Swan River Yoga

Swan River Yoga We offer in-studio and virtual wellness classes and events. Mid-City Yoga Mandir. What is a Mandir?
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Swan River Yoga supports practitioners who are on an inward journey through skillful guidance, therapeutic approach, appropriate challenge, and community connection. The word "Mandir" refers to a large temple where multi-cultural backgrounds gather and humanitarian events take place to best serve the community with beauty, food, the arts, yoga, dance, theatre, healing arts, education, sacred pract

ices, meditation and rituals. There are often schools & Universities within Mandirs, such as our Yoga Teacher Training School & multiple trainings as a means to activate self freedom and respect the diversity of all.

08/08/2026

Calm in mind, steady in heart, strong in body.

Warrior strength isn’t about force. It’s about meeting life with presence, resilience, and self-love.

Join us on the mat as we cultivate the kind of strength that begins within.

🩵Swan River

08/05/2026

Awaken your creative energy. Ground your mind. Begin your day with intention.

Join Steph Navjeet for a 5-day Kundalini Sadhana Experience, a morning practice designed to cultivate vitality, clarity, and inner resilience through movement, breathwork, mantra, and meditation.

🗓 August 10–14
🕣 8:15–9:00 AM
📍 Swan River Yoga

Whether you’re new to Kundalini or returning to your practice, this immersive series offers a beautiful way to reconnect with yourself and experience the power of daily sadhana.

Reserve your spot and start your mornings with intention.

08/03/2026

Trees don’t thrive alone.

Beneath the forest floor, an intricate network of roots intertwines sharing resources, offering support, and strengthening the whole.

Maybe we’re not so different.

There is something deeply powerful about practicing together. We find our own grounding while becoming part of a greater network of support, connection, and growth. Together, we stand tall, reach upward, and empower one another. 🌳🤍

08/01/2026

🔥August’s Focus of the Month🔥
The Third Niyama: Tapas
By Kate O’Neal Aitken

The third Niyama, or ethical observance, in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras is Tapas. The Sanskrit root “tap” translates loosely as “to heat,” “to burn” or “austerity,” although defining tapas as simply a state of severe strictness misses its real purpose. Tapas relates to a particular kind of refinement that is cultivated through building disciplined heat; a consistent internal friction and the ability to stay with discomfort long enough so that it quietly transforms you. Through purposeful effort our mental impurities are dissolved.

This inner fire allows the practitioner to cultivate Siddhis, or yogi superpowers, through mastery of the body and senses. By welcoming a sustained and consistent yoga practice, we can purposefully apply the heat needed to dissolve conditioning and limitations of the mind, body, and spirit. The chitta vrittis, or fluctuations of the mind, can overwhelm the mind and tapas offers the needed friction to disrupt the loop. Just as fire refines gold, tapas burns away the barriers that weigh us down. The following Yoga Sutra, with translation by BKS Iyengar, offers insight into the practice of tapas:

YS II.43: kāyendriyasiddhir aśuddhikṣayāt tapasaḥ

“Self-discipline that burns away impurities and kindles the sparks of divinity”

Read the full write-up through the link in our bio🔥

07/30/2026

Join Jennifer Martinez for Serene First Sunday, a special class designed to help you slow down, reconnect, and begin your month with intention.

Meet us Sundays August 2 + September 6 from 4:30–5:30 PM for a grounding practice and a moment of serenity.

Reserve your spot and make space for yourself. 💛

07/23/2026

At Swan River, classes are so much more than just movement. Woven into the sequencing are thoughtful reflections and timeless teachings to support your practice, both on and off the mat. ✨

Join us for daily classes, or explore these teachings more deeply through the Marigold Yoga Teacher Training (Jan 8–May 16, 2027).

Find details on our Events page at the link in our bio. 💙

07/21/2026

Yoga is not just about what happens on the mat. It is a practice of noticing what we might have overlooked, softening what is rigid, and making space for new perspectives and possibilities.

May our practices help us open our hearts, expand our awareness, and move through the world with greater compassion. 💙🩵🤍🦢

✨ We are deeply honored to be voted Best Yoga Studio in Where Y’at Magazine’s Best of the Big Easy! ✨From our teachers w...
07/18/2026

✨ We are deeply honored to be voted Best Yoga Studio in Where Y’at Magazine’s Best of the Big Easy! ✨

From our teachers who pour their hearts into every class, to our students who show up with courage, curiosity, and kindness, this recognition belongs to our entire Swan River community.

Thank you, New Orleans, for trusting us with your practice, your healing, your celebrations, and your moments of stillness. We are so grateful to be part of this incredible city.

Here’s to continuing to breathe, move, connect, and grow together.

With gratitude,
The Swan River Yoga Family🦢🩵

07/16/2026

May we remember that transformation begins in the quiet spaces within. Through breath, song, embodiment, and presence.

Thank you to our teachers who share their gifts and create spaces where hearts can soften 🤍😌🦢

🌼 Announcing the Marigold 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training at Swan River Yoga! 🌼Whether you dream of becoming a yoga teach...
07/14/2026

🌼 Announcing the Marigold 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training at Swan River Yoga! 🌼

Whether you dream of becoming a yoga teacher or simply want to deepen your personal practice, this immersive training offers a rich foundation in the philosophy, practice, and art of yoga.

Led by Bindu Patel and Keith Porteous Meade, Senior Prajna Yoga teachers with nearly three decades of combined study in the Prajna Yoga tradition, this Yoga Alliance-certified 200-hour training blends devotion, discipline, and joyful exploration.

Together, we’ll study:
🧘 Asana & Meditation
📖 The Yoga Sutras & the Eight Limbs of Yoga
🌬️ Pranayama, Chanting & Bhakti
🕉️ Sanskrit, Anatomy, Chakras, Vayus & Kleshas
💛 Restorative, Yin, Pregnancy & Chair Yoga
🎶 Voice Training, SATYA, and more

The training includes 180 hours of in-person instruction and 20 hours of self-study, along with a comprehensive manual featuring poses, teaching cues, modifications, dharma reflections, poetry, chants, and additional resources to support your journey.

The Marigold Yoga Teacher Training runs over 10 weekends from January 8–May 16, 2027, offering a supportive environment to learn, grow, and build lasting connections.

Why Marigold? 🌼 Like the flower that remains vibrant even after its petals are separated from the plant, the dedicated yoga student absorbs the teachings, then steps into the world rooted in wisdom, resilience, and their own unique light.

📍 Swan River Yoga
📅 January 8–May 16, 2027
✅ Yoga Alliance Accredited 200-Hour Teacher Training

Registration opens August 1 (or sooner—stay tuned!).

If you’ve been waiting for the right time to deepen your practice, discover your voice, or begin the path of teaching, we’d be honored to welcome you.

✨ Learn more through the link in our bio or contact us with any questions.

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2940 Canal Street
New Orleans, LA
70119

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