Pause to be Present

08/15/2025

Ready to carve out some personal time this fall without venturing far from home?

Indulge in a day of rejuvenation and join us for a one-day retreat designed to help you pause, unwind, and prioritize your well-being. Registration is now open for our...

FALL NOURISH & NURTURE DAYLONG PAUSE TO BE PRESENT RETREAT!

Details:
• Date: Sunday, November 9th
• Time: 10 AM - 5 PM
• Location: In Person at The Lark Club, Irvington, NY

Enjoy a thoughtfully curated day of wellness featuring:

✨ Guided Meditation with Cheryl Vigder Brause
🌿 Outdoor Mindfulness with Cindy By Nature
🎶 Sound Bath with Sands
🧘 Vinyasa Yoga with Tara Sussman
🧘🏻‍♂️ Restorative Yoga and Breathwork with Franklin Shire

PLUS

🥗 Nutritious Lunch and 🎁Gift Bags for all registered guests!

Limited Spots Available! This retreat is limited to 30 participants, and only five spots remain! Click the link below to secure your spot before they’re gone! 🙏🏻

07/22/2025

Looking for a unique way to savor and enjoy this gorgeous summer weather?

Join us for our grounding Pop-Up Sunset Meditation on the Lawn this Thursday evening, July 24th from 6:00 - 7:00 PM.

The class will be led by Pause to be Present Instructor and Outdoor Mindfulness Guide Cindy By Nature who seamlessly weaves in the wisdom of the natural world with mindfulness teachings that will help you awaken to the beauty of connection, help you to settle into stillness, and return to your authentic self.

This one-hour class will include a short introduction and discussion about the benefits of Mindfulness and Meditation, followed by a guided meditation, and time for Q&A and community connection.

No meditation experience required - ALL are welcome! Simply visit our website www.pausetobepresent.com to register!

No better time than summer to enjoy a sunset 🌅 and …

Breathe. Connect. Be. 🙏🏻

07/07/2025

Summer is the perfect time to explore the transformative power of meditation and mindfulness. 🧘‍♀️ Join our “Diving Deeper Summer Series: The Power of Silence” and learn to meditate with the support of a wonderful community.

This 5-week virtual series, led by , co-founder and head instructor of , begins THIS Wednesday, July 9th from 1:15 - 2:30 PM ET. Can’t make a live session? No problem! All classes are available On-Demand, so you can learn at your own pace, whenever and wherever it works for YOU!

Bonus: Pause Unlimited Members save $100!

Sign up through the Link in our Bio or visit our website: www.pausetobepresent.com

Breathe. Connect. Be. 🙏🏻

06/16/2025

Wishing our very own ray of ☀️ sunshine Amy Bobrow Gross a very happy birthday! 🎂

We are so grateful to have you on the Pause to be Present team since we opened our doors in November 2019!! Wishing you a great day and year ahead!! 🙏🏻🩷

06/09/2025

Looking to release & renew while mindfully moving your body?

Join us for our next In-Person Cacao Ceremony and Ecstatic Dance with Laura Preskin

🗓️ THIS Wednesday, June 11th…Just THREE Spots Left!

⏰7:30 PM - 8:30PM ET

At The Annex at Community of Play 1495 Weaver St, Scarsdale

ℹ️ Guided Ecstatic dance is a free-form dance, known as a moving meditation and a healing somatic practice for releasing stress and clearing energy blockages.

Our trained instructor, Laura Preskin, will show you how to rely on your own body as it guides through the practice. With the full moon beaming on the eve of June 11th the program and play list will spotlight the “inner child’s” essence of new found freedom, jubilation, and adventure.

No dance experience needed! To learn more and register, https://app.arketa.co/pausetobepresent/checkout/5f5Nrow8kTQZe1uOuLR1

05/29/2025

Ready to breathe more fully as a ‘YES’ to all that life has to offer?

If so, please join us next week for a light-hearted yet powerful workshop where breath and movement come together to gently stir and release emotional tension—creating space for clarity and serenity!

“UNBOUND TO THE BOUNDLESS: A BREATH & YOGA CEREMONY”�with Melanie Hyman Yoga and Robin Giacomo

📆 Wednesday evening, June 4th

⏰6:30–8:30 PM ET

📍 In-Person at 1495 Weaver Street, 2nd Floor, Scarsdale, NY��This experience is here to liberate your energy, support a seasonal reset, and help you step into summer feeling more open and inspired. Together we will tap into the body’s natural ability to clear old patterns and reconnect with aliveness! Paired with an intelligent yoga flow, this ceremony invites you to let go of what no longer serves and move toward what feels open and true.

Great way to learn how to gently unbind stuck tension, lighten your load, and reconnect you with a sense of spaciousness, clarity, and inner calm.
�Click https://app.arketa.co/pausetobepresent/checkout/uabTjcZULp7EainTmaDI for more information and to register!

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05/28/2025

“When you touch one life you don’t just touch one life, you touch every life that that life touches.”

We are honored to do the work we do and so incredibly grateful to have this beautiful team of humans to do it with. Their big hearts and wise souls have touched so many lives.

We are SO grateful to have this amazingly talented team of humans who have helped make Pause to be Present what it is today…a safe, comfortable, welcoming community that helps busy people thrive and find calm in today’s stressful and noisy world.

For the last six years, our incredible team led by co-founders Cheryl Vigder Brause and Stephanie Sherman Falk have shared their wisdom, tips and teachings through an easy and accessible approach to mindfulness, meditation, and personal growth. Whether it is on our daily live online 8 AM classes, our On-Demand Meditation Library, our amazing Pause to be Present APP, on one of our incredible retreats, at a corporate wellness event, or in our beautiful meditation studio, our clients know where to find peace, calm, and personal growth!

From the bottom of our hearts, a huge thank you to our talented instructors Caren Osten Gerszberg, Amy Bobrow Gross, Franklin Shire, Cindy By Nature and Glenna Lee for sharing their hearts and wisdom with our hundreds of clients nationwide so we can all find greater wellbeing, joy and meaning in all aspects of our lives each and every day. We love you all! ❤️

Breathe. Connect. Be. 🙏🏻

05/21/2025

Feeling tired, overwhelmed, and finding it hard to carve our time to unplug and unwind? We get it.

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month we are excited to offer our next hybrid special event….

RELAXING SOUND BATH AND MEDITATION with trained Sound and Energy Healer

🗓️  NEXT Wednesday, May 28th

⏰  7:30 - 8:30 pm ET

📍  In-Person at , Scarsdale, NY

OR

💻   Virtually on Zoom or On-Demand from the comfort of your own home to do live or whenever works best for you!

Join us for a beautiful vibrational and healing experience with a Sound Bath & Meditation where you will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in the healing tones of the Crystal Alchemy Singing Bowls that will help you let go and surrender in a container of love, light and healing sound.

Curious about the Sound Bath experience and what the benefits are? 

⚡️Sound heals us at a cellular level helping to bring balance and harmony into the emotional and physical body. 
⚡️Each note resonates with a different part of the body helping to release anxiety, heal trauma, access better sleep, reset & recharge. 
⚡️Helps to release trauma, chronic pain, depression, sleep, anxiety, improved focus, supporting one’s immune system and overall health, and helps to achieve homeostasis. 
⚡️When a crystal singing bowl is alive with vibrations, the sound and harmonic rhythms sync with our body to create change within our physical, mental and emotional body.

Space is limited to 25 participants. For details and to register, please check our LINK IN BIO. 

05/09/2025

What’s your greatest FEAR in life?
Death?
Loss?
Uncertainty?

All of the Above??

Do you yearn to live more fully and fearlessly but find it so hard to do?

Join us for an extraordinary NEW class that can help you face your greatest fears. Learn how mindfulness, meditation, and ancient eastern philosophies can help you live your life with more peace and ease without all the worries getting in the way!

SPECIAL SPRING DIVING DEEPER: “Living Fully & Fearlessly” led by Pause to be Present co-founder and head instructor Cheryl Vigder Brause.

📆 Six-Week HYBRID Series starts THIS Wednesday, May 14th!
(Session Dates: 5/14, 5/21, 5/28, 6/4, 6/11 and 6/18).

⏰ 1:15 - 2:30 pm ET: All classes will be 75-minutes long and include a weekly topic to explore, a one-hour discussion, a 15-minute guided meditation, and opportunity for Q&A.

📍In-Person at Community of Play, 1495 Weaver Street, Scarsdale, NY

or

💻 Virtually on Zoom.

Can’t make a class? No problem! All sessions will be recorded and available for viewing On-Demand whenever it works for you!

No meditation experience required! This class is open to ALL and is a great way to experience community, connection, & the power of group meditation - in-person or virtually!

For more information and to register, click the link in bio. Special $100 savings on this course for all Pause to be Present Unlimited Members!

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04/25/2025

The most precious commodity we all have may be TIME! It is finite and precious. It can be the greatest source of our stress when it seems too limited and it can offer us the greatest pleasure when we decide to enjoy it! People often say, “I just don’t have time to do the things I want to do most!” The truth is: All we have IS time. We just need to choose wisely how we want to fill it!

Join us Monday evening for a thoughtful discussion on our most precious commodity we have, TIME🕰️, and how we spend it, as we launch our SPRING BOOK CLUB on Oliver Burkeman’s new book, Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts. This book is full of thought-provoking meditations and reflections on how we can all perceive time differently and make the most of the time we have. 🙏

THERE IS STILL TIME TO REGISTER!
Here are al the details:

WHEN: Book launch on Monday, April 28, 2025
TIME: 7 - 8:30 pm EST
WHERE: J Anderson’s Book in Larchmont, NY (and recorded for those who cannot attend live)

HOW: After our Book launch on Monday, will dive into this 28-day journey together. With your registration, you will receive email follow-ups and supporting material. We will end with a virtual gathering on Monday, May 19th to reflect on the book and discuss its potential impact on our lives and how we choose to spend our time!

If you cannot make it in-person on Monday evening, no worries! You can still participate! Simply register and receive a recording of Monday night’s discussion, participate in the email reflections, and join us for the final ZOOM discussion (which will also be recorded).

Click on the LINK IN BIO to register, DM us for more information, or email us at info@pausetobepresent.com.

We hope you will join us for this very important topic!

04/21/2025

What are you looking to grow this Spring?🌱🌷

    •    More connected relationships?
    •    Clearer communication?
    •    A more empowered life?
    •    More joy and play?
    •    Greater trust?
    •    A deeper sense of belonging?
    •    Courageous authenticity?
 
If this all sounds tempting, it is time to join us at the next six-week session of...
The Circle ⭕️ led by

📅Tuesdays, April 22nd to May 27th

⏰ 11:00am-12:00pm

📍Pause To Be Present Mindfulness & Meditation Scarsdale, NY

The Circle is a weekly gathering designed to foster deep, meaningful connection. Through mindfulness, authentic sharing, and active listening, we create a space for personal growth and transformation.
 
At the heart of The Circle is the belief that each of us holds the wisdom to live our best life. Often, this wisdom is clouded by outdated stories and habitual ways of thinking. By setting an intention to release these old patterns, and within a supportive, safe group, we uncover the gifts and insights that have always been within us.
 
Time-tested and trusted, The Circle has become a nurturing community where people continue to explore life’s deeper questions, week after week. If you’re feeling stuck in old patterns or seeking meaningful change, this may be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.

Four spots left! Link in Bio to Register.🙏🏻

04/07/2025

Back by Popular Demand! Our Next Pause to be Present Book Club!

We all know that we have a limited time on this earth. The BIG question is…How do we spend the time that we have wisely?

Sound Intruiguing? If so, please join Pause to be Present Book Club Facilitators Lori Rotskoff and Cheryl Vigder Brause for a 4-week exploration of Oliver Burkeman’s new book, "Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts".

Details for this interactive Book Club Launch:

🗓️: Wednesday evening, April 23rd

⏰: 7:00 - 8:30 PM

📍: Anderson's Books 96 Chatsworth Avenue, Larchmont, NY(Can’t attend in person? No worries! This session will be recorded and shared on-demand for those who can’t make it!)

WHAT: Each registered participant will receive a copy of the 📕, have a chance to mingle, browse the bookstore shelves, and enjoy🍷☕️ and light desserts 🍪before we settle in for the presentation, interactive discussion, and a brief, relaxing meditation.

THEN…We will be off on our exploration of Burkeman’s book that is organized as short chapters to be read each day with inspiration on how we can meet each day differently. Midway through the 28-day program, participants will receive an email “check-in” message inviting them to reflect on their experience thus far.

FINALLY…The program will conclude on Wednesday, May 21 at 4 pm with an ONLINE session where we will discuss key takeaways from the book, share reflections, and focus on how we can continue to integrate Burkeman’s meditations into our lives so we can make the most of our precious time! 🙏🏻

* Please Note: Our first and final session will be recorded for those who cannot make it live and shared to watch On-Demand.

Click this Link to Learn More and Register: https://app.arketa.co/pausetobepresent/checkout/ayDTv9UzRZYPb51TSLfK