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SPECIAL EVENTS Free Acupuncture and Hot Stones Intro with Deborah Stotsky - Saturday, March 11th- 11:30-3:30 - Call Namaste to schedule your 10 minute session. 212.580.1778 Spring Practice Workshop with Elizabeth - Sunday, March 19th 10:15-11:45am, - incorporated into the Katonah class. $15 or 1 punch of your card. The goal of the spring practice is to cleanse and support you to move into a phase of greater expansion. The spring asana practice centers around the backbend. Learn how to backbend safely and effectively and to create a thrust of energy that cleanses and balances the liver and gall bladder. Build an energetic body that supports your self-expression. Free Class!! Monday, March 27, 4-6pm - Nechemiah’s Active Restorative Yoga (with Kinetic Awareness and Meditation) - Free intro to a 7 week cycle of realignment, balancing and rejuvenation focusing on the 7 chakras. With Nechemiah Bar Yehuda. - Beginners and novices welcome! |
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Acupuncture - Making Its Way Into The Mainstream by Deborah Stotzky M.S., L.Ac. "Where there is pain there is no flow, where there is no pain there is flow". This simple and ancient idea is truly at the route of acupuncture theory and practice. Acupuncture is the practice of inserting very fine needles into specific points on the surface of the body for therapeutic purposes. By doing so, acupuncture generates the movement of energy (qi) throughout the body, enhances the immune system and promotes healing. What Acupuncture Can Treat Acupuncture can successfully treat imbalances in all the systems of the body. Studies done by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and The World Health Organization (an agency of the United Nations) resulted in lists of conditions for which they consider acupuncture a successful form of treatment, making the practice of acupuncture very much more accepted in mainstream medicine. Some of these conditions include: acute sinusitis, common cold, acute bronchitis, gastritis, constipation, diarrhea, headache, migraine, facial palsy, neurogenic bladder dysfunction, “frozen shoulder”, “tennis elbow”, sciatica, low back pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, osteoarthritis, and menstrual cramps. Acupuncture is a fundamental therapy found in Alternative Health Care facilities associated with major hospitals, institutions and pain management facilities, and this trend is growing. Pain Management The American Medical Association acknowledges the profound effect acupuncture has on the management of pain, both chronic and acute. Americans alone spend billions of dollars every year on pain management. The treatment of pain through traditional Western medical models often rely on drugs and surgical procedures that commonly produce adverse side effects and are often temporary remedies. There are no prolonged, negative side effects with acupuncture treatment. On the contrary, an “acupuncture side effect” is normally deep relaxation, a sense of well being and a reconnected with the self. By regulating the entire system, acupuncture can treat an existing imbalance, and help to prevent illness in the future. Acupuncture is a highly successful alternative and/or adjunct to Western medical treatments. Tao Philosophy The theories of acupuncture and Chinese medicine are firmly routed in the philosophy of the Tao, with a deep understanding of the interrelated relationship Read the complete article >> |
New Name, New Look, New Format, New Mission
Beginning this month, the Life in Motion Newsletter is now the Namaste Yoga Newsletter and we are going from a monthly to a bimonthly format. We want to introduce you to a deeper practice of yoga that restores physical vitality and mental clarity to support your spiritual practice, your evolving consciousness and your compassionate action. We want to enhance your unfolding with our services of energy healing, one-on-one yoga, massage, nutrition and psychotherapy.
Yoga is so much more than a physical practice. It is a time-tested technology of personal transformation and spiritual evolution. It unleashes and expands an integrated process of awakening into higher structures of consciousness. Yoga should not be confused with religion. These practices are designed to give you a direct spiritual experience. They are for awakening our awareness of who we truly are. Chaos is an indicator of change. The winds of March are a classic example of the fury needed to sweep winter away for the first breath of spring. It is clear that we are on the cusp of a great shift in our awareness. We are transforming from a structure of consciousness that divides the world into self and many into a structure that unites the One and the many. What does this mean to you? It means the journey of awakening is the most remarkable journey you will ever undertake. It means remembering that first and foremost you, all humanity, all life is an expression of the One. Namaste is a greeting, an acknowledgement and an affirmation of that essential truth. The power of your practice rests on why you are doing it. Practice for the joy of awakening your mind, your body and your heart. Practice for the awakening of everyone. Practice to see all life as sacred. Practice to serve life. The source of all healing is within you, once you awaken it! With palms together, Elizabeth "Christ has no body on earth now but yours, |
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Transition into Spring : Adhomukhasvanasana Dog Pose as twists and Backbends 
Just about any pose can be done as a twist, a forward bend or a backbend. Dog pose is a fine example of this it is also one of those poses that you always do and are always perfecting.
When you transition form one season to another or one phase of growth to another, real change must be integrated on every level of your being. If your insights are just concepts, you are not participating with the parts of you still in shadow. If your evolution into higher consciousness is not supported by the radical courage to be truly present to yourself or another, you actually kill your good intentions. If you want to move from one who analyzes to one who loves, you have to see, feel, hear, taste, smell, envision from a point of view bigger than your fixed point in space. Twists are great for this. You revolve planes around a fixed axis. You experience tangents rolling over a surface and intersecting lines of intelligence creating spatial support. Like Spring floods move out debris, twists break up old patterns and get things moving again. Backbends emerge from your roots. When the energy rises up, you want to follow the wave of Eros. you want it to bend you, not break you. Then you unfold your enfolded potential! Twists are 3 spheres (the head, the torso and the pelvis) revolving around the vertical axis a.k.a. the sushumna. Backbends are built on the square of the shoulders and hips. Here it is important to know that you are not unconsciously twisting the body. It is also important to ground the body while simultaneously rising. This helps you to make the internal space necessary for lifting off the lower back and organs. Backbends done this way will feel like an organic process that cleanses and charges the system rather than crunching the back and neck. | |
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