#  Bonus Week: Restorative: Rest, Restore, and Renew

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Greetings from YFL!!! We wish you, your family, and friends the Happiest New Year!!! 2020 will be a fantastic new decade at YFL, and we look forward to sharing our normal class scheduling, as well as many helpful and interesting ‘Special Events’. We have quite a few workshops coming up in January, February, and March, so check them out in the January YFL Newsletter, which will be released on January 1st to your email desk at 10 a.m.!!!

This week at YFL will be the last holiday schedule, and Deb’s reduced schedule!!! Check it out below!!!

This is Bonus Week, so our physical practice will be an additional time for a Restorative Flow: Rest, Restore, and Renew!!! Our Sanskrit focus is ‘Karuna Hum’, or ‘I am compassion’. The hand gesture for our practice, or mudra is the ‘Equanimity’ gesture. This promotes balance, and releases tension. It also promotes a healthy thyroid gland. Our meditation focus is ‘Compassion’, and may be contemplated, while listening to ‘Music for Meditation’.

This week’s Yin practice will focus on promoting ‘Good Digestion’!!!

As always, we cant’ wait to see you on the mat!!!

SCHEDULE FOR 12/30/19-1/4/20:

Mon-8:15 a.m. & 9:30 a.m.-w/Deb

Tues, Wed, Thurs-CLOSED

Fri-8:15 & 9:30 a.m.-w/Deb

Sat-9:00 a.m.-w/Deb

We resume our regular teaching schedule on Monday, January 13th!!!

‘Bless this year with love and light. Bless this year with faith and sight. Bless this year with grace and ease. Bless this year with joy and peace.’-Mary Davis

#  Classic Hatha Week (A Gentle Variation)!!!

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Greetings from YFL!!! This week will feature a very gentle version of ‘Classic Hatha’!!! Our Sanskrit focus is AUM Prani Dhana, or my individuality connects to Universality. Our mudra (hand gesture) is the Jnana, which connects us to Universal energy, and is also the symbol for the ‘Holy Trinity’ in Christianity. This week’s meditation focus is ‘Light’, and may be contemplated, while listening to Kiran Murti’s ‘Divine Imagination’.

This week’s Yin practice will provide a sequence for releasing the hips!!!

This week’s schedule is abbreviated due to the holidays, so here it is:

Mon-8:15 & 9:30 a.m. w/Deb

CLOSED-Tu, Wed, Thurs

Fri-8:15 & 9:30 a.m.-Deb

Sat-9:00 a.m.-Deb

Sophie, Summer, and I wish you a very Merry Christmas!!! We have many exciting workshops planned for the New Year!!! They will be announced in the January Newsletter, which will come out on your email desk, January 1st, around 10 a.m.!!!

As always, we can’t wait to see you on the mat!!! Your Christmas cards & gifts are still available on Monday this week, and we will be listening to Christmas music at class on Monday!!!—Namaste’, Deb

‘May good fortune walk with you this day and all the days of your life’.—Unknown

#  Let’s Meet at the Wall!!!

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Greetings from YFL!!! It is time to meet one another at The Wall!!! We will use this amazing prop to align, strengthen, and focus during our practice!!! Our Sanskrit focus is ‘Mudita’, or gathering ‘Vicarious Joy’ from one another during the holiday season!!! Our hand gesture (mudra) is the ‘Grounding’ gesture, which will help us to connect, and rest in ‘Spirit’s Energy’ during this Christmas season!!! Deb will be playing Classic Christmas music THIS WEEK, AND NEXT!!! Santa and Deb have a gift for you at the studio, so come to the mat this week!!! Our meditation focus is ‘JOY’, and may be contemplated, while listening to ‘White Dove’.

This week’s Yin practice will balance the Chakras with poses, Tibetan bowls, color, and spinal locations.

This week’s schedule:

Mon-8:15 & 9:30 a.m.-Deb

Tues-12:30 & 6:00 p.m.-Sophie

Wed-8:15 & 9:30 a.m.-Deb

Thurs-12:30 & 5:30 p.m.-Sophie

Fri-8:15 & 9:30 a.m.-Deb

Sat-9:00 a.m.-Deb

12/23-1/4 SCHEDULE:

OPEN: 12/23, 12/27, 12/28 CLOSED: 12/24, 12/25, 12/26

OPEN: 12/30, 1/3, 1/4 CLOSED: 12/31, 1/1, 1/2

“Your mind will always believe everything you feed it. So feed it faith, feed it positive thoughts, feed it love!!!”-Think Positive Power

It will be a wonderful week at YFL, and as always, we cant’ wait to see you on the mat!!!—Namaste’, Deb

#  Triple ‘R’ Week: Rest, Restore, and Renew

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Greetings from YFL!!! I am happy to report that I am free of my cast, and walking very slowly and steadily once again!!! I am going to stay on a reduced teaching schedule through the end of December, and then resume the normal class schedule on January 3rd!!!

This week’s practice is all about restoration, as we enjoy Triple ‘R’ week: Rest, Restore, and Renew!!! Our Sanskrit focus is AUM AIEEM NAMAH, which translates as, “My true nature is love and joy”. Our mudra (hand gesture) is ‘RELAX’, or let it flow!!! Interlace the fingers, let the thumbs hang freely pointing down with palms facing down.

Our Yin practice will focus on ‘Happy Hips’, and will emphasize poses to release and open our hip joints.

Deb will be handing out Christmas Cards, and gifts the week of 12/16-12/21!!! So be sure to attend class for your present!!!

This week’s schedule will be as follows:

Mon-: 8:15 & 9:30 a.m.-Deb

Tues: 12:30 p.m. & 6:00 p.m.-Sophie

Wed: 8:15 & 9:30 a.m.-Deb

Thurs: 12:30 & 5:30 p.m.-Sophie

Fri: 8:15 & 9:30 a.m.-Deb

Sat: 9:00 a.m.-Deb

In the New Year (2020): Sophie will be offering Yoga For Emotional Liberation on 1/25

Kim will be offering Reiki I on 1/19 & a New Moon Rising Celebration

Deb will be offering Back to Basics Workshop & Meditation I (TBA)

It will be another great week at YFL, and we are looking forward to a great New Year in 2020!!! I will review the holiday schedule again in next week’s blog!!! As always, we can’t wait to see you on the mat!!!—Namaste’, Deb

“All is well’…that is my new philosophy”.—Sally from Peanuts

#  ‘Weight Time’

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Greetings from YFL, and Happy December!!! Don’t forget your own self-well-being this month!!! Come to the mat often!!! This week we return to Deb’s classic thematic practice for each week of the month!!! This week is ‘Weight Time’!!! We will emphasize toning, sculpting, and strengthening using our body weight and optional hand weights!!! Our Sanskrit focus is ‘Bhakti’, or ‘Your Personal Path of Devotion’, and what that means to you!!! Our hand gesture (mudra) is the classic ‘Jhana’, or connection to ‘Universal Energy’. Our meditation focus is ‘Holiday Cheer’, and the music selection this week for contemplation is ‘Winds of Samskara’s’, Heaven is Here.

The monthly YFL newsletter was released today, and if you aren’t on our newsletter mailing list, just email Deb, and we will gladly add you to our Contact List!!!

This week’s schedule:

Mon-8:15 & 9:30 a.m.-Deb

6:30 p.m. (Qigong)-Jan

Tues-12:30 p.m.-Sophie

6:00 p.m.-Sophie

Wed-8:15 a.m.-Sophie

9:30 a.m.-Joyce

Thurs-12:30 p.m.-Sophie

5:30 p.m.-Sophie

Fri-8:15 &9:30 a.m.-Deb

Sat-9:00 a.m.-Deb

Holiday Schedule: CLOSED: 12/24-12/26/19 & 12/31-1/2/20!!!

Give the gift of ‘HEALTH & WELL-BEING’ this Holiday Season!!! See Deb about YFL gift certificates!!!

It will be a wonderful first week of December at YFL, and as always, we cant’ wait to see you on the mat!!!—Namaste’, Deb

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams”.—Henry David Thoreaux