In short, Amba is a brightly shining teacher who’s classes attract many levels of practitioners through her kindness, patience and understanding of...