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Moonlight Yoga Class on the Greenway

With the City of Boston’s permission and in collaboration with the Rose Kennedy Greenway, yoga practitioners will come together from 6 to 7 p.m., July 23, in Dewey Square, for an in-person yoga class under the full moon. All cultures, genders, ages and bodies are invited to flow together in summer weather surrounded by cityscapes and vibrations of the full moon. Each session aims to create more space in everyone’s body and within the city for peace, healing and connection.

Registration is required before arrival. Sign in will take place between 5:30 and 6 p.m. Attendees are asked to bring their own mat and adhere to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Boston guidelines regarding spacing at public events.

Cost: Free. Location: 700 Atlantic Ave., Boston. Register at Eventbrite @ Moonlight Yoga: July 2021.

Sharing Good Vibes

Good Vibes Burncoat, a local and sustainable arts and wellness festival featuring food vendors, local farmers and small businesses, and live music, will take place from 1 to 5 p.m., July 18, at The Burncoat Center for Arts and Wellness, in Worcester. Rain date is July 25. This free festival will promote living green, living healthy and supporting the local community. Spend the afternoon shopping for local produce, savoring dishes from local restaurants, getting to know local artists and learning from local businesses about living a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle.

Cost: Free. Location: 78 Burncoat St., Worcester, MA. For more information, visit bcawworcester.com.

New Practitioner Joins It’s My Health in Cumberland

It’s My Health Wellcare Collaborative, in Cumberland, has added Cathy Lynn to its lineup of practitioners. Lynn is an Institute for Integrative Nutrition certified health coach, reiki master, oracle card reader and owner of Manifest Health Solutions, who strongly believes in the concept of integrative nutrition and nourishment of the mind, body and spirit. “Nourishment for overall health is more than just food and exercise,” she says.

It’s My Health Wellcare Collaborative is a multidimensional wellness center that helps people take responsibility for their health in many ways. Practitioners assist individuals in understanding their health risks and determining their own personal and unique health goals, offering advice on how to sort through confusing health information and contraindications, make healthy lifestyle changes and how to choose the right foods and highest quality health products and supplements. Cathy Lynn

Location: 1099 Mendon Rd., Cumberland, RI. For more information, call 401-305-3585 or visit Its-My-Health.com. See ad on page 27 and Resource Guide on page 34.

Body Dynamics Pilates Offers Summer Specials

Body Dynamics Pilates is offering New to Pilates special packages during July and August. New students can purchase either a package of two 40-minute private lessons for $40 or a package of five 30-minute lessons for $90. These lessons are designed to teach the foundations of Pilates: breathing, alignment, neutral spine, control and basic exercises. Private lessons help instructors address a student’s fitness goals and any limitations or injuries, preparing students to attend small group classes. New students are also eligible for a first-month unlimited group class special for $40.

Studio owner, Peggy Normandin, teaches customized privates to meet the needs of students that are new to Pilates as well as lessons designed for students that want to fine tune and deepen their Pilates workouts and knowledge. Normandin and instructor Amy Aleksiewicz enjoy working with students post rehabilitation. Pilates is instrumental in creating strong yet flexible bodies enabling people to age gracefully.

Location: 1099 Mendon Rd., Cumberland, RI. For more information, call 401-333-8550. For class schedules, visit BodyDynamicsRI.com. See ad on page 15 and Resource Guide on page 33.

Janice Sutton

Angelhawk Reiki Comes to West Shore Wellness

Janice Sutton with Angelhawk Reiki is now offering reiki treatments at West Shore Wellness, a mind, body, spirit salon in Warwick. West Shore Wellness also offers yoga as well as various massage therapies and specialty spa treatments. Having been a critical care nurse, Sutton has a unique perspective on stress and illness and how the stress response can be interrupted. Reiki therapy utilizes universal energy to assist the body’s own natural ability to heal itself, and many hospitals have been using reiki healing for decades for its health benefits.

“Twenty years ago, during my own attunement to reiki level 1, I was gifted with an extraordinary healing,” Sutton shares. “Stunned and befuddled by how this happened, I was impassioned to understand it, becoming a reiki master so I could pass the goodness on to others.”

Sutton also handcrafts a reiki-infused jewelry line which can be found on Facebook @ Angelhawk Reiki & Designs of RI, as well as at The Kosmic Kitty, in Wakefield.

Location: West Shore Wellness, 459 Sandy Ln., Warwick, RI. For more information and to book an appointment, call 401-298-0306. See Resource Guide on page 33.