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David Newman at the
Shine Yoga Center
Beat the Winter Blues with
D
avid Newman
(aka Durga Das)
Yoga and Mediation
is a widely recognized
Chant Artist and sacred
P
alea Cedar, RYT is now offering Yoga and Mediation
musician who contin-
classes at ProWellness Chiropractic, 6052 Ridge Rd in
ues to travel through-
Florence, KY. Meeting on Mondays, a new six-week session
out North America,
of Beginner Yoga for all fitness levels will start on January 12.
Europe and Asia, singing Kirtan chants
The class will focus on basic yoga postures with emphasis
and offering workshops on the healing
on proper alignment, body awareness and liking breathing
power of sound. His music embod-
with the movement. On January 14, the first Mediation class
ies a devotional mysticism, distinctive
will initiate a four-week class series meeting on Wednesdays.
musicality, poetic intimacy and a deep
Participants will learn simply meditation, deep relaxation
respect for India’s ancient chant tradition.
and visualization techniques to calm the mind and release
On Jan. 9 at 7:30pm, David Newman
tension in their bodies. The fee for the meditation class is $35,
will be presenting his fifth release Love,
for the Yoga class $60 for the entire series. Private energy healing, yoga, meditation
Peace, Chant at the Shine Yoga Center,
and vegetarian transition sessions are also available at $45 per hour. With more than
3330 Erie Ave in Cincinnati. This new
15 years experience, along with her keen intuition, Palea can provide guidance in
album is emotionally evocative and spir-
healthful lifestyle choices and help find a natural state of balance and healing.
itually transcendent with intimate sacred
songs and hypnotic trance jams. Settling
For more information and to register, call Palea at (859)609-5327 or e-mail her into the warmth of meditative reflection,
PaleaCedar@Yahoo.com Love, Peace, Chant emanates an exalted
quality that both soothes and grooves with
every note.
Music to Tell Story of Green Schools
Admission is $25 at the door or $20 in ad-
vance. To pre-order tickets, call (513)533-
C
incinnati has a story to tell about how it became a national leader in greening our
9642 or visit online at ShineYoga.com
schools. What better way to tell the story than through music? A local citizen’s
catalyst for this green school movement, ALLY (Alliance for Leadership and Intercon-
nection), is working with Cincinnati State Technical and Community College’s audio
and video departments to record songs and music videos that express our community’s
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inherent connection to nature, each other and this place that some call Maketewah—
the name Native Americans have used for hundreds of years to describe the city of
Garden Training
Cincinnati. It also refers to the stream that flows along I-75, the Mill Creek, which is
Classes Set
considered one of the nation’s most polluted.
“Maketewah,” a song unfolding the story about what is being done to bring
T
he Civic Garden Center, at 2715
Reading Road in Cincinnati, invites
Maketewah back to its original beauty, is the first song being recorded by Cincinnati
everyone to start off the new year by
Public Schools students and others. The Mill Creek Restoration Project and others have
learning how to make neighborhoods
been working for years to make this a reality. They now have more allies on board.
more safe and beautiful. Community
The Metropolitan Sewer District is working with Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) on
Garden Development Training (CGDT)
green stormwater management practices that will reduce the storm water run-off (along
is a peer-centered curriculum that allows
with pollutants) that ends up in Mill Creek. Many of CPS’s new and renovated schools
participants to share their talents and
will install rain gardens, bioswales, vegetative (green) roofs and permeable concrete
utilize community resources to develop
surfaces to absorb the run-off, preventing it from going into the creek.
and implement neighborhood gardening
Last September, Cincinnati Public Schools voted to build green and healthy schools
projects.
by embracing the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program, the
Classes will be held on Jan. 14, 21 and
nation’s premier green building rating system. According to Robert L. Knight, Sustainable
28. The program will continue into April.
Design Coordinator for CPS, the decision of the Ohio School Facilities Commission
All classes are free and open to anyone
to require every school in every district to attain a minimum of LEED Silver makes it
interested in starting a community garden
the largest green school program in the country.
or in learning more about gardening at
Earth Day Network has adopted the Cincinnati model as the basis for its national
their own home.
Green Schools campaign, which aims to green all K–12 schools in America within a
generation.
For more information call Peter Huttinger
at (513) 221-0981, ext.16 or e-mail
For more information call Ginny Frazier at (513) 541-4607 or email Info@Allyohio.org PHuttinger@CivicGardenCenter.org
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