Samantha Story L.Ac.

11/20/2025

Learn Facial Cupping! 🌀

Our faces are how we connect, express and take in the world, facial cupping offers a unique practice to release the tension of expression and held emotion while also benefiting the health of the skin. Facial Cupping is an easy and effective way practice and a great technique for easing jaw tension, sinus pressure, seasonal allergies and supporting your nervous system.

Rooted in the Chinese Medical belief that movement is key to health, cupping releases tension, increases circulation and drains lymph. This practice works beautifully as a stand alone practice or in conjunction with other practices like gua sha. You will leave this class with the confidence to continue to support your skin at home with your cupping practice.

Topics covered:

Origins of cupping
Contraindications
Skin prep
Technique
Facial Cupping protocol
Q+A

** Facial cups not included
Link in bio to sign up
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11/12/2025

FACIAL CUPPING CLASS - Learn an at home facial cupping ritual at Maha Rose December 9th.
Our faces are how we connect, express and take in the world, facial cupping offers a unique practice to release the tension of expression and held emotion while also benefiting the health of the skin. Facial Cupping is an easy and effective way practice and a great technique for easing jaw tension, sinus pressure, seasonal allergies and supporting your nervous system.

Rooted in the Chinese Medical belief that movement is key to health, cupping releases tension, increases circulation and drains lymph. This practice works beautifully as a stand alone practice or in conjunction with other practices like gua sha. You will leave this class with the confidence to continue to support your skin at home with your cupping practice.

11/11/2025

BREATHWORK & YOGA NIDRA
8pm est 11/18 online group

Join for a yin yang pairing of Breathwork and Yoga Nidra. We’ll use the active breath practice to move energy, release what the body is holding and access the depths of ourselves. After the active practice yoga nidra allows us to integrate and restore the nervous system while also holding onto a body memory of intention. There will be an invitation to work with the idea of Sankulpa, a personal positive and transformational suggestion that will be integrated into both practices in a somatic way.

Breathwork is an active meditation that by occupying the mind creates space for the body to release somatic holding, to experience emotion that might not be available at the surface and to access intuition and insight. This is your practice and I encourage everyone to breathe at a pace that feels right for you and to use this practice as a container of self holding, self listening and self care. Breathwork is a powerful and practical tool to work with your own energy, a bridge out of the critical mind and into deeper resources available to all of us. After Breathwork sessions people usually leave saying they feel energized and lighter, however this is an active practice that brings up emotions and can bring up memories, if you are unsure if this practice is appropriate for you may want to check in with your doctor or therapist first and you are always welcome to reach out to me with further questions.

Yoga Nidra is sometimes called the yoga of rest. or yogic sleep. Through a guided body scan a liminal state of consciousness is attained, the state between consciousness and sleep. In this state the body is able to truly rest and restore and with the use of tools such as sankulpa and sensing opposites a rewiring of neural pathways and somatic holding can also unfold. Yoga nidra is a great tool for anyone experiencing periods of stress, inflammatory conditions, hormonal shifts such as menopause or insomnia. If you have any questions about yoga nidra please reach out.

11/05/2025

11/11 Breathwork For Self Trust 7pm at

Rediscover or discover for the first time, your body as safe haven, as home, as healer and healed.

This class is for anyone curious to know themselves at an energetic level and to deepen the connection of self-knowledge and self-trust.

Throughout this Breathwork class you will be guided to make the journey from the survival brain to the wisdom of the body brain via the active breath pattern.

You may find yourself moving through heartbreak, letting go of detrimental narratives and ultimately building a stronger more loving relationship with yourself.

Breathwork is an active meditation that by occupying the mind creates space for the body to release somatic holding, to experience emotion that might not be available at the surface and to access intuition and insight.

This is your practice and I encourage everyone to breathe at a pace that feels right for you and to use this practice as a container of self holding, self listening and self care.

Expect:

An opening drop in with intention
Opportunity for sharing and questions
Active breathwork set to music
Time for integration
Bring an eye pillow or eye covering if that feels supportive to your practice.

Link in bio

11/02/2025

Some Autumn announcements to support the move inward and yin ward.

🍂 Books are open through the end of the year
🍂 7pm 11/11 at I have an in person Breathwork group
🍂 8pm 11/18 online sliding scale Breathwork & Yoga Nidra
🍂 6:30pm 12/9 learn facial cupping at

All links in bio

10/19/2025

Reflecting on the month so far as I sit in the ER with my mother. In the past two years I’ve become very familiar with this hospital, I can see the rooms from here where I sat for hours with my father. October is so beautiful and so melancholy. The lungs and heart breathing and beating their own intimate conversation of living and letting go. Here are some moments of living and inspiration as who knows if I’ll get to finishing October’s newsletter.

- I could’ve spent all day Rashid Johnson’s show at The Guggenheim, A Poem For Deep Thinkers. Go if you can!
- Justin Vivian Bond was just incredible singing Marianne Faithful songs at St. Ann’s Church (where Allen Ginsberg read poetry to my high school class and we had our graduation ceremony)
- oh the leaves 🍃 🍂 🍁 of autumn
- treated to what was basically a dance party with David Byrne at Radio City, always love this deco carpet, we’re both aging.
- the revolution will include 🐸’s

10/16/2025

Come breathe in community Tuesday October 28th 7pm at

BREATHWORK FOR SELF TRUST
Rediscover or discover for the first time, your body as safe haven, as home, as healer and healed. This class is for anyone curious to know themselves at an energetic level and to deepen the connection of self-knowledge and self-trust. Throughout this Breathwork class you will be guided to make the journey from the survival brain to the wisdom of the body brain via the active breath pattern. You may find yourself moving through heartbreak, letting go of detrimental narratives and ultimately building a stronger more loving relationship with yourself.

Breathwork is an active meditation that by occupying the mind creates space for the body to release somatic holding, to experience emotion that might not be available at the surface and to access intuition and insight. This is your practice and I encourage everyone to breathe at a pace that feels right for you and to use this practice as a container of self holding, self listening and self care.

Expect:

An opening drop in with intention

Opportunity for sharing and questions

Active breathwork set to music

Time for integration

Bring an eye pillow or eye covering if that feels supportive to your practice.
Payments through and located at:
Maha Rose Brooklyn
200 Columbia Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231

10/14/2025

Is there a better season to practice Breathwork than Autumn? A season governed by the lungs. A season that holds the intention of refinement, of letting go and getting down to what is essential, what is precious. In this group we’ll use the active breath pattern as a physical embodiment of letting go what no longer serves and internally polishing what is precious within us and in our lives. Tuesday October 21st 8-9:15pm est, on Zoom. Sliding Scale.

Is there a better season to practice Breathwork than Autumn? A season governed by the lungs. A season that holds the intention of refinement, of letting go and getting down to what is essential, what is precious. In this group we’ll use the active breath pattern as a physical embodiment of letting...

07/20/2025

Feeling extra grateful to be on this beautiful messed up ever evolving planet today with all of you. Thank you for starting us out with breathwork and swims in the pond this morning. My Woodstock ladies and are the loveliest and I even got to run into my birthday twin .

☀️ 💫