Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:03:23 -0500
From: Cathy Holt
Subject: Mark Estil
My friend Mark Estil passed away yesterday. After spending the afternoon crying, I tried to think of what I could do in his honor. We would not have the yoga studio that we have if it wasn’t for Mark. Mark loved yoga and didn’t want to have to go anywhere to attend a class, so before he and his brother Lyle built a building for their computer business they called and asked if I would like to have a yoga studio there. That has turned into a very fortunate moment for so many in this community. We have had our lovely space because of the Estil brothers.
But that is just par for the course for them. They have generously given to so many in the community since arriving in Chatham County.
In honor of Mark and his love of yoga, our scholarship fund which lessons the fee for any student who has a financial hardship arrive: whether it is health issues, loss of employment, or family emergency will now be called the Mark Estil Scholarship Fund. I will put $100 in it myself in leu of sending flowers, etc. If anyone else wants to make a contribution I will send a card to the family letting them know of your gift. Please feel no obligation from receiving this message. I just know that many want some way to acknowledge his passing other than with flowers and I thought this would be a fitting tribute to him.
My address is 680 Providence Church Rd.
Pittsboro, NC 27312
Mark will be sorely missed by so many. I still can’t believe that he won’t be poking his head into my studio everyday to ask me how it’s going.
Please hold his family in your heart as they move through this grief.
“If death could be seen as a beautiful clear lake, refreshing and bouyant, then when a consciousness moves towards its exit from a body, there would be that delightful plunge and it would simply swim away.
Namaste’,
Cathy
http://www.cathyholtyoga.com