Write Your Heart Out
2026-05-24 13:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
Poetry as a practice for connecting with your emotional body, moving energy and remembering
Join Danielle Riccardi and Jay Erickson, two local semi-pro published writers for a workshop designed to unleash your inner poet and explore memory. On this Memorial Day weekend, we will move through a practice of gathering, weaving and adorning memory as we move towards wholeness through the yoga of re-membering.
We will use an adaption of the “Journal Ladder” process to start simple and small and build to an expression that allows for writing to be a release, healing, insight, or sense-making.
We will explore the yoga of poetry and how a poem, like a physical form, can constellate and contain a certain shape of energy or memory and how the music and imagery and vast permission of poetry is nothing to fear or avert but a vast playground and dancefloor for all those who have language.
No experience is necessary—this workshop is open to complete beginners, curious writers, and experienced poets alike. Come as you are and leave with new ideas, new writing, and a fresh way of looking at memory in poetry.
Consider bringing comfortable clothes. And alliteration (or a dash of sibilance).

Somatic Release Breathwork with Julia Zern, Somatic Release Breathwork™ Practitioner , ERYT 500
2026-06-14 16:00 - 17:30
Somatic Release Breathwork™ is a healing practice to release trauma, stress and tension that has been stored in the body. Through guided breath patterns, NLP ( Neuro Linguistic Programming ) and co-regulation of your nervous system this modality is self-healing on a deep subconscious level. In this practice we access the sympathetic nervous system to allow what’s been stuck in the body to be expressed and moved out and invite in new more useful patterns. The session is done laying down with eyes closed and is set to music.
Somatic Release Breathwork™ often inspires insights on what’s been keeping you stuck and creates a safe space to release the past and claim your authentic Self.
Please bring a yoga mat, blanket, water bottle and journal for insights, optional eye mask.
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Julia is a Somatic Release Breathwork™ practitioner as well as Vinyasa and Yin yoga teacher living and working in the Hudson Valley.
She has a background of practicing and studying many different styles of yoga, learning from both local and international teachers since the year 2000 and teaching since 2011.
Julia is a Somatic Release Breathwork practitioner certified by founder Steven Jaggers. This modality became an incredible source for healing and growth in her own life and she is grateful to be able to share it with others on the healing path.
Julia believes in the healing power of breathwork and the alchemy of Somatic Release to truly bring us back to homeostasis and live a more authentic life.
You can find Julia leading classes, workshops and trainings around Hudson Valley and sometimes in her home country Sweden.
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We recommend paying this price if: you are financially secure, have personal savings, or own property. You would pay for a similar experience at this price point elsewhere without worrying about how it would impact your ability to spend money on other things.

Middle range: The middle option for a workshop is a discounted price that does not fully cover the costs of running the class or service.

We recommend paying this price if: you have access to steady income and your basic needs are met, but are working to pay off debt or build savings. While paying for this class might mean you have to cut back on things like going out to dinner or buying new clothes, it won’t harm you in the long term.

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We recommend paying this price if: you have access to basic needs, but your financial situation feels tenuous. You would have to save up for many months to be able to afford a higher price point.
Please note: We are committed to welcoming all members of our community to our studio. If the lowest price is still out of reach for you, please email gabrielle@pawlingyogawellness.org.

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A Qigong Practice. The Microcosmic Orbit - Aligning with Summer Solstice
2026-06-18 18:00 - 19:00
An elegant Taoist practice to realign the human body with two of our most powerful celestial allies, the Sun and Moon, while rooting us to our Earthly home. The Microcosmic Orbit, also known as the Small Heavenly Cycle invites opening of our “third eye” expansion of our intuitive, pre-verbal origins for greater insight to our lives.

The practice brings the Sun’s infra-red light up the spinal column, through our seven chakras, it meets with Moon’s silvery blue light on the forehead and other skull points, radiating down the front body, to the pelvis.

The core teaching of this practice grounds us in our humanity, while expanding our Qi field to the
Cosmos. The seven levels of healing it brings to each energetic center of the body makes it a very
complete practice, one that is a marvelous ally for caretakers, parents, healers and seekers in all fields.

This is a standing practice that can also be done from chair. All are welcome.

Nadiya Peters-Nottingham is a Master Qigong Teacher in practice for over 30 years. A former Pawling resident she now lives in Ireland and teaches in Europe and USA. She was made a master teacher by her teacher, Master Liu He of Portland Oregon. www.nadiyapeters.com
