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Yoga this Week-July 8, 2024

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A glimpse into my Turks & Cacois Experience

The pose is what you’re doing the yoga of that is how you are being.

We take the pose of a warrior, the pose of a child, the pose of the Sun, the Moon and a dancer. 

You’re not only embodying the physical form but embodying the actual essence.

Its like when you’re staring over turquoise layered water with a grayish- blue sky dotted with soft clouds.  Are you able to embody the scene around you, merge with it and allow it to penetrate every pore of your being?

Can you recognize that we are part of everything and everything is in us?  Can you find a welcoming home where ever you happen to be?

Yoga calls us home…home to ourselves and helps us to welcome it all in.

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Tuesday Slow Flow 10am

Wednesday 7pm on the Beach

Friday Gentle 10am

Your mat awaits you!

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Yoga this Week-December 5, 2022

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“Yoga does not just change the way we see things it transforms the person who sees”

BKS Iyengar

Hari Om Dear Friends,

Look around you. Really take your time and look around. Be thankful for the little things that make up your daily round. Acknowledge the blessings in having the comfort of a home where you feel sheltered and protected. Walk around your space; whether it be in your yard, around your house or your apartment. Consciously take in all the blessings that surround you. Yoga not only transforms how we see things but transforms the person who sees. What do you see around you today?

Sonny taking in all the Reiki leftover from the Synergy Session

Yoga this Week On Zoom and In Person

1030am Chair Yoga with Joann

930am Tuesday Morning Slow Flow

 6:15pm Wednesday Evening Meditative Yoga

930am  Friday Morning Gentle Yoga

Much gratitude to all those that attended the Sunday synergy session with me and Lauren. We will be adding another session early next year. These sessions have a limited number of spots and sell out quickly. If you see it on the schedule and you’re interested I would suggest signing up as soon as possible.

Yoga gift certificates are available all year round. Why not give the gift of yoga to someone that you love?

Shanti!

Amy

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Yoga this Week-January 23, 2022-No Friday Class

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Yoga Sutra 1:2 – Chitta Vritti Nirodha

Yoga is to quiet the mind long enough so we can become present to the experience that is in the here and now. Pema Chodron put it beautifully in speaking about meditation. “You are [essentially] training in interrupting the of the wandering mind and going right to the experience itself” When we “train” our minds to come back from wandering (into the future, past, fantasy or fear), the reality of our lives becomes clear and we are able to receive the moment in all its complexity and wholeness.

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Please be sure to register for the class through zoom at least 30 minutes prior to start time.  You can even register a few days in advance if you like.  Any questions, please feel free to contact me.   Thanks.

 1045am Monday Morning Chair Yoga

9:30 am Tuesday Morning Class

 645pm Wednesday Night Yoga

A few spots still open. Click https://myyogawithamy.com/spring-awakening-retreat-march-19-2022/ for details

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Yoga this Week – December 13, 2021

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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…..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.” (from The Velveteen Rabbit

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. In becoming real, you can’t become ugly, you ultimately become the beautiful, spiritual, loving being you always were meant to be

Yoga this Week - February 12, 2012

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Classes are being held in person with limited spots, please contact by email, text or phone if you would like a spot in person (Vaccinated Only Please) . Register for ZOOM live stream through the below links.

 1045am Monday Morning Chair Yoga

9:30 am Tuesday Morning Class

 645pm Wednesday Night Yoga

9:30am Friday Morning Gentle

Gift Certificates available by email or in person. Give the gift of yoga to someone you love! 

Sign ups for this Spring Retreat have begun. Spots are limited. Don’t miss out on the early bird pricing ending on January 19th! Click https://myyogawithamy.com/spring-awakening-retreat-march-19-2022/

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Yoga this Week – December 5, 2021

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Inspiring Yoga Quotes for Your Practice

Yoga helps to ground us into ourselves so that whatever it is that is happening outside of us, (which we cannot control) has limited ability to throw us off balance. We come back to our inner stability, literally stand on our own two feet, feeling the spine become long, our gaze fixed straight ahead and our hearts expand with compassion, clarity and love.

The Modern Vedic — Tadasana - The Mountain Pose

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Classes are being held in person with limited spots, please contact by email, text or phone if you would like a spot in person. Register for ZOOM live stream through the below links.

 1045am Monday Morning Chair Yoga

9:30 am Tuesday Morning Class

 645pm Wednesday Night Yoga

9:30am Friday Morning Gentle 

Sign ups for this Spring Retreat have begun. Spots are limited. Don’t miss out on the early bird pricing ending on January 19th! Click https://myyogawithamy.com/spring-awakening-retreat-march-19-2022/

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Yoga this Week – September 26, 2021

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The Yoga of Service • Ram Dass

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Greetings dearest yoga students and friends,

A deep bow of gratitude for all who contributed to our fundraising efforts on Autumn Equinox. It was such an uplifing evening. I certainly felt freer, higher, clearer, lighter and more energized (as Ram Dass put it in the quote above) and grateful for being able to bring together such a beautiful community of souls to sing, move and honor the turning of the seasons.

Speaking of Equinox….I booked Camp DeWolfe in Wading River for a Spring Equinox Day Retreat! Save the date of March 22, 2022. I know Spring is a whole half year away but I’ve been wanting to lead a retreat ever since our Goddess Getaway was thwarted by “that which we shall not name” in 2020! Let me know if you would like to put your name on the preliminary list. More details to follow!

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Class are being held IN PERSON (either outdoors weather permitting or in Yoga Room) & ON ZOOM. Please contact me via text or email to come in person (space limited-vaccinated only) OR register on ZOOM prior to start of class.

 1045am Monday Morning Chair Yoga

9:30 am Tuesday Morning Class


 645pm Wednesday Night Yoga

Wednesday night will be the last class until I return from my trip. Regular schedule resumes on October 11th with Chair Yoga. Hoping to come back with lots of inspiration from the West!

I am offering a Tuesday evening class through the Rocky Point Adult Education Department beginning Tuesday, September 12th at 6pm. If you are interested click here to sign up with the flyer. You don’t have to be in the district to sign up. http://www.rockypointufsd.org/Assets/District_Documents/Fall_2021_Flyerdocx.pdf

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yoga this week – august 22, 2021

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Greetings Dearest Yoga Students,

A full moon is on the rise for tonight and I have so much gratitude that the storm spared us!  Just like a snake, the moon sheds the past month day by day as gracefully as the sky holds it in its embrace.  We to must learn to let go, to shed the past over and over again until it becomes natural to feel its impressions slip through our fingers.  We can carry a lifetime of regrets or passively fear the inevitable changes that are coming we can make the decision to empty and become full again. Take time to meditate on the Full Moon this week.  Allow its fullness to remind you that cycles come around, things pass and things come.  Let its bright light remind you to shed the light of awareness on this moment.  The present moment where past and future stand still and all possibilities await you.

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Yoga this week

Monday Morning Meditation 9:45am

Zoom Only

9:00 am Tuesday Morning Class

On Zoom and in Person

Wednesday Evening Yoga on the Beach 630 pm Click Here for Info

9:00 am Friday Morning Gentle Class

On Zoom & In Person –

Saturday Morning 11am Yoga in the Park

Class held in the park behind Tilda’s in Rocky Point Under the Awning-Rain or Shine!  Click Yoga in the ParkUNCATEGORIZED

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yoga this week – July 11, 2021

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Please note there is NO TUESDAY MORNING CLASS this week. To do a pre-recorded class go to my YouTube Channel and pick one

detachment

   “Detachment is simply letting go of all you hold fast to in your mind. It doesn’t actually mean losing anything, simply changing your relationship with the things in your life today. The greatest pleasure for every soul comes as a result of choosing detachment. Why? Because attachment is a form of slavery that takes place in our own minds. And the result of detachment? Real freedom”

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Raga:  The Klesha of Attachment
 
Raga is translated at attachment and attachment causes suffering when we try to hang on to things that are impermanent or chase after a a certain experience that caused us pleasure.  Like all the kleshas, or afflictions, at their core lies confusion of what is permanent and impermanent, real and unreal and largely based in fear.  Unhealthy attachment is born of fear of not getting what we want, fear of losing what we have, fear of letting go.  
 
The opposite of fear is faith.  So to release the grip of Raga we need to have faith and a deep understanding that the the comings and goings of all we love and find comfort in are a natural part of the cycle of life; letting go allows you to access the peace of mind you seek.  When we make decisions from a truly detached place; from a place of calm abiding, wisdom and love, we set the inner spirit free to move us toward all that is good, true, and right in our lives.   Letting go of attachments to how things should be, of what we need to be whole, happy human beings,  allow our lives to be a  journey of wonder, gratitude and contentment. 

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Monday Morning Meditation 9:45am

Passcode:  062007  Meeting ID:  865 8163 1780

No Tuesday Morning Class this Week

Wednesday Evening Yoga on the Beach 7pm Click Here for Info

9:00 am Friday Morning Gentle Class

Saturday Morning 11am Yoga in the Park

Class held in the park behind Tilda’s in Rocky Point Under the Awning-Rain or Shine!  Click Yoga in the Park

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Yoga and Kayaking Adventure – Friday August 13th at 1pm (Rain Date August 14th) launching out of Setauket Harbor. $30 per person.   Spots limited.  Contact me to sign up.  Details to follow.  

 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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yOGA THIS WEEK – JUNE 20, 2021 – NEW START TIME FOR TUES & FRI MORNINGS!

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*PLEASE NOTE:  TUESDAY & FRIDAY MORNINGS ARE BEINGING AT 9AM FOR THE SUMMER MONTHS* 

Greetings dear yoga students,

“She began to realize that identifying her practice with things that could be lost [advanced postures or deep states of meditation],  would always leave her susceptible to fear anything that could be taken away through sickness, aging or life circumstances, was not a very wise thing to stand on.  It  was then that she realized the only security lay in using her yoga practice to tether her awareness to the part of herself that was and is eternal. ”  Donna Farhi

Avidya is the core klesha from which all the others arise.

Avidya – Spiritual Ignorance

Asmita – Ego – Persona -False Self

Raga – Attachment to Pleasure

Dvesa – Aversion to Pain

Adhinivhesa – Fear of Death/Loss 

These Kleshas or misperceptions are basically the core confusion of what is permanent with what is impermanent and the suffering we cause ourselves when we try to hold on to these impermanent things.  We all have fear of losing things we hold dear.  It may be loved ones, our jobs, our health, our strength, our physical appearance or the myriad of ego driven personas we believe ourselves to be.  The yoga sutras tell us that if we are aware of these Kleshas at the root, and Do not allow them to take hold in our psyches, we can release their power. Finding rest within the eternal part of ourselves illuminates the truth that  uncertainty is a core part of our existence. This understanding  is the key that gives us the courage to see through false promises and lack of control so we can ultimately  let go to live with freedom, peace and joy!

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YOGA THIS WEEK

Monday Morning Meditation 9:45am

Passcode:  062007  Meeting ID:  865 8163 1780

11am Chair Yoga Monday Morning

9:00 am Tuesday Morning Class

Wednesday Evening Yoga on the Beach 7pm Click Here for Info

9:00 am Friday Morning Gentle Class

Saturday Morning 11am Yoga in the Park

Class held in the park behind Tilda’s in Rocky Point Under the Awning-Rain or Shine!  Click Yoga in the Park