To really understand yoga, you must experience it. Looking at pictures of exotic poses, studying spiritual texts or reading inspirational quotes is not where true wisdom comes from. It is only from experiencing the power of something yourself that you begin to know it and act from it. Consider the power of the ocean, the energy of an amazing sunset or a soul-stirring musical performance; you can admire it in pictures and read about it all you want but you will never know the trans-formative power unless you experience it first hand. Looking forward to seeing you in class this week to be in “experience” with you as we explore the essence of our yoga practice one breath at a time.
Yoga this Week
Chanting begins a few minutes prior to class start…Join Us!
Tuesday Morning Yoga 930am with Meditation following class
Wednesday Sunset Beach Yoga 7pm
Thursday Morning Pool Yoga 9am (Lets see how the weather is, quite a change in temperature this week)
Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930am
(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
Happenings
Book Talk – August 11th at Cedar Beach – “A Walk on the Beach” Please highlight or mark quotes or passages that were particularly meaningful to you and we will begin our discussion by sharing.
August 21st I will have a table at Studio E’s Open House from 11 to 4pm. I will be offering discounts on classes, private sessions and reiki healings as well as have some oil blends for sale. Come visit us!!
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 our intimate space honoring 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
Yoga this Week
(Chanting starts ten minutes prior to start of class – come for chanting, grab a percussion instrument in the basket on the desk before you come into yoga room, join in or just come and set yourself up for class and listen!!)
Tuesday Morning Yoga 930am with Meditation to follow
(Please reserve your spot in class or cancel if your plans have changed, please note that Sunday Morning yoga requires a minimum of students to pre-register for class to run, always check website or facebook page for Sunday Morning cancellationsbefore heading to beach)
Happenings
Thursday, August 4th at 730pm – Restorative Yoga, Reiki & Acupuncture with Essential Oils Summer Session – Spots are going fast, if you have reserved a spot, please get your pre-payment in as soon as you can. Contact me for details. Click on https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/ for more info.
Thursday, August 11th Book Talk: “A Walk on the Beach” will take place on Cedar Beach at 615pm (weather permitting)
Yoga and Kayaking Trip – Stay Tuned for Details in the next day or two!!
**Please note that Tuesday Morning Yoga time is switched to 9am for this week only – If you signed up for class please let me know you received the time change notification, thanks**
Hoping this email finds you well. The pull and the tug are everything. We can learn so much from our yoga asana practice when we go deeper than the surface pose. The tension, the pull and the tug in a posture creates the open lines of energy we are seeking. The grounding down to rise up and hugging in to shine out are what life is all about. Life is not about being free of struggle or tension but about the energy and strength that are created in the midst of it all.
Yoga this Week
Tuesday Morning Yoga begins at 9am this week!
No Beach Yoga Wednesday Night
Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930am
Sunday Morning Beach Yoga 9am
(Please reserve your spot in class)
Happenings
Looking forward to our book talk on “A Walk on the Beach”. If you are reading along with us and would like to join in our discussion, I would love to have a sunset talk at Cedar Beach possibly Thursday, August 11th, rain date August 18th at 645pm.
More info to come on our Yoga and Kayaking Trip very soon, its been a very busy summer for us over here!!
“Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions”. I love this quote from the late, great BKS Iyengar. Maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life is not as easy as it sounds. Situations, events, people and even our own minds can throw us out of balance leading us to act in, shall I say, less than skillful ways. The great news is that we have ways to return to equanimity and integrity. Just as if we are coming into a yoga pose, we can breath, feel, relax and realign to what is true, right and integral in the moment. Even if we have to stop and realign a thousand times a day, this is the practice and this is living your yoga. May you allow it to guide you through this day!!
Yoga this Week
Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation
Wednesday Evening 7pm Beach Yoga
Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930am
Sunday Morning Gentle Beach Yoga 9am (bring a shade umbrella if its very sunny)
(please sign up for Yoga Room classes, or cancel if your plans have changed – all information on beach classes can be found here http://www.myyogawithamy.com/beachyoga)
Just returning from Tulum, Mexico in the Yucatan Peninsula, I am filled with energy from the natural world both above and below the sea. It always amazes me how nature can both nurture, awaken, excite and renew our spirits. In the same way our yoga practice unites us to that which is everlasting and unchanging: Gazing at the shore and sky, swimming with the fish, and feeling the warm ground underneath the soles of our bare feet connect us to that which is in perfect balance and harmony. Enjoy this season of abundance, give thanks for the free world that we have the honor to roam and always, pray for those that are not as fortunate as we are right now.
Yoga this Week
Wednesday Evening Beach Yoga at 7pm
Thursday Morning Healing Yoga at 8:45am (This replaces Friday’s class this week)
Sunday Morning Beach Yoga at 9am
(Please sign up for class or cancel if your plans have changed)
**Next Week Normal Schedule Resumes**
Tree Pose in the Jungle
Watch for details on our annual Yoga & Kayaking Trip Saturday, August 6th
***Scroll down for important schedule alterations for this week***
“You have been given the gift of yoga; listen to it, act on it and you can break thrugh the bonds of karma. On this path, no effort made is lost and there are no adverse effects. Even a little practice of this dharma preserves one from fear. If your mind is chattering all the time and unsteady, there are too many choices and thoughts. But when your mind is clear and one-pointed, there is only one way to go”
From the Bhagavad Gita (Ancient Hindu Scripture)
Yoga this Week
Tuesday, June 28th at 930am
There will be no other classes this week.
Classes resume as follows:
Beach Yoga on Wednesday, July 7th at 7pm
Thursday, July 7th at 8:45am (will replace Fridays class)
Beach Yoga Sunday, July 10th at 9am
A new 23 minute practice video is up on the website. Click the link and enjoy. Its an amateur video but I think you will enjoy the practice. https://myyogawithamy.com/videos/
Beach Yoga taken from the cliff from a passerby. Wednesdays at 7pm & Sundays at 9am!
Happy Father’s Day to all! What a wonderful day to celebrate those wonderful beings we are blessed to call Fathers. I know I have had one wonderful dad by birth but there have been a number of other “fathers” throughout my life that I honor and send gratitude to. Some our relatives or friends but also there are those that have been father’s from a distance, either in books, songs, poems or classes. Allow gratitude to fill your heart today and every day for all the fathers in your life.
Here’s my favorite “Father’s Day” song by Cat Stevens, click on the link to enjoy!!
Yoga this Week
Tuesday Morning 930am with Meditation to follow
Wednesday Evening Yoga 7pm on the Beach! at https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/
Friday Morning 930am Healing Yoga
Sunday Morning 9am Yoga on the Beach at https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/
(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
Happenings
There will be no classes from Wednesday June 29th to Tuesday July 5th. Classes resume with Yoga on the Beach Wednesday July 6th. Make sure you always check the latest post for any changes in schedule. Summer’s Here!!!
I have ordered a few copies of “A Walk on the Beach” from Amazon for our group reading experience. I should have them in by Tuesday. The cost is about $5 each book from Amazon. We will try to get a date to meet in late July or early August to meet at Cedar Beach and discuss the book.
A new video featuring a gentle morning practice will be uploaded on the website tonight! Its raw, its real and its very bright. Hope you enjoy it!!
Our next Restorative Yoga & Acupuncture with Reiki and Essential Oils will be held Wednesday, August 3rd at 730pm. Reservations require a prepayment of $60 to hold your spot.
Yoga and Kayaking Trip is tentatively set for Saturday, August 6th at approximately 12 – 4pm for the Nissequogue River in Smithtown. We are renting from Bob’s Canoes & Kayaks 269-9761. More details will follow. Let me know if you are interested as we need a minimum of 6 renters to get discounted rate. Those with a personal boat can lauch from the state park (with entry fee).
Om Namah Shivaya!!
Chant this mantra to remove the obstacles to your spiritual enfoldment and connect to all you are capable of becoming and all you are which is divinity itself!!
Its amazing but here we are at summer’s edge again. Looking forward to our first Beach Yoga Class tomorrow night at 7pm down at Broadway Beach. We are truly blessed to be surrounded with such beauty within our neighborhoods and shorelines here on the beautiful North Shore.
As I was sifting through used books at a thrift store the other day, I came across a book I thought would be a great group reading experience for this summer. We had such a wonderful discussion when we read “Gift from the Sea” a few summers ago that I wanted to try it again and this title caught my eye. It talks about the relationship that took shape between famous author and wife of Erik Erickson, Joan Erickson (a woman in her 90’s) and Joan, the author of the book. It seems like a quick read that’s filled with lots of quotes, insights and inspiration.
Click on the link, take a look at it and see if you would like to read it with us. I saw its available on Amazon for as little as $5. the library may have it as well. Let me know if you are interested and I can see how many copies I get.
May there be peace and peace and perfect peace everywhere!!!
Let us meditate on the light of the sun, which shines on all living things and everything in between. Let this pure light of intelligence illuminate our intellects so that we may make the right decisions at the right time for the good of all. Let there be peace, and peace and perfect peace everywhere!
Greetings dear Yoga Students,
Hoping this email finds you safe, content and free!
Chanting the Gayatri Mantra, specifically in increments of 108 (sacred number), brings about calm, focus and sends intelligent energy out into the world. We will be chanting this mantra at 915am before the start of our asana class to help raise the vibration in and around us.
Yoga this Week
(Chanting begins 15 minutes before the morning classes…join us as we greet the day with this meditative, uplifting practice!! Come and chant, listen or warm up for asana. )
Monday Maryhaven Yoga 5:15pm Port Jefferson Center
Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation to follow
Wednesday BEACH YOGA 7pm Broadway Beach – See below for details!!!
Thursday 1199 Retierees 11am Riverhead Center
Friday Morning Healing/Gentle Yoga at 930am
(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
Happenings
Live Drumming for our first beach class – June 15th!!! If you would like to come and drum with Jim Romeo, let me know!!! This Wednesday, June 15th begins our Sunset Beach Yoga Classes. This will replace the current Thursday evening class for the summer. (Always check the website or Facebook page for any changes before heading down, especially if the weather looks iffy) I hope you will consider joining us on the beach for this amazing experience. Carpe Diem!! Seize the day and get out into the light. Sundays will begin on June 26th at 9am. Click the link for details. https://myyogawithamy.com/beachyoga/
The Rocky Point Farmer’s Market is now open on Sunday mornings right on Broadway!! Be sure to stop in and shop locally.
Watch for the date for our annual Yoga & Kayaking Adventure!! Any suggestions of a great place to kayak and rent boats would be appreciated.
Next Restorative Yoga & Acupuncture date is Wednesday, August 3rd – Save the date if you would like to attend. $60 Prepayment holds your spot
Yoga, Meditation & Healing Studio in Rocky Point NY… 631-839-0644
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