Born in Aleppo, Syria, Benita and her family immigrated to the United States when she was two years old. She learned the taste of her birthplace and the traditional craft of cheesemaking at her family’s table in New Jersey, where jibneh was handmade at home.

Follow Benita’s path and you will find a grove growing beyond her kernel. Each seed planted opened a route to the next point. Each wild, blossoming tree was grown because Benita was already carrying the kernel ready to plant.

When you walk in through the front door of Pulse Barbell Club in East Northport you feel it; that kind of place that already feels like it knows your name. To the left, just past the front is another door. Behind that one: Breathe Strength Yoga Studio.

Charlotte Muller built this room. Today she’s eight and a half months pregnant and still teaching in it.