Exhale

Address:

Upper East Side

980 Madison Avenue between 76th + 77th
Phone Number: (212) 561-6400

Midtown

150 Central Park South between 6th + 7th
Phone Number: (212) 561-7400

Website: www.exhalespa.com

About Exhale
Exhale offers you an urban oasis bringing the highest quality, transformational mind body services into a unique spa setting, creating a sacred space of renewal for every day life. Our spa therapies and fitness classes are high quality, results-oriented and mindful, delivered in a serene and spiritual environment. Guests will be offered tea in the lobby lounge tea bar, have access to fully appointed changing rooms with showers and steam, and can rind respite in the tranquil, modest quiet lounge.

The Name
The breath connects the mind to the body. The breath is the principal life force of the human body, the center of our thoughts, our emotions and our physical prowess. Breathing shapes and molds our existence and helps to bring about the changes we see in ourselves.

We use the breath to mindfully live in the present and journey through discomfort. We use the breath to surrender to a spa therapy, find balance in a yoga posture, sustain a challenging stretch or to move through a difficult exercise. It is this understanding of the breath's powerful influence on and the connection to the mind and body that led to the creation of exhale.

Like the breath, exhale is a path to transformation that is accessible on a daily basis and is part of day-to-day life. The exhale experience encompasses relaxation, wellness and fitness through yoga, Core FusionTM, spa therapies and healing modalities to enhance inner and outer wellbeing.

Enjoy your journey with us.

Philosophy

Exhale was a vision that became reality when we realized there was a need to bring high-quality, transformational mind body programming into the city spa setting; creating a destination spa experience that could be part of every day life. The core of exhale is a unique team of talented people with a genuine passion for helping people bridge the mind and body to improve inner and outer wellbeing.

Our philosophy is centered on the belief that the mind and body are connected and that we need to approach our wellbeing through a holistic means. Our fitness classes integrate results-producing holistic movement systems to tone and reshape the body. Our spa therapies are all remedy focused. The body services are effective and therapeutic in nature. Our skin treatments are based on advanced skin care techniques that promote visible results.

Core FusionTM

Proprietary to exhale, Core FusionTM is known as a transformational fitness experience because it allows you to work from the inside out and it consistently delivers results. This highly publicized mind body class is known to give you washboard abs, a tighter and higher backside, and a perfectly toned body. Named by New York Magazine as one of the city's best fitness classes, Core FusionTM is a one-hour class which fuses the disciplines of core conditioning, Pilates, yoga and orthopedic stretching produces long, lean muscles, a flexible, youthful body and a sense of peace and relaxation.

The brainchild of Fred DeVito and Elisabeth Halfpapp, this program has grown to over 4,000 dedicated students in one year because it is an intelligent and effective program. The class includes body shaping, sports conditioning, and injury prevention in a highly charged environment with motivating music. Core FusionTM uses your own body weight as resistance, standing barre work for alignment and posture, floor work for core and spinal strength, Pilates, yoga postures, orthopedic stretches and a savasana (relaxation session) at the conclusion. The class efficiently weaves an interval training pace with single-minded focus on detailed positioning that produce fast results.

Core FusionTM is adaptable to people of all levels of fitness and we offer basic classes for beginners and first-time clients, as well as intermediate and open classes for all levels. All Core FusionTM instructors are highly individually trained by Fred and Elisabeth through ongoing class monitoring and workshop meetings.

Yoga

Namaste

Exhale as you enter our yoga sanctuary. Unwind as you sip a revitalizing tea and open your senses. Listen to your body and soul. Inhale and begin the transformational journey that is yoga.

The yoga program at exhale is a breath-centered exploration of the art of yoga - to energize, renew and deepen the connection to our vital energy - prana. As a universal system of wellbeing and unification based upon nature and rooted in over 5,000 years of refinement, yoga is a practice and way of life for all ages, conditions and needs. We offer a spectrum of styles, levels and rhythms in our studio sanctuary. Exhale's signature style is known as "Transformational Vinyasa Flow Yoga" - a flowing class that integrates breath and movement, inner and outer alignment, strength and flexibility accompanied by music for a rejuvenating and balancing effect. Our classes are ritual journeys that respond to the changing needs of urban life by infusing the highest quality of instruction with a transformative approach to yoga based on three rasas or primary energetic rhythms:

Vira - a challenging, vigorous, strength-based solar class

Sama - the path of balance, vitality and tranquility - our solar/lunar class

Shanti - peaceful, meditative, stress- transforming - our lunar class

Our classes allow you to navigate not only the level of instruction and challenge of a class but also the energetic state (rasa) that will most balance your being and complement your retreat at exhale. Our teachers are skilled at offering mixed-level classes giving each person the opportunity to develop at his or her own pace. We emphasize a safe and intelligent approach to yoga that also serves the meditative flow of your yoga practice.

All of the teachers at exhale infuse their personal expertise, connection to yoga and creativity into our transformational vinyasa flow yoga classes, guided by exhale's Creative Yoga Director, Shiva Rea. We also offer classes in Power Astanga Yoga and Yogic ArtsTM by acclaimed teachers Beryl Bender Birch and Duncan Wong.

In addition to our yoga program, we offer some of the most effective and creative yoga experiences in town. Our yoga retreats and workshops create a yoga sanctuary for transformation without traveling far from home, and when you are ready for a yogadventure, we offer retreats across the globe. In 2004, we will be hosting some of the world's finest teachers at exhale including, Baron Baptiste, Beryl Bender Birch, Ana Forrest, Gurmukh Khalsa, Teresa Elliot, Saul David Raye, Shiva Rea, Max Strom, and Duncan Wong.

Exhale's yoga studios are an urban oasis for the transformational experience of yoga. Our yoga experience nourishes your senses:

Taste Enjoy a nourishing tea before class with sensual herbs and flavors

Sight Beautiful colors, serene altars and mandalas which change according to the energy of class

Scent Inhale the subtle aromatherapy infused through our yoga rooms (real essential oils - no incense)

Sound The music in our classes is a curated selection of timeless grooves and chants to energize and enhance the flow of yoga

Touch Our teachers are trained to give beneficial hands-on adjustments to take your yoga experience to the next level; our classes end an Ananda Shavasana with massage, aromatherapy and bolsters.

Spa Therapies

Exhale's spa therapies are high quality, results-oriented and mindful, delivered in a serene and spiritual environment. Guests will be offered tea in the lobby lounge tea bar, have access to fully appointed changing rooms with showers and steam, and can find respite in the tranquil, modest quiet lounge.

Our skincare program fuses advanced clinical approaches with holistic healing and a caring touch to help you achieve faster results, while allowing you to leave feeling healed and relaxed. Our body therapies are all remedy focused and provided by practitioners that are devoted to healing and enhancing overall wellbeing. Our healing and medical therapies are delivered by licensed acupuncturists, board certified dermatologists, licensed estheticians, dental practitioners and licensed massage therapists.

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