“When experiencing this absolute true knowledge [of the reality of the present moment], all previous samskaras (patterns) are left behind and new ones are prevented from sprouting” 

Yoga Sutra I.50

Hari Om dear yoga students,

The Sanskrit word, samskara, translates as a subconscious impression.  Samskaras are deep seeded patterns that our mind continues to play over and over again.  It is the thoughts, impressions and memories that we have acquired over our lifetimes that create conditioned responses and eventually become our habits. When we feel stuck in our lives or continue to approach situations the same way over and over again, hoping for different results, it is often due to our samskaras.   Obsessions and compulsions have their root in the samskara of past conditions, but they can also produce positive tendencies, like committing to meditate or practice yoga everyday.

  As we step on our mat, do our pranayama or sit on our meditation cushion, we face ourselves from the inside.  The stillness within the movement of thoughts breaths or postures help to create space in between our impulses and actions.   The creative art of detaching from our negative patterns allows us to make those much needed changes in our lives to flow freely and passionately in the direction we wish to go.

Yoga this Week

Please contact me via text or email to attend class in person! Classes are limited to 5 students. 

Monday Morning Meditation 9:45am

 1045am Monday Morning Chair Yoga

9:30 am Tuesday Morning Class

 645pm Wednesday Night Yoga

9:30am Friday Morning Gentle 

One spot still open for our Spring Day Retreat. Contact me if you are interested!

Namaste

Amy

I apologize for last minute….but we resume meditation Monday next week!

Namaste

Amy

Saucha is the first niyama listed in the 2nd limb of Patanjali’s eight limb path. I look at the placement of this ethical practice as paving the way for the other niyamas to open our hearts and minds to transformation or better to say, coming home to who we always were. It is learning to clear the clutter, externally and internally, so we can have the space to breathe and allow ourselves to grow.

Saucha is learning to respect our bodies by feeding it wholesome food and keeping it clean and healthy; it is keeping our environment clear of clutter and toxins as well as purifying the mind of negative thinking and old ways of being. Saucha is practicing cleanliness and wholesomeness in all areas of our life to live as vital, healthy, positive and pure as we can to honor our spiritual journey hear on earth.

Yoga this Week

Please contact me via text or email to attend class in person! Classes are limited to 5 students. 

Monday Morning Meditation 9:45am

 1045am Monday Morning Chair Yoga

9:30 am Tuesday Morning Class

 645pm Wednesday Night Yoga

9:30am Friday Morning Gentle 

ONLY ONE SPOT open for your Spring Awakening Retreat for Goddesses only. 930 to 5pm on March 19th. Click https://myyogawithamy.com/spring-awakening-retreat-march-19-2022/ for more info.

Hari Om Dear Yoga Students,

“Santosha, or the practice of contentment, is the ability to feel satisfied within the container of one’s immediate experience” 

Donna Farhi 

Feeling satisfied within the container of one’s immediate experience means to meet the present moment with a fresh perspective and open up to everything it has to offer.  Satisfaction combines the energies of acceptance and gratitude.  Contentment is not based on what you think you need to be satisfied, but more a sense of gratitude for what you already have. Santosha is, in a broader sense, about being content with your loved ones; not trying to change or coerce them to be something other then that who they are, loving them unconditionally. The ability to feel satisfied within the container of your immediate experience comes when you allow your expectations to fade and your perceptions to clear enabling you to become empty of past impressions or expectations;   this is the practice of yoga, this is the practice of Santosha.

Yoga this Week

Please contact me via text or email to attend class in person! Classes are limited to 5 students. Mask required to enter and can be removed once you are on your mat.

Monday Morning Meditation 9:45am

 1045am Monday Morning Chair Yoga

9:30 am Tuesday Morning Class

 645pm Wednesday Night Yoga

9:30am Friday Morning Gentle 

Still a few spots open for your Spring Awakening Retreat for Goddesses only. 930 to 5pm on March 19th. Click https://myyogawithamy.com/spring-awakening-retreat-march-19-2022/ for more info.

** Monday Morning 9:45am Meditations are Back – Please register through the North Shore Public Library by clicking Monday Meditations 

Greetings dearest friends

Letting go of fears is one of the hardest parts of walking this spiritual path.  If we hold on to fears of  the future, fears of mistakes we’ve made in the past, fears of not being enough, doing enough, we miss out on the beauty and sacredness of the present moment. When fear arises try and remind yourself that there is a divine plan at work. Ishvara pranidhana whispers a reminder to soften, relax, let go and trust there is a higher intelligence at work.  Feel the release as you breathe out. Embrace the now with all you’ve got for it is truly all we ever have.

Yoga this Week

Monday Meditations at 945am

 1045am Monday Morning Chair Yoga

9:30 am Tuesday Morning Class

 645pm Wednesday Night Yoga

9:30am Friday Morning Gentle 

Please contact me via text or email to attend class in person! Classes are limited to 5 students. Mask required to enter and can be removed once you are on your mat.

Still a few spots open for your Spring Awakening Retreat for Goddesses only. 930 to 5pm on March 19th. Click https://myyogawithamy.com/spring-awakening-retreat-march-19-2022/ for more info.

Namaste,

Back in foggy, chilly New York, but as they say…”There’s no place like home” Here is the link if you would like to join the Zoom Class for tomorrow. Let me know if you’d like to attend in person.

See you soon!

Amy

9:30am Friday Morning Gentle 

Hi everybody

I am still in Florida due to some scheduled changes so they’ll be no class tonight but there will be class on Friday morning at 9:30 AM

I hope you can join us

Namaste

Amy