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Yoga this Week – June 14, 2015

Kirtan Tonight at Yoga Darshana Center at 630 with Amy, Annalee & Jim – Come chant with us aligning with the energies of Surya!

 

“Attention is the most basic form of love.”
~ John Tarrant Roshi

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Give attention to the things that are important to you as well as realizing when you are squandering your precious moments on trivialities.  If the most basic form of love is attention, give it to yourself, give it to those around you, give it to the thoughts that empower you and set you free!!

Yoga this Week

*Mondays Suspended for Summer**

Maryhaven Yoga Monday – Port Jefferson 5pm

Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation to follow

Wednesday Evening Yoga on the Beach (Inclement Weather class is in studio and requires reservation)

Friday Morning 930am Healing Yoga

Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed

**(Please note:  Monday Evening Classes are suspended for the summer, resuming in the Fall)

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Happenings

Kirtan Tonight at Yoga Darshana Center in Babylon – http://www.YogaDarshanaCenter.com

Sunday Morning Beach Yoga beginning July 5th

June 28th Yoga & Kayaking – Click on events page for more info

June 31st Restorative Yoga, Reiki & Acupuncture with Essential Oils at Peconic River Yoga – http://www.PeconicRiverYoga.com

Namaste

Amy

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 8, 2015

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Greetings dearest yoga students,

Listening to this all too familiar song being sung in a not so familiar way last night, allowed me to hear the amazing lyrics as if for the first time.  Those three simple words;” Let It Be”, have such power.  Sometimes all we have to do in times of confusion, sadness, anger, or regret is just to let it be.  Let things be as they are, let people be who they are, let the world be as it is and sit quietly waiting for an answer to come.  All too often we tend to come at a situation with fear and impatience only to find another obstacle that creates yet more anxiety.  While challenging yoga poses can invoke the same panicky pushing, we are reminded to breathe, relax and feel what adjustments we need to make to experience the sukha and sthira(sweetness and steadiness) in the posture.  “There will be an answer, Let it Be” reminds us to breathe, relax and feel as the right answer comes in the still, small voice that is your highest self.

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Yoga this Week

Meditative Monday at 7:15pm

Tuesday Morning at 9:30am with Meditation

Wednesday Evening Vinyasa Flow at 7:15pm

Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 9:30am

**Note that evening classes require a minimum of four students to sign up prior to 5pm for class to run**

(Please reserve your spot in class 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/

Mar  12th        Sign Up for NSPL Yoga & Meditation Thursday Mornings in March

Mar  22nd       Live Music & Asana Classes at Yogaholic

Mar  30th        Restorative Yoga, Reiki & Acupuncture with Essential Oils

Sep 18-20       Equinox Yoga Retreat – Click on the link to sign up!!!

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

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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 – November 30, 2014

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Greetings Dear Yoga Students,
We all know that change is inevitable, but yet we still long to cling to the known, the familiar, the comfortable.  George Harrison once said, “If we aren’t changing, we aren’t growing”.  Everything that grows must change.  It is just as important to our well being to accept and embrace change as it is to breathe.  Enjoy the moments of your day, embrace all that is in your life with enthusiasm knowing that you will never pass through this day again.  Be open to the shifting landscapes, the rise and fall of emotions, the ebb and flow of energy.  When the waves of change seem to be harsh and the seas are rough around you, remember that you are part of an amazing, vast ocean of movement through which you are inevitably being molded, changed and led in the direction of your divine destiny.
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Classes this Week
Meditative Monday at 715pm
Tuesday Morning 930am with meditation to follow class
Wednesday Evening Vinyasa Flow at 7:15pm
Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930am
(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed – Evening classes require a minimum of four students prior to 5pm to run)
 
HAPPENINGS
Long Island Yoga Association December workshop, Holiday Luncheon and Kirtan on December 6th
A great way to kick off December by going in with Yoga Nidra by Mokshapriya and connecting outward by chanting with me!

Annual Winter Solstice Celebration on Thursday, December 18th at 7pm

All are welcome for Playful Yoga, Chanting, Intention Setting,  and Sangha – All Welcome – Please RSVP

Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training – A 20 hour module facilitated by me at Yoga Darshana Center in Babylon – Open to all Yoga Teachers

December 13th, 17th and 21st – Contact me for details.  Would love to have you join me!

January 7th Restorative Yoga, Acupuncture & Reiki with Essential Oils – Reserve your spot…

Click on Event Page for more details…

Stay tuned for return of monthly  Yoga Jams & Reiki Circles, information on our Fall Equinox Retreat and Teen Classes as well as a beginners series coming in the New Year….

Possibilities abound as long as you believe, let go of fear and dive in

 (A Whisper To my doll)

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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

 

Yoga this Week – November 9, 2014

**Please note:   The Restorative Yoga & Acupuncture Session will be pre-empting the regular Monday Evening class this Monday**

“Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. For we are the ones we have been waiting for!”  

~ Hopi Elder Prophecy

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Greetings dearest yoga students,

Hoping this email finds you well and allowing yourself time to transition into this fall season that is upon us.  Try to let go of your struggles today.  Our lives truly are a sacred expression of the love we hold  within.  The moment of sacredness is always now and is always a choice we make.  Our sadhanda (practice) teaches us that in the present moment, the abundance of the universe is available to us and we are exactly where we should be.  The more we practice bringing ourselves back to the present moment, the more we can live in that sacred space that is full of compassion, wholeness and healing.  Just as the journey from the head to the heart is only one breath away, the journey from the unreal to the real is within our reach.  Stop waiting for yourself to be more, do more or have more resources available to you to live from your heart’s desire.  You are the one you have been waiting for.  You are already whole, look inside to your inner light to guide you towards your soul’s purpose focusing on completing even the most mundane of tasks as sacred celebrations.  Just as your awareness in your yoga postures should spread to every part of your body, each part equally important, allow your awareness to spread to every task, every breath, every word you speak to rest on the sacredness that is within and around you.
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Yoga this Week
Monday Evening Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture with Reiki and Essential Oils 7:15pm (Session is Full)
Tuesday Morning at 930am
Wednesday Evening at 7:15pm
Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930am
(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
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Happenings
Thursday, November 13th at 5-6pm – Yoga for Teens offered by the Rocky Point Community Education begins
Saturday, November 22nd at 9am, Musical Chanting and Yoga at Yoga for Life
Save the Date for our annual Winter Solstice Party – Thursday, December 18th 7pm
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!
Jai!
Victory to our Spirits and Peace to all Beings!
Namaste
Amy
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Yoga this Week – October 19, 2014

Await the auspicious moment when one will be free from pleasure and pain, desire and a sense of worldly gain–since, attention should be on the perfection of means and not the end, which is bound to follow if the means are perfected.  To accomplish this one should scrupulously observe all aspect of sadacara 
(The Yamas which are right conduct — non-violence, truthfullness, non-stealing, moderation and non-greed)
                                                Ravindra Kumar
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Be gentle with yourself and others as you strive to walk this road less traveled remembering that we truly cannot become enlightened beings by simply sitting on a meditation cushion, doing yoga poses or reading spiritual material;  WE MUST ADHERE TO AN ETHICAL PRACTICE if we are to move forward in our journey back home to our true selves and do the work we were meant to do in this lifetime. When our intention is pure, our paths will become illuminated like moonlight on a dark night and others will follow your example. Allow yourself to take risks, be willing to be vulnerable;  there is a song in your heart waiting to be sung and in walking the true and right path you will find inside you the ability to give yourself fully to your unique, beautiful style of music that lives inside your soul. 
 
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Yoga this Week
 
Meditative Monday evening at 7:15pm
Tuesday Morning 930am – Special Class – Kishori will be here teaching a Vata Balancing Class for the Fall
Wednesday Evening 7:15pm
Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am
(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed – Please note the evening classes require a minimum of four students to sign up for class to run)
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Happenings
Thursday Evening 730-9pm Live Music and Asana Class led by Lois at Yoga for Life with  me and my musical friends providing the music
Click on the link for more info or to sign up!!
What is Yoga?  An Experiential Journey with Amy Perri and Barbara Delledonne November 2nd at the North Shore Public Library – Registration now open to NON-Library card holders.  $5 fee and in person registration required.  This class is filling fast.  Grab your spot for what’s sure to be a great afternoon.  Philosophy, asana, chanting and yoga nidra!!!.
Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture with Reiki and Essential Oils – Monday, November 10th 7-9pm with Ben Craig!!
Click on the link for more info
Special thank you to all of you who attended the yoga hike at Avalon and the Kirtan at Breathe!! I love that I can share all I love with all of you.    It was such an amazing, uplifting weekend!  I am sure the soup kitchen will be equally uplifted when I deliver the donations this week. Much Love and Gratitude!!!
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Metta always,
Amy
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Join us this Saturday evening at Breathe in Port Jefferson!

***Mention that you are a student of mine and receive a $5 discount off admission***

An evening of Chanting with Amy Perri and Friends

Saturday, October 18th at 7 to 9pm

At

Breathe Inspiring Gifts in Port Jefferson Village

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Join with us in the ancient practice of Kirtan – A call and response form of singing that creates calmness of mind, connection to spirit and joy of heart!   The practice of Kirtan or Japa, the repetition of mantras, has been used in cultures all over the world to clear the mind of clutter in order to tune into a higher vibration or universal spirit.  This practice has the ability to create connection with your community while facilitating a sense of inner calm and joy

$20 per person prepaid or $25 at the door

(Along with A donation of a non-perishable food item is much appreciated)

All are welcomed! Call Jena at 642-2377 or Amy at 839-0644

Amy Perri is a Registered Yoga Teacher, ERYT500 and enjoys teaching adults and children, bringing yoga to the developmentally disabled and presenting workshops in area studios. She also takes great pride in using yoga as a fundraising tool to support local charities. As an expression of Bhakti Yoga  (the yoga of devotion), Amy enjoys taking her harmonium and musical friends on the road, providing music & chanting for asana classes and Kirtan. www.MyYogaWithAmy.com

 “Chanting is a spiritual practice that quiets the mind, engages the body and channels “Shakti”, universal energy from the deep seat of the soul straight to the heart”.  

Breathe Inspiring Gifts

116 East Main Street

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Port Jefferson, NY 11777

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Yoga this Week – October 15, 2014

**No Monday Night Class this week – Make sure you scroll down for some wonderful offerings this month!**

“Again and again ~ Return like Mountain ~ Release like Ocean ~ Relax like Sky ~And Rest ~ Rest in the Heart of Pure Awareness” Living Buddha

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Greetings dear yoga students,

This quote reminds me that there is a need for us to keep coming back again and again to rest in our true selves. However, to balance our energies we must seek different modalities to meet our ever changing needs; sometimes we need to relax like the sky,  be still like a  mountain or release the past  like the ocean.  Tune in to exactly what you may be needing today.  Draw upon the power of nature to nurture you and give you what you need.  As the season transitions to shorter days and longer nights, you may feel your energy, mood and mind shifting so try and adjust your daily round to help you be true to yourself.  In this way we begin to live in the natural rhythms of nature, returning again to rest in the awareness of the heart and what truly matters in your life. 

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Yoga this Week

**No Monday Evening Class – Happy Columbus Day & Happy Birthday to my 16 year old Zachary!!**

Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation

Wednesday Evening at 715pm

Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am

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

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Happenings

What is Yoga?  An Experiential Journey with Amy Perri and Barbara Delledonne November 2nd at the North Shore Public Library – Registration now open to NON-Library card holders.  $5 fee and in person registration required.  This class is filling fast.  Grab your spot for what’s sure to be a great afternoon.  Philosophy, asana, chanting and yoga nidra!!!

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Yoga Hike at Avalon Park this coming Saturday, October 18th!  Please arrive by 915am to park and meet by the gristmill pond.  In speaking to the park office, the area that I planned to do yoga in will not be available so we will hike the park and upon returning to the ponds, we will have our class overlooking the duck pond.  The Labrynth will not be available as it is being reseeded for the spring.  The suggested donation is $15 per person with half of the proceeds going to the Invited Inn Soup Kitchen.

Chanting with Amy & Friends at Breathe in Port Jefferson 7-9pm this coming Saturday Night, October 18th!  Please join me for a wonderful evening of chanting, connecting and raising vibrations!  Advanced registration is $20 and $25 at the door.

Breathe Inspiring Gifts

116 East Main Street

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Port Jefferson, NY 11777

642-2377

Yoga and Auyerveda for Fall with Kishori Gopika, Tuesday, October 21st at 930am right here in our yoga room.

Regular Class fees apply with $10 for guest teacher – Class is currently full – Please contact to get on waiting list.  If we have enough interest,

we will add a second date for this special class.

Yoga and Live Music at Yoga for Life, October 23rd 730 to 9pm with Lois.  Musical chanting provided by Amy & Friends…

Contact Amy for details

Shanti,

Amy