Naples Yoga & Movement

"Life is too important to be taken seriously" Oscar Wilde

One of the greatest lessons yoga teaches us is the importance of levity. In order to touch the lightness in movement, we have to understand that organization and self-awareness comes first. This week at Naples Yoga and Movement Center, your teacher will guide you through the levity process, and show you how levity is both grounded and spacious at the same time.

Tuesday:

- Ashtanga Element with Amy 7 am
- Vinyasa with Amy 9 am
- Strength, Mobility and Yin with Cesar 10:15 am

Offer yourself some gentleness this weekend by leaving time to move and breathe with us. Your mat is a space to process experience so that it can be integrated or released. You may show up for the movement, but the important work is this self-inquiry.

Saturday:

- Ashtanga Led Primary 7 am with Amy
- Vinyasa 9 am with Cesar
- Strength, Mobility and Yin with Cesar 10:15 am

Sunday:

- Vinyasa with Cesar 9 am

When we move the body gently with receptivity, the poses themselves begin to teach us. We begin to listen for the quiet places where the body and breath speak, guiding us away from force and tension.

Thursday:
- Ashtanga Mysore 7 am
-Strength, Mobility and Yin 10:15 am

“Be softer with you. You are a breathing thing, a memory to someone, a home to a life.” — Nayyirah Waheed

Practice can be a contemplation of the unseen architecture that holds us up, including the willingness to hold ourselves gently. We can notice the breath that steadies but is not forceful. We can feel the stabilizing muscles that organize an inner levity. This week's practice is an invitation to honor the softer forces beneath the surface, and to honor what holds you with tenderness, not tension.

Tuesday:

- Ashtanga Elements with Amy 7 am
- Vinyasa with Amy 9 am
- Strength, Mobility and Yin with Cesar 10:15 am

"There beneath all the thinking and doing, you are at peace." -Tamara Verma

Join us in a class this weekend to recognize the peace that is already within you. The yoga practice is a way to uncover and recover the sense of self that lies dormant as you strive to meet goals and perform. When you give that a rest, and when you can rest, peace emerges truthfully and completely.

Saturday:
- Ashtanga Led Primary Series with Amy 7 am
- Vinyasa with Cesar 9 am
- Strength, Mobility and Yin with Cesar 10:15 am

Sunday:
- Vinyasa with Cesar 9 am

It is time to honor the sacredness of what feels unfinished or is in process. The breath that is out of rhythm or a pose that feels wobbly is not a failure, it is actually a tender space of becoming.
This week we accept the invitation to a practice that is taking shape and the process that wants to be discovered.

Thursday:

- Ashtanga Mysore with Amy 7am
- Strength, Mobility and Yin with Cesar 10:15 am

When we desire something in the practice, such as a new skill, it is a human tendency to meet what is missing with a sense of urgency. In a rush to change the circumstances, it is tempting to fast-track progress by resisting the work that is necessary to step fully into a new space.

What if we met what feels unfinished with tenderness instead? This week we explore the beauty of what is still in process, still forming, still becoming. We can explore this space with a curious and open heart, and reframe a sense of lack by seeing what is already there instead of what is missing.

Tuesday:

- Ashtanga Elements with Amy 7 am
- Vinyasa with Amy 9 am
- Strength, Mobility and Yin with Cesar 10:15 am

Through the weekend, we integrate what we have learned about allowing a variety of sensations be a part of the practice. The last part of this work is recognizing that we have to choice to manage what arises with intelligence. This takes space and inquiry, as we decide parts of the practice support us, and which parts are ready to change.

Saturday:

- Vinyasa with Cesar 9 am
- Strength, Mobility and Yin with Cesar 10:15 am

Sunday:

- Vinyasa with Cesar 9 am

“A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.” ― Henri J.M. Nouwen

This week: Persistence

As we practice with persistence, we get curious with sensation instead of labeling it as good or bad. We may ask, Where does it begin? Does it move? What happens when breath meets it? When we stay with sensation, we learn to unbrace and allow the soft, steady attention that allows sensation to unfold rather than intensify.

Thursday:
Strength, Mobility and Yin with Cesar 10:15 am

This week: Persistence

At first, yoga can feel difficult and uncomfortable, but eventually the practice teaches us to be curious about the sensation that is arising. Staying with sensation is the practice of not abandoning yourself. When a new sensation arrives, our instinct is often to fix it, judge it, or move away from it. When we are persistent enough to stay, we realize that sensation is simply the body speaking in real time.

Tuesday:

- Vinyasa with Cesar 9 am
- Strength, Mobility and Yin with Cesar 10:15 am