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Yoga this Week – December 14, 2015

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Greetings Dear Friends,

Hoping this email finds you well rested and at peace within your life.  Sometimes we feel enveloped in darkness and are searching for light and sometimes we are the light for others.  We must remember that we are all ordinary people that have the potential to serve in extraordinary ways.  Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Martin L King, and many, countless others,  were merely ordinary people who responded to a call much greater than themselves.  “There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter “.  Allow the beautiful lights of the holiday season to remind you every moment that this powerful healing spirit is available to you always.

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Yoga this Week

Monday Maryhaven Yoga 5:15pm – Special Musical Class

Tuesday Morning Yoga with Meditation

Thursday Evening 7pm

Friday Morning Healing Yoga

Please reserve your spot in class

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Sweet Smelling, thoughtful trinkets for Gift Giving

Essential Oil Rolls to Go available for purchase when you come to class

One for $7 or 2 for $12

Also have Indian Lavender Incense, Lavender Satchels, Kids Yoga Books and a few Indian Silk Scarves for sale.

Gift Certificates for classes, privates or reiki sessions also available

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Happenings – Click on the link for details

Events & Workshops

Winter Solstice Gathering  – Monday, December 21st 7pm

Hope you can join us for this special evening of music, intention setting, meditation and fun!!!

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Keep your eye out for your North Sore Public Library’s Winter Newsletter – January 15th, Yoga with Live Music with Me, Laurel Torres and Dave DeBennedetto! and February 19th, Kirtan with Me, Dave and Jim!!  Our Library rocks…

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Therapeutic Gentle Yoga with Philosophy and Meditation beginning Wednesdays January 13th 10 to 1115am.  You can send in your payment of $55 for all five sessions as soon as you can to hold your spot.  Class size is limited and beginning to gain momentum.  I can’t wait to teach this class!

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Namaste

Amy

Yoga this Week – December 7, 2015

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Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world
so worthy of rescue.

Martha Postlewaite

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Dear Yoga Students,

Read this poem over and over until it sinks in.  This is Yoga, this is what it means to go within and have the patience to wait till the right action arises.  This is how you will know how to give of yourself and be of service to those in your life in the best possible way.  Within the rush of all the comings and goings, create that clearing and allow your song to sing itself through you, as you from where you are in this moment!

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Yoga this Week

Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation to follow

Thursday Evening 7pm

Friday Morning 930am Healing Yoga

Saturday Morning 10 – 11am North Shore Youth Council Fundraiser

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Happenings – Click on link for details

https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/

Yoga with Live Music Fundraiser for the North Shore Youth Council’s Scholarship Fund

Saturday at 10am – $10 per person – All Proceeds to go directly to the Fund – Join us!!

8th Annual Winter Solstice Gathering

Monday, December 21st at 7 to 9pm

Essential Oil Rolls to Go available for purchase when you come to class

One for $7 or 2 for $12

Also have Indian Lavender Incense, Lavender Satchels, Kids Yoga Books and a few Indian Silk Scarves for sale.

Gift Certificates for classes, privates or reiki sessions also available!

Therapeutic Gentle Yoga with Philosophy and Meditation beginning Wednesdays January 13th 10 to 1115am

Let me know if you are interested.  Class size limited.  Thanks

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Yoga this Week – November 30, 2015

**Scroll Down for info Rocky Point PTA Holiday Boutique- NSYC Fundraiser – Winter Solstice**

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“You can look at every single problem in your life as an opportunity for some greater benefit;

you stay alert to opportunities by being grounded in the wisdom of uncertain,

so when your preparedness meets opportunity,  the solution will spontaneous appear.” 

Deepak Chopra

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Dear yoga Students,

My wish for you on this beautiful Monday morning is that you find yourself feeling grounded in in the wisdom of uncertainly surrounding yourself in peace.   The wisdom of uncertainty is based in the reality that we are merely floating through space and time, traveling to  unknown shores.   It is relinquishing our perceived control and going with the flow of our lives, open to possibility at all times.  When we get stuck in trying to control, we become attached to outcomes and instead of being open to possibilities, we become closed and miss the very solution that is presenting itself.  Grounding yourself in the wisdom of uncertainty, allows you to be free to explore, create and be spontaneous.  These are the true gifts of being alive.

 Whether you are trying to balance in a yoga pose, sit on your meditation cushion, or enjoying a holiday if your trying to achieve perfection, it will only elude you,  create judgments, increase stress and take you away from the very energy you desire.  Instead breathe into the possibly of just being and see what arisises.   Stay open, flow and float, enjoy the moment and find the serenity and excitement  that comes from resting in the field of uncertainty.

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Yoga this Week

Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation to follow class

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Thursday Evening 7pm Open Class

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Friday Morning 930am Healing Yoga

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Happenings

December 5th:  Join me at the Rocky Point PTA Holiday Boutique this Saturday,  from 9am to 3pm

I will have a table with my essential oil blends, incense, books and special discount pricing on class cards, gift certificates and private sessions

I will also be offering mini reiki sessions and oracle card messages!  Come stop by and visit me!

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December 12th:  Yoga & Live Music Fundraiser at the North Shore Youth Council at 10 to 11am!

$10 per person – All proceeds go to the NSYC Scholarship fund to benefit struggling students in the surrounding school districts with higher education costs.  Contact:

http://www.NSYC.org

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December 21st:  Winter Solstice Celebration 7pm– My favorite holiday party of the season.

This year we will have our whole Kirtan band together (Me, Annalee, Jim and Dave).  Bring any percussion instruments you have to help make some noise on this night of deep darkness celebrating the return of light!!  A small dish to share is much appreciated.  Let me know if you plan on attending.

January 2016 – Gentle/Therapeutic Yoga, Meditation and Philosophy Class forming – Please let me know if you are interested!  I can’t wait to teach this class!

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Yoga This Week – November 23, 2015

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Much Love and Gratitude to all of you who continue to practice here.  We are not only yoga students that come together to practice, we are a community of like-minded individuals raising vibrations collectively to lift the energies within our community and the larger world.     I am truly humbled to be able to bring you this ancient practice in my home in the traditional way it was taught many thousands of years ago!  Much   gratitude to  all who find their way to our yoga room, sangha and into my heart.   Shanti, shanti, shanti!  Ooooommmmmm

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Happy Thanksgiving!!   There will only be Tuesday Morning Yoga this Week.  Try not to skip your practice.  Regular Schedule resumes next week.

Tuesday Morning Yoga at 930am will incorporate savasana with Reiki Energy and Essential Oils (if desired) and  a gratitude meditation.  Please bring a journal to capture your meditation insights if you like. 

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I will be dropping off Our Food Pantry Bin collection Tuesday Afternoon, if you would like to contribute, It is much appreciated!!

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Happenings

Win a 60 Minute Private Session

Put your name in the box everytime you come to class and be in the running for a 60 minute private lesson for you or someone you love.  The busy season ahead causes many of us to skip our self-care practices (like yoga)!  Why not make a commitment to take care of yourself this holiday season and be the best you can be.  The more times you make it to class and your name goes in the box the more chance you have to win.  The hour session can be used in any way you like; reiki, restorative, Vinyasa, meditation, essential oils, etc.  Winner will be drawn mid January

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Bring a friend to Yoga and receive a Lavender Oil Roll to Go!

I am now blending essential oils for your pleasure outside the yoga room.  Many of you have asked me about the blends I commonly give out during savasana, click on the link on my website for details on the blends.  Sample them when you come to class!

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Yoga Jam!  Saturday Morning, December 5th at 8:30 to 945am

Yoga Jam is a fun, Vinyasa flow incorporating energetic music, detoxing pranayama and an engaging sequence sure to leave you energized and uplifted. All levels welcome.  We need at minimum of students to sign up for this class to fly!  Sign up, its a blast and a great way to start the day.

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Yoga with Live Music Fundraiser, Saturday,  December 12th 10am

North Shore Youth Council in Rocky Point.  Join me as we help the NSYC raise scholarship funds for local high school students getting ready for college.  $10 per person, all levels and ages welcome!

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Save the Date for our Winter Solstice Celebration, Monday, December 21st at 7pm!  

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Yoga this Week – November 16, 2015 – Win a Private, Bring a Friend!

 **Friday Morning moved to Thursday Morning at 10am for this week**

**Scroll down to see yoga contest, December Yoga Jam and Winter Solstice dates**

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

 

Hari Om Dear Yoga Students,

Look around you this morning. Take in the sights and smells of Fall. Breathe in that energy and allow your life to be enough. Call to mind all you have been given. All the blessing and hardships; even trials and tribulations are gifts in disguise. The obstacles in our path allow us to move deeper into our human experience which humbles us enough to be able to reach out for help.  Witnessing all the beautiful outreach these past few weeks is an amazing testament to the power of compassion in action.

Dark times can have the ability to move us away from the material into the spiritual; drawing us nearer to the divine source that carries us through the days when we simply cannot walk on our own. Experiencing the light within the dark (yin and yang) we come to the realization that Santosha (contentment) becomes possible no matter what circumstances surround us right now.

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Classes for this Week

Monday Maryhaven Yoga 5:15pm

Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation at 11am

**Thursday Morning Healing Yoga 10-1115am**

Thursday Evening 7-815pm

**Please note that Friday morning class is moved to Thursday morning, please let me know if you plan to come**

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Happenings

Win a 60 Minute Private Session

Put your name in the box everytime you come to class and be in the running for a 60 minute private lesson.  The busy season ahead causes many of us to skip our self-care practices (like yoga)!  Why not make a commitment to take care of yourself this holiday season and be the best you can be.  The more times you make it to class and your name goes in the box the more chance you have to win.  The hour session can be used in any way you like; reiki, restorative, Vinyasa, meditation, essential oils, etc.  Winner will be drawn mid January

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Bring a friend to Yoga and receive a Lavender Oil Roll to Go!

I am now blending essential oils for your pleasure outside the yoga room.  Many of you have asked me about the blends I commonly give out during savasana, click on the link on my website for details on the blends.  Sample them when you come to class!

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Yoga Jam!  Saturday Morning, December 5th at 8:30 to 945am

Yoga Jam is a fun, Vinyasa flow incorporating energetic music, detoxing pranayama and an engaging sequence sure to leave you energized and uplifted.  Please reserve your spot!!

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Save the Date for our Winter Solstice Celebration, Monday, December 21st at 7pm!  

 

Amy

Yoga this Week – November 9, 2015

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“In this lovely season when the dance of surrender is obvious, we find large spaces left where something beautiful once lived. As one by one the leaves let go, a precious emptiness appears in the trees.  The naked beauty of the branches can be seen; the birds’ abandoned nests become visible.  The new spaces of emptiness reveal mountain ridges.  At night if you stand beneath a tree and gaze upward, stars now peer through the branches.  This is an important autumn lesson—when certain things fall away, there are other things that can be seen more clearly.  The same truth can be celebrated in our personal lives”

                                        Excerpt from “The Circle of Life” by Joyce Rupp & Macrina Wiederkehr

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With the grace of a tree letting go of her leaves with all her majesty and beauty, we learn to let go, making peace with the transitions in our lives. We face the stark reality that nothing lasts forever.  Things ebb and flow, autumn teaches us to honor what is dying, changing and urges us to embrace the fact that everything is always moving and flowing into something new, even if we are standing still.  Chanting one of my favorite mantras yesterday with a group of open, like-minded people, (sa ta na ma – wha hey guru) reminded me to breathe and embrace these inevitable changes.   The circle of life, death, rebirth and infinity tells us that all endings eventually become beginnings and that the walk through the hallway from a door that has closed behind us maybe dark, maybe challenging, but always leads to yet another opening, another awakening or a new perspective.  Go outside and enjoy the spaces in the trees where now the light comes in.  Feel the sun on your face as you chant:  SA TA NA MA – WHA HEY GURU and allow your life to flow.

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Yoga this Week

Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation to follow

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Thursday Evening 7pm Yoga Mixed Level Vinyasa

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Friday Morning 930am Healing Yoga

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Happenings

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Friday Night Kirtan at Yoga by the Bay in East Moriches celebrating the studio’s Four Year Anniversary 7pm!!

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 Monday, December 21st Winter Solstice Celebration – Kirtan – Intention Setting – Sangha – Refreshments 7pm

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Gentle Therapeutic/Meditation Class forming in January – Gentle Asana, Philosophy, Meditation, Breath work

Contact me for details

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I am now a Reiki Master!  Very excited to share this gift with you.  Contact me for a Reiki Healing Session or if you re interested in becoming a Reiki Practitioner.  Reiki is a gift you can use on yourself, your family, your pets or anyone you come across that could use some healing energy.  I will be holding a Reiki workshop very soon to inform you of its history and applications in our everyday lives.

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Om Shanti!!!  May there be Peace for you and all beings everywhere!

Amy

 

 

 

Yoga this Week – Kirtan on Sunday & New Class Forming!!

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“Clay is molded into vessels and because of the space where there is nothing you can carry water. 
Space is carved out from a wall and because of the place where there is nothing you can receive light. 
Be empty, and you will remain full…”
                                       Lao-Tzu

Dearest Yoga Students

Hoping this email finds you enjoying the bright morning sunshine and aware of all that you have been given in your life.  The more we become empty, the more we become full.  When we give ourselves time to become quiet, stilling the inner chatter of our minds and our bodies, we can become receptive to our lives instead of trying to control the direction.  Try to carve out a little emptiness in your lives as the days become shorter.    If you give yourself the gift of quiet reflection; whether you come to yoga class, journal, sit in silent meditation or cuddle with a loved one, you will allow yourself to be filled with the love, light, energy and peace that is always there for the taking.  A vessel that is full has no room;  so open your doors and windows, de-clutter your inner house and make space for the things that truly matter.

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Classes for this Week

Private Yoga Classes and Reiki Healing Sessions are always available – Contact me for details

Monday Maryhaven Yoga 5:15pm

 

Tuesday Morning at 930am with 11:00 Meditation following class

Yoga for Kids at FJC 4pm – Last Class of Session

  Thursday Evening at 7pm

Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am

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

The Yoga Class at Caruso’s Restaurant is suspended until the Spring when we can utilize the beautiful courtyard outside.  Thank you all for your support in raising funds for the Invited Inn Soup Kitchen and Laurel for teaching.  We raised a total of $230!!

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Happenings

 Kirtan Sunday, November 8th at 3-5pm at Gentle Strength Yoga in Mt Sinai (656-5357)
Kirtan is a call and response form of group chanting that is known to calm the mind, lift the spirits and raise vibrations!  Plus, its fun!!  Join me on harmonium, Dave on Guitar and Jim on percussion as we join together to feed the hungry among us!  $15 per person with an item to be donated to our local Food pantry (non-perishable food items, toiletries, and/or paper goods are always a good idea)

New Gentle Therapeutic Class Forming:  Calling all those who are more inclined to practice a very gentle/therapeutic form of yoga.  This class will be for those new to yoga or simply feel a gentler class is most appropriate due to physical, emotional or spiritual issues.  The class will consist of pranayama (breath practices), gentle yoga postures, philosophy and meditation.  I am looking at either 10 to 1115am on a Monday or a Wednesday.  This will be a session class to start (4 classes for $48).  We need at least four to sign up.  Let me know if you are interested, feel free to pass on the information to someone you feel could benefit.

By popular demand, I am blending essential oils for your enjoyment at home.  Many of you have asked me for the blends I offer during our classes, if you are interested go to my website and click on the Essential Oil blends tab.  I will have some available for purchase when you come to class or you can contact me to order.  This is my newest passion!!

Stay tuned for our next Reiki Circle & Restorative Yoga coming soon

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Enjoy the day, hope to see you soon.

Namaste

Amy

Yoga this Week – October 19, 2015 – No Friday Class this Week

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Never give up. No matter what is going on. Never give up.

Be compassionate. Not just with your friends but with everyone. Be compassionate.

And I say again, Never give up. No matter what is going on around you. Never give up. Never give up.

-The Dalai Lama

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Sometimes we feel as if we can’t go on. The mountain is too big, the task too daunting, the yoga pose too difficult, the situation too unmanageable.   It is always helpful to remember that even the most incredible tasks begin  by taking the next or first step, however small or insignificant that step may seem, it is a step forward non the less. Even if it means stepping back, collecting your thoughts, formulating a plan or just taking repose.  Keeping our minds on the action we need to take and letting the result rest in the hands of the universe, allows us to be in the present moment, even in difficult times.   You are enough, you have everything you need to move forward.  All you have to do is believe in yourself, let go of excuses and just begin.

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Regular practice of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability”

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Yoga this Week

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Monday Maryhaven Yoga 5pm

Tuesday morning 930am with Meditation to follow in Yoga Room

Tuesday Yoga for Kids at FJC 4pm

Thursday evening 7pm All Levels Vinyasa in Yoga Room

**No Friday Morning this Week**

Yoga at Caruso’s Restaurant 9:45am Sunday Morning

(Please reply to reserve your spot for Yoga Room Classes)

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Happenings

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Yoga at Caruso’s is gaining momentum, our donations are increasing every week, thank you!!!  Our indoor class was awesome  with the sun pouring in and Dave on his guitar, we were breaking down walls and creating space!!  Join us this week as Laurel Torres leads us in her sweet flow!

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October 28th Restorative Yoga, Reiki & Acupuncture with Essential Oils – 7 to 9pm.  Here are what some participants are saying:

” I describe it less like a class and more like a healing”

“Amazing restorative yoga last night with you and Ben, thank you. I felt a the love you both put into your work and the rest and healing was amazing.”

Contact me to register for this special session!

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Kirtan and Food Fundraiser Sunday, November 8th at 3 to 5 pm at Gentle Strength Yoga in Mount Sinai!

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Stay Tuned for the date to save for our annual Winter Solstice Gathering!

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Yoga this Week – October 5, 2015

“Again and again ~ Return like Mountain ~ Release like Ocean ~ Relax like Sky ~And Rest ~ Rest in the Heart of Pure Awareness” Living Buddha

 

Greetings dear yoga students,

Hoping to see all of you returning, releasing and finding rest this week in your yoga practice!!

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Yoga this Week

Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation to follow

Tuesday Yoga for Kids at 4pm at FJC School

Thursday Evening 7pm Open Level Class

Friday Morning 930am Healing Yoga

Sunday Morning 9:45am Yoga at Caruso’s with Live Musical Accompaniment

(20% of proceeds from Caruso’s Classes to go to The Invited Inn Soup Kitchen in Rocky Point – Class Cards Honored)

 

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Happenings

Restorative Yoga, Reiki & Acupuncture with Essential Oils with Ben & Amy – Two Dates to choose from

October 16th 7pm at Peconic River Yoga http://www.PeconicRiverYoga.com

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October 28th 7pm in our Yoga Room

(These workshops fill up quickly so please reserve your spot.  A prepayment of $55 is due for the session held here on October 28th- Contact Peconic River Yoga for details on how to sign up for October 16th

Watch for announcement on the Kirtan in early November with me, Annalee & Jim!

 

Reminder Yoga Tonight – Thursday 7pm

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Greetings on the chilly first day of October.  Just a reminder that our evering class is now being held on Thursday nights at 7pm, and today is Thursday!  Let me know if you plan on coming if you haven’t already.

 

This Sunday we have a special guest musician, Dave Benedetto serenading us with his sweet guitar playing at Caruso’s for Yoga.  Sunday morning Yoga at Caruso’s courtyard will be an on going class where 20% of all proceeds will go to the Invited Inn Soup Kitchen in Rocky Point.  In the event of inclement weather,  we will move our yoga indoors to a peaceful space where we will be kept dry and warm.

 

Never hurts to check your messages or facebook in the event of cancellation of any classes before heading out.  .