About
The yogic path is one of positive transformation and with your teacher dedicated to guiding you on this path you will find yourself immersed in a lifestyle of healing and wellness.
At Good Life Yoga, you will work closely with your teacher to develop your ideal practice by enjoying instruction that is based specifically on your body, mind and goals. Classes can be entirely yogic based or may include elements of personal training to help you attain your goals of physical health, while also enhancing positive emotional and mental health. To make your experience even more personal your instructor will come to your home, your workplace or even your hospital bed to help you cultivate the well-being received from the gift of yoga.
Good Life Yoga is also committed to bringing yoga into schools for both students and faculty. Yoga offers students a means to manage their energy and stress levels, while also offering them imperative tools to help them reconnect to their work, focus and concentrate. Yoga tools offer educators unique skills to keep themselves and their class environment in the optimal atmosphere for learning. Serve your child, student or school today with the powerful gift of Yoga Education.
Lauren A. Levine
Lauren is a graduate of the Kripalu School of Yoga, a Yoga Alliance registered E-RYT 500 teacher, certified Mindful Educator and holds certificates in Yoga Ed.™, Trauma Yoga and personal training. In addition to her programs through Good Life Yoga, Lauren has taught as an adjunct professor of Hatha Yoga at Molloy college and worked in the community as a Lululemon Ambassador. Currently, Lauren leads art and mindfulness programming for incarcerated youth and teaches as a full-time public high school art teacher. She teaches her adolescent students about the therapeutic nature of creating art, in conjunction with the importance of yogic mindfulness and movement, as a means to foster physical health, social-emotional intelligence, interpersonal aptitude and social responsibility.
Lauren's yoga journey began as remedial method to manage the chronic pain she felt as a product of her spinal chord condition. As her practice developed, Lauren realized that yoga does much more than rehabilitate the body. Her realization of the immense benefits of yoga urged her to become a teacher of this inspiring ancient science. Lauren now practices and teaches with the understanding that by creating a compassionate relationship between the mind and body yoga can help, heal, and transform at life, at any age.
Lauren was trained in the Kripalu yoga tradition and while she does apply the Kripalu methodology to her classes, her teaching style is eclectic. She believes that yoga should be taught to meet the needs of the student. Lessons are never dictated but guided, with the freedom of allowing all yoga practioners to explore their bodies edges in a safe, supported environment. With this mindset Lauren's teaching style can vary. She meets the needs of her students by drawing upon the diverse traditions of yoga she has studied, while imbuing her knowledge of personal training and mindfulness. Lauren believes that this is the optimal way for students to enjoy their practice, because it is truly for them, rather than based on premeditated standards.
“It is worth remembering that there is only one yoga and can only be one yoga. True, aspirants are of different natures and resort to various doctrines and practices to progress along the path. But one who completes the process of yoga understands its different paths and sees that the systematic practice of various disciplines leads to the same place. In the end, all yogas lead to one great Yoga.”
~ Swami Kripalu ~