Yogi Inspiration & Past Newsletters

November 2011: 'Savasana' by Jennifer Frasher

A teacher of mine once told me, " Life is not a problem to be solved nor is it a question to be answered." We all experience moments in our lives where there is chaos, stress, unhappiness, and...

September 2011: 'The Next Right Thing' by Jessica Bellofatto

I was recently given the opportunity to participate in a sweat lodge right here in East Hampton. I had been invited to the lodge every full moon through out the summer months...

July 2011: 'Liberation' by Shana Kuhn-Siegel

This article is one in a series chronicling Shana Kuhn-Siegel’s adventures in a revolutionary healing technology called The Process®...

June 2011: 'Pratyahara' by Jessica Bellofatto

PRATYAHARA is the 5th limb of the Ashtanga Yoga/Raja (royal) Yoga Path. The eight limbs of Ashtanga Yoga take us from the outer practices of YAMA and NIYAMA (including non violence...

May 2011: 'Core' by Hayley Schmitz

Remaining centered in today’s chaotic world is a profound aspiration. If you are centered you are still, calm, focused and aware, no matter what is going on around you...

April 2011: 'Cleansing Twists' by Jessica Bellofatto

We are told, time and again, we are one, we are one, it is all one. Move beyond the outer form and recognize that we are much more alike than we are different. That the source of our being...

February 2011: 'Backbending' by Dwight Garcia

Backbending is a misnomer. We are actually back-extending to increase the space in the posterior vertebrae, nourishing the intervertebral discs and refining the exquisite opening...

• January 2011: 'Inversions' by Kate 'Lalita' Rabinowitz

  As a child, I wanted to live on the ceiling. I would lie on the floor and look above, longing for the space, the simplicity. Up there was no furniture to walk around, no obstruction to movement...

• September 2010: 'These Foggy Goggles!' by Jessica Bellofatto

  Maya Angelou, in her book, "Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now," recalls a memory of her grandmother teaching her about whining. Whenever a "known whiner" would enter her store...

• August 2010: 'Movement' by Jessica Bellofatto

  People often ask me how it is I do what I do; that is, swim, bike, run, paddlesurf, (attempt to) surf, teach and practice yoga, run the studio, attend births as a labor support person, and raise 2 kids...

• June 2010: 'The Quality of the Light' by Megan Chaskey

  There is, now, an unprecedented rate of of vibration running through every fiber of our variously perceived reality. There is a deepening and widening of the polarization throughout...

• October 2009: 'Abundance' by Melissa DeWaters-Fedi

  I don’t know what I was thinking when I accepted this assignment to write about abundance. What do I know about it? Do I experience it? Is it present in my life?...

• September 2009: 'Purnata' (Fullness) by Lois Nesbitt

  As summer winds down, I catch myself clinging to the last and best of this delightful season, lingering a little longer on the beach, squeezing in more time with more friends...

• August 2009: 'A Touch of Wonder' by Nikki Costello

  During a private session with a student, I listened to a story about how her 15-month-old daughter discovered and began to explore her yoga props. For several months her favorite prop...

• July 2009: 'Satya' (Truth) by Shana Kuhn-Siegel

  No one can be told what the matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. There is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends.You wake up in your bed and believe...

  June 2009: Yoga Mala pp 17 by Sri Krishna Patabhi Jois

  As the inspiration this month, I wanted to offer to you all these words from one of our beloved teachers, Sri Krishna Patabhi Jois, who most of you know left his body on May 18 in Mysore, India....

  May 2009: 'Meditation' by Jessica Bellofatto

  One could say that Spring is the season of change, growth, and movement, and for many of us that seems to hold very true, more so than ever....

• April 2009: 'Compassion' by Jessica Bellofatto

  All of us, each one of us, consciously or unconsciously, is on a Path. Whether the path is Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, each of us seek the end of suffering and lasting happiness....