Sing kirtan!  It’s good for you!

By donation. All are welcome!  Masks optional.

Shubalananda Saraswati is an American sadhu who has been devoutly traveling since 1995 to share his powerful blues rooted kirtan - an ancient call & response spiritual practice from India.  When Shubal sings, his Guru's Shakti fills everyone in the room with a soulfully nourishing tangible energy.  His true love of God, his deep wisdom, and the grace of his Guru create an environment of ecstatic transcendent vibrational healing, accessing the grounded stillness of enlightened consciousness.  

Join us in the harmoniously uplifting spirit while singing your true heart's song with the Shubalananda friends and family kirtan band!  

All events are Dakshina based so please leave a donation if you can. 

For more information, email shubalananda@gmail.com visit www.shubalananda.com/ or for the latest updates follow them on Facebook @ShubalanandaKirtan

Everyone is welcome!

Suggested donation: $20 cash at the door

With Libby Volckening and Win Ridabock

Breathe, relax, and unwind with a series of gentle movements and supported yoga postures that facilitate progressive relaxation of your mind, body, and spirit. Our journey into deep rest is enhanced by a soothing soundscape to help calm the nervous system.  Join us and experience the magic!  

Beginners welcome.  Please pre-register.

Cost: $20.  Space is limited (min. 8 students, max 12).  Register by 8 AM Friday to ensure this class will run.  Registration closes Friday 5 PM.

SIGN UP ONLINE

Questions?  Call 413-774-4700 or email info@community-yoga.com

Facilitated by Lance Smith.

This one-day retreat offers you the opportunity to break away from the devices (electronic, psychological, and social) that propel most of us through our busy, fast paced, stimulus-rich lives and deepen your meditation practice.

Open to all practitioners of silent meditation practice, contemplation, centering prayer, etc. -experienced and beginners alike - the day will provide a supportive environment to explore the inner dimensions of your own consciousness through sustained periods of silent practice.

There will plenty of Silence during the day. The morning session and afternoon sessions each provide about two and a half hours of Silent Practice, divided into periods of 20 minutes of Sitting Meditation and Walking Meditation.

The day will begin with an Opening Circle at 9:00 am to introduce one another and the day’s agenda, and to share our individual aspirations and intentions for the day before entering into the Silence together.

There will also be a Midday Circle at about Noon, then a 40-45 minute lunch break until 1 PM. You can bring in a bag lunch or eat out at the Coop or a variety of restaurants within easy walking distance. We will share a Closing Circle at about 3 PM to share our experiences of the day and explore what our aspirations and intentions may be for our practice in the future.

Although at least a half day’s practice is preferable, you are welcome to join and leave at any point of the day. Please move mindfully as you enter and leave.

Free and Open to All. SIGN UP ONLINE

For more info: Lance Smith thishazymoon@gmail.com (847) 502 6204

With Megan Bathory-Peeler

Communal Sound Healing • 3rd Friday • October 17 • 6:00-7:30 pm
HYBRID: In-person Community Yoga & Wellness Studio and virtual via Zoom

• Is your nervous system on overdrive?

• Are you chronically tired and need more rest?

• Do you yearn to feel welcomed, seen, and held by community?

Be transported! Soak your senses in a bath of vocalized sound healing and invite the body-mind to unwind…

Let go. Journey within. Rest deeply. Find coherency. Be held by the sound of human voices.

Every Body is welcome! Appropriate for people of all ages. No previous experience is required. Bring your curiosity, an open mind, and you’ll have everything you need.

Please wear comfortable layers of clothing you feel cozy in and a water bottle to each circle.

Questions? To register – CALL: 413.772.0078
EMAIL: megan@somanautiko.com to reserve your space in the virtual studio *AT LEAST 2 HOURS BEFORE* start of the circle.

Suggested offering: $20/circle

Payments can be made via:
1) Cash or Check
2) Venmo @meganbathory-peeler

If you have any questions or need more information, contact Megan: 413.772.0078

Join world musician Kālidāsa for an evening of ecstatic, meditative call-and-response singing steeped in raga and roots music.  Kālidāsa's kirtans offer an inspiring blend of voice, harmonium, bamboo flutes, and hand drums. 

Kālidāsa will be joined by Kaveri Dasi, a wonderful musician who will sing and play the mridangam, a two-headed barrel-shaped drum from India.

$20 suggested donation.  All are welcome!

About the Wallah:

Kālidāsa Joseph Getter is a creative world musician and teacher, with decades of experience in kirtan, Javanese gamelan of Indonesia, Carnatic classical music of southern India, experimental music, drumming, Jazz, and music for yoga, theater, dance, sound healing, and the circus arts. Recently he co-created with Marcella Trowbridge a recording of music and poetry to ease the end of life, “RELEASE. FORGIVE. A Soundscape for Dying” (available on Soundcloud and YouTube). He has lived in India for two years, and studied religion at Oberlin College and ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. 

Check him out on Facebook @KalidasaKirtan

What is Kirtan?

Kirtan is transcendental spiritual music and a meditation practice also described as Bhakti Yoga or Nada Yoga. Its origins come from Eastern Indian and Budhist culture. In its tradition, Kirtan is recited as a call and response chanting from the vocal leader to the audience, who then recites or echos back the same lyrics. By chanting in this way, the sounds and voices raise a very high conscious vibration that reverberates within and outside of you, opening up energy channels. This practice calms and quiets the mind. You don't need to have any previous experience to attend a Kirtan. All spiritual faiths are welcome.

Accessibility: Community Yoga & Wellness Center is a scent-free space located on the second floor, accessible by stairs.

Questions? Contact info@community-yoga.com or 413-774-4700

Kirtan Harvest!

Come celebrate in the Harvest of the season for a special evening of devotional music and chanting as local kirtan band, Lotus Light hosts their bhakti friends from Atlanta, Gina & Gershone!

Together we’ll be singing from our various faiths, lifting our spirit, and connecting to our light  within.

Join us as we raise the vibes in Greenfield!

$25 Suggested Donation Cash or Venmo

About Gershone & Gina:
When two who have devoted their lives to their art join forces, the creative chemistry is contagious. Gina Minyard and Gershone Hendelberg have more than four decades of practice, teaching, and experience between them in yogic arts and bhakti bliss. Together, they commit their body, mind, heart, breath, and voice in service to the Most High and the majesty of its manifest expressions. 

In their offerings of yoga, music, meditation, kirtan, and satsang, they invite others into the grounding, elevating, and ever-expanding process of tuning their own divine instruments, and to come together in transformational alchemy, joyful communion, sacred embodiment, and ecstatic celebration. 

Based in Atlanta, GA, join them for classes, workshops, festivals, trainings, and retreats nationally and worldwide. Find their music “Gershone & Gina” on major streaming platforms. 

Learn more: www.gershonemusic.com

With Kat Now

Every month on First Fridays!

Connect to your body through slow and intentional movement for a harmonizing and centering practice. Yin yoga is a supportive way to help balance all of the yang energy in our busy lives where we are constantly called to stimuli outside of ourselves, and it can help us to cool down our mind and body with gentleness. Yin yoga is also a complementary practice for an active yoga and exercise routine, as it focuses on connective tissue and may support muscle recovery and joint health. Find harmony and balance on your mat in yin yoga so that you may carry it into your life. This gentle practice will end with a sweetly soothing live music savasana.

This class is accessible to practitioners of all levels including newcomers to yoga. Please refrain from wearing perfume or other scented products.

Cost: $20 SIGN UP ONLINE

Masks optional. Pre-registration required.

Bio: Kat Now is a yoga, mindfulness, and conscious dance teacher & musician. She holds over 300 hours of certifications from Kripalu, The Accessible Yoga School, Love Your Brain Yoga, JourneyDance, and more. Learn more about Kat and Embodied Mindfulness offerings on her website, and on Instagram @EmbodiedMindfulness.

The School of Trusting The Voice presents
GROUP SINGING CLASS
Monthly on first Wednesdays: 7:30 – 9:30 pm.
with Peter Barley

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

For more info: 413-695-0375 or barleypeter5@gmail.com

About the Instructor
Peter Barley has been focalizing groups of singers for 20 years. He has a way of making everyone feel safe to share their song, creating an inclusive space for singing, learning, and enjoying. Peter struggled to open his voice for 17 years. Through this healing path he created a body of work called The School of Trusting the Voice. He believes everyone can learn to sing and welcomes you to join us.

With Kat Now

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.  Sink into your bliss in savasana with a sound bath that will soothe your spirit.

This class is accessible to practitioners of all levels including newcomers to yoga. Please refrain from wearing perfume or other scented products.

Masks optional. Pre-registration required. Class size limited to 12.

Cost: $20 SIGN UP ONLINE

Bio: Kat Now is a yoga, mindfulness, and conscious dance teacher & musician. She holds over 300 hours of certifications from Kripalu, The Accessible Yoga School, Love Your Brain Yoga, JourneyDance, and more. Learn more about Kat and Embodied Mindfulness offerings on her website, and on Instagram @EmbodiedMindfulness.

Facilitated by Lance Smith.

This one-day retreat offers you the opportunity to break away from the devices (electronic, psychological, and social) that propel most of us through our busy, fast paced, stimulus-rich lives and deepen your meditation practice.

Open to all practitioners of silent meditation practice, contemplation, centering prayer, etc. -experienced and beginners alike - the day will provide a supportive environment to explore the inner dimensions of your own consciousness through sustained periods of silent practice.

There will plenty of Silence during the day. The morning session and afternoon sessions each provide about two and a half hours of Silent Practice, divided into periods of 20 minutes of Sitting Meditation and Walking Meditation.

The day will begin with an Opening Circle at 9:00 am to introduce one another and the day’s agenda, and to share our individual aspirations and intentions for the day before entering into the Silence together.

There will also be a Midday Circle at about Noon, then a 40-45 minute lunch break until 1 PM. You can bring in a bag lunch or eat out at the Coop or a variety of restaurants within easy walking distance. We will share a Closing Circle at about 3 PM to share our experiences of the day and explore what our aspirations and intentions may be for our practice in the future.

Although at least a half day’s practice is preferable, you are welcome to join and leave at any point of the day. Please move mindfully as you enter and leave.

Free and Open to All. SIGN UP ONLINE

For more info: Lance Smith thishazymoon@gmail.com (847) 502 6204

With Megan Bathory-Peeler

Saturday, September 20 • 1:00-5:00 pm

As our cultural bodies accelerate, many people experience distressful symptoms from sustained resistance to this speeding up. It becomes more urgent that we actively pause and attune ourselves to any moment of quiet and balance that life offers us. The self-awakening practice of Continuum reminds us to slow down, rest, and reconnect to what is alive in each of us.

Equinox is the perfect time to embrace the contracting forces of our own resistance and meet the unknown with power, curiosity, and creativity. A chance to dive deep into somatic inquiry and find balance at this potent time of the Equinox, New Moon and Solar Eclipse. Every Body is Welcome!

The longer format classes of Continuum devote time and space to exploring what it means to be in a human body-mind. Guided by breath, vocalized sounds, imagery, and simple biological movement impulses, we recover awareness and restore sensations in the body that are flattened by the speed of modern life and lost in the cultural quicksand of fear, sorrow, and pain.

Come pause and have an encounter with balance on the Equinox this September!

autumnal equinox
the moment when day
matches night

~ Mary Kendall

 Please wear comfortable layers of clothing you feel like moving in; bring a notebook and a water bottle to each class.

To register, email: megan@somanautiko.com or call: 413.772.0078

Sacred Investment: $30-$75 sliding scale*

*Please do not let personal circumstances prevent you from attending. Those who can offer more will cover those who can offer less.

Payments can be made via:
1) Cash or check
2) Venmo – @meganbathory-peeler

Read More: https://somanautiko.com/calendar/encountering-balance-a-continuum-equinox-dive/

With Megan Bathory-Peeler

Communal Sound Healing • 3rd Fridays • September 19 & October 17 • 6:00-7:30 pm HYBRID: In-person Community Yoga & Wellness Studio and virtual via Zoom

• Is your nervous system on overdrive?

• Are you chronically tired and need more rest?

• Do you yearn to feel welcomed, seen, and held by community?

Be transported! Soak your senses in a bath of vocalized sound healing and invite the body-mind to unwind… Discover the pleasure and wonder at sounded breath vibrations effortlessly invoke relaxation and natural healing fluid movement responses in the body.

Let go. Journey within. Rest deeply. Find coherency. Be held by the sound of human voices.

Every Body is welcome! Appropriate for people of all ages. No previous experience is required. Bring your curiosity, an open mind, and you’ll have everything you need.

Please wear comfortable layers of clothing you feel cozy in and a water bottle to each circle.

Questions? To register – CALL: 413.772.0078
EMAIL: megan@somanautiko.com to reserve your space in the virtual studio *AT LEAST 2 HOURS BEFORE* start of the circle.

Suggested offering: $20/circle

SPECIAL OFFER: Bring a friend (or friends) and everyone will be covered by the same $20 investment in communal joy and healing with sound medicine! Appropriate for all ages and abilities.

Read More: https://somanautiko.com/calendar/restorative-sound-circle/2025-09-19/

Payments can be made via:
1) Cash or Check
2) Venmo @meganbathory-peeler

If you have any questions or need more information, contact Megan: 413.772.0078

An 8 Week Committed Movement Group led by Daniel Davis.

Wednesday Mornings: 9:30-11:30, September 17 - November 5.

Drop-ins welcome first session only (9/17).

Click here to listen to an interview with Daniel Bear Davis about his somatic work

This group will weave authentic movement, free writing, and other movement practices with insights from Somatic Experiencing and cultural somatics. We will combine tools for orienting, settling, and resourcing with contemplative movement and perception practices to weave dynamic relations between our flesh bodies and the larger bodies of which we are part (land/place, ancestry, culture, nature).

Through movement and mindfulness practice we deepen our trust in our body's innate wisdom and capacity to align towards health and emergent possibilities. Each class will offer specific focus and content to frame improvised movement explorations. There will be group sections and one-on-one witnessing.

This class is open to all bodies with curiosity towards movement and the landscapes of the human experience. 

A Note on Care and Support

Somatic care and witness can surface challenging processes. While our group practice offers support, some experiences may require more individualized attention. To honor the integrity and limitations of the shared space, participants are expected to have an active web of care that includes mental health or other professional supports.

If you are unsure whether this group is right for you —or if you are currently navigating intense life challenges —please reach out to Daniel directly for a conversation before joining.

 Cost: Full Series Rate: $160-300 sliding scale. Drop-in rate: $20 - 30 (9/17 only). 

Scholarships, Pay-It-Forward, and Alternative Exchanges are available: contact me at danbeardavis@gmail.com. Let’s figure something out. 

To register send payment via PayPal payment to danbeardavis@gmail.com or Venmo: Daniel-Davis-41442 

Bio:
Daniel Bear Davis (MFA, SEP) began training in Somatic Experiencing in 2012. He brings an understanding of the body that is informed by 15 years of experience as a body worker and a lifetime of experience as a dancer and movement educator. He has taught embodied movement practices in Europe, Asia, North America and the Middle East. He currently offers Somatic Coaching sessions on-line and in nature. For more about Daniel's Somatic Experiencing practice visit www.bodywisdomrestoration.com For more information about his choreographic work visit www.danielbeardavis.com 

With Julie Becton Gillum

During the workshops, participants will explore movement and stillness by investigating the body's natural anatomical potential, including floating, hanging, and using strings. Exercises from Noguchi Taiso water body practice and aspects of butoh will help remove customary societal and cultural behaviors, guiding dancers toward bodily emptiness. Without the constraints of old habits, the unconscious body can respond freely to sensations, forces, and emotional states, becoming a fully expressive body. Dancers will be instructed in lessons to expand their range of movements, including subtle, unrestrained, fading, animal, and revolutionary styles.

Cost: sliding scale $20-45 dollars 

Contact info: jbgbutoh@gmail.com

Julie’s Biography:

Julie Becton Gillum, artistic director of the 14-year-running Asheville Butoh Festival, has been creating, performing, and teaching dance in the US, Europe, Asia, and Mexico for over 40 years. She has practiced butoh for 27 years. Gillum was awarded the 2008-09 North Carolina Choreography Fellowship and used the funds to travel to Japan to study Butoh. 

Julie has recently returned from training and performing in Japan with butoh masters Katsura Kan, Saga Kobayashi, Moe Yamamoto, Mari Osanai, Seisaku, and Yuri Nagaoka. Julie performed her own choreography as well as that of the butoh masters. On February 18, she performed with Katsura Kan at a festival in Kyoto at the URBANGUILD; March 30, Julieperformed with Moe Yamamoto in Kanazawa, Japan. On April 19 she performed at the Aomori Cultural Arts Center and Chuo Simin Cultural Center in Aomori Japan with Mari Osanai. 

Since 2019, Gillum has been active in India, Serbia, Georgia, Greece, Mexico, and the USA. Recent performances at the Amsterdam Butoh Festival (October 2023), Seattle Butoh Festival (November 2023), NYU Abu Dhabi Art Museum (February 2024), UNFIX Festival in NYC (May 2024) were well received. 

Julie’s most influential mentors in butoh have been: Anzu Furukawa, Diego Piñon, Yoshito Ohno, Natsu Nakajima, and Seisaku. Noguchi Taiso has become equally important for Gillum whose studies with Mari Osanai and Emre Thormann have refined her practice. She has guided butoh for 25 years and Noguchi Taiso for 10 years. 

Here are the links to videos:

Dusk - (Seattle Butoh Festival 2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMQbisLrX7s

Holes in Clay (excerpt) - Art Museum, NYU AbuDhabi (2024) 
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EyE2NaVe_lc

Sever -  Chiapas, Mexico (2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRqieX5mxGg

Come clear your mind and soothe your heart with some Heart Centered Kirtan at Community Yoga & Wellness Center in Greenfield, MA. Everyone is welcome including kids of all ages.
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Since 2013, Heart Centered Kirtan has been offering original call-and-response devotional music, weaving Sanskrit and Buddhist mantras into an accessible blend of modern musical styles. Join us for a uniquely uplifting mantra music experience!
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This kirtan will be offered both in person ~AND~ via Facebook Live, and your mantra music guides will be Libby Volckening (keys/vox), special guest Kenneth Lynch (guitar), Thomas Matherly (bass), and Chris Ball (percussion).
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$20-30 suggested donation*.  More if you can, less if you can't.  Let your heart guide you to offer whatever is right for you.  Donations will be gratefully accepted at the door (cash/check/PayPal/Venmo) and online via our website HeartCenteredKirtan.com/donate.

*Ten percent of proceeds will be donated to Franklin County Community Meals Program whose vision is to foster an empowered community who work together to address food insecurity, caring for and providing for one another, while building systems and infrastructure to holistically address and end hunger. For more info visit their website www.fccmp.org
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Masks are optional and welcome. ~ Please join us virtually if you have any symptoms, such as cough, fever, etc. ~OR~ if you have had recent exposure to someone who has COVID or another contagious disease.
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Accessibility: Community Yoga & Wellness Center is a scent free space located on the second floor, accessible by stairs.
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Questions? Call 413-834-4524, email heartcenteredkirtan@gmail.com, or visit www.heartcenteredkirtan.com
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Hope to sing with you soon!

With Libby Volckening and Win Ridabock

Breathe, relax, and unwind with a series of gentle movements and supported yoga postures that facilitate progressive relaxation of your mind, body, and spirit. Our journey into deep rest is enhanced by a soothing soundscape to help calm the nervous system.  Join us and experience the magic!  

Beginners welcome.  Please pre-register.

Cost: $20.  Space is limited (min. 8 students, max 12).  Register by 8 AM Friday to ensure this class will run.  Registration closes Friday 5 PM.

SIGN UP ONLINE

Questions?  Call 413-774-4700 or email info@community-yoga.com

The School of Trusting The Voice presents
GROUP SINGING CLASS
Monthly on first Wednesdays: 7:30 – 9:30 pm (August 6, September 3, etc)
with Peter Barley

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

For more info: 413-695-0375 or barleypeter5@gmail.com

About the Instructor
Peter Barley has been focalizing groups of singers for 20 years. He has a way of making everyone feel safe to share their song, creating an inclusive space for singing, learning, and enjoying. Peter struggled to open his voice for 17 years. Through this healing path he created a body of work called The School of Trusting the Voice. He believes everyone can learn to sing and welcomes you to join us.

Sing kirtan!  It’s good for you!

By donation. All are welcome!  Masks optional.

Shubalananda Saraswati is an American sadhu who has been devoutly traveling since 1995 to share his powerful blues rooted kirtan - an ancient call & response spiritual practice from India.  When Shubal sings, his Guru's Shakti fills everyone in the room with a soulfully nourishing tangible energy.  His true love of God, his deep wisdom, and the grace of his Guru create an environment of ecstatic transcendent vibrational healing, accessing the grounded stillness of enlightened consciousness.  

Join us in the harmoniously uplifting spirit while singing your true heart's song with the Shubalananda friends and family kirtan band!  

All events are Dakshina based so please leave a donation if you can. 

For more information, email shubalananda@gmail.com visit www.shubalananda.com/ or for the latest updates follow them on Facebook @ShubalanandaKirtan

Everyone is welcome!

Suggested donation: $20 cash at the door

With Kat Now

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.  Sink into your bliss in savasana with a sound bath that will soothe your spirit.

This class is accessible to practitioners of all levels including newcomers to yoga. Please refrain from wearing perfume or other scented products.

Masks optional. Pre-registration required. Class size limited to 12.

Cost: $20 SIGN UP ONLINE

Bio: Kat Now is a yoga, mindfulness, and conscious dance teacher & musician. She holds over 300 hours of certifications from Kripalu, The Accessible Yoga School, Love Your Brain Yoga, JourneyDance, and more. Learn more about Kat and Embodied Mindfulness offerings on her website, and on Instagram @EmbodiedMindfulness.

Facilitated by Lance Smith.

This one-day retreat offers you the opportunity to break away from the devices (electronic, psychological, and social) that propel most of us through our busy, fast paced, stimulus-rich lives and deepen your meditation practice.

Open to all practitioners of silent meditation practice, contemplation, centering prayer, etc. -experienced and beginners alike - the day will provide a supportive environment to explore the inner dimensions of your own consciousness through sustained periods of silent practice.

There will plenty of Silence during the day. The morning session and afternoon sessions each provide about two and a half hours of Silent Practice, divided into periods of 20 minutes of Sitting Meditation and Walking Meditation.

The day will begin with an Opening Circle at 9:00 am to introduce one another and the day’s agenda, and to share our individual aspirations and intentions for the day before entering into the Silence together.

There will also be a Midday Circle at about Noon, then a 40-45 minute lunch break until 1 PM. You can bring in a bag lunch or eat out at the Coop or a variety of restaurants within easy walking distance. We will share a Closing Circle at about 3 PM to share our experiences of the day and explore what our aspirations and intentions may be for our practice in the future.

Although at least a half day’s practice is preferable, you are welcome to join and leave at any point of the day. Please move mindfully as you enter and leave.

Pre-registration required. Free and Open to All. SIGN UP ONLINE

For more info: Lance Smith thishazymoon@gmail.com (847) 502 6204

Join world musician Kālidāsa for an evening of ecstatic, meditative call-and-response singing steeped in raga and roots music.  Kālidāsa's kirtans offer an inspiring blend of voice, harmonium, bamboo flutes, and hand drums. 

Kālidāsa will be joined by Kaveri Dasi, a wonderful musician who will sing and play the mridangam, a two-headed barrel-shaped drum from India.

$20 suggested donation.  All are welcome!

About the Wallah:

Kālidāsa Joseph Getter is a creative world musician and teacher, with decades of experience in kirtan, Javanese gamelan of Indonesia, Carnatic classical music of southern India, experimental music, drumming, Jazz, and music for yoga, theater, dance, sound healing, and the circus arts. Recently he co-created with Marcella Trowbridge a recording of music and poetry to ease the end of life, “RELEASE. FORGIVE. A Soundscape for Dying” (available on Soundcloud and YouTube). He has lived in India for two years, and studied religion at Oberlin College and ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University. 

Check him out on Facebook @KalidasaKirtan

What is Kirtan?

Kirtan is transcendental spiritual music and a meditation practice also described as Bhakti Yoga or Nada Yoga. Its origins come from Eastern Indian and Budhist culture. In its tradition, Kirtan is recited as a call and response chanting from the vocal leader to the audience, who then recites or echos back the same lyrics. By chanting in this way, the sounds and voices raise a very high conscious vibration that reverberates within and outside of you, opening up energy channels. This practice calms and quiets the mind. You don't need to have any previous experience to attend a Kirtan. All spiritual faiths are welcome.

Accessibility: Community Yoga & Wellness Center is a scent-free space located on the second floor, accessible by stairs.

Questions? Contact info@community-yoga.com or 413-774-4700

The School of Trusting The Voice presents
GROUP SINGING CLASS
Monthly on first Wednesdays: 7:30 – 9:30 pm (July 2, August 6, etc)
with Peter Barley

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

For more info: 413-695-0375 or barleypeter5@gmail.com

About the Instructor
Peter Barley has been focalizing groups of singers for 20 years. He has a way of making everyone feel safe to share their song, creating an inclusive space for singing, learning, and enjoying. Peter struggled to open his voice for 17 years. Through this healing path he created a body of work called The School of Trusting the Voice. He believes everyone can learn to sing and welcomes you to join us.

With Libby Volckening and Win Ridabock

Breathe, relax, and unwind with a series of gentle movements and supported yoga postures that facilitate progressive relaxation of your mind, body, and spirit. Our journey into deep rest is enhanced by a soothing soundscape to help calm the nervous system.  Join us and experience the magic!  

Beginners welcome.  Please pre-register.

Cost: $20.  Space is limited (min. 8 students, max 12).  Register by 8 AM Friday to ensure this class will run.  Registration closes Friday 5 PM.

SIGN UP ONLINE

Questions?  Call 413-774-4700 or email info@community-yoga.com

A 6 Week Committed Movement Group led by Daniel Davis.

Wednesday Mornings: 9:30-11:30, June 25 - July 30.

Drop-ins welcome first session only (6/25).

Click here to listen to an interview with Daniel Bear Davis about his somatic work

This group will weave authentic movement, free writing, and other movement practices with insights from Somatic Experiencing and cultural somatics. We will combine tools for orienting, settling, and resourcing with contemplative movement and perception practices to weave dynamic relations between our flesh bodies and the larger bodies of which we are part (land/place, ancestry, culture, nature).

Through movement and mindfulness practice we deepen our trust in our body's innate wisdom and capacity to align towards health and emergent possibilities. Each class will offer specific focus and content to frame improvised movement explorations. There will be group sections and one-on-one witnessing.

This class is open to all bodies with curiosity towards movement and the landscapes of the human experience. 

 Cost: Full Series Rate: $115 - $225 sliding scale. Drop-in rate: $20 - 30 (6/25 only). 

Scholarships, Pay-It-Forward, and Alternative Exchanges are possible: contact me at danbeardavis@gmail.com. Let’s figure something out. 

To register send payment via PayPal payment to danbeardavis@gmail.com or Venmo: Daniel-Davis-41442 

Bio:
Daniel Bear Davis (MFA, SEP) began training in Somatic Experiencing in 2012. He brings an understanding of the body that is informed by 15 years of experience as a body worker and a lifetime of experience as a dancer and movement educator. He has taught embodied movement practices in Europe, Asia, North America and the Middle East. He currently offers Somatic Coaching sessions on-line and in nature. For more about Daniel's Somatic Experiencing practice visit www.bodywisdomrestoration.com For more information about his choreographic work visit www.danielbeardavis.com