This recently renovated, intimate, 600 square foot studio with an elegant bathroom sits within the quiet beauty of a garden and contains hard wood floors, soaring ceilings, a live edge mirror, gentle colors and spa-like services such as hot tea, oil dipped eye pillows, soundscapes, dimmable lighting and candles. A full array of yoga equipment allows you to enter unencumbered.
Live Edge Studio offers private and semi-private lessons, courses and workshops in dance, yoga and other somatic practices such as Alexander Technique or Authentic Movement and energy healing. It is available for rental by licensed practitioners in yoga, massage, Pilates, Alexander Technique, etc.
To inquire about rentals, email Jan HERE.
UPCOMING AT LIVE EDGE
YOGA Course for experienced practitioners - tuesdays and thursdays january 28th - march 20th
COURSE FULL
open house at live edge - coming soon!
To join us for a workshop or course at Live Edge:
First, check the calendar to see the upcoming offerings. Then, register your spot here.
All payments are only accepted in CASH or CHECK in studio.
OFFERINGS AT LIVE EDGE
WORKSHOPS
Live Edge Studio offers workshops by yoga, somatic practitioners and artists who are exploring the outer the inner edges of space, energy and time as they intersect with the body and soul.
PRIVATE AND SEMI-PRIVATE LESSONS WITH JAN ERKERT
Drawing on an extensive background in dance, anatomy, and kinesiology, private lessons consist of individualized explorations and building a personalized yoga practice adapted to the unique needs of each body and spirit. With close attention to alignment and joy, Jan will guide you toward a more healthy and complete practice.
YOGA COURSES WITH JAN ERKERT
These small classes of 8 -10 practitioners will be offered as a 4, 6 or 8 week-course. These classes will be designed for brand new beginners who want to learn the basics or for experienced practitioners who want to dive deeply yoga practice and philosophy.
FLOW YOGA WITH JAN ERKERT
I integrate concepts from Vinyasa Flow and Ashtanga Yoga as well as dance and somatic practices to create open spaces for transformative experiences. My yoga classes are rigorously constructed, emphasizing efficient alignment, movement flow, joy, and a deep investigation of the interconnections between the body and spirituality. Classes offer a springboard for in-depth internal explorations of concepts such as gravity and lightness, stability and ease, weight and flow, or love and limitations.
ONLINE YOGA WITH JAN
The following 15 classes were designed specifically for the pandemic. The classes are best experienced in the sequence 1-15. Previous yoga experience is preferred. Please listen to your body and always modify to suit your needs.
ABOUT JAN:
Jan Erkert is a dancer, choreographer, op-ed writer, author, dance and yoga educator and leadership coach. She is Professor Emerita of the Department of Dance at the University of Illinois, where she was Head of the Department from 2006-2022. She has a 45-year practice in yoga and received her 500-hour yoga certification through Mary Wolters at the Living Yoga Center in Champaign/Urbana, Illinois, Moksha Yoga in Chicago and My Vinyasa Practice.
“Jan's Yoga teaching is excellent, above and beyond other Yoga teachers I had. She brings to her teaching a thorough knowledge of human anatomy and her intimate first-hand and professional understanding of human movement as a dancer, choreographer, and educator. The precision and clarity of her explanations and the insight and individual feedback on how to stretch ourselves (both literally and figuratively!) is invaluable. Each class had an underlying theme or focus, which has expanded my awareness, which I carry outside the Yoga mat. Jan's attention to both details and big picture, and her responsiveness to our individual needs and activities (in my case, swimming) is remarkable.”
-Yoram Bresler, Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign