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Yoga is known to build strength and increase coordination and flexibility. We offer multiple styles that are appropriate for students of every level. Instructors provide personal attention, ensuring that each student has a safe and enjoyable yoga practice, leaving relaxed and refreshed. Classes are available for students at every level of experience.

Featured News Releases

September 10, 2020

Ailey Extension Online Offers Cornucopia Of Classes With Respected Teachers Leading Virtual Workshops & Classes For Adults, Teens, Kids, and Toddlers

(New York) September 10, 2020 – Ailey Extension invites people around the globe to fall into dance with a variety of classes, special workshops and a kids & teens series starting in September. Students of diverse ages, backgrounds and levels are welcome to enjoy learning dance moves and enhancing fitness under the instruction of New York City’s top dance professionals with a cornucopia of virtual offerings.

June 22, 2017

Burn Up The Dance Floor At Ailey Extension This Summer With New Weekly Classes And Workshops

This summer, Ailey Extension is launching new weekly classes and one-time-only workshops for adults and even for the entire family. From dance fitness to bellydance to yoga classes, there’s something for students of all levels and backgrounds.

January 30, 2014

The Ailey Extension Spices Up February Class Offerings With Exciting New Workshop Lineups And Exclusive Class - DANZATONE

In celebration of Heart Health Month, Valentine's Day, and the 2014 Carnaval; in February the Ailey Extension will offer a new technique, and a series of one-day only dance and fitness workshops taught by world renowned instructors, designed to move and excite participants of all levels and backgrounds.

Featured Press Coverage

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October 01, 2020

WUSA 9 Great Day Washington - Strike A (Yoga) Pose And Waken Your Body And Mind

Yoga instructor with Ailey Extension, Pilin Anice shares some professional yoga tips made easy.

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April 21, 2015

Metro - Strike (The Right) Pose

“This is what we dreamed about back in the day, when people made fun of us and called us pretzels,” Irini Res says about the massive growth in yoga. The Ashtanga Yoga teacher at the Upper West Side's Ailey Extension took up the practice after battling breast cancer in 1996, which took her out of the high-powered career in banking she never stopped to realize wasn’t making her happy.

February 01, 2009

Ebony - Unity For Yoga

When hip-hop Russell Simmons impresario Russell Simmons says something is hot, people tend to listen.