An autumn yoga retreat sounds like just the thing to help prepare for the changing seasons. Amanda Cohen offers a yoga retreat at the Chappaquiddick Community Center on Oct. 12 and 13 from 9 to 11 a.m. on both days. She will move the two groups through breathing techniques and postures to help usher in the quiet season.

Betsy Bell Baliunas was always intimidated to walk into the Box. The name didn’t help either. The Box didn’t look like your normal gym, Ms. Baliunas recalled. “Where are the machines? There are no machines. There’s a rope — what am I going to do with that?” she wondered.

A Saturday morning community drop-in meditation program begins this Saturday, Sept. 21, at the YMCA. Additional sessions are on Nov. 16 and Dec. 14, each one running from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. This classes are all free and are run by Dr. Elliott Dacher. The first class is entitled Calm Inside, Complex Outside.

She took her first antibiotic at the age of 19.

“I never really got sick,” Katina L. Makris told an audience of about 30 people on August 18 at the Chilmark Community Church.

This was all before she was bitten by a tick and later diagnosed with Lyme disease.

Ms. Makris’s inspirational talk was part of Bite Back for a Cure, a day on Martha’s Vineyard dedicated to finding a cure.

Louis W. Sullivan’s morning walks have always been about two things: building connections and health. Dr. Sullivan’s early morning walks with his wife Ginger started in the early 1970s.