Harvesting my 65th Birthday
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 Well, I had a milestone birthday this month, my friends! One I awaited with anticipation for many many months!
I turned 65 on September 23rd! From September 1st on, I gleefully began to seek medical checkups I'd delayed for over a year, some for two and a half years ~ now I'm medically covered!
 On the one hand, I'm celebrating feeling powerful, free, light, happy, full of choice.
On the other hand, I'm chagrined to learn the wear-and-tear impacts of living, traveling, and playing for sixty-five years. I'm now buckling up to ride this new adventure ride, learn this new song! (Meet Zoe, a girl from France who followed me into an Irish pub/oyster bar because of unicorn love!)
 First, my blood pressure is high, despite eating clean, staying lean, and moving a lot. I know I sleep poorly. I know I worry about politics, people, the planet.
My BP is better outside of NY. It's better after teaching restorative yoga or sound meditation. It's best after doing both! So yes, grateful, and yes, room for improvement. (Here is my sangha, my yogi family! They help lower my BP.)
Second, my right hip's X-Ray shows bone-on-bone wear. No wonder it's hit-or-miss, days I feel painfree or painful. Mystery solved why I've been pulling back on zouk, salsa, vinyasa, acro play, the last two years. It's time for a new hip!
 Harvest time: relishing the pause. Moving into the season of renewal.
Learning to meditate and chant more. Surrendering to medical treatment, to recuperation.
Taking the rest time, when I schedule it, to write more, dream, heal, create. (This is my writer buddy Lakeisha Fletcher on her Rediscovering The Goddess book tour in Bryant Park!)
Appreciating this transformer body. If every seven years we have all new cells, then I have, catlike, lived nine lives and then some! Time for a new transformer hip, for the next seven year transformation!
Appreciating the juiciness of all the lives. Taking time to talk to playmates along the way. Loving the companions who make the way fun, meaningful!
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YINspirations Yoga Retreat: Jan 18-24
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 On the one hand, my Empathy & Embodiment (NVC in Paradise) retreat with Cathan Kabrelian is paused for a future date, as I desire to use the in-between holidays time for my bionic body restoration season.
On the other hand, I'm going to be rebuilt and refurbished in time for YINspirations Yoga Retreat, January 18-24, with Yogini goddess Donna Sewall Amrita Davidge, for our New Year retreat in paradise!
 Our first retreat year, Donna offered a Creative Writing and Yoga workshop in two sessions, by donation, that was well-loved by those who attended.
This year, purely selfishly, I've desired her to offer it again, as I'll be a fledgling published author, wanting to stir my creative juices, within community! And with Yoga as creative doorway opening!
 Check out our retreat page; a *bonus* discount ends today at midnight, but another early bird discount ends Oct. 31st.
We're keeping numbers intimate, so we have just six spaces left, and will close registration Dec.1st (or when spots are filled, whichever comes first). Register now so you can start planning your best airfares and vacation resort outfits and books to pack and read! Details here!
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October In-Studio Classes
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Photo Credits, Email Privacy
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 Photo thanks this issue to: Me & Raphael Aranas
My dancing M logo, thanks to: Janel DuRoss
I value your email privacy, and do not share email lists. Please feel free at any time to Reply, Forward, subscribe, or Unsubscribe. This ENews has been continuous since January 2006. I treasure the longtime, longterm sangha, network, it represents over time and space. We've seen a lot! We've been through a lot! And we shall see each other on the other side! Happy Autumn Harvest Time!
OMMMMMmmary
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Celebrating Autumn, I'd like to serenade you into blissful healing sleep on Sunday night!
 Who would like a 7-week Sound Meditation Zoom Series Sunday Nights?
Listen or chant with me on harmonium. Be guided to breathe deeply and release tensions.
Recline into a sound meditation that will see you off into peaceful, healing dreams.
 We'll take the time for setting intentions or dedications first, for those who like to do so.
Recordings allow you to repeated, even if you miss an evening!
7 Weeks: $210
Oct. 27th-Dec. 8th
8-9:15PM Eastern Time
Are you in? Tell me! Or ...
Register here
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 My short story "China Dolls: A Healing Journey" introducing my mother, grandmother, and myself, appears in:
Heal To Lead: How To Turn Your Wounds Into Wisdom, Vol.II.
I'm excited to have my chapter appear as one of the twenty in this collection, all proceeds of which go to support the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
Note: our updated launch date: October 14th on Amazon, via ebook.
Pre-orders and early reviews are soo welcome! Some of you are on my "street team" for links and updates! If you'd like to support me that way, and/or join the 10/14 Zoom Launch party, write me!
 Others of you pre-ordered print copies from me (3 weeks post launch), and you can still do that with me, for $19.95 (+$8 shipping if out of town).
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AcroYoga Yin/Yang Friday 10/11
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 One last Fall Friday of AcroYoga Yin/Yang, Solar/Lunar, before the winter break, in Greenport, Brooklyn, at:
Cosmic Fit Club
Friday Oct.11th
6PM Solar flying fun
7PM Lunar thai'ing love
8:30 Jam/snacks/sauna
All are welcome! No partner needed. All level welcome.
 Join us! So much joy, play, learning, connection, love, and fun! FB event here.
In community & in peace ~
NYC O.G. AcroYogi Mary
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You can catch me in-studio in October: