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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Hapi Yogi Instructors Hope to Bring Healing to Sandy Hook Community

Five yoga instructors will offer free services to Newtown, Conn. community on Saturday, Dec. 22.

Instructors from Westfield's Hapi Yogi will travel to Newtown, Conn. Saturday, Dec. 22 in an effort to bring healing to the community in the wake of the deadly school shooting that took place on Friday, Dec. 14. Amorette Farella, owner of the East Broad Street studio, said she and her colleagues are at a loss of words but want to do what they can to support the Sandy Hook Healing Project. "All of us want to do something, so we are doing what we can," she said. "We're offering the things we can provide. Being there and being strong and sensitive and open, allowing friends and family to begin to heal."  Farella explained that she and four others will join what she described as "an overnight grassroots effort" that will include Reiki, yoga …

Friday, February 17, 2012

Westfield Resident Opens Hapi Yogi Studio

The studio offers simultaneous yet separate parent and child classes.

Amorette Farella's yoga practice has literally changed her life. The yoga instructor and new business owner left her behind her previous career to open Hapi Yogi, located above Victoria's Secret on East Broad Street, in early January. A teacher pursuing her doctorate, Farella said she knew this was something she had to do after she realized how much more balanced she felt as a result of the ancient practice. "It's a huge departure, though I did teach at the college level so the teaching was something that I was comfortable with already, but movement or physical performance was not my background," she said.  While she has always tried to stay fit, Farella said, she previously never  stuck to one thing. "With yoga, it wasn't something that I…

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