In grief & gratitude: Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh's life & legacy

Here is a dharma talk I shared in yoga class last week honoring Thich Nhat Hanh’s life and legacy, including the teaching of No Coming, No Going; singing, chanting, mudras; and a couple readings from Thich Nhat Hanh.

I am so thankful for encountering Thay in this lifetime and being able to receive and share his teachings with others in local sangha, currently Practice Community at Franklin Lakes: Meditation Group, and on retreats and Days of Mindfulness with the larger sangha many years ago at Stone Hill College among others, and in my yoga classes. 

When the practice becomes part of you, it’s like breathing - a very natural part of you, and like oxygen - necessary to live and thrive. You can find Thay's dharma talks and receive his energy in videos on YouTube Plum Village channel. Plum Village also has a free meditation app available and Facebook page: Plum Village

 (at Blue Cliff Monastery, Pine Bush, NY)

I am blessed to share the practice in my weekly yoga classes at

Naturally Yoga in Glen Rock, NJ on Wednesdays at 9:30am and at

Highland Yoga Studio Kinnelon, NJ on Tues. at 9am & Sat. at 9:45am.

All are offered with in studio and online zoom options.

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Tapping Circle, also upcoming: Acoustic Kirtan and Reiki Level 2 Training

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

Tapping Circle with Angela Cays

February 20, 2022 

2pm-3:30pm

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as Tapping, is a practice that involves tapping on the endpoints of energy meridians in your body which awakens your relaxation response, reduces feelings of stress, and brings a calm, grounded, yet expansive feeling. 

This practice can support healing from illness and disease as well as open you to clarity and intuition. Bringing the body out of stress and into the relaxation response allows our immune system to function optimally and our mind to be clear to find solutions to challenges and pathways to peace and joy in life. 

We will be tapping with a few existing scripts addressing our universal experiences of stress, struggle and affirmation, as well as impromptu scripts based on your own challenges should you choose to share them anonymously or in person.

Investment $25. Preregistration required. 

In person and online Zoom options available for this workshop:

In person registration link: https://momence.com/7792/upcoming-events/613618

Online registration link: https://momence.com/7792/upcoming-events/613619

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Save the date: Sunday, March 13, 2022

Acoustic Kirtan at Naturally Yoga

both in studio and online Zoom options for attendance

Pre-registration required

Investment $25

www.naturallyyoga.com

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Save the date

Reiki Level 2 Training 

with Angela Cays

Sunday, March 27, 2022

11:30am-6pm

$250

Highland Yoga, Kinnelon, NJ

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Weekly yoga classes are currently Hybrid...

...meaning both in person and online via Zoom simultaneously. 

Pre-registration required. 

Click on links below for information.

Tuesdays, 9am, Highland Yoga, Kinnelon, NJ

Wednesdays, 9:30am, Naturally Yoga, Glen Rock, NJ

Saturdays, 9:45am, Highland Yoga, Kinnelon, NJ

You are Light. Manifesting your gifts in the New Year. A Kirtan with Angela Cays

 Join me for Kirtan at Highland Yoga in Kinnelon, NJ 

You are Light. Manifesting your gifts in the New Year.   

www.highlandyoga.com

Sunday, January 23, 2022

2-3:30pm

In person or on Zoom

Join us for kirtan to remember who you are and what you are made of and surrounded by, so you can continue to let your light shine into the New Year. When we gather together and feel the individual and collective vibration of sound while chanting, experience the holding and presence of the Divine within this vibration and in the meditative silence in between, we connect to our life force energy, our wisdom and our deep inner truths. From this safe, sacred, and inspired place we will have the opportunity with thought or by writing in your journal to acknowledge and affirm how you are already manifesting your gifts in the world and how you would like to continue to ignite, support, and live your light into the New Year. Cost: $25

PRE-Register for either attendance option at https://momence.com/Angela-Cays/In-Studio---You-are-Light%2C-Manifest-your-Gifts-in-the-New-Year%3A-A-Kirtan/458214

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Weekly yoga classes are currently Hybrid...

...meaning both in person and online via Zoom simultaneously. 

Pre-registration required. 

Click on links below for information.

Tuesdays, 9am, Highland Yoga, Kinnelon, NJ

Wednesdays, 9:30am, Naturally Yoga, Glen Rock, NJ

Saturdays, 9:45am, Highland Yoga, Kinnelon, NJ

Manifesting your gifts in the New Year

 I am excited to share this free offering for WELLNESS WEDNESDAY AT WEST SIDE Presbyterian Church in Ridgewood, NJ. January 5th at 7:30pm. Manifesting Your Gifts in the New Year 

✨Bring your journal and join us in the sanctuary or via livestream (no Zoom!) at 7:30 pm for an evening of music, meditation and intention setting with Angela Cays, reiki master and yoga instructor. We'll chant mantras while listening to the sounds of the harmonium, experience meditative silence and reflect on the contributions we would like to make in the

New Year.

Click on link below for more information and for the livestream link if you are unable to join in person. 

https://westside.org/wellness/wellness-wednesday/

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Join me for Kirtan at Highland Yoga in Kinnelon, NJ 

You are Light. Manifesting your gifts in the New Year.   

www.highlandyoga.com

Sunday, January 23, 2022

2-3:30pm

In person or on Zoom

Join us for kirtan to remember who you are and what you are made of and surrounded by, so you can continue to let your light shine into the New Year. When we gather together and feel the individual and collective vibration of sound while chanting, experience the holding and presence of the Divine within this vibration and in the meditative silence in between, we connect to our life force energy, our wisdom and our deep inner truths. From this safe, sacred, and inspired place we will have the opportunity with thought or by writing in your journal to acknowledge and affirm how you are already manifesting your gifts in the world and how you would like to continue to ignite, support, and live your light into the New Year. Cost: $25

PRE-Register for either attendance option at https://momence.com/Angela-Cays/In-Studio---You-are-Light%2C-Manifest-your-Gifts-in-the-New-Year%3A-A-Kirtan/458214

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Weekly yoga classes are currently Hybrid...

...meaning both in person and online via Zoom simultaneously. 

Pre-registration required. 

Click on links below for information.

Tuesdays, 9am, Highland Yoga, Kinnelon, NJ

Wednesdays, 9:30am, Naturally Yoga, Glen Rock, NJ

Saturdays, 9:45am, Highland Yoga, Kinnelon, NJ

Reiki Level 2 Training at Highland Yoga AND all yoga classes are Hybrid - both in person and on Zoom.

Reiki Level 2 Training 

with Angela Cays

Sunday, November 14, 2021

11:30am-6pm

$250

Pre-requisite: Attunement to Reiki Level 1 by an Usui Reiki Master

Pre-registration is required.

Limited to 8 participants.

 https://withribbon.com/Angela-Cays/Reiki-Level-2-Training/328386

Highland Yoga, Kinnelon, NJ

In this training you will dive more deeply into your practice and understanding of Reiki. You will receive the Reiki Level 2 attunements, three of the Reiki symbols with their mantras, and learn techniques for distance healing and 2 additional modalities to focus and send Reiki energy. 

This training allows you to open to deeper emotional and spiritual healing, working within the auric field. During this training we will spend time learning and practicing the Reiki symbols, mantras, and new techniques of distance healing. You will also receive a comprehensive manual and ongoing email and telephone support. 

Please bring a lunch or snack, plenty of water to drink, and anything else you’ll need to care for yourself.

Angela Cays has been working towards transforming suffering and empowering others for decades as a high school math teacher and tutor; licensed professional counselor (LPC) with adults, teens, groups and couples; and as a yoga instructor since the fall of 2006. She guides her students to reveal light and shadow, to become more fully embodied and aware of all layers of our being (koshas); to awaken intuition, life force energy (prana), and touch moments of deep peace as well as great expansion.   

Her continued education as a counselor and yoga instructor led her deeper into the subtle body through learning modules in her advanced yoga teacher training with Sheryl and Neil Edsall at Naturally Yoga in Glen Rock, NJ and trainings at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, MA on Psychotherapy and Spirituality, as well as Psychology of the Chakras, Mind Body Integration, and Creating on Purpose with Anodea Judith.  Having a spark of curiosity about Reiki when she first started taking yoga classes, it was about 20 years later, as a continuation of studying and working with the subtle body, she received her Level I, Level II and Reiki Master training and attunements from her beloved teacher, Sheryl Edsall, along with the radiant Eileen Alexander.  

Angela benefits deeply from practicing Reiki for self-care in addition to sharing this healing modality with others.  Through many years of studying and teaching yoga, and receiving the Reiki attunements, she continues to develop a more heightened awareness of subtle body energy. She feels honored to hold a sacred space for healing and growth through the universal energy of Reiki, as well as her group yoga classes, workshops and kirtans, private yoga, and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Tapping sessions.

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Weekly yoga classes are currently Hybrid...

...meaning both in person and online via Zoom simultaneously. 

Pre-registration required. 

Click on links below for information.

Tuesdays, 9am, Highland Yoga, Kinnelon, NJ

Wednesdays, 9:30am, Naturally Yoga, Glen Rock, NJ

Saturdays, 9:45am, Highland Yoga, Kinnelon, NJ

Acoustic Kirtan with EFT Tapping: Remembering Our True Nature - from the Shadow to the Light

 Acoustic Kirtan: Remembering Our True Nature: from the Shadow to the Light

Sunday, April 25, 2021

2pm on Zoom via Naturally Yoga

Join me for this acoustic Kirtan Remembering Our True Nature: From the shadow to the light. We will infuse our Kirtan with moments of EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Tapping utilizing mantras, affirmations and dharma readings to recognize and honor our individual and collective shadow and realize how it inspires our shift back to the light. 

“No mud, no lotus.”

Register online www.naturallyyoga.com under events and workshops. You will receive the mantra page and tapping scripts via email prior to the workshop. 

Investment: $20

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Recent past offerings: 

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Tapping Circle on Zoom

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as Tapping, is a practice that involves tapping on the endpoints of energy meridians in your body which awakens your relaxation response, reduces feelings of stress, and brings a calm, grounded, yet expansive feeling. 

This practice can support healing from illness and disease as well as open you to clarity and intuition. Bringing the body out of stress and into the relaxation response allows our immune system to function optimally and our mind to be clear to find solutions to challenges or pathways to our peace and joy in life. 

We will be tapping with a few existing scripts addressing our universal experiences of stress, struggle and affirmation, as well as impromptu scripts based on your own challenges should you choose to share them anonymously or in person. 

Investment $20

Offered on Zoom via Highland Yoga on March 28, 2021.

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Inter-being: I am you. You are me. A return to unity. Acoustic Kirtan with Angela Cays.

Chanting mantra opens the door to Interbeing. We chant to connect to our true nature, our highest self, as well as create a space to hold our suffering self and the suffering of the world with love and compassion. We chant to remember the presence of the divine in us, around us, and in each other; recognizing the other in ourselves and ourselves in the other. 

This is true for our light and our shadow. We honor the celebrations and joys as well as affirm the hardships and difficulties including our contributions to both. We can use the energy from Kirtan to expand us and inspire us to hold and transform our own suffering as well as the suffering of each other and the collective consciousness. And as we do our own transformative and healing work, we are energized and inspired to do more to help each other and live our gifts into this life for the good of all beings. 

“We inter-are. We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.” - Thich Nhat Hanh 

Investment in you and the collective we $15.

Offered on Zoom via Highland Yoga on January 31, 2021, 2pm.

Offered on Zoom via Naturally Yoga on March 14, 2021, 2pm.

Interrelationship – poem by Thich Nhat Hanh

You are me, and I am you.

Isn’t it obvious that we “inter-are”?

You cultivate the flower in yourself,

so that I will be beautiful.

I transform the garbage in myself,

so that you will not have to suffer.

I support you;

you support me.

I am in this world to offer you peace;

you are in this world to bring me joy.

(from “Call me by My True Names  – The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh”, Parallax Press, 2005.)

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Weekly yoga classes online via Zoom... 

Tuesdays, 9am, Highland Yoga, Kinnelon, NJ

Wednesdays, 9:30am, Naturally Yoga, Glen Rock, NJ

Saturdays, 9:45am, Highland Yoga, Kinnelon, NJ

BYOB: Bring Your Own Ball Yoga Workshop AND Acoustic Kirtan plus Tapping: Remembering Our True Nature - from the shadow to the light

BYOB: Bring Your Own Ball Yoga Workshop

Sunday, April 18, 2021

2pm on Zoom via Highland Yoga

Get out your exercise ball for this playful and supported yoga practice! We can do so many fun poses and practices using an exercise (or yoga) ball that open us to a great stretch, a stronger body, and our expansive presence of prana (our life force energy). 

If you don’t have an exercise/yoga ball, you can get one...       

                                                               

Register at www.highlandyoga.com under events & workshops.

Investment $20

*** Unable to attend at the scheduled time? Register for the workshop as usual, send an email to info@highlandyoga letting us know you are unable to attend live, and after the live-streamed workshop has been recorded, you'll receive a link to the recording that will be available for 1 week!

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Participants will receive an email containing the link to the workshop about half an hour before start time.

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Wellness ‘Tools’

Wellness Wednesday with 
West Side Presbyterian Church

Wednesday, April 21st from 7:30-8:30pm 

FREE Online via Zoom

All are welcome! 

Register here: https://westside.org/event/2045640-2021-04-21-wellness-tools/  to receive Zoom link

Want to show up in your life more grounded, inspired and empowered to share your light and gifts? Angela Cays, yoga instructor and reiki master, will share multiple tools within the yoga tradition and beyond to help calm your nervous system and connect to your breath, body, mind and spirit. We'll sample tapping, chanting, meditating, yoga postures and more. All activities can be experienced in a chair or on a yoga mat on the floor.

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Acoustic Kirtan: Remembering Our True Nature: from the Shadow to the Light

Sunday, April 25, 2021

2pm on Zoom via Naturally Yoga

Join me for this acoustic Kirtan Remembering Our True Nature: From the shadow to the light. We will infuse our Kirtan with moments of EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Tapping utilizing mantras, affirmations and dharma readings to recognize and honor our individual and collective shadow and realize how it inspires our shift back to the light. 

“No mud, no lotus.”

Register online www.naturallyyoga.com under events and workshops. You will receive the mantra page and tapping scripts via email prior to the workshop. 

Investment: $20

___________________________________________________________

Recent past offerings: 

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Tapping Circle on Zoom

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as Tapping, is a practice that involves tapping on the endpoints of energy meridians in your body which awakens your relaxation response, reduces feelings of stress, and brings a calm, grounded, yet expansive feeling. 

This practice can support healing from illness and disease as well as open you to clarity and intuition. Bringing the body out of stress and into the relaxation response allows our immune system to function optimally and our mind to be clear to find solutions to challenges or pathways to our peace and joy in life. 

We will be tapping with a few existing scripts addressing our universal experiences of stress, struggle and affirmation, as well as impromptu scripts based on your own challenges should you choose to share them anonymously or in person. 

Investment $20

Offered on Zoom via Highland Yoga on March 28, 2021.

___________________________________________________________

Inter-being: I am you. You are me. A return to unity. Acoustic Kirtan with Angela Cays.

Chanting mantra opens the door to Interbeing. We chant to connect to our true nature, our highest self, as well as create a space to hold our suffering self and the suffering of the world with love and compassion. We chant to remember the presence of the divine in us, around us, and in each other; recognizing the other in ourselves and ourselves in the other. 

This is true for our light and our shadow. We honor the celebrations and joys as well as affirm the hardships and difficulties including our contributions to both. We can use the energy from Kirtan to expand us and inspire us to hold and transform our own suffering as well as the suffering of each other and the collective consciousness. And as we do our own transformative and healing work, we are energized and inspired to do more to help each other and live our gifts into this life for the good of all beings. 

“We inter-are. We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.” - Thich Nhat Hanh 

Investment in you and the collective we $15.

Offered on Zoom via Highland Yoga on January 31, 2021, 2pm.

Offered on Zoom via Naturally Yoga on March 14, 2021, 2pm.

Interrelationship – poem by Thich Nhat Hanh

You are me, and I am you.

Isn’t it obvious that we “inter-are”?

You cultivate the flower in yourself,

so that I will be beautiful.

I transform the garbage in myself,

so that you will not have to suffer.

I support you;

you support me.

I am in this world to offer you peace;

you are in this world to bring me joy.

(from “Call me by My True Names  – The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh”, Parallax Press, 2005.)

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Weekly yoga classes online via Zoom... 

Tuesdays, 9am, Highland Yoga, Kinnelon, NJ

Wednesdays, 9:30am, Naturally Yoga, Glen Rock, NJ

Saturdays, 9:45am, Highland Yoga, Kinnelon, NJ