SKATEYOGI offers skateboarding classes for all ages in a fun, creative environment. What started in 2013 as a skateboarding class at a yoga studio for adult beginners has expanded to kids and now everyone can join the fun! Through skateboarding, SKATEYOGI aims to create a space where our differences are celebrated with peace and respect. SKATEYOGI has taught students as young as 1 to grown-ups (grandparents included).

Leadership

Co-Founders

Kevin 

Kevin can’t stop skateboarding. For over 25 years, the challenge, creative outlet, and community formed around skating has become a part of him. After moving to Brooklyn in 2005, he began practicing yoga and found this to be the perfect balance to his skateboarding. 

A graduate of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (SM in Environmental Health), Kevin is passionate about promoting a healthy and sustainable urban lifestyle for kids and adults. Through SKATEYOGI group classes, after school and camp programs, as well as skate trips all around the world, Kevin has shared his love of skateboarding and learning with thousands of students.​

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Yasuyo

Yasuyo works behind the scenes of SKATEYOGI, designing programs and overseeing day-to-day operations. Yasuyo holds a BFA in Communication Design from Massachusetts College of Art & Design. Yasuyo finds joy in nurturing a space that can be a fun, creative outlet and seeing people smile.

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SKATEYOGI's Core Values

High Fives!
We start and end our class with high fives to show each other’s respect and celebrate the moment we got to share – influenced by a zen concept known as Ichi-go Ichi-e: “Treasure every encounter, for it will never recur.” ​

Check Your Ego at the Door
We offer an ego-free zone for all our students regardless of their levels.

Keep Pushing!
As Master Yoda says, "The greatest teacher, failure is." Everyday we fall, get back up and continue learning. Skateboarding is a great lesson in resilience and perseverance.

Have fun! Be creative!
We encourage our students to think up something fun and defy convention. There are no rules. It’s all skateboarding!

Namaskate!
​Namaste is a phrase/gesture of pure compassion and recognition: that we bow to the true self inside each one of us. SKATEYOGI encourages skateboarders to be respectful and thankful to each other and the surrounding community. 
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