Better Living Through Yoga With Patti LLC

Beginning next Thursday, Feb 9, my Restorative Yoga class is back. Only at 🏪 Cliffs. Join me at 7pm. Bring your straps & blocks.

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🌀It’s been a tough year for everyone, small, women-owned businesses included. Are you looking for ways to support your local community and friends that own small businesses?
🌀If you are looking for a unique Holiday gift for someone you care deeply about, consider choosing a gift that will ensure the recipient knows just how much you care by giving the gift of Yoga this year! Virtual or in-person available.
🌀For the third year, Better Living Through Yoga With Patti LLC is offering gift-certificates for private Yoga sessions. Each session is customized for the practitioner. All levels.
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🌀 𝓜𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓪𝓹𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓲𝓯 𝔂𝓸𝓾’𝓻𝓮 𝓪𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝓾𝓹𝓹𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓶𝓮 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓪
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🌀Namaste, friends 🙏🏻
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🌀We began our Summer SOULstice/International Day of Yoga Celebration this morning at Paramus with a Manipura/Third Chakra Meditation.
🌀We set our mats in a circle representing the ☀️sun with legs extending out as the rays of the sun🥰.
🌀This third energy center is said to be where the sun’s light enters and then spreads throughout our entire body. This chakra’s element is fire and is associated with “the fire in our belly.” Our inner fire rests in this space. Manipura chakra is in part about understanding our personal power and transforming it into something proactive, being self-disciplined and confident, and knowing the power and freedom we have in taking control of our life.
🌀This morning’s meditation reminds us that the light is inside of each of us. We ARE the light; each of us IS the very power of light.
🌀I believe it’s no coincidence that after 6 days of rain, when we left the gym after our practice, the sun was peeking through😁
🌀Welcome Summer & thank you for EVERYTHING, Yoga. And much gratitude to all of the Yogis for joining me & 🏪Hour Fitness for hosting this amazingly beautiful day🙏🏻
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🌀Oh man! And the blessings keep coming!! Exploding heart! What a completely awesome surprise I received tonight!
🌀During my recent with the beautiful in , Peggy & Carla were on the beach chairs right next to where we practiced every day. They were our official cheering section for the week😊 On the last morning, they took these awesome action shots of our practice together! (So great to have a few action shots!) So incredibly thankful to them for capturing these beautiful memories & a reminder of alllllll the amazing people I met at Secrets Royal Beach. I miss everyone, & the sunshine, terribly!💔
🌀Thank you, again, & for what was a week filled with amazing moments! (& a good tan😉)
🌀Secrets Papagayo, you’re up next!😄
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🌀“Yoga is about clearing away whatever is in us that prevents our living in the most full and whole way. With yoga, we become aware of how and where we are restricted — in body, mind, and heart — and how gradually to open and release these blockages. As these blockages are cleared, our energy is freed. We start to feel more harmonious, more at one with ourselves. Our lives begin to flow — or we begin to flow more in our lives.” – Cybele Tomlinson
🌀My heart is filled with joy & gratitude today I celebrate two incredibly beautiful years of leading Yogis in their practice; welcoming people home to their bodies. The most beautiful gift I give to others.
🌀Few positive things have had the ability to impact & transform my life as dramatically Yoga has. I am deeply & incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to attend that first /Baptiste Yoga Training with & and my subsequent YTT with the amazing Amy Pastore .
🌀Mostly, I am grateful for the beautiful Yogi tribe we have built together on Tuesdays & Thursdays at 🏪Paramus. We’ve come a long way together! Thank you for choosing to spend part of your days with me.
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🌀 ➡️ Day 5, Friyay!
🌀 Leading Yogis in their practice every day for six consecutive days is enough of a dream come true. BUT teaching Yoga every day for six days on the beach is like freaking Nirvana. No words. Just big, BIG love. And a heart so incredibly overwhelmed with gratitude. Sometimes I can’t believe this is my life. I need to pinch myself all day long😊
🌀Our keeps growing (21 today! That’s just crazy!) but Val is heading home today. Safe travels🙏🏻 See you in class next week🤗
🌀We get to do this for one more day! SO blessed. Thank you & for a week of amazing moments! (& a good tan😉)
🌀Check my Instagram () & InstaStories for all the vaca pics & the behind the scenes moments.
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🌀 Can we talk!
🌀 Alignment/form is super important in Yoga to create clean lines of energy & prevent injury.
🌀 Before moving to an advanced variation, spend time to master posture foundation to ensure correct alignment/form, and develop the strength & mobility the pose requires.
🌀 Take modifications, and/or use props, if that will ensure form & alignment are correct.
🌀 In Chaturanga Dandasana/4 Limb Staff Pose consider taking this posture with knees on the mat as the necessary upper body & core strength develop AND proper alignment of the shoulders, elbows & wrists. The goal is to practice with proper alignment/form not rush an advanced posture. Be patient with the body. (And yes, my shoulders are a bit too droopy in this pic!)
🌀 Pigeon is also a great example! Resist taking the quad stretch if you are unable to keep your hips squared to the mat in that variation. The goal in Pigeon is to open the hip by keeping the hips/pelvis “facing” the mat. Why not release the back leg & focus on proper form for the posture to reap the benefit. Once your hips become open sufficiently, that’s when to introduce the advanced variation into your practice. It can take lots of time.
🌀 Each week I see many newer yoga students moving to an advanced posture variation sacrificing form & alignment. My verbal cues are designed to bring awareness for practitioners, but ultimately, as individuals we need to be body aware & mindful of where we are in our practice and give the body the time it needs to develop & adapt. I’m practicing for almost six years and there are postures I modify in order to align myself. Yoga teaches us patience. There is no fast track to any apex, on our mat or in our life.
🌀 Be responsive to what is right for your body, without judgment🙏🏻
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🌀No words. Just big love for 42 (😱) beautiful Yogis who came to our special Gratitude Heart Opening Yoga this morning at Paramus. We had a beautiful Savasana, so sad some had to leave before the final Zen moment.
🌀And special shout out to my two Yogis who haven’t missed a class for about a year! Whuuuttt? They’re now on their way to Goa India for 3 months, I will miss them terribly, but am hoping they bring back some good yoga tips for me😉
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🌀Taking a moment to say thank you to my students. I am so grateful to be able to share space, time, effort and love with such wonderful people every week. You bring me so much joy in return. You all rocked the socks off the Paramus Cycle & GX Studios this morning. You give me life. (Cycle vid & Yoga pics coming soon ). Wishing you and your families a Happy Thanksgiving filled with lots of love.
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🌀Sharing some photos from my amazing teaching vacation in Costa Rica. Such a beautiful experience.
🌀You can find all the pics on my Instagram ➡️
Namaste 🙏🏻