Mission | Board | Finances

The Iyengar Yoga Association of Greater New York

The Iyengar Yoga Association of Greater New York was formed by a dedicated and inspired group of teachers and practitioners in 1987 as a regional arm of the Iyengar Yoga National Association of the United States.  Our aims were threefold: to support the teaching of Iyengar yoga throughout our four-state area, to establish a central place for study and teaching that would embody the highest standards of a transformational practice of yoga, and to connect our practitioners with others in the United States and throughout the world and to the source of our inspiration, B.K.S. Iyengar, our teacher.

Meet the Board of the Iyengar Yoga Association of Greater New York

Our Board of Directors is responsible for setting Association policy in fulfillment of the IYAGNY mission. The Board meets quarterly. Members’ recommendations for Association development are welcomed and should be communicated to board or senior staff members listed below. 

Alexander Vreeland, President

Sylvia Kier, Vice President

Sylvia is a former financial manager at CBS Television Stations and marketing director at Columbia University. She has practiced yoga for 10 years and completed her yoga certification at Yoga Shanti in 2004.

Joe Talamo, Treasurer

Julia Shaida, Secretary

Julia is certified at Teacher-in-Training level, 2007, and traveled to Pune to study with the Iyengars in August of this year. She has written articles for the IYAGNY newsletter, and is co-founder of the Sutra Study Group at the Institute with Carrie Owerko.

Peter Berry

Nicole M. de Jesús

Judi Friedman

Christopher Lacovara

Seth Laderman

Gayle Miranda

Gayle is a diplomat of the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. She has a private practice in New York City and is the Assistant Chief of the Dental Service at the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System. She holds faculty positions at the Bellevue Hospital Center and the New York University College of Dentistry. Gayle has been studying Iyengar Yoga since 2004.

Elizabeth Stanton

Adam Vitolo

Senior Staff

Ann McDermott-Kave, Executive Director

Ann is the first Executive Director of the Iyengar Yoga Association of Greater New York. Before joining the IYAGNY staff she was the Director of the OSI Pharmaceuticals Foundation. She previously served on the IYAGNY Board and Executive Committee. Ann is also an Iyengar Certified Yoga Teacher.

James Murphy, Association Director

James has been a tireless worker for the Association since it started. In addition to teaching full time in New York, he leads cultural yoga tours for Yoga Out There.

Advisory Board

Loren Fishman, M.D., B.Phil.

Anna Golfinopolous, Institute Faculty

Donna Karan

Frank Lipman, M.D.

Viren Mehta

Mira Nair

Diane von Furstenberg

Dalia Zwick, P.T., Ph.D.

Laura Shapiro Kramer, Advisory Board Chair

Financial Reports

The Iyengar Yoga Association of Greater New York is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. As such, we file an annual Federal Form 990 reporting our finances and our activities. Filed Forms 990 are available from the US Government. For your convenience, you can view the most recently filed IYAGNY Form 990 (for 2010) and our 2010 audited financial report with 2009 comparisons. The 2010-2011 Annual Report is also available for download.

You will see that membership dues are essential to further the mission of IYAGNY including sustaining the quality and diversity of Iyengar Institute programs. If you have not already done so, we hope you plan to join or to renew your membership for 2011.

If you have questions about our 2009 financial reports or would like to talk about extending your support of the Association, please call us at 212-691-9642. IYAGNY Executive Director Ann McDermott-Kave will be pleased to talk with you.

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