CENTRAL MASS YOGA AND WELLNESS opened in February of 2000 and has expanded 3 times! We are a school, resource center for wellness, and a flourishing yoga community for all ages and abilities. We are perfectly situated next to the beautiful Wachusett Reservoir in the Causeway Crossing Professional Building, 45 Sterling Street, (Route 12) 2nd floor, #28 in West Boylston, Massachusetts. Parking is abundant in both the front and back lots and our Yoga Studio is accessible to the handicapped through the back entrance ramp. We have three beautiful, clean and peaceful spaces for the practice of yoga. All three studios are fully equipped with helpful props which provide excellent spinal extension. Central Mass Yoga’s teaching community has depth as well as breadth. Our highly trained and experienced teachers offer a large array of classes.
Our classes include: gentle, beginner, moderate, vigorous, heated, power, women’s, teens & tweens, kettlebell, prenatal, restorative, Yoga Warriors (for combat veterans), Kripalu, meditation, yin yoga, Kundalini, prenatal and so much more! Students look forward to our weekend workshops and events on a variety of themes. CMY offers a 200 hour yoga teacher training approved by the National Yoga Alliance and we enjoy and a yearly retreat to the Maine coast open to all students of yoga.
CMY classes draw from three traditional lineages of yoga: Hatha, Iyengar, and Ashtanga. By combining the strengths of each, we have created programs that offer the best yoga available to beginners and advanced students. Our certified and experienced teachers bring significant talent and spirituality to their teaching. Our classes safely offer students greater, longer lasting benefits. Our mission is to promote the study, practice, and teaching of yoga, and to foster a flourishing yoga community.
PERSONAL WELCOME FROM LUCY
Yoga came to the forefront of my life in the early 1990's. First reading books by Swami Rama, Rudolph Ballentine and other classics mostly found at used bookstores. Next, I enrolled in classes at Portland Yoga Studio, in Portland Maine. Elaine McGillicuddy was my first and most influential teacher. She is certainly a master in all the senses of the word. It was through Elaine that I have learned and brought the Iyengar influence into my teaching. Later, I enrolled in the Teachers Training Program at the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Philosophy and Science. I had to travel 8-9 hours from Maine for courses. Not the most convenient, but it had what I felt was the best training available for Hatha Yoga. The World has changed so much in just a few years. Now there are yoga centers and instructors galore. The discipline and philosophy of each instructor will be different as yoga is a personal thing. Even instructors who have been certified from the same institution often have different approaches, personalities, and teaching styles. At Central Mass Yoga, we have certified instructors who bring significant talent and spirituality to their practice. Learn more about them by reading their brief biographies or taking a class with them. May you find, as we all have, more than you came looking for. Not only relief from your back pain, arthritis, or an antidote for depression, but a path that leads you into your own soul... into the deep depths of grace. Namaste, Lucy