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Anchor Therapy is now registering for its upcoming LGBTQIA+ Teen Virtual Group, which will be held Tuesdays from 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. for 12 sessions, beginning September 14. The group is limited to eight members, first come first serve. Registration closes on September 7.
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According to Courtney Glashow, a psychotherapist and the owner of Anchor Therapy, the LGBTQIA+ teen group is the most popular one that the Hoboken practice offers.
“If you know a LGBTQIA+ New Jersey teen, ages 13 though 17, who needs some extra support, then this group is for them,” she says.
Led on video by psychotherapist Lauren Mandebaum, the group will cover topics including coping skills (stress and anxiety management); social skills (peer relationships, dating, making friends, peer pressure); self-esteem (empowerment and confidence); and identity (by providing a safe space to discuss gender and sexual identity).
Cost: $75 per session. New Anchor Therapy clients require a $255 parent/teen intake. To sign up or for more information, visit AnchorTherapy.org/groups.
Neurology Partners Offers IV Therapy for Migraines
Some 50 million Americans suffer from chronic headaches or migraines. At Neurology Partners of Hudson County, Vinod Kapoor, M.D., and Ashish Kapoor, M.D., offer infusion therapy to provide on-the-spot relief from hard-to-manage headaches.
“Infusion therapy for headaches is an alternative treatment that uses an IV to deliver specific medications that treat headaches to the body,” says Dr. Vinod Kapoor, a Hudson County neurologist since 1996. “While similar treatments can be offered by emergency rooms, seeing a neurologist for headache infusion therapy allows you to obtain effective care right when you need it.”
Infusion treatments are delivered slowly through a needle, typically into a vein with an IV bag. At Neurology Partners, treatments are administered by a registered nurse with more than 20 years of experience in a clinical office setting, and supervised by Dr. Ashish Kapoor, a Hudson County neurologist since 2013. It generally takes an hour or longer for the treatment to start working, he says.
Neurology Partners also administers infusible disease-modifying drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat multiple sclerosis and MS flareups, acute vertigo and acute back pain.
Location: 631 Broadway, Suite 3, Bayonne, NJ. For appointments or more information, call 201-823-2880 or visit NeurologyPartnersNJ.com. The tiny greenhouse is thriving at Tia Planta, where owner Shayla Cabrera and her team offer plant consultations and troubleshooting and even act as a personal shoppers, buying plants for clients and delivering them to their home or office.
At the 150-square-foot kiosk in Jersey City, shoppers can get advice on caring for, rehabbing and styling everything that’s green and growing. Tia Planta has a plant-care video library, and it also hosts workshops in Plant Parenting 101—or, as Cabrera describes it, “small, hands-on, in-person COVID-safe workshops to empower you to be a poppin’ plant parent.”
Cabrera is growing her business too, with plans for an online shop. She’s actively seeking to hire a fifth team member.
“Our ideal candidate is someone who has extensive knowledge and love of houseplants, is high energy and has flexible availability,” she says. “They must be comfortable helping at workshops, with plant installs and holding down the kiosk. We will need someone with tight inventory-management skills as well. Side note: All employees get a sick discount on our inventory.”
Location: 722 Montgomery St., Jersey City, NJ. For more information, call 862-579-0649 or visit TiaPlanta.com. To apply for the job, send a résumé to green@tiaplanta.com.
New Tumbling Studio Opens in Uptown Hoboken
Devon Flores, who’s taught tumbling classes for more than 10 years in Hoboken, with hundreds of students each season, is opening a new tumbling studio Uptown this month. Enrollment is now open for Tumblelab’s recreational tumbling program, which begins September 13.
Flores says she’s passionate about sharing “the love and power of gymnastics” and the satisfaction and joy the sport breeds. “Gymnastics is a lot more than skills,” she says. “It’s a direct line to building work ethic, self-confidence, social skills, strength and coordination.”
In addition to her decade of experience teaching inside a gym, Flores has also taught kindergarten. She uses many of her classroom techniques in her teaching style at the studio, and she says parents are drawn to her program because of her experience with children and innate love for her work.
Tumblelab’s recreational program is designed for children ages 3 through 15. The program teaches the fundamentals of the multidisciplined sport, with the main focus on individualized progression, learning and improving skills, and building confidence, Flores says.
“Our instructors demonstrate best practices to improve coordination, body awareness and flexibility,” she says.
The studio space is designed for work on floor tumbling, stretching and conditioning. It features a gymnastics-carpeted floor, tumbling mats, airtracks, floor beams, climbing rope and similar equipment. Location: 1416 Willow Ave., Hoboken, NJ. For enrollment or more information, email Devon Flores at Tumblelab@gmail.com.
Anew branch is coming to the Jersey City Free Public Library. The Communipaw Branch will be a ground-floor commercial space in the 295 Johnston Avenue condominium building in the Bergen-Lafayette neighborhood. It will focus on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) and be the heart of innovation in the JCFPL system, initiating STEAM programs that can then be shared with the other branches.
The space will contain a community room with multipurpose space seating up to 50, with a full audiovisual system; a studio; a maker space with fab-lab tools; and a recording studio.
People of all ages can go to the Communipaw Branch to check out electronics such as laptops and tablets and create wireless hotspots. Whether they want to try out assistive devices to accommodate a disability, learn to code, brush up on STEAM skills for a career change, or learn computer basics in a nonjudgmental space, this is a branch where they will be welcome.
According to JCFPL, the new Communipaw Branch reflects the system’s commitment to providing resources the community needs to develop digital literacy, media literacy and technological skills. It will be considered a “sister” to the Lafayette Branch, and the two will likely collaborate on various programs.
The Communipaw Branch is expected to open this fall. It will be located a few blocks from the Liberty State Park light rail stop and a Citi Bike station. It will also be served by bus lines 1, 6 and 81.
For more information, visit JCLibrary.org.
Annie & Em’s Serves Up Gluten-Free Goodies
As Krista and Emma Eccleston tell it, Annie & Em’s Bakeshop began with “a serious sweet tooth and a big dream.” Growing up in New Jersey, the sisters loved the idea of running their own small business selling fresh-baked gluten-free snacks, sweet treats and breads that didn’t compromise on taste or quality.
The sisters founded the Bakeshop in 2018. For the past two years, Annie & Em’s sweet treats have been on sale at farmers’ and makers’ markets throughout Monmouth and Mercer Counties and through custom orders. Now they’re making plans for a storefront in Hoboken, where they both live.
“We can’t wait to join the countless amazing local businesses in the community,” Krista says. “The storefront doesn’t have an official opening date as of now, but we’re looking forward to opening our doors and sharing our signature gluten-free treats with the Hoboken community.”
Annie & Em’s items will always be gluten-free, and a selection of vegan and dairy-free items will also be available, she says.
For more info, call Annie & Em’s Bakeshop at 609-462-8684, or follow Annie & Em’s on Facebook @annieandemsbakeshop and on Instagram @annie_emsbakeshop. Mind Your Body Wellness, in Union City, which offers therapeutic, “results-oriented” bodywork, recently launched STRETCH*RZ, a new service designed to provide a deeper stretch than individuals can achieve on their own.
Katherine Mendoza, owner and founder of Mind Your Body Wellness, says a full-body assisted stretch session helps reduce muscle tightness while increasing mobility, recovery and range of motion.
“Stretching is certainly great for the body, but assisted stretching takes the benefits to a whole other level,” she says. “Depending on how frequently you engage in assisted stretching, you can look forward to lower stress levels, improved flexibility and even an edge in athletics.”
Cost: $89 for a 60-minute session. Location: 4713 Bergenline Ave., 2nd Floor rear, Union City, NJ. For appointments or information, call 201-737-4224, email mindurbody.nj@gmail.com or visit Massagebook.com/biz/MindYourBodynj.
Deluxe Edition of Autobiography of a Yogi Coming in October
75th ANNIVERSARY!
This year marks the 75th anniversary of Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, and to celebrate it, SelfRealization Fellowship (SRF), the spiritual organization founded by Yogananda, will issue a deluxe edition of the book in October.
With several million copies in print and having been translated into more than 50 languages, Autobiography made HarperCollins’ list of “100 Most Important Spiritual Books of the 20th Century.”
Yogananda, who is widely recognized as playing a major, if not the primary role in introducing the science of yoga to the West, writes of his search for a guru, his ten years of training with his master Sri Yukteswar, and his 30 years in America where he established SRF on a stretch of Los Angeles beach. He shares stories of many encounters with spiritual masters including Mahatma Gandhi and the Catholic stigmatic Therese Neumann.
Says Lauren Landress, SRF’s director of public affairs: “The book also provides clear, scientific explanation of the subtle but definite laws by which yogis perform miracles and attain self-mastery.”
According to Walter Isaacson’s biography of Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs, Jobs first read Autobiography as a teenager, and at some point forward, then read the book every year. Autobiography was given to everyone who attended Jobs’ memorial service.
Also, famously, the four gurus of kriya yoga, including Yogananda, are featured on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. For more information: www.yogananda.org
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI The book that has changed the lives of millions Paperback, only $8.50 Also available in eBook and audio editions
