Naples Yoga & Movement

If you’ve just finished a full week and are preparing for the one ahead, the weekend practice is where you can reset without performance or pressure. Come meet your breath, sensation, and the clarity that comes from moving your body mindfully.

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

* Sunday
- Vinyasa with Cesar 9 am

"The body says what words cannot" -Martha Graham

All bodies carry some degree of sensory‑motor amnesia (SMA), which is where the brain forgets how to release certain muscles after long‑term stress, posture, or injury. What feels “tight” is often a learned contraction pattern, not a structural problem.
*Hanna Somatics class is Friday at 10 am. A quiet hour to relearn movement from the inside and release tension through conscious pandiculation. Come as you are.

Your practice is always an invitation to notice where you move on autopilot and where you meet your edges. Residing in your comfort zone isn’t a problem, but it is information about how you meet your own resistance. When you understand your own patterns, you know how to work with yourself instead of against yourself.

This is the type of work we are always doing at Naples Yoga and Movement.

Come join us on Thursday:

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

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd

The comfort zone can be a place of regulation and recovery, but the practice is about noticing when safety becomes stagnation. On the mat, when we notice what happens just outside our comfort zone, we recognize the moment the breath changes when the body meets something unfamiliar. This is the edge where adaptability forms. Yoga is about staying with ourselves long enough to sense what’s possible. The work is about finding a new way instead of pushing or forcing, so we can widen the space where we can remain steady, curious, and aware.

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

When the week has pulled you in many directions, breath is the one place that allows you to be where you are. Breath is the inquiry of who we are and what we are feeling.
Our weekend classes return to that inquiry. Slow, attentive, and rooted in the rhythm that you have been looking for.

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

Sunday:
- Vinyasa with Cesar 9 am

Sthira‑sukham āsanam - The Yoga Sutras

A posture is steady and easeful. Thursday's Strength, Mobility and Yin class works with that balance directly. It is the perfect combination of strength that doesn’t harden you and ease that doesn’t collapse you. This practice will allow the body to organize itself so the mind can follow.

Join Cesar Thursday at 10:15 am

Tuesday morning is a chance to come back to the body as a place of orientation. Before the day pulls you in every direction, you get to feel where you actually are.

-Strength, Mobility and Yin class at 10:15 am with Cesar is built for this kind of reset. Join us!

"The flowing water carves the canyon, not the standing stone." — Unknown

Consistency is the teacher. It asks you to arrive as you are, to listen, and to do the work that is possible today.

That is the practice.

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

Sunday
Vinyasa with Cesar 9 am

Practice becomes steady when it is tended over a long stretch of time. In Yoga Sutra 1.14, Patanjali says that what we repeat with sincerity and without interruption becomes the ground we stand on. It is the slow, unglamorous accumulation of days, breaths, and choice to show up that shapes us more than any single moment of inspiration.

Join us Thursday:
Ashtanga Elements with Amy 7 am
Vinyasa with Amy 7 am
Strength, Mobility and Yin with Amy 10:15 am

This week we explore the strength that comes from continuity and persistence.

The practice shapes us through steady returns and devotion to showing up, not in the big breakthrough moments. The breath guides us into the reminder that change happens in layers. When we arrive on our mats and in the poses over and over, it is an opportunity to notice what is yielding or what is gripping. Join us this week to honor a practice that grows by showing up again and again.

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

When we come to our practice there is a space where everything gets quiet enough for you to hear what your body is asking of you. The pause is where that happens. A breath is an action, and it can also the moment when you remember how to listen again.

If you need a reset before the week ahead, come take that pause on your mat.

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