About
Brahmani Liebman is a yoga and meditation teacher with over 40 years of practice experience. She is faculty at the Kripalu School of Yoga & Ayurveda and co-creator of JOURNEY INTO YOGA, a Yoga Alliance-registered school offering 200 and 300 hour teacher trainings. She co-created the Kripalu Yin Yoga Teacher Training and has taught at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. Her training includes studies with Sylvia Boorstein, Sharon Salzberg, Erich Schiffman, and Sarah Powers. She integrates Kripalu Yoga, Yin Yoga, Buddhist meditation, and Reiki in her teaching. She previously founded and directed The Rivertown Center for Yoga & Health in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
Teaching focus
Brahmani Liebman's teaching focus sits inside contemporary contemplative practice, with Kripalu yoga and meditation as the working ground. The teaching is shaped by the silent-retreat container, with the long arcs and the sustained quiet that container makes possible. Across the body of work, the consistent thread in Brahmani Liebman's teaching is the refusal to let practice become abstract. The instruction asks for direct contact with what's actually arising, and the framing supports practitioners in giving it that. Recurring questions in the teaching include how to keep practice honest across years, how to hold difficulty without bypassing it, and how the dharma actually shows up in ordinary life rather than only on the cushion. Recurring questions in the teaching include how to keep practice honest across years, how to hold difficulty without bypassing it, and how the dharma actually shows up in ordinary life rather than only on the cushion. Recurring questions in the teaching include how to keep practice honest across years, how to hold difficulty without bypassing it, and how the dharma actually shows up in ordinary life rather than only on the cushion. Recurring questions in the teaching include how to keep practice honest across years, how to hold difficulty without bypassing it, and how the dharma actually shows up in ordinary life rather than only on the cushion.
Background
Brahmani Liebman is a yoga and meditation teacher with over 40 years of practice experience. She is faculty at the Kripalu School of Yoga & Ayurveda and co-creator of path INTO YOGA, a Yoga Alliance-registered school offering 200 and 300 hour teacher trainings. She co-created the Kripalu Yin Yoga Teacher Training and has taught at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. Her training includes studies with Sylvia Boorstein, Sharon Salzberg, Erich Schiffman, and Sarah Powers. She integrates Kripalu Yoga, Yin Yoga, Buddhist meditation, and Reiki in her teaching. She previously founded and directed The Rivertown Center for Yoga & Health in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Brahmani is co-creator of path INTO YOGA School of Yoga & Meditation, a nationally registered Yoga Alliance School (YAS), which offers 200 & 300 hour trainings, workshops and yoga and meditation retreats worldwide. Brahmani brings over 40 years of exploration, studies and experience in yoga, meditation, consciousness & complementary healing modalities. She has studied and taught yoga and meditation with some of America's Master teachers in Yoga & Buddhist meditation including Sylvia Boorstein & Sharon Salzberg. Her practice & teaching were also influenced by her studies and trainings with Erich Schiffman & Sarah Powers. She has integrated the teachings and practices of Kripalu Yoga, Yin Yoga and Buddhist studies. Her training as a Transcendental Reiki Master and teacher, certified Phoenix Rising Yoga therapist and certified Multi-Dimensional Living Counselor and her lifelong arc of awakening informs her work with groups and individuals. Brahmani Liebman's teaching is anchored at Spirit Rock. The teaching draws from contemporary contemplative practice, with Kripalu yoga and meditation as the working ground. Areas of particular focus include in-person, retreat. Brahmani Liebman's teaching is shaped by the lineages they trained in and by the actual practice questions of the people who keep coming back. The voice is grounded, the framing is practical, and the instruction asks for honest engagement rather than performance. Practitioners drawn to Brahmani Liebman's teaching tend to be people who've already noticed that practice is a long arc, not a quick fix, and who want a teacher who treats it that way. Practitioners drawn to Brahmani Liebman's teaching tend to be people who've already noticed that practice is a long arc, not a quick fix, and who want a teacher who treats it that way. Practitioners drawn to Brahmani Liebman's teaching tend to be people who've already noticed that practice is a long arc, not a quick fix, and who want a teacher who treats it that way.
Lineage
Brahmani Liebman teaches within contemporary contemplative practice. Brahmani Liebman, MSEd, ERYT-500, loves to share the teachings and practices that have transformed her own life. She is on faculty of the Kripalu School of Yoga & Ayurveda, having brought the 200 hour teacher training to Kripalu Center, Japan and California. As part of the 1000 faculty she co-created the Kripalu Yin Yoga Teacher Training. She has studied and taught yoga and meditation with some of America's Master teachers in Yoga & Buddhist meditation including Sylvia Boorstein & Sharon Salzberg. Current affiliation runs through Spirit Rock. Brahmani Liebman teaches as a lay practitioner rather than from a monastic role.
What to expect
On retreat with Brahmani Liebman you'll get long sits, walking practice, and dharma talks that build on each other across days. The container is silent or near-silent, which gives the teaching room to land in a way that single classes can't quite reach. The atmosphere is grounded rather than performative, and practitioners tend to leave with practical ground to keep working from on their own. The atmosphere is grounded rather than performative, and practitioners tend to leave with practical ground to keep working from on their own. The atmosphere is grounded rather than performative, and practitioners tend to leave with practical ground to keep working from on their own.
