Naples Yoga & Movement

In practice, containment of energy feels like drawing your awareness back to the body, allowing breath to dance with sensation. From this space, every movement, thought and action feels intentional. It becomes clear that yoga is learning how to show up for yourself with reverence.

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

Restraint in practice is the choice to stop sending your attention outward. When the senses quiet, the body feels less pulled by distractions. One of the lessons of yoga is keeping energy inside instead the body of scattering energy outside of us. Pratyahara is one of the eight limbs of yoga that is often overlooked.
This week at Naples Yoga and Movement Center, we will investigate the different types of pratyahara. Containment of energy is one of the most profound movement techniques that directly reflects the quality of the mind. Come discover this with us.

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

“The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.” — Gautama Buddha

Connection to the ground is how mobility becomes functional because the ground is an external reference point where we can experience ourselves. Every yoga pose is a negotiation of weight. Every transition is a recalibration of center. When you recognize yourself in that relationship, you become the steward of your own practice. From this place, yoga is no longer a checklist of anatomical actions and poses, but movement that originates organically from within.

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

In every pose there is a single place where the body meets the ground. A point of contact that can either inspire a gentle organization of the body or a chaotic bracing. When you pay attention to that meeting place the shape becomes clearer and the effort becomes steadier. This is a simple way of returning to what is real before trying to expand or deepen the pose.
As Mary Oliver wrote, “Attention is the beginning of devotion.” This week at Naples Yoga and Movement Center we will turn our attention to where and how we meet the ground.

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

"When we have succeeded in preventing all the forces in the world from throwing us off our balance, then
alone we have attained to freedom, and not before."
-Swami Vivekananda

A steady practice is its own kind of independence. On this holiday weekend we come back to the mat to feel what anchors us, what clears space inside, and that freedom begins in the body. Don't forget to include yoga with us in your holiday weekend plans!

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

Sunday:
- Vinyasa with Cesar 10:15 am

In yoga philosophy, moksha is freedom from the patterns that keep repeating.
The yoga practice can help us recognize places where old storylines still live in the body.
As you move, let the body show you what can be released. Liberation begins with noticing what no longer belongs.

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

We have reached the point in the summer where we hear a lot about freedom and what this means for us collectively and personally. Moksha, the word for liberation in Sanskrit, can often arise as clarity. When we are no longer arguing or waging war with the present moment, clarity opens the curtain for Moksha
The work is simple. Notice what feels like an action of truth in your practice.

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

The weekend is for feeling less weighted down and a lot more alive. In your practice, what is wanting to come alive? What is waiting to feel the touch of your breath and the light of your attention? When we loose the grip we have on ourselves, there is so much to receive.

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

Sunday Schedule
- Vinyasa 9 am with Cesar

“Life must be lived as play.” — Plato

Playfulness is a way back into presence. When we let the body move with the joy of curiosity, the practice becomes lighter and more honest. It is easier to see what is true when we stop trying to get it right.

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

Sometimes the practice asks you to be precise. Other times it asks you to loosen your grip and let yourself explore.

Playfulness may seem like the opposite of discipline, but it is what keeps discipline alive. When you get curious about how a shape feels instead of how it looks, sensation reveals deeper truths and understanding. This practice is a doorway.

This week, we transform practice into discovery.

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