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Welcome to Peaked Hill Studio by Valerie Sonnenthal
Updated for April 2025
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
— Bob Marley
As I continue the third month of the three-month Deep Listening Intensive through the Center for Deep Listening we are diving into Deeply Listening to Dreams.
Deepening and enriching these practices continues to be essential in my life.
Deepening and enriching these practices continues to be essential in my life. Deep Listening (DL) allows for infinite joy in listening experiences from our daily environments. DL instills a necessary slowing down. I enjoy the preparatory movement and exercises to heighten the entire body’s ability to receive, to vibrate with and feel nurtured by listening, moving from being a passive listener to becoming an active listener wanting to feel the furthest sounds, calibrate my body in space in relation to listening.
Studio News
If you have not yet read my blog I encourage you to do so. Today is Monday, March 31st and I begin a 5-day course of chemo infusions as well as a 14-day course of oral chemo. This will repeat in 28 days in preparation for a June bone marrow transplant to address MDS, Myleodysplastic Syndrome.
This is new territory for me and I have no idea how I will be feeling. Kaiut Yoga classes will continue online thanks to the support of KY teacher Billie Burke who will fill in as necessary depending on how I feel. She will take over teaching in June and offer summer classes in person and continue online classes.
I will not be offering any other events or classes until I return.
Thank you all for your support and understanding as I continue on this healing journey. Please know I have experienced no symptoms as yet, but I know that will change with treatment.
This gorgeous porcelain figure is in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Asian collection. I apologize for the not providing full caption info.
Miriam Jacobs monthly Tarot Card Pull continues on her website. This month she "pulled three cards in a past-present-future spread to explore how we can maintain momentum in our lives."
Rev6 News
I have been teaching Dr. Edythe Heus's Rev6 Vitality classes
to Meridien Assisted Living Facilities across the country
for the last two years. I felt challenged the first time I tried a seated class which employs a wobble cushion to sit on, hand weights, a wobble board, a slant board and pipes. The entire body is addressed from head to toe in every 30-minute class, challenging balance, improving overall function, and is just plain fun.
Learn more about Rev6 Vitality here.
Brown University School of Public Health just released their Issue Brief on the "exploration of the physical and emotional benefits of Rev6 Vitality for older adults." Have a look.
I invite you to follow my medical/healing journey which began in the fall of 2024 as I now am in a pre-conditioning protocol in advance of a June bone marrow transplant.
I will add to the blog monthly, feel free to to reach out, but please refer to the internet or other sources if you have medical questions.
I greatly appreciate all the support of my friends, family and extended community as I face the challenges ahead.
Studio Hours
KAIUT YOGA Classes
Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8:30 a.m.
Saturdays at 9 a.m.
Peaked Hill Yoga is all about biomechanical health (or said another
way, your freedom of movement). It has been designed to work
through chronic pain & injuries, general aches & stiffness, and
work for the inflexible, hyper flexible and the aging body.
All levels of experience
or no prior experience, all are welcome.
Sound Healing
*Restorative Sound Journey*
There are no scheduled events
at this time, check back in the fall.
create an account and reserve your mat
or get a listening link
to enjoy when you need it
(*good for a week of therapeutic calm)
Forgive and forge on with love.
--Valerie
