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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 – 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

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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Get Grounded in Gratitude with some wonderful classes coming this weekend!!

*Very Special guest teacher coming to lead our class for Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am.  Please join Yoko Koshi and engage with her beautiful energy in our very own yoga room.  If you haven’t reserved your spot, please do so now.  You will not want to miss this incredible yoga teacher!!! Jai Ma!*

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***Saturday, 11/22 at Yoga For Life & Sunday, 11/23 in Shoreham for Grateful Yoga***

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Join us for a special Asana Class with

Live Musical Chanting & Thanksgiving Food Drive!!

November 22nd at 9 – 1015am

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Yoga for Life in Setauket

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Come celebrate the joyful energy of fall and flow in this ninety minute asana class infused with live music and chanting. Discover how the elements of music and yoga come together as Lois leads us in a gentle, meditative flow while Amy and friends serenade you with original, meditative compositions of ancient chants. A beautiful vibrational experience joining breath, movement, music and spirit!

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 Class Cards Welcome – Walk In $20 – Donations for Musicians much appreciated

As well as a food pantry donation (toiletries, soaps, paper goods always needed)

Advance registration and a prepayment will secure your spot in this special class.

For more information or to register, contact:

Lois Healion at 903-3558

TSalt5@optonline.net

Or

Amy Perri at 839-0644

yogawithamy@optonline.net

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8th ANNUAL

GRATEFUL YOGA CLASS

INSTRUCTOR, KATHY SIMOS

Easy Flow Class

An annual fundraising drive to provide families in need with supermarket gift cards so that they can purchase whatever they need to feed their families on Thanksgiving Day.

ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT OUR LOCAL FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE, RIVERHEAD (www.fsl-li.org)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2014

$20 donation

10:00 am – 11:15 pm

at the
THE SHOREHAM VILLAGE COUNTRY CLUB
At the end of Woodville Road on the LI Sound

Bring your King Kullen or Stop and Shop gift cards in

$20 denominations

or

Bring a check made out to:  FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE

in the memo area write :“Riverhead Family Center-Holiday”

For information call: 849-3517   ksimos62@optonline.net

Space is limited so please reserve now!  Bring a mat, water and your gratitude!

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 – November 2, 2014

Be Self-controlled!
Give!
Be Compassionate!
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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This is the true aim of yoga, this is the goal.  To learn to control the mind when it leans towards selfishness, egoism, fear and negativity.  The ultimate aim of all our yoga practices are to bring our focus inward so we realize all the peace we seek comes from our true divine nature.  A yogi feels the lack of noting, therefore, there is no need for hoarding, competition or greed.  The yogi knows all comes from and all will return to the divine source; that in our natural state we are all one.
Be Self-Controlled by following an ethical path. Give by coming from a place of abundance.  Be Compassionate so others can gain strength from your strong spirit.
This is the aim of yoga, these are the true goals.
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Yoga this Week
Meditative Monday Evening at 715pm
Tuesday Morning at 93oam with Meditation to follow class
Wednesday Evening Open Level 7:15pm
Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930am
(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed, please note evening classes need a minimum of four to sign up by 5pm to run)
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Happenings
Today!!  Call library to see if there are still spots left and join us on this windy, wild day for: 
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.  Still a couple spots left, join us  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 715-915pm with Ben Craig!!
Click on the link for more info
Yoga and Live Musical Chanting and  Thanksgiving Food Drive
November 22nd at 9am at Yoga For Life in Setauket
Regular Class Fees and Class Cards Apply along with Food Pantry Contribution- Donations for Musicians Appreciated

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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