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Come to work happy every day! Office space for rent (in the renovated “Old Farmhouse” building built circa late 1700/early 1800’s). Scenic 5-acre campus.

Free parking. Labyrinth

11/11/2025

VETERAN’S DAY

Please Call Me by My True Names

"Don't say that I will depart tomorrow -
even today I am still arriving.

Look deeply: every second I am arriving
to be a bud on a Spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with still fragile wings,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be the caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
to fear and to hope.

The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death
of all that is alive.....

"Please call me by my true names, so that I can hear all my cries and my laughter at
once, so that I can see that my joy and my pain are one.

Please call me by my true names,
so that I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart
can be left open,
the door of compassion."

~ excerpts from Thich Nhat Hahn Please Call Me by My True Names. Written after the suffering of the VietNam War.

(Photo near entry to Orchard Hill Center courtesy Triple Muse Photography)

11/01/2025

Still waters

"Find me a calm
In a place warm
Away from harm

Walked across storm

Silent place still
A gentle breeze to fill
High above a hill

A pain doth kill

Peace In the heart
Life a gentle start
Past to be forgot

Oh goodness did stop

None to hate
Not by fate
Calmness be the state

Still waters not too late"

~unknown

Every season a delight at the Orchard Hill Center.

10/22/2025

“For though my faith is not yours and your faith is nor mine, if we are each free to light our own flame, then we can banish some of the darkness of the world.”

~Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

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10/01/2025

Hello October!

Fall at the Orchard Hill Center. Every season a joy to behold.

Memories of times gone by at Orchard Hill Center: Health & Wellness - formerly Princeton Yoga

This tree takes on many coats over the seasons and so many love her silent witnessing beauty and steadfast 'support'!

See comments below for a poem by one of the Prana YTT graduates.

09/23/2025

Fall Equinox: Every season a delight at the Orchard Hill Center! (See video in comments and link below)

Looking for office space? Light-filled offices on this scenic 5-acre campus still available. Come to work happy every day.

Walk the labyrinth.

(See video reel here: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/VhnqZSDvCn91Saz6/?mibextid=WC7FNe )

09/22/2025

Erev Rosh Hashanah

Tomorrow evening through Wednesday, is the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah and the beginning of what are called the Days of Awe, ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, next Tuesday and Wednesday, October 2nd.

Rosh Hashanah is known as the New Year for People [There are several “New Years” in Jewish tradition, for example, there’s a New Year for Trees]. It’s about our relationships with fellow travelers on this human plane and a season of personal and universal renewal - a symbolic opportunity to say goodbye to the old and hello to the new.

It is also a new year of sorts for folks settling back in from vacations, summer activities and back to school - as a perennial student, I always think of September as another new year, fresh new notebooks, new pens...may we all be inscribed in the Book of Life!

Yoga tells us that every moment, we have the opportunity to begin anew - This moment that you’re in now is new. So is this one now. And this. And this. On and on, each moment is a New Year. So, set your intentions in clarity and joy, welcoming each moment anew…an opportunity to begin again with each new breath…

Can we find a new way of thinking, a new way of being, and certainly a new way of greeting one another at this challenging time and moment of choice – shall we evolve or devolve?

I want to take this opportunity to ask forgiveness of all for any words or deeds or actions I created, conscious or unconscious, which may have caused you any pain or suffering. Another custom!

May this New Year (moment) be a good time for you, a time of inspiration and renewal, discovery and learning, good health, ease of being, and joy. There’s no time like NOW!

And, now as I retired from Orchard Hill Center: Health & Wellness - formerly Princeton Yoga, I want to take another moment to thank the Princeton Yoga community for sharing your moments with me all those many 26 years and collectively building a community of new moments. I remain forever grateful that we crossed paths on this short journey of life and the experiment called PCYH!

09/12/2025

September 11. We remember.

Cindy Sargent, a ninth grader at on Sept. 11, 2001, wrote the following poem shortly after the terrorist attack on the United States.

“I couldn’t believe she could write that poem,” LeAnn Sargent said of her daughter’s poem. “It gave me goose bumps. It really hit home.”

On the 10th anniversary of the events of that day, Maple Grove Patch share’d her words:

Will we remember the way life was, the way it used to be

The way children frolicked about playing happy and carefree

Will we remember the way spring was, blooming wildly with flowers

The way we'd jump and play in puddles following its rain showers

The way the summer sun beat down on our backs, sweat glistening on our skin

The way we retreated into the shade as our faces were cooled by the blowing wind

The way the fall days grew increasingly cooler, leaves falling to the ground

The way the leaves changed their colors becoming more and more brown

The way the winter snow fell lightly to the ground leaving thick blankets of white lace

The way it looked so calm and peaceful like a picture of heaven's grace

Will we remember the way life was before freedom was attacked

For on that fatal day, 9-11, there was a grave impact

Will we remember what happened that day when so many lost their lives

The way life seemed it wouldn't go on unable to survive

Will we remember those who perished, the innocent and the brave

The victims and the ones who aided and tried to help and save

Will we remember the tragedy when our country was assailed

The way our patriotism united us as one so together we prevailed

We will remember all of this, everyone across our nation's land

We will remember what our country represents and the words "United We Stand.”

#9/11

Sculpture: An amazing award winning piece of work by Darlene Racicot to pay tribute to the courage of New York emergency workers for their actions following the September 11

07/01/2025

Hello July!

“Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter.
If your mind is not clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.”
~Wu-Men

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one and precious life?”
~Mary Oliver

Every season a delight at the Orchard Hill Center.

-men

06/25/2025

The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

“Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”

Every season a delight at the Orchard Hill Center.

05/01/2025

HELLO MAY!

“How should spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, become earth.”~ Rumi

Quan Yin, goddess of compassion and mercy, regaled with spring azaleas,overlooking the pond at the Orchard Hill Center.

(Photo courtesy Triple Muse Photography)

04/22/2025

"And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, “You owe me.” Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky."

"You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it."

"There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth."

Rumi gets it! Every day is Earth Day!

Every season a delight at the Orchard Hill Center!

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88 Orchard Road
Skillman, NJ
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