Join Janet Aalfs for a series of Tai Chi classes! Twice on Tuesday evenings and twice on Friday mornings. Registration is strongly encouraged. Call or come in to sign up.
Janet, poet laureate emeritus of Northampton, MA and a master instructor of integrative arts including Poetry, TaiChi & Qigong, Karate, Filipino Stick Arts, and Empowerment Self-protection Strategies, has been teaching and performing locally, nationally, and internationally for 40 years. Founder/Director of Lotus Peace Arts at Valley Women’s Martial Arts, a non-profit school started in 1977, and located in Easthampton since 1984, Aalfs enjoys helping to create community sites for revelation and enjoyment. Her writing has been widely published, and she has received awards for her leadership in the arts as well as prizes for her poetry. Her most recent book of poems is Bird of a Thousand Eyes (Levellers Press).
Join Janet Aalfs for a series of Tai Chi classes! Twice on Tuesday evenings and twice on Friday mornings. Registration is strongly encouraged. Call or come in to sign up.
Janet, poet laureate emeritus of Northampton, MA and a master instructor of integrative arts including Poetry, TaiChi & Qigong, Karate, Filipino Stick Arts, and Empowerment Self-protection Strategies, has been teaching and performing locally, nationally, and internationally for 40 years. Founder/Director of Lotus Peace Arts at Valley Women’s Martial Arts, a non-profit school started in 1977, and located in Easthampton since 1984, Aalfs enjoys helping to create community sites for revelation and enjoyment. Her writing has been widely published, and she has received awards for her leadership in the arts as well as prizes for her poetry. Her most recent book of poems is Bird of a Thousand Eyes (Levellers Press).
PLEASE NOTE: This session of the Computer Collaborative is canceled.
Computer classes offered in collaboration with the Easthampton Council on Aging and Enrichment Center. Topic changes monthly. Held at the Eastampton Council on Aging. Seats are limited! Call 527-1031 or email slevine@ewmlibrary.org to register!
What if there was universal energy all around, but you didn’t use it? What if you could optimize your health, or energize yourself for free? What if you could harness that energy to improve your life?
Alison will share her personal stories with you about stress, fear, anxiety, and worry. She will offer some fun, simple steps in her workshop to help you cope with your fears and focus on your goals. Using practical knowledge, as well as spiritual techniques, she will guide you into the mindset and the energy you need to get whatever you want, be it love, money, health, or peace.
Alison was born and raised deep in the woods of Pennsylvania, where her childhood imagination ran wild and free. As a scabby-kneed tomboy she seemed fearless, yet as she grew older, her fears and anxieties clearly got worse. She attained her Master’s Degree in Sport Psychology. As a clinical researcher and biostatistician at a university medical center for 18 years, Alison co-authored many medical articles and observed first-hand the short-comings of conventional medicine. She left clinical academia to become a Reiki Master Teacher and author. For the last two years, she wrote stories about her many Shamanic healings and Reiki experiences. Doubts to Dreams: Releasing Doubts and Learning to Love Through Energy Medicine is her first book. Her goal is to forge Reiki into conventional medicine and share more intriguing stories and workshops.