RenéeDeNigris's first exposure to yoga came when her office went to a local yoga studio to learn how to breathe out stress. Who knew working with puzzles could be stressful? Yoga then became a major life changing experience when she found Katherine “Kitty” Moore’s studio– The Connecticut Yoga Center. Kitty helped Renée to realize that yoga was so much more than just a physical workout.
Renée has studied yoga for more than 12 years in the Iyengar, Tantra Hatha, Anusara and Kripalu yoga styles. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) with the Yoga Alliance, a graduate of the 200hr & 500hr (Iyengar-style) YOGAspirit® Teacher Trainings with Kim Valeri and is currently enrolled in the YOGAspirit® 800 hour master healing therapies apprenticeship studying tantric healing techniques with her “guru” Kim. Renée has also graduated from the 500hr Teacher Training in the lineage of Para Yoga®- Teaching Deeper Practices, with Sue Neufeld and Kathryn Templeton. She has also had the pleasure of studying with Rolf Gates, Judith Hanson Lasater, Ann Greene, Manorama, and Rod Stryker.
Renée teaches form-style classes ranging from gentle to mixed-level as well as classes geared for seniors and those with full-figures. All of her classes help build strength, balance, and flexibility, and, most of all, how to have fun! Renée wants to share her love of the gift of Yoga with everyone. She creates an accepting environment, encouraging students to work at their own pace, resisting the pressure of the ego in order to find body, mind, and breath working together as one true spirit.
Your Community Yoga Center at 39 Putnam Ave., Hamden, Ct 06517 located in the greater New Haven area, servicing Branford, Cheshire, East Haven, Hamden, Meriden, Milford, New Haven, Northford, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Wallingford, West Haven, and Woodbridge. Offering yoga for Beginners, All-levels yoga, ParaYoga®, Gentle/Restorative Yoga, Chair Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Yoga for Teens, Yoga for Tweens, Vinyasa Yoga, Pre-Natal Yoga, Senior/Gentle Yoga, Anusara Inspired Yoga, Belly Dance, Hatha-Tantra Yoga, Tantra Meditation, Buddhist Meditation, Ayurveda and free yoga classes for the community. Our bookstore carries books on yoga, meditation, and ayurveda as well as cds, yoga mats, blocks, props and jewelry. Formerly The Connecticut Yoga Center.
