Don’t bury your head in the snow,
Come on out of hibernation and into yoga’s warm glow!
We will focus on gently opening muscles used for moving all that beautiful white stuff that fell from the sky.
Please RSVP if you think you can make it even if you have already signed up and double check website in case something changes.
Namaste
Amy
Being Snowed in can be such an opportunity to enjoy slowing down, catching up on some reading, spending time on your mat or cuddling in to watch a good movie.
Hope by Wednesday night we are all cleared out and ready for our 7:15pm class.
If you are out in the snow, remember to stretch before, after and during. If you get the urge, the snow is a great place to do a headstand!!
Peace & Love
Amy
****Please Note: If the Blizzard hits the way they are predicting, of course, some classes will be cancelled****
Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
Author Unknown
Greetings dearest yoga students,
How many times do we find ourselves “bent out of shape” when things don’t go quite the way we had planned. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be flexible enough to flow moment to moment in our life adjusting instead of reacting to the situations that occur? Think about how much more peaceful life would be. Sometimes all it takes is a step back, a moment or more of reflection to think about our part in the situation and to shift our focus on a solution instead of bringing all of our energies into the problem. This does not mean allowing our personal boundaries to be crossed or negative behavior to continue in or around us. It means taking a step back and being flexible enough, open enough to see the reality of what is happening. To focus our desire on the truth and see where we can adjust and make changes so that we contribute to the solution. Perhaps in some situations flexibility is simply moving towards acceptance of what we cannot change with compassion and love for all those involved, including ourselves.
What if the only New Years Resolution we had was to simply love ourselves More?
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Classes this Week
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Maryhaven Yoga at the Port Jefferson Center at 5pm
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Meditative Monday Evening at 7:15pm
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Tuesday Morning at 9:30am with Meditation to follow
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Wednesday Evening at 7:15pm
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No Friday Class this Week
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(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
Events and Workshops – Click on Link Below for details
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February 4th at 7pm – Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture with Essential Oils currently has one spot open. If you would like to attend please contact me directly. Its going to be a good night!!
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Partner Yoga Class – Friday Night 6:30 -8pm February 20th
Join me and my good friend, Lois Healion, RYT500, for a special partner yoga class honoring our interconnectedness!
Class will conclude with a Chocolate Meditation to savor the sweetness of connection.
You do not have to come with a partner and you don’t have to be a couple. This class is for all!
Limited space – Sign up as soon as possible – Payment in advance holds your spot. $15 per person
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Saturday Morning, March 7th at 8:45 to 10:30am – Workshop with Kim Williams (Kishori)
Prana, Teja and Ojas: Vital Essences of Transformation
Yoga is an inner alchemical process through which we can develop higher consciousness. We each have the capacity within us to go beyond ordinary human awareness to reach a state of Self-realization. Prana, Tejas, and Ojas support health, creativity and well-being. They provide the foundation for deeper yogic and meditational practices. We will especially focus on how to cultivate Ojas as that is the foundation on which our yoga practice rests. It is responsible for our immunity and on a deeper level, our sense of well-being or our bliss body. Ojas is directly linked with the essence of divine love within and can be cultivated through bhakti yoga and a lifestyle full of wholesome pleasures.
$20 Exchange with Advance Registration
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Namaste
Amy
There is still time to join us tonight! Text me at 839-0644 if you would like to come.
Meditation with aromatherapy, journaling, creating, visualizing our dreams into action!
Co-Creating Your Life – A Vision Board Workshop
Thursday, January 22nd 7-9pm
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“Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.”
Enlightenment happens, not in some far away distant esoteric place, but in the everydayness of life. Enlightenment is an appropriate response to your inner callings and a willingness to act from your highest, intuitive self. A Vision Board is a collection of images, words, affirmations or drawings that serve as a spirit-led guide for discovering and acknowledging what your soul is yearning for. The universe wants to support your efforts to live a life filled with joy, abundance, adventure and purpose. It is within the effort of creating the Vision that brings clarity as well as focus to your intentions so you can begin to live your life by your own design, free of fear based judgments or cultural pressures.
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The New Year is a great time to open your mind to more than traditional New Year’s resolutions, to have fun exploring your inner desires and create a fun reminder of the things that excite, endear and provoke you to live an inspired life!
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This workshop will consist of a centering meditation, a simple writing exercise and choosing images and paisting them on a piece of oaktag. Each participant is asked to bring 3 to 5 magazines of random genres to be cut up and shared, a picture of yourself that projects joy and happiness, and a small journal or notebook. All other supplies will be provided.
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Cost is $15
Please reserve your spot for this special workshop.
Namaste
Amy
No Class this Monday Evening – Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Greetings dear yoga students,
Hoping this email finds you well and enjoying the receptive energy of this winter season. I love the term “disciplined nonconformists” that MLK so eloquently states are the “Hope of a secure and livable world”. A life of discipline (Tapas in yogic terms) affords us the freedom to operate from our higher selves, confident even when we are going against cultural norms. When we hear our inner calling, it takes persistence and faith to have the courage to follow through with what we hear, even if those around us might raise an eyebrow or fear we are going in the wrong direction. Be still, listen, be disciplined in your practices of ethical living in body, mind and spirit, which is what yoga practice is all about. Yoga is to become pure in all facets of our lives so we can act from that place of calm abiding, wisdom and love. Yoga literally means to yoke, to be self controlled, to be disciplined so we can be the ones that dare to step out into the light; for the hope of a secure and livable world lies within us.
Yoga this Week
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Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation to follow class
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Wednesday Evening at 7:15pm
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Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am
(please reserve your spot in class or cancel if your plans have changed)
Workshops & Events
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Click on this link for details: https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/
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This Thursday, January 22nd is our Vision Board Workshop – Please let me know if you want to join us for this fun and inspiring evening. Click on the link above for details
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Wednesday Evening, February 4th at 7-9pm Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture with Essential Oils currently has one spot open
Click the above link for details
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Partner Yoga Special Class coming in February, the month of connection and love.
Partner can be a friend, lover or acquaintance. You don’t even need a partner to attend. Date to be announced.
Shanti, Shanti, Shanti!
Namaste
Amy
Sorry but there won’t be yoga tonight! Hope to see you at one of the other classes this week!
Shanti,
Ooooommmmm
Amy
Co-Creating Your Life A Vision Board Workshop
A vision board I an interesting way to discover your inner passions, desires and dreams. Join us for an evening of self discovery, connection and fun.
Thursday, January 22nd 7-9pm – $15 per person – This evening is beginning to fill, reserve your spot today! All supplies included.
Click on the events page for more info https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/
Restorative Yoga, Reiki and Acupuncture with Essential Oils on Wednesday, February 4th 7 to 9pm
This session currently has two spots open. Click on the link for more details, reservations and prepayment is required for this special event.
https://myyogawithamy.com/eventsworkshops/
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” The Past and the Future is a joke to me now. I see that they’re nothin’. I see they ain’t here. The only thing that’s here is you and me…..I love you. Not, not like they told you love is….[the story books are bull], love don’t make things nice, it ruins everything! It breaks your heart, it makes things a mess. We, we aren’t here to make things perfect. Snowflakes are perfect, stars are perfect. Not us! Not us!”
Ronny Cammareri, “Moonstruck”
The above quote is one of my all time favorite movie lines. We are not here to be perfect, for our lives to look flawless, to create what society’s idea of a beautiful life is. We are here to have our hearts broken a thousand times because we are meant to experience the oceans of emotions our life is full of. We are here to experience the wonder of being human; with all its hills and valleys, like the moon we continually cycle through a myriad of phases to become whole again. As we near the end of another year, embrace this truth: That loving, and being truly vulnerable in your life doesn’t always look nice and that truly living wholeheartedly means taking the risk that sometimes your heart will break; sometimes you will make a mess.
Our Yoga practice helps us remember that we are perfect just the way we are and that our lives our beautiful as they are. Within our practice we may fall down, sweat, and sometimes struggle just to bear the truth of our bodies and minds but when we get back up again and return to our mats, “We breath and something in us softens, makes space for the imperfections”. So let go of the storybook idea of how your life should look. Let go and enjoy the scenery of today. Be vulnerable, be open, allow grief, joy, success and failure, falling down and getting back up to all be part of the great tapestry that is your life. When you reach into the beauty of imperfection; the crooked tree, the moon’s craters, the clouded sky, tears in a loved one’s eyes, experience it fully, turning away from nothing that you find. The messes will be there, the heartaches will surface, the past and future are but memories and dreams, breathe it all in and find your joy in being present through it all for yourself and those around you.
Yoga this Week
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Monday Evening 7:15pm
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Tuesday Morning 930am
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Special Class Saturday Morning January 3rd 8:45am
Detox Flow with a New Year’s Meditation and Yoga Nidra
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(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
**Evening classes require at least four to sign up prior to 5pm to run – An email will post by 5 if class is cancelled**
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Happenings
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Restorative Yoga and Acupuncture with Reiki & Essential Oils on January 7th at 7pm
Click on events page for more info
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January 16th Live Music & Yoga Flow at the North Shore Public Library
Come flow in a Yoga class infused with live musical chanting. Discover how the elements of music and yoga come together as Linda Lindaman leads a gentle flowing yoga class serenaded by Amy Perri on Harmonium & vocals and Jim Romeo on percussion. An uplifting, vibrational experience joining breath, movement, music and spirit! Non-refundable fee: $5. Bring a yoga mat. NSPL cardholders may register in person beginning January 2. Beginning January 5 we will accept registration for non-residents if space permits.
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Co-Creating Your Life – A Vision Board Workshop
Thursday, January 22nd 7-9pm – $15
Click on events page for more info
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Namaste and Blessings for a healthy, happy, enlightened New Year!
Amy
Come and clear body, mind and spirit with an all levels detox flow including a guided chakra meditation and yoga nidra.
We all tend to indulge in rich foods around the holidays but detoxing is more than just physical. We also may experience emotional heaviness, grief, elation followed by sadness or just plain exhaustion with a sense of being out of balance!
Class will begin with asana infused with flowing, twisting, forward bending, and kriyas (cleansing practices) for the body, followed by a chakra clearing meditation for emotional grounding and ending with deep yogic relaxation to enliven the spirit.
Please reserve your spot as soon as possible for this special Saturday morning class. We need at least four students to sign up for class to run.
**Special Note: Please try not to eat anything heavy for at least 2 hours prior to class as we will be doing cleansing kriyas, pranayama and twisting.
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Shanti, shanti, shanti!!!
Amy
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