Renew and Grow
Did you know May 5th is National Renewal Day? I didn’t until I was looking for a theme for this month’s e-news that was in keeping with the feelings I am having about spring and the actions I am taking with cleaning my house and my over grown yard (you know, it’s my deep yearning to get into to the places you don’t normally do with the pose you least like or behind the couch that you don’t get to with a weekly vacuuming, it’s also like organizing the shelves in the shed, or clearing our your closet of yoga pants from 2002 that can be the rags for the cleaning ). This deep cleaning principal (Kriya) has also affected my yoga practices and teachings. If you want to dig deeper into your yoga practice, I am your teacher. I believe that all the practices of yoga can serves us a tool in our shed of human existence. Each tool has its own purpose for clearing out the weeds of our mind, cultivating the soil of our desires and nurturing our connection of our souls purpose while we are in this human form during this time.
I love the word renew & I love to refresh my sacred space outside and inside this time of year, with all that my hands and heart touch. The definition of refresh as defined in the Webster dictionary is to make like new: restore to freshness, vigor, to make new spiritually.
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. We are trying to clean with a clean rag the illusion of misperception that we are only physical form. We are interconnected, mind, body, emotions, and spirit. Only you can cultivate connection from you with love for you, so that raking up, clearing out some of your muck, can really bring about new growth and awakened opportunities of wholeness.
The lotus flower grows from the mud and the soil supports the seeds of both weeds and flowers. What does your garden grow?
Yoga restores us into a place of awe, that we are part of a bigger picture of life and are truly connected to the Source in this garden. We can be as little as the ants helping the peonies or as big as the sun shining. Both with important jobs to do in the whole picture.
I purposely plan my weekly classes, workshops, and retreats to help uncover an artist’s perspective of the miracle of life, so that joy and wonder are breathed into every cell to carry you off your mat and into your daily life for all the ups and downs.
If you are breathing, we can do the yoga! Join me to plant the seeds of growth ….
Changes in Weekly Classes
Mondays * Starting May 6 new time
8:00- 9:15am Yoga and Meditation with Dani
Ascend Center, Cold Spring NY
A blend of many different styles of yoga that she seamlessly integrates into a creative practice to move your body, direct your breath, and settle your mind. Dani meets each student where they are to be supported and expansive in understanding how to use the tools of the yoga practice for a balance of wellness.
Thursdays
12:00-12:45 Vinyasa Express
Firefly Power Yoga, Fishkill
All level heated power vinyasa yoga class designed to energize and awaken the body, create space, build inner steady flame. This is an all-levels breath and movement-based yoga practice. It is not the same sequence every week . It is meant to challenge you to move in many directions to the rhythm of your fullest breath. Vinyasa doesn’t mean it has to move super-fast. Designed to create possibility from the foundation level into what is possible. Dani provides many options (kramas) in this class with support to challenge, strengthen, steady and surrender.
New Location
May 27-June 1 Ful-Being Collective will be moving to a new home. Classes from the old location will be cancelled as we transition into a new space. —— A full house of healing, yoga therapeutics, acupuncture, physical therapy, massage therapy, cranial sacral, energetic polarity and intuitive readings. It is an honor to be part of this collective team of healers, teachers and visionaries helping bring forth many modalities in the healing arts from a place of deep awareness. If you would like to schedule private or semi-private or small group sessions with any of us, please reach out.
Workshops
May 8
6:30-7:30 Yoga Nidra
Ascend Center
This class is about enabling you to let go of physical and mental stress and encourage your sympathetic nervous system (fight, flight freeze) to dial down and your parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) to dial up - promoting balance and helping you to reset.
May 11
9:30- 12:00pm Mantras Mudras & Meditation
Ful-Being Collective
Dani will lead you through a transformative journey combining the power of mudra meditation and mantra specification based on the elements of earth, water, air, fire and space. This ancient process of hand mudras and mantras will be used for energy attunement to elevate your consciousness and unluck your true potential.
May 15
9:00-10:30am Ossining Riverfront
Fundraiser for the Open-Door Foundation
All are welcome! Bring your mat and water bottle as we will move together through a well-rounded slow flow yoga class to support the Open-Door Foundation as a fundraiser to help them keep delivering compassionate, quality health care and wellness services to all people within the Hudson Valley. Let’s move, breathe, and support each other on and off the mat!
I hope to see you soon and practice with you! As always please reach out with any questions, comments, or inquiries for art and yoga or to just say “hi”
Let’s renew and grow with our practice !
OM SHANTI
Dani
“everyone creates a masterpiece called life “
