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Changes in the schedule

hamid — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:42:50 +0000

There are few changes in our schedule starting January 2012.

Monday 5PM has been cancelled
Friday 8AM has been cancelled
Prenatal now is on Sundays at 1:30PM

Prior attending please always check the current schedule for more up to date info. Stay warm and see you around!

Hosh T-Shirt winners are in!

hamid — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:02:05 +0000

Dear Hoshies!

Thank you everyone for you feedback. We truly appreciate it. You help us to see where we are doing great and where we can do even better! Please keep coming to practice, keep spreading the word, keep supporting your space and our teachers. If you are a winner, you have already received an email.

Though the survey link has been taken down, pleas keep providing your feedback to us directly or through email. Thanks again and Namaste.

Interviews and staged class

hamid — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:26:34 +0000

Hey Folks

Happy President’s day! I want to thank you for being so supportive of Hosh and continuing to provide help to grow it. As most of you know we are attempting to make a video about Hosh, so we can raise awareness and hopefully raise some funds. We have some professional help donated for doing this video and we are trying to make the best out of it!

You can do one or both!

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If you are doing interviews for us (We hope some of you will!)

Interview shoot on Saturday February 26th from 7pm to 9pm. Some sample questions prompted from you on camera will be:

Why is Hosh important to you? What role does it play in your life?

Why do you see Hosh as important to the community? How has it improved or changed the community?

What do you see as unique to Hosh?

How would you like to see Hosh grow? As a non-profit? As a yoga-studio?

Why would you encourage someone to support Hosh?

Please wear something that doesn’t have logos or striped patterns. Also the color of the shirt/t-shirt/blouse/etc shouldn’t be too bright (all white) or too dark (all black) for camera to get a better footage.

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Staged class shoot on Sunday February 27th from 8pm to 9pm. This will be a demo class with us possibly moving through some short sequences for camera. Yoga sequence itself will not take more than 30 minutes total, with all the setup and moving around in between it will be less of a continuous flow and more of a breakdown of its parts. Please do not worry about performing to some kind of standard. We love your practice the way it is and that’s what we want to show!

Namaste

Williamsburg Greenpoint News + Arts Hosh review

hamid — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:58:11 +0000

When Stacey Brook, journalist from WG News+Arts, has contacted me last december, I was happy to invite her to Hosh. She was on a journey through multitude of yoga studios in the neighborhood and thankfully had a chance to drop in for a visit. The only thing I would have liked to see in the article is mentioning of my friend’s names, particularly Becca Broughton, Yuuki Hirano and Ty Moses which all happen to be Hosh Yoga’s co-founders and addition to me Hamid Elsevar as a founder. Nevertheless I am still happy to see this article, it’s a treat to be on the same page with Go Yoga, Kula Yoga Project and other great yoga spaces. Have a read and spread the word! Namaste.

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Hosh Yoga was named with purpose. “Hosh” is the Turkish word for “good and kind,” It is the root word of “welcome” and “happiness.” In sanskrit “hosh” means “awareness” or “awakening.” And “XOS,” the Turkish spelling spelling of “hosh,” is, as the studio’s owner Hamid Elsevar explains, comprised of X’s and O’s – approptiate, since Hosh Yoga is all about spreading the love.

Many studios in the neighborhood offer community, or pay-what-you-wish, classes during the week, but Hosh is the only all pay-what-you-wish, non-profit yoga studio. The Hosh operation began during the summer of 2009, when Hamid and other volunteer instructors began conducting open sessions in McCarren Park on the corner of Lorimer and Bedford. When the weather became too cold for tree pose among the trees, Hamid took the class indoors to a bare-bones basement studio in a gym on Calyer St. But this past June, Hosh reopened in a new location on Nassau Ave. in super close proximity to Lomzynianka, for loading up on pierogies before class. (Although trust me, it doesn’t help flexibility.)

In my 6:30pm Friday class, taught by Hamid, the environment had a more relaxed air than most yoga studios. Shoes came off at the door, but students kept their belongings beside their mats, and Hamid peppered instructions with jokes. He soundtracked the class with contemporary indie rock, and mellow favorites, Thom Yorke crooning to us as we tried to bring our chests to our knees. “Soon, you can all go party!” Hamid said over the music, as he watched our thigh muscles shake in chair pose. This is the man who understands my motivations. The studio space is huge, with high ceilings, sunny yellow walls, and beautiful, wood floors installed by Hamid and friends. Clear, Edison-style bulbs hang fashionably from the ceiling. Hamid and his generous volunteer crew will be finishing the build out of Hosh’s second yoga room in time for new year’s resolutioners to take advantage and nine new classes of varying intensity will be added to the diverse schedule. Hosh also plans to expand into schools and to offer retreats, all depending on the gracious donations of its students – so practice and give!

2011 expanded classes and current holiday schedule

hamid — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:28:26 +0000

Dear folks
First of all, happy holidays! We wish you health, happiness and prosperity for this upcoming holiday season and the new year. If you are still here in Brooklyn during this holiday season, come do some yoga with us! We have class every day. It is a great way to wrap up the old and begin the new.

Our modified holiday schedule is below:

Dec 23rd Thu – Regular schedule
Dec 24th Fri – 10am and 12pm
Dec 25th Sat – 12pm and 3pm
Dec 26th Sun – 3pm, 5pm and 6:30pm meditation
Dec 27th thru Dec 30th – Regular schedule (except all 7am are cancelled)
Dec 31st – 10am, 12pm and New Year’s Eve celebration starting 9pm (more info below)
Jan 1st – 12pm, 3pm, 5pm
Jan 2nd – Regular schedule

We are happy to announce the additional classes beginning in 2011, including Explorer and Sweat and Restore classes. Our schedule is below

Hosh 2011 schedule

If you or your friends and family were waiting for New Year’s resolution time, it is here. The only yoga by donation non-profit studio is growing with our community’s help and looking forward to bringing more yoga to more folks from all over Brooklyn and beyond. Spread the word and if you Google or Yelp, give us a review, let other people know what you think about Hosh.

2010 NYE
New Year’s Eve Hosh welcomes you to celebrate with us! At 9pm, we will have an asana class with Becca. Then time for tea and snacks from 10:30-11:15pm (feel free to bring some of your own too!). Christina will lead us in chanting (don’t worry we’ll have it written out) and meditation, which will start around 11:15pm and take us into the New Year! Then we’ll break out some bubbles and celebrate! Feel free to come to all or part of the celebration, but the buzzer will be turned off after 11:20pm.

We’d love your help to set up and decorate, if you’re interested please email becca@hoshyoga.org. We look forward to seeing you! Happy New Year to all!

Love
Hamid, Becca and the rest of the Hoshies