Newtown Yoga Festival

12/14/2020

Now it is 8 years later and very little has changed. Breaks our hearts.

08/18/2020

Newtown Yoga Festival is Postponed due to the Pandemic.

02/24/2020

More about this inspirational yogi. We are blessed & grateful for having you be a part of NYF for two years!

Tao Porchon-Lynch (born Täo Andrée Porchon, August 13, 1918) is an American yoga master and award-winning author of French and Indian descent. She discovered yoga in 1926 when she was eight years old in India and studied with, among others, Sri Aurobindo, B.K.S. Iyengar, K. Pattabhi Jois, Swami Pr...

02/22/2020

According to various reports, Tao Porchon-Lynch passed away today.
When someone has lived 101 years, I don't think it's tragic when they pass, I marvel that they were able to share their passion, wisdom and touch so many lives. She lived well. She lived fully. She gave people something to aspire to beyond 80. "I'm going to teach yoga until I can't breathe anymore. Then I will just fly away to the next planet." Fly high dear Tao. So much love to this amazing woman.

01/08/2020

Just like with adults, the discipline improves flexibility, balance, strength and cardiovascular health. It also provides mental and emotional benefits.

01/01/2020

Happy New Decade!

This ancient practice is not only a fitness regimen, but science shows it's also an antidote to modern stress.

12/23/2019

Monday Motivation
With the holidays upon us and New Year's Resolutions don't forget to take care of yourself.

Are there health benefits to trying this ancient practice?

12/18/2019

Wednesday Wisdom

New research offers compelling evidence that yoga may help treat depression.

12/14/2019

7 years ago today, 28 people died in gun violence in Sandy Hook/Newtown and the world stopped. We have spent today and every day since 12/14/12 practicing loving kindness and creating days of peace through yoga movement, music & mindfulness in honor of lives lost at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Don’t pray, DO something. Prayers will not stop the violence; honor all the victims of gun violence by taking action. Whether it’s advocating for victims through our justice system or a non-profit promoting peace or choosing love...Get involved! Find ways to reconnect, show empathy and compassion and then model that for others. Smile, hold open a door, give your seat on the bus to someone else, give a gift card to the homeless or buy them a meal, hug someone in comfort, be kind to those who “don’t fit in”, pay it forward, and so on.

“Peacemaking doesn’t mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice. It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free.” ― Shane Claiborne

We have a choice…WE CHOOSE LOVE! Every day, we choose…Love.

11/25/2019

Monday Motivation

Doctors and nurses have a difficult job — honestly, anyone working inside a hospital does. So University Hospitals is working to take care of those who take care of us.

11/18/2019

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/201511/who-should-help-pay-yoga?fbclid=IwAR0nkivJagLxIJ3HgTg4N70BcGNv8-o_7tSCnvYjlIiolYS9V9IOPmYNd9k

Four reasons for why health insurers should help us pay for yoga.

11/11/2019

Monday Motivation

Neuroscientist Sara Lazar found that people who meditated had more gray matter in the part of the brain linked to decision-making and working memory.