Welcome to LUMINOUSbody
est: 2007
Your Upper West Side NYC haven for group yoga and pilates mat classes, private sessions and international yoga retreats.
Online classes available for drop-ins and on demand from anywhere in the world!
Offerings
Jennifer Chin’s LUMINOUSbody practice is designed to help you unlock physical limitations that might inhibit your activity level and to empower you to move throughout your life with as much freedom as possible.
Whether its climbing a mountain, or getting up out of a chair, Jennifer will help you figure out how to move with ease and mechanical efficiency.
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Benefits can help address an individual’s specific needs. Useful for those with arthritis, chronic patterns, and injuries.
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Great for couples, or friends. It is helpful if both people are around the same level of practice.
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Hybrid in person and zoom. Open level, not for true beginners. Best suited for those who have some experience, and are relatively fit.
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Yoga
Based in the Hatha Lyengar tradition and influenced by Jen’s lifetime of dance training. Practice begins from a foundation in anatomy, learning how to touch base with your body each day, and gain a deeper sensory awareness that supports you to reorganize patterns of movement, muscular and structural imbalances and create more strength and tone.
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Pilates
Mat classes are designed to develop core strength using the neutral spinal alignment.
Jennifer Chin has been teaching movement since 1990. While still a young dancer, she began teaching children at the local dance studio, then moved on to the professional dance world. As an instructor in the historic Humphrey-Limón Technique, she has been on faculty at The José Limón Institute, Peridance Center, Dancespace Center, and Montclair State University. Master classes have been taught in Arizona, Finland, Italy, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
Jennifer’s yoga practice began in 1997, studying with Dharma Mittra, from whom she received her Yoga Teaching Certification. In 2003 she was introduced to the Iyengar Yoga method and began studying embodied anatomy with Genny Kapuler, all of which has greatly influenced her teaching and way of life. She has taught Embodied Anatomy for Dancers at Montclair State University, The Limón Institute and the Martha Graham School.
Jennifer’s introduction to Pilates was with Kathy Grant, one of the first teachers of the technique, at NYU, and used the method to rehabilitate her numerous dance injuries. She has taught Pilates at Groundfloor Exercise and Brooklyn College.
For more info on Jennifer’s dance and choreographic work go to Jenniferchindance.com