Christina M. Rau, The Yoga Poet, leads Meditate, Move, & Create™️ workshops in person and online for arts councils, libraries, and other organizations. Her collections include How We Make Amends, What We Do To Make Us Whole, and the Elgin Award-winning Liberating The Astronauts. She moderates the Women’s Poetry Listserv and has served as Poet in Residence for Oceanside Library (NY) since 2020. Her poetry airs on Destinies radio show (WUSB) and appears in various literary journals like fillingStation and The Disappointed Housewife while her prose has appeared in Punk Monk Magazine and Reader’s Digest. Visit: https://www.christinamrau.com / 

Stefanie Maura, MFA, MLS, E-RYT, is a librarian, poet, and founder of the Writing Yoga® Method. She has led workshops at Hofstra University, Queens College, NYC Open Center, the Omega Institute and other venues since 2007. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Southword, Long Island Quarterly, Big City Lit, and Silver Birch Press. She co-hosts a poetry series at Cedarmere and received a fellowship from the Hemera Foundation to bring mindfulness to schools. Her book, Sit, Write, Move: Feel Calm, Awaken Creativity, and Live a More Luminous Life will be released in 2026. 

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