Monthly Archives: November 2020

‘Weight’ Time!!! (11/30-12/5/20)

Greetings from YFL!!! We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration!!! Please note that the December Newsletter will be available on your email desk Tuesday, December 1st at 10 a.m.!!! If you want to be added to our mailing list, simply send me your preferred email address for receiving our monthly publication (yogaforlife06@verizon.net).

This week’s practice will focus on developing muscle tone and strength with the use of our own body weight, and hand weights. Our Sanskrit focus is ‘AUM Mitraya Namah’, or ‘I invoke the spirit of friendliness’. Our mudra (hand gesture) is the ‘Ganesha’ position for overcoming obstacles along life’s path. The meditation focus is ‘HOPE’, and may be contemplated while listening to Enya’s ‘Watermark’.

This week’s Yin practice will balance the energy of the third eye, or mind’s eye AJNA, the 6th chakra. Sunday’s meditation practice will emphasize the 3rd step of Yoga Nidra.

PROPS:

*Weights ( 2, 1 or 2 lb.)

*1 Block

YIN: * Bolster & Block

It will be another fantastic week at Yoga For Life!!! As always, we can’t wait to see you on the mat!!!—Namaste’, Deb

“The body achieves what the mind believes. Never underestimate the unlimited power of your being”.—muses from a mystic

Classic Hatha Week @ YFL!!! Happy Thanksgiving!!! (11/23-11/11/28/20)

Greetings from YFL!!! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! We are so grateful for your support of our teachings throughout the year!!! We wouldn’t be YFL without each and everyone of you!!! I would like to express my gratitude for all of you by extending a small gift. Please enjoy my latest virtual meditation offering on YouTube all this week (11/22/20). It is ‘Step One-Yoga Nidra’!!! Use the meditation as many times as you would like!!!  Enjoy!!! We wish you and your family a blessed, and Happy Thanksgiving!!!

This week’s physical practice is ‘Classic Hatha’, and will emphasize Vinyasa + Power!!! Our Sanskrit focus is ‘Pralaya’, or a period of rest and repose, a phase of passivity. The weekly mudra (hand gesture) is the ‘Annapurna’, which strengthens and fulfills the heart, and honors the goddess of food and harvest. Our meditation focus is ‘Gratitude’, and may be contemplated while listening to Heenem Bhakti’s ‘Sacred Earth’. This week’s Yin practice will serve to balance the ‘Throat Chakra’. This week’s virtual class will also feature ‘Classic Hatha’.

PROPS:

Classic Hatha: Strap, Block, Small Blanket

Yin: Block, Bolster, Blanket

Virtual Yoga: Strap, Block, Small Blanket

Wed: Virtual Yoga w/Deb (Classic Hatha)

Sun: Meditation w/Deb-Step 2: Yoga Nidra

It will be another awesome week at YFL!!! As always, we can’t wait to see you on the mat!!!—Namaste’, Deb

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference”.—Reinhold Niebuhr

‘Meet me at the Wall’ (11/16-11/21/20)

Greetings from YFL!!! It is ‘Meet me at the Wall’ week at the studio, and the new virtual class this Wednesday will feature Sukha-Stirha (Yin-Yang).The Wall will serve as a tool of focus, resistance, and power.  Our Yin practice will serve to balance our ‘Root Chakra’, our wheel of stability, roundedness, and connection. The weekly Sanskrit focus is ‘Pranidhanat’, or ‘To Surrender’, ‘Let Go’, ‘To Devote’. Our mudra (hand gesture) is ‘Durga’, or the hand position for ‘Courage’. Our meditation focus is ‘Courage’, and may be contemplated while listening to ‘Claire de Lune’

PROPS:

Wall Class: One block

Yin Class: Bolster, block

Virtual Yoga (Sukha-Stirha): Block, Strap, Small Blanket or Towel

It will be another great week at YFL, and as always, we can’t wait to see you on the mat!!!—Namaste’, Deb

“There are, it seems two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say, “It is yet more difficult than you thought.” This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”—Wendell Berry

“Without Love, all worship is  burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise:.—Rumi

P.S.-Please leave a comment, if you have read this week’s blog!!! Thank you in advance!!!—Deb

Let Us Restore!!! Renew, Relax, and Restore Week!!! (11/9-11/14/20)

Greetings from YFL!!! It is ‘LET US RESTORE’ week at the studio!!! I am guessing that we can all use a restorative practice. So come, and join me for a practice that will relax, restore, and renew your mind, body, and heart!!! This week’s Yin practice will balance ‘The Sacral Chakra’. The virtual Yoga class will promote balance of the ‘Solar Plexus Chakra’. Don’t forget to join each Sunday morning for a FREE virtual meditation on her YouTube Channel!!! Our Sanskrit focus is ‘Ishvara Pranidhana’, which means to ‘Totally Surrender into the Love, Grace, Hope, and Compassion of Spirit’. Our hand gesture (mudra) focus is the classic Jnana, or Universal Wisdom position. Our meditation focus is ‘Spiritual Oneness’. The music provided for meditation is Kiran Murti’s ‘Sweet Indian Dream’.

PROPS:  

Restorative: Bolster, Block, Blanket

Yin: Bolster, Block

Virtual: Bolster, Block

Wed: Virtual Yoga w/Deb-Yin for the balancing of the ‘Solar Plexus’

Sun: Virtual Meditation w/Deb-Balance for ‘Sacral Chakra’

It will be another fantastic week at YFL!!! We can’t wait to see you on the mat!!!—Namaste’, Deb

‘Existence and awareness are synonymous. One cannot be known without the other. Knower and Known, subject and object, me and other are one. This is love.’—Deepak Chopra