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Deborah Metzger, founder & former director of Princeton Center for Yoga & Health, continues to offer
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11/20/2025

Ah, us humans!

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.

11/02/2025

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen all at once.” ~Albert Einstein

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.

10/31/2025

“Another fond FB memory of times gone by at Orchard Hill Center: Health & Wellness - formerly Princeton Yoga

“Bone"

"Understand, I am always trying to figure out

what the soul is,

and where hidden,

and what shape...

Is the portion that lasts longest

In any of us, man or whale…

And I thought: the soul

Might be like this-

So hard, so necessary-"...

~Mary Oliver

Special thanks to long time Princeton Yoga seva support angel, Laura Hans (Larry Hans), for dressing our Prana Yoga Teacher Training skeleton greeter and the photo! Miss you still!

10/22/2025

Happy Diwali to those who will be celebrating. (October 18 - 22)

“Come out into the universe of light…"

And, for all of us as we move further into this season of less daylight hours....take some moments to contemplate the universal principle - Be the light, share the light, be the candle which brings light to others and is never diminished....

"This is the spiritual property that candles share. When you use one candle to light another, the original candle remains bright. Its light is not diminished by being shared; on the contrary, the two candles together enhance each others' brightness and increase light.

We sometimes worry that we may stretch ourselves too thin. In matters of spirit, this is never the case. The more goodness we spread, the more goodness we have. By making a new friend, you become a better friend to your old friends. By having another child, you open a new corridor of love in your heart that your other children benefit from, too. By teaching more students, you become wiser.

Keep lighting your candles. There is an endless supply of light in your soul. You will never run out of goodness.~ Chabad.org

10/12/2025

Lakota Prayer

Great Mystery,
teach me how to trust
my heart,
my mind,
my intuition,
my inner knowing,
the senses of my body,
the blessings of my spirit.
Teach me to trust these things
so that I may enter my Sacred Space
and love beyond my fear,
and thus Walk in Balance
with the passing of each glorious Sun.

"According to certain tribes, the Sacred Space is the space between exhalation and inhalation. To Walk in Balance is to have Heaven (spirituality) and Earth (physicality) in Harmony.

At the core of this timeless wisdom is the word “trust”. When did we stop trusting ourselves? When did we start giving that trust, that power, away?

In many ways the spirit path is a process of reestablishing that trust with the infinite that resides within us, just waiting to be activated.

Wishing you a day of balance and harmony" ~Nick Polizzi

http://www.thesacredscience.com/a-native-american-prayer-to-awaken-your-spirit/

10/07/2025

Come to work happy every day!

New office space now available within the former Orchard Hill Center: Health & Wellness - formerly Princeton Yoga (and shared common area with a yoga studio, 2 bathrooms and full kitchen). Spacious office with built in cabinets and counter space. Suitable for private practice and/or small groups or lectures.

Unique and light filled spaces on a scenic and quiet 5-acre campus. Approximately 4 miles north of Princeton and one-half mile from Route 206. Current tenants include, therapists of varying disciplines, consultant firms, yoga studio, event planner,, and the The Montgomery News. Ample free parking. Handicapped accessible. We are adjacent to the new Montgomery Municipal Complex.

Also available - offices within the adjacent fully renovated "Old Farmhouse".

Every season a delight at the Orchard Hill Center.

For more info and photos:

https://cnj.craigslist.org/off/d/rocky-hill-office-space-unique-bucolic/7884391409.html

Contact Deborah Metzger for details for this and other offices at the Orchard Hill Center.

website: www.orchardhillcenter.com

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10/06/2025

You will dwell in booths for seven days... -Leviticus 23:42

Tomorrow eve, October 6th, marks the beginning of the 8-day holiday of Sukkot. And those who know me know that I love to weave the teachings of the varied wisdom traditions to support our path on the journey to back home to Self. Here's a repost of past musings.

The holiday of Sukkot is a lesser-known holiday in Jewish tradition and comes on the heels of the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. It is a festival of harvest and rejoicing and giving thanks for the bounty of the fields.

All things change and he who wanders is not lost – It is taught that the Israelites were condemned to wander in the desert for 40 years on their way to the ‘promised land’. They dwelt in temporary huts called Sukkot and were given a daily ration of food – manna –always enough for each day. Many lost heart and began demonstrating and wishing they could go back to the bo***ge of Egypt, which perhaps seemed less fearsome than the unknown before them.

Biblical stories are great allegorical teachings on the road to personal growth and transformation.

From slavery to freedom…from lack to sustenance…from solitude to community…

Have you felt that you might be wandering in your own personal desert? Have you perhaps been given temporary shelter by friends, family, and community? Perhaps just enough sustenance for each day? Do you have it in your heart to offer shelter and sustenance to others less fortunate? Perhaps just in the form of a smile or an act of kindness?

Can we notice a tension between the part of us that wants to just stay in the known, stay in the old, even if it's uncomfortable, even if there is no room to move or grow, and the part of us that wants to change?

So, perhaps - whatever your tradition or custom – find time for a brief meditation on this allegorical story. Does it serve to want to go back to something “known” for the illusion of “safety” when it is no more? How to “be” in this moment when we truly do not have a clue of what tomorrow will bring? What “bounty” might you be able to share with others?

Can we practice coming out of restriction/habit every day of our lives? What temporary shelters might you find along the way on your journey in the form of friends and loved ones or you own inner resources/wisdom - perhaps just enough to sustain you each day on the way to your “promised land”?

The custom today on this holiday is to build and decorate temporary huts with symbols of the harvest and take meals in them, as well as to take in guests (ushpizin or mysterious guests) and wanderers who might be less fortunate – offering meals and shelter. There is a bringing together of 4 kinds (4 minim) of plants – symbolizing different “types” of people. But that might be another post!

For now - can you find and/or offer some temporary respite and refuge with a little help from your friends in this new and beautiful fall season?

10/01/2025

“Within each of us, there is a silence,
a silence as vast as the universe
And when we experience that
silence, we remember who we are…”
~Gunilla Norris

HELLO OCTOBER!

Every season a delight at the Orchard Hill Center!

10/01/2025

As we come to the last of the Days of Awe in Jewish tradition – this evening marks the start of Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement - or At-One-Ment! There are ‘confessional’ prayers which remind us that we are collectively responsible for one another. From a yogic perspective, it’s about looking at the suffering one has created and asking for help in diminishing negative patterns (samskaras). Returning to the source and letting go.

There is a common theory that the soulful Kol Nidre prayer recited this evening commenced during and because of a period of extreme persecution, in which Jews were forced at sword's point to convert (either to Christianity or Islam) and that Kol Nidre was supposed to nullify that forced conversion and release us from all such bindings. Many of us took sacred vows as children as a strategy to cope with life’s pain and challenges when we had no tools or even language to understand those vows of survival.
How might we now release and annul non-constructive patterns of action, speech and thought?

It is also a time of the year to honor the harvest that we are reaping and those gifts that we have received over the past year. Can we return to our source and find balance and unity in all the many realms?

So, let us welcome all opportunities - interweaving the customs of varied traditions - to pause, to find balance, to be at one with ourselves and our fellow travelers on this plane and to release ourselves from negative patterns (samskaras).

Let us begin anew – to “go in and in and turn away from nothing that you find” (Danna Faulds).

May we all be inscribed in the Book of Life.

(Link to Leonard Cohen’s “Who By Fire” in comments.)

Deborah Metzger

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 )

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See for yourself why New Jersey Life Magazine named Princeton Center for Yoga & Health (Princeton Yoga or PCYH) one of the top five traditional yoga studios in New Jersey! Opened in 1996, PCYH, a yoga and holistic health center, was the first studio of its kind in our area. Our mission is to provide a warm, comfortable and inviting environment in which to explore different paths to health, healing and personal growth. In two spacious and light-filled studios with bamboo floors, PCYH offers a variety of yoga for all ages and stages of life, (Moderate and Gentle Flow, Yin Yoga, Vinyasa Flow, Yoga for Stress Reduction, Moderate and Gentle Hatha Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Prime of Life Yoga), meditation, stress reduction - including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, (MBSR), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (MBCT), and Mindfulness Based Habit Change, holistic lifestyle classes, monthly concerts, kirtan/chanting, drumming circles, workshops, 200/500 hour, Restorative and Little Flower Children’s as well as Prana Yoga Alliance registered yoga teacher trainings.

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