By Jennifer Kohlhepp, Managing Editor
There’s a new serene spot in town where area residents are learning to be mindful and consciously healthy.
Calm Waters Wellness & Yoga Center recently opened its doors at 2378 Route 33. Owned and operated by longtime township resident Marci Rubin, Calm Waters offers chair yoga, hatha yoga, kundalini yoga, kids yoga, prenatal yoga, shanti meditation and yantra-mantra meditation classes to help transform and uplift people on many levels.
The center also hosts special events such as the “Healing Circle,” which will take place at 7 p.m. July 11. The event provides a supportive atmosphere where everyone is free to share and heal one another as well as themselves by doing kundalini yoga and mediation kriyas that will tap into the flow of the healing power of the universe, according to Ms. Rubin.
”A healing circle is a group of individuals coming together to create a powerful group energy to help heal each other,” Ms. Rubin said. “The concept of the healing circle is ancient.”
Ms. Rubin, who has lived in Robbinsville since 1991, said the wellness center is a good environment for community building. She has been teaching yoga since July 2012.
”I didn’t think I was going to teach it or own a yoga studio,” she said. “It wasn’t my initial plan. It was really for personal growth.”
After she completed teacher training she started substituting where she learned yoga at the Khalsa Healing Arts and Yoga Center in Yardley.”I loved teaching,” she said. “It really transformed my life, so I said let’s do it.”
With the help of four other kundalini teachers she calls “angels,” she renovated what was once an office building into a yoga and wellness center.
”With their help…we transformed it into a beautiful space,” she said.
The official ribbon cutting for the business took place on June 26 but she opened the studio at the end of April.
”Surely and slowly, it’s growing,” she said.
There are 22 different kinds of yoga. Ms. Rudin focuses on kundalini yoga, which incorporates the mind, body and spirit into breathing, meditation and movement exercises.
”Kundalini is really a science,” she said. “To really understand it, you have to come and experience it,” she said.
Benefits of yoga and mediation include becoming calmer and more balanced and learning how to breathe properly, according to Ms. Rudin.
”Long breathe, long life. Short breathe, short life. No breathe, no life. That’s what my teacher always said to me,” she said.
She said many people are interested in quieting the mind but are not sure how to do it.
”The more you do it the easier it is to quiet the mind,” she said.
She said people should not be afraid to try meditation or yoga.
”Kundalini is very powerful and different,” she said. “You don’t have to be an expert. It’s really for everyone. In order to fully appreciate it and understand it you have to experience it.”
Beginning kundalini classes are on Tuesdays from 7-8:30 p.m.
For a full class schedule including information about the new moon and full moon meditations at the wellness and yoga center, visit calmwatersnj.com.
For further information, call 609-259-1547 or email [email protected]. A full calendar of events and the latest news can also be found on the Facebook page at https://www.facebook…atersnj?fref=ts.
