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Zoom Yoga 5/20-5/25 & Nature in NYC

Posted on May 18, 2020 by april dechagas

This week’s teaching schedule has a slight change – the Wednesday evening 60 min class will now take place at 8 am. Full schedule below.

Quite a few people have asked me for recommendations on where you can explore nature and wildlife in the 5 Boroughs, so I thought I’d leave a list here of some of the places I’ve been exploring. Unfortunately unless you have a car, some of these places are more challenging to get to during current times, but well worth exploring if you can. The list below is by borough, and is definitely not all-inclusive, just places I’ve enjoyed.

Brooklyn:

Marine Park Salt Marsh Trail

Gerritsen Beach

Plumb Beach (go during low tide)

North Forty Natural Area (Floyd Bennet Field is currently closed – but putting this here for when it reopens)

Shore Road Park/Bay Ridge Promenade

Prospect Park

Queens:

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

Forest Park

Manhattan:

The Ramble, Ravine, and North Woods in Central Park

Fort Tryon Park (one of my faves)

Staten Island:

The Greenbelt (High Rock Park and Latourette Park)

Scarlett Tanagers chillin’ at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Zoom Yoga 5/13 – 5/18 & More on the Greenbelt

Posted on May 11, 2020 by april dechagas

Zoom schedule below!

If you missed last week’s dharma talk in the 90 min classes, I shared a story that was sent to me by a student (with her permission) about the Greenbelt in Staten Island. Here’s what she had to say in her own words:

“My dad, an environmental journalist, grew up on Staten Island and got his start working at their local paper, the Staten Island Advance. During that time, there were Moses-era plans to put an interstate through the Greenbelt, which sparked local action to preserve the open space. My dad covered it all, and it was probably the first land preservation work he ever did as a writer (now that’s all he does).
“Save the Greenbelt” was the slogan, postered all over Staten Island. I even have one of his old t-shirts that says Save the Greenbelt. In the newsroom, it became an adage, “Save the fucking Greenbelt” you might say with an eye roll, as if to say, “just get the job done,” if somebody was complaining or exaggerating (intoned like, “ah, get over it”).”

This story fits in perfectly with the Jivamukti Focus of the Month – Spiritual Activism. If you’d like to read this month’s focus, written by Jivamukti Yoga co-founder Sharon Gannon, you can find it here.

While the first part of the essay focuses on veganism, the concept applies to any cause you are fighting for – whether it’s saving a natural habitat, or fighting for social/civil rights, or protections during an epidemic. (read last 3 paragraphs if you don’t feel like reading the whole thing!) “To think well of another and to want that person’s happiness, even though you do not agree with the person’s current thoughts and actions, is the key to spiritual activism.”

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Zoom Yoga 4/22-4/27 & Short Sweet Poems

Posted on April 21, 2020 by april dechagas

My dear friend Lauren Krauze is a poet and author and for a while was writing haiku that she called Short Sweet Poems. These poems brought such imagery to my mind with such a small amount of words that I found myself drawing them.

In addition to this week’s Zoom schedule, below you will find some drawings I did a few years ago based on Lauren’s poetry.

  • Letters to you/ my words will always/and never/fail
  • he holds hands/in his hands – clock repairman
  • tossed high from the pile/the leaves fall again
  • under the umbrella/a tiny hand/reaches for the rain
  • Haunted house: $5/ strya cats/ wait on the porch – original
  • Supper! Bike in the driveway/back tire spinning
  • Leaves ride the wind/from a passing train/November
  • Green light-/Runaway balloon/crosses the street
  • Surrounded by space/ tree’s last leaf/dances wildly/with the wind
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Spreading love in the world through the teachings of yoga!

Posted on June 27, 2014 by april dechagas

If you haven’t noticed by now, I have been teaching A LOT of yoga! All of my hard work has paid off! I am now an 800-hour certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher, and also recently completed the Aerialmukti teacher training and am certified to teach aerial yoga!

If you haven’t checked out one of my classes yet, you can view my full schedule here. https://aprildechagas.com/yoga/, including all subbing dates as of now through the end of August.

I am subbing a ton this summer, including aerial yoga classes! See you on the mat!

Current class schedule:

Monday

9:30 a.m. Jivamukti Open, Yoga People, Brooklyn Heights

12:00 p.m. Jivamukti Open, Brooklyn Yoga Collective

3:00 p.m. Open, Jivamukti Jersey City

Wednesday

6:30 p.m. Basics, Brooklyn Yoga Collective

Thursday

5:05 p.m. Spiritual Warrior, Jivamukti Yoga School NYC

Friday

9:30 a.m. Jivamukti Open, Yoga People, Brookyln Heights

2:30 p.m., Jivamukti Open, Brooklyn Yoga Collective

Saturday

8:00 a.m. Spiritual Warrior, Jivamukti Yoga School NYC

3:00 p.m. Basic, Jivamukti Jersey City

5:00 p.m. Open, Jivamukti Jersey City

Upcoming Subbing:

Tuesdays 7/1, 7/8 & 7/15  7:00 & 8:10 am, Spiritual Warrior, Jivamukti Yoga School, NYC

Sunday 6/29 5:00 pm, All-Levels, Yoga People Brooklyn Heights

Wednesday 7/2 9:30 am & 12:00 pm, All-Levels, Yoga People Brooklyn Heights

Wednesday 7/9 4:30 pm, All-Levels, Brooklyn Yoga Collective

Sunday 7/13 3:00 pm, Open, Jivamukti Yoga School, NYC

Sunday 8/3 9:15 am, Open, Jivamukti Yoga School, NYC

Tuesday 8/12 5:00 pm, Open, Jivamukti Yoga School, NYC

Monday 8/18 7:00 pm, Aerial, Jivamukti Jersey City

Tuesday 8/19 5:00 pm, Open, Jivamukti Yoga School, NYC

Sunday 8/24 11:00 am, Beginners, Brooklyn Yoga Collective

Sunday 8/24 3:00 pm, Aerial, Jivamukti Jersey City

Sunday 8/24 5:00 pm, Open, Jivamukti Jersey City

Wednesday 8/27 2:00 pm, Open, Jivamukti Yoga School, NYC

Thursday 8/28 2:00 pm, Open, Jivamukti Yoga School, NYC

Sunday 8/31 9:15 am, Open, Jivamukti Yoga School, NYC

Sunday 8/31 3:00 pm, Aerial, Jivamukti Jersey City

Sunday, 8/31 5:00 pm, Open, Jivamukti Jersey City

 

 

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