Taxes Filed and Other "News on The Run"

First, do apologize for the lack of articles this week, but unfortunately more pressing life issues have held sway here...A) TAXES...uggggg...good news is they are officially filed, though have to contest what I feel was a wrongfully given 1099 MISC form I received, and B)  been getting prepared for a presentation to the "Town of Fallsburg" Board this upcoming Monday night at 6:00 PM...see below.  Please try to attend.

On Monday, April 16th, 2012 at 6:00 I will be officially asking the "Town of Fallsburg" to pass a zoning ordinance that would BAN FRACKING.  It is my understanding that Steve Vegliante and the board are more than willing to issue a proclamation against FRACKING, but that is inadequate.  If you oppose fracking, PLEASE ATTEND this important board work session meeting and SHOW YOUR SUPPORT for a zoning ordinance that would ban fracking in our community.  Also, please pass this message along to ALL YOUR FRIENDS. If you need more information or directions please call me on my cell at (845) 346-6523

The weather...Tomorrow beautiful, Sunday crappy and raining all day, and MONDAY...FABULOUS!  Can someone bring me over a chaise lounge so I can sit in front of my building and TAN TOMORROW...we are talking bright, sunny and almost 70 degrees.  By the way, great time to get tomatoes in the ground if you want to be one of the first in downtown Mountaindale to be slicing vine ripened maters!

Main Street observations...Time Warner was out and about today, their crew putting in what appears to be brand new internet service over at Janet's Radiant Yoga studio.  Sure her clients will be happy to visit a Yoga studio with WIFI capability.

Rumor has it...and at this point, it is just RUMOR that we here in downtown Mountaindale might be getting a convenience store...more on this HUSH HUSH story as it becomes available.

For those who are wondering...the Mountaindale Inn is officially opened for the season, and the first "Open Mic" night this past Wednesday was a HUGE SUCCESS!  If you want to stay current on events at our FIRST RESTAURANT BAR in Mountaindale, join the new Facebook Group!  Tell Kelsey that Sherwood sent you!  Hope too see everyone out again this upcoming Wednesday night, and remember...at the Mountaindale Inn, there is NEVER A COVER CHARGE on Open Mic Night!

Rumor has it that we have new banners coming...find myself wondering, what happened to the Banner Design Contest?  Seeing as the winnings from the "Train Garden" project from last year that Sullivan Renaissance awarded second place to are paying for these new banners, just wondering how it is that I missed the CONTEST? Who WON? Is the new town slogan suggested by our own talented local artist, Raymon Elozua  being incorporated?...so excited to see these banners appearing around town, and of course anxiously awaiting the newly rebuilt/designed flower boxes as well.  Mountaindale in late spring when the flower boxes are out really looks quaint, and of course the hanging baskets incorporated as a part of last summers winning Renaissance Project really made Main Street POP.

New Historical Signage For Rails to Trails Corridor

With all the new businesses in town, with all the talk of more coming, find myself wondering if any other local business owners and business people would be interested in forming a "Downtown Mountaindale Business Association"?  Thinking if we could get it up and running before next February that it would be nice to apply for a Sullivan Renaissance Beautification Grant since there seems not to be a project going on this year.  Love to see Anderman Oil, Robinhood Realty , Hospitality Green and some of our other major hamlet businesses such as the Mountaindale Inn run with such a project/business group.    With the newly finished "Historical Signs" and the almost completed brochure for our "Rails to Trails" corridor, this seems like and opportune time for such a group to come into existence.

One last local news reminder!....GIRL SCOUT COOKIES are coming in supposedly this COMING WEEK!  I already have my own case ordered, but maybe I should get a second one!

Goods News...Salsa In Mountaindale This Weekend

Janet with Radiant Yoga is bringing Salsa to Mountaindale this weekend!

Saturday January 21, 2012
7-10 PM
(lessons from 7-7:30)

Mountaindale Community Center
62 Main Street
Mountaindale, New York
Diagonally across from Radiant Yogo.

Instructors: Harold and Bette Fried.

Tea and refreshments will be served.  Sure it will be a fun night for all involved. 

MESSAGES FROM OUR PETS -- MEET ANIMAL COMMUNICATOR BRENDA SELDIN!

Animal Communicator, Brenda Seldin will be in Mountaindale at Radiant Yoga at 63 Main Street on Thursday at 5PM for a Talk which will include some of her Miraculous Experiences working with People and their Pets. In her work, Brenda has helped pet owners solve emotional, physical and behavioral dilemmas and helped many people to better understand and resolve the passing of a beloved animal companion.

Valuable Life Lessons from Our Pets:
Lecture, Experiences and Short Animal Communication Demonstration with Brenda 5-5:45 pm

Yoga Class for ALL LEVELS! ~ Enjoy Gentle Stretching and Breathing to Support our Nervous Systems -- AND our beloved Animals! (Yoga Class for Humans)
REDUCE STRESS FOR YOURSELF (AND YOUR PET) 6-7:15 pm

How our Health and Wellbeing Affects our Pets:
Lecture, Experiences and Animal Communication Demonstration with Brenda 7:30-8:15 pm

Brenda has helped pet owners solve emotional, physical and behavioral dilemmas and helped many people to better understand and resolve the passing of a beloved animal companion.

"Loving our animal companions as much as we do, we are always naturally looking for ways to make sure they are happy. What isn't nearly as well-known is that our animal companions have as much love for us as we do for them, and they too want to do everything they can to help us be happy. We can be open to messages and practical advice from them if we don't relegate them to just being a "cute puppy" or a "sweet kitten" for example."--Brenda Seldin

Brenda Seldin of Pets Communicate has worked as an Animal Rehabilitator in New York City for many years, rehabilitating over 5,000 animals. She now lives in Narrowsburg, NY, and works with pet owners in private sessions. She also teaches Animal Communication Workshops and Natural Pet Health. For more information or to schedule a session: Pets Can Communicate or 845-588-2023.

Lecture: FREE with Thursday Evening Yoga Class
First RY Class: $12; Individual Session: $15;
NEWCOMERS: 30 days unlimited yoga, $39;Children and Young Adults, Ages 10-16: $6
Other Class Card Options and Weekly Class Schedule: MyRadiantYoga

Lecture Only: $5 or Donation for the SPCA of Sullivan County in honor of Zoe's Birthday: blankets, towels, paper towels, cleaning rags and supplies, kitty litter, cat condos, cat and dog food, bowls, toys. Volunteer to Walk a Dog or Help in Other Ways: Sullivan County SPCA

Bring a New Friend to Yoga on Thursday and Both Receive a 15 percent OFF your First Sessions with Pets Can Communicate
New and Veteran Facebook Fans Attending Yoga and Lecture Receive 15 percent OFF First Animal Communication Session with Brenda.

Directions and Weekly Schedule: MyRadiantYoga
More information or to RSVP: (845) 866-7822

Yogawoman Film Screening

Celebrate National Yoga Month with Classes in Mountaindale and Special Yoga Events hosted by our own Janet Gula, Instructor and Owner of Radiant Yoga at 63 Main Street. We are especially proud to be hosting the NY premiere of the new film Yogawoman on Friday, Sept 16th at 7:30pm in our community room at 62 Main Street. Film screening will be followed by Q & A with producer/director Saraswati Clere and light refreshments will be available. The trailer can be previewed at Yogawoman.tv to learn more about the inner power of women who have expanded the extraordinary movement of yoga throughout the world.

To register http://www.yogakula.com/ Admission is $15 at the door. Email info@yogakula.com for more information.

Complimentary Radiant Yoga Session before the Film - Restorative Yoga and Gentle Stretching for Women and Men of All Ages, Sizes, and Abilities from 6-7:15pm at 63 Main Street, Mountaindale(across the street from the film screening) To RSVP. please call Janet at 845-866-7822. And visit MyRadiantYoga.com for a complete schedule of special activities and regular classes.

(Photo of Janet & Athena by Suzanne Hannah Gold)

Contact Barb at 845-434-4747 if you or your organization are interested in using our Community Room in Mountaindale for your events and programs.

Last Minute News...Susan Honig Reflexology Workshop Tomorrow Night At Radiant Yoga

Just in...Janet is hosting another wonderful workshop tomorrow night in the Radiant Yoga Studio with Reflexologist Susan Honig called, "Soothe your Sole." The workshops at My Radiant Yoga are always great for the mind, body and soul, so if you have Friday night open, drive on over to Mountaindale, as this is just another in a great series of Healthy Living workshops offered in our small hamlet.

Foot Reflexology-technique of applying gentle even pressure to “reflex” points in the feet, resulting in beneficial effect on other parts of the body.

Event Details:

Soothe your Sole: a Treat for the Feet

Friday, June 17
8-10 pm
in Mountaindale

Reflexology Workshop at Radiant Yoga in Mountaindale

Singles and Couples Welcome.

$25/couple
$15/person

Begin your evening with:

Partner Stretching/ Restorative Yoga
5:30-7 pm
All Welcome!

Workshop with Yoga Class
$35/couple
$20/person

Call (845) 866-7822 to register or email Radiantyoga.ny@gmail.com

Reflexologist Susan Honig

Specialties include prenatal reflexology and reflexology for cancer patients.

Susan Honig has a vibrant private practice in NYC and serves as a Hospice volunteer. She is available for private sessions Upstate on weekends. To Schedule: (212) 570-5120.

May 22 Radiant Yoga Essential Oils Seminar HUGE SUCCESS

Last Sunday May 22, Radiant Yoga played host to Nandini Weitzman, a NY State licensed Clinical Nutritionist and Alternative Health Practitioner as she gave participants in her workshop some hands on experience in NAT (Neuro-Auricular Traning with Therapeutic Essential Oils). She shared the simple and safe techniques used for deep relaxation that many alternative medicine practitioners are using for panic, anxiety, sleep disorders. depression, inflammation, and even ADD/ADHD.

The workshop began with an information session, during which Nandini explained the techniques; identified the five essential oils; as well as the process of applying them with light pressure along the occipital (cranial) ridge, neck and shoulders to safely affect brain-related nerves deeply to positively impact digestive organs, lungs, heart, eyes, ears, nose and the endocrine system. The talk was both extensive, and informative, and the end of class handouts to take home were very welcome by all in attendance. Once this section of the seminar was over, she gave the class a demonstration of the oils and techniques and answered numerous questions from the audience.

At the conclusion of this part of the seminar, the participants were paired up in groups, with EVERYONE actually getting to both give and receive a Therapeutic Essential Oils treatment. This hands on exchange of treatments allowed the students to learn the techniques, experience the benefits, while at the same time reinforcing the afternoons lessons through actual hands on practice of what they had been taught.

If your group is interested in arranging a seminar you can contact Nandini directly via her email which is nandiniyes@hotmail.com or give her a ring at (845) 434-2408.

Janet at Radiant Yoga here in Mountaindale New York is to be commended for once again bringing a wonderful holistic opportunity to our community of Mountaindale and its surrounding area. If you would like to know more about her Yoga Classes, and other seminars, or are interested in having her design a special class for your group or organization, sure she would love to hear from you.

MyRadiant Yoga
63 Main Street, CR55
Mountaindale, NY 12763
(845) 866-7822

Fresh FarmtoCity Rondout Organic Veggies and Yoga...What Could Be Better?

Talk about a winning combination! Freshly delivered organic veggies and yoga...a big thanks to Janet over at Radiant Yoga for making this one happen. Imagine being able to pick and choose the fresh locally grown (slow foods) veggies you want for your family from a list, place your order, and then pick them up locally RIGHT HERE IN MOUNTAINDALE! Well, thanks to Janet and the "My Radiant Yoga", and the folks at Rondout Valley Organics (proud member of Farm to City) you can do just that.

Press Release...My Radiant Yoga

To Your Radiant Health

Enjoy a delicious invigorating weekly yoga class AND pick up your special order of freshly harvested, locally grown organic vegetables from Rondout Valley Organics, CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Farm. Place your order between 10PM Sunday, and 6PM on Tuesday night, and pick your order up on Thursday...it's that easy to have fresh organic veggies ALL SUMMER LONG.

Delivered weekly to Radiant Yoga
Every Thursday
May - late October 2011

Yoga Students share their testimonials:

"Delicious, beautiful vegetables, strawberries, blueberries, and gorgeous flowers. They have a great variety! And, the most delicious potatoes I've ever eaten! I fell in love with turnips -- they tasted so good!"

Jean Papendrea

"We (my husband and I, visiting grown sons, and guests) usually enjoy a whole season of organic vegetables for $250 and our $50 buying deposit. We get to order what we want online every week from what's harvested on the three farms. If we go away, we aren't obligated to order. If we're having guests, we can order more of something that we really like."

Eileen Conway Whitaker


"I love the convenience of picking up my veggies after my weekly yoga class. It's fun to see what's inside our grocery bags. We also share recipes and ideas!"

Judy Timke

Thursday Radiant Yoga Class Schedule

Gentle Yoga
Noon - 1:30 pm

Align the Spine: Feel Divine
5:30-7 pm

Receive your first yoga class FREE at Radiant Yoga when you register to receive a season of delicious veggies. We look forward to seeing many of you each Thursday between now and the end of the growing season as we enjoy the fresh bounty of the land brought to us thanks to the folks at Rondout...there information below.

Rondout Valley Organics

Welcome to RONDOUT VALLEY ORGANICS! Our CSA program - designed with flexibility to work for you - shares with your family the best local produce and offers an opportunity for you to support organic farming. Please feel free to browse the links here and get to know us.

If you'd like to SHARE in the 2011 SEASON by JOINING RONDOUT VALLEY ORGANICS, or for more information, please send us an email to rustyplough@earthlink.net or call at 845.647.6911. You can also join right here - just click on the APPLICATION FORM link to the left...

Rondout Valley Organics is a collaborative of local farms, all located within the Town of Wawarsing: Farm & Granary, Rusty Plough Farm, and August Farm. You can learn more about each of us on the "Producer Profiles" link.

Join Rondout Valley Organics CSA with an initial investment of $300.00, which includes an annual $50.00 non-refundable membership fee and $250.00 to start your account. You can click on the "Application" link here and sign on directly, then send us your check.

MAKE OUT TO

OLEH MACZAJ
331 DOWE ROAD
ELLENVILLE, NY 12428.

Or you can fill out and mail in one of our brochures, available throughout the area in various businesses. If you'd like us to mail you a brochure, just give us a call at 845-647-6911.

Membership allows you access to a weekly availability list of products from our farms. You choose what you want to order each week. No minimum requirements. Skip a week if you're away. The value of your items is then deducted from your account each week. As your account nears depletion, we welcome you to reinvest through the remaining season.

Choose from the following pickup locations in Ulster and Sullivan Counties:

• Rusty Plough Farm, Ellenville, from Thursday mornings
• Farm & Granary, Rte.209 Wawarsing, from Thursday mornings
• Catskill Native Nursery, Samsonville Rd., Kerhonkson, Fridays 10am - Saturdays 3pm
• Kingston Farmers' Market, Kingston, Saturdays 9-2
• Pleasant Stone Farm Store, Ellenville, Thursdays noon-6pm
• Cragsmoor Library in Cragsmoor, Thursdays noon - 7:30pm
• Radiant Yoga, Main Street in Mountaindale, Thursdays noon-7:00pm

For more information please call us at 845-647-6911.

Some Don't MISS Events/Classes Weekend of April 29th at My Radiant Yoga With Janet

Janet at "My Radiant Yoga" has some really great things on the calendar this upcoming weekend as we say goodbye to April and its shower, and welcome May. In addition to being a fabulous Yoga instructor, she also happens to be VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE about organic gardening, and will be hosting a great workshop on the timely topic of "Fool Proof Composing" as we all prepare to put our hands in the ground, feel the rich dirt as we start our own plantings, begin preparing our own gardens. Make sure to RSVP for this one as it is a great way to start off the Spring Gardening Season.

This Coming WEEKEND'S HIGHLIGHTS

Friday, April 29

Relax and Recharge with Restorative Yoga
5:30-7 pm

Great for many in reducing the occurance of migraines, lowering blood pressure, and releasing
tension in neck, shoulders, and lower back...A treat on the radiant-heat floors.

Saturday, April 30 Tone and Strengthen
8:45-10 am
Free for Newcomers!

Composting Made Easy-A must attend workshop for ALL GARDENERS!
10-10:45 am

Learn Full-proof Composting in the yoga-studio garden $5 donation benefits Community Gardening Projects.

Manure for your garden and non-resin wood chips...to start your compost pile...will be available to take home (by donation to benefit neighborhood gardening projects)Bring buckets or bags.

For non-composters:

Your non-fatty vegetarian kitchenscraps welcome in our yoga-studio garden pile.

Community Cleanup in Mountaindale
2-5 pm

Help Create Beauty where it's Really Needed: Weed, Prune, Divide Plants, and Mulch Together
in Our Community Effort in Back of the Former High School Learn Gardening tips from My Secret Gardener (that's me!)

Enjoy a special, radically relaxing floor-yoga class after
FREE to all Volunteers!

Sunday, May 1

Celebrate May Day in Mountaindale!
8:30-10 am

Yoga for Gardeners Create strength AND ease in hips and lower back with Anusara Principles of Alignment Intermediate Level.

Plant and Seed Exchange
10:15-11 am

Bring seeds and/or clumps of perennials and herbs to share. Take home what you can use.

Yoga Therapeutics for Gardeners
11:15-12:30

(Create ease in the hips and lower back with Anusara Yoga Universal Principles of Alignement)
ALL LEVELS WELCOME

Radiant Yoga Schedule

As Spring spreads it warmth and flowers throughout our Hamlet (saw first crocus today) thought it time to share a special event taking place tomorrow (Sunday) at Radiant Yoga, including morning lessons, and a WONDERFUL brunch in this notice. Make sure while you are there to say hello to Zoe...talk about a cutie.

Sunday, April 10-Yoga Therapeutics

ALL LEVELS 10-11:30 am

Followed by a
Community Brunch IT IS DELICIOUS!~
11:45 am -12:45 pm

Thai Yoga Bodywork for Partners
1-4 pm
$27/person Reservations Required.

Attention Newcomers:
Bring a nonperishable item for the Children's Food Pantry and Recieve your First Class FREE.
(Preference for foods low in sodium, slat, and sugar)
We look forward to welcoming you soon.

With Appreciation and All the Best,

Janet and Zoe
Radiant Yoga
63 Main Street, CR-55
Mountaindale, NY 12763
My Radiant Yoga
(845) 866-7822

Our Sleepy Little Hamlet of Mountaindale...Tried Finding Parking On a Monday Night?

Mountaindale, NY...a tiny quiet hamlet nestled into the corner of Sullivan county, a community rich in history but almost past by once the railroad left town...uhhh...NOT EXACTLY. Have you tried finding a parking space on a Monday or Wednesday night? Stop by and say hello, take part in our hamlets wealth of activities. On Monday and Wednesday, there is Yoga, Karate and Zumba keeping Main Street hopping, and starting in May, look for Belly Dancing to return to town as our season camping quests, and summer residents return from their winter retreats.

It is looking better and better at having a new place to eat in town, and as soon as that news is OFFICIAL, look for an announcement here on our news blog. Also coming to town...Second Time Around Studio/Gallery at 60 Main Street...look for activity as soon as the delicious Girl Scout cookie center leaves town...speaking of Girl Scout cookies, have you gotten your order in through your local Girl Scout?

Pleasant Stone Farms...Fun Saturday Event

This Saturday, March 26th, Pleasant Stone Farm is going to be hosting a day of fun events at their Ellenville location. Meet many of the vendors who supply their store, sample pastries, cheese, view fine homemade soaps, visit with local artists and farmers, all of whom will have booths set up for this day of fun as spring burst upon our community. Don't miss mini seminars being hosted by many knowledgable green folk, and there will even be an old fashioned raffle! This is a great event early in the spring, so grab the kids, and head on over to this wonderful little green oasis in Ellenville. Look forward to seeing many of you there, and a BIG THANKS to Janet over at Radiant Yoga for giving us a heads up on this one.

Location:

Pleasant Stone Farm

Health Food Store and Organic Cafe

7 Liberty Square

Ellenville, New York

(845) 647-1300

When: 2-6 PM on March 26, 2011

For additional information contact Pleasant Stone Farm

Freedom From Stress Workshop-Radiant Yoga-March 6, 2011

Workshop-Freedom From Stress with Alan Gompers
Radiant Yoga
63 Main Street
Mountaindale, New York 12763
(845)866-7822 for reservations.

Discover the Power of Meditation with Alan Gompers, author of "Maximum Security: the True Meaning of Freedom"

Sunday, March 6
1-4 pm

Workshop includes excerpts from Alan’s amazing story, stretching, breathing, insightful discussion, and meditation sessions of 15-20 minutes each.

· Jump start a meditation practice or deepen your current one.
· Experience the potential of clearing the mind with a skilled facilitator
· Enjoy gentle stretching to prepare the body to sit comfortably for meditation
· Peacefully meditate together

Receive a complimentary Radiant Yoga class to support your follow-up meditation practice.
$49

Bio:
Alan Gompers has an inspiring life story to share and is a living testimony to the transformative power and simplicity of meditation. Musician, master salesman, millionaire, con man and drug dealer, Alan on the surface had it all – fame, power, wealth, family – but happiness eluded him.

After being sentenced to life in prison, he discovered the power of meditation, which gave him the experience he was always seeking -- true freedom – peace and happiness within.

Alan was released after five years in prison and has been teaching others – prisoners and laypeople alike how to experience the healing power of meditation. Alan travels the country teaching educators, students, healthcare workers, ministers, businesspeople, firefighters, and police. He has taught large groups of at-risk and mainstream youth and has recently developed a meditation/contemplation curriculum for Yonkers Public Schools.

His autobiography: Maximum Security: the True Meaning of Freedom is recipient of the prestigious PACE Award (Prevention for a Safer Society) for Literature from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Alan recently released a meditation CD to support students in their daily practice.

To learn more about his inspiring life, please visit "Maximum Security...About The Author"

Starting February 27th Anusara Yogo Immersion, Part 1

Ami Hirschstein,

Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher

Radiant Yoga here in Mountaindale NY is pleased to bring to our small hamlet the very gifted Ami Hirschstein, owner of Jai Ma Yoga of New Paltz, and publisher of, "108 Poses". Starting on February 27th, she will be offering a four weekend training, "Anusara Yoga Immersion, Part 1 for those who want to deepen their practice, teachers of other traditions who want to broaden their knowledge of Anusara and those who want to become teachers.

The classes will be taught on the following five weekends on Sunday:

February 27
March 13
March 27
April 17
May 15

Schedule

10 am - 1 pm
Lunch Break
2 - 6 pm

There will be reading, journaling and essay assignments to help us go deeper in our yoga practice together and individually.

Teachers & Serious Students are Invited to Explore The Anusara Universal Principles of Alignment Tantric Philosophy, Anusara Yoga Therapeutics

Join Us for this Enlivening Exploration! Registration on or before February 21st, the cost is $475. Registration after this date is $550.

Location: Radiant Yoga of Mountaindale
63 Main Street CR-55
Mountaindale, NY 12763

This Sunday (Feb 13) Essential Oils Workshop At Radiant Yoga Studio

This Sunday, February 13th 2011 the Radiant Yoga Studio located at 63 Main Street here in Mountaindale NY is hosting a wonderful seminar, "Pure Essential Oils for Winter Health & Happiness" from 10:15-11:15 with presenter Nandini Weitzman. Admission is just $5 dollars, or free if you are participating in one of Janet's Sunday morning Yoga classes.

Rise and Shine!
Intermediate Yoga
8:30-10 AM

YOGA THERAPEUTICS
for Heart Health and Healing
ALL LEVELS WELCOME!
11:15 am-12:45 pm.


Come join in this wonderful and informative event, have some fun learning about Pure Essential Oils, relax, nurture yourself, and even bring a friend or a loved one with you.

Radiant Yoga of Mountaindale
63 Main Street, CR-55
Mountaindale, NY 12763
(845) 866-7822      
MyRadiantYoga.com