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Balance and Flow® Studio Opens in Gladstone

Nov 06, 2025 09:41AM ● By Jerome Bilaos

A new destination for health, balance, and wellbeing has arrived in Gladstone. Balance and Flow® Studio, a premier Tai Chi and movement studio, is now open, offering expert instruction in Traditional Yang Family Tai Chi, along with Somatic Stretch and Qigong classes for students of all levels.

Founded by Holly Sweeney-Hillman, senior instructor with the International Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan Association, and her longtime student Chris Wilson, the studio was created to provide a peaceful, welcoming space where people can explore Tai Chi not only as movement and balance, but as a complete practice for vitality and inner calm.

Balance and Flow® Studio offers daily group classes, private lessons, and specialty workshops, available both in-person and online. Classes are thoughtfully structured to support students at every stage of their Tai Chi journey. Beginners can build a strong foundation in body alignment, stability, and breathing, while experienced students refine and deepen their practice through long forms, push hands, and weapons training.

The mission of Balance and Flow® is to preserve and pass on the classical art of Tai Chi while making it accessible to the modern lifestyle—helping students discover balance, strength, and harmony in everyday life.

Location: 10 Lackawanna Ave., Gladstone. For information, call 973-946-8827 or email Chris at [email protected]. BalanceAndFlowStudio.com. See ad, page 8.
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•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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