The yoga mat is a supportive space for meeting ourselves exactly where we are with honesty and vulnerability. We accept what we are feeling and doing in the moment and allow ourselves just to be. This yoga practice can be slow and deep, not just targeting the external, tangible form of the body, but also going in to the other interconnected non-physical layers of our Self.
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Why is it that we move away from self-expression and play when we get older? We are never too old to sing, dance, doodle or shine. Do you give yourself permission to? Just like any other yoga practice, Heartful Yoga by Dani is a practice of creativity, allowance, freedom and self-expression.
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Centering is a constant balancing of form, space, and process. Yoga and pottery help me with centering my life and soul’s purpose. Both incorporate a blend of science, art, and philosophy. There are methodologies and techniques to learn and constantly practice. There are similar concepts in centering and alignment of form and fine-tuning and adjusting, observing and correcting in real-time as we move toward a final holding “shape” whether it be on the potter’s wheel, the “yoga mat” or on the highway of life.
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Ever since I was little, I felt spirit come through me as I used my hands for making mud pies, playing with cats and dancing around the living room. From this place of exploration, process, play, and dedication - I practice and teach yoga and art for wellness. What moves you towards wellness ?
Here are some unique experiences this September for you to practice. These workshops just might put a smile on your face while practicing in a place of wonder, challenge and presence.
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Join Dani in Sedona for a yoga retreat of transformative power as we use the elementals as a map for sacred yoga practices and other healing modalities to help with introspection, healing, creativity and self-expression. If interested, please reach out directly to Dani---space is limited.
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Only you, know the sensations, feelings, emotions, and mind chatter that you feel from your “inner landscape “of connection and persception. Yoga is this process of a deep level of investigation, exploration and uncovering through mental, emotional, and physical work through loving kindness and awareness to clear perception and connection
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I aim to bring forth an integrated awareness through individualized practices tailored to my students’ needs to ensure that the practices are flexible, strengthening, engaging, and serving to each student. I will guide you into understanding the connections of mind, body, and energy through thematic principals; leaving you feeling embodied and connected on a path towards wellness.
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Self-love is a choice that requires conscious intention and the willingness to take personal responsibility for our own well-being. Here are some skillfully crafted integrative yoga workshops that I am offering to help cultivate self-love and self-care in February in the Hudson Valley, NY. I hope you join me in this heartful approach !
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Join Dani Locastro at this weekend workshop at Ful-being Collective that will outline for you the essentials in creating your home yoga practice. She is a teacher for everyone- novices and teachers. She will stitch together for you a deeper understanding of when and why to use these yoga tools as part of your home practice. She will plan work with the group and individually in setting you up so that your practice becomes an accessible integrated part of your daily life for wellness. Taking your practice with you everywhere.
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I am happy to say that my perseverance and belief in Heartful Yoga has gained me recognition as an honored yogi artist chosen for this years Jade Yoga 2024 calendar. When we are disciplined to show up to our true ourselves on the mat in the process of disciplined practice (tapas), we actually receive the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual changes that occur by being in process of yoga. It does not mean pretending everything is fine or being in denial about what is going wrong or changing. But rather gratitude means choosing to focus your time and attention on what you appreciate with deep respect, acknowledgement and surrender.
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Spend a week with Dani in the quaint beach town of Puerto Morelos where beach meets mangroves at Villa Shanti. Immerse yourself in a yoga retreat of creative exploration through the study of yoga, the chakras and art to explore all the colors of your life!
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How do you feel about planning and how do you respond if your plans don't go as you wished? Yoga teaches flexibility not just in the hamstrings but also in the mind relating to our thoughts, plans, actions and responses to our self and others.
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I believe that mental health should be on our radar at all the time as a priority in the yoga community. I also know one practice does not fit all beings and in a classroom setting one type of class is not always serving ones needs. I am typically teaching from a centered perspective encouraging options for students to explore along the way.
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It’s easy to be wide-eyed and present in a place of earthly awe and wonder like the mountains of Algonquin, Bell Rock or Cottonwood Canyon. But what about the family room or the yoga mat after years of practice? The yoga practice sometimes has to look different and when we are willing to let it be different with non-attachment (Aparigraha –one of the Yamas) to what it was and to what we want it to become. Join Dani in some with some in depth yoga and art workshops this fall 2023 in the Hudson Valley, NY, where there is time to build a solid foundation of practices to help you connect to your mind, body , breath, creativity and spirit.
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What does it mean to be connected to yourself? It means you always have a way to recharge and rejuvenate yourself no matter how crazy life may get or how stagnate you might become. Becoming connected is about finding your center, your source of inner power by being with yourself and by yourself.
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The sun is a direct source for all living things and has been celebrated and honored in many traditions with sacred rituals on the day of the Equinox. Join Dani on June 21 6:30-8:00pm at Boscobel House & Gardens in Cold Spring, NY to celebrate Yoga International Day ! UNGA endorsed that "Yoga provides a holistic approach to health and well-being apart from striking a balance between all aspects of life. The wider dissemination of information about the benefits of practicing yoga would be beneficial for the health of the world population."
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Exposure to nature has been linked to a host of benefits, including improved attention, lower stress, better mood, reduced risk of psychiatric disorders and even upticks in empathy and cooperation. Most research so far has focused on green spaces such as parks and forests, and researchers are now also beginning to study the benefits of blue spaces, places with river and ocean views. And now let’s add the healing powers of outdoor YOGA on the Hudson River !
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I created a few workshops and classes that support awareness, growth, creativity and acceptance through traditional raja hatha yoga techniques sprinkled with my creative touch. Take a look and join me in these unique yoga workshops at Ascend Center, Ful-Being Collective and Fahnestock State Park for connecting with your higher consciousness through weeknight yoga nidra, embracing color for cultivating creativity, and getting outside to celebrate mother nature with yoga & a hike.
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If you were given the opportunity to play or to flex your creative muscles would you? We might not make the time or know how, know I am here to help you get your juices flowing.
March 15 at 6:00-7:30pm Heartful Yoga at Ascend Collective
Cultivate Your Creativity ---- A workshop to learn techniques to tap into your creative Self.
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Honoring and witnessing transitions is an ancient Vedic practice and it provides a strong baseline to return to when the waves of life begin to churn, rise and fall and settle. We can work with the yogic arts in truly cultivating awareness on and off the mat in our thoughts, actions and reactions by starting with self –care, self-love from little transitions and grow it outward from there. Join Dani in this sensory morning meditation practice.
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