“Yoga is a balancing factor, a substratum across all of your life, so you do not get shifted in one direction or another. It gives you freshness, gives you light, recharges your batteries. You become a stable person. You realize what balance is, what sukha is, what contentment is, what joy is.”
~ Birjoo Mehta

Hoping to see you all in class this week so together we can recharge, rebalance and stabilize to experience yoga’s true gifts;  sukha (sweetness), contentment and joy!!!

Yoga this Week

Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation

Wednesday Evening at 7:15pm –  Weather permitting On the Beach – Weather not cooperative in Yoga Room

Thursday Evening 7:30pm – Restorative Yoga, Acupuncture & Reiki with Essential Oils Workshop

((Still two spots open if anyone has a desire to experience sheer bliss and total relaxation!))

Friday Morning 930am Healing Yoga

Sunday Morning 845am Yoga on the Beach

(Please reserve you spot for Yoga Room classes or cancel if your plans have changed)

Happenings

Want to be part of a yoga group summer book reading?  I would like to offer a timed classic to read together for the summer.  Ann Morrow Lindberg’s  “Gift From the Sea”.  This is a treasure I pull out every summer and always find it refreshing, deep and engaging.  Let me know if you would like to join me and we will set a date for a nice discussion towards the end of summer.

****Stay Tuned for the return of Monday Evenings beginning August 4th for those of you who prefer to practice indoors in the everning****

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A Note on Beach Yoga:  Please click on the link for details regarding yoga on the beach.  If you need to acquire a parking permit from me, you need to arrive at least ten minutes before the start of class as I will be locking up a few minutes before class start time to get down to the beach and teach.  If you do arrive late, there a three or four public “safe” parking spots on Acadia Road (the road just down the hill to the left of the walk way on the street).

Also, if walking up the stairs proves to be too taxing, you can always choose to walk up to the parking lot  via the path on Hallock Landing.  Its much more gradual.

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Any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Namaste!!

“Your life is a sacred journey.  It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul, learning to see clearly and deeply, listening to your intuition, taking courageous challenges at every step along the way.  You re on the path…exactly where you are meant to be right now …And from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, and of love”

                                                                                                          ~~Caroline Adams

 Hoping this email finds you all well, enjoying this sacred journey we call our lives.  Returning home from my yoga and hiking retreat this weekend, I am reminded of the great power in being still, being challenged, being opened and being free.  Stepping out of our comfort zone, whether it is to sit on a meditation cushion, step on to our yoga mats, climb a mountain or open ourselves up to another, helps to expand our “vision of what is possible” in our lives.  Life itself is the greatest journey we will ever take.  It is an adventure into the unknown forest of emotions, into the complexity of our minds, the amazing resilience of our bodies, the flowing energy of relationships and most importantly, an adventure into that deep inner wellspring of compassion and love  from which all magnificent tales of triumph are born.

Yoga this Week

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Tuesday 930am with Meditation

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Wednesday Evening at 730pm

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Friday 930am Healing Yoga

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

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Happenings

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Kayaking and Yoga Adventure & Fundraiser June 29th in Setauket

http://www.myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops

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Yoga on the Beach Begins Sunday June 22 at 845am!!! –  Details to follow

Shanti!!

Amy

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“All Spiritual Journeys have a destination of which the traveller is unaware. Most of us who start out on the yoga mat do not realize that, if we dedicate ourselves to practice, it is only a matter of time until the mat becomes an altar”

Stephen Cope

Greetings dear yoga students,

The practice of Bhakti Yoga is the yoga of devotion. Every pose we take, every breath we inhale, every intention and action is practiced as devotion to our divine source.  The deeper we penetrate our physical world through our asana practice, we realize the divine lives in all things physical and that the physical lives in all things spiritual and we tap into the energy of yoga (connections).   When we tap into the energy of yoga or connection of mind, body and spirit we can experience, what Bhakti yogis aim for; a “direct, intense, personal relationship with the divine or simply with life itself”.

Practicing yoga this morning in the middle of the woods  with the birds, trees and sun, it did not take long for my yoga mat to become an alter.  Seemingly magically,   my physical practice transformed into an experience of being deeply connected to everything around me and inside of me, even the sound of children playing in the distance became part of the musical symphony that was playing inside and around me.  I was completely immersed in Bhakti Yoga, devoting my practice to my divine source.

There are countless ways to practice Bhakti yoga. Chanting spiritual mantras, praying with beads, gardening in the earth’s soil, relishing the light in a loved ones eyes, playing with a child or finding compassion in your heart when it is needed most are all postures we can take to express our devotion to the divine forces that are all around us. We can also come to our formal yoga practice with dedication and reverence for this ancient science which enables us to transform our own yoga mat into a sacred space where we come to be in the presence of the divine that is both inside, outside and in all things.

Greetings on this beautiful day!

Reminder that the 730pm Class is on Thursday evening this week and next week, after that Wednesday evening will return again!

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Regarding the Yoga Hike – The weather is calling for possible showers so check your email or website before heading out.  The rain date for our hike will be Saturday, May 31st, just in case.

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This is a beautiful chant that is an ancient verse from the Vedas, one of the original yogic texts that we have been chanting in class this week.

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Hari Om Tat Sat:   thus is not uttered casually, but is said when the speaker is in that ineffable state of Grace where :  You, Me, everything, everybody, is permeated with a Divine, Spiritual essence.  This chant honors that essence in the material and spiritual realms.  It declares and acknowledges that Spirit infuses everything. 

Shanti

Enjoy the day and choose to see Spirit infused in everything!!

Amy