Christine Agro

Class Description:
It’s a crazy time to be here and the world around us can feel like it’s tilting on its axis, but we can find balance amidst the chaos and in fact, to be effective, it’s important that we do find balance. Join Christine Agro, Spiritual Teacher and Clairvoyant, for a look at how and why we get off balance, and then dive into a series of energetic tools to help you align with certainty, truth and inner peace. Christine offers simple tools for challenging times.

Bio:
Christine Agro is a Spiritual Teacher and Clairvoyant and she is the creator of The Awaken Method, a simple process to help you step into the flow and create a life that you love. Christine has been gathering her own universal information about why we are here, how we learn, and what we need to know, from as early as age 7. As an ‘old soul’, her ability to see and understand our human journey has helped thousands to step into awareness. Christine has been written about and cited in a bunch of places, you may have seen her on TV or not, but the important thing is, if you feel drawn to work with her, she’s interested in meeting you.

Awaken with Christine Agro
christine@awakenandgrow.com
www.awakenandgrow.com

Radharani Renee Finkelstein

Class Description:
Enter a deep place of expansion with call and response chanting. Coming from the Bhakti Yoga tradition, kirtan singing is an ancient practice used to still the mind, open the heart, evoke joy, and dissolve separateness. No experience is necessary! All are welcome to come and share a sweet time.

Bio:
Radharani fell in love with kirtan 14 years ago, and is quickly emerging on the international scene for kirtan and sacred music. Through the years, she has shared a stage with many musician friends at the major yoga music festivals such as Bhakti Fest, Ahimsa, Omega Chant and Lovelight with musicians including Sri Kirtan, Kritan Rabbi and Prema Hara.

Radharani’s debut album “Just One Drop” received global acclaim and was reviewed in several of Yoga Journal’s partner magazines worldwide. The unique sound has been called “one of exceptional purity, a mirror of the crystalline voice of the artist.”

Radharani has spent many years traversing the Himalayas, learning from wise teachers, and studying the ancient science of sound through Indian music. She loves helping people open to new horizons through the process of discovering their authentic voice in private lessons and group workshops. She also guides pilgrimages to sacred places in India.

Radharani
sing@radharaniwali.com
www.radharanimusic.com

Joanne Leffeld aka Moolah Doula

Class Description:
Getting clear on your relationship with money is the first step towards making and keeping more of it. Learn how underlying attitudes and beliefs effect your ability to achieve success both as an artist and as an investor.

Bio:
Joanne Leffeld began her career as a financial planner working with clients one-on-one in creating a preserving estates. After several years, she left the financial world to join her husband’s growing exhibit lighting company moving up to the Hudson Valley where she began teaching yoga. Now that her children are grown, she has re-entered the financial world offering a uniquely holistic approach to money. Joanne is a mentor, confidante and trusted teacher. www.joanneleffeld.com

Joanne Leffeld – Moolah Doula
3 Crosmour Drive, Rhinebeck New York
845 706-4145
joanne@joanneleffeld.com
www.joanneleffeld.com

Anna Mayta

Class Description:
Fusion Dance Technique: This is a fun and creative form of class that promotes fitness through various forms of world dance. I fuse traditional styles of dance from India, West Africa, Spain and Latin America, with modern technique. This work brings together different cultures and shows the linkages between seemingly different dance styles.

Bio:
Anna Mayta is a dance improviser, choreographer and teacher. She graduated from Empire State College in June 2001 with a BA in Dance in Education. November 2008 she got a certificate to teach yoga from Svyasa Swami Vivekananda Yoga University in Bangalore India. In 2006 she was awarded a dissemination award from the Dutchess County Arts Council in Poughkeepsie NY. She has been teaching, performing and choreographing for about 15 years. She has developed two programs one is teaching the Spanish Language through movement, second is fusion dance which is the incorporation of African, Classical Indian, Flamenco, Modern and Latin dance styles together as one. She has traveled for her work to Bangalore, Pune, Lucknow and Bombay in India. Taught for the National Ballet of Zimbabwe in Africa also in England and all over the greater Boston Area. Now she is currently working in upstate NY Hudson Valley area.

Her choreography credits include “Bienvenido, Svikai and Welcome” a dance with the professional dancers of the National Ballet of Zimbabwe. A solo called “Veiled”  (a metaphor for the plight of women in Afghanistan.) A trio called “I cry, I love, I miss you” with the dancers of the D’amby project a dance company based in Red Hook NY. Two duets choreographed in
collaboration with Gigi Oppenheimer called “The Wisdom Tree” and “Inner fire”. Her improvisational solos with titles such as; “Fusion,” and “Flamenco Fusion,” plus more where performed around Boston, Bangalore India and now Hudson Valley area in NY where she resides. She has danced with different groups in the greater Boston area including the Kelly Donovan and dancers, second with Karen Brey and her company.

Anna Mayta Fusion Dance
845-416-2605
annamayta1978@gmail.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxweer6HXBxnaDjlL-NVBXQ

Jean L. Wolfersteig

Class Description:
Yoga Nidra (Yogic Sleep) is a relaxing and energizing practice that has the power to transform us at deep levels to become more of who we truly are. During the session, you will experience the space between wakefulness and sleep, a place we visit naturally before we fall asleep. In this state, we are more open, receptive, and able to use the subconscious mind as a powerful tool. We can increase creativity, strengthen memory, prevent and heal illness and disease, and manage stress levels. Just come into the yoga room, lie down, and listen. There is nothing to do and no way to do this practice wrong.

Bio:
Jean Wolfersteig is passionate about sharing the tools of yoga and mindfulness and the science behind them. She believes – and the research suggests – the persistent effort of a steady practice can bring us into physical, energetic, emotional, and mental balance. Through the contrasting experiences of intense, sweaty physical practice and the deep relaxation of restorative poses and yoga nidra, she helps others find a sense of calm in the storm.

Her teaching is informed by her 35-year career in public mental health service where she witnessed and experienced the devastating effects stress can have on the body and mind. She is also deeply influenced by her continuous study in the field of health and wellness and her personal yoga practice and training.

Jean is registered with the Yoga Alliance at the E-RYT 500 hour level through her training in Astanga Yoga with Beryl Bender Birch. She has completed specialized certifications in Restorative Yoga and Yoga Therapeutics with Jillian Pransky and in Yoga Nidra with Jennifer Reis. She is an IAYT Certified Yoga Therapist.

She teaches group and individual lessons and workshops at studios, fitness centers, and corporations. A portion of her work is pro bono.

None
P.O. Box 179, Hurley New York
845-750-0491
Jeanspath@aol.com
None

Mary Jane Nusbaum & Matthew Friday

Class Description:
Each workshop will be one hour long with a 1/2 hour break in between.

Participants should meet MJ and Matt at the main entrance to the Forsyth Park playground on Lucas Avenue in Kingston. The Eat Your Sidewalk/Wild Edible tour runs from 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. and the Foraged Jewelry-Making runs from 12:45-2 p.m.

Wild Earth Presents:
Part 1: Eat Your Sidewalk

Ever wonder what a dandelion tastes like? Curious about how eating can reshape the world? Then come and Eat Your Sidewalk! Matthew Friday will lead a foraging workshop for children to identify local edible and medicinal plants. Using these companion species we will create a few delicious snacks that challenge our usual practices of eating and awaken a new sense of place.

Part 2: Earth Art: Making Jewelry with Natural Materials
Join us to celebrate the bounty of art materials found in nature! We will forage for materials and use them along with additional natural materials such as seeds, beads and flowers to make necklaces and bracelets.

Each workshop is limited to 25 people. First come first served.

Wild Earth is a non-profit organization that leads transformative nature immersion experiences that cultivate character, confidence, passion and perseverance in New York’s youth.

Bio:
Matthew Friday
Matthew is Graduate Director and Associate Professor of Critical Studies for the Art Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is an active member of the ecosystem research and design collective SPURSE, whose projects range from large-scale, sustainable, urban design to community consultation and organizing. As part of SPURSE, Matthew Friday has exhibited in a number of venues including MassMOCA, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Grand Arts and the BMW Guggenheim LAB. This past year SPURSE released the critically acclaimed Eat Your Sidewalk cookbook, an extended meditation on how we can connect to our environment and what it means to rethink how we cook and eat as a pleasurable and ecologically resilient action.

Mary Jane Nusbaum
Mary Jane is a Program Coordinator for Wild Earth Wilderness School, a visual artist and a NYS certified art teacher. As a child growing up in Central New York, she spent every season outdoors, skiing, swimming, hiking, canoeing, and every summer went back-woods camping in the Adirondacks with her ambitious parents and four siblings. Mary Jane has traveled extensively and has a love of world cultures and the natural world. She loves working with diverse groups of people and turning them on to the magic of the wilderness that surrounds us. Mary Jane has been happily putting down roots and raising her family in the Hudson Valley for the past 16 years.

Wild Earth
2307 Lucas Turnpike, High Falls NY
845-323-1374
mj@wildearth.org
https://wildearth.org

Jessica Caplan

Class Description:
Sound baths incorporate instruments with healing frequencies to re-tune body and mind, encourage relaxation, and stimulate the imagination to go on an inward journey. This transformative experience of sound opens with breath work to set up body and mind for relaxation. Participants are then guided into a supported pose, allowing them to melt into the soothing waves of vibration.
Jessica weaves a meditative soundscape with Himalayan and crystal bowls, ethereal vocals, tuning forks, chimes, shrutti box, and other world and Shamanic instruments.

Bio:
Jessica Caplan is a lifelong vocalist, certified sound therapy practitioner, and yoga teacher. She creates sound baths and meditative soundscapes for yoga classes and events, and leads workshops, retreats and trainings in voice and sound healing around the world. A graduate of the 290-hour integrative sound practitioner training at the Open Center’s Sound and Music Institute in NYC, Jessica is passionate about providing students both in group and one-on-one sessions an embodied, compassionate approach to connecting with the voice. She is a Reiki practitioner and Restorative yoga teacher, and weaves her studies of yoga, sound healing, Native traditions, shamanic practices, and classical North Indian singing into her work. Jessica is also the co-creatrix of SoundMind (www.soundmind.space), an audio meditation series combining meditation with therapeutic sound. www.jessicacaplanyoga.com

Jessica Caplan Yoga & Sound
61 Holtham Rd, Hampstead Quebec

jessicacaplanyoga@gmail.com
www.jessicacaplan.com

Shakti Yoga of Woodstock

Class Description:
This is an all levels yoga class designed to wake up your mind and body and your senses!! “Shakti” means “creative energy” – so we will be activating some serious shakti!!

Bio:
Linda Lalita Winnick is owner of Shakti Yoga of Woodstock/Kingston and Saugerties. She moved from Wiiliamsburgh, Bklyn in 1999 with her son and her dog. She has been teaching Yoga and Ayurveda fulltime since 2001. For more on Linda http://www.shaktiyogawoodstock.com/instructors/#linda-lalita-winnick/

Shakti Yoga Studios
1685 Sawkill Rd, Kingston New york
8453895826
shaktiyogawoodstock@gmail.com
www.shaktiyogawoodstock.com

Amanda Palmer

Provocative, irreverent, controversial and wildly creative, Amanda Palmer is a fearless singer, songwriter, playwright, blogger and an audaciously expressive pianist who simultaneously embraces – and explodes – traditional frameworks of music, theater and art.

Amanda first came to prominence as one half of the internationally acclaimed punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls. In May of 2012 she made international news when she broke all previous crowd-funding records on Kickstarter pre-selling her new album, Theatre is Evil, along with related merchandise and “experiences” via Kickstarter. Theatre is Evil went on to debut in the “Billboard Top 10” when it was released on Sept. 11, 2012, and has been released in over 20 countries on her own label, 8ft records.

Amanda was invited to present a “TED Talk” at TED’s 2013 Conference. To date her Talk, “The Art of Asking”, has been viewed more than 7.7 million times worldwide. 2013 also saw the release of “An Evening with Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer”- a 3 CD collection of tracks culled from a live tour with her husband and best-selling author Neil Gaiman.

2014 found Amanda expanding her philosophy into a book after the success of her TED Talk. The Art of Asking was released world-wide on Nov. 11th and made the New York Time’s Best Seller List. She is now making songs and art with the financial backing of over 9,000 committed patrons on the new crowdfunding/subscription website Patreon.Com.

http://amandapalmer.net

Spirit Family Reunion

Spirit Family Reunion began singing together on the street corners of New York City in 2009. Since that time they have travelled the highways of America delivering raw, high energy, honest music. They have shared the stage with musical heroes such as Pete Seeger and Levon Helm, and have given notable performances at festivals including Stage Coach, Austin City Limits, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and the legendary Newport Folk Festival three times.

The band has self-produced and self-released two full-length studio albums – “No Separation” (2012) and “Hands Together” (2015) – along with multiple songbooks and other collections of recordings. They are currently working on a new record.

http://spiritfamilyreunion.com