March Month of Wellness
Curated by Dr. Stephenie Pisacano (Tulsi Vis, Functional & Lifestyle Medicine), Lucy Nystrom (New Moon Health & Wellness), Kara Hoblin, and The Sound View Greenport
Every winter, Sound View Greenport reimagines its spaces to create a welcoming and unique winter wellness program, embracing the season as a time for restoration, creativity, and connection. For the second year in a row, The Halyard’s main dining room transforms into a rotating wellness and art collective, offering breathtaking views of the Sound as the backdrop for yoga classes, sound baths, meditation sessions, educational lectures, panels, and more. Set against the picturesque shores of Long Island Sound, this year Sound View Greenport is proud to host a more in-depth month-long journey into wellness. This special series explores how lifestyle, environment, nutrition, and mental health influence our overall well-being—bridging the gap between natural wisdom and modern medicine. Throughout March, immerse yourself in transformative experiences, insightful lectures, and hands-on workshops led by experts in holistic health and functional medicine. This month allows us to dive deeper into some of our winter wellness programming and offer up some one-of-a-kind lectures & workshops.
Schedule
Morning Yoga with New Moon Health & Wellness
Every Saturday & Sunday | 8:30am (except 3/1 special class with Taylor Diepold, 3/2 class taught by Karuna Hot Yoga, 3/8 no class)
Join Lucy for a beautiful morning practice in The Halyard overlooking the energizing Long Island Sound. All levels welcome for a Hatha/ Vinyassa style yoga practice.
Metabolic Mastery Workshop (class and lecture) with Taylor Diepold, Neurometabolic Health Coach, CN, PT, RYT, LMT
Saturday, March 1st class is from 8:30-9:30 am then lecture to follow
Metabolic Mastery Class: Unlock the brain’s power to rewire habits, boost metabolism, and create lasting change. This interactive session explores Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) and its role in breaking old habits, improving energy, and enhancing cognitive function through movement, mindset, and breathwork.
Harness Your Brain’s Power for Sustainable Wellness Lecture: Learn how to apply BDNF-boosting strategies to optimize energy, manage stress, and break through wellness plateaus for lasting lifestyle transformation.
Morning Yoga With Karuna
Sunday March 2nd | 8:30-9:30 am
Arthur Blenk owner/ founder of Karuna Hot Yoga, a studio based out of Greenport will be subbing for New Moon Health & Wellness, teaching a non heated morning practice in The Halyard. "Yoga is an open ended journey of self discovery and personal growth. I am extraordinarily grateful to have the opportunity to share my love of yoga with others. It is an honor and a privilege to assist my fellow humans on their yogic journey. Namaste." - Arthur Blenk
Kickoff Lecture: Functional Medicine & Natural Therapeutics with Dr. Stephenie Pisacano, ND, IFMCP
Sunday, March 2nd | 5:30-6:30 PM
Dr. Pisacano will discuss how stress, nutrition, and environment impact gene expression (epigenetics) and contribute to aging and chronic disease. Learn how external factors influence health and discover evidence-based wellness practices—including nutrition, yoga, breathwork, and somatic healing—that will be explored in depth throughout the month.
Sunset Sound Journey with Healing on the Sound with Mridu Singhal
Wednesday, March 5th| 6:00-7:00 PM
Arrive at 5:50pm to catch the sunset, sound meditation to follow.
Mridu is from an Indian lineage and her mother and grandmother initiated her into the spiritual practices of mantra and creating sacred altar space, an ancient tradition which she weaves into her sound practice. She infuses her sound healing sessions with Reiki and chakra balancing and facilitates both private and group sound meditations.
Sunset Yin Yoga with New Moon Health & Wellness
Sunday March 9th | 4:30-5:30 pm
Yin Yoga is a slower-paced yoga style where we hold poses for longer periods(3-5+ mins), focusing on 6-10 poses a class. Yin yoga helps clear the energetic meridians, works with connective and deep tissues of the body, and helps release tension, emotions, stored energy, and is very healing. Classes can be themed around chakras, body parts like hips and shoulders, meridians, sutras, and specific emotions or times of the year.
Partner Yoga Workshop
Wednesday, March 12th | 5:30-6:30 PM
Practice yoga with a friend or loved one (or be partnered up!) to deepen poses, build trust, and have fun. Facilitated by Lucy of New Moon Health & Wellness and Deborah of Holistico Wellness. Build strength, stamina, and self-awareness while practicing with a partner. It offers deeper expressions of poses, encourages exploring new variations, and creates a playful, fun atmosphere. This class led by Lucy Nystrom and Deborah Stotzky offers a supportive space to explore these benefits.
Healing Through Yin Yoga, Sound & Reiki
Sunday, March 16th | 4:00-5:00 PM
This workshop offers a powerful healing experience of Yin & Reiki together. We will bring you to a deep level of consciousness beginning with guided meditation. Lucy will guide you through Yin postures to clear the energetic meridians, & work with connective & deep tissues of the body through longer held Yin poses. While holding each posture, Lorraine Hayden will offer individual Reiki energy balancing across the chakras. We will end the practice with a sound bath. When practiced separately, each of these modalities bring healing through the release of toxins, cleansing of the energetic systems, and strengthening of connective tissue. When combined in this way, the healing powers of Reiki & Yin Yoga are increased exponentially. The experience is transformational. Time to begin your healing journey!
Lecture on Optimizing Fertility: A Functional Medicine Approach to Assessing and Enhancing Egg Quality
Sunday March 16th | Time TBD
Functional Medicine lecture with Shannon Iselin, ND, Naturopathic Doctor, at Flora Naturopathics. Learn more about Lifestyle & Natural Therapeutics for Wellness: A Traditional & Evidence-Based Approach to Wellness. Key lecture topics Dr.Iselin will be discussing will include functional testing for fertility, nutritional support for egg health, lifestyle factors in fertility, and environmental influences on reproductive health.
Link to sign up coming soon
Month of Wellness Practitioner Social
Friday 21st | time TBD
Join us for an evening of connection and collaboration at our Month of Wellness Practitioner Social! This event is open to all doctors, yoga and fitness instructors, meditation and breathwork guides, bodyworkers, physical therapists, acupuncturists, psychologists, therapists, health coaches, practicing wellness on the North Fork and surrounding areas.
Come engage with like-minded professionals, share ideas, and brainstorm creative ways to enhance the health and well-being of our community.
Enjoy delicious mocktails or cocktails in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere at The Halyard’s Piano Boar. Feel free to bring business cards or any materials you’d like to share on a communal table. Let’s work together to build a supportive network and continue to foster wellness on the North Fork!
North Fork Meditation: Breaking the Cycle: A guided meditation and Dharma talk led by Carl Timpone & Megan Frey
Saturday, March 22nd | 10:00-11:00 AM
We all have habits that seem hard to break. Unfortunately, many of these habits convince us we can’t change, make us unhappy or even harm our health. Through understanding Buddha’s teachings, we can then replace even our most stubborn habits with profoundly beneficial ways of thinking that lead to peace and happiness.
Negative states of mind are just bad mental habits, and like all habits they can be broken.
Join us for a guided meditation and Dharma talk where we will cultivate tools that assist in creating a more peaceful and harmonious world for ourselves and others.
No special clothing is required. Cushions and chairs are provided. All are welcome!”
Breathwork Healing Session with Mary Cognat
Monday, March 25th | 7:00 PM
Transformational Breathwork with Mary will create an alternate state of consciousness that allows the practitioner to dive deep into the self, intuition, and beyond. Mary will guide you through moving stuck energies out of the body while you are connecting more deeply with what lies beneath your surface. You'll leave feeling lighter and deeply connected with your higher, more authentic self.
Special Event: Spring Equinox Wellness Panel
Saturday, March 29th | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Celebrate renewal and balance with an expert panel featuring specialists in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nutrition, Biodynamic Farming, Energy Healing, Health Coaching, Naturopathic and Functional Medicine, Yoga, and additional alternative therapies. Explore seasonal wellness practices, environmental influences on health, and strategies for personal transformation. Gain practical tools for resetting your body and mind in alignment with spring’s energy.
Stay tune for our incredible list of panelist!
Sign up link coming soon
Functional Medicine Lecture: Nutrition & Epigenetics with Tapp Francke Ingolia, MS, CNS of STANDwellness
Sunday March 23rd | Afternoon Time TBD
Epigenetic Interpretation is like having an instruction manual for your unique body. Every body metabolizes nutrients differently.
Optimal nutrition is necessary for good health, longevity and disease risk mitigation. Diet is a key factor in determining genomic stability as it impacts on all relevant pathways: exposure to dietary carcinogens, biotransformation, DNA repair and synthesis, and apoptosis. Current recommended dietary allowances for vitamins and minerals are based largely on the prevention of diseases of deficiency. However, because diseases of lifestyle are partly caused by damage to DNA it stands to reason that focusing our attention on defining optimal requirements of key minerals and vitamins will promote genomic stability.
Learn about personalizing nutrition to fit your specific biological needs.
Sign up link coming soon
Learn More About The Hosts and Facilitator
Hosts
Kara Hoblin and The Sound View Greenport (host)
Local Artist & Owner of North Fork Art Collective, Director of Guest Culture at Sound View Greenport, (+Harbor Front Inn, The Halyard Restaurant, The Anvil Hotel, The Alpine House, Cache House, Glorietta Trattoria)
Dr. Stephenie Pisacano, ND, IFMCP
Licensed Naturopathic Doctor (AANMC), Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (IFMCP)
Dr. Stephenie Pisacano is a board-certified Naturopathic Doctor (AANMC) and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (IFMCP). She specializes in women’s and adolescent health, focusing on hormonal health, fertility, preconception care, PCOS, endometriosis, acne, and digestive health. Dr. Pisacano is passionate about addressing root causes and empowering women to achieve lasting wellness. She holds a B.S. in Biology from Nova Southeastern University and a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from Sonoran University of Health Sciences, where she focused on pediatric care, autism spectrum disorder, hormone replacement therapy, and clinical herbalism. She further trained at Remede Naturopathics in New York City and became certified in Functional Medicine (IFMCP), completing all modules (Hormones, Bioenergetics, Immune, Cardiometabolic, Gastrointestinal, and Environmental Health). Additionally, Dr. Pisacano is a DONA-certified doula and a Certified Lactation Consultant. Along with Dr. Emily McDonald, MD, she co-owns Tulsi Vis, a Naturopathic & Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in Greenport and Mattituck, NY.
www.tulsivis.com @drstepheniepisacano @tulsivismedicinary @tulsivisstudio
Lucy Nystrom
Local Resource, Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, and Yoga Teacher
Lucy launched New Moon Health & Wellness in 2022; your one-stop shop for all your health and wellness needs on the North Fork and Shelter Island. The mission is to create a resource for the community, by supporting the practitioners and businesses in the community.
In addition to being a local resource, Lucy is also a certified IIN Health Coach and Yoga Teacher. She teaches Yoga and Yoga Sculpt classes at venues and studios all over The North Fork and Shelter Island, along with offering private yoga sessions.
In her Health Coaching practice, Lucy specializes in helping clients understand that they are bio-individual and discovering the best food and movement options to optimize their health. She helps clients overcome health barriers and issues, identifying and achieving attainable goals, and eliminating and managing stress by adding more joy to their lives.
Facilitators
Mary J Cognat
Certified Holistic Health Coach & Healing Breathwork Facilitator
Mary is a multidisciplinary health and wellness advocate. She officially entered the wellness arena in 2006 as a certified holistic health coach, passionately focused on understanding how food affects the body. Since then, she has journeyed through a myriad of training sessions that have supported her own holistic wellness journey including yoga, reiki, healing breathwork, priestess-hood, sacred dance, shadow work, energy work, and the shamanic arts. Mary uses her “tonic” to help guide others on their own healing and wellness journeys.
Carl Timpone
Meditation Teacher of Mindfulness & Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy
Carl discovered meditation over a decade ago, and since then, he has immersed himself in the Buddhist community, attending classes, retreats, and dharma talks. Throughout his journey, he has had the privilege of learning from some of the most respected and well-studied practitioners in the world. For the past five years, Carl has shared these teachings with a diverse range of individuals—from those incarcerated, to beginners seeking to establish a routine meditation practice, to those who wish to explore the depths of Buddhist philosophy.
These transformative teachings have deeply impacted Carl’s life, shaping his understanding of how a peaceful mind and virtuous intention are key to both personal transformation and collective healing. His goal is to continue spreading the invaluable wisdom passed down through generations of realized teachers, offering these teachings to both Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.
Megan Frey
Meditation Teacher of Mindfulness and Buddhist Philosophy
Megan was introduced to Buddhist meditation at the age of twelve, sparking a lifelong fascination with the inner and outer worlds and how they intersect. This curiosity led her to explore various philosophical approaches to understanding life. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from LIU and a certification in Data Science and Machine Learning from MIT while delving into the profound philosophical concepts of Tibetan Buddhism.
Her unique background enables her to ground complex philosophical ideas in practical, accessible ways. Inspired by the transformative power of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and its integration into daily life, she has dedicated herself to this practice, combining study, contemplation, and guidance from some of the most respected teachers in the field.
Megan’s scientific training informs her pragmatic and methodical approach to these teachings. She teaches a wide range of students, from beginners seeking an introduction to meditation to incarcerated individuals exploring these practices as a path to transformation. After years of studying, attending classes, and participating in retreats, she now shares the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, helping others discover its relevance and value in their own lives.
Lorraine Hayden
Lorraine Hayden, 200hr-RYT, has been an avid student of yoga & meditation for more than 15 years and became certified in Vinyasa Yoga by the Always At Aum Yoga school in 2016. Prior to becoming a Yoga teacher, Lorraine was an educator for many years. In working towards her 500-hr. yoga teacher training, Lorraine went on to study Ashtanga-Primary Series, Hot Yoga, Restorative Yoga, advanced pranayama, Kids Yoga and Special Needs Yoga. Lorraine is also a Reiki Master practitioner, bringing the healing elements of reiki energy balancing into all of her offerings. Lorraine's yoga instruction supports the unlimited potential of all. She encourages her students to become body aware, to establish relationship with their breathe, and to develop a compassionate and joyful attitude towards themselves, and the world around them, supporting social emotional growth for all.
Taylor Diepold
CN PT RYT LMT
Taylor Diepold is a renowned Neurometabolic health coach, retreat leader and speaker who blends Western science with Eastern practices to create transformative mind-body breakthroughs. After overcoming teenage substance abuse and eating disorders, she rebuilt her body, mind, and spirit—eventually graduating summa cum laude with a pre-med degree, minoring in psychology, anthropology, and religious studies. Her mission is to help others do the same: not just “get fit” but to cultivate unshakable confidence in their bodies, minds, and capacity for greatness. She created a system that enhances resilience and cognitive performance through breath mastery, nervous system reconditioning, and metabolic optimization. Taylor’s methods are rooted in real-world experience, from summiting mountains to exploring the depths of the ocean. She successfully helps women transform their metabolism and regulate hormones using her proven system GetFitSmarter coaching program online. Taylor leads wellness and culture retreats, with the next international to occur in Thailand November 2025. She resides in Shelter Island NY for most of the year and works with individuals year round virtually.
Deborah Stotzky M.S., L.AC
Licensed Acupuncturist and Yoga Teacher
One thing is certain, everything is changing, always. Physically, emotionally, and spiritually we are different daily. For me, one place I can explore my "varied states" is in my daily yoga practice. I have been joyfully teaching Yoga for 20 years and practicing Acupuncture for 24 years. In Chinese Medicine, it is said: "Where there is no flow there is pain. Where there is flow there is no pain.”The focus of all my work is to create movement in both the physical and energy systems of the body by moving blocked energy and creating "freedom of flow".
I am endlessly fascinated by the many, vastly different healing paths that can lead to the same place. In my Acupuncture practice I am very interested in tendino-muscular releases to release the energy body. In my yoga teaching, I am interested in a sweaty, vigorous vinyasa flow that links breathe to movement, to unwind the body and open the channels from the outside-in and the inside-out. Chi, prana, vital energy - move it and free imbalances on every level. When I teach, I aim to create a class that is informative, transformative, challenging, supportive, fun and feels good to the body! My hope is that each individual will take away some new insight about their own body, breath, mind and spirit. In the yoga room, as a group we are the ocean, as an individual we are a wave.
Mridu
Mridu is from an Indian lineage and her mother and grandmother initiated her into the spiritual practices of mantra and creating sacred altar space, an ancient tradition which she weaves into her sound practice. She infuses her sound healing sessions with Reiki and chakra balancing and facilitates both private and group sound meditations.
Dr. Shannon Iselin, ND
Licensed Naturopathic Doctor, Flora Naturopathics
Dr. Shannon Iselin is a licensed naturopathic physician specializing in fertility and women’s reproductive health. She combines naturopathic and functional medicine to support women facing unexplained infertility, preconception preparation, and hormonal imbalances. Passionate about personalized care, Dr. Iselin focuses on addressing root causes to support long-term wellness and health optimization. She holds a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from Sonoran University and is board-certified by the North American Board of Naturopathic Examiners.
Tapp Francke Ingolia, MS, CNS
Certified Nutrition Specialist
With a passion for education, Certified Nutritionist Tapp Francke Ingolia, opened her holistic wellness center, STANDwellness in 2012. Driven by the desire to educate her clients on how to eat properly for their respective bodies and conditions, Tapp has been guiding clients for 10 years on how to make informed health choices. With a focus on deep nutrition, Tapp aims to have her clients nourished on a cellular level in order to support their bodies at every stage of life.
Published in multiple Wellness magazines, including The Purist magazine where she is a Wellness Editor and frequent contributor. Tapp uses her extensive knowledge about the healing power of food to teach and to inspire people.
Tapp is both a cook, and a recipe developer, who advocates for deeply nourishing our bodies both in her community and in the social media landscape through her IG platform @standwellness. Tapp works tirelessly to educate people on the power of their food choices and emphasizes that food is medicine.
Tapp sees individual clients in her office in Water Mill and via Tele-Health.