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Yoga this Week – January 15, 2012

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“To one established in non-stealing, all wealth comes.”

– The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Sutra II.37

Asteya – Non-Stealing
 
As we continue our study of the Yamas, (ethical constraints that teach us how to interact with the world) we come to the third out of fifth yama which is Asteya.  Asteya is not stealing.  It is not looking beyond our own means (people, places or situations) to bring us happiness.  It is not taking something that is not given to us freely.  It is not manipulating, fabricating, or forcing things in a certain way to gain power, attention, material wealth or piece of mind.  Asteya works as a profound practice in our lives when we stop focusing on what we lack and become aware of all that we truly have in our lives in the present moment.  When you are established in Ahimsa (non-violence) and Satya (Truthfullness), stealing becomes an unacceptable behavior. Instead of coveting what another has, we rejoice in their happiness and contententment finds its way to us naturally as will all the abundance you seek. 
 
 
 The practice of asteya goes far beyond not phyically taking what is not yours but extends its concept to not “stealing” your own or someone else’s time, happiness or self-will. 
Think  about ways in which you may “steal” without realizing it:  Enabling another to continue a destructive pattern by excusing or accepting it, agreeing to do something when what you really need is to honor your own needs, not giving that well deserved compliment because of your own insecuriites, etc. 
 
Martin Luther King said that “All life is interrelated.  We are all caught up in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny”.  What we steal from others, we are ultimately steal from ourselves.
 
 
 
Classes for this Week
 
Monday and Thursday Evening at 730pm
 
Tuesday Morning at 930am with 11am  Meditation to follow
 
Friday Morning 930am Healing Yoga
 
(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
 
Live Kirtan with ShaktiPath on Saturday, February 4th at Breathe in Port Jefferson!!!
Come channel that  loving “shakti” energy with the healing power of music and chant!
 
Shanti, shanti, shanti
Namaste
Amy
 
 
 
Shanti, shanti, shanti!!
Amy

Amy Perri
RYT500
Registered Yoga Teacher 500 Hr
631-839-0644
http://www.MyYogaWithAmy.com 

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Yoga this Week – December 31, 2011

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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!
 

Celebrate, dream and allow the empty pages of the year ahead be filled with a vision of hope, happiness, fufillment and abundance for yourself and your life.  The secret art of abundance is simple:  Cultivate contentment by truly seeing how much you already have.   Use this brand new beginning to let go of old ways of being that do not serve you any longer  so you can make room for new perspectives and attitudes that empower you to empower others.  Just as our yoga asanas teach us that opposing actions empower us, (grounding down to rise up, huggin in to shine out, emptying to become full) we learn that the letting go actually allows you move forward. 

Take some time today to peacefully reflect on the past year and honor the lessons you have learned and the people that brought them to you.  Whether the lessons were full of grief,  joy, empowerment,  acceptance, perserverence or undconditional love, they were brought to you for reasons that may be beyond your human understanding.  Try not to try to hard if you are still wrestling with finding answers to your questions and trust that in the new year to come, more will be revealed when you are ready. Be gentle with yourself and others by responding with compassion and non-judgemental acceptance; try to live the questions as our journey of self-discovery never ends but only grows deeper as hours turn into days and days turn into years and years turn into a life well lived.

Lakshmi – Goddess of Abundance

Classes for this Week

Monday and Thursday Evening 730pm

Tuesday Morning 930am with 11am Meditation to follow class

Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930am

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

I wish you love, peace and contentment in this New Year and always.  Choose to see all that is divine in you and others as you move through your days.  Feel your connectedness, know you are being led and sometimes carried, give of whatever you possess and your life will have meaning and your heart will be full.

Blessings for a Happy, Healthy New Year

Namaste

Amy

 

 

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Yoga this Week December 24, 2011

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“My beloved child, break your heart no longer.
Each time you judge yourself, you break your own heart.
You stop feeding on the love which is the wellspring of your vitality.
The time has come.
Your time.
To celebrate.
And to see the goodness that you are.
You my child, are divine. You are pure. You are sublimely free.
You are God in disguise. And you are always perfectly safe.
Do not fight the dark. Just turn on the light.
Let go, And breathe into the goodness that you are.”
                                                           –Swami Kripalvanandaji (Bapuji)

Hari Om Dearest Yoga Students,
 
May Peace, Contentment and Joy fill your heart and soul this entire weekend and beyond!  Thank you sooo much for being part of our little yoga community.  The Winter Solstice Sangha was so much fun and the connection I see between you all fills me with such happiness.  Afterall, what truly is the most important thing in our lives? From my vantage point it is how we touch the lives around us.  Much gratitude to you for touching my heart so deeply and with such love. 
 
May you enjoy your life, this holiday weekend exactly how it is in the present moment,  for it will never be exactly like this again.  Breathe…..Relax…..Feel….Watch….Allow… the grace that surrounds you to flow through and around you just as the scent of something wonderful cooking fills you with the feeling of comfort, joy and happy anticipation of what is to come. 
Classes for this Week
 
Monday & Thursday Evening at 730pm
 
Tuesday and Friday Morning at 930am
 
(Please reserve or cancel if your plans have changed)
 
 
 
Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
Love & Blessings,
Amy

 



Amy Perri
RYT500
Registered Yoga Teacher 500 Hr
631-839-0644
http://www.MyYogaWithAmy.com 

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Yoga this Week – December 18, 2011

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If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one
fainting robin unto his nest again I shall not live in vain.
 ~ Emily Dickinson

 

The message in the above quote is powerful and simple;   Emerge from your own suffering and be of service in any small way and your life will have meaning and your heart will be full.  I take this opportunity to thank all of you for allowing me to be a small part of all your lives.  Your presence in class, on the computer or phone has had amazing effects on me and my life.  My personal path is being supported, clarified and illuminated everytime I lead a class!  Each time one of you expresses their gratitude for this humble space I have created, I am filled with the knowledge that I am being used for something bigger than I can even realize; even if in very small ways.    I cannot express enough how blessed I feel to have the opportunity to use this ancient system of yoga to “ease one life the aching or cool one pain” even if it is just the short time we spend together in class, the effects I see within me and you all are amazing. 

 

Never doubt what any small act of kindness can accomplish.  Live from you heart, experience the light the shines inside and reflect the brightness on to another giving them the opportunity to connect with the light they too have within. Most of all, I sincerely hope you enjoy this journey from the darkness into light and receive within your gifts of the holidays, more love than your heart can hold!

Classes for this  Week

Monday Evening at 730pm

Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation to follow class

Friday Morning 930am 

(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed, due to the Winter Solstice Party on Wednesday, there will be no Thursday night class this week)

Winter Solstice Celebration, Wednesday Evening 7 –  9pm

Winter Solstice marks the shortest day of the year and the first day of Winter.  As we journey deeper into the darkness the promise of light abounds.  Our winter holidays are festivals of light.  We celebrate the light within and around us.  We honor the warm light of those that are close to us as we come together as one:;  one voice, one breath,  one mindful purpose of giving and receiving peace, love and joy.

 

 

The Gaiyatrye Mantra

Om bhur bhuvah svah

Tat-savitur Varenyam

Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi

Dhiyo yo nah Pracodayat

“Let us meditate on the light of the sun which shines on the earth, in the sky and in space.  May this divine light shine also within us to inspire our intellects to make the right decisions at the right time.”

 

 

Namaste

Amy

 

 

 Amy Perri
RYT500
Registered Yoga Teacher 500 Hr
631-839-0644
http://www.MyYogaWithAmy.com 

 

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Yoga this Week – December 3, 2011

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“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. ….”Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked,   “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

                                                              — by Margery Williams, from The Velveteen Rabbit
Yoga this Week - February 12, 2012
Greetings Dear yoga students,
Becoming “real” and “living in your truth” is not painless or pretty, but a necessary step towards wholeness and healing.  It takes courage, stamina and faith to arise each day, stand in your truth and face your life in all of its reality;  turning away from nothing that you see.   This process of becoming real involves the art of clear seeing, compassion and a willingness to be used for a higher purpose.  Whether you are being faced with a challenging yoga posture, extreme life difficulites, mundane repitition, contentment or joy; stand firm with confidence that living side by side with reality is the only true path to Samadhi, enlightenment,  (or becoming real) which is the eighth limb of hatha yoga.
Samadhi is the eighth limb in the eight limb path of Hatha Yoga:   In attaining a state of complete union, equilibrium and undistracted inner contemplation we gain the ability to stand within our true selves (samadhi); bringing into wholeness that which the ego driven self dismantles.  It is the reintegration of a human as a whole.   In becoming real, you can’t become ugly, you ultimately become the beautiful, spiritual, loving being you always were meant to be.
Classes for this Week
Monday & Thursday Evening at 730p
Tuesday Morning at 930am with 11am Meditation to follow
Healing Yoga Friday Morning at 930am
(please researve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
Events Coming Up
WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION
Wednesday, December 21st 7-9pm
Chanting with ShaktiPath-Gentle Yoga-Meditation-Refreshments!
(please reserve)
Hope to see you all in class soon!
Peace & Love
Amy
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Yoga this Week November 6, 2011

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Keep Coming Back
 
Keep coming back to your breath
Keep coming back to your body
Keep coming back to who you really are.
 
No matter what life puts before you, keep coming back to all the beauty around you, to all the love inside you, to what really matters.  Even if you stray a thousand and one times, keep coming back to the truth of who you really are.  Keep coming back to the eternal, internal essence of you.  Keep coming back to what you know to be true; that the compassion you hold in your heart is meant as much for you as for every living being.  Keep coming back to all the love inside you.
 
Keep Coming Back

Classes this Week
 
Monday and Thursday Evening at 730pm
 Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation to Follow
 Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am
 (Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
 
 
**If you have signed up for the Yoga and Acupunture Class on November 16th, remember the payment is due by November 10th to hold your spot.  If you would like more information or to put your name on the wait list please click on the following link. 
My yoga retreat at Esalen was amazing!!  Taking time to step out of your regular schedule into a an atmosphere that supports a contemplative, healing space is truly a wonderful way to rejuvenate your mind, body and spirit.  Thank you all for the well wishes last week.  Looking forward to seeing you all real soon to share what I am able.
 
Sat Nam
(I bow to the truth within you)
Amy
 
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Yoga this Week October 29, 2011

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**Please note there will be no classes this week – Normal Schedule resumes on Monday, November 7th and I no longer will be teaching the Sunday Morning Hot Class***
 
“The most effective way to reduce health costs is to reduce demand,
and the easiest way to do that is by Self-Care.”
                                          Leonard Perlmutter

 
 
 
 
Hari Om dear yoga students,
 
Taking time for yourself, right here and now, is what will be most important to your physical, mental and spiritual future.  You most likely have heard many people (or yourself) proclaim “I don’t have the time to take care of myself…I’m just too busy with other demands to fit it in”.  This is truly an ironic statement.  The way I see it is that if we do not find the time for self care today, we will certainly be forced into taking the time later to nurse ourselves back to health (body, mind or spirit) in the future.  So in this day that we call the present, take any amount of time you can spare and do something nurturing for yourself.  Whatever is most appropriate for you today; read something spiritual, funny or uplifting, bundle up and take a walk, do some yoga, make a healthy meal,  take a hot bath or simply slow down the pace and practice being present.  Build up some self-care in the bank of your life and watch how your investment grows, rospers and spills on to everyone in your life.

 I will be taking my own advice this week as I travel across the country to Esalen at Big Sur in California to attend a five-day yoga retreat.  My hope is to release, renew and bring some interesting techniques back to all of you!! 
 
 
Have a wonderful self-nurturing week!!
 
 
 

Restorative Yoga and Acupunture Workshop – November 16th 7-9pm
Click on the link below for more information
 
(at present the Nov 16th workshop is full but if we get enouph people interested we will host a second night)
 
Namaste
Amy
 
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Amy Perri
RYT500
Registered Yoga Teacher 500 Hr
631-839-0644
http://www.MyYogaWithAmy.com 

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Weekly Email October 22, 2011

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**Please be aware that I am no longer teaching the Sunday Morning Rocky Point Hot Yoga Class, I will be happily sleeping in!** 
 

Verse 15  

The ancient Masters were profound and subtle.
Their wisdom was unfathomable.
There is no way to describe it;
all we can describe is their appearance.They were careful as someone crossing an iced-over stream.
Alert as a warrior in enemy territory.
Courteous as a guest.
Fluid as melting ice.
Shapable as a block of wood.
Receptive as a valley.
Clear as a glass of water.Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
Can you remain unmoving
till the right action arises by itself?

The Master doesn’t seek fulfillment.
Not seeking, not expecting,
she is present, and can welcome all things

 
 
Good Morning dearest yoga students,
 
This verse from the Tao Te Ching challenges us to live an unhurried life.  To be careful, alert, courteous, fluid, shapable, receptive and clear.  It asks us to be present and aware of our actions and reactions but to be open to what the flow of life is offering us.  To “remain unmoving till the right action arises” is not easy by any means.  Our media driven society is often targeting our fears and prompts us to do more, be more, work harder in order to acheive, be fullfilled, be happy.  The Tao offers us another way.  To become part of the flow of life, not to be stagnant or uninvolved, but to be still enough so that life simply is living moment to moment, letting go of past and future to find our own calm center.
 
 
When we work to become empty of expectation,  life presents us with the opportunities we need; resources magically appear,  ideas become realities and coincidences become miracles not by paniky pushing, but by becoming still enough so that you flow with the tide of life’s events.  Our dreams and desires rarely materialize exactly how and when we plan but if we open to all things that our life presents, one day we wake up and we are living our dreams.  All we have ever hoped for is right there in front of us.  Try and get quiet for a few minutes right now and meditate on all the things the divine plan has brought into your life.  Allow peace and serentity to flow in with your breath and let go of striving and expectation as you exhale. Let your entire being rest in the light of gratitude for everything that is flowing in and through you on this day feeling as “receptive as a valley and clear as a glass of water”.
 
 
 
Classes for this Week
 
Monday & Thursday Evening at 730pm
 
Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation to follow class
 
Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930am
 
*Maryhaven Class 5pm on Monday*
 
Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed. 
 
 
Restorative Yoga and Acupunture Workshop – November 16th 7-9pm
Click on the link below for more information
 
(at present the Nov 16th workshop is full but if we get enouph people interested we will host a second night)
 
 Peace, love and yoga,
Namaste
Amy

Amy Perri
RYT500
Registered Yoga Teacher 500 Hr
631-839-0644
http://www.MyYogaWithAmy.com 

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Yoga this Week October 2, 2011

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“When non violence (ahimsa) in speech, thought and action is established, one’s aggressive nature is relinquished and others abandon hostility in one’s presence”
                                           Yoga Sutras
 

Have you ever found yourself in the presence of someone who exudes such a peaceful energy that  just to be around them or hear their voice allows your shoulders to lower and your breath to quiet, generating a global feeling of relief?  Think about the kind of energy you generate when you walk into a room; the kitchen in your home, your office or school, a party, your car.  What kinds of prompts are you receiving from internal sources?  We can get caught up in inner voices that tell us to judge, fear or compete with others or ourselves which is a form of himsa (violence).  However, we can choose in any given moment to turn off those voices that badger and color our perceptions and create a new dialogue which is of a non-hostile nature creating space to fill wherever we are with a peaceful energy that others will gravitate to, benefit from and mirror back to us.   So for today, in honor of Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday: 

“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed.  Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well” 

 

Classes this Week

Monday and Thursday Evening at 730pm

Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation to follow class

  Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am

Please email or call to reserve a spot or let me know if your plans have changed. 
 

Warm Vinyasa Flow at Rocky Point Hot Yoga Sundays at 745am

ShaktiPath Kirtan – Live Music and Chanting
Rocky Point Hot Yoga
Saturday, October 15th 7-9pm
Click on this link for details and let me know if you plan to attend this special event!
 
Yoga at Maryhaven begins this Monday at 5pm – contact me for more info
 
 
**Thank you to all who have been so kind in remembering to bring something for the food pantry bin.  It is with much pride that I  bring all of your thoughtful donations down to the outreach center in Mt Sinai for which they are soooo grateful**.
 
“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, wand what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.  Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth”
                                          Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
 
Namaste
Amy

 

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Yoga this Week August 21, 2011

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Greetings dearest yoga students,
 
Hope you are enjoying this summer day and this email finds you well.
 
 
“To have a sacred place…is an absolute necessity for anybody today.  You must have a room (or corner of a room) …, where you can simply bring forth what you are and what you might be.  This is a place of creative incubation.  At first you may find that nothing happens there, but if you have a sacred place and use it, something (wonderful) eventually will happen”
                                          Joseph Campbell
 
Let’s face it, we could all use a week long retreat away from all of our demands and responsibilities but that is not always possible.  You can, however, learn to create that sacred space and retreat to it whenever you feel inclined.  Also carving out a certain amount of time at a specific time of day will give you the structure and discipline to find that quiet, alone time we all crave.  Whether it be 10 minutes sitting in quiet contemplation or an hour of gentle stretching, try creating a space of your own somewhere in your home.  Even if it is just a corner where you place a candle, journal or some other meaningful reminders.  Once you take the time to make this simple sacred space, you will soon wonder how you ever did without it.
 
 
 
Classes for this Week
 
Monday and Thursday Evening at 730pm
 
Tuesday Morning at 930am with Mediation to follow class
 
Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am
 
(please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
 
Please join us for the last Karma Beach Yoga of this year at
Cedar Beach 8-9am August 21st
Details can be found by clicking on the link below!!  Hope to see you here or there soon!
 
 
Namaste
Amy