 Does it ever feel that way to you? If it does: Keep stepping forward, stepping up. Keep making new memories. Keep building that memory book with the memories you want to create. You'll have built a life.
1 in 5 adults in the USA experiences a mental health challenge, says the NIMH. Harvard Medical School estimates 50% of the world's population will experience a mental health crisis in their lifetime. Well. Look at the traumas of so many populations in the world.
I write of generational trauma in my mother's and father's lives in my short story "China Dolls" in Heal To Lead II, which benefits NAMI. Those wounds led me to yoga, and a lifelong path to integrate body, soul, community. And I believe it is the opposite of what we might imagine: it is two steps forward, one back.
 Humans are being challenged perhaps to the very edge of what we feel we can endure. Yet we are learning, we are growing. Are we not? A deeper appreciation of life and love? Do you not feel it? We're alive.
With prayer, and fervor, our progress is inward first, before outward, and ever upward. I feel that about our world, nation, and our selves. Step forward. Step up. Step. The darkest hour is before the dawn.
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 Here is my class schedule. Email me for a guest pass at any Equinox club where you are not a member, to try it out.
If you are an Equinox member, remember your app has a "Share Feedback" tab under "Help & Support". You can commend a club on its scheduling, make suggestions, or requests. It's one way you participate to partner with your wellness community, for yourself and others!
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For Reiki, Thai, Restorative or Coaching privates, email me directly. These can be in-person, or in the case of yoga, coaching, or even reiki, can be online via Zoom, with recordings if appropriate and helpful.
Restorative Yoga and Thai Bodywork sessions are done in-person either at my Murray Hill home, or your Manhattan home or workplace.
Email me directly for your next corporate event!
 My 7-Chakra crystal bowls are ready to sing you magic!
Also offered: team building, journaling, coaching, and communication practices, with sonic healing as an ice-breaker.
You can find my schedule of classes, retreats, cleanses, and more, anytime at my website
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Photo thanks: Mark George, VR Colletti, my trusty iPhone 13 Pro Max.
I value your email privacy and do not share email lists. Thank you for this cyber sangha, some of you since as early as January 2006, a few years after I began teaching Yoga in 2002.
May we meet upon the dunes, hills, rivers, sunsets, balloon rides, and yoga mats of life's garden of delights! And may you have Salaam, Shalom, Shanti, Peace ~
OMMMMMMMMmary
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 Curated masterfully by our Moroccan-American guide Meryem, whose expertise is retreat running, whose passion is sharing the beauty of Morocco ~ you will be in vinyasa bliss with VR Colletti; Yin, Restore, Nidra, Sonic Meditation bliss with me.
 Yes, if any adventurous playful kiddos, we can play AcroYoga. Yes, for all you loving, nurturing souls, we can teach partner Thai massage.
Maybe I had you at "VR" or maybe at "Thai"? Or just "Morocco"!
 Kasbah, town, desert & yoga! Marrakech is likely my top most favorite city in the world, and that's after Barcelona, Paris, Shanghai, after living in London and New York, seeing Greece and Italy! And then there's the magic of quiet nature out on the sand dunes.
 We have not set dates or deets as yet, but save your dates and ducats: September or October of 2026.
You can request to be on our retreat update email list!
Meantime stay tuned on this monthly station and my web page.
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One Step Forward * Mary Yoga & Wellness