If you can breathe, you can do yoga. Yoga with Naomi is always gentle—not always easy, but always gentle. I'm also trained in restorative therapeutic yoga.
Peace, fellow mammals. Note the Sand for Seniors program…
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Southern Penobscot-Interior Hancock-Central Washington-Coastal
Hancock-Coastal Washington-
Including the cities of Perry, Ellsworth, Orono, Dedham, Brewer,
Princeton, Machias, Amherst, Eastport, Orland, Great Pond,
Calais, Wesley, Bucksport, Old Town, Cherryfield, Eastbrook,
Aurora, Castine, Bangor, Bar Harbor, and Grand Lake Stream
103 AM EST Sat Jan 10 2026
..WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM SUNDAY TO 1 AM EST
MONDAY...
* WHAT...Mixed precipitation expected. Total snow and sleet
accumulations between 1 and 3 inches and ice accumulations around
a light glaze.
* WHERE...Portions of Coastal DownEast, Interior DownEast, and
Penobscot Valley Maine
* WHEN...From 2 AM Sunday to 1 AM EST Monday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Winter Weather Advisory means that periods of snow, sleet or
freezing rain will cause travel difficulties. Expect slippery roads
and limited visibilities, and use caution while driving.
The latest road conditions for Maine can be obtained by going to
newengland511.org.
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05/20/2025
Yoga with Naomi is a safe space for everyone in the LGBTQ2SIA+ community. Always. No exceptions. Peace, fellow yogis.
06/19/2024
Peace, fellow mammals! Please remember your animals need safe, cool places to be and plenty of water when it’s hot. And so do you! Here’s a list of cooling centers around Maine, in case you or someone you love needs one:
A Warming Center is a facility that has been opened for short term operations due to a specific emergency or event. They are normally opened when temperatures or a combination of precipitation, wind chill, wind and temperatures have or may become dangerous. Their paramount purpose is the prevention....
04/24/2023
I received a very kind note from someone via messenger to this page, but when I wrote back and replied, messenger said it couldn’t send. I tried to troubleshoot it but couldn’t find a way to connect with this person and get my message of thanks to her. To protect her privacy, I won’t share her name, but I hope she somehow sees this and knows that I got her note and appreciated it. Peace, fellow mammals.
04/19/2023
Yoga with Naomi -
I'm so sad to share the news of the passing of my stepmother, Beth Gray, a longtime member of our yoga kula who is dearly, dearly missed.
09/20/2022
The end of regular, open-group weekly classes -
After 11 years of holding space for weekly open-group classes, Yoga with Naomi is evolving.
07/02/2022
Reminder: Yoga with Naomi tomorrow -
Join me and for some relaxation, meditation, and movement via Zoom at 11 a.m. EDT on Saturday, July 2nd.
06/19/2022
Hope you (and your kitties!) can join us!
06/19/2022
June/July Yoga with Naomi Schedule -
No class 6/22 or 6/29. Instead, join me and Marjiecat for some relaxation, meditation, and movement at 11 a.m. EDT on June 20th and July 2nd.
06/19/2022
Our Wednesday yoga class will take a break while I celebrate my 50th birthday, but we'll have a couple of late-morning (EDT) Zoom classes on Monday 6/20 and Saturday, July 2, instead. Hope you can join me and Marjorie Kitty for some gentle, healing, beginner-friendly, trauma-sensitive, body-positive, cat yoga via Zoom! Regular weekly Wednesday classes (3:30-4:30 p.m.) resume July 6. Peace, fellow mammals!
01/28/2022
Yoga with Naomi class today at 3:30 -
Join me and Marjiecat for some relaxation, meditation, and movement before the storm!
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I have been practicing yoga off and on for more than 20 years and teaching since 2010.
For a few years, my daily personal practice was Iyengar, which partially explains my fondness for props. I also dabbled for a time in Bikram yoga, a hot, sweaty form of hatha yoga, which is practiced in a studio where the temperature is kept at a minimum of 105 degrees and 40 percent humidity. Ultimately, I found that the heat and humidity of Bikram were too much for me—I frequently passed out in class—and eventually gave it up and went searching for another form of yoga.
In 2004, I came to my first Anusara class. It was taught at my alma mater (Smith College) by a young alumna, Amy Reed. At first, I felt very angry in my practice. But I felt drawn to come back. I came back and back and back and I found that for the first time in my life, there was room for my anger. I simply practiced angry yoga. I welcomed whatever emotion came to me in practice, and eventually my anger washed away and was replaced by the most radiant joy. In that first year of weekly (or sometimes twice or thrice weekly) Anusara classes, I became deeply and irrevocably connected to the joyful heart of my practice.
So, what kind of yoga is Yoga with Naomi? It is hatha yoga, influenced by BKS Iyengar, infused by my personal heart-centered Anusara (“flowing with grace”) practice, and with little tastes of Kundalini thrown in here and there. We often start with a Kundalini meditation, for instance, or we listen to Kundalini music while we practice.
More than anything, though, Yoga with Naomi is yoga with me. I use my voice and my body and my energy to open up a channel through which the infinite Grace of the universe can flow. Yoga with Naomi is, above all, a welcoming practice, in which students of any age, size or ability level can come and connect with their breath. And through that connection, experience their own ability to relax and to heal. Yoga with Naomi is about connecting to your own inherent goodness, your own inner teacher, your own inner Light and your own power to Be in the here and now. If you have tried other forms of yoga or other teachers and you have come away feeling confused, insecure, or sore (in a bad way), then I invite you to come and try a Yoga with Naomi class and see what happens.
My students are using yoga to heal everything from grief to sciatica and insomnia. It took me 12 years to find the practice that was my yoga home. If you feel called to yoga, but haven’t found the right practice yet, do not give up. Find your way to a teacher. Take a class. Take another class. If I am not your teacher, then keep trying. There are studios in Belfast, Bar Harbor, Bangor, Brewer, Orland, and Ellsworth who are offering an amazing variety of yoga styles, from Kundalini to Yin to Yamuna Ball Rolling to Ashtanga to hot yoga to aerial yoga. I am certain there is a yoga for you.
The word “yoga” means “to yoke” or “to connect.” Finding the right yoga practice is undeniable--when you connect, you will know it. And don’t let images of thin, young, bendy, spry, agile, nubile, or lean teachers dissuade you; if you don’t happen to be in a body that looks like the yoga images you are seeing in magazines, TV, or videos, then come find me! Your body is exactly right for yoga, right now. You don’t have to lose ten pounds, or get more “zen,” or buy a more expensive pair of yoga pants. Come as you are. Bring what you have. I am yoga. You are yoga. We are yoga. Always.
