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Monday, March 28, 2016

Yoga Journal LIVE! New York, April 8 - 11th. Will you be there?

Yoga Journal LIVE! New York, will take place on April 8 - 11, 2016 - it will feature classes, panels, keynotes, intensives and a Yoga Market with products and services for healthy balanced living.

Yoga Flava will be in attendance as Press and a Practitioner reporting on all the highlights! Will you be there?  If so, let's meet up - email: robin@yogaflava.com

For 20 years, Yoga Journal Events have provided the unique top-notch educational opportunity for yoga practitioners of all levels, from all over the world, to experience Yoga Journal Magazine LIVE! Attendees come to explore new styles, get inspired and connect with our top-tier roster of highly regarded yoga teachers and luminaries.

REGISTER HERE:  http://www.yjevents.com/ny/register.php

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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Free Yoga Class at Harlem Skin and Laser Center / Early Bird Special For 6 Week Series [VIDEO]

Harlem Skin and Laser Center  in association with Yoga Flava is giving back to the Harlem Community with a two hour FREE introduction to Yoga. Co-hosted by certified Yoga instructors Robin Downes and Radha Ruiz

It is open to anyone who has never tried Yoga or those that are interested in reviewing the basics. The focus will be on cultivating a relaxed state to cope with issues effecting our community.


Sign up on the Facebook event page here FREE Introduction To Yoga Class In Harlem, New York 
or email: robin@yogaflava.com

Check out the video promo:



Early bird special for 6 week Fall Fresh Start 2015 - Six Week Yoga Series

Deadline, end of day - September 19th $60.00 

AFTER September 19th $80.00

Drop in $15.00


For more details check out:

Fall Fresh Start 2015 with Yoga Flava and Radha Ruiz - 6 Week Series - Sign Up Here

For Private One on One or Group Private email: robin@yogaflava.com

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Sunday, June 7, 2015

Summer Solstice NYC 2015 Weekend - Yoga Flava Style!

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

 Summer Solstice NYC 2015 Weekend 

Yoga Flava Style!


Join Yoga Instructors, Kiesha Battles, Dana Smith 

and Robin Downes

 for a fun filled healing weekend to welcome Summer 2015 in NYC 

Review details below and / or contact 

via email: robin@yogaflava.com or call 310-266-7362

 Click Here to Join The Facebook Event Page

Saturday, June 20, 2015 

YOGA FLAVA PAMPER DAY

PRE - SOLSTICE SOIREE 

TIME TO ALIGN! 

Join us for a fun filled healing weekend to welcome alignment with the energy of Summer. It is a time to celebrate the triumph of light over darkness in the individual. 

Mind over madness - urban transcendence retreat in NYC

10:00am - 11:00am -  (Suggestion - Grab a fresh squeezed juice /smoothie at "Cool Fresh Juice Bar" on 2661AA Broadway between 101st Street and 102nd Street   - Cost Not Included)
and / or
Meet and greet (Ticket Holders Light Breakfast Refreshments- Bottle Water and Fruit) at Robin Downes' Yoga Flava Sancturary -  Rooftop - 235 W. 102ndst Street. 

11:30am - Walk to Riverside Park / Hudson River

11:30am - 12:30am - Kiesha Battles, Yoga Me - Introduction to Sun Salutations
Learn the history behind the Yoga Flow series “Surya Namaskar” (Sun Salutations). The Sun creates and sustains life; its cycles mark the flow of our daily activities. We link breath with movement in our yoga practice.

This workshop will provide you with the fundamentals of Sun Salutations. Each pose will be broken down. Experienced instructor Kiesha Battles will provide you with modifications and explain contraindications to provide you with a firm foundation to practice this series.
(NYC  Location - Riverside Park, Hudson River at 96th - North of Tennis Courts  -  Tentitive)

12:30am - Walk to Lunch Spot 

Lunch 1:00pm - 2:30pm 
(Ayurveda Cafe, 706 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025 - Suggestion - Cost Not Included )



3:00pm -4:00pm  - Robin Downes - Yoga Flava For Sensual Healing

Come enjoy the journey toward the contemplation of the answer to the question:

– “What is your authentic heartfelt desire?”

Take the time to cultivate a state of being that opens your heart with a sequence of Yoga Poses, that provide ancient moves to contemporary grooves. Once your heart is open you can begin the journey that leads to an invitation to intimacy.
  Open to ALL levels.
 
(NYC  Location  - Central Park , near Rumsey Play field - Tentitive )


4:30pm -Walk to Rumsey Playfied

The Big Quiet – A Meditation in Central Park

June 20 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

| Free

Quiet. In New York City, it’s the one thing even money can’t buy. SummerStage and Medi Club invite you to join in on Saturday, June 20th as New Yorkers from all five boroughs converge for the first Big Quiet: a twenty-minute, practice-agnostic moment of mass meditation and calm for all ages and experience levels.
We will ask you to do your part toward keeping the peace by muting your cell phone, turning off your screens and music, standing or sitting in stillness and savoring a stadium of silent community in the heart of Central Park. Simple meditation tips will be provided for first timers but participants are strongly encouraged to engage whichever way feels most natural. Admission is free and bleacher seats are available but you are welcome to bring your own mat to sit on. Please arrive at 5:00 pm sharp to set up, get comfortable and prepare for a weekend memory you won’t soon forget.
Doors at 5, Big Quiet from 5:30 to 5:50. 

Venue

SummerStage, Central Park
Rumsey Playfield, New York, NY United States
 



8:00pm - 11:00 pm Yoga Flava Summer Solstice Soiree -  Kiesha Battles' 40th  Birthday Celebration.  In case you missed it earlier... Book Signing - YES! Yoga Has Curves.

10pm - Robin Downes - Yoga Flava Up In The Club,
"Time To Align" - Get in sync with the rhythm of the season - ancient moves the contemporty groove "Yoga" by Janelle Monet.  Ticket holders will receive a private video tutorial on Monday, the 15th, of a choreographed sequence to practice before hand and be ready to go (aka Flash Mob) when the DJ plays the song at 10pm on the 20th.




Summer, where ya been? This Saturday night at The Park 112

Join us this Saturday night as we get ready to officially kick off the Summer season in style!!
"SUMMER, WHERE YA BEEN"
@THE PARK 112 - 2080 Frederick Douglass Blvd. Harlem USA
Doors open 10=3am. Early arrival suggested. Kitchen open til 1am.
HOSTED BY ROBIN DOWNES OF YOGA FLAVA(Kicking off International Yoga Day)
Sundresses, tennis skirts, shorts and pastels encouraged!!
Music by Superhero DJ Jon Quick
Birthday packages available. Email us at jonquickevents@gmail.com
The Park 112
2080 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY 10026
(646) 524-6610

http://www.thepark112.com/ 


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Sunday, June 21, 2015 (Cost of Meals Not Included)



Solstice In Times Square (1st Session Meet-Up): YOGA FLAVA EVENT PAGE HERE

9:00am Session - FREE - REGISTER HERE
Let's meet up on line at 8am and then claim our space to practice together.

11:00am - 1:00pm - Brunch   (Suggestions Pending:  Cost of Meals Not Included)


Celebrate Dad - Happy Father's Day!


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Contact via email:  robin@yogaflava.com

  
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Saturday, April 25, 2015

Dharma Mittra 'Sacred Techniques for Awakening' : Recap 2015 Yoga Journal Live NYC

To attend Dharma Mittra's 'Sacred Tecniques for Awakening' at Yoga Journal Live Conference NYC was to experience darshan.   Darshan, ( Sanskrit: “auspicious viewing”) , also spelled darshana,  in Hindu worship, the beholding of a deity (especially in image form), revered person, or sacred object.

The wisdom that this Yoga master exudes from his 70 plus years on the planet was so revered by me.  Being in the presence of what totally feels light hearted authentic teaching with an emphasis on spirituality and compassion. He adjusted me deeper into my twists and magically into smooth head stands.

It is my greatest joy to share with the students this knowledge that I have acquired over the past 50 years of practice and study. Dharma Yoga will give one’s body the power and strength to have resistance to common illnesses and diseases. With proper encouragement and increased faith in the teacher, one can improve his physical body and mental attitude rapidly, thereby igniting the higher motives of making one’s self useful to himself and all mankind. (Sri Dharma Mittra)


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Friday, April 24, 2015

Sean Corn 'Spirit Speak': Recap 2015 Yoga Journal Live NYC

On Friday, April 24, 2015 I had the pleasure of attending Seane Corn's Full Day Workshop at the Yoga Journal Live Conference In New York City.

Ms. Corn's session was entitled "Spirit Speak" Finding your unique voice as a teacher.  This was perfect for me being an existing Yoga teacher.  She got us right into an asana practice for the 1st part of the day.  For me the session was challenging and invigorating.  The second half of the day was filled with thought provoking discussion.

One point she kept emphasizing was that "Yoga Teachers are so filled with Yoga that it overflows."  She shared her stories about despite the fact she was a strong and flexible Yogini she had to build her communications skills and confidence to teach.  Her style is to be amongst her students, allowing the magic to happen while sifting the energy. Additionally, Ms. Corn expressed that "Yoga is a healing Art. Inspired by whatever moves the individual teacher to be a bridge for the student."

#YJLIVE

Sean Corn shared the following prayer:
Calling in the God of your understanding... be it higher power, the creative consciousness, mother earth or the holy mother herself.  May this practice be a opportunity for healing and transformation to our mind, body and spirit.  May I step into the sacred world behind my eyes and letting go of human interpretation.  May I embody divine perception which is infinite and limitless.  May this practice be blessed and may the energy that is cultivated in all of our hearts be offered outward in prayer for equality, freedom shifts and peace for all.


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Thursday, April 16, 2015

Yoga Journal Live New York, April 23 - 27, 2015 - Save the dates!

Yoga Journal LIVE! New York, will take place on April 23 - 27, 2015 - it will feature classes, panels, keynotes, intensives and a Yoga Market with products and services for healthy balanced living.

Yoga Flava will be in attendance reporting on all the highlights! Will you be there?  If so, let's meet up - email: robin@yogaflava.com

For 20 years, Yoga Journal Events have provided the unique top-notch educational opportunity for yoga practitioners of all levels, from all over the world, to experience Yoga Journal Magazine LIVE! Attendees come to explore new styles, get inspired and connect with our top-tier roster of highly regarded yoga teachers and luminaries.

REGISTER HERE:  http://www.yjevents.com/ny/register.php

Check out Yoga Flava TV's most popular video coverage of Yoga Journal Live: 

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Sunday, September 7, 2014

September Is National Yoga Month - FREE Yoga Flava Session!

September is the official National Yoga Month (a national observance designated by the Department of Health and Human Services) designed to educate about the health benefits of yoga and to inspire a healthy lifestyle. Yoga Flava is offering FIRST TIME STUDENTS the opportunity to hava a private Yoga session with Robin Downes for National Yoga Month September 2014. Please email to request a date and time that works best for you (in person or on line LIVE) robin@yogaflava.com - Sign up on the Yoga Flava Facebook Event Page

If you are a on-going Yoga Flava Playa and recommend a first time student that signs up for a series then you are also eligible for a FREE session! Let me know when you would like to book your session... inperson or on-line LIVE. Leave a comment here are email: robin@yogaflava.com
Sending positive vibes... Robin Downes, Yoga Flava


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Friday, May 2, 2014

Yoga of Success: Message, Marketing, and Money

At the recent Yoga Journal LIVE New York 2014 event, I had the honor to take a session entitled "Yoga of Success: Message, Marketing, and Money" with instructors Sadie Nardini and Tyler McCoy.  I originally came to Yoga because of stress, and then I looked around and realized a lot of people are suffering and I wanted to share the tools I learned.  I came to Yoga from a very pure place and now sustain myself with it as a business.

The lecture with Sadie and Tyler provided tips, tools, and secrets from these skyrocketing yoga professionals.   

Here is the ten-step map that you can use to clarify, then live your dreams. Reap the benefits, financial and otherwise, from getting to the core of who you are, and how to express that into the world:

1).  Dissolve your abundance resistance.
2).  Add value and the money will follow
3).  Brand your weird
4).  Get clear - Let people know about your value - What they will get and how they will feel.
5).  Make relationships, not business transactions.
6).  Do it yourself
7).  Get Socially Smart
8).  Get organized, build a team
9).  Get passive
10). Money loves structure and freedom.

This is just a sampling of the steps that were mentioned.  To learn more please check out Sadie Nardini and Tyler McCoy 

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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Save the dates: April 24 - 28, 2014 - Yoga Journal Live New York!

CLICK HERE


For 18 years, Yoga Journal LIVE has provided the unique top-notch educational opportunity for yoga practitioners of all levels, from all over the world, to experience Yoga Journal Magazine LIVE!

On April 24th - 20th, attendees will come to explore new styles, get inspired and connect with our top-tier roster of highly regarded yoga teachers and luminaries. Yoga Journal LIVE - held in Colorado, New York, San Francisco, San Diego and Florida - feature classes, panels, keynotes, intensives and a Yoga Marketplace with products and services for healthy balanced living.

I (Robin Downes) will be an attendee reporting for Yoga Flava TV.  Let me know if you will also be there, would love to meet and greet!  Leave a comment below or email: robin@yogaflava.com

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Robin Downes Of Yoga Flava™ Partners With Lucky Ant For Crowdfunding


New York, Sept.10, 2012 Yoga Flava, the award winning Yoga program created by Emmy Award Winner and certified Yoga Instructor, Robin Downes, announced a partnership today with Lucky Ant, a crowdfunding platform that helps small businesses reward themselves and their customers.

Yoga Flava is gearing up for a fresh start for Fall 2013. Renovations are needed for the Yoga Flava Sanctuary Studio, which offers private sessions on NYC's upper west side. Updated technical equipment is needed for Skype Yoga sessions and Yoga Flava TV (http://www.youtube.com/user/yogaflava). Management Fees are needed for the 2014 Yoga Flava Events and Retreats.  

Over the next twenty (20) days, Yoga Flava has set three (3) milestones; looking to raise a minimum of  $1,000.00 for business development, $2,500.00 for Yoga Flava TV Equipment and $5,000 for Yoga Flava studio renovations.

Rewards range from $10.00 Yoga Flava Hats and T-Shirts to $2,500 for a featured episode on Yoga Flava TV with a sponsorship campaign across all Yoga Flava platforms.

Log on to https://www.luckyant.com/project/view/2208 to help fund Yoga Flava’s Business Development / Fall Fresh Start 2013.


The Yoga Flava brand is seeking additional partnerships with brand managers, licensing agreements, sponsors and advertisers. Ms. Downes is also available for speaking engagements, Personal Yoga Instruction in person or online via Skype, Host/ Guest instructor for workshops and retreats.

About Yoga Flava
Yoga Flava is a Hatha Yoga based tasteful blend of ancient moves to contemporary grooves. Ms. Downes is also an Emmy™ Award winner for “Outstanding Individual Achievement In News and Documentary for “ABC News “20/20”.   Since 1996, founder Robin Downes is Hollywood's certified Yoga Instructor to the stars (actress Vanessa Williams, actress/singer Brandy, NBA Champion John Salley, actress LisaRaye McCoy, Hip-Hop Mogul Russell Simmons and many more).   The first African American woman to have an internationally distributed video through Wal-Mart, entitled "Yoga Flava™ for Relaxation", Vol.1 . Essence Magazine recommended Robin Downes' Yoga Flava™ in the "2010 Wealth and Wellness" issue. She has also been featured in the “The New York Times”, “Yoga Journal”, “Shape”, “Heart and Soul”, “Black Enterprise”, “Ebony”, “UPN News” and “CBS News” to name a few.   Additionally, she is a syndicated health and wellness digital journalist,  servicing various media outlets. Additional information can be found at (http://www.YogaFlava.com)

About Lucky Ant
At Lucky Ant, we love small businesses. So much so that we've made it our mission to help them. Over the years we've worked with countless businesses and built this platform specifically to your business' needs. Everything from the design to the features was put in place for you! That's why our success rate is higher than most platforms. (http://www.LuckyAnt.com

For More information email: robin@yogaflava.com



Friday, May 24, 2013

Yoga Flava In The Park NYC, Spring Into Summer Series 2013

 
Yoga Flava in the Park NYC: On Saturdays
Countdown to the Summer Solstice 2013.
Let's get ready for summer together!
Saturday Series in the Park and Penthouse After Glow Mixer

I have space for exactly 6 people to join me for a group session in Riverside Park. If it rains we can do meditation and pranayama in the Penthouse. The group will gather in the lobby of 235 W. 102nd Street (Between B'way and West End Ave.) in time for departure to the park at exactly 11:00am. We will enjoy Yoga in the Park from 11:15am - 12:15pm

Penthouse After Glow: 12:30pm - 1:30pm After the Yoga Flava session in the park, join me at the Penthouse to reflect and refresh. Once again only space for 6 people at a time and your name with be at the front desk for security. Bring your own Water, Juice, Healthy Snack. There is a juice bar that I usually stop at after the park (Otherwise, we can coordinate Pot Luck)

June 1st
June 8th
June 15th

Please click here that you want to "join" this event. Make the investment in yourself with one of the recession buster prices. Email me so that I can send you your invoice to process the payment to: robin@yogaflava.com

$30.00 for the full series up front (3 sessions for $10.00 each)

 
$15.00 per drop in session.




Private sessions available (in person or via skype) for $100.00 for series of 4.


Single private session (in person or via skype) $30.00



For details: https://www.facebook.com/events/269423793201081/

I will be attending the first morning session to bring in the Summer Solstice in Times Square. Space is filling up fast, let me know if you can join me: http://www.timessquarenyc.org/events/solstice-in-times-square/index.aspx

Enjoy the journey!
Not just YOGA also the FLAVA of life!
http://www.YogaFlava.com/



In the NYC area for Memorial Day Weekend?  Come DANCE with me!
Check out this video invitation to the "Hands To The Sky" on May 25th 2013:
 
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Namaste
Sending positive vibes...Robin Downes

 

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Mid-Spring Yoga Flava Reflections 2012

2012 Yoga Retreat For Women of Color :
Angela Fears, Robin Downes, Maya Breuer
and Gail Parker. Yoga gear courtesy PrAna.

The "Yoga Retreat For Women Of Color": Stir Up The Pot, Bring On The Light! at the Kripalu Center (May 4 - 6th) As a co-presenter, the retreat provided me with the much needed platform to nurture and be nurtured by like minded women. People may ask why do women of color need a separate retreat - isn't it all yoga?  My answer is - - -  isn't all music, just music?  The difference is the artist talent and cultural interpretation.  Whitney Houston's version of "I Will Always Love You" moved me in a different way than the original creator's version by Dolly Parton.

The retreat provided the Yogini wisdom of Maya Breuer to her soulfully jazzy soundtrack. Maya surprised and delighted us with a jazzy vocal serenade!   The food for thought came from Angela Fears with a stimulating discussion on Integrating Nutrition: The Yoga of Healthy Eating .  The psychology of "Taking Yoga Off The Mat" from Gail Parker. I provided the Goddess Grooves - Yoga Flava style!  We stirred it up and mother nature bought out the light with a rare "Super Moon".

At the retreat we learned:
*How-to focus on yourself and rediscover who you are
*The practice of Sacred Rhythm Yoga
*Holistic tools for coping with stress
*How to integrate yoga into your daily life.

For over 15 years I have trusted the path of yoga and simply invited people to join me.  The retreat reflected back to me how far I have traveled on the path.  My recent 52nd birthday celebration was met by awe and accolades from my sisters of color, who commented on my youthful appearance and vitality. I was able to proudly tell them it is the result of my Yogic lifestyle!

Yes, it's been non-stop since I really did "Spring It On" the end of March and have a lot to share since then.  There are several Yoga Flava reports that I will be sharing shortly.

At the Yoga Journal Conference in New York I was introduced to the detox drink "Rebootizer", a powerful antioxidant instant drink made of natural detoxifying fruit and plant extracts.

At the Green Festival in New York I teamed up with "ElectroYoga", practice takes place in dark, with glow bracelets, flashing lights and a live D.J.  Looking forward to this as Yoga Flava Springs Into Summer with private sessions in person, on Skype or in a group in the park.  Countdown to the Summer Solstice In Times Square.   I signed up for the first session of the day.  Let me know if you will be there then so we can meet up!  email: robin@yogaflava.com

I'm working on editing all the great video footage that I have captured thus far for spring.  In the meantime, check out this Yoga Flava TV clip for last year's Yoga Journal Convention in New York that includes yoginis Maya Breuer and Faith Hunter:

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2012 Yoga Retreat For Women of Color :
Angela Fears, Robin Downes, Maya Breuer
and Gail Parker. Yoga gear courtesy PrAna.