KOI WELLNESS | KOI Wellness is a weekend program that offers community wellness, fitness, health and mind health related topics. KOI Wellness features one hour yoga sessions with a second rotating session and topic that varies, featuring a new presenter each week.

YOGA | Kick your weekend off the yoga way - Join Instructor Diana Cusumano as she leads us through a sunny, relaxed hour of open level vinyasa (yoga 101 for those that don't speak the lingo) here @ KOI. NOTE: there is a limited supply of extra mats, so please bring your own if you have one!

MICROLEARNING | Join Joe Ferraro of 1% Better and learn about leveraging small changes in mindset, language, and behavior in order to help people get life-changing results and make dreams more achievable.

Join us for a lunch-and-learn with Victor Adefuye of Dana Consulting and learn about the sales myths that will kill your B2B Startup and how to avoid them.

PROFILE | VICTOR A. ADEFUYE, FOUNDER & CEO

Victor is a creative and entrepreneurial sales professional with a passion for tackling big challenges.  He founded Dana after seeing too many startups make the same mistakes around sales planning, hiring, and management. Victor began his career as an attorney, where he developed his communication and presentation skills.  He then leveraged these abilities in his first sales role at Northwestern Mutual, where he was recognized as one of the top young producers in the company.  Subsequently, Victor joined the entrepreneurial world, serving as Co-Founder & President of WellnessRebates, VP of Business Development at Apex Leaders LLC, and as a sales consultant to various B2B startups.  He is a graduate of Duke University and The George Washington University Law School.

Join us for some perspective into the craft distillery industry at The Spirit of Business Series. This installment features Ralph Erenzo, one of the two co-founders of Hudson Whiskey & Tuthilltown Distillery Hudson Whiskey.

The Spirit of Business Program

• 6:00-7:00 | A business presentation and talk followed by Q&A from Hudson Whiskey. 
• 7:00-8:00 | Hudson Whiskey tasting and conversation on featured spirit selections.

Cost: $5 at the door

DISTILLERY PROFILE | Hudson Whiskey

Fate is a fickle thing. In 2001, when we purchased the Tuthilltown Gristmill to open a rock climber’s ranch, the neighbors balked. So we had to find another way. The 240-year history of the mill led us to it. Grain, water, yeast and a new purpose: We decided to make whiskey.

With our own skills and a lot of hard work, we converted the two granaries into the first whiskey distillery in New York State since Prohibition.

We didn’t know anything about distilling whiskey. We decided not to think “out of the box.” Instead we burned the box and started fresh. For two years we traveled to distilleries and talked to experts around the globe. All the while building our distillery, acquiring our permits and waiting for our stills to arrive.

It took six months of experimentation to produce great, rich whiskey by hand, one batch at a time. Along the way we changed the way whiskey is made and we changed our lives.

The Industrial Revolution dies at the beginning of our driveway. We’re about handcrafted spirits. Our Distillerymen are always in direct contact with the materials and the spirit of the distillery.

From grain to glass, we take great care and pride in all of our spirits. We’ve captured local flavor and ambience using the agricultural resources of local farmers while leaving a smaller footprint on the environment.

Like true New Yorkers, we’ve toughed it out and thrived. Our staff is honored and thrilled to have been named “Best Artisan Distiller of 2010” by the American Distilling Institute. Just regular folk making whiskey that has earned its place on the top shelf. It was quite a climb, but it sure looks good from here.