welcome
I created Body Lab By Lily as a meta community to work out our bodies, minds, and creative practices. The focus is inclusive – for those who want to sweat, study consciousness and anatomy, question perceived limits, or are curious to marry self-care with activism.
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I draw from a professional dance career, decades working as a multidisciplinary artist, experience with injury, a rigorous personal yoga practice, and 20+ years of leading private and group classes.
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My classes are an amalgam of body-tech, sourcing ancient wisdom and contemporary modalities that include hatha, vinyasa and kundalini yogic traditions, chi-gong and Chinese Medicine principles, core stabilization techniques, functional anatomy, alongside spiritual tenets from Indian, Zen and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. Class themes source conceptual investigations from artists such as Anne Carson, David Lynch, and Hilma af Klint.
I share what works for me in conversation with you. Ultimately you are your own curator. Bodies don’t lie!
Yours truly,
Lily
bio
Lily Baldwin is a Peabody Award-nominated filmmaker, performer and artist. The body has always been her lens and risk a primary tool.
Lily received her first E-RYT 500 yoga certification in 2004 specializing in therapeutics, followed by a Pilates Mat certification, a Zero Balancing certification, studies with kinesthetic anatomist Irene Dowd and a Kundalini training in 2020. She taught yoga in sports clubs until co-founding Hatch NYC with Toni Melaas in 2006, where she managed a roster of teachers, leading individual and group classes ranging from law firms, hedge funds, nonprofits, arts and entertainment businesses. Lily's eclectic client base includes stunt doubles, dancers, triathletes, those with desk jobs, living with MS, with prosthetics, and navigating injury prevention and recovery.​
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She has performed with The Metropolitan Opera Ballet, the Trisha Brown Dance Company, David Byrne on his world tour with Brian Eno, among other NYC choreographers including Netta Yerushalmy, Faye Driscoll, David Neumann, and Annie-B Parson.
In 2017, a sudden neurological injury significantly immobilized Lily for two years. Navigating pain and hip replacement recovery deeply informs her teachings as well as her penchant for neuroscience and mysticism.
