Welcome Om Celebration
2026-07-12 14:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Welcome Om Temple, 173 Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY, 12561, United States
Dear Friends,
You’re warmly invited to join us for a Gathering & Celebration as we bless the land, celebrate our community, and share the unfolding vision of Welcome Om.
For years, through the Unframed Artist Gallery, the Creamery, classes, music, art, and community gatherings, this place has quietly woven people together. On July 12, we come together to honor that journey and imagine what comes next.
Welcome Om is an Intermystical Sanctuary for Spirit, Art, Music, Play & Community—where devotion becomes service and community becomes family.
🌿 Loose Schedule
2:00 PM – Mindful Rebel Meditation
3:00 PM – Opening Ceremony & Blessings
4:00–6:00 PM – A Taste of Welcome Om Yoga • Qi Gong • Sounding • Clay Arts • Family Activities
7:00 PM – Community Potluck Dinner (bring a dish to share)
☀️ Sunset – Sharing • Drum Circle • Campfire • Honoring Our Elders
❤️ Sunday, July 12 ✨ 2 PM – Sunset 📍 173 Huguenot Street, New Paltz, NY
Bring a dish to share, your loved ones, and your dreams.
All ages are welcome.
With love,
The Welcome Om Family

Integral Hatha Yoga w/ Michele
2026-07-13 09:00 - 10:15
Experience the wisdom of a living yoga practice in a class designed to nourish body, mind, and heart. Michele blends Integral Hatha Yoga with pranayama, mindful movement, chanting, Yoga Nidra, yin yoga, meditation, and moments of joyful play – including occasional Doga (Dog Yoga), where our (well-behaved) four-legged friends are welcome to join the practice.
Each class is accessible to all ages and experience levels, offering modifications and guidance so everyone can practice safely and confidently. Whether you’re seeking strength, flexibility, relaxation, healing, or a deeper spiritual connection, you’ll find a welcoming community and a practice that supports your unique journey.
Gentle. Transformational. Heart-centered.

Welcome OM Qi Gong with Dancing Leaf
2026-07-14 09:00 - 10:15
Qi Gong is the practice of remembering that healing begins from within.
Through gentle movement, conscious breathing, meditation, and the cultivation of life-force energy, we awaken the body’s natural intelligence and restore harmony to the mind, body, and spirit. Each class offers a peaceful space to slow down, quiet the nervous system, release stagnant energy, and reconnect with the wisdom that already lives within you.
Rooted in the timeless principles of Chinese medicine, this practice supports greater vitality, resilience, emotional balance, and ease. More than exercise, Qi Gong is a moving meditation—a way of cultivating presence and learning to live in relationship with your own energy.
Whether you are new to Qi Gong or have practiced for years, you are warmly welcomed. Come as you are and leave feeling more grounded, open, and alive.
Weekly Schedule
Tues, Friday
9:00–10:15 AM

Welcome OM Integral Hatha Yoga w/ Michele
2026-07-15 09:00 - 10:15, 2026-07-18 10:00 - 11:15, 2026-07-22 09:00 - 10:15, 2026-07-25 10:00 - 11:15
Experience the wisdom of a living yoga practice in a class designed to nourish body, mind, and heart. Michele blends Integral Hatha Yoga with pranayama, mindful movement, chanting, Yoga Nidra, yin yoga, meditation, and moments of joyful play – including occasional Doga (Dog Yoga), where our (well-behaved) four-legged friends are welcome to join the practice.
Each class is accessible to all ages and experience levels, offering modifications and guidance so everyone can practice safely and confidently. Whether you’re seeking strength, flexibility, relaxation, healing, or a deeper spiritual connection, you’ll find a welcoming community and a practice that supports your unique journey.
Transformational. Heart-centered.
Weekly Schedule. Monday, Wednesday: 9:00–10:15 AM. Saturday: 10:00–11:15 AM

Welcome OM QiGong with Dancing Leaf
2026-07-17 09:00 - 10:15, 2026-07-21 09:00 - 10:15, 2026-07-24 09:00 - 10:15, 2026-07-26 10:00 - 11:15, 2026-07-28 09:00 - 10:15, 2026-07-31 09:00 - 10:15
Qi Gong is the practice of remembering that healing begins from within.
Through gentle movement, conscious breathing, meditation, and the cultivation of life-force energy, we awaken the body’s natural intelligence and restore harmony to the mind, body, and spirit. Each class offers a peaceful space to slow down, quiet the nervous system, release stagnant energy, and reconnect with the wisdom that already lives within you.
Rooted in the timeless principles of Chinese medicine, this practice supports greater vitality, resilience, emotional balance, and ease. More than exercise, Qi Gong is a moving meditation—a way of cultivating presence and learning to live in relationship with your own energy.
Whether you are new to Qi Gong or have practiced for years, you are warmly welcomed. Come as you are and leave feeling more grounded, open, and alive.
Weekly Schedule : Tues, Friday 9:00–10:15 AM Sunday 10:00–11:15 AM

Our Water Stories
2026-07-17 18:30 - 21:00
Meet Me by the Water. Listen to the Water.
Water is a keeper of memories — a storyteller of the Earth.
Every river, creek, lake, and ocean carries stories of harmony and chaos, joy and grief, resilience and renewal. Through sharing these stories, we deepen our connection with one another, the natural world, and the generations yet to come.
Water Stories is a traveling community storytelling project that revives the timeless tradition of gathering in circle. Through storytelling, music, guided reflection, and collaborative creativity, we listen for the voice of local waterways and discover how their stories live within us.
Hosted this time at Welcome Om, each gathering welcomes children, elders, families, artists, dreamers, and storytellers to remember, imagine, and create together.

What We’ll Experience Together
Storytelling
Hear stories inspired by rivers, lakes, oceans, and the places that have shaped our lives.
Community Song
Lift your voice in simple songs that invite connection and belonging.
Guided Reflection
Journey inward to reconnect with a place where water has touched your life.
Collective Creation
Together we’ll create a community Water Poem—a living keepsake from our gathering.
🤍 Community Circle
Share memories, listen deeply, and become part of the unfolding story of this place.

Meet the Story Keepers
Jill Olesker
Storyteller • Educator • Oral Historian
Jill Olesker has been a storyteller, educator, and gatherer of oral histories for more than thirty-five years. She has shared stories in schools, libraries, botanical gardens, nature centers, forests, and beside rivers—places where people naturally gather and stories come alive.
Growing up overlooking the Hudson River in Manhattan, Jill developed a lifelong love of waterways and the stories they carry. Her passion is helping people reconnect with nature, one another, and their own imaginations through the ancient tradition of storytelling.

Svetlana Zabolotnaia
Dragon Dreaming Facilitator • Community Weaver • Artist
Svetlana brings people together through imagination, collaboration, and deep listening. As an international Dragon Dreaming facilitator, she creates spaces where stories, creativity, and community become pathways for personal and collective transformation.
Through Water Stories, she invites participants to journey inward, reconnect with meaningful places in nature, and discover the stories waiting beneath the surface.

Sarah Marin
Musician • Song Carrier
Sarah weaves communities together through shared song, creating spaces where voices naturally join in harmony. Her gentle musical guidance invites participants to experience music as connection, remembrance, and celebration.

A Traveling Project
Water Stories is a growing international storytelling project traveling from community to community, collecting memories inspired by local waterways.
This summer, the project journeys to Estonia to become part of the Dragon Dreaming Arts Village, where new stories will join this ever-growing river of voices from around the world.
If you feel called to support this journey, donations can be made directly to Svetlana Zabolotnaia.
PayPal: szabolotnaia@gmail.com
Venmo: @Svetlana-Zabolotnaia

Welcome OM Integral Hatha Yoga w/ Michele
2026-07-20 09:00 - 10:15, 2026-07-27 09:00 - 10:15, 2026-07-29 09:00 - 10:15
Experience the wisdom of a living yoga practice in a class designed to nourish body, mind, and heart. Michele blends Integral Hatha Yoga with pranayama, mindful movement, chanting, Yoga Nidra, yin yoga, meditation, and moments of joyful play – including occasional Doga (Dog Yoga), where our (well-behaved) four-legged friends are welcome to join the practice.
Each class is accessible to all ages and experience levels, offering modifications and guidance so everyone can practice safely and confidently. Whether you’re seeking strength, flexibility, relaxation, healing, or a deeper spiritual connection, you’ll find a welcoming community and a practice that supports your unique journey.
Transformational. Heart-centered.
