About Agame Yoga & Meditation Center
To honor her teachers, Phi has founded Agame (Ah-gahm-e) Yoga & Meditation Center, LLC. The word Agame brings together her teachers’ names & a reminder of their teachings as reflected and expressed through her (“Ag” of Aggasami & “am” of Amrit in “me”). Agame is also a Pali word which means “to exalt, to adore, to make high; to adore the Gods, to make a man into God.” The depth of yoga is to experience our wholeness, our divinity. The yoga posture is a tool, a gateway to that experience. May Agame be a refuge and shelter to those seeking healing and transformation towards happier living.
New to Yoga
Yoga is a mind body discipline offering immense physical, mental, emotional benefits. You don’t need to be flexible to do yoga. Everybody can do yoga! The yoga postures, breathing techniques, and centering practices are tools to help the physical body gain strength and flexibility, to improve digestion, to enhance the functioning of the endocrine system, to improve circulation of the blood & lymphatic system, to balance the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, and to release stress and tension. There are many great reasons to start practicing yoga, but probably the best reason of all is that it will change your life!
Guidelines:
- Please arrive 15 minutes early for your first class; at least 5 minutes early for subsequent classes.
- Let the teacher know your present state of health and/or any physical injuries/limitations.
- Do not wear heavy deodorant or perfumes.
- Wear comfortable, stretchy clothing with tops that are fitted for comfort and ease of movement.
- Leave cell phones and pagers outside the studio doors.
- Shoes to remain outside the studio doors.
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Special Starter Private Instruction & Class Package: Total of 8 private sessions within one month & 30 day unlimited class pass $650 value for $550!
Experienced Practioners
Ultimately, the yoga posture is simply a tool for inner connection, an opportunity to explore within one’s body, mind, and heart, from moment to moment. As a seasoned practitioner, allow your posture practice to be a curious unfolding of how your mind naturally reacts to challenges, both physical and mental, that come up as you engage on the mat. So the posture practice becomes a way to safely induce challenges artificially so that you can enhance your awareness of pre-programmed reactions of your mind. And by practicing coming back to your breath, to relax and allow yourself to be where you are, you cultivate the capacity and habit to allow life to be life off the mat.
Your practice then becomes a practice of integrating into yourself, into life, from moment to moment, as you show up, as life shows up (the teacher may not do any of the poses you’d hoped she’d do! The husband doesn’t do the dishes as expected!). You may even experiment and go to classes which may challenge you mentally (i.e. a class that’s really easy), or with a teacher who you don’t normally practice with. That way, you get a chance to see yourself react under those circumstances and then practice allowing.
So it’s really not about touching your toes, not about holding plank for 10 minutes…it’s about how I receive the experience of not touching my toes, not holding plank. Am I berating myself the whole time I am on the mat, practicing conflict instead of integration? Or can I practice acceptance of the moment as it is, breathing, relaxing, deepening, and allowing? In this way, the practice on the mat becomes a guide for living life. It’s a wonderful process, because you are always unfolding! Yes, real yoga for real life! So enjoy!
coming together is a beginning
working together is a process.
growing together is success.
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