I started practicing yoga regularly in 2017 after receiving a shocking cancer diagnosis right after graduating college. I was feeling lost, scared, and wholly disconnected from my body. Yoga was a tool for me to reconnect with my body, appreciate and accept the changes that were happening to it, and to move in ways that empowered me. I learned what it meant to self-regulate and truly listen to what my body and mind needed since it was so different day to day and changed over time. I have been in remission since 2018 and yoga continues to weave its way into all aspects of my life. It has ..read more

I got into yoga back in high school. My dad and I would go to classes together on the weekends. Yoga was always a constant for me throughout all transitional times in my life. From high school to college, college to adulthood, and all the small moments in between. Through all chapters of my life I have been able to lean on the practice. Before I even knew what “taking the seat of the teacher” meant, I was doing just that. My personal yoga journey has grown immensely over the years. To reflect on where I started, where I am now, and what I have yet to discover in this life long journey of lear ..read more

Elizabeth Zack Many of you know Elizabeth Zack; it’s likely she was your kids’ kindergarten teacher! An inspiring educator, yoga teacher, and sound healer, Elizabeth has been practicing yoga for nearly 20 years—many of them right here at Three Queens! What some may not know is that Elizabeth is a certified children’s yoga instructor and lead teacher trainer for Yoga Child’s 95-Hour Kids Yoga Training. We are thrilled that Elizabeth will be anchoring a Kids Training here at Three Queens starting in February. We’ve asked Elizabeth to share the power of kids' yoga, discuss parenting, and highlig ..read more

In today’s fast-paced, always-connected world, our lives are often filled with constant notifications, messages, and the pressure to stay online. This relentless connectivity can make it challenging to find moments of true stillness and peace. However, stepping into a yoga studio offers a rare and valuable opportunity to unplug from the outside world, allowing us to center ourselves and focus entirely on the present moment. It’s a chance to disconnect from distractions and reconnect with our inner selves, fostering a sense of calm and balance. At our studio, we are deeply committed to creatin ..read more

How did you first get into yoga? My mom took me to my first yoga class when I was home from college the first or second summer. It was slow, intentional, and inwardly oriented– very similar to how I teach now. And, to be honest, I…really disliked it. Lying quietly in a room full of random people felt….so weird. It wasn’t until I moved to California and was looking for a way to move my body and find social connection, that I found a very athletic, hot, very fast paced, physically demanding class. You’d be pretty hard pressed to find me in an asana class like that these days but it was just rig ..read more

Throughout my life, I was always taking dance classes, ballet throughout childhood and college, to house classes at Urban Movement Arts in Philly and Koresh Dance studio, moving my body was always a tether throughout all of my jobs. In 2010, I stepped into my first yoga class in the city, and got a taste of everything this practice had to offer, from the asana practice, to the breathwork, to the ease it gave me after each class I would take. My yoga practice has been my longest relationship and seen me through every phase of my life and it truly is the gift and anchor that keeps on givin ..read more

© Joanna Nowalk Photography Shivaratri, also known as "the Great Night of Shiva," is a festival celebrated in honor of Lord Shiva, observed this year on March 8, with spiritual and cultural significance for millions of devotees worldwide. Shiva is revered as the embodiment of divine consciousness in our yoga tradition¹ and represents the innermost Self and the principle of pure awareness. His iconography, with a third eye symbolizing inner vision and a serpent representing primal energy, signifies mastery over the mind and the awakening of embodiment. Shiva embodies the path to spiritual libe ..read more

Creator: Jauhien Sasnou I have been thinking a lot about consent and how, as yoga practitioners, the conversation around consent has evolved. Twenty-three years ago, when I was first unrolling my yoga mat, no one asked if I wanted a physical adjustment in an asana pose- it was just given. There was no practice of creating a container with community agreements before a teacher training weekend, and now there is. Rarely did anyone ask, "what is safe," "what is valid," or " does this affirm" instead, in many yoga traditions, the teacher held the knowledge, and you, the practitioner, accepted it ..read more

Hoping to share yoga with your friends and family? Here’s how to gift yoga at Three Queens through e-gift cards! Visit our Gift Card page (great for gifting flexibility with a dollar amount) or Passes page (great for gifting a specific pass*, like our 10 class card!) Select the pass you’d like to gift by clicking the “add to cart” button. This will bring you to “your cart” page. On this page select “add gift option” and checkout. Fill out recipient’s name and email. And if you’d like a specific delivery date choose your preferred date under “Deliver on” and checkout! *Note: Gift opt ..read more

I've been an athlete and student all of my life and yoga is another expression of both for me.   I came to the physical asana more than a decade ago after a really, really bad shoulder injury and follow up surgery  and I just wasn't 100% but the general medical and insurance community told me I was "functional" but that wasn't good enough for me.  Luckily I had a great surgeon and pt and both recommended I try yoga to open up my shoulder and I was immediately hooked.  I followed Alex Holmes from gym yoga to Three Queens Yoga which led me to ask Mariel and Erick how to ..read more