Woodbury Meditation & Yoga Center

Over 40 years, Woodbury Meditation and Yoga Center continues to help friends and neighbors manage illness, injury, stress, anxiety, addiction, physical, emotional, and mental health challenges with classes in the ancient healing science of yoga. Deep relaxation, yoga postures, breathing techniques, and meditation in a healing, natural environment enable practitioners to live a more healthy, fulfilling, and joyful life. Calming and restorative Tibetan Singing Bowl Sound Healing group and privates sessions are also available. For some, self-actualization and spiritual evolution are experienced. Active duty military, veterans, emergency workers, cancer and other debilitating disease patients and their caregivers are supported with partial or full scholarships as needed. 

From our community:

The value and benefits of yoga and meditation are vast and real.  I’ve been doing yoga with WMYC for 36 years. I took the meditation course many years ago and use it to this day.  Initially I started both to improve my golf game!  It works, yoga and meditation are great for one’s golf game!  And of course both help me physically and spiritually, in countless ways, every single day, on and off the golf course.--Mark B., Woodbury  Spring, 2023

As an older adult--age 85--with a background in psychology, I had dabbled for years in meditation. Janaki at WMYC was presented to me as an excellent meditation teacher so  I attended and am delighted to say that I experience a deeper level of calm emanating from  my meditation. Janaki’s ability to simplify “the very complex,” works for me and I am appreciative of the gift of finally “getting it.” Thank you for transferring to me something that words are frequently unable to convey.  I enjoy a welcome feeling of comfort during a year of innumerable personal challenges. “Thank you” --Paula Flynn, Psy.D. October, 2022

WMYC offers tangible health benefits in terms of intellectual, emotional, and physical endurance and growth for all individuals. An extensive and remarkably affordable selection of meditation, yoga, and related programs, all designed to promote and ensure the betterment of peoples cognitive and physiological wellness is available. 

I consider WMYC and what I have learned and now practice via meditation to be a key differentiator in maintaining my ‘real age’ well younger than my chronological age. Additionally, I am more centered, less bothered by the daily trials and tribulations of life that seem to adversely affect my contemporaries and in general I am significantly more optimistic than most. 

WMYC is a key enabler to leading a healthier, more fulfilled, longer and overall better quality of life.---Thomas Colavecchio, October 2022 

Inner Peace is World Peace

Scientific research supports this statement with a highly controlled experiment in Washington DC in 1993 when a significant statistical reduction in violence (as measured by FBI Uniform Crime Reports) occurred during an approximate 2 month period during which 2500 meditators gathered and meditated in the metropolitan area. Numerous other studies in the 1980's, including one by a RAND corporation think tank arrived at similar conclusions. The RAND study, repeated 3 times over 2 years showed worldwide terrorism was reduced by 72% when nearly 8,000 meditators focused on world peace and coherence.