The increased hours spent staring at our computers screens and smartphones are taking a toll on our eyes. Join yoga and qigong teacher Daniel Orlansky and behavioral optometrist Dr. Marc Grossman for a program that combines the best practices from Eastern and Western methods for improving eye health. Through breath work, yoga, and gentle movement designed to allow for more circulation to your brain and eyes, and more, you will gain skills to enhance your perception of the world and improve your vision—whether you have myopia, presbyopia, cataracts, macular degeneration, or other eye conditions.
You will learn:
• How to rejuvenate your eyes with the five “B’s” of eye healthcare
• Ways to bathe the eyes with oxygen
• Stretches and simple qigong movements to relax your neck and shoulders
• Chinese eye massage using powerful acupressure points
• Techniques to develop convergence—the ability of both eyes to look at the same point
• Exercises to develop accommodation—the ability to change focus from one point to another.
 
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Partner Assisted Stretching reduces muscle tension, enhances circulation, helps alleviate lower back pain, improves balance and coordination, and increases flexibility in a safe and effective way.

Come prepared to move, relax, practice, and receive, and walk out feeling lighter and more expansive.

Assisted stretching is one of the most effective and enjoyable ways to help the body unwind. When we stretch another person with mindful presence, we offer more than mobility; we create ease, trust, and a sense of expansion throughout the body.

In this workshop, you’ll learn a clear, intuitive system of partner-assisted stretching that lengthens fascia, relaxes the nervous system, and opens pathways of movement and breath. The techniques draw from yoga, Thai massage, shiatsu, and myofascial release, blending structural intelligence with a gentle, human touch.

Whether you’re a yoga teacher, bodyworker, or simply someone who loves helping others feel good, you’ll gain practical skills you can use with friends, clients, students, or anyone who could use a little more ease in their life. No partner or prior experience needed; just curiosity and comfort with hands-on practice.

In this retreat, you will:
• Learn a complete, repeatable sequence to stretch someone safely from head to toe.
• Understand how to use your body weight and optimal mechanics, rather than effort, to create deep, easeful stretches.
• Develop the ability to “listen with your hands” for clear, compassionate, and confident touch.
• Cultivate trust, communication, and energetic connection in hands-on work.
• Leave with practical tools you can apply immediately in private sessions, classes, or with people you love.
 
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Dance New England Summer Camp is a full-immersion family experience set on 417 acres in western Massachusetts — with hiking trails, meditation spots, and a private beach. Days revolve around shared meals, lake swims, and classes that awaken mind and body; evenings come alive with nightly freestyle and barefoot boogies, conversations under the stars, and the warmth of old friends and new.

I'll be offering workshops there this summer.

 
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Breath is life and life is breath. When breath flows, so does life.

Awaken the inner body of light, the pranamayakosha, and expand your life force through breathing exercises and inner energy practices. Drawing mostly from Kundalini Yoga, but from classical pranayama sequences as well, this practice bathes your cells and brain in fresh oxygen while opening the body’s energetic pathways.

You’ll learn to enhance, extend, and harness the power of the breath through pranayama, then channel this heightened pranic energy using bandhas (inner locks) and mudras (ways to enhance mental focus, which can include hand gestures). If your yoga practice so far has been mostly about stretching, this workshop will deepen your relationship with the radiant body — the subtle body connected to your breath. The power of the breath will support your life as nothing else can.

Beginners and advanced students alike will come away with practical tips for a home practice, along with handouts and resources to ground the experience in daily life. When the inner fire is ignited, self-healing and self-realization follow naturally.

We will explore:
• The anatomy of respiration, physically, energetically, and spiritually.
• The major classical pranayama exercises; breaths that heat, balance, cool, and illuminate.
• The role and effects of internal and external breath retentions (Kumbakas)
• How to free the breath with stretches for the lung and large intestine meridians
• Kundalini Yoga Kriyas, which combine a strong pranayama practice with movements,
asanas, deep relaxation and chanting meditations
• Chanting meditation in the tradition of Kundalini Yoga
• Celestial Communication, where mantras are combined with movements and mudras in a seated creative dance, bringing relaxation to the entire nervous system.

You will learn these powerful breath practices and meditations and more:
• Circle of Fire, a pranayama sequence that improves the flow of energy in the lower chakras, improves digestive fire, and brings light to ones being.
• Sodarshan Chakra Kriya, believed by some to be the most powerful pranayama practice and highest kriya across the many schools and styles of yoga.
• Sat Kriya, one of the most powerful and complete postures/kriyas in Kundalini Yoga. It has been called an “entire Yoga class in one posture”.

For yoga teachers, this immersion is available for CEUs, and will provide new materials and insights that can be brought into yoga classes.
 
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When the body flows like running water, it is always renewed, always fresh. This is true freedom.

Presented by the Yoga Teachers Association of the Hudson Valley, this workshop is open to the general public and will take place at Club Fit, 584 N State Rd, Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510.

Join this unique workshop that blends the strength and flexibility of yoga with the flowing grace of Qigong. Through breathwork, movement, and meditation, you’ll learn to balance yin and yang, heaven and earth, sun and moon, creating a unified practice rooted in awareness and vitality.

Rooted in ancient wisdom, Yoga and Qigong are sacred paths up the same mountain, leading to the radiant summit of higher consciousness. When practiced together, they create a powerful alchemy that balances yin and yang, heaven and earth, sun and moon, strength and surrender.

Through breathwork, flowing movement, and meditation, you'll explore the Taoist principle of wu Wei, "effortless action”, infusing all movement with fluidity and ease, on the mat and in daily life, while cultivating deep energetic awareness.

You will learn:
• Breathing techniques to enhance and direct life force (prana/qi)
• Golden Lotus, Swimming Dragon, and other Qigong forms to open the meridians
• Meditative Vinyasa sequences grounded in mindful awareness
• Meridian tapping to awaken the 14 channels, six energy gates, and three energy centers
• Concentration practices to support mental clarity and inner stillness

Enjoy graceful, gentle movements in both forms and embrace the powerful effects of qigong and yoga as you detoxify your body and increase your strength, flexibility, and peace of mind.
 
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When the body flows like running water, it is always renewed, always fresh. This is true freedom.

Experience the Taoist principle of “effortless flow” through an integrated synthesis of Qigong and Yoga of Energy Flow. In this workshop, breath and movement merge into a meditative dance that awakens life energy, opens the meridians, and harmonizes body and mind. Through practices that cultivate vitality, balance, and clarity, we explore how the flowing grace of Qigong and the dynamic stillness of yoga become one seamless expression of inner awareness. Handouts and resources will be provided to support your continued practice

This workshop focuses on Qigong practices to open the meridians, meditative flow in yoga sequences, breathing exercises to enhance life energy, and concentration techniques for mental clarity.

You will learn:
• Breathing exercises to enhance life energy
• The Eight Brocades, Swimming Dragon, and other Qigong practices to open the meridians
• Meditative flow in yoga asana
• Concentration techniques for mental clarity
• Suggestions for a simple and productive home practice.