Barry specially designs her workshops for teens to improve strength, flexibility, concentration, and body awareness. Yoga helps teens to build the groundwork to live a healthy lifestyle in a safe and non-competitive space. It is a perfect compliment to a teenager's busy academic and extracurricular schedule. We will start with a fun Vinyasa flow, adding balancing postures and some playful inversions.We will also explore breathing and relaxation techniques, leaving them feeling refreshed and ready for the outside world. All levels. Please bring a mat (we rent mats for $1) and a water. Ages 12 and up.
For the past 30 years, Barry has been sharing the joy of dance and movement with thousands of students through her teaching. Before she became a teacher, Barry was a professional dancer in New York City. She then received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance Education and has taught a wide array of ages in settings ranging from professional productions to public schools. She is a recipient of numerous National Foundation for the Arts’ grants for her work in public schools throughout the country.
Barry’s yoga path has been a unique one. It began at the urging of her eldest daughter while recovering from a serious and debilitating back injury. A very reluctant student at first, Barry was slowly won over by yoga’s healing, strengthening, and detoxifying benefits. Possessing an innate gift for teaching, Barry's journey into yoga soon led to her obtaining her Yoga Alliance teaching certification. Her classes are dance-based and alignment-focused, taught in a hot studio environment with upbeat music to create an energetic, engaging, and transformative experience.
In addition to studio teaching, Barry makes time to be involved in various local outreach programs to help spread the benefits of yoga. Students are captivated by Barry’s loving, kind, and energetic nature. Her dancer's background adds a unique touch to her yoga classes, but it is her compassion and her contagious enthusiasm that most inspires her students.
