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The Secret to Healthy Aging: Living the Yoga Lifestyle
September 26, 2025 @ 6:00 pm EDT
Heartsong Yoga
East Longmeadow, MA
September 26-28, 2025
This September, Beryl Bender, author, activist, and philosopher, returns to Heartsong Yoga, bringing her practices, wisdom, and inspiration to our community once again. An internationally renowned yoga teacher, and dear friend and treasured mentor to Heartsong, Beryl has been practicing yoga and meditation since l971and in l974 she traveled to India for half a year with her teacher, Jain monk Munishree Chitrabhanu, to study Jain and Buddhist meditation. In addition to leading yoga and meditation retreats around the world (Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Cuba) she is also the co-founder of the Give Back Yoga Foundation.
Fri, Sept 26
6:00-8:00 PM
Mindfulness Meditation.
Curious? New to Meditation or meditating for decades? Either way – join the sangha for a transformational boost & tips on how to maintain a regular meditation practice
Sat, Sept 27
11:00AM-12:30 PM
Present Power
The practice of asana is the first step in learning to focus and quiet the mind – this is the door to meditation – develop discipline and conquer craving.
Sat, Sept 27th
2:00-4:00 PM
Healthy Aging and the Yogic Lifestyle
Want to find out the “secret” to living a long, healthy, and happy life? For everybody of all ages, yogis and loved ones, join us for this Saturday afternoon inspirational session to put in place the practices that support a healthy aging – at any age! (Conscious Napping – 1:30-2:00)
Sun, Sept 28th
7:00 – 8:30 AM
Mindfulness Meditation
Get up early, arrive quietly and before your brain goes into high gear sit with the sangha and drop into the open field of Consciousness. A lovely mind-opening journey
Come for the whole weekend, or come for a few sessions, make it your personal yoga retreat, at your hometown studio, Heartsong Yoga Center. Or….Road Trip!
Just 3 miles from Springfield, an hour and a half west from Boston or south from the Berkshires, and 40 minutes from Hartford. Come to be in the energy of these important gatherings, to be with our teacher, to practice and play, to learn and to grow. You will be glad that you did.