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Offers expire February 29, 2012

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Denise Benitez, A 21st Century Yogini

Beth Award, Yoga with Beth Award

Erin Goldman, The Mat as Microcosm

Grace Meyer, Blog

Bianca Raffety, Updates

Awards

Best Yoga in Seattle (Citysearch 2011)

National Press

Alaska Airlines Magazine, Sept. 2011 (pg 147)
Time for Yoga by Andrea Berninger Thomas

Yoga Journal, numerous articles by Denise Benitez

Local Press

The Capitol Hill Times, January 2012
Capitol Hill Yoga Studio Wins by Caitlin Enwright

Saturday Persimmon Blog, October 28, 2011
Free Community Class by Jennifer

Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, January 2011
Bend It Like Buddha by Jessica Voelker 
 
Yoga with Nikki Chau Blog, July 30, 2010
Anusara Yoga for Pregnancy w/Jessica Jennings

Seattle Magazine, July 2010
Top Docs '10: Jane Hitti
 
Yoga with Nikki Chau Blog, June 6, 2010
The Triadic Adventure w/Ross Rayburn at SYA
 
Seattle Woman Magazine, March 2010
Is Yoga Your Ticket to Health? by Cheryl Murfin 

F. Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Aug.2009 Yoga practice associated w/mindful eating by Alan Kristal, Dr.P.H. et al (including Denise Benitez)

Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, March 2008
The Fit Parade by several writers

DGuides Seattle
Three Prominent Yoga Studios

These are writings by Denise Benitez and Seattle Yoga Arts teachers and students. The files are in PDF format - download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader if you need it.

Home for the Holidays by Bobbi Ewing
Finding Hanumanasana by Bianca Raffety
A Different Kind of Emergency by Shannon Patterson
Thoughts On Yoga by Fred Ward
The Fruits of Practice by Denise Benitez
A Walk with Ma by Benjy Wertheimer
A Simple and Profound Thing by Denise Benitez
How Do I Love Thee? by Shannon Patterson
Sky of Light: Conversations in India by Denise Benitez
Try-Athlete by Jill Seidenstein
What the Body Loves by Denise Benitez
What will be my Vinyasa today? by Julia Smith
Why chant? by Denise Benitez
The Transition to Faith by Sri Aurobindo
Embracing Life by Denise Benitez
Fiercely Gentle, Gently Fierce by Bianca Raffety
Start with Softness by Denise Benitez
Yoga in My Secret Garden by Karen Hirsch
Enlightenment 101 by Denise Benitez
A Ripple in the Front Fender by Meg Agnew
Doorways to Deeper Experience by Denise Benitez
Keeping it Light: Yoga as Play by Denise Benitez
Finding Grace in Hard Times by Lisa Holtby
aum by Rainey
The Four excellent Qualities by Denise Benitez
Practicing at Seattle Yoga Arts by Monica Wellman
Trust the yoga by Denise Benitez
The Yamas and Niyamas by Denise Benitez
Going there for sure by Wendy Lippmann
The Community of Yoga by Denise Benitez
One Door Slams by Wendy Lippmann
Dog is God Spelled Backwards by Denise Benitez
The Power of Love by Denise Benitez >
The Pleasures of Not Doing Yoga by Karen Hirsch
The Garden of Yoga by Denise Benitez
Finding Tadasana by Barb Perlmutter

Healing - December 2011
Change Your Mind - October 2011
A Harmonic Life - September 2011
Inner Sensing - August 2011
Revelation - May 2011
Yoga. Swim. Sun. Eat. - March 2011
One Conscious Moment - February 2011
I Have a Yoga Dream - January #2 2011
So Much Gratitude - January 2011
A Gift of Life and Love - December 2010
The Fertile Darkness - November #2 2010
Teachers - November 2010
Wild Thing - October 2010
Go Deep - August 2010
Celebrate - June 2010
Ride the Wave - May #2 2010
Vision - May 2010
Hawaii Yoga Retreat: Price Reduced! - March 2010
Home/Heart - February 2010
The True Work of Yoga - January #2 2010
Yoga. Swim. Sun. Eat. Repeat. - January 2010

Seattle Yoga Arts provides promotional support, as well as monetary, class, and goods/clothing donations to many non-profit organizations, local businesses and schools to assist with community awareness and/or fundraising efforts.

Here are some we have supported:

• Gulf Savers  
• Hickman House
• Numerous local schools
• Project Air
• PRASAD
• Street Yoga Teacher Training
• UNICEF
• Yoga Behind Bars

Yoga Resources

• Himalayan Institute
• Yoga Finder
• Yoga Journal

Yoga Teachers & Schools

• Anusara Yoga
• Martin Kirk
• Ross Rayburn
• Jessica Jennings

Videos/Downloads

• StretchClock (free download)

• 4 Yoga Poses w/Erin Goldman

• SYA Prenatal Yoga

Meditation Teachers & Schools

• Paul Muller-Ortega
• Pema Chodron

Kirtan & Music

• Shantala Music

Yoga Retreat Centers

• Haramara Retreat
• Huiho
• Sleeping Lady

Wellness

• Elephant Journal
• Healeo

This yoga studio is the heart beat of my life. Its true. I have been attending classes here for the last 8 years or so. When I first started coming to Seattle Yoga Arts I was quite sick with a chronic illness and had been attending a recovery yoga class for three years slowly building enough strength and stamina to attend a beginning level yoga class at SYA. It had an incredible reputation. The classes and instructors are real, down to earth, totally practical, supportive, funny, very knowledgeable about our bodies and know how to keep folk safe. I feel very safe. They are so positive and have the ability to see the good in everyone in a truthful, not phony, way. The sense of community is truly amazing. I see the classes and embrace of the community as rungs on a ladder that have allowed me to heal and grow strong in unexpected ways.
- Davida W.

News flash: Yoga is good for you. This information may send you to any number of good studios in the city. No matter. If you get serious about yoga, sooner or later you'll show up at Seattle Yoga Arts.
By serious, that doesn't mean you have to be flexible. Or strong. Or any other preconception you may be harboring about yoga amongst the tattooed, the nubile, or the crotchety. There is a reason Denise Benitez,, SYA's owner, has been teaching for 37+ years-she believes in it.. As do all the radiant teachers and students at SYA.
This is the place to start a practice, rekindle a former practice or recover from injuries incurred by any form of athleticism. If your interest is purely physical, that's available, too. But you'll be missing the best part-the feeling of joining an amazing community of people who have been transformed by yoga. It is truly unique.
- Ann H.

I've practiced yoga at several studios around the world and Seattle Yoga Arts is by far my favorite. I like to call Anusara yoga "smart yoga" because of its refined physical alignment principles and wise philosophical underpinnings.
Seattle Yoga Arts offers highly skilled instruction, a good laugh, really great people, and a feeling when you leave class that everything is a bit brighter.
- Kara F.

I have been deepening my yoga practice at this studio for about 10 years. Over the years I have learned the energetic and spiritual aspects of yoga - which adds so much. I leave feeling nourished and centered - no matter what my state is when I enter. This is truly a community of practitioners - all trying to be our best selves.
- Karma R.

This is the most wonderful yoga studio in the city! OK, I'm a little biased because I've been going there for over ten years. Still, what's not to love? All the teachers are smart, funny, and very skilled. Also, SYA is truly a community. Through workshops, retreats, and special training sessions I have gotten to know so many other students there, and that has enriched my life and deepened my practice. SYA is my home away from home and I am truly grateful for it!
- Susie H.

Walking in the door at SYA is like coming home. Nothing is rushed, everyone knows your name (or soon will). The instructors are skilled, knowledgable and caring, and the community of students there is amazing. I regularly recruit friends to the studio and I can't think of a better place to go. You want a trendy yoga boutique, you'll have to go somewhere else. You want yoga that will fill your heart, mind and body with lightness and ease, this is the place.
- Renee D.

"I'm grateful for your insightful, kind and humorous teaching. I'm amazed at how much I've learned in the last few months and look forward to continuing."
- VE, 57, Journalist

"Denise, I so appreciate your light heart and infectious laughter, your gentle attention to all of us, and your often stunning insights. Rainey, your depth, power and openness are inspirational, awe-inspiring to me. I feel that I've found a heart-home."
- CM, 56, Doctor

"I am deeply grateful for the studio's presence in my neighborhood and the words you speak into our lives in class and via email poems and newsletters. My sacrum, my lungs, my shoulders, my spine, and my quads thank you too. And I love the honest laughter in class - it's like comedy central for yogis!"
- EL, 35, Architect/Spiritual Director

"Thank you for providing a home/church/gym/studio. I savor every moment of class."
- KP, 39, Teacher

"I thank Denise and Rainey for being my powerful, inspirational teachers."
- NS, 52, English Professor

"Thank you for all you do, for all you are, for your commitment, your creativity, your intelligence and insight, your humor, your honesty and your sensitivity."
- ND, 62, Nurse Practitioner

"There aren't words enough to thank you for your teaching, guidance, support, mentoring, love, sweetness, sense of humor, and steadiness over the years. I feel so full and lucky to have stumbled into Seattle Yoga Arts 10 years ago. So many doors opened for me during that time. You helped me to find my own heart, voice, and confidence as a teacher and yogini. Thank you, thank you, thank you."
- AM, 33, Yoga Teacher

"The grace, authenticity and wisdom you share have a quality I haven't experienced much in other teachers, and I'm grateful."
- LB, 39, Bodyworker

"I wanted to let you know what a significant impact your class has had on my life- especially the way I deal with stress and things 'not going my way.' "
- SH, 32, New Mom

Quotes

"All cycles begin in the dark. The first principle of Anusara yoga is: open to the dark and create light."
- John Friend

"In this body are stars and planets, the sun and moon, ether, air, fire, water, and earth. He who knows this is a Yogi."
- Shiva Samhita 

"A spiritual perspective is a panoramic situation in which you come and go freely; your relationship with the world is open. It is the ultimate non-violence."
- Chogyam Trungpa

"Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination."
- William Longgood

Videos/Articles 

Father & Son Run Marathon Together

12 Things Happy People Do Differently

Acro-Yoga Performance

Anusara Yoga Opening Invocation

OM
Om Namah Shivaya Gurave
(I offer myself to the Light, the Auspicious Self,
who is the True Teacher within and without,)
Saccidananda Murtaye
(Who assumes the forms of Reality, Consciousness, and Bliss,)
Nisprapancaya Shantaya
(Who is never absent and is full of peace.)
Niralambaya Tejase
(Independent in Its existence,
It is the vital essence of illumination.)
OM
I offer my heart to the power of Grace
That lives in us as goodness
That is never absent and radiates peace
And lights the way to transformation