About Alice

Alice teaches meditation, mindfulness and Yoga to a diverse audience in New York City and also via phone and Skype. Her gentle approach puts newcomers and those who are suffering at ease.

 

Alice’s own exploration of Yoga – its potent wisdom traditions, physical practice and core of meditation – is deep and ongoing. She embraces meditation as her core practice and is skillful at inviting newcomers into meditative states.

 

Before becoming an instructor of meditation and Yoga (in 2008), Alice had careers in global banking, and as a consultant to the banks and other firms. With experience in some of the most competitive corporate cultures on the planet, Alice is uniquely qualified to bring meditation and mindfulness into the workplace.

 

A lover of the arts and New York City, Alice enjoys spending time on the seacoast of her native New England. She embraces the life-affirming view that everything is an opportunity for our expansion.

Alice Hogan, Meditation Yoga Instructor

WHAT I TEACH

 

I teach meditation, mindfulness and the physical practice of yoga privately – in person and via Skype, and in group classes and workshops. I have certifications in yoga4cancer and Yoga for osteoporosis, as well as deep training in yoga for a wide range of therapeutic issues.

 

After teaching the basics of meditation and mindfulness to financial professionals individually and in groups, I am now bringing these practices to select clients in the workplace.

WHO I TEACH

 

A diverse audience… Current and past students include:

 

  • Columbia University postdoctoral fellows
  • Singers, dancers, musicians, writers and performers
  • Therapists, dentists, doctors
  • Bankers and corporate professionals
  • People suffering with therapeutic issues or chronic illnesses
  • Teens living with HIV
  • The healthy aging crowd
  • Yoga Teacher Trainees preparing for certification exams
Lotus

Influences

 

I love wisdom traditions – the non-dual mystical core at the heart of them as well as their practical guidance for living a beautiful life.

 

I’ve completed over 1200 hours of study in meditation, mindfulness, and the physical practice of yoga. I am Anusara-trained with certifications in Yoga for Osteoporosis and yoga4cancer.

 

The wisdom traditions I study and teach include Classical Yoga, Vedanta, Bhakti Yoga and non-dual Tantra (Kashmir Shaivism and Shaktism).

 

While I am not a Buddhist, my practice is informed by the wisdom and practices of Zen Buddhism (Thich Nhat Hanh) and Tibetan Buddhism (Pema Chodron). It is also deeply informed by the authentic mystical heart of Christianity, Sufism, Taoism, Joseph Campbell and secular mindfulness and meditation practices.

 

Meditation And The Wisdom of Yoga And Tantra
Sally Kempton – My primary Teacher since June of 2008
Bill Mahony
Paul Muller-Ortega
Chris Wallis
Chris Tompkins
Mark Dyczkowski
Carolos Pomeda

 

Mindfulness
I highly recommend these online classes available through Sounds True:

Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, Power of Awareness
Florence Meleo-Meyers and Saki Santorelli, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

 

Yoga As A Healing Modality
Tari Prinster, Yoga4Cancer
Dr. Loren Fishman, “Yoga for Osteoporosis” and “Yoga for Back Pain”
Dr. Timothy McCall, “Yoga As Medicine”
Ellen Saltonstall, Therapeutics

 

Original Anusara Yoga Teacher Training – 2007/2008
Rudrani Farbman Brown – Meditation and Philosophy
Jackie Prete – Anusara

What I Love

 

In my original teacher training I was voted “most likely to be found on a beach in Mexico with a stack of texts.”

 

I’m drawn to beauty, delight in creativity and cherish authenticity.

 

I started practicing yoga when I was navigating a universal human experience – the loss of a loved one. In my first classes, I experienced yoga’s power to shift our mental and emotional state and to create deep feelings of well-being in body and mind.

 

Through the physical practice, I’ve healed my own therapeutic issues and through a deep, ongoing practice of meditation, I’ve re-connected with an underlying, ever-present current of contentment.

 

Recently, when walking on a New York City street, I had this thought: “What a wonderful life it will have been – to have shared the practices of meditation and yoga with so many different people.”

 

I love…

  • The diversity and vibrant pulse of New York City
  • The night flight to London
  • Art, dance, music, poetry, theatre
  • The way Broadway sparkles at twilight
  • The rocky coast of New Hampshire and Maine
  • Small New England towns
  • Beauty – in nature and in architecture
  • Curling up on the couch with a book and a cup of tea
  • Meditating and journaling to capture a flow of insights
  • This deep feeling of well-being in my body/mind
  • Sharing the practices that help us quiet the mind
  • Helping people not suffer and connect with their center – their contentment and intuition
  • The brightness in students’ eyes after class
  • Teaching group classes in thunderstorms or when the snow is falling
  • Using Powerpoint and my Tibetan Bowl to teach in the workplace
  • Capturing moments of beauty with my iPhone camera
  • In summer, the golden, early morning sunlight that floods my parquet floors and white bookshelves
  • This practice
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