Category Archives: Hatha Yoga

Yoga this Week – October 5, 2014

**The regular Wednesday class is replaced this week with Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture – Still two spots open**

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“Mother Ganges teaches us that if we want to attain the sea of our aspiration, we must persevere in our goal and never be discouraged by the inevitable obstacles that come on our path. All impediments are like rocks in the river of life. We should flow around them and never give up. With the Lord’s help, there is always a way.”

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Excerpt from “The Journey Home” by Radhanath Swami

Dearest Yoga Students,

One of my favorite teachers, Rolf Gates used to say, “The obstacles in our path, are our path”, and I believe this to be true.  Yoga is about relationship and connection. Today explore your relationship to the rocks in the river of your life.  How you think about your obstacles  and the energy you bring to your actions as you relate to them, has everything to do how you “flow around them”.  Today as my husband and I literally got lost in the trails in the woods, we reminded each other (in between glares of confusion) to enjoy the journey of being lost.  As the sound of the road became louder and we knew we were almost back, I contemplated the fact that we are never really lost, we are never really off the path and that the detours, obstacles and the “not knowing” are usually the most beautiful parts of our journey.  So persevere today and avoid becoming discouraged.  With the help of the divine source that is vibrating all around us, there is always a way.

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Yoga this Week
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**Meditation Monday Evening  at 7:15pm
A Meditative flow ending with time for a guided meditation and relaxation.  Appropriate for all Levels.
Tuesday Morning 930am Yoga with Meditation following Class
Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture Session 7-9pm
No regular Wednesday night class this week but there are still two open spots left for this session
Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am
(Please reserve your spot in class or cancel if your plans have changed)
**Please NOTE that Evening Classes require a minimum of a four to sign up prior to 5pm day of class for it to run***
 (but feel free to check in as late at 7 for a spot)
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Happenings
Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture on October 8th at 7 to 9pm.  Click the link to learn more.

https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/

Fall Yoga Hike!!  Saturday Morning, October 18th at the beautiful Avalon Park in Stony Brook – Relaxed walk through the woods to practice a gentle yoga class in natures studio – All ages and levels are welcomed!  Click on the link and scroll down for more information.

  https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/

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An evening of chanting with Amy and Friends at Breathe in Port Jefferson – Saturday, October 18th 7 to 9pm

Join with my in the ancient practice of Kirtan – A call and response form of singing that creates both a meditative as well as uplifting experience!

All are welcome, no musical or prior experience needed!

Thursday, October 23rd at 7:30pm  Yoga with Live Musical Chanting at Yoga for Life in Setauket with me and Lois Healion!  Join us as Lois guides you in a gentle flow as Amy and friends serenade you with live musical chanting into a blissful experience.  $20 prepaid or $25 at the door.  Contact Amy to sign up.

Yoga Movie and Indian Scarf Night!  Join us as we view two  very interesting  short yoga movies entitled “What is Yoga” and “Why we Breathe” together as a Sangha.  Kishori will be here with Indian scarves for purchase.   Date to be announced shortly.

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Save the Date for a mini-yoga retreat!!!  What is Yoga?  An Experiential Journey with Amy Perri and Barbara Delledonne – November 2nd at the North Shore Public Library – Registration begins October 1st –

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Namaste

Amy

Yoga this Week -September 28, 2014

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So Much Happiness

It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness.
With sadness there is something to rub against,
A wound to tend with lotion and cloth.
When the world falls in around you, you have pieces to pick up,
Something to hold in your hands, like ticket stubs or change.

But happiness floats.
It doesn’t need you to hold it down.
It doesn’t need anything.
Happiness lands on the roof of the next house, singing,
And disappears when it wants to.
You are happy either way.
Even the fact that you once lived in a peaceful tree house
And now live over a quarry of noise and dust
Cannot make you unhappy.
Everything has a life of its own,
It too could wake up filled with possibilities
Of coffee cake and ripe peaches,
And love even the floor which needs to be swept,
The soiled linens and scratched records….

Since there is no place large enough
To contain so much happiness,
You shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you
Into everything you touch. You are not responsible.
You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit
For the moon, but continues to hold it, and to share it,
And in that way, be known.

~ Naomi Shihab Nye ~

One of yoga’s most beautiful niyamas (ethical practices to cultivate) is Santosha or Contentment.    With Santosha, there is less doing and more a sitting with, a being present for, a quiet contemplation to look around and be content in the moment, in this very moment.  Today notice how many times you might sabotage your contentment.  Sometimes we worry that things are too good, that it won’t last.  Sometimes we think we should do more, be more or get more.   Be aware of when you feel content today  and allow yourself the joy and peace that cultivating santosha brings, however fleeting or far between, 

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Yoga this Week
 –
**Meditation Monday Evening  at 7:15pm
A Meditative flow ending with time for a guided meditation and relaxation.  Appropriate for all Levels.
Tuesday Morning 930am Yoga with Meditation following Class
**Wednesday Evening Multi-Level Class 7:15pm
Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am
(Please reserve your spot in class or cancel if your plans have changed)
**Please NOTE that Evening Classes require a minimum of a four to sign up prior to 5pm day of class for it to run***
 (but feel free to check in as late at 7 for a spot)
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Happenings
Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture on October 8th at 7 to 9pm.  Click the link to learn more.

https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/

Fall Yoga Hike!!  Saturday Morning, October 18th at the beautiful Avalon Park in Stony Brook – Relaxed walk through the woods to practice a gentle yoga class in natures studio – All ages and levels are welcomed!  Click on the link and scroll down for more information.

  https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/

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An evening of chanting with Amy and Friends at Breathe in Port Jefferson – Saturday, October 18th 7 to 9pm

Join with my in the ancient practice of Kirtan – A call and response form of singing that creates both a meditative as well as uplifting experience!

All are welcome, no musical or prior experience needed!

Yoga Movie and Indian Scarf Night!  Join us as we view two  very interesting  short yoga movies entitled “What is Yoga” and “Why we Breathe” together as a Sangha.  Kishori will be here showing her Indian scarves for which she will take orders for during the evening.  Date to be announced shortly.

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Save the Date for a mini-yoga retreat!!!  What is Yoga?  An Experiential Journey with Amy Perri and Barbara Delledonne – November 2nd at the North Shore Public Library – Registration begins October 1st –

Yoga this Week – September 21, 2014

Aparigraha
greedlessness, non-attachment

The yogi feels that the collection or hoarding of things implies a lack of faith in God and in himself to provide for the future….By the observance of aparigraha, the yogi makes his life as simple as possible and trains his mind not to feel the loss or the lack of anything. Then everything he really needs will come to him by itself at the proper time.”

Iyengar

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Hari Om Dear Yoga Students,

As this Fall draws us inward I wish for your eyes to see all the abundance that you already possess right now in this moment in this time in your life. One beautiful morning this past week I walked down to the shore, a little less than a mile from my house and  was embraced by the serene beauty  all around me. It caused me to stop and I experienced a moment that seemed to have transformed into one of those magical moments suspended in time. I paused, connected to my breath, did some simple yoga postures and sat on a piece of wood to silently sit in meditation.. As the rhythmic sound of the waves made their way into my mind and the gentle warm breeze caressed my skin, I felt so completely connected to all that was around me. The feeling of abundance and gratitude seemed to encapsulate my entire being. If we take even a moment to connect with all that is precious and dear to us in our lives right now, we allow the divine light to shine into our hearts. A moment like this can change your entire day from one that is ordinary to one that is full of miracles and we seem to lack nothing.

Yoga this Week
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**Meditation Monday Evening  at 7:15pm
A Meditative flow ending with time for a guided meditation and relaxation.  Appropriate for all Levels.
Tuesday Morning 930am Yoga with Meditation following Class
**Wednesday Evening Multi-Level Class 7:15pm
Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am
(Please reserve your spot in class or cancel if your plans have changed)
**Please NOTE that Evening Classes require a minimum of a four to sign up prior to 5pm day of class for it to run***
Happenings
Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture on October 8th at 7 to 9pm.  Click the link to learn more.

Events & Workshops

Fall Yoga Hike!!  Saturday Morning, October 18th at the beautiful Avalon Park in Stony Brook – Relaxed walk through the woods to practice a gentle yoga class in natures studio – All ages and levels are welcomed!

Details to follow…

Yoga Movie and Indian Scarf Night!  Join us as we view two  very interesting  short yoga movies entitled “What is Yoga” and “Why we Breathe” together as a Sangha.  Kishori will be here showing her Indian scarves for which she will take orders for during the evening.  Date to be announced shortly.

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Save the Date for a mini-yoga retreat!!!  What is Yoga?  An Experiential Journey with Amy Perri and Barbara Delledonne – November 2nd at the North Shore Public Library – Registration begins October 1st –

Watch for the return of monthly Yoga Jam in November and other fun yoga related events…

Suggested Rituals for Autumn Equinox

  • Give thanks to the Gods for the harvest.
  • Evaluate the past year, and identify what to harvest and what to plow under.
  • Identify and cut away outworn habits and emotional baggage which are wearing you down.
  • Work for balance and equilibrium in nature or in human affairs.
  • Give to those less fortunate than you are

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Shanti Om,

Amy

Yoga this Week – September 14, 2014

The Perfect Cup
 
Its time to see the flaws of myself and stop being alarmed
It’s time for me to halt my drive for perfection and to accept my blemishes
 
It’s time for me to receive slowly evolving growth;
the kind that comes in God’s own good time
and does not heed to my panicky pushing.
 
It’s time for me to embrace my humaness and love my incompleteness.
It’s time for me to cherish the unwanted,
to welcome the unknown,
to treasure the unfulfilled
 
If I wait untill I am perfect,
I will always be unsatified and ungrateful
 
If I wait until all the flaws,
chips and cracks disappear
I will be the cup that sits on the shelf and is never used
Greetings dearest yoga students,
Hope this email finds you embracing this day with all its so called “imperfections”.  The sooner we move into acceptance and embrace who we are in the moment and how our life is in the present, the sooner we will allow peace to flow within us. Think of the beauty of a tree, a landscape, an old picture or a favorite pair of worn out jeans; it is the imperfections that make them beautiful, interesting and alive.  By embracing our humaness we also acknowledge our divinity.  It is through this human experience that we come to know the sacred in life.   Do not wait, cease this day and open up to the ways in which you can be used to better the lives of those around you in any small way.  When you learn to love the imperfections in yourself, you unconciously give others the permission to accept and love themselves just as they are.  In your imperfections you are incredibly perfect and exactly who you are meant to be!
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Yoga this Week
Yoga this Week
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**Meditation Monday Evening  at 7:15pm
A Meditative flow ending with time for a guided meditation and relaxation.  Appropriate for all Levels.
Tuesday Morning 930am Yoga with Meditation following Class
**Wednesday Evening Multi-Level Class 7:15pm
Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am
(Please reserve your spot in class or cancel if your plans have changed)
**Please NOTE that Evening Classes require a minimum of a four to sign up prior to 5pm day of class for it to run***
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Happenings

Rocky Point Farmers and Artisans Market Fall Festival today 8 to 3pm

Music, Food and Fun!!!

Old Depot Park, Broadway & Prince Rd., Rocky Point

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Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture on October 8th at 7 to 9pm.  Click the link to learn more.

Events & Workshops

Save the Date for a mini-yoga retreat!!!  What is Yoga?  An Experiential Journey with Amy Perri and Barbara Delledonne – November 2nd at the North Shore Public Library – Registration begins October 1st –

Fall Yoga Hike!!  Saturday Morning, October 20th – Relaxed walk through the woods to practice a gentle yoga class in natures studio – All ages and levels are welcomed!

Details to follow…

Watch for the return of monthly Yoga Jam in November and other fun yoga related events…

Namaste and enjoy this beautiful day!!

Amy

Yoga this Week – September 7, 2013

detachment

 

   “Detachment is simply letting go of all you hold fast to in your mind. It doesn’t actually mean losing anything, simply changing your relationship with the things in your life today. The greatest pleasure for every soul comes as a result of choosing detachment. Why? Because attachment is a form of slavery that takes place in our own minds. And the result of detachment? Real freedom”

 

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Yoga this Week
**Meditation Monday Evening begins this week at 7:15pm
A Meditative flow ending with time for a guided meditation and relaxation.  Appropriate for all Levels.
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Tuesday Morning 930am Yoga with Meditation following Class
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**Wednesday Evening Multi-Level Class 7:15pm
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Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am
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(Please reserve your spot in class or cancel if your plans have changed)
**Please NOTE that Evening Classes require a minimum of a four to sign up prior to 5pm day of class for it to run***
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The art of detachment is the practice of showing up, doing your best and letting go of the results acknowledging the basic truth that everything in life has its perfect moment.  It is the realization that if we do not get what we want (even if it seems like the perfect job, perfect person, perfect place, perfect opportunity, etc.)  that there is probably a better time for that situation to materialize in our lives or more often than not, it may be something that is never supposed to happen at all.  When we truly are able to detach from the outcome we release the dissapointment, anger or inadaquacy we feel when things don’t turn out as we thought they should.  Thinking we will find our happiness in someone or something outside ourselves is only an atempt to gratify our senses and satisfy the ego which can never truly be satified.  Acting from a place of attachment and clinging is acting from fear.
The opposite of fear is faith.  So in contrast, the art of letting go actually allows you to access the peace of mind you seek.   We can learn to live and let live, look at closed doors as opportunities and learn trust our spiritual guides to take us where we need to be.  When we make decisions from a truly detached place; from a place of calm abiding, wisdom and love, we set the inner spirit free to move us toward all that is good, true, right and lovely in our lives.
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Happenings
Camp DeWolfe Restoration Retreat this coming Saturday/Sunday, September 13-14th, more info?  http://www.YogaDarshanaCenter.com
Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture with Essential Oils on Wednesday October 8th at 7pm
Please click on the link for more info. This class will fill up, if you would like a spot try and reserve early.
Letting go of summer and beach yoga (we had some wonderful, interesting, wild experiences down there this year!!)   is not easy but September and October are two of my favorite months!   Enjoy the beautiful weather and energy that September brings…
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Sat Nam
I bow to the true beauty in you all
Namaste
Amy
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Last Sunset Beach Yoga Tonight at 630pm!

Greetings Dearest Yoga Students,

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Tonight will be our final Wednesday Evening Beach Yoga Class beginning at 630pm.  If you haven’t had a chance to experience the beauty of our own North Shore beach at sunset, tonight is the night!  Beginning next week, Wednesday night class will be held in our yoga room at 7:15pm and will require advance reservations.  Sunday Morning Beach Yoga will go for another week or two depending on weather.  Follow the link below for beach yoga details.

https://myyogawithamy.com/beach-yoga-at-nsbpoas-beech-road-beach/

Keep yoga light burning bright!!!

Hope to see you all at the beach!!

Shanti

Yoga this Week – August 25, 2014

 

 

 

Iyengar on yoga

 Greetings dearest yoga students,

I have gained so much from B.K.S. Iyengar’s teachings over the course of my yoga studies that my gratitude overflows for his wisdom, may he rest in peace!!  The study of yoga is a lifetime pursuit that never ends but continually grows deeper.  The teachings of yoga  stimulate my intellect and ignite my creativity as well as allowing me to persevere in  “maintaining a balanced attitude and abiding in”skillful action” the duties I must perform in my life.  I am doubly blessed to have found this amazing path and to have the honor of passing it on to all of you!

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Yoga this Week

Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation to follow

Wednesday Morning 10am at the North Shore Public Library

Wednesday Beach Yoga at 6:45pm (Please arrive ten minutes early to park)

Sunday Morning Beach Yoga at 8:45am

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

**Please Note that next week,Wednesday, 9-3 and Sunday 9-7,   will be the last beach yoga classes for the summer, as we move back into the yoga room with Monday Evening on 9-8.  Please reserve your spot for the Yoga Room classes.  Evening classes will require at least three students prior registration to take place***

Happenings

Camp DeWolfe Restoration Retreat on September 13-14th – contact http://www.YogaDarshanaCenter.com for more information

October 8th Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture returns…these sessions sell out fast, if you would like to pre-register early, let me know.

Peace, Love and Yoga

Namaste

Amy

Yoga this Week – August 16, 2014

 **Beach Yoga Tomorrow Morning at 8:45am***    

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“It is the wilderness in
the mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a stranger. When one is a
stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one
cannot touch others.” 
 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

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Namaste dear yoga students,

What a wonderful discussion ensued around the Gift from the Sea at our book discussion at Cedar Beach Friday night.    It is amazing how yogic wisdom is weaved throughout this precious body of work.  The central themes rotating around the need for solitude and creative pursuits in order to find your inner self as well as the importance in accepting and embracing changes in relationships and within ourselves.  If you haven’t gotten a chance to read it, I would highly recommend it.  As someone said in our discussion; as soon as you open the book and begin reading, it creates a calm flow of energy inside of you, both within the imagery of the beach and the beautiful, poetic rhythm of her words.  Hoping to do another book discussion in the future.  Thank you to all who attended for the conversation, insights, laughter and connection.  Oh and special thanks to the Gift from the Sea!

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Yoga this Week

Sunday Mornining at 8:45am

Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation

Wednesday Morning at 10am at NSPL

Wednesday Evening at 7pm on the Beach

Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am

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

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Happenings

Camp DeWolfe Restoration Retreat is scheduled for September 13-14th n Wading River

I will be leading the Kirtan on Saturday Evening.  Click on the link for more info  http://www.YogaDarshanaCenter.com

Meditative Monday Evenings will begin after Labor Day in September.  This class will be a meditative flow class ending with a sitting meditation and relaxation.

Watch for upcoming Live Musical Chanting and Yoga as well as Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture coming in October

Shanti,

Amy

 

Yoga this Week – July 19, 2014

Beach Yoga Tomorrow Morning 8:45am – Beech Road Beach in Rocky Point – click on link for more info http://www.MyYogaWithAmy.com

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“Through practice, I’ve come to see that the deepest source of my misery is not wanting things to be the way they are. Not wanting myself to be the way I am. Not wanting the world to be the way it is. Not wanting others to be the way they are. Whenever I’m suffering, I find this ‘war with reality’ to be at the heart of the problem.”

Stephen Cope

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Greetings dear yoga students,

Welcome to another glorious day. As you meander through your daily round, think about something you may be “at war” with in your own life. Living life on life’s terms is not an endeavor for the faint hearted. As humans, we seem to always want to fix things or create fantasies and repeat mantras like; “if only things were different then I could be happy”. True inner contentment only comes from within. We must make the decision to be happy now. Now is all we have. This moment, this day, this family, this body, this home, this job, this stretch of 24 hours to live our life. Cultivate acceptance with whatever or whoever is in your life today. Be the one that brings serenity to your interactions and act with your heart on situations that seem to baffle you. Try and do more reflection that reaction and you may find, things are exactly as they should be. Relax, let go and focus today on being at peace with reality. The war within quiets when you cultivate Santosha – contentment; allow yourself to bloom wherever you are planted, within whatever circumstances life finds you.

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Classes for this Week

Tuesday Morning 930am with 11am meditation to follow

Wednesday Evening 7:15pm on the Beach weather permitting or in Yoga Room

Friday Morning 930am Healing Yoga

Sunday Morning Beach Yoga 8:45am

(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed – Beach yoga does not require reservation but make sure you arrive at least ten minutes prior to class start to receive your parking pass)

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Happenings

I now have seven copies of Gift from the Sea for distribution to whomever would like to join our book Sangha group.  We will plan to meet mid August possibly on Friday, August 15th in the early evening on Cedar Beach to reflect on the book and enjoy the beauty of the sunset.

Watch for another Yoga and Kayaking trip  and the Fall Retreat with Yoga Darshana Center at Camp DeWolfe coming in September – details will follow.

Shanti

Amy

Yoga this Week – June 29, 2014

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Greetings dearest yoga students,

I love summer. I love diving in, breathing the air, feeling the warm shining sun on my face.   I love embracing the cool breeze and the tingaling feeling of salt on my skin hours after a dip in the sea. I love the energy in myself and I can feel it in those around me. Today’s kayaking adventure included all of these things and more. I am so very blessed to do the work that I love in this lifetime. To be around such wonderful open-minded people embracing natures beauty not only sharing an adventurous  journey across the water,  but an inspiring  yoga class on an island while collectively raising funds for our local soup kitchen was truly a gift. The water, sun, air, sky, birds, sand were all part of our practice.   When a student came up to me and said “Amy, you have truly found your dharma, this is your life’s work”, it filled me with such joy and awe.  Work?  I smiled and laughed to myself because I really never feel like any of these classes, events, sangha’s, are work!! (Although I must say, I will sleep deep tonight!)   Thank you all for your continued dedication to your yoga practice and to this community that continues to grow.  Thank you all for allowing me to live my dharma by brining this ancient practice of yoga in all its forms to new and continuing students.  And thank you for being  the open, receptive, loving and supportive people that yogi’s are known to be.  Sat Nam, A deep, loving bow to you all!!

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Classes this Week

Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation

Wednesday Evening at 715 at the Beach *

Friday Happy Fourth of July (No Class)

Sunday Morning 845am at the Beach *

*(Remember beach classes are weather permitting – if the weather looks questionable, check the website or facebook page, if there is no posting, beach is a go!)

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July Happenings

Tuesday July 15th at Jewel in the Lotus Yoga and Wellness Center I will be providing live musical chanting at two of the evening classes

Click on the link for details

Events & Workshops

If you are a patron of the North Shore Public Library, check out the Saturday workshops on Ayurvedic practices that Kim (Kishori) is leading.  Kim facilitated an Ayurvedic lecture here at our yoga room last summer.  If you are interested sign up!  It should be very informative.

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Lokha Samasta Sukino Bhavantu

May all beings be happy, peaceful and Free.  And my our thoughts, words and actions in this day help to contribute to that freedom for all.

Thank you also to those hat support our freedom, in and out of the military.  May you be safe, healthy, happy and know peace!