Staff teacher
I received my 200 hour Certification from Center for Yoga in 2004, participated in the Work-scholar Program at Esalen Institute in 2006, and earned my B.A. from Naropa Univeristy in 2007. My Major was Traditional Eastern Arts with a 1,000 hour Yoga Teacher Training Concentration; my Minor was Somatic Psychology. In 2008, I graduated from The Institute of Psycho Structural Balancing with a 550 hour Massage Certification. That same year I lived at a wellness center in Auroville, India where I taught Yoga and dance. In 2010, I received my professional training to practice Holistic Health Counseling at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. I graduated from Sofia University in 2013 with my M.A. in Transpersonal Psychology.
As a Yoga Instructor, Massage Therapist and Holistic Health Counselor, it is my passion and joy to support and enhance the empowerment of others through the provision of embodied education in mind-body-spirit union. My prayer is that we all rise up and become the light and the healing our world so dearly needs.
By Josie Kramer on Jun 19, 2017
Enjoy this one hour intermediate flow designed to challenge you at your edge while opening your heart! You can expect sun salutations, dancing warrior, arm balances, inversions, hip and heart opening, forward folds, twists and savasana. Treat yourself to this time just for you! Leave any tension, stress, or negativity on the mat. Return to your day renewed!
By Josie Kramer on May 8, 2017
This class focuses on attuning to your body, cultivating a calm center, and practicing self-care. Enjoy a well-rounded vinyasa flow class with a mindful warm-up, challenging standing sequence, and a heart-warming cool down. Included in the class is the opportunity to practice arm balances and inversions. Self care means working outside your comfort zone while also respecting and honoring your boundaries. Enjoy, yogis!
By Josie Kramer on Mar 19, 2017
This vinyasa flow class starts with letting go of the events of the day as you turn inward and connect with the breath. We then move through a challenging sequence of standing poses, arm balancing, inversions, back bends, and hip openers. The invitation is to approach your practice with curiosity, mindfulness, non-judgment, playfulness and surrender. Namaste!
By Josie Kramer on Mar 5, 2017
In this Vinyasa class start by practicing acceptance and non-judgment of where you're starting from and then add a step of setting a positive intention for the flow. This class will focus on deep breathing, meditation in movement, dynamic standing sequences, arm balances, core work, inversions, back-bending, hip-opening, spinal twists, and savasana. Much love, yogis!
By Josie Kramer on Jan 30, 2017
In this Vinyasa Flow class challenge yourself to find your edge. Practice relaxing and surrendering tensions in your body, offering up stress or difficult emotions and letting thoughts dissolve as you come back to your body and breath. This class includes a warm up, a challenging standing sequence, arm balancing, inversions, back-bends, hip opening, forward folds, and savasana. Enjoy, yogis! :)
By Josie Kramer on Jan 23, 2017
Work on connecting with your breath and grounding yourself in the present as you move through a series of difficult asanas. This class focuses on accepting yourself where you are now while working toward your positive intentions. We'll start with a gentle warm up, then there will be sun salutations, standing poses, arm balancing, core work, inversions, back-bends, hip-openers, forward folds, spinal twists and savasana. Enjoy, yogis!
By Josie Kramer on Nov 23, 2016
In this practice move closer to your genuine experience, connect with your breath and cultivate a positive intention. We will flow from a gentle warm up to sun salutations, standing poses, core exercises, arm balances, inversions, hip opening, heart opening, forward folds and twists. Enjoy a heart opening meditation throughout. Namaste, yogis!
By Josie Kramer on Oct 20, 2016
This class focuses on intention, breath and finding freedom at your edge. Listen to your body, challenge yourself and at the same time honor your limits. I will lead you through sun salutations, standing balancing poses, inversions, heart & hip openers, as well as spinal twists and savasana. Enjoy, yogis!
By Josie Kramer on Oct 10, 2016
Yoga was intended to be an expression of your spirit; a movement meditation. In this class focus on working your body but moving from your soul! Enjoy a gentle warm up, a heat building standing sequence, as well as inversions, core strengthening, hip and heart opening, and twists. Practice at your own pace & find something in the moment to appreciate. Namaste, yogis!
By Josie Kramer on Sep 27, 2016
Rewire yourself toward feeling better through movement and deep breath! Commit to approaching your edge with kindness & non-judgment. This class will lead you through positive intention setting, challenging poses and meditation. The sequencing includes a warm up, series A, standing poses, arm balancing, inversions, heart opening, hip opening, forward folds, twists and a relaxing savasana. Try to integrate whatever benefits you receive from the class back into the rest of your day. Enjoy, yogis!
