Ashtanga Yoga Long Island

Ashtanga Yoga Long Island New Yoga Shala at Seaford, NY

Not easy to leave this place, but definitely ready to enjoy some “city comfort” for a little while specially during the ...
11/24/2022

Not easy to leave this place, but definitely ready to enjoy some “city comfort” for a little while specially during the winter.

What first? Flexibility or strength? Many people view asanas and advancing in the practice of asanas predominantly as a ...
08/28/2022

What first? Flexibility or strength?
Many people view asanas and advancing in the practice of asanas predominantly as a matter of becoming more flexible. However, flexibility is always in a dynamic relationship with strength. As we practice asana, there is an ever evolving relationship between becoming strong and staying steady while opening up the body.

Oh Lake, let me borrow your stillnessso I can still my mind and experienceat least for a secondthat you and I are one
08/24/2022

Oh Lake, let me borrow your stillness
so I can still my mind and experience
at least for a second
that you and I are one

For those of you who have asked where I am teaching from!This is my Colorado mountain home, we live in a trailer off the...
08/23/2022

For those of you who have asked where I am teaching from!
This is my Colorado mountain home, we live in a trailer off the grid only when weather permits (usually from June to November). We have satellite internet which we turn on and off when we need it,m -which is actually one of my favorite parts of living in here, not having continue internet :)
Last year I was teaching all my classes outdoors which was a problem because the weather is very erratic in here. I could start the class with blasting sun and 80 degrees and 15 min after I would have hail pouring down on me -and the computer- with 40degrees.
This year we built a little yoga room around 50 feet away from the trailer (you can see it in the middle of the picture) from where I can teach, it is equipped with a little propane heater that keeps me fairly warmed, and I have a little solar generated power bank that keeps my computer, speakers and light running and charged!
I love being here and I love even more the opportunity of teaching while here.

07/19/2022

In 2015 few months after I opened Ashtanga Yoga Long Island I had an accident where I fell down on steps. I had sacrum fractured, lower disc herniated, the three discs above bulged, 50% of the piriformis muscle teared, and upper fibers of the gluteus maximus teared as well. If someone told me by that time that I will ever be able to perform back bending postures again I would have not believe it since I couldn’t even stand straight for almost a month after I fell.

Some days my back feels better than others and of course how deep I can go in my practice always depends on that, but in general at present I am able to perform deep back bending postures as I did before the accident, only that now I do it with way more awareness and knowledge than I used to do it before.

Please never ever give-up, don’t let the pain become suffering, understand it and learn from it!

I bow with total devotion to the feet of the guru, of each and one of them known and unknown, I bow to you.ॐ असतो मा सद्...
07/13/2022

I bow with total devotion to the feet of the guru, of each and one of them known and unknown, I bow to you.

ॐ असतो मा सद्गमय ।
तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।
मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय ।
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥

asato mā sadgamaya
tamasomā jyotir gamaya
mrityormāamritam gamaya
Oṁ śhānti śhānti śhāntiḥ

Lead me from the untruth to the truth,
lead me from darkness to light,
lead me from death to immortality.
AUM peace peace peace

07/10/2022

Hanumanasana variations.

07/07/2022

following your great post on drop backs and lifting the heels :)
I agree with you 100% in being fine with the heels lifting, I do like though to feel the heels grounded since it gives me stability so I can slow down the coming up.
This is what I do so I can still feel my heels grounded, try and let me know how it goes :)

07/05/2022

Oh oh! A visitor at the yoga hut :) I love wildlife!
This is one of the most impressive animal I have encountered in its natural environment. I have seen, elephants in the jungle at Coorg-India, which was pretty amazing, and sharks while diving in Venezuela is one of the best wildlife encounters ever! Last year while hiking in Colorado we almost tripped with a Moose and it’s baby, it was a little scary.
I hope many more wildlife seeing to come :)

07/02/2022

Stretching targeted muscles before practicing challenging postures make them way more enjoyable! here are two of my favorite stretches before back bending one for shoulders and the other one for legs.

06/28/2022

I’m having a lot of fun by having different topics to focus on each week in my classes! This week we are working on shoulder mobility to improve back bending postures.

When I am not teaching….
06/23/2022

When I am not teaching….

Address

3599 Merrick Road
Seaford, NY
11783

Opening Hours

Monday 6am - 10am
3pm - 7pm
Tuesday 6am - 10am
3pm - 7pm
Wednesday 6am - 10am
3pm - 7pm
Thursday 6am - 10am
5pm - 8:30pm
Friday 6am - 10am
3pm - 7pm
Sunday 7am - 12pm

Telephone

+15165068119

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All Life is Yoga

Ashtanga Yoga is an ancient method of self-realization originated in India. It is a science that gives us the tools to bring back a peaceful mind and healthy body so easily lost in this fast-paced world.

Patanjali, in his Yoga Sutras, defined yoga as “the stillness of the fluctuations of the mind”, and explained the eight steps necessary to reach this state, therefore the name Ashtanga Yoga -Ashto= eight -Anga= limbs-


  • Yamas -Social behavior, moral codes, how we relate to the external world

  • Ahimsa -Non violence