We invite you to attend this intensive transformative workshop.

During this 2,5 day workshop, participants/actors will learn practices that will empower them and enable them to experience lessons from acting teachers (such as Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner). Participants will be able to incorporate these lessons in their day-to-day lives. This will help actors live an authentic life both professionally and personally. The practices will equip actors to grow as actors and as humans.

Stella Adler says:
Growth as an actor and growth as a human being are synonymous

These practices are ancient, authentic & powerful Yoga practices that have been passed down from teacher to disciple over time immemorial. These teaching methods will equip actors with ancient yogic practices that will help them connect with the artistic truth within themselves.

We will be delivering these powerful practices in their purest form.

• 7:30pm – 8:00pm – Connecting the Dots
• 8:00pm – 8:30pm – Meditation
• 8:45pm – 9:00pm – Music
• 9:00pm – 9:30pm – Yoga Social

Beverages will be served.

• 9:00am – 12:30pm : Balance & Clarity – Session 1
• 12:30pm – 1:15pm   : Lunch Break
• 1:30pm –  2:30pm   : Improv Exercises
• 2:30pm – 2:45pm   :  Break
• 2:45pm – 3:45pm    : Actors Glow
• 3:45pm – 4:00pm   : Silence
• 4:00pm – 7:30pm   : Balance & Clarity – Session 2

• 8:00am – 9:00am   : Practice Session
• 9:00am – 12:00pm : Strength & Energy Session 1
• 12:00pm –  1:00pm   : Lunch
• 1:00pm – 1:15pm      : Voice & Balance
• 1:30pm – 4:00pm    : Text Work
• 4:15pm – 6:00pm   :  Recap
• 6:00pm – 8:00pm   : Meditation for Success & Closing

light lunch will be available

Venue : 230 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10016
Email : contact@yoganebula.com | 201-696-7597
Doors open : 7:30am

Once you complete the workshop, you will take-home practice for life. These practices will help you lead an authentic, vibrant life.

• Balance & Clarity   : 21 minutes practice
• Strength & Energy : 12 minute practice
• Voice & Balance     : 15 minute practice
• Actors Glow            : 10 minute practice

Balance & Clarity:

This practice activates the solar plexus to raise the solar heat, in the system. It also balances a person’s left and right energy channels, leading to stability of the body and stillness of the mind.

It enriches one’s life in many ways:

• Develops mental clarity and focus
• Remedies weak constitutions
• Boosts vigor and vitality
• Balances hormonal levels in the body

This practice enables you to move towards a space within yourself and surround yourself with circumstances that are not in any way intrusive or obstructing.

Voice & Balance

• Removes body odor.
• Strengthens the nerves and tissues.
• Immunity or resistance to diseases is increased.
• Capacity to retain oxygen by the lungs is increased overall.
• Lightness of the body, brightness of the eyes and increased appetite are the results of nadi suddhi exercise.
• The mind becomes still, clear and lucid.

AUM Meditation:

You probably know that yoga has something to do with movement and meditation has something to do with sitting still. Between the two is a stepping stone called om meditation or in some traditions, aum meditation or ohm meditation. These meditations are based on mantra, which in Sanskrit means a sound, a certain utterance or a syllable. The mantra helps concentrate the mind and prepares it for deep, sustained meditation periods.

• It takes you to alpha, a meditational state, which gives you deep relaxation.
• Your concentration and focus increases.
• Chanting removes negative mental impressions from your mind.
• It strengthens your immunity system and gives you better health.
• It improves your voice, gives strength to the vocal cord and thyroid gland.
• It has a cardiovascular benefit and normalizes blood pressure.
• It helps with emotional regulation.
• It increases energy and removes fatigue.

Strength & Energy:

This is an ancient yogic practice, which is a powerful sequence of 18 postures. It is designed as a holistic process for great physical fitness. It is much more powerful than a high-intensity training.

Its benefits includes several aspects that enrich one’s life:

• Strengthens the heart
• Boosts vigor and vitality
• Strengthens the immunity system
• Strengthens the muscles
• Tones the digestive system
• Corrects hormonal imbalances
• Lubricates the joints
• Remedies weak constitutions

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Actors Glow:

Shanmukhi Mudra is a yogic practice, a kriya using a Mudra or a hand posture and the breath. Though a simple practice, it is quiet subtle. Sadhguru says that it prepares the person for Pratyahara, which is a yogic term meaning withdrawal or mastery of the senses. It is said that it improves the aura of the face and therefore people concerned with their beauty can do it.

• Improves the aura of the face
• Improves Vision
• Brightens the eyes and rejuvanates different parts of the face
• Helps turn a person inward, prepares one for Pratyahara
• Brings about mental balance and enhances awareness
• Helps with ailments related to nose, ears and eyes
• Helps relieve Vertigo and Tinnitus

Circle warm up

Actors will create a circle and collectively move to the music. This exercise is intended to free their bodies of any tension while warming them up.

Text work

A standard set of sides and/or short monologue will be provided at the start of the workshop. Actors will be given about 20-25 minutes to prepare the material in class. They will then be asked to perform it for the first time in front of the class. They will each receive individual adjustments and perform it again a second and third time.

[all sessions are mandatory]

Yoga is about living strong, not just eating vegetables, twisting yourself out, or closing your eyes. Sadhguru

Ruya Koman is a film producer, director, actress and an acting coach. Ruya recently co-directed, produced and starred in “Interference”, a short film written and co-directed by Robin Rose Singer. “Interference” had its World Premiere at the “New Voices in Black Cinema Festival” at BAM (NYC). In 2016, she made her directorial debut with a short film that she wrote, directed and produced, “Reunion”, starring the legendary Judith Roberts and Margaret Reed. The film was an official selection at the 2017 ECU European Independent Film Festival (Paris, France) and the 2017 Chelsea Film Festival (New York City).  In 2016, Ruya produced and line produced several short films for director Slick Solvan Naim (The Get Down, Snowfall, The Blacklist, Blindspot, and Power). In 2017, she produced two short films (Mr. Richardson and Compatibility), and one pilot (Man-Babies) directed by various Tribeca alumni. Ruya has a private acting class that she teaches each month to a group of actors that she has been coaching and directing for the past five years.

Samir is a technology, management consultant, an art entrepreneur, a philanthropist and Classical Hatha Yoga teacher. Samir is the founder and Managing Partner of MAD Playhouse Theatre, and SAIPAF. He has studied acting at the Stella Adler Academy in New York, in addition to earning degrees in Mathematics and Statistics.

Samir was introduced to meditation/yoga over a decade ago and since then, they have been part of his life. In 2014, he decided to quit everything and go to the Isha School of Hatha Yoga, India to get trained on becoming a certified Hatha Yoga teacher. During  6 months of rigorous training at Isha Hatha Yoga school, he participated in almost 2000 hours of training & learnt many profound ancient and powerful yoga practices including Yogasanas, Surya Kriya, UPA Yoga, Angamardhana & many more.

— Abhinavagupta on Natyasastra

Yoga is about living strong, not just eating vegetables, twisting yourself out, or closing your eyes. Sadhguru