Upcoming Events
Focused Flow Yoga with Caitlin Marcoux @ Greater Light
This derivative of traditional Hatha yoga focuses on creating the physical scaffolding necessary for optimal energetic circulation and fluid movement atop that foundation. Incorporating a variety of techniques students will strengthen and refine their tensile strength and awareness of alignment. Thoughtfully sequenced traditional movement patterns will be presented in a creative context which will highlight both the poses and the space in between them. This practice is aimed at a wide range of practitioners, with a moderate level of intensity. Modifications are offered to make the practice more accessible or more challenging.
Focused Flow Yoga with Caitlin Marcoux @ Greater Light
This derivative of traditional Hatha yoga focuses on creating the physical scaffolding necessary for optimal energetic circulation and fluid movement atop that foundation. Incorporating a variety of techniques students will strengthen and refine their tensile strength and awareness of alignment. Thoughtfully sequenced traditional movement patterns will be presented in a creative context which will highlight both the poses and the space in between them. This practice is aimed at a wide range of practitioners, with a moderate level of intensity. Modifications are offered to make the practice more accessible or more challenging.
Focused Flow Yoga with Caitlin Marcoux @ Greater Light
This derivative of traditional Hatha yoga focuses on creating the physical scaffolding necessary for optimal energetic circulation and fluid movement atop that foundation. Incorporating a variety of techniques students will strengthen and refine their tensile strength and awareness of alignment. Thoughtfully sequenced traditional movement patterns will be presented in a creative context which will highlight both the poses and the space in between them. This practice is aimed at a wide range of practitioners, with a moderate level of intensity. Modifications are offered to make the practice more accessible or more challenging.
Gorey Hollows Ride and Race
Wanna race your MTB in VT? Wanna RAMBLE with me for a bit while other crazies do the racing? Join us for the Gorey Hollows ATB Ride and Race this October.
Freetown 50 MTB Race
Joing the Nantucket Women On Wheels at Rock Hard Racing’s Freetown 50 MTB race this September!
The Pan-Mass Challenge
"The top of the mountain is nothing without the climb."
The first time I was brave enough to jump on a road bike, I was in the middle of cancer treatment.
I had been diagnosed with aggressive ductal carcinoma on March 15th, 2013 and surgeons and oncologists were saying things to me like "We'll do everything we can". I had a 3-year old son, whom I was desperate to potty train and then overnight, I was facing a battle for my life.
After 4 months of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, I underwent a bi-lateral mastectomy and reconstructive surgery and then launched into months more of adjuvant chemotherapy and targeted therapy infusions. Significantly weakened from treatment, I knew I had to do something to reclaim my physical power and self-confidence, so as terrified as I was of skinny tires, I started riding a road bike.
I clipped into pedals for the first time one day in May of 2014. Though my body was wrecked from months of chemo and surgery, the bike gave me freedom and hope. Riding, even though there was no wind in my hair, was the most pleasure I had experienced in years. I had no idea at the time, that cycling would grow into a passion and that passion would morph into a lifestyle.
To this day, I credit that steel 10-speed LeMond with saving my life and I have wanted to ride the Pan Mass Challenge ever since.
So in 2016 and finally done with treatment, I felt strong enough to look a century ride in the face and signed up for the PMC. I was excited to ride with my fellow survivors.
But here's the kicker: soon after I registered to ride my bike across Massachusetts, I was sidelined with a new diagnosis of cervical cancer. I had to quit even before I started.
That year I spent little time on the bike and lots of time healing from a full hysterectomy. I felt embarrassed by the second cancer diagnosis, as if I had failed to be the warrior I had identified as. I told only a select few people I even HAD a second cancer. It was "over" quickly, with just the operation, but it left me infertile and consequently bereft. I felt incredibly sad and frustrated by the overnight menopause. I was 36 and I was shaken. It was obviously then I had another mountain to summit: I needed to figure out who I was in this very different body. I focused on helping other cancer patientsthrough free yoga classes and coaching. The PMC would have to wait.
So, even though I have been a part of the cancer fundraising community for the last 9 years, and have ridden in 3 Tour de Pinks for the Young Survivors Coalition, this year will be my first time riding in the PMC and I am thrilled to be on the Boston Bruins Foundation team! My adventure with cancer was a one of the biggest challenges of my life and I wouldn't have made it without my supporters. This small thing; fundraising and these two hundred miles on my bike are the very least I can do to pass on the love.
For whom do I ride?
There are many cancer warriors I hold close to my heart every time I ride or swim in support of cancer fundraising. But for this PMC, I ride in memory of my fellow Nantucketer Karli Stahl.
Help me reach my $20,000 goal by donating here.
With all my gratitude & thanks,
Caitlin
In honor of all the cancer warriors fighting out there right now, including my cycling coach Jen Murphy and in memory of my late husband Aaron Watkins and friends Patty Dargie, Natasha Grosshans, and Erin Coonan
OPENING DAY
Please join Mind Body Sea, formerly Paddle Nantucket for our 6th season on the water. We will be available for private SUP Yoga classes, one-on-one paddle lessons, group lessons and paddle tours by appointment. Check back with us later in the season for special SUP Yoga workshops and group paddle events.
ACK Dirty Adventure Ride for Swim Across America
Join us for a 25, 50 or 60-mile mix of dirty, sandy roads, some tarmac, a few grassy passes, some beautiful forested and shady trials (minimal single track). This is a GROUP RIDE. It is free and open to all bike enthusiasts. Newer riders will have more easy through the soft sandy patches on mountain bikes, but most will enjoy riding your gravel or cyclocross bikes. This course is NOT for road bikes.
The Places In Between
Come explore the in-between places; the moments that happen in transition between asanas, and the beauty of nuanced self-expression, in this down-tempo Slow Flow master class. This Prana Vinyasa inspired workshop is open to any student with a desire to deepen their somatic experience of lunar yogasana.
Nantucket Women On wheels Movie Night: Blood Road
Join the Nantucket Women On Wheels on Thursday May 20th, for a screening of the Emmy award winning documentary Blood Road. Your charitable contribution will be donated to World Ride. Screening starts around 5/5:30pm and movie run time is 1:33. World Ride, a 501(c)3 non profit that works to empower women globally through mountain biking.
The Great North
Join the Nantucket Women On Wheels at our first off-island semi-competitive event of the year: The Great North Gran Fondo. Online Registration Deadline: Friday, May 14 at BikeReg.com