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Yoga this Week – May 26, 2014 – Happy Memorial Day!

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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.

It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost,

but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe

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Greetings dear yoga students,

Hoping this email finds you enjoying a peaceful Memorial Day Holiday as we honor those that have fought in service to our country. If we allow service to be at the center of our lives; in our work, families and communities, our lives will have true meaning and our dharma (one’s righteous duty or virtuous path) will surely be fulfilled.

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Hanuman – The Monkey God

Hanuman is known as a powerful example of true devotion and service.  He is worshiped as a symbol of physical strength, fierce perseverance and devotion.  In the epic tale of the Ramayana he overcomes ordeals, obstacles and fear enabling him to perform supernatural feats  in order to save his master, Rama’s wife, Sita; all in the honor of service.

 

Become aware of where or who you are meant to serve in this lifetime, connect to your dharma.  Life is fleeting, our greatest accomplishments are those of the heart  , so put your energy into serving your fellow human being and although it may not be dramatic, rest assured it is true heroism in its purist form

hanumanasa hanuman

 

 

Yoga this Week

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Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation to follow

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Wednesday Evening at 730pm

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Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am

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

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Happenings

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Yoga and Live Musical Chanting at North Shore Public Library – Friday, May 30th

 Registration is Free – This Class is currently full – Call to get on waiting list or come and see if there is space available that evening!!

http://alpha2.suffolk.lib.ny.us/iii/calendar/month/C&R=41

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Yoga and Hiking Retreat June 5-8 at Windham Mountain – Still some spots left…Who would like to take the adventure???

https://www.facebook.com/events/236485009865105/

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Yoga on the Beach Begins end June!!!  We were just approved by the North Shore Beach Association –  Details to follow

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Kayaking and Yoga Adventure June 29th in Setauket

 www.MyYogaWithAmy and click on Events

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On a personal note, asking you to  send prayers and good energy to my stepson, Jason, who is in the Air Force and  was deployed to Afghanistan last month.  Much Gratitude to you all…

Shanti

Amy

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Yoga this Week – May 18, 2014

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“What we are trying to do in yoga is to create a union, and so to deepen a yoga pose is to actually increase the union of the pose, not necessarily put your leg around your head.”

Rodney Yee

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Each time we come to our mats, we have a chance to explore interconnectedness. We begin with our breath and move into our bodies, but it doesn’t stop there. As we create union with a pose, we adjust, consider, explore, become present and breathe into the experience. We soften into the edges of the pose and watch them dissolve as we flow moment to moment. Much the same way we can choose to unite and connect with the situations and interactions in our life. We can choose to lean in, yield and be present, to connect and unite with everything inside and around us with curiosity instead of expectations. As you move into this day, feel into the energy around you. Connect with the elements of nature. Let the sun, earth and sky serenade you as you flow guided by that wonderful teacher that resides within you. Rather than judge your day by how much you accomplish, see or do, choose to unite, connect and deepen into the mystery that is your life.

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Classes this Week

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Monday Evening 730pm Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture

(One Spot just Opened up if you are interested, email me asap)

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Tuesday Morning 930am Yoga and Meditation

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Thursday Evening at 730pm

(Wednesday Evenings return next week – I promise)

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Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930am

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Happenings

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Our Yoga Hike was a wonderful, relaxed experience.  If you were not able to make the event but would still like to contribute to the donations going to the Invited Inn Soup Kitchen at Trinity Lutheran Church in Rocky Point, I will have a basket out when you come to class this next week.  All and any donations are greatly appreciated.  This soup kitchen feeds families in our local area each week with a free hot meal!

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Yoga and Live Musical Chanting at North Shore Public Library – Friday, May 30th

Registration is Free – This Class is currently full – Call to get on waiting list or come and see if there is space available that evening!!

http://alpha2.suffolk.lib.ny.us/iii/calendar/month/C&R=41

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Yoga and Hiking Retreat June 5-8 at Windham Mountain

https://www.facebook.com/events/236485009865105/

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Yoga on the Beach Begins end June!!!  We were just approved by the North Shore Beach Association –  Details to follow

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Kayaking and Yoga Adventure June 29th in Setauket

 www.MyYogaWithAmy and click on Events

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Shanti

Amy

 

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**Hari Om Tat Sat – Evening Class & Yoga Hike **

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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

 

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Yoga this Week – Happy Mother’s Day! Jai Ma!

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***Please note that the evening class this week will be on Thursday Evening at 730 – Wednesday Night resumes next week***

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Happy Mother’s Day to you all.  Be kind, be loving, offer acts of gratitude to all the mothers in your life.  Allow yourself to be bathed in the light and beauty of the unconditional love of the divine mother in all her forms.

Jai Ma, Victory to the divine mother!

I offer you a poem that I wrote when I first became a mother, 18 years ago.  I hope you enjoy it.

mother earth namaste

“You Teach Me”

As I teach you to grow, you also teach me

As we go through each day, we learn how to be

Your freestyle way of going through life

Has taught me not to hurry or strife

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You always seem to want to play

Never worrying about the day

You trust in me like no one before

Although it seems I love you more

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I am your “mommy”, a highly respected position

My best role so far, a lovely transition

From girl to woman, from wife to mom,

I’m learning, you teach me.  Life goes on….

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Yoga this Week

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Tuesday Morning 930-1120 with Meditation

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Thursday Evening at 730pm

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Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am

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Saturday, May 17th Yoga Hike 8:45am

Events & Workshops

Please reserve your spot in class or cancel if your plans have changed

Hope to see you soon!!

If anyone would like to volunteer to help clear the trail for our yoga hike, let me know!!

Shanti!

Enjoy your day

Amy

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Yoga this Week – May 4, 2014

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“Your nature is absolute peace. You are not the mind. Silence your mind through concentration and meditation, and you will discover the peace of the Spirit
that you are, and have always been.” Remez Sasson
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As we learn to find the divine in our pyhsical practice of yoga;  in our bodies, minds and spirits, we may begin to discover the divine in the everyday moments as well.  When we become centered and aware that there is a profound spiritual presence surrounding us, a powerful energy force enabling us to delve deeper into our own life is released and the little things that used to bother us, begin to melt into the background.      We intuitively begin to realize that trivial things that used to take up so much space in our minds, are things we will never remember years from now and they are as transient as the wind.  Working with Tapas (self discipline)  and learning to burn through the blockages that keep us from our true essence on our mats enables us to transform our everyday life.  Begin to notice your everyday reaction to the little hindrences that sometimes crowd our days.  Practice not engaging but rising above and, perhaps, you may begin to notice that spitrual presence and powerful energy hiding behind every corner you turn empowering and blanketing you with calm, self-control and peace.

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Classes this Week

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Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation

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Wednesday Evening 730pm

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Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930am

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

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Happenings

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Yoga Hike at Corwood Landing in Mount Sinai – Saturday, May 19th

 9-11am

 Please join us for an easy hike down to the beautiful shores of Long Island Sound incorporating a gentle practice on the beach

Please let me know if you are interested. Details to follow.

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Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture – May 19th – 730pm

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Yoga and Live Musical Chanting at North Shore Public Library – Friday, May 30th

Registration is Free – Non-Cardholders welcome to sign up beginning May 5th

http://alpha2.suffolk.lib.ny.us/iii/calendar/month/C&R=41

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Yoga and Hiking Retreat June 5-8 at Windham Mountain

https://www.facebook.com/events/236485009865105/

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Kayaking and Yoga Adventure June 29th in Setauket

 www.MyYogaWithAmy and click on Events

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Yoga this Week – April 26, 2014 – Wed Eve Yoga switched to Monday for this Week

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Greetings,

Peace to you all on this rainy Saturday Morning.  This will be brief as I am heading out to the Yoga Darshana Retreat….Jai!!

Yoga this Week

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Monday Evening at 730pm

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Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation to follow

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Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930am

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

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Happenings

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Watch for your North Shore Public Library May/June Newsletter as I will be playing and singing behind a gentle flow yoga class led by Linda Lindaman on Friday evening, May 30th.  Sign up is open to non-cardholders starting on May 3rd.  More details to come…..

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Thursday, June 5 at 6:00pm
Windham Retreat Center, Windham NY
Led by Brian Miller and the group at Mind Body Adventures
Consider joining my for this special 4 day/3night escape into the mountains of Windham!  Benjamin Craig and I will be co-facilitating our Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture with Essential Oil sessions during the weekend which also includes hiking, meditation, Sangha and more.  Click on the link for more information.
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Keep your eye out  for our Yoga and Kayaking trip in Setauket on June 29th!!  Yay.  Details to follow

 

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Summer Solstice in Times Square – June 21st

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Namaste and Jai Ganesha!!!  Its time for Yoga in Times Square!!!!

From the city streets to the sandy shores, we know how to flow…..

hasta banda beach

We are planning on taking the 8-915pm Sunset Yoga Flow in Times Square on June 21st.  This event is free but click the link and get your ticket as soon as possible so we can al be together.  I just got mine!!!  WhoHooo.

 

 

http://www.timessquarenyc.org/events/solstice-in-times-square/index.aspx#.U1kie3lOUeF

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Yoga This Week – April 20, 2014 – Happy Easter

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Greetings Dearest Yoga Students,

Peace to you on this glorious, sweet tasting day.  Feel the rejuvenation of the earth enter your spirit.  Allow your senses to delight in the colors, smells and atmosphere of spring!!!  Take each moment as it comes, accepting your fate, whether difficult or easy, as your pathway to peace.

loka with om

Classes for this Week

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Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation to Follow

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Wednesday Evening at 730pm

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Friday Morning Healing/Gentle Yoga at 930am

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Saturday is the Yoga Darshana Spring Renewal Retreat!  Looking forward to retreating, playing, and chanting with you all!!

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

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Happenings

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Watch for your North Shore Public Library May/June Newsletter as I will be playing and singing behind a gentle flow yoga class led by Linda Lindaman on Friday evening, May 30th.  Sign up is open to non-cardholders starting on May 3rd.  More details to come…..

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Thursday, June 5 at 6:00pm
Windham Retreat Center, Windham NY
Led by Brian Miller and the group at Mind Body Adventures
Consider joining my for this special 4 day/3night escape into the mountains of Windham!  Benjamin Craig and I will be co-facilitating our Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture with Essential Oil sessions during the weekend which also includes hiking, meditation, Sangha and more.  Click on the link for more information.
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Keep your eye out for the date for our Yoga and Kayaking trip in Setauket in June!!  Yay

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Amy Perri, Beach Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Middle island Yoga, Miller Place Yoga, North Shore Public Library, Rocky Point Yoga, Shoreham Yoga, Uncategorized, Yoga with Amy

Yoga this Week – April 13, 2014

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“We must work assiduously on the process of self-purification, for whatever we do to improve the world will be infused with the energy with which we do it”
                                                                    Marianne Williamson 
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Dearest Yoga students,
Be diligent to keep yourself pure.  Pure in thought, word, action and intention in every moment.  Look inside, get quiet whenever you can.  Create practices that allow you to go deep within and clear yourself of built up toxins in body and mind.  Focus on the energy and intention you bring to your daily round.  The outcome of whatever we do is always the sum of how we approach the task.  “If we take care to honor and care for the roots of the tree, the branches and leaves take care of themselves”.  Clear your energy, align with your highest intelligence and watch your day unfold and flow with the grace that is inherent in our divine destiny.
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Yoga this Week
Monday Night 730pm Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture
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Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation to Follow
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Wednesday Evening at 730pm
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Friday Morning 930am Healing Gentle Yoga
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Saturday 8:30am Yoga Jam!!!!
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(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
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Shanti, Shanti, Shanti!!!
Amy
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Yoga this Week – April 5, 2013

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“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.  Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language.  Do not now look for the answers.  They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them.  It is a question of experiencing everything.  At present you need to live the question.  Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
                                    Rainer Maria Rilke
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 Yoga this Week
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Tuesday Morning 9:30am with Meditation to follow class
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Wednesday Evening at 730pm
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Friday Morning 9:30am  Healing/Gentle 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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April 12th at both the 9am and 11am classes at Peconic River Yoga in Aquebogue, I will again be providing musical chanting with Kate, Director of PRY leading asana.  The studio is a wonderful place to practice and its a beautiful ride out to the North Fork.   , Click on the link to sign up.  Regular Class Fees apply

http://www.peconicriveryoga.com/code.php?type=gallery_projects&series=3

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The next Yoga Jam is scheduled for April 19th…Come on Yoga Jammers….Yoga Jam is a fun, freeing, faced paced flow class set to rockin, rhythmic music meant to fire up the body, mind and spirit.  All Levels Welcome.  Saturday, April 12th at 830-945am.  We  need four students to sign up for class to fly…please reserve

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Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture with Essential Oils scheduled for Monday, April 14th at 730pm

This session is now FULL – if you have signed up, please get your prepayment in, if you would like to be on the wait list for a spot, let me know.

 Cost is $50 and holds your spot.

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Yoga Darshana Spring Renewal Retreat is just about full, just a couple spots left. April 26-27th.  Please note that a wonderful massage therapist is now joining the retreat offering aromatherapy massages throught the day and evening Saturday the 26th.  Call the studio to reserve if you like. 

http://www.yogadarshanacenter.com/Springrenewalretreat.html

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Once again I am teaching the Vinyasa Section of Yoga Darshana’s 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training.  Click on the link to sign up…their new studio renovation is now complete and it is amazing!!

http://www.yogadarshanacenter.com/200hour.html

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Thursday, June 5 at 6:00pm
Windham Retreat Center, Windham NY
Led by Brian Miller and the group at Mind Body Adventures
Consider joining my for this special 4 day/3night escape into the mountains of Windham!  Benjamin Craig and I will be co-facilitating our Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture with Essential Oil sessions during the weekend which also includes hiking, meditation, Sangha and more.  Click on the link for more information.