Tagged Body Mind and Spirit

Chair Yoga

Join us for a 1-hour gentle yoga practice that uses a chair for seating and balance. Taught by Janet McAllister Faulls, a registered yoga teacher with over 13 years of experience in Philadelphia. All ages and abilities…

Mindful Yoga Basics with Kate Howell

Are you new to yoga or looking for a gentle, supportive introduction to this transformative practice?  Join us for, "Mindful Yoga Basics" to experience a comprehensive introduction to yoga – postures, breath, and…

Mindful Yoga Basics with Kate Howell

Are you new to yoga or looking for a gentle, supportive introduction to this transformative practice?  Join us for, "Mindful Yoga Basics" to experience a comprehensive introduction to yoga – postures, breath, and…

Chair Yoga

Join us for a 1-hour gentle yoga practice that uses a chair for seating and balance. Taught by Janet McAllister Faulls, a registered yoga teacher with over 13 years of experience in Philadelphia. All ages and abilities…

Mindful Yoga Basics with Kate Howell

Are you new to yoga or looking for a gentle, supportive introduction to this transformative practice?  Join us for, "Mindful Yoga Basics" to experience a comprehensive introduction to yoga – postures, breath, and…

Mindful Yoga Basics with Kate Howell

Are you new to yoga or looking for a gentle, supportive introduction to this transformative practice?  Join us for, "Mindful Yoga Basics" to experience a comprehensive introduction to yoga – postures, breath, and…

Chair Yoga

Join us for a 1-hour gentle yoga practice that uses a chair for seating and balance. Taught by Janet McAllister Faulls, a registered yoga teacher with over 13 years of experience in Philadelphia. All ages and abilities…

Mindful Yoga Basics with Kate Howell

Are you new to yoga or looking for a gentle, supportive introduction to this transformative practice?  Join us for, "Mindful Yoga Basics" to experience a comprehensive introduction to yoga – postures, breath, and…

Mindful Yoga Basics with Kate Howell

Are you new to yoga or looking for a gentle, supportive introduction to this transformative practice?  Join us for, "Mindful Yoga Basics" to experience a comprehensive introduction to yoga – postures, breath, and…

Chair Yoga

Join us for a 1-hour gentle yoga practice that uses a chair for seating and balance. Taught by Janet McAllister Faulls, a registered yoga teacher with over 13 years of experience in Philadelphia. All ages and abilities…

Mindful Yoga Basics with Kate Howell

Are you new to yoga or looking for a gentle, supportive introduction to this transformative practice?  Join us for, "Mindful Yoga Basics" to experience a comprehensive introduction to yoga – postures, breath, and…

Chair Yoga

Join us for a 1-hour gentle yoga practice that uses a chair for seating and balance. Taught by Janet McAllister Faulls, a registered yoga teacher with over 13 years of experience in Philadelphia. All ages and abilities…

Mindful Yoga Basics with Kate Howell

Are you new to yoga or looking for a gentle, supportive introduction to this transformative practice?  Join us for, "Mindful Yoga Basics" to experience a comprehensive introduction to yoga – postures, breath, and…

Laurie Woolever | Care and Feeding: A Memoir

The Author Events Series presents Laurie Woolever | Care and Feeding: A Memoir  REGISTER In Conversation with Reem Kassis In this moving, hilarious, and insightful memoir, Laurie Woolever traces her path from a small-town childhood…

Mindful Yoga Basics with Kate Howell

Are you new to yoga or looking for a gentle, supportive introduction to this transformative practice?  Join us for, "Mindful Yoga Basics" to experience a comprehensive introduction to yoga – postures, breath, and…

Chair Yoga

Join us for a 1-hour gentle yoga practice that uses a chair for seating and balance. Taught by Janet McAllister Faulls, a registered yoga teacher with over 13 years of experience in Philadelphia. All ages and abilities…

Mindful Yoga Basics with Kate Howell

Are you new to yoga or looking for a gentle, supportive introduction to this transformative practice?  Join us for, "Mindful Yoga Basics" to experience a comprehensive introduction to yoga – postures, breath, and…

Mindful Yoga Basics with Kate Howell

Are you new to yoga or looking for a gentle, supportive introduction to this transformative practice?  Join us for, "Mindful Yoga Basics" to experience a comprehensive introduction to yoga – postures, breath, and…

Chair Yoga with Lindsey

Chair Yoga is a form of yoga that uses a chair as the main prop versus a traditional mat. This makes the practice more accessible to those that have trouble putting pressure on the knees and wrists, and is suitable for all levels and…

Mindful Yoga Basics with Kate Howell

Are you new to yoga or looking for a gentle, supportive introduction to this transformative practice?  Join us for, "Mindful Yoga Basics" to experience a comprehensive introduction to yoga – postures, breath, and…

Cutting Clutter - Straighten Up at Work

Stop paper pile-ups and e-mail overload.

Cutting Clutter - Home Storage

If you can't toss it, learn how to stow it.

Cutting Clutter - Organize Your Life

From time management to mental feng shui.

Cutting Clutter - Clean House

Cut the clutter and keep it that way.

Dasha Kiper | Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregivers, and the Human Brain

In conversation with Dr. Jason Karlawish In partnership with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society The clinical consulting director of support groups at The CaringKind (formerly The Alzheimer's Association),  Dasha Kiper  has an MA in…

Amy Tan | The Backyard Bird Chronicles

In conversation with Beth Kephart A “master of illusion, and one of the best storytellers around” (NPR),  Amy Tan  is the author of the beloved novels  The Joy Luck Club , a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book…

Rahul Mehta | Feeding the Ghosts: Poems

Rahul Mehta’s  debut poetry collection,  Feeding the Ghosts , explores the solace to be found in the everyday beauty sometimes overshadowed by larger calamity, as well as the author’s identities, relationships, and culture. Also the…

Shayla Lawson | How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir

In conversation with Jeannine Cook, owner of Harriett’s Bookshop and Ida’s Books Shayla Lawson  is the author of  This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope , a “whip-smart” ( People ) essay collection about…

Ruha Benjamin | Imagination: A Manifesto

In conversation with Shantrelle Lewis Ruha Benjamin  is the author of  Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code , a “galvanizing” and “inventive and wide-ranging” ( The Nation ) look at how new technologies…

Emily Nagoski | Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

Emily Nagoski  is the author of the  New York Times  bestseller  Come as You Are , a self-help manual lauded by critics and readers for its ability to “offer up hard facts on the science of arousal and desire in a friendly and…

Raquel Willis | The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation

In conversation with Ernest Owens A writer, activist, and media strategist dedicated to Black transgender liberation, Raquel Willis has served as director of communications for Ms. Foundation for Women, a national organizer for the…

Kimberlé Crenshaw | #SayHerName: Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence

In conversation with Dorothy Roberts One of the country’s foremost authorities in civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, race, and the law, Kimberlé Crenshaw is a law professor at UCLA and Columbia Law School, where in 1996 she…

David Brooks | How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Acclaimed for his ability to “elevate the unseen aspects of private experience into a vigorous and challenging conversation about what we all share” ( San Francisco Chronicle ), David Brooks has written an op-ed column for The New York…

Christian Cooper | Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6abc Action News morning edition Central Park birder Christian Cooper is the host and consulting producer on the National Geographic channel’s Extraordinary Birder and is on the board of…

Sarah Bakewell | Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

In conversation with Eric Banks Acclaimed for “wonderfully readable” fusions of “biography, philosophy, history, cultural analysis and personal reflection” ( The Independent ), Sarah Bakewell is the author of At the Existentialist Café…

Camille Dungy | Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden

In conversation with Abra Lee Camille T. Dungy  is the author of  Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History , a debut personal essay collection that was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle…

Neil King Jr. | American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal

In conversation with Signe Wilkinson A Wall Street Journal correspondent for two decades, Neil King Jr. reported from more than 50 countries, served as the newspaper’s chief diplomatic correspondent, national political reporter, and…

Judith Lewis Herman, M.D. | Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

In conversation with Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.  Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture A professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for more than 40 years,  Judith Lewis Herman , M.D., is one of the United States’…

Aidan Levy | Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

In conversation with Nate Chinen The author of  Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed  and editor of  Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters ,  Aiden Levy  played the baritone saxophone in the Stan Rubin…

Rabia Chaudry | Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family

Attorney, advocate, and podcaster Rabia Chaudry is the author of the New York Times bestseller Adnan's Story , a true-crime analysis into the 2000 conviction of a young Baltimorean for the murder of his ex-girlfriend. Also the executive…

Ross Gay | Inciting Joy: Essays with Major Jackson | A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose of Major Jackson

Ross Gay is the author of The Book of Delights , a life-affirming collection of short lyric essays that reminds readers to appreciate so-called ordinary wonders, even during turbulent times. His several volumes of poetry include Catalog…

Anna Badkhen | Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays

In conversation with Airea D. Matthews, 2022-2023 Philadelphia Poet Laureate and Co-Director of the Creative Writing Program at Bryn Mawr With an artist’s perspective and a ground-level view of people in extremis across the world,…

Saidiya Hartman and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor| Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

One of academia’s leading authorities on African American literature, enslavement, gender studies, and the ways in which marginalized people are excluded in historical narratives, Saidiya Hartman is a University Professor at Columbia…

Brian Westbrook Sr. and Lesley Van Arsdall | The Mouse Who Played Football

In their illustrated children’s book, Brian Westbrook Sr. and Lesley Van Arsdall tell the story of a determined little critter named Brian who overcomes his small size to become a star in the Mouse Football League. Brian Westbrook, Sr. …