Welcome back, ILLUMINE readers! Thank you for your glowing praise of our premier issue and your additions and clarifications, mostly to our “Timeline of yoga in Chicago,” intended as a sampling of the countless groundbreaking activities and notable participants within our community over the decades. Here are the responses and additions we received and corrections:
Timeline of yoga in Chicago
Additions:
1998 Sharyn Galindo adds Yoga program at class schedule at So Fun To Do
2002/2003 So Fun To Do renames to North Shore Yoga & Fitness
2001 Niyama Yoga opens in Winnetka
2006 North Shore Yoga moves to Northfield
2009 North Shore Yoga opens in Evanston
2013 North Shore yoga opens in Bannockburn
Readers suggested to add:
–Kriya Yoga Temple (ca. 1960s)
–Nancy Donenfeld, MA, Chicago Yoga Institute (ca. 1970s)
We were emailed by longtime Chicago resident and yoga practitioner Isabel Raci, who highlighted the Temple of Kriya Yoga, which was founded nearly 50 years ago and has been in its current Lincoln Square location since 1978. We did intend to include the temple in our timeline, but unfortunately we had difficulty connecting with anyone there to confirm facts and dates. “Kriya Yoga Temple is an institution in Chicago and a training center for many of our current teachers,” Isabel said. “It represents an earlier decade but it also represents today.” We completely agree!
Isabel also shared: “My first formal classes were taught by Nancy Donenfeld, M.A., at the Chicago Yoga Institute in the 1970s. She had a great studio and devoted following at Clark and Fullerton in Lincoln Park. … I have studied with many yoga teachers over the years including local and national celebrities, and Nancy continues to be one of the best teachers I’ve experienced.”
Thanks to Isabel for sharing with us, and we invite everyone else to message us on Facebook if there are others who you think deserve public acknowledgment for their contributions!
Niyama Yoga, opened Jan 7, 2002- same location for the last 12 years, the first class was held on December 17 2001.
Submitted by Mac McHugh
Are you aware of the role that Suddha Weixler at N.U. Yoga (now the Chicago Yoga Center) had in bringing Ashtanga to Chicago? Suddha went to Mysore to learn Ashtanga in 94, 95, and 96. He brought Ashtanga to the City of Chicago and was teaching it, both led Primary and Mysore, in his center in 94, 95, 96 and beyond. He brought Richard Freeman, David Swenson, Dena Kingsburg, Karen Haberman, and David Roche and many other senior Ashtanga teachers to his center. We all used to practice there – Mary Klonowski, Cara Jepsen, Michael McColly, Bill Shapleigh, Lisa Hill, Daren Friesen, Jodi Blumstein, and Maureen Bogacz. Cara, Mary, Lisa, Daren, Bill, myself have done Suddha’s Teacher Training (back in the days before there was even a Yoga Alliance :), and many of us taught there. Suddha was authorized by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois to teach Ashtanga yoga.
Jodi used many of the same formats that Suddha was using and offered a few Mysore and led Primary Series classes at different times of the day and days of the week, and put them into a new neighborhood. Jodi finally went to Mysore in 2002.
The first 6 day a week Mysore practice was at Moksha Riverwest and at Yogawerks Chicago, a studio I ran with Chad Satlow from summer 2002 to summer 2003, at 1310 N. Clybourn Ave., Chicago, IL , after I had been to Mysore in 96, 97, 98, 99, and 2000 and was authorized by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois to teach Ashtanga yoga. Chad taught at 6am. to 8a.m. and I taught at 8a.m. to 10a.m. One of my students was an Olympic Gold Medalist in Ice Hockey, Sarah Tueting. On July 8, 2003, I opened my own studio, Yoga Now, with 6 days a week Mysore at 5852 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL. On March 25, 2006, I moved the main studio downtown to 742 N. LaSalle, Chicago, IL. We have hosted David Williams, Eddie Stern, Lino Miele, and Peter Sanson to help bring the Ashtanga teachings to Chicago
Submitted by Amy Beth Treciokas
Other additions and corrections:
- The text accompanying artist Amrit Dangol’s illustration was written by Siddhartha V. Shah.
- The Sanskrit depicted in “Common Sanskrit terms” and the illustrated Devanagari in “A child stargazer”—both by Jim Kulackoski. Bramha should read:
- The printed Devanagari on page 16 was “lost in transmission” and unfortunately it depicted text does not reflect any meaning. We regret the error, which was rectified online on Oct. 17.
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