Location: Kingston NY

The Yoga House is built upon the foundational belief that yoga should be enjoyable, accessible, and available to every body. Our studio is BIPOC/LGBTQIA+ owned and home to folks of all different backgrounds, ages, and experience. We offer a full variety of classes, from gentle to active, including Vinyasa, Yin, Ashtanga, Accessibility-Focused, Restorative, Meditation, and more. Our classes are taught from the heart, with a strong emphasis on practical and philosophical principles, alignment and biomechanics, and with a respect and acknowledgement of the deep roots of yoga from across the globe.

https://theyogahouseny.com/

Join the Kingston High School National Art Honors Society for an Oliver Herring inspired, TASK party. TASK sets stage for participants to immerse themselves in child-like fun and unrestrained creative freedom in connection with others, and with their environment—completely equipped with dance music and party decor. It is an opportunity for personal expression, combatting inhibition, and healing community through positive engagement with others via creative tasks.

TASK parties are improvisational events which rely on the creative input of those that participate. They are made up of simple ingredients: a designated area (usually covered in paper), a variety of props and materials (cardboard, plastic bags, markers, cling wrap, aluminum foil, tape, empty containers, etc.), and the participation of people who agree to follow two basic procedural rules—1.) to pull a creative task from a designated “task pool” and interpret it in any way they want, using whatever is available, 2.) to write down a new task on a piece of paper and add it to the task pool. When a task is completed, the participant writes a new task, pulls a new task, and so on.

“In theory anything becomes possible. The continuous conception and interpretation of tasks is both chaotic and purpose driven. It is a complex, ever shifting environment of people who connect with one another through what is around them. It is also a platform for people to express and test their own ideas in an environment without failure and success (TASK always is what it is) or any other preconceptions of what can or should be done with an idea or a material. People’s tasks become absorbed into other people’s tasks, objects generated from one task are recycled into someone else’s task without issues of ownership or permanence.”

Join at any time and stay as long as you’d like!

The National Art Honors Society recognizes the importance of our
creative student leaders and how their work magnifies the innovation, skills, scholarship, and connection that your art program brings to your school and community.

Sound Healing for Climate Feelings is an immersive and participatory meditation on the healing nature of sound, and how we can harness the power of listening to co-create more just and beautiful futures in the face of climate change. Combining mindfulness, vocalization, contemplative listening, and somatic exploration, Sound Healing for Climate Feelings is an opportunity for participants to reconnect to their inner world and to the environment in community. Caroline provides meditation guidance and prompts for contemplation, while Lisa uses her voice to guide participants through a series of harmonic, wordless vocals where surrender, somatic communication, contemplation and reflection feel safe, possible, and sacred. Together, Caroline and Lisa create a container for the experience of beauty and relaxation, allowing for reflection on our shared desires for our collective future. There will be guidance for making space for our feelings about climate change and to experience what those feelings might be communicating to us. Benefits of this experience include: reduced anxiety/stress, increased sense of calm, uplift in mood, access, awareness and release of emotional blocks, and a reconnection to self and self-expression.

Caroline Contillo is a disaster researcher who has been leading group contemplative work for over a decade. Her work combines mindfulness, listening practices, and somatic exercises for connection to nature. She has trained in Buddhist meditation at the Interdependence Project, sound healing at The Open Center, and holds two master’s degrees in social work and disaster resilience from Tulane University. Her research focuses on mutual aid, disaster equity, and climate emotions.

New York-based sound healing artist Lisa Darling works with the sacred power of song to foster emotional and energetic reconnection. Through a cappella vocalization and experimental, looped melody formation, Darling creates otherworldly compositions to aid in identifying and unlocking fossilized trauma and grief. Lisa’s simple yet deeply complex compositions are undeniably mesmerizing, soothing, and nurturing. Listeners will be pulled into a calming space where surrender, meditation, reflection, and contemplation feel safe, possible, and sacred. You can find Darling hosting soundscapes in the Hudson Valley area, livestream via zoom on the Insight Timer Meditation app, as well as Spotify, Bandcamp, SoundCloud, and YouTube.

www.Lisamariedarling.com

Transitions/ Glow-up workshop, uses writing, and ancient Japanese repair art, to illuminate challenges, and identify strengths that can pull you forward into the future.

Kintsugi is an ancient repair art, in which broken bowl pieces in a potter’s studio, rather than being discarded,
in an act of acceptance, are transformed — from debris to a masterpiece. The ceramicist accurately, and lovingly stays true to every break…reconstructing, with precious gold-covered adhesive, elevating the value — well above the others.

In making a brand-new start in your life to move forward, create your own version of Kintsugi. Represent and document your emotional work. Allow the shattered pieces to stand for experiences you have grown from. Identify all the new thoughts, reflections, coping strategies, and more, that, like gold, have strengthened you, and elevated the value of your experiences.

Work with flowing art materials in the presence of a supportive and experienced art therapist. Allow the treasure you bring home, to inspire accrued healing with every visual encounter.

As an art therapist, Dahlia offers goal oriented, multi-media meditative art projects in workshops/groups with adults, for discussion and transformative healing work. The projects combine collage, painting, adornment, and writing. Dahlia first trained rigorously at Pratt in Brooklyn, for sculpture and art education. She soon acquired a graduate psychoanalytic art therapy degree from New York University, and increased the level of individualized attention provided to each participant.

From there, Dahlia worked at several hospitals, and private programs. Using individualized observations, she assisted participants in meeting various treatment goals, while having fun, through creative expressions. While challenging group stamina, focus, and combining high art methods, she has pushed the boundaries of art, poetry,
journaling, drama, mindfulness and exhibit within therapeutic settings, as well as started community reintegration programs and patient artbooks/magazines. Her recent focus, particularly with adults recovering from chemical addiction, centers around habits and ritual. From the identification of rituals as transformative, birthed Essential Healing Arts, Llc. Art experiences are offered as ways to acknowledge a marked switch in thinking, while providing psychological support, to cushion you as you transition from the brink of an old life passing, into unexplored life experiences. Dahlia enjoys regularly witnessing cathartic and joyous moments of meaning and enlightenment with participants. The whirling thoughts of the creator through each intention, and step, is as significant as the product itself. From the combined perspectives of both a trained fine artist, and a psychoanalytic therapist, Dahlia aims for each participant to “come as they are” – no artistic skills necessary, and meander toward a metaphoric state of healing.

Dealing with a diagnosis or a health imbalance can be overwhelming. In this panel of experts, we present information on becoming an empowered patient and getting the answers you need from your doctor, navigating through information data overwhelm to make informed decisions, and identifying diet, lifestyle, and mind-body approaches to support your best well-being.

Beverly Canin is a breast cancer survivor with more than 17 years experience as a patient advocate. Her advocacy experience ranges from support of individual patients to community education programs, public policy and legislative change. She has served continuously as volunteer on the Board of Directors of national, regional and statewide breast cancer service and advocacy organizations. She attends or has attended numerous scientific meetings and symposia sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Oncologists (ASCO), the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS), the American Cancer Society (ACS), the Society for Integrative Oncology (SIO), New York Alcohol Policy Alliance (NYAPA) and more. She is a graduate of the National Breast Cancer Coalition Project LEAD, a course for advocates on the basic science of breast cancer as well as advocacy. She has experience as a stakeholder member of research teams, as a patient advocate reviewer of research proposals in federal and state programs, and as been a member of federal and state cancer advisory committees.

Hope Nemiroff is Executive Director and founder of Breast Cancer Options, an organization providing breast cancer support, advocacy, and education in the Hudson Valley. She discovered that not all physicians in the rapidly growing field of breast cancer treatment were practicing according to a consistent set of guidelines, that patients were overwhelmed and frightened and often had neither the experiences or the resources to seek good care, much less receive the support that would sustain them. Because of her breast cancer experiences she founded Breast Cancer Options.
She coordinates free support programs and educational services for Breast Cancer Options in six counties. These services include: Support groups led by trained peer survivors; Camp Lightheart for the children of breast cancer survivors; Annual Metastatic Retreat for women living with advanced breast cancer; Integrative Medicine Programs provides information from experts on how to remain healthy and reduce the risk of cancer after treatment ends; Healthy Lifestyles Calendar is a nationally distributed informational digest that educates consumers about topics relevant to breast cancer; She researches and publishes Breast Cancer News, a weekly e-mail newsletter and the annual Healthy Lifestyles Calendar which is sent out all over the US and coordinates integrative programs and conference on breast health, with workshops on environmental and lifestyle factors that may reduce the risk of cancer. Breast Cancer Options was one of the founding members of the New York State Breast Cancer Network and Hope was a board member.

www.breastcanceroptions.org

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) for kids and teenagers ages six through seventeen especially for the O+ crowd. We will have yoga to warm up for this BJJ class. 1 PM until 2 PM with leeway for people to hang around after the fact to tour the facility and to ask any questions they may have. That same Saturday we will offer two classes as part of our weekly scheduled classes, BJJ ADULTS class at 9:30 AM, and kids BJJ class from 11:15 AM until 12:15 PM. These two are also open to O+ crowd.

Pedro “Panda” Marques
OWNER | ASSISTANT JIU-JITSU INSTRUCTOR
“My goal with the creation of Ascension Academy of Jiu-jitsu & Yoga is to create an inclusive environment which focuses on the human potential and on maintaining an environment of discipline and respect while fostering personal growth.”

Sandy Jose Nunez
INSTRUCTOR, JIU-JITSU
Sandy’s classes approach Jiu Jitsu through organized movement and adapting to variability. He focuses on precision in technique to let students express themselves. Sandy structures class in a way that experts enjoy and beginners can feel welcome in. With a safe and fun class environment, Sandy seeks to aid others on their journeys through Jiu Jitsu. Hopefully they’ll learn something while they’re at it!

Christopher Ramos
INSTRUCTOR, KIDS & TEENS JIU-JITSU
Christopher has been a movement artist since 2009 ,first developing a passion for Hip Hop/b-boying within the dance community of New York City. Years later he would relocate to the Hudson Valley to attend college, studying exercise science while still continuing his practice of competitive dancing, teaching for local dance studios and non for profit organizations. In 2018 Chris would be introduced to Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and instantly fall in love with this incredible martial art. With 6 years of competitive insight, 3 years of instructional knowledge and exposure to Brazilian culture, Chris harnesses all these factors into his style of teaching and leads with a blend of compassion and discipline when it comes to the betterment of his students as he becomes a great Brazilian jiu-jitsu instructor.

https://ascensionbjjny.com/

presented by The Institute for Family Health and Heal Well Kingston

Join Drs. Marta Sanchez, Danielle Astarita, Navneet Grewal and Fabiola Corbette from the Institute for Family Health for a leisurely walk and talk about Food as Medicine. The walk will begin at the O+ year-round clinic and gallery and walk past the Institute for Family Health’s soon to be open Pine Street Family Health Center. This new center will offer primary care, mental health and supportive services to people of all ages, regardless of ability to pay. The walk will continue past several of the O+ Festival murals in the Uptown area and then return to our starting location where walk participants will be gifted with some fresh produce courtesy of the Farm Hub. This walk is anticipated to go for approximately 1 mile/30 minutes in total and will move at a leisurely/all levels pace. Meet your local health care providers and enjoy some FO+RWARD motion with others from the community. Co-sponsored by Heal Well Kingston.

The mission of the Institute for Family Health is to provide high quality, patient-centered primary health care in communities historically neglected due to racism and poverty, regardless of patients’ ability to pay.

Heal Well Kingston is one of five focus teams under the umbrella of Live Well Kingston and focused on promoting complete physical, mental and social well-being in the City of Kingston by: Directing and supporting changes in policies, systems and environments; Providing tools to patients and to healthcare and human services providers to treat and prevent lifestyle-related chronic diseases, and Creating health equity, or social justice in health, so everyone in Kingston has a fair opportunity to live a long, healthy life.