LILA YOGA is a holistic vinyasa practice that aligns body, breath & intentions. In postures we explo
Welcome to Lîla Yoga Studios --a center for yogic learning in the Lîla Yoga tradition. We offer daily classes for all levels -- asana yoga postures classes, meditation, workshops, kirtans, and contact improvisation.
06/10/2026
How do you commune with the universal energy?
“We are impacted by the energy we absorb. In turn we affect those energies as they move through us”
“We enter the realm of yoga-not by practicing alone on our mat, but by communing with universal energy on our mat”
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Part 5 of an article Erica has written and will be published in India
Words from a devoted Lila Yoga yogi
06/05/2026
“ I welcome you into your yoga practice
A time to open up beyond your schedule, to open up beyond what society and culture imprints on you
The social and culture say these imprints are important, but within your yoga practice, you recognize that there’s more
You are part of nature, you are part of the seasons, you are part of the time of day, you are part of the moon cycles
We are part of it all”
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Part 4 of an article Erica has written and will be published in India
Notes from a devoted Lila Yoga yogi
We are one…from FINITE to INFINITE…from INDIVIDUALITY to INDIVISIBILITY 🌀
“Even if just momentarily, surrendering the individuality for the indivisibility. Surrendering and sacrificing are similar here. Sacrificing as a word actually means making sacred. So as you surrender your individual limited mind stuff, and you open yourself to the indivisible universe, you entered the realm of yoga.
Feeling the blessings of surrendering into the true indivisible— a place beyond perceived limitations; a place of replenishment through surrender; a state of being that calms the mind and clears perspectives. Not by practicing alone on our mat, but by communing with universal energy on our mat.
This expanded awareness helps refresh our minds and put concerns into perspectives. It allows us to connect with larger rhythms and awarenesses and this helps us know that we are supported. It reassures and calms our nervous system. It’s a sort of cosmic seashell experience—a re-real-izing of ourselves as part of a whole…, codependent; intertwined; interconnected. And somehow all this has a uniquely refreshing effect as we re-enter our scheduled lives.
That’s what we can experience in yoga practice. And beyond physicality, that’s how it can affect us”
Words by Erica Kaufman
Notes from a devoted LilaYoga yogi
Clips captured at the magnificent IYF 2025
06/02/2026
In Honor of International Yoga Month…Let’s EXPLORE BEYOND the physical
🙌🏽What are we practicing in yoga?
🙌🏽And how does it affect us in our lives?
We are gifted with a tiny and critical part of the all within our limited consciousness
The yogi consciousness opens us up to the Lila…The larger rhythm of life
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Part 3 of an article Erica has written and will be published in India
Notes from a devoted Lila Yoga yogi
“We are gifted with a tiny and critical part of the all within our limited consciousness.
The trick is to realize that our individual schedule and our family and situations are not a full experience. The yogi consciousness opens us up to the Lila… The larger rhythm of life.
So as you practice yoga asana, let a fuller potential of the yoga postures be realized. Let each asana be like a seashell that you pick up on the beach and listen to. You get pleasure from listening to that particular sound in that particular moment, and for just a moment you and the seashell and that sound become one“
Words by Erica Kaufman
Clips captured at the IYF 2026 a place where the fuller potential of yoga is realized, explored, celebrated
05/31/2026
“I have experienced that we are part of an energy that it’s not only łïinfluenced by our thoughts and our emotions, but by currents of energy that intersect with us. We are impacted by the energy we absorb. Intern we affect those energies as they move through us, and as they travel onward and outward through space and time.
This is the LilaYoga relationship to prana within the yoga practice.
Each breath within your practice allows you to settle your mind and open your consciousness. Moving from the constrained thinking of familiar thought patterns into the surrender within the all.
By opening your consciousness beyond the familiar and surrendering into a state of trust and faith powered by perfectly balanced give-and-take… you begin to let go and receive. You start to experience yourselves as part of the all, and the all as part of each of you”
Part 2 of a series of words by Erica Kaufman
“We are one
From FINITE to INFINITE
From INDIVIDUALITY to INDIVISIBILITY
Even if just momentarily, surrendering the individuality for the indivisibility. Surrendering and sacrificing are similar here. Sacrificing as a word actually means making sacred.
So as you surrender your individual limited mind stuff, and you open yourself to the indivisible universe, you entered the realm of yoga.
Feeling the blessings of surrendering into the true indivisible— a place beyond perceived limitations; a place of replenishment through surrender; a state of being that calms the mind and clears perspectives. Not by practicing alone on our mat, but by communing with universal energy on our mat
Clip captured at the IYF 2025! Beautiful memories of yogi consciousness opening us up to the Lila…The larger rhythm of life!”
~Erica Kaufman
05/27/2026
In Honor of International Yoga Month…Let’s EXPLORE BEYOND the physical
🙌🏽What are we practicing in yoga?
🙌🏽And how does it affect us in our lives?
Our yoga practice can open opportunities to move from a pedestrian mind set to yogi consciousness—an awareness that expands to the entire cosmo
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Part 1 of an article Erica has written and will be published in India
Notes from a devoted Lila Yoga yogi
We are a body of time space energy and spirit in a multidimensional field of time space energy and spirit
Yoga helps us feel this truth
Clips captured at the International Yoga Festival 2025