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Ronen Kauffman
yoga Meditation
Yoga, Meditation, and Social Emotional Learning
I’m Ronen Kauffman — a veteran special education teacher, yoga and meditation educator, and teacher trainer with over 25 years of experience helping people grow.
I’ve taught in public schools, yoga studios, corporate settings, government parks, and communities of all kinds — working with children and adults, beginners and advanced practitioners, reluctant learners and deeply committed ones alike.
My teaching is clear, accessible, practical, and grounded in real human experience. I help people build strong foundations, move forward with confidence, and take lessons from the mat into everyday life.
Offerings
I primarily teach vinyasa yoga – where breath guides movement – building strength, balance, and flexibility, but also confidence, resilience, capacity, self-love and so much more. From what people tell me, my classes are challenging and fun. Also, expect frequent reminders that we don’t do Yoga for the sake of making shapes with our bodies, and that yoga is a spiritual practice. I’m also certified to teach Yin Yoga and Children’s Yoga. I teach weekly, in studio and online at YogaRenew. Click here for my schedule – I hope to see you there!
Meditation is powerful – but easily misunderstood and often considered daunting. I offer a framework that demystifies meditation – a clear, functional, accessible understanding that can can be applied to one’s personal practice or their work as a yoga teacher. If you’ve ever said, “I would love to meditate, but I just get so distracted,” I’ve got you covered. Every week, students from all over the world join my “Meditation Notes & Discussion” class for YogaRenew, to study with me as we work with this topic. Contact me to talk about meditation training, and watch this space for exciting new offerings coming soon!
My work in yoga and meditation finds natural crossover with my 25 years as a Special Education classroom teacher. I’ve led SEL Professional Development workshops for teachers, special programming for students, and successfully infused movement, mindfulness and breath into my classroom instruction – with amazing outcomes. Do you want to know how SEL can boost student well-being, improve academic outcomes and promote a healthy school climate? Contact me!
For years, students have told me that my framing of meditation is a game changer. Over and over, I hear the same basic thing – some variation of “No one has ever explained it to me that way.” Over and over, students thank me for helping ot make meditation approachable and meaningful.
I wondered often, “How can I bottle this?”
SEAT combines 25 years of teaching expertise with my own lived experience. This is the bottle.
Because most meditation apps are basically Spotify for trying to calm down. Content libraries. No guidance.
SEAT is a tightly structured meditation training system. With a deep understanding of instructional design and a mission of making the benefits of meditation available to as many people as possible, I made SEAT to help guide you step-by-step into feeling like you not only understand meditation, but own it.
Nothing random,.
Prompts that are meaningful, practical, and easy to understand
Monitor your growth over time
Subcribe for access to live weekly meditation, monthly live classes, and direct 1:1 guidance.
Class Schedule
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Meditation Notes & Discussion
Wednesday
4:30 pm EDT
Live on zoom for YogaRenew YTT students
In studio at YogaRenew HQ – Hoboken, NJ
Live online on the YogaRenew app
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Wednesday
7:45 PM EDT
In studio at YogaRenew HQ – Hoboken, NJ
Livestream available on the YogaRenew app
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Friday
5:15 pm EDT
In studio at YogaRenew HQ, Hoboken
Livestream on the YogaRenew app
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I live in a place where it’s possible to walk for an hour without seeing even a scrap of grass. A densely populated, busy place. 🚴👬🏃🏽♂️But a few blocks from my place is this decommissioned reservoir, turned into a walkable urban oasis. Wedged quietly in the concrete grid, groundhogs and 🐢 turtles, birds 🐦⬛taking dust baths and a secret jungle packed into a 10-foot wide strip tracing a city block. 🌱If your nervous system could use some help, go touch some dirt and run away from a bee. Connect with nature every day. That’s yoga, too. #nature #connection #source #daily #practice
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Ok, you can do the arm balance - but what does that get you? Achievement will leave you flat if your heart isn’t anchored in the divine. ❤️ You want movement without the spiritual piece? Go to gymnastics. Go to CrossFit. That’s fine! When doing yoga asana, the spiritual piece IS the class, even if it looks like jumping around on a rubber rectangle. ❤️🔥 Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. 📸: @someshellyphotography #yoga #bhakti #yogateacher #koundinyasana #devotion
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Ever hear this Vandals song “Join Us for Pong”? Probably not but that’s what goes through my head when I think about this class! Last time was a *happening*. This time - more room, more spots, more time, and a whole online version just for folks on the app who can’t make it in person! 🤸🏻♀️ With deep reverence for classical postures, this class asks - what next? 🚨 Join us for pong. Link in my bio, reg open on the app now. #forbiddenasanaclub #forbiddenasana #yoga #yogi #workshop
YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE. 🔥We all say, “I’m just trying to get through life.” But peace is a decision, not something controlled by external forces. You have to win within. ❤️ No one is going to do this work for you - it’s yours. 🙏🏽 “For those who have conquered the mind, it is their friend. For those who have failed to do so, the mind works like an enemy.” Bg 6.6 ✨ Join me and @isaaabrand at @yogarenewhoboken for our incredible 200 hr YTT Summer Intensive! Link in bio, DM for details. #yoga #ytt #yogajourney #yogi #grateful
I just really like yoga. #yoga #yogi #partneryoga #inversion #reel
Your human experience is a gift you’ve been given - for the purpose of realizing that you are so much more than the costumes you wear, the roles you play, and the things that happen. 🧿 The yoga practice helps us to stop misidentifying ourselves with the temporary things we pick up and put down in this life, and instead remember that we are divine eternal spirit souls, here to learn and remember our true nature. ❤️📿🙏🏽 #yoga #yogateacher #practice #why #armbalance
Cruising toward 50 years old in a couple months and counting my damn blessings every moment. Look around, friends - you’re experiencing a cosmic reality, right now. *That* is abundance mentality. 🙏🏽 Thanks for following. All praise to my teachers. #yoga #love #devotion #surrender #abundance
Testimonials
real outcomes for real people
“Ronen has a beautiful way of making deep concepts feel simple, safe, and completely approachable. You not only understand meditation more, but genuinely feel like it belongs to you.”
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“Ronen’s knowledge, and clarity of sharing what he knows on this topic is immense. He breaks it down in ways that apply to daily life & how we want to live. He gives examples from his own life, and offers other examples many of us go through – how to look at, or react in ways that make us see how something that may be irritating can benefit us.”
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“Ronen teaches in a way that makes you realize you may already be touching meditation in your everyday life. His wisdom is not just studied, it’s lived, and you can feel that the moment he starts speaking.”
My work in yoga and meditation finds natural crossover with my 25 years working as a Special Education classroom teacher. Beyond leading SEL Professional Development workshops for my colleagues, I have successfully infused movement, mindfulness and breath into my classroom instruction – with amazing outcomes. Do you want to know how SEL can boost student well-being, improve academic outcomes and promote a healthy school climate? Contact me!
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