Incorporating sound baths and breathwork, Move Ya Brass presents a summer series of wellness classes at NOMA throughout July and August! Led by instructor Kathleen Barry, these low-intensity classes invite participants to move inward and restore themselves this summer. Enjoy the AC and the creative energy throughout the museum.

SCHEDULE

July 11 | “Breathe, Move, and Rest” in NOMA’s Second-Floor Contemporary Art Galleries

July 18 | Breath & Brass: Breathwork

July 25 | Breathe, Move, and Rest

August 1 | Breath & Brass: Breathwork

August 8 | Breathe, Move, and Rest

August 15 | Breath & Brass: Breathwork

August 22 | Breathe, Move, and Rest

Please bring your own mat and towel.

The class is free with advanced registration. Please register before 3 pm the day prior to the session you would like to attend. Registration is required and space is limited.

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Please email programs@noma.org if you have to cancel your reservation. Registrants will be notified of how to enter the museum.

About Brass and Breath: Breathwork

This breathwork class for beginners is a gentle and accessible introduction to the practice of controlled breathing techniques. In a welcoming and supportive environment, participants are guided through various breathing exercises to promote relaxation, reduce stress, and enhance mindfulness. These classes often focus on teaching foundational breath patterns and incorporating them into easy-to-follow routines. Participants can expect a calm and nurturing atmosphere, making it an ideal starting point for those new to breathwork and looking to improve their overall well-being.

About Breathe, Move, and Rest

This relaxing hybrid class will reset your nervous system. These classes will combine breathwork, slow-flow yoga, and sound bowls to promote deep relaxation and breath. The exercise will begin with using safe and accessible breathing techniques to warm the lungs and body up, leading to gentle stretching and a light yoga flow. The exercise will conclude with a sound bowl demonstration that will create vibrations stimulating a theta wave brain state, leading to deep and conscious rest.

About Move Ya Brass 

Move Ya Brass Krewe is a fun and funky fitness program from New Orleans started by local jazz vocalist Robin Barnes. Offering free fitness classes around the city, you come to Move Ya Brass fitness classes as a stranger, but leave as family. The MYB mission is to promote a happy, positive, and healthy lifestyle, and to encourage celebrating our daily lives by taking you off the sidelines and into a New Orleans second line!

About the Instructor

Kathleen Barry has been teaching since 2018.In the words of Barry: “Yoga teaches me daily to be present with my breath and body and to find reverence for the little things. To explore discipline and freedom as co-existing necessities of living, and to always start from right now, this moment.”Barry does her best to honor yoga’s roots and lineage— the incredibly precise and relevant tools yoga offers to ameliorate our modern predicaments. 

Barry’s certifications include: Registered Yyoga teacher (RYT) 200-hour program, E-RYT 200,  RYT; Living Your Yoga Immersion with Judith Hanson Lasate; Laughing Lotus Advanced Bhakti Teacher Training 50 hour program in Rishikesh, India; Trauma Recovery Yoga (T.R.Y.) 20-hour program.