Personal Growth & Lifestyle   

We live in a fast-paced and stressful society which is perpetuated and reinforced by social media’s frenetic presence in our lives. Our nervous systems attempt to match this constant state of readiness and alertness but as a result, we often feel depleted and lacking emotional and energetic reserves. We are not designed to remain in this high activation state as often as the world encourages it.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), also known as tapping, offer an easily available method of self-care and self-soothing based on Eastern methods of energy healing. Tapping involves gentle self-administered finger tapping of meridian points along our bodies. It is a non-invasive method of calming the nervous system. Some liken it to “emotional acupuncture” (without the needles).

Aviva will lead an interactive and informative workshop showing participants how to self-administer tapping, teaching about the meridian points, offering some background and history of EFT, and she will provide resource handouts for participants to take home. 

Discover the hidden wellness benefits of this ancient art form. Immerse yourself in this unique workshop where traditional paper folding becomes a pathway to mental clarity and physical wellness. Experience the surprising neurological benefits as your fingertips dance across colorful paper, creating intricate folds that stimulate your brain and awaken your senses. Each completed creation offers not just a beautiful art piece but a profound sense of accomplishment and joy. While deeply rooted in Japanese cultural heritage, this workshop reimagines origami as a modern wellness practice. We thoughtfully blend:

• Gentle finger exercises that improve dexterity
• Meditative folding sequences that enhance memory
• Musical accompaniment that elevates mood
• Color psychology that stimulates creativity
• Mathematical patterns that challenge your mind

Perfect for all skill levels.

Discover the hidden wellness benefits of this ancient art form. Immerse yourself in this unique workshop where traditional paper folding becomes a pathway to mental clarity and physical wellness. Experience the surprising neurological benefits as your fingertips dance across colorful paper, creating intricate folds that stimulate your brain and awaken your senses. Each completed creation offers not just a beautiful art piece but a profound sense of accomplishment and joy. While deeply rooted in Japanese cultural heritage, this workshop reimagines origami as a modern wellness practice. We thoughtfully blend:

• Gentle finger exercises that improve dexterity
• Meditative folding sequences that enhance memory
• Musical accompaniment that elevates mood
• Color psychology that stimulates creativity
• Mathematical patterns that challenge your mind

Perfect for all skill levels.

Join us for an interactive and dynamic workshop in which participants will be guided in developing and practicing the skills of active listening. Many of us struggle with situations and relationships where we feel not fully understood for our intent, nor heard completely when we express ourselves. Aviva will teach the skills of active listening. Participants will enjoy guided practice exercises in these skills in addition to increasing empathy and validation skills. These skills will be useful and valuable in any interaction and relationship, offering more connection and clarity between partners.

The Village of Bronxville’s Green Committee presents a special evening with landscape experts Bram Gunther and Leslie Needham.  Learn how to achieve a beautiful yard that is healthy and beneficial for your family, neighbors, pets and the planet.

Your Yard, Reimagined The truest sign of a healthy yard is the life it supports: the full range of essential insects, microscopic soil dwellers, wild bees and birds. With this life comes direct benefits to you: carbon captured and stored in your plants, stormwater managed by the roots and soil of your habitat. Bram Gunther will share techniques his firm Plan it Wild uses to integrate native plants into lawns and gardens. Learn to think beyond “mowing & blowing,” reduce pesticides and other harmful practices and, instead, reintroduce native plants. Find out your yard’s Wildr Score™ and come away with a practical tool set to begin restoring nature in your backyard. The goal isn’t perfection — it’s progress.

Perfection Reimagined: Embracing the New Gardening Ethos What makes a garden beautiful? This age-old question is evoking new answers as gardeners everywhere deal with shifting realities, from extreme weather to crashing populations of pollinators and birds. It can be overwhelming. Yet, embracing these challenges can allow us all to be active agents of positive change. Leslie Needham will share her healthy garden practices and design principles, illustrated with images of her many projects, including her own garden – River Hills.

Presentations will be followed by audience Q&A.

An empowering journey to honor the body’s natural transitions and reclaim your energy, confidence, and balance. Menopause is not an ending — it’s a transition into deeper wisdom and vitality. In many Eastern traditions, this phase is called the Second Spring — a time of renewal, reflection, and personal power. In this 90-minute workshop, Dr. Sonal Bhatia blends medical science with Ayurvedic principles to help women in midlife understand and embrace this powerful shift.

Together, we’ll explore:

• What’s really happening in perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause — physically and emotionally.
• How Ayurveda views this transition and natural ways to support it through food, herbs, breath, and lifestyle.
• Practices to balance hormones, improve sleep, and restore joy and vitality.

This session offers education, inspiration, and tools to help women move through change with confidence, grace, and self-compassion.

Students who register for both Sound Bath: Complete Chakra Cleanse and Breathwork Healing: How to Free Your Mind at the same time receive a 10% discount.

To register individually, follow the links below.

Sound Bath: Complete Chakra Cleanse, Tuesday, March 10, 6:30-7:45 pm
Breathwork Healing: How to Free Your Mind,  Tuesday, March 24, 6:45-7:45 pm 

Using all seven ancient Tibetan sound bowls, this energizing sound bath will clear and ground your chakras, which are energy centers located at specific points in the body that directly affect our health and well-being.  It will help to rebalance, realign, and reharmonize your body and may also improve mental clarity.

If you register for Sound Bath: Complete Chakra Cleanse and Breathwork Healing: How to Free Your Mind Combo, you will receive a 10% discount. Click here to register for the combo.

Breathwork is an active meditation technique with a two-part inhale and single exhale done consistently for 30 minutes, followed by relaxation and a return to normal breathing.  The technique brings us into a deeper state of consciousness and clears "stuck energy" quite rapidly and safely. Results often include more mental clarity and less anxiety; an easier time connecting with family and friends; the experience of more joy, peace, and spiritual connection; and a boost of intuition and creativity.

If you register for Sound Bath: Complete Chakra Cleanse and Breathwork Healing: How to Free Your Mind Combo, you will receive a 10% discount. Click here to register for the combo.