Category Archives: Notes from Meryl

Have you ever wondered about what it’s like to live in the heart of New York City? I can only speak from my perspective about my favorite things, but I’ll be adding in the discoveries shared by my out of town students. I invite other New Yorkers from our community to add their favorites so that our guests from out of town who come here either for seminars, for Group or for Practitioner Skills development, can get some ideas about what they can do after class is over each day.

Introducing the Boyds For Praise Company- The Boyd Family Singers

Posted on April 15, 2011 by merylchodoshweiss | 34 comments

Last August as I was walking in Central Park on a lovely Friday.

I unexpectedly had my first contact with the Boyd Family Singers.

I had never been in the gorgeous arcade that is adjacent to Bethesda Fountain at 72^nd Street where the family was singing. I honestly couldn’t believe what I was hearing and how I was reacting to the angelic harmonies and resonance of their sophisticated Gospel music.

Six of the eight of the Boyd children, Abraham, Victory, Angel, Israel, Thalia, and Mosaia were singing with their father. The children’s ages ranged from elementary school age to teenagers . Their voices were outstanding with a uniformity and complementary quality engendered by their father’s careful cultivation of their talents as well as the fact of their being related to each other.

My heart was bursting open with joy and my whole energetic system felt wide open. I felt that God was singing through them.

I didn’t have time to stay and listen so I bought a CD. I played it over and over again. Conveying my experience in words even now is awkward for me because of the deeply personal reaction I continue to have to their music whether in person or by CD.

For awhile I stopped listening to my CD that is mostly comprised of their original compositions. It touched me so deeply that several times when I woke up in the middle of the night my first conscious awareness was of their music and voices running in my heart and head.

I stopped listening because I was a little frightened about responding so strongly to what I felt was an experience of my direct connection to God.

I believe that the Boyds for Praise Company has a sacred mission to help people feel their connectedness to God. This is why I am writing about my experience with them.

Although the family had been here in the past (there is a U-Tube video of them in 2009 singing in the subway that I’ll post here) they have only recently moved from Michigan where Mr. Boyd had been a choir master.

I am hoping that this little entry will inspire you and that you will want to hear more of their work. If you are interested in having one of the CD’s that they sell please let me know.

Here is one of their compositions called “Sing to the Lord”.

04 – Sing to the Lord

A beautiful testimonial about the Boyd’s from Rabbi Simcha L. Weinberg can be accessed by clicking here

http://blog.thefoundationstone.org/2010/09/22/a-special-kind-of-beauty/

Finally, here are two U-Tube videos amongst several that are available. I hope that you enjoy them and can share a little of the joy their mission gives me. Please let me know if you want more of the Boyds for Praise Company for yourself if you can’t get to see them weekends from 11 am-2pm underneath the arches leading to Bethesda Fountain.

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NY City Night Attractions- More Jazz

Posted on March 25, 2011 by merylchodoshweiss | 1 comment

It’s been quite awhile since I shared with you about things to do after class in New York City.

As you some of you know I am a live jazz fan. In addition to my favorite Jazz at Dizzie’s Club, jalc.org/dccc, I also enjoy going to Jazz Standard jazzstandard.com. It’s located on the East Side of Manhattan in the Murray Hill neighborhood.

Jazz Standard is housed in the basement of the great restaurateur, Danny Meyer’s BBQ restaurant Blue Smoke www.bluesmoke.com . Not only is the food quite wonderful at Blue smoke and Jazz Standard, but for those who are gluten restricted, it has a delicious gluten free barbecue menu.

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Last week I saw Mose Alison and the Mose Alison Trio perform here. http://mosealison.com I’ve been listening to Mose Alison since the 1960’s. He’s now 84 and still going strong.

Here’s a clip showing him singing and playing the piano- not at Jazz Standard. I hope you enjoy the minute show!

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How I Nurture Myself in Transition from the Old into the New Year

Posted on January 7, 2011 by merylchodoshweiss | Leave a comment

On my first senior December 30^th birthday my aunt’s email to me said “You are one of the first BB’s [Baby Boomers] to reach this milestone–but, then again, you always were a trailblazer.”

Being the person I am and having a New Year’s Eve Eve birthday has caused me to approach the end of the year and the beginning of the new one in a way that I consistently find most satisfying to me.

I save my very favorite holiday attraction, viewing The Stars at the Time Warner Center, for last. What I love about this color, sound and light show is the fine quality of the holiday music played, the healing intensity of the clear colors and how the play of color, light and sound are intrinsically uplifting, exciting and peaceful.

That’s where I often go on the next to the last day of the year. I also choose, if I’m lucky, a great movie and have a satisfying meal out with loved ones. (This year we saw The King’s Speech, www.kingsspeech.com which I found to be an extremely fine movie- a real treat from beginning to end.)

On the last day of the year I continue to celebrate- often by having lunch with friends. Petaluma, www.petalumarestaurant.com , has good food, reasonable prices, good service and it is very close to my home.

This would be a great place for my students to go to relax after a day in class. This is how the restaurant looked as they prepared it for their New Year’s Eve celebration.

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On the first day or two of the New Year I take care of myself and my practice in the following ways: I do a Repatterning for myself to make sure that I am resonating with my new resolutions; In a Repatterning I clear any remnants of lingering issues or discomforts from the previous year; I organize my business and personal record keeping; I maximize the positive potential of my resolutions by including them in the Group Repatterning that we usually do for the January Group.

Having done most of that, this year I have added something new that I hope you might want to do as well. I added a new Intention for other people to help me manifest by their looking at the Love From NYC page of this blog.

To add your own Intentions, just go to the top of the blog where the tab says Love From NYC and instead of commenting on my Intentions, or the Intentions of other persons, just add your Intention as a comment for all of us to help energize.

As more people use the page, I hope that we all will report on our successes in manifesting those intentions.

Finally, here is one of the songs played Under The Stars at the Time Warner Center.(On December 17^th, 2010 I posted pictures of Dizzie’s Club- which is part of Jazz at Lincoln Center housed on the fifth floor of The Time Warner Center.)

I hope that you enjoy this show, which I found on U-Tube. In person I find it to be a very powerful healing modality. Maybe next year you’ll come to see it for yourself!