Quick chat with Sadie Nardini
We’re thrilled to welcome Sadie Nardini ,the founder of Core Strength Vinyasa Yoga and proud Brooklyn resident, to Mala on Saturday, May 15th for a two-hour, all-levels workshop that will definitely help you find – and keep – your center! Sadie teaches at YogaWorks in Soho, but primarily tours the country to teach Core Strength workshops and trainings. She shared a few thoughts with us on why Core Strength Yoga is essential to anyone’s yoga practice and what inspires her amazing teaching style.
How would you describe your yoga style and your technique? My style is really more principles of building yoga poses from deeper core strength that anyone of any style can use to instantly make their poses safer, stronger, and more attainable. Core Strength is so much more than just the abdominal muscles. During a vinyasa flow I created to bring any level practitioner to the next level, we’ll explore the deeper muscular line of the Deep Core, which is usually under-worked in yoga poses. My classes feel like a powerful dance from center, because I believe that just because we’re learning doesn’t mean we can’t work out, learn…and have fun!
Why teach yoga? In my life and yoga, I used to be a total mess–not knowing myself, being unhealthy and neglecting to take actions from my core truth in just about every way. When I began applying the teachings of yoga, I found that not only could I finally rock my handstand, my health and inner strength improved radically, and my relationships and career became what I’d always dreamed they could be. Since I know these simple principles, and am able to communicate them to people during a yoga class, I feel it’s my responsibility to share them with as many people as I can, and then let them take it from there.
What inspires you? Everything. And I mean all of it: shadows and the light. I realized a while ago that even that irritating guy on the subway is really just teaching me more about myself–what I like and don’t, what I will and won’t participate in. I can turn anything to serve my highest goals instead of my lowest ones. And I want that lesson, in any way I can get it. That’s not only inspiring…it makes my commute much easier to bear.
We hope you can join Sadie on the 15th. For more details on her workshop, or to register, stop by the front desk or email info@malayoganyc.com. Pre-registration for this event is strongly encouraged.