Northeastern offers a free daily yoga class every afternoon inside Ell Hall during the spring and fall semesters. No registration or experience is required.
A free, daily 45-minute yoga class.
At 4 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, during the fall and spring semesters, in the Sacred Space at 200 Ell Hall, 346 Huntington Ave., Boston.
“Anyone affiliated with Northeastern in any capacity can come to these sessions,” including students, faculty and staff, says Sagar Rajpal, associate director of Northeastern’s Center for Spirituality, Dialogue and Service.
“Every Thursday at 3 p.m. EST, we offer yoga online on our YouTube channel,” Rajpal says.
If you can’t catch it live, you can follow the recorded sessions posted on the channel, he says.
“It’s led by our mindfulness fellows, or, as we lovingly call them, ‘mellows,’” Rajpal says.
The five yoga ‘mellows’ on the Boston campus include students, staff and faculty, all of whom are trained and certified to practice yoga.
“You don’t have to carry anything,” Rajpal says. “We provide everything — mats, cushions and blocks.”
Wear comfortable, loose clothing and be prepared to take off your shoes, he says.
“There is no registration required,” Rajpal says. “You can just walk in any day.”
No experience is required. Any level of yoga practitioner, including beginners, can join.
Yoga has been proved to help practitioners deal with stress and improve focus, Rajpal says.
Students move through physical poses called asanas and also incorporate aspects of meditation into their practice.
“We make sure that the yoga we practice here in the Sacred Space involves the union of body, mind and spirit,” Rajpal says.
“I come at least twice per week,” says Patricia Jumpp, who is studying for a master’s degree in applied qualitative methods and social analysis.
“It’s forgetting everything outside the walls and just focusing on why you’re here and training your mind to be present in the moment,” she says. “I feel comfortable in this space.”