I can’t believe it but the sun is shining the temperature is perfect and it’s looking like beach yoga at 7 p.m. Hope to see you there! My how things change so quickly around here……
Asana Class with Live Music and Chanting Tonight at 7:15pm
Two Spots Opened up for tonight’s class – Contact me if you would like to jump in!!
Asana Class with Live Music and Chanting
Come celebrate the joyful energy of summer and flow in an asana class infused with Live Music and Chanting. Discover how the elements of music and yoga come together on August 11th at 715pm
with Amy on harmonium singing original, meditative compositions of ancient chants and Michael Smith joining in with hypnotic guitar rhythms .
Asana will be led by our own Megan Frisina, RYT, to guide you all in this beautiful vibrational experience joining breath, movement, music and spirit!
Cost is $15 per person
Please Contact
Amy Perri, eRYT500 at YogaWithAmy@optonline.net
631-839-0644
http://www.MyYogawithAmy.com
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Yoga this Week – August 9, 2014
Beach Yoga Tomorrow Morning at 8:45am – Its looking like it will be beautiful!!
Greetings dear yoga students,
If you want to know how you got to where you are today, look at your past actions. If you want to know what your future will be like, look at your present actions. Its that simple. We create our future everyday with what we do in the present. Tapas, the Niyama described as disciplined action, helps us create the future we long for. Take a look at your present state of mind, your present schedule and what it is comprised of and ask yourself if it is aiding you in creating the life you desire. Tapas helps us to create the fertile ground for healthy growth to occur. Tapas is getting on your yoga mat, getting to bed early, creating space in your life because the disciplines help to create an ultimate calm state of mine. Tapas enlightens our days with determination and resolve to stay on this path we have chosen, courageously forging our way through this beautiful journey called life with joy.
Yoga this Week
Monday Evening Special Yoga Class with Live Music at 7:15pm
Tuesday Morning 930am with Mediation to follow
Wednesday 10am Class at the NSPL (Pre registration required)
Wednesday Evening Sunset Yoga on the Beach at 7pm
Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am
Sunday Morning Beach Yoga at 8:45pm
(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
Happenings
Special Event: Yoga Class with Live Musical Accompaniment at 7:15pm
Pre Registration Required
$15 per person – There is currently one spot open for this event. If you have signed up and do not plan on attending, please let me know.
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Friday Night Gift from the Sea Book discussion will meet at Cedar Beach West Parking Lot between 545 and 6pm. Bring your favorite passages and thoughts. Bring a chair, drink and snack if you like. Let me know if you plan on attending.
Hope to see you all real soon,
Happy, happy summer
Surya Mangalum – Blessings on the Sun
Amy
beach yoga tonight at 7pm
Beach yoga begins st 7pm tonight. Please arrive 10 to 15 minutes esrly. shanti ooooommmmm
Asana Class with Live Music and Chanting Monday, August 11th at 715pm
Asana Class with Live Music and Chanting
Come celebrate the joyful energy of summer and flow in an asana class infused with Live Music and Chanting. Discover how the elements of music and yoga come together on August 11th at 715pm
with Amy on harmonium singing original, meditative compositions of ancient chants and Michael Smith joining in with hypnotic guitar rhythms .
Asana will be led by our own Megan Frisina, RYT, to guide you all in this beautiful vibrational experience joining breath, movement, music and spirit!
Cost is $15 per person
Advance registration and a prepayment will secure your spot in this special class.
Please Contact
Amy Perri, eRYT500 at YogaWithAmy@optonline.net
631-839-0644
http://www.MyYogawithAmy.com
Yoga this Week – August 4, 2014
**Sorry but There is No Class Tonight!! Monday Evening Yoga begins on August 11th at 715pm with a special Live Music Class; see below for details***
“These three elements knows as Kriya Yoga, help us detoxify the body, nurture the senses and purify the mind…”
Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
The Three Pillars of Yoga
Tapas: Discipline
Svadhayaya: Study of the self and of Spiritual Texts
Ishvara Pranidhana: Devotion and Surrender to the Divine
Greetings dear yoga students,
What a gift to be able to retreat from our worldly life and dive in to yoga’s spiritual teachings. Over the next few weeks, I hope to be able to shed some light on each of the three pillars of yoga stated above. These three pillars are part of yoga’s ethical practices known as Niyamas and are the second limb of the Eight Limb Path. Niyamas are personal observances and give us the tools to lead a happy, joyful , well-balanced life. These three observances in particular are highlighted in the Yoga Sutras as Kriya Yoga. The Sanskrit word, Kriya, means to take action; so Kriya Yoga is the yoga of action. By concentrating on these principles and discovering where you may need to take action in your life (making a plan) the ancient masters tell us we will discover a more fulfilling, joyful life and also create the fertile ground for our life’s purpose and deepest desires to become manifest.
Yoga this Week
Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation to follow class
Wednesday Morning North Shore Public Library Yoga Class 10am (Prior Registration Required with Library)
Wednesday Evening Beach Yoga with an earlier start time of 7PM (Please arrive 10 to 15 minutes prior)
Friday Morning Healing Yoga at 930am
Sunday Morning Beach Yoga at 8:45am
(Please Reserve Your Spot or Cancel if your plans have changed)
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Happenings
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**Monday Evening August 11th – Yoga with Live Music at 715pm with Guest Teacher Megan Frisnia and guitarist Michael Smith Braceland – Special Event
Please reserve your spot- Prepayment is suggested – Click on the link for more details**
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Friday Evening August 15th at 5:45pm Gift from the Sea book discussion group at Cedar Beach West Parking Lot
Bring chairs, drink, and snack if you like. Try and make notes of your favorite pages, aspects, ideas to discuss.
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Yoga Darshana Center’s Fall Retreat at Camp DeWolfe in Wading River is set for September 13-14th
Go to http://www.YogaDarshanaCenter.com for more information
Shanti!!
Amy
Sunset Yoga with Live Music on the Beach Tonight 7pm!!
Yoga, Beach, Sunset, Live Music!!! Doesn’t get better than that. Hope you can make it for this very special class.
It is going to be awesome for sunset tonight!! Especially since we will have very special guest, Michael Braceland Smith accompanying us with his melodic guitar playing as we flow to the yogic rhythms of our bodies, breath and beach.
Please try to arrive early as I will be locking up the beach parking lot at 7:05 to head down to the sand. Sunset is at 8:10pm tonight As the days begin to shorten, we will begin our class earlier.
Next week we will plan to meet at 6:45 for a 7pm class start. Reminder that there is NO CLASS THIS COMING FRIDAY OR SUNDAY!!
Need more info? Click on the link below for directions and details on beach yoga.
https://myyogawithamy.com/beach-yoga-at-nsbpoas-beech-road-beach/
Namaste Sweet Ones,
See you on the Beach!!
Amy
Yoga this Week – July 19, 2014
Beach Yoga Tomorrow Morning 8:45am – Beech Road Beach in Rocky Point – click on link for more info http://www.MyYogaWithAmy.com
“Through practice, I’ve come to see that the deepest source of my misery is not wanting things to be the way they are. Not wanting myself to be the way I am. Not wanting the world to be the way it is. Not wanting others to be the way they are. Whenever I’m suffering, I find this ‘war with reality’ to be at the heart of the problem.”
Stephen Cope
Greetings dear yoga students,
Welcome to another glorious day. As you meander through your daily round, think about something you may be “at war” with in your own life. Living life on life’s terms is not an endeavor for the faint hearted. As humans, we seem to always want to fix things or create fantasies and repeat mantras like; “if only things were different then I could be happy”. True inner contentment only comes from within. We must make the decision to be happy now. Now is all we have. This moment, this day, this family, this body, this home, this job, this stretch of 24 hours to live our life. Cultivate acceptance with whatever or whoever is in your life today. Be the one that brings serenity to your interactions and act with your heart on situations that seem to baffle you. Try and do more reflection that reaction and you may find, things are exactly as they should be. Relax, let go and focus today on being at peace with reality. The war within quiets when you cultivate Santosha – contentment; allow yourself to bloom wherever you are planted, within whatever circumstances life finds you.
Classes for this Week
Tuesday Morning 930am with 11am meditation to follow
Wednesday Evening 7:15pm on the Beach weather permitting or in Yoga Room
Friday Morning 930am Healing Yoga
Sunday Morning Beach Yoga 8:45am
(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed – Beach yoga does not require reservation but make sure you arrive at least ten minutes prior to class start to receive your parking pass)
Happenings
I now have seven copies of Gift from the Sea for distribution to whomever would like to join our book Sangha group. We will plan to meet mid August possibly on Friday, August 15th in the early evening on Cedar Beach to reflect on the book and enjoy the beauty of the sunset.
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Watch for another Yoga and Kayaking trip and the Fall Retreat with Yoga Darshana Center at Camp DeWolfe coming in September – details will follow.
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Shanti
Amy
Yoga this Week – July 13, 2014
“We will only discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people’s models,
learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.”
Shaki Gawain
Svadhyaya
The fourth Niyama (or observance) in the Eight Limb Path of yoga is the study of the self.
Like so many yoga practices, svadhyaya is the process of getting to know who we really are; our true self. Yoga asana, pranayam, and meditation are all ways to peel off the layers of our false selves. Doing this and staying present to the process is not always easy. As we peel the layers and really look at our exposed wounds, memories, conditionings and patterns, we may feel more confused and defeated than when we began. Trust the process and turn again and again to those spiritual teachers that came before us. They are there to guide us; in books, in music, in our dreams, our prayers or maybe sitting right across from us at work, home or in our communities. As we work to let go of others (or even our own) ideas of who we should be, the more open and compassionate to our own “particular genius” we can become and the more our “natural channels” to the divine open and our dharma (life’s purpose) is revealed.
Yoga this Week
Tuesday 930am with 11am Meditation following class
Wednesday Evening at 715pm will be on the beach if weather permits or in the studio
Friday Morning Healing Yoga 930-11am
Sunday Morning Beach Yoga at 845am
(Please reserve your spot or cancel if your plans have changed)
Happenings
Watch for the return of Monday Evenings in the Yoga Room – Begins August 4th
This class will require pre-registration of at least four students each week for class to take place.
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Summer Yoga Group Book Read – Gifts From The Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have requested 8 copies of the book to be held for me and I should have them this week. Let me know if you would like me to hold one for you. If you have your own copy, pull it down, dust it off and begin. It is a perfect summer book to read again and again. We will discuss where and when we will meet to contemplate this treasured classic.
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Beginning August 6th I will be leading an all-levels Yoga Class at the North Shore Public Library on Wednesday mornings at 10am for the month of August. Registration begins on August 1st. If anyone of you are interested in demonstrating for me, let me know. It would be much appreciated!!! Also at the North Shore Public Library this Saturday, Kishori (Kim) begins her Ayurvedic Series! There may still be room for this informative three-session presentation.
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Classes down at the beach have been lovely. I welcome lots of new faces and am enjoying being on our beach twice a week. Continue to check the website if the weather looks questionable as Wednesday classes will be held in our yoga room if beach is not accessible.
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Shanti, Shanti, Shanti, Om!
Be at Peace, you are already perfect exactly the way you are!
Amy
Yoga this Week – July 7, 2014
“Yoga is a balancing factor, a substratum across all of your life, so you do not get shifted in one direction or another. It gives you freshness, gives you light, recharges your batteries. You become a stable person. You realize what balance is, what sukha is, what contentment is, what joy is.”
~ Birjoo Mehta
Hoping to see you all in class this week so together we can recharge, rebalance and stabilize to experience yoga’s true gifts; sukha (sweetness), contentment and joy!!!
Yoga this Week
Tuesday Morning at 930am with Meditation
Wednesday Evening at 7:15pm – Weather permitting On the Beach – Weather not cooperative in Yoga Room
Thursday Evening 7:30pm – Restorative Yoga, Acupuncture & Reiki with Essential Oils Workshop
((Still two spots open if anyone has a desire to experience sheer bliss and total relaxation!))
Friday Morning 930am Healing Yoga
Sunday Morning 845am Yoga on the Beach
(Please reserve you spot for Yoga Room classes or cancel if your plans have changed)
Happenings
Want to be part of a yoga group summer book reading? I would like to offer a timed classic to read together for the summer. Ann Morrow Lindberg’s “Gift From the Sea”. This is a treasure I pull out every summer and always find it refreshing, deep and engaging. Let me know if you would like to join me and we will set a date for a nice discussion towards the end of summer.
****Stay Tuned for the return of Monday Evenings beginning August 4th for those of you who prefer to practice indoors in the everning****
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A Note on Beach Yoga: Please click on the link for details regarding yoga on the beach. If you need to acquire a parking permit from me, you need to arrive at least ten minutes before the start of class as I will be locking up a few minutes before class start time to get down to the beach and teach. If you do arrive late, there a three or four public “safe” parking spots on Acadia Road (the road just down the hill to the left of the walk way on the street).
Also, if walking up the stairs proves to be too taxing, you can always choose to walk up to the parking lot via the path on Hallock Landing. Its much more gradual.
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Any questions, please feel free to contact me.
Namaste!!
Yoga With Amy 
