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Yoga this Week – May 16, 2015 – Wednesday Night Class Switched to Thursday Night this Week!!

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Greetings Dearest Yoga Students,

Have faith in your practice and the ability of your yoga to calm, nurture, enliven and release.  When we move our panic energy our practice through breath work, postures, chanting, and/or meditation we effect not only our physical bodies, but our emotional bodies as well.  Moving prana (life force energy) within ourselves allows us to be more open, more willing, more free to connect to that universal prana that is available for the taking and connects us to all beings everywhere.  In essence, it allows us to show up for ourselves and for others in our life.  Trust your yoga to move through you, all you have to do is show up and be present.  Your Yoga mat will catch you if you fall.

 

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Classes for this Week

Meditative Monday Evening 7:15pm

Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation to follow

Thursday Evening 7:15pm

Friday Morning Healing Yoga 9:30am

(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)

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Events-Workshops-Adventures

Click on this link for details:  https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/

Yoga Hike Sunday, May 31st

Friday, May 29th Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture with Essential Oils at Peconic River Yoga

June 6th at 1-4pm Join me and Donna Cogan as we co-facilitate  a very special workshop at the Long Island Yoga Association

 Shift your Prona – Exploring Vibrational Energy

http://www.LIYoga.org

 

Wednesday, June 10th Beach Yoga Begins

Thursday, June 11th Restorative Yoga, Reiki & Acupuncture in Rocky Point

Sunday June 28th Yoga and Kayaking

Yoga this Week – March 22, 2015

“When you experience yourself in stillness – that is, when you give your undivided attention to experiencing the truth about you – you will experience the conflict-free, calm, dynamic peace of perfectly centered abundant life energy”

                                               Eric Shiffman

 Greetings dearest yoga students,

Hoping this day finds you basking in the light of gratitude and surrender to what has materialized in your life.  Feel into your life as you feel into a yoga pose.  Align yourself to the spaciousness of all this moment has to offer.  Breathe in acceptance and breathe out love.   Feel into the stillness at the end of your next breathe and connect to your true self as you draw near to the present, the here and now.  Allow the act of being in your truth bring you a sense of calm and a realization, not that things will be okay, but that things are okay and wonderful already, right now as they are
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Yoga this Week

Meditative Monday Yoga 7:15pm

Tuesday Morning Yoga 930am with Meditation

Wednesday Evening Vinyasa Flow 7:15

Thursday NSPL Yoga and Mediation 10am

Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930am

(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed – Please Note Evening Classes require a minimum to run – Sign up by 4:30pm if you wish to attend)

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A special thank you to Yogagolic and Laurie Frey for having us at their studio this morning. It was a blast! Jim and Annalee, you were awesome!!

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Happenings

Click on this link to my Events Page for more info or to sign up:  https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/

Restorative Yoga, Reiki & Acupuncture with Essential Oils – Monday, March 30th

Payment due by 3/25 to secure your spot.  Still a few openings for this special event that replaces next Monday evening class.

Rocky Point Community Education Five Thursdays beginning April 16th

Yoga for Kids Grades 3 -6 at  4 to 4:45 – and Yoga for Teens Grades 6-12 at 5 to 6pm

Join me as I lead a chanting drum circle at the Long Island Yoga Association’s Wellness Fair on Saturday April 11th! 

It looks like an amazing day filled with everything wellness; including healthy food, acupuncture, massage, yoga, meditation and more!!

http://www.longislandyogaassociation.org/events.htm

Yoga Darshana Center’s Spring Renewal Retreat at Camp DeWolfe April 25th

Come for the day or stay overnight!  I will be teaching the Vinyasa class at 1030am  and leading Kirtan with my chanting band at 3:30

http://www.yogadarshanacenter.com/Springrenewalretreat.html

Equinox Yoga Retreat is now taking names for a wait list, it is unbelievably full already.  I apologize for those that did not get a change to sign up yet.  However, if you are interested, please get on the wait list as September is a long way away and if spots open up, you will have a chance to sign up.  One note to mention is that Dormitory Lodging means there are two large dorm rooms with bunk beds for sleeping. We are offering refunds to space holders as long as we can fill the spot.  Below are pictures of the Willard Lodge!

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Patio path Willard Lodge Fire Pit and View Willard Lodge

Stay Peaceful my Friends,

Namaste

Amy

Yoga This Week – March 1, 2015

“When experiencing this absolute true knowledge,
all previous samskaras (patterns) are left behind and new ones are prevented from sprouting” 
Yoga Sutra I.50
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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.  However, more importantly it allows us to look at our emotional patterns more like the weather around us; we are in the weather but we are not the weather.    The weather changes but we remain the same.  This compassionate awareness reminds us of an even more important point:  That we all feel the same feelings.  The patterns you struggle with are , most likely, the same as others in your life. Ultimately, becoming aware of your own samskaras expands your circle of compassion so you can reach out to others from a place of knowing.  Yoga is all about clearing ourselves so we can go out and help others.  What we heal in ourselves, we heal in the world.
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Yoga this Week

Meditative Monday at 715pm

Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation to follow class

Wednesday Evening Vinyasa 715pm

Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930am

(please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)

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Upcoming Classes/Events

Please click on the link for further details or to sign up for any event:  https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/

March 1st – Sign Up for NSPL Yoga & Meditation Thursday Mornings in March

March 22nd – Live Music & Asana Classes at Yogaholic

March 30th – Restorative Yoga, Reiki & Acupuncture with Essential Oils

September 18-21st – Equinox Yoga Retreat – Click on the link to sign up!!!  So excited about this.  Early Bird Price $245 by June 1st

https://myyogawithamy.com/equinox-yoga-retreat-2015/

Namaste and enjoy the snow!!!

Metta

Amy

 

 

 

Yoga this Week – January 25, 2015

****Please Note:  If the Blizzard hits the way they are predicting, of course, some classes will be cancelled****

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Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

Author Unknown

Greetings dearest yoga students,

How many times do we find ourselves “bent out of shape” when things don’t go quite the way we had planned.  Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be flexible enough to flow moment to moment in our life adjusting instead of reacting to the situations that occur?  Think about how much more peaceful life would be.  Sometimes all it takes is a step back, a moment or more of reflection to think about our part in the situation and to shift our focus on a solution instead of bringing all of our energies into the problem.  This does not mean allowing our personal boundaries to be crossed or negative behavior to continue in or around us.  It means taking a step back and being flexible enough, open enough to see the reality of what is happening.  To focus our desire on the truth and see where we can adjust and make changes so that we contribute to the solution.  Perhaps in some situations flexibility is simply moving towards acceptance of what we cannot change with compassion and love for all those involved, including ourselves. 

What if the only New Years Resolution we had was to simply love ourselves More?

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Classes this Week

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Maryhaven Yoga at the Port Jefferson Center at 5pm

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 Meditative Monday Evening at 7:15pm

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Tuesday Morning at 9:30am with Meditation to follow

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Wednesday Evening at 7:15pm

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No Friday Class this Week

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(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)

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Events and Workshops – Click on Link Below  for details

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February 4th at 7pm – Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture with Essential Oils currently has one spot open.  If you would like to attend please contact me directly.  Its going to be a good night!!

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Partner Yoga Class – Friday Night 6:30 -8pm February 20th

Join me and my good friend,  Lois Healion, RYT500,  for a special partner yoga class honoring our interconnectedness!

Class will conclude with a Chocolate Meditation to savor the sweetness of connection.

  You do not have to come with a partner and you don’t have to be a couple.  This class is for all!

Limited space – Sign up as soon as possible – Payment in advance holds your spot. $15 per person

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Saturday Morning, March 7th at 8:45  to 10:30am Workshop with Kim Williams (Kishori)

Prana, Teja and Ojas: Vital Essences of Transformation

Yoga is an inner alchemical process through which we can develop higher consciousness. We each have the capacity within us to go beyond ordinary human awareness to reach a state of Self-realization.   Prana, Tejas, and Ojas  support health, creativity and well-being. They provide the foundation for deeper yogic and meditational practices.   We will especially focus on how to cultivate Ojas as that is the foundation on which our yoga practice rests. It is responsible for our immunity and on a deeper level, our sense of well-being or our bliss body. Ojas is directly linked with the essence of divine love within and can be cultivated through bhakti yoga and a lifestyle full of wholesome pleasures.

$20 Exchange with Advance Registration

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Namaste

Amy

Yoga this Week – January 12, 2015

No Class this Monday Evening – Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!

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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Greetings dear yoga students,

Hoping this email finds you well and enjoying the receptive energy of this winter season.  I love the term “disciplined nonconformists” that MLK so eloquently states are the “Hope of a secure and livable world”.      A life of discipline (Tapas in yogic terms) affords us the freedom to operate from our higher selves, confident even when we are going against cultural norms. When we hear our inner calling, it takes persistence and faith to have the courage to follow through with what we hear, even if those around us might raise an eyebrow or fear we are going in the wrong direction.  Be still, listen, be disciplined in your practices of ethical living in body, mind and spirit,  which is what yoga practice is all about.  Yoga is to become pure in all facets of our lives so we can act from that place of calm abiding, wisdom and love.  Yoga literally means to yoke, to be self controlled, to be disciplined so we can be the ones that  dare to step out into the light;  for the hope of a secure and livable world lies within us.

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Yoga this Week

Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation to follow class

Wednesday Evening at 7:15pm

Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am

(please reserve your spot in class or cancel if your plans have changed)

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Workshops & Events

Click on this link for details:  https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/

This Thursday, January 22nd is our Vision Board Workshop – Please let me know if you want to join us for this fun and inspiring evening.  Click on the link above for details

Wednesday Evening, February 4th at 7-9pm Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture with Essential Oils currently has one spot open

Click the above link for details

Partner Yoga Special Class coming in February, the month of connection and love.

Partner can be a friend, lover or acquaintance.  You don’t even need a partner to attend.  Date to be announced.

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Shanti, Shanti, Shanti!

Namaste

Amy

Yoga this Week – January 11, 2015

Advice from a Tree
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Stand Tall and Proud
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Go out on a limb
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Remember your Roots
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Drink in plenty of Water and Sunshine
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Be Content with Your Natural Beauty
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Endure the changing Weather
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Be a  Safe Refuge for Others
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Enjoy the View!
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Yoga this Week
7:15pm Meditative Monday Yoga
9:30am – Tuesday Morning Yoga with optional Meditation to follow class
7:15pm Wednesday  Vinyasa Flow
9:30am Friday Morning Healing Yoga
(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
 **Evening classes require a minimum of four to sign up prior to 5pm for class to run**
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Happenings
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Live Music and Yoga Class at the North Shore Public Library this Friday, January 16 at 6pm
Come flow in a Yoga class infused with live musical chanting. Discover how the elements of music and yoga come together as Linda Lindaman leads a gentle flowing yoga class serenaded by Amy Perri on Harmonium & vocals and Jim Romeo on percussion. An uplifting, vibrational experience joining breath, movement, music and spirit! Non-refundable fee: $5. Bring a yoga mat. NSPL cardholders may register in person beginning January 2. Beginning January 5 we will accept registration for non-residents if space permits.
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Co-Creating Your Life  A Vision Board Workshop

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A vision board I an interesting way to discover your inner passions, desires and dreams.  Join us for an evening of self discovery, connection and fun.

Thursday, January 22nd 7-9pm – $15 per person – This evening is beginning to fill, reserve your spot today!  All supplies included.

Click on the events page for more info https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/

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Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture with Essential Oils on Wednesday, February 4th 7 to 9pm

This session currently has two spots open.  Click on the link for more details, reservations and prepayment is required for this special event.

https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/

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Keep posted for the next De-Tox Flow coming in February as well as details on how to sign up for our first Autumn Equinox Yoga Retreat in September
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Namaste
Amy

Yoga This Week- January 4, 2015

**Please note: No class Wed or Friday this week**
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May we have eyes to see the divinty amoung us
May we have ears to hear truth
May we have bodies to feel both the pleasure and the pain
May we have hearts that give and receive an infinite amount of love
and may  gratitude fill you everyday of the New Year!
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Wishing you all a Happy, Healthy, Joyful, Yoga-full 2015!!
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Yoga this Week
Monday Evening at 715pm
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Tuesday Morning at 930am
 No Classes Wednesday or Friday
(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
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Happenings
The Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture Session this Wednesday, January 7th as been rescheduled to
Wednesday, February 4th at 7 to 9pm.  Please let me know if you would like a spot.  Click the link for details
Live Music and Yoga Class at the North Shore Public Library on January 16 at 6pm
Come flow in a Yoga class infused with live musical chanting. Discover how the elements of music and yoga come together as Linda Lindaman leads a gentle flowing yoga class serenaded by Amy Perri on Harmonium & vocals and Jim Romeo on percussion. An uplifting, vibrational experience joining breath, movement, music and spirit! Non-refundable fee: $5. Bring a yoga mat. NSPL cardholders may register in person beginning January 2. Beginning January 5 we will accept registration for non-residents if space permits.
The New Year Detox Yoga class was so well received I am planning on doing another special Saturday morning themed class in February.  Keep posted for details on that as well as details on our upcoming September 2015 Autumn Equinox Shelter Island Retreat!!
Good things are coming
Namaste
Amy
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Yoga this Week – December 27, 2014 – Special Detox Class January 3rd

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 ” The Past and the Future is a joke to me now. I see that they’re nothin’. I see they ain’t here. The only thing that’s here is you and me…..I love you. Not, not like they told you love is….[the story books are bull],  love don’t make things nice, it ruins everything! It breaks your heart, it makes things a mess. We, we aren’t here to make things perfect. Snowflakes are perfect, stars are perfect. Not us! Not us!”   
 Ronny Cammareri, “Moonstruck”

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 The above quote is one of my all time favorite movie lines.  We are not here to be perfect, for our lives to look flawless, to create what society’s idea of a beautiful life is.    We are here to have our hearts broken a thousand times because we are meant to experience the oceans of emotions our life is full of.  We are here to experience the wonder of being human; with all its hills and valleys,  like the moon we continually cycle through a myriad of phases to become whole again.  As we near the end of another year, embrace this truth:   That loving, and being truly vulnerable in your life doesn’t always look nice and that truly living wholeheartedly means taking the risk that sometimes your heart will break; sometimes you will make a  mess.

 

Our Yoga practice helps us remember that we are perfect just the way we are and that our lives our beautiful as they are.   Within our practice we may fall down,  sweat,  and sometimes struggle just to bear the truth of our bodies and minds but when  we get back up again and   return to our mats, “We breath and something in us softens, makes space for the imperfections”.  So let go of the storybook idea of how your life should look.  Let go and enjoy the scenery of  today.  Be vulnerable, be open, allow grief, joy, success and failure, falling down and getting back up to all be part of the great tapestry that is your life.  When you reach into the beauty of imperfection;   the crooked tree, the moon’s craters,  the clouded sky, tears in a loved one’s eyes, experience it fully, turning away from nothing that you find.  The messes will be there,  the heartaches will surface, the past and future are but memories and dreams, breathe it all in and find your joy in being present through it all for yourself and those around you.

 Yoga this Week

Monday Evening 7:15pm

Tuesday Morning 930am

Special Class Saturday Morning January 3rd 8:45am

Detox Flow with a New Year’s Meditation and Yoga Nidra

(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)

 **Evening classes require at least four to sign up prior to 5pm to run – An email will post by 5 if class is cancelled**

 

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 Happenings

Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture with Reiki & Essential Oils on January 7th at 7pm

Click on events page for more info

January 16th Live Music & Yoga Flow at the North Shore Public Library

Come flow in a Yoga class infused with live musical chanting. Discover how the elements of music and yoga come together as Linda Lindaman leads a gentle flowing yoga class serenaded by Amy Perri on Harmonium & vocals and Jim Romeo on percussion. An uplifting, vibrational experience joining breath, movement, music and spirit! Non-refundable fee: $5. Bring a yoga mat. NSPL cardholders may register in person beginning January 2. Beginning January 5 we will accept registration for non-residents if space permits.

Co-Creating Your Life – A Vision Board Workshop

Thursday, January 22nd 7-9pm  – $15

Click on events page for more info

Namaste and Blessings for a healthy, happy, enlightened New Year!

Amy

Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture – Wednesday January 7th – Gift Certificates Available

If you are struggling with a gift idea – why not give the gift healing and restoration with an  evening of

Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture with Essential Oil Therapy

Wednesday, January 7, 2015 – 7pm

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Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture with Essential Oils

Amy Perri, ERYT500/Reiki Practitioner & Benjamin Craig, Lic. Acupuncturist/Reiki Master

 

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In this special event,  restorative yoga, reiki energy healing and acupuncture are integrated to create an  indulgent experience designed to restore your balance, wellbeing and facilitate  a deep sense of calm in mind, body and spirit.

If you have never experienced acupuncture before, this would be a  wonderful, gentle introduction.  The  acupuncture points were specifically  chosen for  their universal healing properties including supporting the immune system, balancing energy  and creating a overall sense of relief.

Restorative yoga postures are supported by blankets, pillows, straps and bolsters to relieve tension, stress and open energy in the body.

Reiki Healing is a non-invasive channeling of universal healing energy with the intention of loving kindness  sent to the receiver.  The scent of essential oils allow your body and mind to relax even deeper by facilitating a calming effect.

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First come, first serve – This workshop will fill up – Register as soon as possible.

Amy Perri, ERYT500 and Benjamin Craig, LAc join forces to combine these three  amazing helaing modalities creating an indulgent experience  that will be sure to leave you refreshed, rejuvenated and ready to open up to the beautiful season ahead.

Benjamin Craig is a Licensed Acupuncturist and Reiki Master/Teacher.  He combines modern knowledge and ancient tradition to treat the individual’s Body, Mind and Spirit. Ben is a Master of Traditional Oriental Medicine and has offices on long Island and in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In addition to his private practices Ben hosts community Acupuncture events, teaches Reiki and lectures on science behind holistic and energy medicines.

Amy Perri is an experienced Registered Yoga Teacher at the 500 hour professional level with Yoga Alliance. Amy is a Reiki II Level Practioner who owns and operates a fully equipped yoga studio that will support and nuture you through this amazing healing experience.

Due to the nature of this class we must limit attendance  to ten participants.

Please register as soon as possible.  Payment of  $55 is due as soon as possible to hold your spot.   This covers the two hour  yoga class, Reiki and acupuncture treatments.

To register or for  more information contact:

Amy Perri, RYT 631-839-0644

Yoga this Week – November 15, 2014

 May all hearts be at ease. May our contentment promote the energies to alleviate suffering and turn ignorance into knowledge. May the cultivation of santosha guide us to courageous action, deeper community and greater love of all sentient beings.

                                          Swami Shraddhananda

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Greetings Dearest Yoga Students,

Santosha is one of the Niyamas outlined in the eight limbs of yoga.  Niyamas are ethical practices that cultivate inner peace and awareness about ourselves.  Santosha means contentment.  To be content with whatever is.  Having the good fortune of participating in a workshop with Todd Norian this past week enlightened me to a new way of thinking about Santosha.  He spoke about life being a series of problems that need our constant attention, creativity, compassion and openness.  We all know that once one issue, obstacle or problem is solved, right behind it rolls in another one, like waves on the ocean; the issues may seem bigger, smaller or take a different shape, but never the less, they keep coming.  What Todd so eloquently eluded to is that all we really need to change is our perspective; to change our obstacles into stepping stones on which we grow.  To be content in the action of solving, resolving or figuring out solutions while letting go of the result.  Contentment is now, not when things get better, not when we have all we think we need, it is now, in this moment.  It allows us to love all of life, opening our hearts and clearing it out of judgment as to what we consider “good” or “bad”.  Contentment allows our hearts to be at ease and turns our ignorance into knowledge.

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Yoga this Week

Meditative Monday at 7:15pm

Tuesday Morning Yoga at 9:30am with Meditation to follow

Wednesday Evening Yoga at 7:15pm

Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am

(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)

**Evening Classes require at least four to sign up prior to 5pm to run)

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Happenings

Saturday, November 22nd at 9am, Musical Chanting and Yoga at Yoga for Life
December 6th, Long Island Yoga Association Holiday Luncheon – Kirtan with Amy & Friends
Save the Date for our annual Winter Solstice Party – Thursday, December 18th 7pm
Next Restorative Yoga, Reiki & Acupuncture with Essential Oils scheduled for Jan 7 2015
Equinox Yoga Retreat – September 18, 19 and 20 of 2015 – Plans are underway!!  So excited..details coming soon!!
Click on Events page for details on happenings or contact me directly!  https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/
Jai!!
Amy