Spring felt reticent in New York City, with greyness and rain, and even a mild 4.8 earthquake on April 5, its epicenter in Tewksbury Township NJ. I was teaching a yoga private on Zoom and did not feel it, nor did my student.
His wife and my husband both felt it in adjacent rooms in our very same apartments, ours in Murray Hill, theirs on the Upper East Side.
The cherry trees have been ablaze on Park Avenue and other tree-lined streets, blossoms drift through Central Park, and I join many others in sneezing my way through the month as tulips and other bright flowers wave at us gaily everywhere as I whiz on my two-wheeled steeds through my awakening spring city.
Yes, Mother Nature visits us here, not just in glorious green spaces in our beautiful parks, but in gardens, sidewalk plots, and windows. I take inspiration from our two indoor peace lilies, each of which has exceeded itself in blooming this spring, as though to uplift us with their wordless messages of hope for peace.
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My Class Schedule in the month of May:
Tues: Yin Yoga Meditation, 12-1pm, Equinox E.85
Tues: Restorative Yoga, 1:45-2:45, Equinox E.92
*Wed: Sonic Meditation, 8-8:45pm, Equinox Flatiron
*Thur: Sonic Meditation, 8-8:45pm, Equinox Gramercy
*Fri 5/3 & 5/10: Sonic Meditation, 5:45pm, Eqx Sports Club
Sat: Yin/Yang Flow, 2:15-3:30pm, Pure Yoga at Equinox W.76
Sat: Restorative Yoga, 4-5pm, Pure Yoga at Equinox W.76
*Sonic Meditation is my new favorite offering! A deep yet gentle 45-minute surf dive of sound, with live chimes, crystal bowls, rain stick, wind harp, and an underlying playlist. Tranquilize your body, mind and soul! Boost your innate resonance and your immune system. (Look for it in "Stretch & Recovery" not Yoga.)
Check out my website www.maryaranas.com anytime for updated schedules:
Classes, workshops, series, events, retreats, cleanses.
If you are not a member and want to try a class, email me for a guest pass. Exception: Fridays at Equinox Sports Club are full.
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Two Retreats ~ Empathy & Embodiment; and YINspirations ~ Input on Dates Welcome
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Two DR Beach Retreats are in creative development ~
Empathy & Embodiment NVC Retreat: Dec 5-10 OR Jan 16-21, in Puerto Plata, DR, on our all-inclusive VIP Resort (5 nights/6 days). With Cathan Kabrelian of NYC NVC. We will learn key NVC tools and concepts, and practice and enjoy embodying them with Chi Gong, Yoga, Nature Walks, Meditations, and more!
YINspirations Yoga Retreat: March 5-11 OR March 12-18, in Puerto Plata, DR for our 3rd year at our VIP Resort (6 nights/7 days). With Donna Davidge of Sewall House Retreat. We practice Yoga 2x daily: Yin, Flow, Restore, Nidra. See last year's YINspirations here.
For either retreat, we encourage folks if they wish, to extend their stay for more days in the sun, and more adventure excursions or unstructured vacation time.We would secure you extended VIP perks at pro-rated rates.
The airport is POP. I'd love to hear your interest, and your dates votes, for either E&E or YINspirations retreats or both! Both retreats have limited space, to keep connection and community.
Come co-create with me and us: the best kind of learning fun!
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Crucial Conversations: June Book Club
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Some Compassion Course and Yoga teacher friends have joined me in forming a monthly book club for in-person and/or virtual discussions, with expansion of awareness and growth as our focus.
Our first book is Esther Farmer's A Land With A People, for a mid-May or late May meet-up. And given that it is a controversial subject, we are encouraged to do our own additional reading as well, and bring and share those resources at our open-minded, open-hearted, open-eyed discussion in May, date TBD.
Our second book, Crucial Conversations, 3rd Edition, is a 20-year classic on communicating when stakes have great import. The 3rd Edition is updated for today's even more complex, tech-layered communication climate. This 2nd book we will discuss in mid-June or late June, date TBD.
If you wish to join either book discussion, email me.
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Email Privacy/Forward/Reply
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I respect your privacy and do not share emails.
Please feel free anytime to Reply, Forward, Subscribe or Unsubscribe.
It is with deep appreciation that I keep this monthly cyber-sangha since 2006, here in this ether space, this virtual room.
Through thick and thin. Through pandemics and earthquakes and wars. Though history as we live it, individually and communally.
Through April showers AND April flowers
Looking for Yoga, for union
With passion and purpose for peace
With persistence, persevering, believing ~
Soul by soul, piece by piece, peace by peace ....
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My Fresh Foods Cleanses take place when there are enough interested participants, so email me if you want to do a May12-25 Cleanse!
Summer and Fall look to be full of new projects I am undertaking, so this may be my only 2024 Cleanse!
Let me know if you want it! All details here
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Excited, so excited, for this year's 52-week online Compassion Course that begins June 19 and runs to next June.
We are experiencing so much global growth for this Needs Based NVC (Non-Violent Communication) learning movement, and modality, to the benefit of institutions, families, workplaces, and individual relationships, worldwide!
I am honored to again host a Zoom practice group for our Compassion Course participants
This year my group will meet Wednesdays, beginning July 3, either 12:30PM OR 8PM ET, TBA.
Email me with interest/queries!
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I'm super delighted to be immersed in a Woman-Centered Coaching Mastery program, taking my Life and Health Coaching to the next level, especially for women, and those who self-limit due to cultural expectations.
By summer's end I will run my first woman-centered coaching group: details to come! Are you excited? Are you curious?
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Thanks for photos this issue:
Grant Henry for Sunset Warrior
Health Coach Institute
The Compassion Course/NYCNVC
Raul Aranas for headshot
Wari Om for Floating Camel with
Adam Rinder
Janel DuRoss for "M" Logo ~
and my trusty iPhone.
See you on the mat, the meadow, the beach, the meditation zone!
OMMMMMMMary
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