BARBARA RUZANSKY
NOVEMBER 21, 2009
Adjustment
Clinic - Barbara Ruzansky
Saturday ... 12:30 - 6:30 pm
$75
... registration required,
register online
Touch, see, feel, and use intuition as valuable
teaching tools. Working with a wide range of postures, this
clinic will help you become more skilled and confident with
adjustment techniques. Workshop will include a challenging
WHY Power class for teachers and experienced students. This
clinic is great way to refine your own practice, as we will
be carefully breaking down poses, learning modifications,
and developing deeper body awareness.
FEBRUARY 27, 2010Hip, Pelvis, Shoulder,
Level I & II - Barbara Ruzansky
Saturday ... 1:00 - 4:30 pm
$55
... registration required, $50 is registered online by
February 13, 2010
register online
For anyone who sits, walks, works, or sleeps.
Release years of accumulated stagnation, stress, and trauma;
liberate your body. This workshop focuses on postures to
warm the body and open the hips, pelvis, and shoulders
bringing more fluidity and grace to your movements and life.
Create a strong foundation in your yoga practice. Also
excellent for athletes. 85 - 90 degree room.
Barbara Ruzansky, founder and director of West Hartford Yoga, is
widely known throughout Connecticut for her challenging instruction as
well her compassion, support, humor and warmth. As a teacher and leader
Barbara sets the bar high, but encourages self-acceptance while helping
her students strive to reach their personal best.
Barbara’s own path to health is at the heart of her teaching. She has a
deep conviction that yoga can help you “observe how you’re treating
yourself, feeding yourself and affecting your community.” She wants to
introduce yoga and healthful eating to people, so they can continue to
grow and reach their full potential. Barbara spent over two decades struggling with eating disorders and
depression and found healing mainly through yoga and whole foods cooking.
In 2002, she opened West Hartford Yoga, a center for yogic life, which offers yoga classes and
workshops, teacher training, intensives with international teachers,
reading groups, lectures, massage, meditation, kirtan, and hiking. Barbara
regularly holds retreats for people with eating disorders, pursuing her
lifelong calling.
Her teaching emphasizes “staying conscious and developing the art of self-
awareness.” She spent 20 years as a macrobiotic chef and teacher, and her
yoga training includes work with Ana Forrest, David Swenson, Shiva Rea,
and Dan Leven (Expressive Movement Therapy) as well as a deep study of Bikram
yoga, Kripalu yoga and a 500 hour yoga alliance certification. She has
blended this knowledge into a style she calls WHY Power, a dynamic yoga combining
Ashtanga, vinyasa flow and Forrest yoga. WHY Power encourages people to
explore their edges, develops core strength, and connects people to their breath.
Barbara’s classes are in heated rooms and are physically rigorous, but
accessible. Having severely hurt her back in a horseback riding accident
many years ago, Barbara understands how to use yoga therapeutically and is creative in
developing modifications for her students. Barbara is compassionate and
insightful about students’ individual needs. Her classes move people deeply. Students have
said she has an uncanny ability to see where they are blocked and help
them move forward and heal.
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