Greetings dearest yoga students,

As I returned from my five day retreat held at the beautiful Omega Institute in Rhinebeck New York, I was amazed at how a small break from my everyday routine both inspired  and rejuvenated my mind, body and spirit.  My program was amazing (I’ll mention more of that if you come to class this week) but what was most profound was my commitment to arise early and participate in the daily 7am hour meditation each day.  Held in a sacred space my meditation was both deep and serene and had an amazing effect on the rest of my day.  I was more patient, joyful and my thoughts were more compassionate and positive.    It is for this reason that I am committed to continue this practice on a daily bases (maybe not an hour but at the minimum 20 minutes first thing in the morning)  and I intend to infuse a meditation within each class.   I hope you continue to benefit and grow from all of your spiritual practices as we walk down this beautiful road we call life together.

Yoga this Week

Tuesday Morning 930am Yoga & Meditation

Wednesday Evening 715pm Yoga & Meditation

Thursday 1199 Retiree Yoga 11am Yoga & Meditation Riverhead

Friday Morning 930am Healing Gentle Yoga & Meditation

Events & Workshops

10-23 – Tuesday Evening AHA 630pm(Asperger’s & High Functioning Autism) Caregiver/Family Support Group in Rocky Point Click AHA Website

10-27- Saturday – Downtown Rocky Point Fall Festival – 11 to 4pm.   I will have a table with fun games for the kids, discount classes, mini-readings, essential oils, and yoga stuff for sale.  Come and See Me and bring the kids!!!  Looking for volunteers to come hang at my table with me for a bit, if you volunteer you will receive a free mini reiki healing and card reading.  Let me know.

11-6 – Tuesday – Synergy Session – Restorative Yoga, Reiki & Acupuncture with Oils  at 7pm – Pre-Registration $60 – Walk-In $75 if space allows.  Click Synergy for details.  Contact me to sign up.

11-29 – Thursdaay – Reiki Healing Circle with Oracle Card Readings at 7pm

Everything we do takes willingness.  A willingness to take risks, to trust yourself and others, to remain open even when it’s difficult and,  most of all, a willingness to be vulnerable.  When you do your practice, try to go deeper than just the physical pose; have a willingness to let go of habitual patterns of thought and open up to the beautiful, authentic, imperfect being that is perfectly you.

Yoga this Week

Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation

No Wednesday Evening this Week

Friday Morning Healing/Gentle Yoga 930am

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

Please give a warm welcome to our guest teacher this week, Lorraine,  as she leads you through your practice.  Experience her beautiful, uplifting teaching style and be willing…

 Workshops & Events

Yoga this Week

Monday Maryhaven Yoga at 515pm in Port Jefferson

Tuesday Morning at 930 with Meditation

Wednesday Evening 715pm with Meditation

Friday Morning Healing Gentle Yoga at 930am with Meditation

Tomorrow night!

Reiki Healing Circle

October 4th – 7 TO 830PM

Join us for a beautiful evening of healing and sharing energy. All are welcome whether you are new to Reiki, a Reiki practitioner, or just curious to know what it’s all about. Reiki is an ancient healing modality and is non-invasive. The healing energy is channeled through the hands of the practitioner to the receiver. Reiki calms the nervous system, releases muscle tension and emotional imbalances. Reiki enhances the body’s own capacity for healing love and light.

Contact me for location details if you have never been to my space.

Suggested donation $10 per person. If possible bring something to be donated to our local food pantry.  Please reserve your spot.

Hoping this email finds you well.  Being with my teacher, Rolf Gates, this weekend was both enlightening and challenging.  It is so important to step away from your everyday demands and immerse yourself in practice, whether it is for a weekend, a day or one class.  Yoga can help us find our center over and over again when our minds or bodies have strayed.  To be open and willing, available and  aware, steady and committed is to remain teachable and present to whatever arises in the moment.  Erhard Tolle said “Whenever we step into the present moment, we are able to taste the sacredness of our lives”.  This is yoga, this is union with what is truly important, your life, here now.

Yoga this Week

Tuesday Morning 930am Vinyasa Yoga & Meditation

Wednesday Evening 715pm Slow Flow Vinyasa Yoga

Thursday 11am 1199 Retiree Yoga and Meditation in Riverhead

Friday Morning Gentle Healing Yoga & Meditation 930am

(Please Reserve Your Spot or Cancel if your Plans have Changed)

Workshops and Offerings

Click here for Details

Wednesday 10/3 Yoga For Kids K-5th Rocky Point Community Ed – 4 Sessions

Thursday 10/4 Reiki Healing Circle 7pm

Wednesday 10/8  NEW MOON MEDITATION 10am

Thursdays 10/11  Yoga for High School Students Rocky Pt Comm Ed-4 Sessions

Tuesday 10/16 Synergy Session – Restorative Yoga, Reiki, Oils & Acupuncture 7pm

AHA Support Group this Thursday 630pm (scroll down for details)

Holding the Balance-Ode to the Autumn Equinox

 Our lives hold grief and balm in equal measure, light, darkness are two ends of the same stick.  How do we hold all this life, all these dualities of sadness and joy, receiving and letting go, failures and successes, dreams and regrets, doing and not doing? The Tao Te Ching tells us that when we become empty we receive all that we have been grasping for.  This emptying and filling is why we are here.  To learn to let go with the grace of a tree in fall, to go within to shine the light where it has remained dark.  To share our burdens and our joys together in our sacred goddess sangha away from who we think we are, judgments and demands.  As we empty and prepare for what is to come,  planting seeds of intention; we find gratitude as we give rise to what is germinating deep inside as we honor the balance of light and dark. (AP)

The Equinox Goddesses 2018

Yoga this Week

Tuesday Morning 930am Vinyasa Yoga & Meditation

Wednesday Evening 715pm Slow Flow Vinyasa Yoga

Thursday 11am 1199 Retiree Yoga and Meditation in Riverhead

Friday Morning Gentle Healing Yoga & Meditation 930am

(Please Reserve Your Spot or Cancel if your Plans have Changed)

Workshops and Offerings

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Thursday 9/27 AHA (Aspergers Syndrome & High Funct Autism) Caregiver Support Group 630pm

Wednesday 10/3 Yoga For Kids K-5th Rocky Point Community Ed – 4 Sessions

Thursday 10/4 Reiki Healing Circle 7pm

Thursdays 10/11  Yoga for High School Students Rocky Pt Comm Ed-4 Sessions

Tuesday 10/16 Synergy Session – Restorative Yoga, Reiki, Oils & Acupuncture 7pm

**No Friday Morning Class this Week**

“The habit is holding on, the practice is letting go.”
“When I begin a meditation the fullness of my experience, the fullness of my life, often rushes in and I have a moment of resistance. “How can I bare all of this life?” Then I remember that to be the space that can hold all of this joy, all of this sensation, all of this love, all of this sadness, all of this knowing, all of this not knowing, all of this life….. I just need to let go.”

Rolf Gates

With Autumn Equinox around the corner, it is the perfect time to practice letting go.  Let go and feel the freedom of honoring the present moment.  Without realizing it, we can walk through our days carrying the weight of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow.  “The habit is holding on, the practice is letting go”.  Practice right now with your next exhalation and let go of something you are resisting; some tension or some belief that is holding you back. and notice all the  spaciousness and lightness that letting go can offer.

Yoga this Week

Tuesday Morning at 930 am with Meditation to follow class

Wednesday Evening at 715pm (Back in the Yoga Room)

Thursday 1199 Retiree Yoga in Riverhead 11am

Friday Morning Class is Cancelled this Week

Friday through Sunday is the Forth Annual Equinox Goddess Yoga Retreat in Shelter Island!!

Workshops and Offerings

Click HERE for Details on the following

Thursday 9/27 Reiki Healing Circle 7pm

Wednesday 10/3 Yoga For Kids K-5th Rocky Point Community Ed – 4 Sessions

Thursdays 10/11  Yoga for High School Students Rocky Pt Comm Ed-4 Sessions

Tuesday 10/16 Synergy Session – Restorative Yoga, Reiki, Oils & Acupuncture 7pm

So excited to be offering these two special four-week sessions! One for kids K thru 5th grade and one for High School Students.

See printable flyers below!

Both classes offered through the Rocky Point Community Education Office.  Click this link to print the registration form. Fall Community Education Registration Form

Must be paid directly to Community Education through the mail or drop off to school.

Let me know if you have any questions.  YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A ROCKY POINT RESIDENT OR PART OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ATTEND!

Last beach yoga for season was amazing.  Hope to see you in the yoga room!

photo credit goes to Alina!  Thank you all

Yoga this Week

There are no classes Tuesday or Wednesday this week

We will have Friday Morning Healing Yoga with Meditation at 930am
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(Please reserve your spot in class or cancel if your plans have changed)

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Workshops and Offerings

Click this link for more details Workshops and Events

Thursday, October 4th at 7pm – Reiki Healing Circle
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Tuesday, October 16th at 7pm – Restorative Yoga Reiki and Acupuncture with Oils click for details Synergy Session.