Naples Yoga & Movement

This weekend, step out of the pace that’s been carrying you, and give yourself time to remember who you are when you are not rushing, producing, or responding. This space can be its own edge, as you begin to feel what’s underneath the momentum. Come meet yourself without distraction, our weekend classes welcome you.

Saturday

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

Sunday

- Vinyasa with Cesar 9 am

When we come to an edge in our practice, where challenge meets curiosity, we start to listen for feedback from our nervous system. At Naples Yoga & Movement Center, we infuse classes with guidance towards this kind of awareness. The edge is the shift from automatic patterning into presence. This is a valuable skill to carry from your mat out into the world.

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

“The edge is where we meet ourselves.” — Jack Kornfield

We hear a lot about coming to an edge in a yoga practice, but the edge is often misinterpreted as efforting as much as possible. In reality, the edge that we are looking for in our practice is where our capacity meets our curiosity. The edge is a space of breathable intensity and sustainable effort. We will be exploring the edge all week. Join us!

Tuesday:

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

"The goal of asana practice is to live in your body and to learn to perceive clearly through it." - Donna Farhi

The weekend is an opportunity to return to our embodiment and consider big questions, such as where am I gripping or isolating myself, and where can I invite softness to reconnect with the whole? Your mat is a space of self-discovery.

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

Sunday:
Vinyasa with Cesar 9 am

If you haven't tried Strength, Mobility and Yin with Cesar, off-season is the perfect time! You can expect expert cueing and mindful movement. There is so much freedom in understanding the way your body moves and learning the most healthy way to build strength. In this class, you will work intelligently before finishing with the softness of yin yoga.

Join us Thursday 10:15 am

"Every day is a gift. But some days are packaged better." -Sanhita Baruah

The whole pace of the world slows down on weekends. Let that be your cue to do the same. Join us to be in your body and feel the flow your breath. Step onto your mat and give yourself the kind of presence you rarely have time for during the week.

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

Sunday:
Vinyasa with Cesar 9 am

The moment before a pose is its own practice. We organize in ways even beyond our awareness, and have the opportunity to choose clarity over momentum. We organize by listening: to the ground, to the breath, to the subtle direction of the body. This is how a posture becomes shaped by steadiness rather than habit.

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

"When the body gets working appropriately, the force of gravity can flow through." - Ida Rolf

It is important that we move on from the concept of alignment, or a one-size-fits-all approach to movement. Instead we study how the body organizes before we execute a movement. Organization is the body finding coherence and how the parts of the body are in relationship to one another. All of the elements of yoga, such as breath, drishti, and bandha, come together in conversation instead of conflict.

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

This weekend at Naples Yoga & Movement Center we continue the work of monitoring our capacity and how resourced we feel in our practice. When we notice the subtle shifts in our capacity, we recognize the difference between effort that depletes and effort that restores. The practice can be the recalibration and reset that you need this weekend.

Saturday:

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

Sunday:

- Vinyasa 9 am with Cesar

"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted." - Denis Waitley
Discernment is one of the most precious gifts of the yoga practices. The techniques of movement and breath are an inquiry about what we can meet in the moment, and whether the practice is serving us. Yoga is designed to be life-giving and rejuvenating. When the practice feels depleting, it is a call to investigate our intention around why we practice in the first place. We are in relationship to our practice, and this relationship shifts and changes along with the circumstances of our lives. At Naples Yoga and Movement Center, we recognize that we don't just provide classes, we encourage you to build and nourish this relationship.

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