3966 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA 94611
Established in 1987
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What's New at PYS?
- Deep Yoga 2010-2011 - Interested in teaching yoga or going deeper in your practice? The Piedmont Yoga Studio is currently accepting applications for its 225-hour 10-month intensive yoga studies program. Join us! The July 15th deadline has been extended to accept a few more applications. Please call Caryn at (510)459-4379 to let her know that you are interested and will be sending your application in.
- Summer Sampler 2010 - Taught by Deep Yoga Graduates Thursdays 7:00 - 8:30 pm, July 8 - August 26.
- Yoga Road Trip - Day 13 - An interview with our very own Richard Rosen
- Richard Rosen's video interview on Pranayama
- Marikas - Boutique in Suite 101 offering fashion forward apparel and props for your yoga practice and beyond.
- "Best Yoga Studio in the East Bay for 2009" awarded to PYS as voted by the readers of the East Bay Express. Thank you!
- Piedmont Yoga Community - PYS has initiated what we hope will be a long-term working relationship with the newly formed PYC is a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of our disabilities and therapeutic programs and providing yoga scholarships to low-income or minority students. We’ll be posting more information about PYC on this website very soon and how you might be able to help contribute to its efforts.
- "What is Yoga" PYS Panel Discussion - Panel Discussion from PYS 21st Anniversary Gala held March 2008. PYS welcomed world-renowned yoga teacher and author, Judith Lasater, and our own wonderful yoga teachers Tony Briggs and Yoko Yoshikawa who will discuss "Why Yoga Works". Moderated by Richard Rosen.
Some words to live by:
- Be creedless: be intelligent without dependence upon some formula.
- Be self-reliant: avoid dependence on supernatural agency for intellectual support or moral guidance.
- Be critical: question assumptions and seek certitude scientifically.
- Be tolerant: be open-minded and hold conclusions tentatively.
- Be active: live today and grow by exercising your capacities.
- Be efficient: accomplish the most with the least effort.
- Be versatile: vary your interests to attain a variety of interesting thoughts.
- Be cooperative: find some satisfaction in social activities.
- Be appreciative: make the present enjoyable by your attitude.
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Be idealistic: create and live by ideals which you find inspiring.
Adapted from "A Religious Affirmation," by Archie J. Bahm (1933)