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Tai Chi and Yoga in the Gardens Starting May 4

Tai Chi at Wave Hill. Credit Joshua Bright

Enjoy a restorative session of Yoga or Tai Chi, surrounded by the natural beauty of Wave Hill. Create a strong and relaxed body-mind with physical postures, breath control and meditation during Hatha Yoga on Sunday mornings. Yoga Together provides the perfect Friday morning outing for families. Select Wednesdays evenings enjoy Sunset Yoga. Quiet like a mountain, moving like a river, Tai Chi, held on Saturday mornings, offers a sequence of gentle movements based on images found in nature. For all wellness sessions, please bring your own mat if possible, wear loosely fitting clothing and come with meals well digested. Yoga classes are taught by instructors from Yoga Bliss; Tai Chi is led by Irving Yee, an active member of the William CC Chen Tai Chi School.

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What:               Wellness at Wave Hill

Date/Time:

Tai Chi Chuan, Beginners          Saturdays, 10AM (No class May 26)

Tai Chi Chuan, Intermediate    Saturdays, 11AM (No class May 26)

Hatha Yoga                                      Sundays, 10–11:15AM (No class May 27)

                                                                      *All levels welcomed

Sunset Yoga                            Wednesdays, July 11, 18, 25, August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

Yoga Together                        Fridays in May, June, July, August, 10–11AM (No class May 25)

*Recommended for children ages two to five years old with adult

Fees:

$15 Member/$23 Non-member for all sessions. Yoga Together session fee includes one adult and one child, $5 for each additional child. Class fee includes admission to the grounds.  Registration opens day-of at 9:30AM at the Perkins Visitor Center.

Weather: 

Sessions are held outdoors and are weather dependent. Call 718.549.3200 x245 by 8AM on the day of the class for program updates.

Contact:           Mary Weitzman at 718.549.3200 x320 or maryw@wavehill.org    Martha Gellens at 718.549.3200 x232 or marthag@wavehill.org

Location:         Wave Hill at West 249 Street and Independence Avenue in the Bronx, New York

Hours:             Open all year, Tuesday–Sunday and many major holidays: 9AM–5:30PM Closes 4:30pm, November 1–March 15.

Admission:      $8 adults, $4 students & seniors 65+, $2 children 6–18. Free Tuesday, Saturday until noon. Free to Members, children under 6.

CHILDREN MIS-BEHAVING? TRY A PARENT‘S “TIME-OUT,” SAYS NEW BOOK AUTHOR, DR. PRUDENCE POLLARD

By Miss Krysten Copeland, Oakwood University student writer 

Source:  BlackNews.com

Leadership Development expert and Oakwood University management professor Dr. Prudence Pollard discusses her new book, "Raise a Leader... God's Way."

Huntsville, AL  — In her new book, Raise a Leader… God’s Way, leadership development expert and Oakwood University (OU) business management professor Dr. Prudence Pollard offers strategies for raising children and training leaders at every level.

In this 122-page book published by the Review & Herald Publishing Association Dr. Pollard, OU’s First Lady and mother of two adult daughters, pairs parenting tips with Godly principles and values for the parent who wishes to raise a leader. Through fun, easy to read, yet insightful tips, she provides parents with helpful ways to incorporate God into their child rearing. The first chapter, for example, gives an in-depth analysis on how the first representation of leadership the child sees will be from his/her parents and how such representations should reflect Christ-like values.

Subsequently Pollard urges that, while parents should be cognizant of their child’s uniqueness, they should also be mindful to maintain the God-fearing value system in every part of the family life.

Dr. Pollard writes of the value of Christian education, developing one’s child into an “other-centered individual” and showing God’s character upwardly, inwardly and outwardly.

Currently Dr. Pollard, also serving as Oakwood’s Assistant Vice President for Faculty Development, Leadership, and Quality, is a board member of both the Women’s Resource Center and the Bradford-Cleveland-Brooks Leadership Center at Oakwood University.

All proceeds from Raise a Leader… God’s Way will go directly to fund student scholarships at Oakwood University, Dr. Pollard’s alma mater.