When I hand out flyers for the TAKE CARE FAIR, most people say, "Wow, this looks amazing! Must be a lot of work for you." And I always say, "Yeah, but it's what I love to do, so it doesn't feel like work."
I co-created the TAKE CARE FAIR because I love finding new avenues of health and wellness, as well as learning about and tapping into, ancient and current techniques for healing. This "research" makes my body shiver with excitement. It makes me have wild energy bursts when I think of the fair, with all of the practitioners under one roof giving mini sessions. Or all of the amazing organic, hand made, sustainable, beautiful, local, medicines, herbs, crystals, tinctures, clothes, and all who will be present sharing energy and space on June 30th and July 1st in Hudson New York. I want to go to every presentation. I want to talk to every practitioner. I want to smell each heavenly candle. I want to eat all of the healthy clean, delicious foods that will be there, wear all the jewelry, and taste all the flavors of the Calmbucha Kombucha. I want to dance every step of the 5 Rhythms workshop.
A lot of work does go into the TAKE CARE FAIR. A lot of hours on the computer. Tons of driving and footwork around the tri-state area. Many meetings, and phone calls. Some paint stained hands, and some late nights ignoring my family, my child, myself... but I cannot lie. I love all of it. I feel such a passion for this work that it feels like someone... (The universe, Hudson River Exchange, Myself...) is letting me play my most favorite game. And when I finish all the other things I have to do to live, like eating, sleeping, driving, and going to my other jobs, I get to take out my toys and play again. I love finding new practitioners and retreat centers, coaches, and products and people to reach out to. I love gathering all of this information and reaching out to these people. I live for believing in them, promoting them, collaborating with them. It is truly what pumps my heart and keeps my will to live at 100% when I think of how this Fair has become what it is and what the future holds. I am so thankful for every minute of working with Hudson River Exchange and I know that this TAKE CARE FAIR is blood, sweat and tears for everyone. For me, it is sweet happy tears, blood that enriches, and sweat that cools. The work that they do I could never do! It's the combination of us that makes the fair grow the way it does. It's like TAKE CARE FAIR is the Earth, and we are the sun and the moon, doing our daily and nightly work, dancing through our paths, completing our cycles in joy and balance so that the Fair can evolve in the best way. So, it is with great pride, and excitement that I share with you the lineup for this years Presenters and Vendors, and our highlights.
Thank you for reading and I hope that you can come and share the weekend with us. Here is a little explanation of what TAKE CARE FAIR is, if you don't already know:
Take Care Fair is the first Hudson Valley interactive marketplace showcasing healing arts, living food, and a broad spectrum of supportive services for physical, mental and spiritual health.
Hudson River Exchange in collaboration with STELLAFAY will present the 2nd annual Take Care Fair on Saturday June 30th – Sunday July 1st at the Henry Hudson Riverfront Park in Hudson.
Take Care Fair will highlight the growing variety of resources available in the Hudson Valley for those seeking health and wellness – whether in times of illness or as a part of daily healthy lifestyle.
Meet acupuncturists, massage therapists, personal trainers, nutrition coaches, and practitioners of many disciplines and modalities for all ages and bodies.
Interested in trying out a particular specialty? Sign-up for a mini reiki session or yoga class, listen to a talk on the Tarot, or experience a healing sound bath riverside.
Take Care Fair will also showcase a selection of handmade products and specialty food made with natural ingredients and focused on healthful living.Follow us on Instagram @takecarefair and on facebook
Check out the lineup of presenters at: http://hudsonriverexchange.com/take-care-fair/presenters-2018/ The vendors at: http://hudsonriverexchange.com/take-care-fair/vendors-2018/ and the highlights at:
PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
SATURDAY
30 June
SUP Yoga Intro
12:00pm Main Tent
Curious about SUP Yoga? Bodhi’s lead SUP Yoga Instructor Jessica Osbourne will lead a demonstration of SUP Yoga basics!
Details RSVP on Facebook
30 June
Finding Life’s True North
12:30pm Presentation Tent
Shed anything that leaves you unclear about your purpose, your path, and your beautiful presence with Visionary Master Healer and Founder of WAMBI Exploration, Hanson Tse.
Details RSVP on Facebook
30 June
Creating Financial Well Being
1:30pm Presentation Tent
In this thought provoking workshop, join Joanne Leffeld in exploring long held attitudes and beliefs about money that may be sabotaging your ability to prosper. Learn concrete tools on how to budget, save and invest for an abundant future.
Details RSVP on Facebook
30 June
Nourish Each Other: Partner Massage
2:00pm Main Tent
Touch is an oft forgotten language that when applied can aid in healing, connecting and feeling better. Come with someone or we can partner you with another participant for this hands-on class!
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30 June
Know your True Zodiac Sign
2:30pm Presentation Tent
Discover you true Sun, Moon and Ascendant Zodiac signs as they appeared in the sky when you were born. True Sidereal Astrology is the most accurate form of astrology, it was practiced by the ancients when astrology and astronomy was one science and healing art.
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30 June
Permaculture for the Soul
3:30pm Presentation Tent
Collaboration with the unique wild & human ecosystem of Columbia County is paramount to our work — it reminds us of, and models for us, the essential rhythms which drive conscious living, soul-full living.
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30 June
Foundation for Infinity
4:00pm Main Tent
Kundalini Yoga practice offers a means of setting that foundation. Then the meditation launches you into the realms of Infinity where you will experience your boundlessness.
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30 June
Three Key Strategies for Unlocking Your Potential
4:30pm Presentation Tent
As creatives, we’re all struggling to find that balance between cultivating our artistic lives while maintaining a steady base.
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30 June
5 Rhythms "Interdependence" Celebration
6:00pm Gazebo
Movement is both the medicine and the metaphor, reaching across all languages, cultures and age groups to transform suffering into art, art into awareness, and awareness into action.
Details RSVP on Facebook
SUNDAY
1 July
SUP Yoga Intro
11:00am Main Tent
Curious about SUP Yoga? Hudson Paddle’s TJ will lead a demonstration of SUP (Stand Up Paddle board) Yoga basics!
Details RSVP on Facebook
1 July
Blissful Flow Yoga with Keri*Ann
12:00pm Main Tent
Gentle yoga class with breathing, to center and clear the mind and meditation.
Details RSVP on Facebook
1 July
Step More Fully into Your Power
1:30pm Presentation Tent
Join Spiritual Healer Madam Equiss as she guides you thru an enjoyable and easy yet powerful meditation to connect with God, Source, Creator of All That Is, or whatever you wish to call it.
Details RSVP on Facebook
1 July
Breathwork for Sacred Expression
2:00pm Main Tent
Breathwork is powerful breathing technique designed to remove blocks and raise the creative energy.
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1 July
Natural Alternatives To Pain Killers
2:30pm Presentation Tent
Learn about four herbs that address pain.
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1 July
Sound Body
3:30pm Gazebo
Movement is woven deeply with breath, visualization and intention to bring the mind to presence.
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HIGHLIGHTS
One BreathPaintings: Be Present by Filiz Soyak
One Breath Paintings: Be Present is an interactive art installation and ongoing art project by artist Filiz Soyak, which invites people of all ages and abilities to participate and connect in a mindful exercise creating art with their breath.
Inspired by Zen-Buddhist mindful practices, grounded in meditation, and created using a simple action, people will be invited to create a one-breath painting using ink and paper. Participants will be encouraged to breathe deeply, let go of expectations, and be truly present in their creative action.
When complete, each one breath painting will be added to a collective installation. The result will be a evolving mural of #OneBreathPaintings created by individuals – but connected and unified, in their action, and breath. Debuting in Hudson this spring, the goal is for the project to travel and grow into a collective movement of creative mindfulness around the globe.
5 Rhythms “Interdependence” Celebration
Lead by Stephanie Diamond
Saturday June 30th, 6pm-8pm
Let’s move together – dance in celebration of health!
5 Rhythms – Created by Gabrielle Roth and practiced by tens of thousands worldwide, 5Rhythms® is a philosophy, perspective, and a dynamic dance practice rooted in the principle that if you put the psyche in motion it will heal itself. Movement is both the medicine and the metaphor, reaching across all languages, cultures and age groups to transform suffering into art, art into awareness, and awareness into action. Wherever the 5Rhythms are practiced, a community is born to dance, to sweat, to change, to support, and to provide a safe space for each of us to shatter the ego’s hold and awaken the juicy, unpredictable, fascinating, edge-walking, rock star of ourselves that yearns to be free.
Learn More at 5rhythms.com
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Stephanie Diamond – “I began dancing 5 Rhythms in the Hudson Valley in 2006 and never turned back. Dancing four classes a week, traveling the globe for workshops with masters teachers, meeting my husband dancing the Rhythms, and moving with Gabrielle till her passing all transformed my life. I teach with humility and with vulnerability, we are open vessels together on the floor. As an artist and entrepreneur, Stephanie has exhibited her work at venues such at MoMA and MassMOCA. She is the founder of Listings Project a curated, free, weekly email of real estate and opportunities listings serving artists, creative communities, and beyond.”
