Free class for seniors at Van Cortlandt Park's Woodlawn Tennis Courts, Jerome Avenue and East 233rd Street. For more information about the City Parks Foundation's free Seniors Fitness programs please call the Sports Department at 718.760.6999. All equipment and instruction is provided free of charge.

Free class for seniors at Pelham Bay Park, Middleton Road and Stadium Avenue. For more information about the City Parks Foundation's free Seniors Fitness programs please call the Sports Department at 718.760.6999. All equipment and instruction is provided free of charge.

Free class for seniors at Marine Park's Nature Center, Avenue U and East 32nd Street. For more information about the City Parks Foundation's free Seniors Fitness programs please call the Sports Department at 718.760.6999. All equipment and instruction is provided free of charge.

Free class for seniors at Flushing Meadows Corona Park's Tennis Courts, Meridian Road. For more information about the City Parks Foundation's free Seniors Fitness programs please call the Sports Department at 718.760.6999. All equipment and instruction is provided free of charge.

Free class for seniors at Roy Wilkins Park's Tennis Courts, Baisley Boulevard and 177th Street. For more information about the City Parks Foundation's free Seniors Fitness programs please call the Sports Department at 718.760.6999. All equipment and instruction is provided free of charge.

Free class for seniors at Greenbelt Park, 501 Brielle Avenue. For more information about the City Parks Foundation's free Seniors Fitness programs please call the Sports Department at 718.760.6999. All equipment and instruction is provided free of charge.

Learn a series of nurturing physical postures based on yoga. These easy to follow postures may help in relieving back pain, headaches, insomnia and shortness of breath. No yoga experience is necessary. The class emphasizes balance, strength, flexibility, tone, alignment, and mind-body connections.

For all types of back problems, pain and postural problems, including scoliosis. Come lengthen your spine and move out of the habitual behaviors that are making your back hurt! All levels welcome including first timers and beginners. Yoga Union is the first center to focus on backcare and scoliosis.

Many senior citizens have trouble with balance, walking and other activities of daily life. Yoga can help—not only with ease of movement and better balance—but also many health conditions or chronic pain. You may want to take Yoga, but worry that standard classes may be too strenuous for you or will aggravate your condition, but this class focuses on moving in a slow, pleasurable way—where you are free to improvise and adapt poses to fit your own body. You will go at your own pace, in a way that feels good. NOTE: Please call Deborah at 212.769.8177 if you plan to attend class for the first time.

Free for members of the Coffey Geriatrics Practice. To make an appointment at the Coffey Geriatrics Practice, call 212.659.8552. Class location is Mount Sinai Hospital, Annenberg 10th floor, Room 10-30, entrance at 1468 Madison Ave. at 100th St. Click here to download the flyer.

A hatha vinyasa style class using a chair and props allowing you to be supported while strengthening your poses, stamina and stability. Pregnant women welcome. The class emphasizes balance, coordination, strength, flexibility, technique, tone, alignment, and mind-body connections.

Gentle Yoga - A Breath Centered Practice A thoughtfully constructed practice adapted to the needs of the student, taught by Carl Horowitz. All levels are welcome to participate in this gentle class which will explore different elements of coordinating movement and breath and how to practice safely, staying within your limits while still enjoying the benefits that yoga has to offer. In many ways this kind of gentle work can bring about some of the most profound and advanced realizations accessible to the practitioner. This class would be perfect anyone who wanted to deepen their understanding of practice in a fun and creative environment.

This class is suitable for beginners of all ages, expectant mothers, or anyone wanting an easy, restorative yoga practice.

GCNYC is a place where men, women and children living with cancer—and their families and friends—can join together to build social and emotional support as a supplement to medical care.

A gentle class the combines yoga postures, breathing, and meditation. This class is geared toward students who wish to move at a slower pace. Ideal for beginners, prenatal and seniors.

A softer, slower paced, less rigorous class for new or experienced students of all ages. This class is excellent for those just getting back to Yoga or fitness or just starting out. Also for those with injuries or physical conditions ruling out other classes. The supported modification of all asanas (poses) makes this class excellent for "bad backs" and pregnant women.

A gentle, healing class designed to release deep layers of tension stored in the physical and energetic body. A combination of props, essential oils, and hands on adjustments are used in poses held for 10 minutes or longer, allowing the nervous system to relax and the cells to regenerate. Open to all levels and great for those recovering from illness or disease.

Looking for a deeper experience in your yoga practice? Embodied yoga classes are an opportunity to listen to your body and learn from your experience, focusing on the questions and discoveries that arise along the way.

Embodied Yoga is a gentle class suitable for all levels that will help you find a deep sense of support, ease and healing. Classes balance a nourishing flow with a dynamic, fluid sense of alignment. You'll discover new and unexpected sources of support, strength and ease. These sources include the contents of our bodies -- not just muscles and bones -- but organs, glands, fluids, and all the systems inside of us.

Embodied Yoga creates an environment which offers students the space to find true and meaningful experience in their yoga practice. All the teachers are graduates of the Embodied Anatomy and Yoga and/or the Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga programs through the School For Body Mind Centering™.

Chair and Mat Yoga sponsored by the Multiple Sclerosis Society of New York. The NYC Chapter of the National MS Society is proud to offer free recreation and fitness programs for people living with MS. Fall - Spring classes began in mid-October and continue through June, with breaks in between. Yoga promotes fitness, flexibility and relaxation while focusing on breathing practices. It also promotes strength and peace of mind. Level 1 Chair Yoga is designed for the individual to participate from the seated position. Level 2 Mat Yoga participants must be able to transfer independently to a mat. Sign up with the MS Society or (212) 453-3247.

For information or to register for this class, call Karyn Boyar at 212.844.6134

This is a great class for those wishing to start yoga at a later age. Clear direction and easier adjustments of classic poses will be given on an individual basis in a relaxed setting with an experienced caring teacher. The body will be able to regain its range of movement capabilities quickly. The class will include breathing and relaxation techniques to relieve stress and bring radiant health. Turn back the clock, as your body and mind become rejuvenated, fit, flexible and inspired. All welcome, no previous experience needed."

These classes are designed for students who are interested in increasing strength, flexibility, mobility, and calming the nervous system using breath awareness, movement, and relaxation. Some introduction to asana. For all levels of fitness and flexibility, beginners and first time students to yoga welcome.

gentle, low-impact vinyasa flow

Slow moving postures, breath and body awareness - appropriate for pre-natal class

For information or to register for this free class, call Cindy Turkeltaub at 212.844.6022.

For students who have special needs and/or limitations. A variation on the basic Hatha I format that moves more slowly and includes attention on the part of the teacher to the special needs of the individual.

Looking for a deeper experience in your yoga practice? Embodied yoga classes are an opportunity to listen to your body and learn from your experience, focusing on the questions and discoveries that arise along the way.

Embodied Yoga is a gentle class suitable for all levels that will help you find a deep sense of support, ease and healing. Classes balance a nourishing flow with a dynamic, fluid sense of alignment. You'll discover new and unexpected sources of support, strength and ease. These sources include the contents of our bodies -- not just muscles and bones -- but organs, glands, fluids, and all the systems inside of us.

Embodied Yoga creates an environment which offers students the space to find true and meaningful experience in their yoga practice. All the teachers are graduates of the Embodied Anatomy and Yoga and/or the Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga programs through the School For Body Mind Centering™.

For all types of back problems, pain and postural problems, including scoliosis. Come lengthen your spine and move out of the habitual behaviors that are making your back hurt! All levels welcome including first timers and beginners. Yoga Union is the first center to focus on backcare and scoliosis.

This class is suitable for beginners of all ages, expectant mothers, or anyone wanting an easy, restorative yoga practice.

Chair and Mat Yoga sponsored by the Multiple Sclerosis Society of New York. The NYC Chapter of the National MS Society is proud to offer free recreation and fitness programs for people living with MS. Fall - Spring classes began in mid-October and continue through June, with breaks in between. Yoga promotes fitness, flexibility and relaxation while focusing on breathing practices. It also promotes strength and peace of mind. Level 1 Chair Yoga is designed for the individual to participate from the seated position. Level 2 Mat Yoga participants must be able to transfer independently to a mat. Sign up with the MS Society or (212) 453-3247.

These free classes, formerly sponsored by SHARE, are now co-sponsored by St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital's Continuum Cancer Centers of New York. For information or to register call Joan Deignan at Continuum at 212.523.7275.

Crave a slower pace? With gentle stretches, soulful flows, and restorative poses for support, this class is for you.

Yoga for Fertility is a class designed to meet the physical, energetic, and emotional needs of women who are seeking reproductive wellness. Postures, breath, chakra toning and visualization, relaxation, Yin postures and meditation are used to help women connect to themselves and their bodies. This class is geared toward women who are encountering difficulties conceiving, women who are beginning to think about conceiving and women who are looking to bring their body into hormonal balance. This mindful and receptive practice will support your path.

For students with mature yoga practice or who have been taking the Yoga & Scoliosis class on a regular basis for a minimum of 1 year. We will be working with prescriptive sequences given by the Iyengars and others to people with scoliosis. Our first sequence will be taken from BKS Iyengar's sequence in Light On Yoga. All poses will be modified with props and awareness techniques so everyone can move ahead in the sequence even into the more difficult poses. We will also have an emphasis in this class of learning ways to practice inversions. Yoga Union is the first center to focus on backcare and scoliosis.

Props are used to support each posture and class focuses on restoring the body

Unwind after a long day with this deeply relaxing class. Melt into this slow flow of restorative poses and stretching by candlelight. Open to all levels.