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St. Marks Yoga is New York City's most popular yoga destination. We are located in the iconic landmarked loft building at 12 St. Mark's Place, in the heart of New York City's East Village..

Built in 1885, the building has hosted yoga classes since 1990 when Israeli yogi Henrick Kohan opened the New York Yoga Center in studio 2F. In 2003, Mr. Kohan returned to Tel Aviv to care for his aging mother, leaving the building open for new tenants. Several yoga instructors circulated through the space to carry on Mr. Kohan's legacy, but by March 2020 all had vanished.

The historic building was almost lost during the lockdown months of 2020 and 2021, but with the financial help of performance artists from Arts On Site, 12 St. Mark's Place was saved from resale.

By the middle of 2021 yoga classes had become an off-limits, almost-extinct practice found nowhere but through online live-streamed and pre-recorded videos. Eager to reclaim the counter-culture rebellion inherent in both traditional in-person yoga teachings and in the East Village neighborhood itself, a new group of yogis took control of 12 St. Mark's Place to begin a new storyline. On the morning of July 1st of that same year, Matthew Lombardo chanted Om and taught the first yoga class of St. Mark's Yoga and resuscitated the fading heartbeat of in-person yoga classes in New York City.

All are welcome here.