North Node is a multi-disciplinary space inside the shirt factory building in Kingston, NY. It started as Say Boo Dance Studio, in 2021 and was adopted and re-named by Luke Simon in 2023. In 2024, Luke passed the torch onto North Node teachers Catherine Meringolo and May Lin Le Goff, who are the current stewards of North Node Space.
The studio is named after the North Node, a point in astrology that shows the direction your soul is evolving. What if there was a physical space to explore and develop your North Node?
The events and classes offered are varied, but they are contained by the concept of learning, embodiment and authenticity.
The name is also an intention for where we are heading collectively. What future are we co-creating? How can we cultivate connection despite the complexities of the digital world? The studio hopes to be a safe sanctuary and gathering place. It is not about ignoring the world around and spiritually bypassing, but regeneration on every level, self, collective and ecosystem.
Together we can support each other as we navigate the issues facing us, without being in either extreme of fatalism or idealism.
OBJECTIVES
Get into the body.
Connect to community.
Find your growing edge that helps others.
Be in right relationship with the land.
Tenets of North Node Space
1. Practice.
Do, begin whereever you are, don’t research it more first or procrastinate. Be process oriented, appreciating the practice itself, the experience rather then the goal.
2. Welcoming it all
We welcome you however you are. We look for new ways to not bypass the big issues in the world, but to find skillful ways to support ourselves and community. We welcome complexity, all the life-ways you have walked, and the many dimensions of the self. There’s no right way to live, but we are supporting each other to find our own authentic path.
3. Embodiment
Getting out of the head, the worries, the stories. To learn to perceive your own authentic, direct experience. To learn to listen to your own body and what you need, so you can guide yourself. Embodiment as an antidote from getting too theoretical or fantastical about the spiritual path. Realizing everything we need is already here.
4. Fun, playfulness and opening the heart.
Not taking it all so serious, we can create a space to feel our lightness, our humor, and feel great. As the heart opens through practice we are able to connect with more compassion. As we get brave and trust ourselves, we get more love for ourselves and can hold that open hearted and kindness for others.
5. Creativity
We welcome experiments, works in progress, mistakes, re-dos, tight throats but going to sing anyway, we welcome you at every stage of how much you can trust yourself and express your truth. Creativity is a shortcut to embodiment.