Category Archives: Musical Chanting and Yoga

Yoga this Week – May 10th, 2015 – No Friday Morning Class

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A Blessed Mother’s Day to all!  I hope you enjoyed your day as much as I have.  Remember that although cultural holidays are “supposed” to be happy and joyful, they often also come with a fair amount of sadness or grief for what used to be, what we hoped would be or for who we have lost along the way.  Allow yourself to feel your feelings as much as possible.  Happiness and Sorrow are both different ends of the same stick.  Have compassion and gratitude for those around you as we honor the great mothers that surround us as well as inside of us.

May you find peace and serenity in knowing you are loved!!

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Classes for this Week

Meditative Monday Evening 7:15pm

Maryhaven Yoga in Port Jefferson 5pm

Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation to follow

Wednesday Evening 7:15pm

Thursday Afternoon Yoga for Kids 4pm

 **No Friday Class this Week**

(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

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Namaste and special thank you to all those that mother others!!

Amy

http://liyoga.org/

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 – 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 – December 8, 2014

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Sangha

Teach me what I cannot learn alone.

Let us share what we know, and what

we cannot fathom.  Speak to me of 

mysteries , and let us never lie to one another

 

May our fierce and tender longing

fuel the fire in our souls.  When we

stand side by side, let us dare to focus

our desire on the truth.  May we be

reminders, each for the other, that 

the path of transformation passes

through the flames.

 

To take one step is courageous;

to stay on the path day after day,

choosing the unknown, and facing

yet another fear, that is nothing

short of grace. 

                        Danna Faulds

Relay for Life 2011

Yoga this Week

*Meditative Monday 7:15pm

Maryhaven Special Ability Yoga at 5pm at Port Jefferson Center

Tuesday Mixed Level Yoga at 930a with Meditation to follow class

*Wednesday Evening Vinyasa 7:15pm

Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930am

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

*Please note evening classes require a minimum of four to sign up prior to 5pm*

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Happenings

Winter Solstice Celebration – Friday December 19th 7pm

Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture – Wednesday, January 7th at 7pm

Stay tuned for info on our 2015 Fall Equinox Retreat

For more information, visit the Event page on my website

Peace and Love

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!*

 Yoga this Week - February 12, 2012

***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!