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Yoga Shanti Lakshmi!!
Now Open in the Heart of Sag Harbor!!!
@ 32 Bridge Street, Sag Harbor, The Hamptons
Please join us for the First Night at Lakshmi, tonight (Friday, July 3rd) at 7:30pm, when musician Steve Eaton will lead us in a chant to bless the new space and bring positive energy to the summer season!
No experience required and children of all ages welcome. Sweet snacks will be served. Come check out the new space, chant, and hang with some great fellow yogis! Steve will also play music during Jennifer Frasher's delightful 5:30 Open Class at Lakshmi this Friday (and every Friday)!!!
We Have an Amazing New Yoga Schedule!
Please take some time to check out our new Yoga Class Schedule with all our current popular classes moving to Yoga Shanti Lakshmi, and lots of new classes at our current space, Yoga Shanti Ganesh!
Some new classes include.... 'Prenatal' taught by Lilia Mead, 'Over 50' taught by Mitten Wainwright, A 'Classic Iyengar Series' taught by Kate (Lalita) Rabinowitz, Rodney Yee and Maxine Tobias, 'Rockin' Vinyasa' taught by Lisa Zaloga, and 'Family Yoga' a kids class taught by Mayan Montanari-Perez at the same time as a 1 Hr Lunchtime class taught by Jennifer Frasher on Tuesdays so you can drop off your kids ages 2 and up at Ganesh, and treat yourself to yoga with Jennifer at Lakshmi!!!!!!!
We are very excited, and look forward to seeing you on the mat!!!!!!!
'Growth' By Kari Harendorf
Karma and I planted a root garden. I bought a kit where we plant a carrot, a radish and a green onion in glass tubes that are held in a wooden frame so you can see not only the shoots coming up, but the roots growing down into the soil. She is almost 4 and was so excited when she woke up the next day to run down into the kitchen and check on her garden. Until she saw it. Nothing had happened overnight. Or the next night. Or pretty much for the next week. But we had a lot of opportunity to talk about how things grow! You need to have the proper conditions to invite and optimize growth.
First, you prepare the soil. (We had to soak peat pellets in 1/2 c. water each over 2 nights). Then you plant a seed. You make sure you nurture that seed with all the things it needs to grow. Water, sunlight, love. And a LOT of patience.
Our focus this month as we spring into summer at Yoga Shanti is GROWTH.
In many ways, growth is how we measure our life as it has to do with renewal and change. It has been a year of tremendous change for many of us. What we do with our experiences, and how we assimilate our circumstances can propel us forward or stagnate us. The strongest principle of growth is human choice. It was William Butler Yeats that said “… we are happy when we are growing.”
Growth is about expansion and saying YES! Not an easy thing to practice in these times of uncertainty where everything and everyone around us seems to be in a state of contraction. What a perfect time to start an endeavor! The conditions are ripe for sowing those seeds of “could of, would of, should of”s. Open up to the possibility of your life and reach past the attainable.
Seeing the brand new construction of a beautiful building in town must have planted a seed in Colleen’s mind.
This month marks the opening of an additional studio in Sag Harbor, Yoga Shanti Lakshmi at 32 Bridge Street, behind the Schiavonis supermarket (plenty of parking!). We are saying YES to expansion, growth and change.
Three days ago I came home late from work and went to clean up the kitchen. When I looked over at the windowsill there was a single green shoot that had emerged high above the soil line in our middle glass tube! I was in awe. I couldn't wait until Karma woke up in the morning! We ran down to the kitchen. She was so thrilled and full of accomplishment.
As Henry Miller said, All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
So go ahead.... Plant a seed. See what grows.
Happy Summer!
Love,
Kari
New Yoga DVD's Presented by Colleen & Rodney Yee!
Check out some of the most recent Yoga DVD releases by Colleen Saidman & Rodney Yee, including The Practical Power of Yoga (as featured on the recent PBS special), Yoga For Beginners, and the Mayo Clinic Wellness Solutions for Menopause.
