Kara
Gordon
Kara Gordon is a yoga, pranayama, and meditation teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. Coming to yoga over 10 years ago to deal with injuries resulting from years of overtraining as a competitive swimmer, she became enamored with the healing and restorative magic of yoga.
Location: OYH Studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn
Classes: The Aligned ONE
Kara
Gordon
Kara Gordon is a yoga, pranayama, and meditation teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. Coming to yoga over 10 years ago to deal with injuries resulting from years of overtraining as a competitive swimmer, she became enamored with the healing and restorative magic of yoga.
In the years since, yoga has become the practice of uniting the body, mind, and spirit together: teaching the different parts of herself to communicate and listen to each other, finding oneness.
She received her 200 hour teacher training at Yoga Vida, NYC in 2018 and continued her studies through their 300 hour program, focusing on restorative yoga and therapeutics, which she finished in 2020. Since then, she’s continued her studies with Nikki Costello, Amy Wolfe, and Rebecca Hajek. With the belief that yoga is a practice that meets each individual where they are, her classes are thoughtfully sequenced and Iyengar-inspired with pranayama woven through to encourage stilling the mind. She also teaches weekly virtual classes and private sessions.
Questions. Answers.
What are you most passionate about outside of yoga?
I come from an art and literature background and work as a type designer, so the short answer is storytelling. I love hearing the stories people tell themselves and the stories we tell each other, how we weave together narratives and tug at the threads. Right now I’m invested in stories from the Philippines, where my parents are from, and its diaspora.
Best advice you’ve ever been given?
Be comfortable being uncomfortable. I’m constantly working on it because I love being comfortable, but to me these words are also yoga in a nutshell.
Who are your most influential teachers (yoga and non yoga related)?
This is a long list, but my first teacher is and always will be my mother. She’s even the one who really encouraged my yoga practice as a teenager. My therapist. My partner. Yoga: Rebecca Hajek, Amy Wolfe, and Nikki Costello—their words show up in my practice and in my teaching frequently.