Class Descriptions
Classes are grouped into 3 categories to simplify. See the detailed class descriptions below.
Suitable for those who are brand new to the practice, for when you want a more relaxing approach, or if you are recovering from injury.
Morning Mindfulness Meditation Circles
Morning Yoga with Lindel Hart
Co-op Yoga
Continuum
Mid-Week Yoga Break
Yoga for Lower Back & Hips
Group Singing Class
Trauma Sensitive Yoga
Into The Somatic Body
Pilates Mat
Alexander Technique (ON HOLD)
Restorative Yoga
Yin Yoga
Great for those with a bit of experience who aren't dealing with any major injuries. These classes will help you build a solid yoga foundation.
Co-op Yoga
Mid-Week Yoga Break
‘FUN’damentals Yoga
Into The Somatic Body
Great for those looking to take their practice and study of yoga to the next level. Expect some more challenging postures as well as exploration of more advanced philosophy and concepts.
Into The Somatic Body
If you're not sure about which class to choose, we're happy to advise you.
Please contact us with any questions.
Register for a class or pay for your class card online.
Detailed Class Descriptions
Best for Beginners Classes:
Morning Mindfulness Meditation Circles (Lance): ON ZOOM ONLY. Support for Your Life & Practice. Monday through Friday, 9:00 - 10:00 am. Free and open to all! Many of us yearn to engage our lives wholeheartedly, to move through our days with a deeper sense of purpose, greater clarity, and more ease. Yet, it's not easy to begin or sustain the personal meditation practice that can help bring that about -- especially alone. The Morning Mindfulness Meditation Circles offers a structure and the support of other meditators each weekday on Zoom. It is free and open to all. (Feel free to join and leave as you wish.) Facilitated by longtime meditator Lance Smith, each MMM Circle provides timed periods of silent meditation and a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of yourself, others, and the spiritual dimension of life through the deep listening and open sharing experienced in Heart Council Practice. Advance registration required prior to your first session. Register via our website www.community-yoga.com or with the MindBody app.
For more information, contact Lance Smith: call/text 847-502-6204 or email mondaymorningmindfulness@gmail.com
Morning Yoga with Lindel Hart (Lindel): IN STUDIO. Tuesdays, 9:00-10:30am. Come together for a weekly class with Lindel Hart! This gentle-to-moderate class incorporates breath awareness exercises and a few moments of quiet reflection to help you set the tone of your practice. Initial gentle stretching opens the way to a practice of yoga poses to build strength, flexibility and awareness. Lindel has studied mostly with Iyengar teachers, so his teaching focuses on anatomical alignment and postural integrity while honoring an individual’s needs in each pose. Modifications and/or alternate poses will be offered as required. Individuals who desire a more demanding practice are encouraged to increase the intensity of their experience as appropriate. Email Lindel for more information: lindel@hartyoga.com
Co-op Yoga (Barbara and Louise): IN STUDIO. Tuesdays, 12:00-1:00pm. This class meets you where you are and varies from week to week depending on who is present and what their needs and intentions are. That said, every class includes some flowing movement, breath and body awareness, guidance for musculoskeletal alignment, and asanas that soften, strengthen, and balance the body and spirit. Underwritten by Franklin Community Co-op, these classes offer participants a chance to experience a variety of yoga styles and instructors at an affordable price.
For more information, email info@community-yoga.com or call 413-774-4700, or contact Green Fields Market, 413-773-9567; email@greenfieldsmarket.coop Cost: $5 for FCC members, $10 for the general public. Community Yoga class cards accepted!
Continuum (Megan): IN STUDIO. Weekly classes • 6:00-8:00 pm • Attend one or more! $30 drop-in or $25 per 2 hour class if current series is prepaid. Please do not let your own personal finances or current circumstances prevent you from coming to class. Pay From the Heart ~ offer what is affordable for you.
Continuum is a profoundly relevant awareness-awakening practice that reminds us how to slow down, quiet our minds, and open our hearts. As we slow down to the speed of water, our tissues hydrate themselves, becoming less dense - more spacious and fluid. This helps us relocate our bodies and differentiate ourselves from the sensory overload of modern life. Continuum retrieves a sense of wholeness and biological optimism from the cultural quicksand fear, sorrow, and pain.
Open to anyone with any amount of body, breathing, or movement experience or challenges. True beginners welcome!
To register, email: megan@somanautiko.com. Or call Megan directly at 413.772.0078.
For information about the current series, check our WORKSHOPS tab.Mid-Week Yoga Break (Lindel): IN STUDIO & ON ZOOM. Wednesdays, 12:00-1:00pm. This gentle-to-moderate class is appropriate for beginners, as well as seasoned yogis. Lindel will guide you through a sequence of poses designed to build strength, flexibility and awareness; improve balance, posture and breathing.
This class is now offered In Studio and via Zoom. After booking your class, a zoom link will be emailed to you if you choose to attend virtually. If you choose to attend in person, please come to our studio a few minutes before class starts.
Roll out your mat and support your well-being in either a virtual online yoga community from the comfort of your own home, or in the studio with Lindel and fellow yogis.
Yoga for Lower Back & Hips — including SCIATICA! (Libby): IN STUDIO & ON ZOOM. Wednesdays: 5:30–7:00 pm.
… For information about the current series, check our WORKSHOPS tab.
….Soothe. Stabilize. Strengthen. Lengthen. If you are ready to up-level your relationship to your spine, join us for this 9-class series based on the gentle Viniyoga™ approach and the pioneering work of “the back doctor’s back doctor” Dr. Stuart McGill.
… Each week we will explore and adapt simple movements, breathing, and relaxation techniques to support your healing. Handouts provided to support your home practice.
… Open to anyone with any amount of flexibility or yoga experience. Beginners welcome!
… This class is run as a series which follows a progressive curriculum, and students are asked to make every effort to attend all classes in order to nurture their own progress and support the energy of the group.
… Suggested Pay From The Heart Tuition. Let your heart and your own personal circumstances guide you to pay more or less: whatever is right for you. Tuition includes an optional, free 1:1 session (either in person or via Zoom) with the instructor. Payment can be made via (1) Check, (2) Common Good (3) PayPal (@LibbyVolckening) or (4) Venmo (@Libby-Volckening).
… Sorry, no new students after the 2nd class. New students must complete a Waiver prior to attending first class. Community Yoga & Wellness Center is a scent free space.
… For more info/to pre-register, call or text 413-834-4524 or email libby@yogalibre.net. Advance registration required.Group Singing Class (Peter): IN STUDIO. Monthly on First Wednesdays: 7:30-9:30pm. Have you been told you can’t sing? Do you enjoy singing but still feel blocked? Learn how to trust your voice! Each of our sessions together will start with practices to open and heal the voice. Then we will share medicine songs from around the world to connect us to our hearts, each other, and nature. Bring a simple song to share or come with an open heart. $15 - 30 sliding scale.
Trauma Sensitive Yoga (Elena): IN STUDIO.Thursdays: 10:30-11:30am. Trauma sensitive yoga is a thoughtfully curated practice where you are invited to move, breathe, and connect to your body while moving through a gentle mat-based yoga practice.
In this non-judgmental practice space, you are welcome to explore movements at the pace of your choice. There is never any pressure to achieve the “correct alignment” as we move through various asanas or yoga forms. Rather, you will always be offered choices for ways you might engage with each form, and you’ll be offered many gentle reminders that there is no way to do this practice wrong. Everything is always optional, and taking breaks, skipping things, and doing things your way is warmly welcome.
As we practice tuning into our present-moment, body-based experience, the possibility emerges for making the movement choices that truly feel best or right to you. In this way, each of us becomes the ultimate authority and expert of our own personal practice.
Although this practice is designed with trauma in mind, we don’t talk about trauma during these sessions. Rather, this space is all about exploring what it’s like to move, sense, and have agency over our bodies. You always get to be fully in control of your own practice (there are no hands on assists).
You do not need any previous yoga experience to take part, nor do you need to consider yourself flexible.
Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is an evidence-based adjunctive treatment designed especially for complex trauma which you can read more about here.
In order to make this space truly trauma sensitive, each participant is asked to setup a brief 10-15 minute phone call with Elena prior to joining the group. The call is an opportunity for Elena to answer your questions, share a little bit of information about the practice, and to confidentially hear anything about you that you want her to know about you. There is absolutely no pressure to share anything you don’t want to share. There is also no pressure to decide on the spot whether or not you’d like to join. Rather, the call is an opportunity for you get all the information you need to help you decide whether this practice feels like a good fit.
This class runs as a series. Cost: $120-150 sliding scale for 8 classes. For more information & to register, click here
For information about the current series, check our WORKSHOPS tab.
Into The Somatic Body (Myk): IN STUDIO. Thursdays, 7:00-8:15pm. In this class, students of all levels are invited to deepen their yoga practice through a dynamic blend of traditional asana and somatic exploration. We explore safe, accessible ways to enter challenging poses with alignment, grace, and inner awareness. As we move and hold postures, we cultivate strength, flexibility, and balance while attuning to the subtle rhythms of the nervous system and the flow of energy within the body.
Breath, mindful pauses, and sensitivity to sensation guide our practice. We notice what arises—physically, emotionally, and energetically—when we meet stillness and intensity with curiosity rather than resistance. This integrative approach helps unravel patterns of tension and fosters a deeper relationship with the body’s innate wisdom.
Modifications and individual guidance is offered to support all practitioners. Hands-on adjustments are offered only with explicit consent. All bodies, identities, and experiences are warmly welcome.
Pilates Mat (Robin): IN STUDIO & ON ZOOM. Fridays, 9:00-10:00am. Emphasizes core strength, posture, general flexibility and mind-body movement connection. Incorporates props such as theraband, small ball, foam roller and light hand weights in classes. Beginners welcome.
Cost: $18 for a single class; Community Yoga class cards accepted.
For more info/, call or text Robin McKeon, DPT: 857-334-4333 or robinmckeon2@gmail.com
Restorative Yoga (Kat and Libby): IN STUDIO. Monthly on Fridays, 6:00-7:30pm. Leave behind the hectic pace of the modern world to find refuge within your own body. Restorative yoga is an active relaxation practice, helping to calm the nervous system with gentle postures supported by props. After a peaceful restorative yoga practice, you may find that you will be able to receive sound more deeply to relax even more. This class is accessible to yoga students of all levels and meets once per month on Friday evenings. Cost: $20 per class.
Yin Yoga (Kat Now): IN STUDIO. Monthly on Fridays, 6:00-7:30pm. Yin Yoga is a supportive way to cultivate a sense of balance and calm, and to connect with your body through slow, intentional movement. Yin Yoga also can complement an active yoga and exercise routine, as it focuses on connective tissue and may support muscle recovery. Class includes teaching on mudra and mantra, and concludes with a soothing live music savasana to help you sink into deeper relaxation. Accessible to practitioners of all levels including newcomers to yoga. Please refrain from wearing perfume or other scented products. Masks optional. Cost: $20 per class.
Alexander Technique (Lisa): ON ZOOM ONLY. Saturdays, 9:00-10:00am. ON HOLD. This class provides an introduction to, and deeper practice in, Alexander Technique. This body/mind practice has profound healing benefits. Learn simple and practical ways to improve posture and movement in any activity. Practice ways to release built up stress and tension that cause pain and stiffness so you can live in a more easeful and comfortable way... the way nature intended.
Some Experience Recommended Classes:
‘FUN’damentals Yoga (Trisha): IN STUDIO. Mondays, 5:30-6:30pm. We start with a solid foundation and build upon it to deepen your practice. This class will help the seasoned yogi fine-tune an already established practice, by bringing back the fundamentals. It is also great for anyone with some yoga experience who wants to learn more. In class we will build to a peak pose while learning proper alignment techniques to keep you safe in your body. Modifications will be offered throughout. There will be fewer poses with longer holds, lots of instruction, with some yoga principles woven in. Don’t forget about the FUN! This class is meant to be creative, educational, grounding, and FUN. I can’t wait to see you on the mat!
Into The Somatic Body (Myk): IN STUDIO. In this class, students of all levels are invited to deepen their yoga practice through a dynamic blend of traditional asana and somatic exploration. We explore safe, accessible ways to enter challenging poses with alignment, grace, and inner awareness. As we move and hold postures, we cultivate strength, flexibility, and balance while attuning to the subtle rhythms of the nervous system and the flow of energy within the body.
Breath, mindful pauses, and sensitivity to sensation guide our practice. We notice what arises—physically, emotionally, and energetically—when we meet stillness and intensity with curiosity rather than resistance. This integrative approach helps unravel patterns of tension and fosters a deeper relationship with the body’s innate wisdom.
Modifications and individual guidance is offered to support all practitioners. Hands-on adjustments are offered only with explicit consent. All bodies, identities, and experiences are warmly welcome.
Solid Yoga Experience Recommended Classes:
Into The Somatic Body (Myk): IN STUDIO. In this class, students of all levels are invited to deepen their yoga practice through a dynamic blend of traditional asana and somatic exploration. We explore safe, accessible ways to enter challenging poses with alignment, grace, and inner awareness. As we move and hold postures, we cultivate strength, flexibility, and balance while attuning to the subtle rhythms of the nervous system and the flow of energy within the body.
Breath, mindful pauses, and sensitivity to sensation guide our practice. We notice what arises—physically, emotionally, and energetically—when we meet stillness and intensity with curiosity rather than resistance. This integrative approach helps unravel patterns of tension and fosters a deeper relationship with the body’s innate wisdom.
Modifications and individual guidance is offered to support all practitioners. Hands-on adjustments are offered only with explicit consent. All bodies, identities, and experiences are warmly welcome.
