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."
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 !
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.
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.
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.
There is a rhythm and lifestyle for winter .The outward giving for the holidays and the inward turning of the calendar new year. Here in the Northern hemisphere it is ideal for nourishing our inner fire and our spiritual light by moving forth into cultivating a place of rest and nourishment with yoga practices that target just that.
When we practice Abhyasa together with Vairagya, the mind remains poised in a state of balance between doing and allowing and our consciousness so it can act in the world without getting entangled in its interactions. This sattvic sate of mind—this in between - created by Abhyasa and Vairagya is what allows us to transcend the continual polarized movement of primary forces of nature that are responsible for all the change and movement that we experience in life.
The spine is one of the most important parts of your body. Without it, you could not keep yourself upright or even stand up. It gives your body structure and support. It allows you to move about freely and to bend with flexibility. Keeping your spine healthy is vital if you want to live an active life. Many of the postures in yoga gently strengthen the muscles in the back, as well as the abdominal muscles. Back and abdominal muscles are essential components of the muscular network of the spine, helping the body maintain proper upright posture and movement. This is the mark I want to make on myself as I age.
Book Today for my annual Yoga Retreat March 25- April 1, 2023 in the quaint beach town of Puerto Moreles where beach meets mangroves at Villa Shanti. Immerse yourself in a yoga retreat of creative exploration through the deeper study of yoga, breath work, meditation and art to explore all the colors of your life!
Join me this fall for some new workshops & classes at Ascend Center & Ful-Being Collective that go into the fundamentals of asana, movement, breath and self-expression towards nurturing yourself and the ways to move towards deeper awareness in claiming your space from within to help bring you balance to share it out .
Heartful Yoga by Dani and Open Door Fundraiser 2022
Once again, I am honored to be leading a community fundraising yoga class on the Ossining waterfront at Henry Gourdine Park for Open Door Family Medical Center and Foundation on Sept 28, 2022 9:30-11:00 am. I couldn't think of a better way for me to give back to an organization that does so much in delivering compassionate, quality health care and wellness services to all people, especially those with the least access and greatest need — regardless of their ability to pay here in the lower Hudson Valley Region.
Have you felt the heat and created some simple rituals to help you slow down and shift the way you feel and go about your day-to-day in the summertime? I have. I try to conjure up the feelings of endlessness of summer days like when I was a kid lying on the beach towel looking at the clouds floating by trying to pass time it during adult swim at the town swim club.
Consciousness is the most widely used yet most underestimated form of power we have at our command. Our very lives, our very substance of all that is, and all our actions are dependent upon a conscious awareness or intelligence.
Musicambia uses the power of music to build supportive communities where incarcerated individuals can build meaningful connections, engage in learning, and rebuild their lives starting while incarcerated. This Non- for profit organization believes music is a powerful tool for developing positive self-image, greater self-confidence, and effective communication skills.
I am happy to announce that I am back offering 3 opportunities for you to experience the The Great Yoga Wall. Prior to the pandemic, teaching The Great Yoga Wall was half of my in studio class curriculum. I missed the support of this practice and maybe you did too?
As a yogi, artist and cook, I decided to focus the next 3 yoga workshops around areas that help bring me into holistic balance and hopefully it will help you make time to look at your yoga practice too, as expansive in other areas for healthy living besides Asana.
When you strip away fear, jealousy, hatred and differences - it is beautiful how life could be like a simple shape. How love transcends all groups, religions, and ideas. If the core of love is the foundation of any person or organization, then the foundation is based in truth and compassion that moves outward from the center like the beating of a heart to support the whole being.
Join me for a charity driven yoga class on Thanksgiving- Nov 25 EST 10:00-11:15am live on Zoom to help benefit my local food bank,The Food Bank of the Hudson Valleyor Donate to a charity like No KidHungry or Feeding Americato help ensure everyone has food on their plate.
We should all have the right to access healthy fresh food. Yet, it’s not always affordable and accessible. Food is very dear to me and part of my Seva Practice
Spend a week with Dani in the quaint beach town of Puerto Morelos where beach meets mangroves at Villa Shanti as you immerse yourself in a yoga vacation of creative exploration through the study of yoga, the chakras and art to explore all the colors of your life!
