MANCHESTER, NH – Harmony Within will be presented in-person. Join us for social time and refreshments after the program. Please respect everyone’s individual choice for masking.
TO REGISTER: RSVP to interfaithwomennh@gmail.com and click the link
or call 603-867-7251. Check-in on April 23 begins at 6:15 p.m. Visit our website: interfaithwomennh.org to learn more about us.
We are pleased to welcome a Special Guest in Jennifer Militello: New Hampshire’s Poet Laureate.
Our speakers for the evening are:
Rev. Dr. Emily Geoghegan, Emily graduated in the first class of women at Dartmouth College in 1976. She graduated from Boston University School of Theology in 1982 and was ordained in the United Church of Christ. She has served as pastor and interim pastor in the New Hampshire Conference. Emily trained at U Mass Medical Center to teach Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Licensed as a psychologist she has integrated MBSR into her pastoral counseling work and has taught in hospitals, colleges, rehab centers, women’s shelters and prisons. Emily has two adult daughters and three grandchildren. In her spare time she practices tai chi, and watercolor. Currently she is trying to become more fluent in French.
Rosie Latona
Rosie is a longtime student of yoga and founder of White Swan Yoga Studio, opened in 2010. She has been teaching yoga for more than 25 years and is dedicated to offering practices that are accessible, mindful, and supportive for students of all ages and levels of experience. Rosie. holds a 500-hour certification from the Himalayan Institute, also completing Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist Training. For the past 28 years the Institute, along with additional movement modalities and trainings, has been at the center of her own study, gravitating toward gentle yoga, slow flow, restorative practices, and meditation. She is grateful for the opportunity to share the joy and clarity yoga has brought to her life, and the community that has grown around White Swan Yoga.
When not teaching, Rosie enjoys skiing, hiking and traveling with her husband and family.
Cindy Kaufmann
Cindy is a retired pharmaceutical technician by trade and a part time 200-hour yoga teacher. Cindy is a lifelong Lutheran born and raised in Baltimore. She was a member of the now closed Gethsemane Lutheran Church, joined Grace Episcopal in Manchester, and occasionally reconnects with her Lutheran roots at Concordia Lutheran Church, Concord. She spends time at Camp Calumet Lutheran Ministries in Freedom NH attending retreats and teaching gentle agape yoga in a beautiful lakeside setting. Cindy believes in loving her neighbor and shows that by working with the Interfaith Coalition for the Homeless. She recently became a board member of the Contemplative Action Network or (CAN). CAN ‘s mission has four elements… housing and hunger relief, sobriety and recovery support, accompanying immigrants and refugees and reaching unreached communities. Cindy can be found supporting those in need by attending community meals at the YWCA, shopping, bringing items of need to the homeless and mostly by listening compassionately to each person as an individual. She is a devoted wife, mother and grandmother.