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Snow, ice, snow, ice…No Class Tonight!

Greetings again yogi’s and yogini’s,

As you probably figured by now, there won’t be yoga class tonight.  Its just too crazy out there!!  I hope you all remain warm, safe and dry tonight.  Let’s see what the morning brings for our Tuesday 930am class.  I sincerely hope the roads are clear, the walks get shoveled and schools are open!!!

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“May I float through my life like the beautiful snow flakes outside my window.  Each individual and unique, no one like the other, gracefully becoming one with all that exists.  From the sky it comes and to the sky it will return”

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Shanti, shanti, shanti.  Oooooommmmmmmm

Stay Safe, Stay Warm – Do Yoga – Hope to resume on Wednesday Night!

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Being Snowed in can be such an opportunity to enjoy slowing down, catching up on some reading, spending time on your mat or cuddling in to watch a good movie.

Hope by Wednesday night we are all cleared out and ready for our 7:15pm class.

If you are out in the snow, remember to stretch before, after and during.  If you get the urge, the snow is a great place to do a headstand!!

 

Peace & Love

Amy

 

Yoga this Week – January 25, 2015

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

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

Author Unknown

Greetings dearest yoga students,

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

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

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Classes this Week

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Maryhaven Yoga at the Port Jefferson Center at 5pm

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 Meditative Monday Evening at 7:15pm

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Tuesday Morning at 9:30am with Meditation to follow

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Wednesday Evening at 7:15pm

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No Friday Class this Week

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

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Events and Workshops – Click on Link Below  for details

Events & Workshops

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prana, Teja and Ojas: Vital Essences of Transformation

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

$20 Exchange with Advance Registration

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Namaste

Amy

Co-creating Your Life Workshop Tonight at 7pm

There is still time to join us tonight!  Text me at 839-0644 if you would like to come.

Meditation with aromatherapy, journaling, creating, visualizing our dreams into action! 

Co-Creating Your Life – A Vision Board Workshop

Thursday, January 22nd 7-9pm

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“Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.”

   

Enlightenment happens, not in some far away distant esoteric place, but in the everydayness of life.  Enlightenment is an appropriate response to your inner callings and a willingness to act from your highest, intuitive self.   A Vision Board is a collection of images, words, affirmations or drawings that serve as a spirit-led guide for discovering and acknowledging what your soul is yearning for.   The universe wants to support your efforts to live a life filled with joy, abundance, adventure and purpose.   It is within the effort of creating the Vision that brings clarity as well as focus to your intentions so you can begin to live your life by your own design, free of fear based judgments or cultural pressures.

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The New Year is a great time to open your mind to more than traditional New Year’s resolutions, to have fun exploring your inner desires and create a fun reminder of the things that excite, endear and provoke you to live an inspired life!

This workshop will consist of a centering meditation, a simple writing exercise and choosing images and paisting them on a piece of oaktag.  Each participant is asked to bring 3 to 5 magazines of random genres to be cut up and shared, a picture of yourself that projects joy and happiness, and a small journal or notebook.  All other supplies will be provided.

Cost is $15

Please reserve your spot for this special workshop.

Namaste

Amy

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 22, 2014

PLEASE NOTE:  NO CLASSES THIS WEEK – NEXT CLASS IS MONDAY DECEMBER 29TH!
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 Together
We call down grace,
and gaze without wavering into the fires of creation
We find the place where
Love embraces fear and tears taste like faith
We let our radiance be revealed in laughter and in longing
We hold the whole of life, sweet grapes and bitter, healing herbs
We hold until we overflow
and offer back the gifts that we’ve received
The vessel never empties.
The growing love between us keeps it filled
Danna Faulds
 

 

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This poem, so eloquently, expresses how I feel about our sweet yoga kula (community of the heart)!   Thanks to all of you who attended the winter solstice celebration and for all your generous donations.  A big thank you as well to all who have attended classes, walks, outings or events here over the course of the year.  We have shared laughter, tears, courage, nature’s beauty,  embraced the changes, and found peace among each other.  Great friendships have taken root and steady practices bloomed.  Many blessings for this Holiday Season to you and yours!

Om shanti, shanti, shanti!!  May there be peace, peace and perfect peace everywhere.

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Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Essential Oil Session is January 7th!  Reserve your spot and start your new year off right!!  Click on my event page for more details.

Great things are coming in 2015!!

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Namaste

Amy

Yoga this Week – December 15, 2014

**No Class Tonight, Monday 12/15/14**

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People are like stained glass windows, the true beauty can be seen only when there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows. 
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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Yoga this Week

Tuesday Morning at 930am with Guided Meditation to follow class

Wednesday Evening All Levels Vinyasa 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 4 students to sign up prior to 5pm)

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Happenings

Friday, December 19th at 7pm is our 7th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration!  A special gathering of hearts and minds.  The room is filling up so please let me know if you plan on attending.

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

This event is free of charge although I do ask you bring a donation for our local food pantry at The Invited Inn in Rocky Point.  The food banks in our area are particularly low on supplies at this time.  You can donate   non-perishable food items, toiletry or paper goods or a monetary donation.  The important thing is that we, as a Kula, (community of the heart) give of what we have to help those that may be in need.

Start your 2015 off right with the Four Pillars of Restoration:

Restorative Yoga, Reiki & Acupuncture with Essential Oils is set for Wednesday, January 7th at 7pm

Please get your deposits in if you plan on reserving a spot.  Don’t delay, these sessions fill up fast!  Would make a most loving gift for someone at this time or any time!  https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/

Reminder that Yoga Class Gift Certificates are available for any quantity of group or private classes for any age or level!

Please be aware that teenagers are always welcome in my classes, contact me to reserve a spot.

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Peace, Love, & Yoga

Amy