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Steve Popkin, a Shala student and Suzi Kurz’s partner, left his physical body early Tuesday morning, with Suzi by his side. He was 62 years old. Suzi shared that his passing was peaceful, a relief from the pain he had been suffering during a sudden and severe illness.

Steve was a big-hearted, inquisitive, and unassuming yogi. He began practicing 9 years ago with Suzi’s encouragement. He continued his practice as much as possible in the last months of his life. We will miss Steve dearly, and send him love and prayers as he journeys on.

If you would like to make a donation in Steve’s memory, please visit New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell at www.nyp.org/giving/ways-to-give-to-newyorkpresbyterian. Suzi would like to acknowledge and honor Dr. Rick Furman for his care and kindness during Steve’s treatment.

An Evening with Abdi Assadi

BIO

Abdi Assadi is a spiritual counselor and healer in his 35th year of clinical practice. His work centers on helping his patients use their disease and dysfunction as a doorway to spiritual serenity. Through his decades of practice, he has learned that identifying and integrating the human shadow – those disowned or repressed puzzle pieces of self that wreak havoc in our lives – offers the most lasting healing for what ails us in body, mind, and spirit. He has studied Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese acupuncture, body centered psychotherapy, external and internal martial arts, indigenous shamanic practices as well as diverse meditative techniques. He believes we should live in this transient world as fully as possible.

BOOK DESCRIPTION

A Healer’s Handbook: A Guide for the Beginner Practitioner presents three and a half decades of clinical experience distilled into a practical and easy-to-use esoteric guidebook.

This book offers a pared-down examination of the therapeutic process while highlighting how self- reflection is crucial when engaging the healing realm, regardless of the modality. There is great responsibility in being called to tend to the needs of another. To become a clear enough channel to be of service, one must stare into the mirror.

This work applies to a myriad of healing modalities on the body-mind-spirit continuum: bodywork, psychotherapeutic arts, spiritual healing, or a mix thereof, and includes acupuncturists, massage therapists, yoga teachers, social workers, psychotherapists, energy healers, and life coaches.

Purchase book here
www.AbdiAssadi.com
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free chair yoga class taught by roslyn

I want to thank everybody again for partnering with us at FAB to put together some more senior exercise classes with The Shala Yoga and The Fort Greene Senior Center. We are very excited about the first event of this series this coming Monday, September 14 at 10am.

As a reminder regarding event logistics, the event will take place on Zoom and is planned to run for 1 hour. We will be using the Fort Greene Senior Center’s zoom account, but we at FAB will be hosting and streaming directly to our facebook page from zoom.

The zoom link can be accessed via the following information:
Meeting ID: 968 548 6212
Passcode: 9666

The event will also be streamed on the FAB Facebook page which can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/FABFulton

The event will primarily be advertised to members of the Fort Greene Senior Center, but we welcome anybody who is interested to join in, it will be a free public event for the community, and we will run promotions on our social media.

On the day of the event, we ask that everyone logs into the zoom link with us 15 minutes before the event start time at 9:45 am so that we can do a tech check and coordinate our plan of action.