This is an all-levels class open to everyone.

Yes, It's a yoga class on Christmas Day! Joy is in the air. Feel it! Taste it. Connect to Your inner joy, then pour it out effortlessly to everyone you touch...

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Aphinya Deley is an E-RYT (Experienced registered yoga teacher) 200 & RYT 500.

She has been practicing yoga since 2001, earned her certification in 2005, and passionately continues advancing her knowledge, her practice, and her teachings.

Aphinya’s primary consideration is to instruct students to practice yoga from a place of empowerment and well-being. She is renowned for her skills in breaking down challenging postures into their component parts and teaching them progressively so that her students can practice at their own level. She challenges her students to understand the mechanics of their physical bodies, while providing guidance for those who choose to deepen a spiritual practice. She is also known for creative sequencing, and real-life philosophy. She is celebrated for a teaching style that is precise, inspired and cheerful.

Moreover, she enjoys working with her students in private, one-on-one sessions, where she may apply her deep knowledge of yoga to the individual's specific situation. Students may expect to learn valuable techniques to ease the body, encourage well-being, and unlock new depths while practicing yoga.

Aphinya has a great sense of humor and is easy going. She is enthusiastic about health (mind/body/spirit), cooking, reading, practicing yoga, appreciating life and all the challenges that come with it.

Aphinya offers both group and private classes. For private classes, please email her at yogapinya@gmail.com or call 716-704-9997 to set up your sessions. 1 private session is $70, 3 private sessions are $200.

Some free yoga tips which you can practice at home, please visit her YouTube channel.

“I met Aphinya about two years ago when I took an introduction to yoga class with her. I had been taking pilates for many years on and off and thought I knew what yoga was all about. I assumed it was the same poses – just holding them longer. After my first session with Aphinya, I realized how wrong I was! She explained and demonstrated the poses the way they are supposed to be done and my body felt it more in that one session than ever before. She is a master yoga instructor. Her demonstrations on how to align your body so that you are focusing on the right muscles is amazing to me. She has taught me that yoga is not only physical but spiritual and mindful as well. I always knew that I controlled the thoughts in my mind and not the other way around. Aphinya lives that and helps her students remember that as well. Every time I leave a session with her, I feel stronger physically, mentally and emotionally. I feel blessed to have found such an authentic teacher who is so sincere, kind and patient. Her passion for what she does comes through every single time I work with her. Thank YOU, Aphinya!” Paula Terranova

Michael Sutton has over 40 years experience teaching the principles and mechanics of mind/body connection through martial arts, yoga, and meditation. He is a yoga teacher, martial artist, facilitator of discussion groups, and spiritual guide. He is also the founder and director of Rising Sun Yoga. His passion is teaching and helping others to experience insights. A certified and registered Hatha and Iyengar-based yoga teacher and a karate instructor, he lives as holistically as he can - contemplating, meditating, visualizing, going within, eating smartly, staying fit, practicing yoga and other movement forms, and having a healthy outlook. Michael believes that thoughts and their attendant feelings are more powerful than anything you put into, or let come out of, you. Those same thoughts and feelings become ultimately your beliefs and perceptions.

He has experienced many injuries including torn ligaments and tendons, ripped muscles, broken bones, fractured ribs, sprains, strains, tears, aches and pains, vertebral problems as a result of engaging in team sports, and kidney challenges. He finds the only benefit to having experienced these injuries is that he understands what others have experienced, can teach people how to move properly, help re-align and balance themselves, and assist them in regaining a healthy lifestyle. He is a proponent of functional movement and mobility and believes this can be achieved by minding the messages you receive.

Formerly a practicing herbalist, Iridologist, and health consultant, Michael has learned to address his challenges himself while continuing his education in key health related areas, conducting research through topic-related books and as a result, has had the privilege of helping others. He also presents health-related topics to organizations and groups.

A large segment of his life was spent studying martial arts (26 years) before being introduced to yoga in 1999. During some of that time, he spent 20 years in the banking and software industries.

Michael founded Rising Sun Yoga to help people change the(ir) paradigm, bring people together in community, and create a center for education. His classes can be slow and even, mindful and steady, or strong and flowing. Usually his classes are a combination of all of them giving you an opportunity to explore and stretch your boundaries. He was a Yoga Alliance (YA) e-RYT 500 hour Certified Yoga Instructor, but no longer subscribes to their system.

He offers both group classes and private sessions. For private classes, he can be reached at Michael@RisingSunYoga.com or Michael @PhiloYoga.com or 716.864-7578. He also offers therapeutic yoga for anyone with injuries or chronic conditions.

Michael has a daughter, Sydney, who is a YA 500 hour certified yoga instructor, adventure seeker, and outdoor wilderness guide.