April Is the Sweetest Month
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 Yes, T.S.Eliot fans, the word is powerful. My word is powerful. Your word is powerful. That's why Toltec author Don Miguel Ruiz says "Be Impeccable With Your Word."
Yogis say a single word vibrated all creation into being. John's Gospel agrees, names that Word, and claims that Word lives on in us all.
Many wisdom traditions, scientists, artists, and teachers agree that what we say, act, and do, indeed forms and creates our world.
 And so, if April rang a pang of longing and loss in poet Eliot's voice, I choose to sing a different song for April. I choose to sing renewal and birth, evolution and new life.
I declare the everlastingness of beauty. I declare no love which has ever existed is lost, but exists in eternity.
That the fountain of love and life are living in our heart and voice, that the Creative Word resides in our actions and deeds.
If you are alive, you are part of the Spring. Have you seen how the flowers push out of the cement?
If April is the sweetest month because I have said it, it is that insofar as it has been said. Speak your word. What do you speak? Life flows forward.
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Come to class! Email me for an Equinox day pass if you need it!
Equinox Weekly Classes:
Email me for Privates or Corporates ~
They may include ~
- Yin, Restorative, Yoga Nidra
- AcroYoga, Thai, Reiki
- Sound Bath Meditations
- NVC/Wellness Coaching
You will always find my class schedule at my Classes Webpage.
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Beach Villa Retreats: Nov & Feb
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 Winter might be your jam ~ I know some folks who love it! But for this tropical born babe, it is definitely not! ~ Even though I grew up 16 years in Toronto and Ottawa, with my share of snowshoes and snow tires! And though I've done more New York winter campouts with Cub and Boy Scouts than I'd believe!
To reward myself for my long fruitful life, I've decided I deserve two beach vacations per winter, and I'm inviting you along!
are inviting you, my husband and I. We're booking a villa or suite for a week each in November and February, on the Cofresà Beach of Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic!
 We're offering 5-night vacation retreats for those lucky, fun students who fit into our pleasures, plans, and dates. We'll explore a mix of restaurant nights, versus on-site dining nights. Our groups will form by application, and we'll custom-tailor the yoga per group.
If this interests you, and you have definite blackout or preferred dates in November or February, feel free to let me know!
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 Photo thanks this issue to:
Derek Pashupa Goodwin, Katie Capano Raphael Aranas, FloLo Holistic, Sandy Ames, Alondra Siguas, Jessica Gomura, Marlene Meyerson JCC, The Compassion Course Online, Thom Bond, NYCNVC, Raul Aranas, Lifestyles Holiday Vacation Club, and my iPhone.
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 I value your cyber privacy and I do not share email lists. Always feel free to Reply, Forward, Subscribe, or Unsubscribe.
It is an honor and privilege to have held community through these eNews since January 2026, now in my twentieth year of sending monthly eNewsletters!
It's a special delight when folks who have moved across oceans write me, or we have a reunion on a retreat or in class!
With care, and wishes for your peace, your calm, your clarity, your centeredness upon your path, this Passover, this Easter, this aftermath of Ramadan, this Spring into Summer season.
OMMMMMMMMmary
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Join Mary and friends in Murray Hill, Friday, April 10th for a 90-minute love-fest of a playshop!
AcroYoga Fly & Thai
Fri. April 10, 7-8:30PM
The Yoga Common
322 East 39th Street
NY, NY 10016
We'll open with playful AcroYoga stretches and drills, some joyful flight, then move to delightful melting Thai Yoga bodywork that you'll learn to both give and to receive. See FB Event.
No partner or experience needed! $40 or $75/pair:
Paypal, Venmo, or Zelle.
To register, email your name(s) & email address(es), then remit payment! You will get a confirmation email!
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For the past ten years I've been part of a Compassion Course Online after having taken in-person studies with Thom Bond and NYC NVC in New York and in weekend immersions.
 My first five years taking the online course, I'd read the weekly emails, mull over some concepts, and maybe do some of the practices.
 Since 2020, I've enjoyed immersing quite a bit more, guiding online practice groups bi-weekly, or weekly. And I've loved the immersive, learning communities that I've seen emerge from this global peace education resource.
It's a simple, small, affordable, email course to take... with vast potential for more, if/ when you feel like it. I invite you to check it out!
The Course begins June 24. Register now or anytime before.
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