Weekly on Sundays: 7pm-8:30pm, starting April 27.
Free with option for donation.

This will be a weekly peer-led meditation meeting on Sundays to meditate together in ‘Sangha’—a Pali word from Buddhism referring to the community who practices together. We are a queer, intersex and trans* group and we welcome all who find affinity in queerness.

The format of the sessions: Welcome words & greeting; 30-minute silent meditation practice (sitting, laying down, standing); 15 minutes walking meditation; time for sharing & listening practice; closing with Metta, a loving-kindness blessing.

Accessibility:
COVID protocols - please stay home if you have symptoms. 1st Sunday, mask required; all other Sundays, mask optional.

This is on the second floor unfortunately without an elevator, please contact us if this is a barrier to you - we would love to find a more accessible space.

Looking forward to being together <3

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 Megan Bathory-Peeler

Saturdays, April 26 & May 17: 1:00-5:00pm.

“Feeling more alive carries distinct qualities that differentiate this healing from other forms. Bodily joy is the primary characteristic: it is an enlivening, an inner knowing of what it means to be a spiritual-soul-bodily being. It is an experience of levity that also makes us realize that we have been living too much within the force of gravity… When our experience of embodiment shifts to a new sense of the living body, our relationship to symptoms changes drastically. Symptoms become for us unrecognized possibilities rather than indications of something gone wrong.” ~ Robert Sardello

Winter is Nature’s time for rest and deep internal quieting. Winter asks us to slow down and be more contained and protective. It is easy to feel isolated and disconnected. As we begin to emerge out of winter, we feel the frozen places thaw, the sap begins to rise and run, taking us into the muddy in-between places. We want to jump into the warmth and the exuberance of spring and often the impulse is to jump over what needs to be waded through. Early spring is often a challenging time for many people. Transitions require patience and consciousness. We can attend both needs by coming together for communal connection and life-affirming celebration and sharing the deeply soothing, self-reflective, and nourishing patience practice of Continuum.

Continuum is a holistic embodiment practice that increases awareness by cueing the mind and body to slow down with audible breath and subtle biological movements. Continuum enhances our ability to rest into what is, to be in the Here and Now, and to be happier in our own skins. By reconnecting to what is alive in each of us with more empathy and compassion for ourselves, we may find it easier to perceive the same in others & offer that gift out into the world around us.

“There are moments of suffering that interrupt your life and remind you that you are not the person you thought you were. They come through the basement of your soul, revealing a cavity below. You can either be broken or broken open by them.” ~ Paul Tillich

Leaning into the wisdom and words of writer James Baldwin, in these two Shifting of the Heart workshops we will hold an inquiry around what it means to practice Defiant Humanism. How do we witness the people around us without making assumptions or being judgmental?  You could be that person. That person could be you.

Shifting our culture to a more spiritual, moral, relational, communal culture begins with a small group of people finding a better way to live together. Come dive into these communal waters with other intrepid explorers! Let your living, moving body show you the path to healing what limits you and restore your creative potential this spring.

The longer format classes of Continuum are specifically designed to create a time and space for you to explore what it means to be in a human body-mind. Breath, vocalized sounds, meditative awareness, visual imagery, and simple, biological movements will help you recover and restore sensation and increase the innate fluid movement responses of your body that get lost in the speed of modern life and the cultural quicksand of fear, sorrow, and pain. Think of these workshops as a personal retreat, or spiritual bath. Give yourself the gift of rest, reflection, acceptance, compassion, discovery, and inspiration.

Everyone is welcome. Appropriate for all ages and abilities. Bring your curiosity and an open mind, and you’ll have everything you need!

Please wear comfortable layers of clothing you feel most cozy in, have a notebook to write in, and a full water bottle on hand.

Suggested tuition: $75/single workshop or $125 for both when paid by first workshop

To register, email: megan@somanautiko.com

With Libby Volckening & Win Ridabock

Breathe, relax, and unwind with a restorative yoga practice accompanied by a meditative soundscape.

In Restorative Yoga, practitioners settle into a sequence of gentle, supported postures to facilitate progressive relaxation that restores body, mind and spirit. The journey into deep rest is enhanced by a meditative soundscape that soothes and centers the nervous system.

Join us and experience the magic!

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

Accessibility: Community Yoga & Wellness Center is a scent-free space, located in our second floor studio and accessible by stairs.

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

Please note change in time. Half-day retreat due to Easter holiday.

Facilitated by Lance Smith.

Beginners are welcome. Masks optional.

Join us in silence.  Deepen your practice.  Experience the difference.

Open to practitioners of meditation, centering prayer, contemplation, and other silent practices, the day will include alternating periods of sitting and walking meditation.

We begin our practice together at 1:00 - 1:30 PM with the Opening Heart Council to set our intentions and practice deep listening and speaking from the Heart about our lives and practice.

This mindful retreat concludes with a brief Closing Heart Council Circle 3:30 - 4:00 PM to share our experiences of the day.

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

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

The School of Trusting The Voice presents
GROUP SINGING CLASS
Weekly on Wednesdays: 7:30 – 9:30 pm, starting April 16
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.

CANCELLED for this Friday & rescheduled to July 11!

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

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.

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.

With Megan Bathory-Peeler and Krista Feichtinger

Saturdays, January 25, February 22 & March 22: 1:00-5:00pm.

Winter is a time for rest and deep internal quieting. Winter can also be a tough time for many people. It is easy to feel isolated and disconnected. We can attend both needs: We can sustain ourselves by coming together for communal support and connection while sharing a deeply soothing, reflective, and nourishing practice like Continuum.

Come discover bodily joy. Come play with a lightness of being. Come let your living, moving body show you the path to healing what limits you and restore your creative potential this winter.

Continuum is a complete embodiment practice that increases awareness by cueing the mind and body to slow down with audible breath and subtle biological movements. Continuum enhances our ability to rest into what is, to be in the Here and Now, and to be happier in our own skins. By reconnecting to what is alive in each of us with more empathy and compassion for ourselves, we may find it easier to perceive the same in others & offer that gift out into the world around us.

Let these winter classes be a personal weekly retreat, or spiritual bath. Give yourself the gift of rest, reflection, acceptance, compassion, discovery, and inspiration at what can be a challenging time of year.

The longer format classes of Continuum are specifically designed to create a time and space for you to explore what it means to be in a human body-mind. Breath, vocalized sounds, meditative awareness, visual imagery, and simple, biological movements will help you recover and restore sensation and increase the innate fluid movement responses of your body that get lost in the speed of modern life and the cultural quicksand of fear, sorrow, and pain.

Everyone is welcome. Appropriate for all ages and abilities. Bring your curiosity and an open mind, and you’ll have everything you need!

Please wear comfortable layers of clothing you feel most cozy in, have a notebook to write in, and a full water bottle on hand.

Cost: $75/single workshop or $200/pre-paid for all 3 workshops in series

To register, email: megan@somanautiko.com

SORRY, CANCELLED.

Libby Volckening, E-RYT 500, with Live Music by Win Ridabock

Move, breathe, and relax with an integrated yoga practice guided by Libby Volckening complemented by a meditative soundscape created by multi-instrumentalist Win Ridabock.  

Our practice will weave together Asana, Pranayama, and Mantra for a deep reunificiation of mind, body and spirit.  Some yoga experience helpful but not required.  Curious beginners welcome!

Cost: $20. SIGN UP ONLINE

This class needs 8 people pre-registered to run. Please sign up by Friday @ 8am!

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

With Megan Bathory-Peeler and Krista Feichtinger

Tuesday, March 18 • 6:00-8:00 pm.

Winter is a time for rest and deep internal quieting. Winter can also be a tough time for many people. It is easy to feel isolated and disconnected. We can attend both needs: We can sustain ourselves by coming together for communal support and connection while sharing a deeply soothing, reflective, and nourishing practice like Continuum.

Come breathe with your whole being into a series of explorations on belonging and move ourselves forward into the unknown of the new year with power and creativity.

Continuum is a deeply meditative practice that increases awareness by cueing the mind and body to slow down with audible breath and subtle biological movements. Continuum enhances our ability to rest into what is, to be in the Here and Now, and to be happier in our own skins. By reconnecting to what is alive in each of us with more empathy and compassion for ourselves, we may find it easier to perceive the same in others & offer that gift out into the world around us.

Let these winter classes be a personal weekly retreat, or spiritual bath. Give yourself the gift of rest, reflection, acceptance, compassion, discovery, and inspiration at what can be a challenging time of year.

The longer format classes of Continuum are specifically designed to create a time and space for you to explore what it means to be in a human body-mind. Breath, vocalized sounds, meditative awareness, visual imagery, and simple, biological movements will help you recover and restore sensation and increase the innate fluid movement responses of your body that get lost in the speed of modern life and the cultural quicksand of fear, sorrow, and pain.

Appropriate for all ages and abilities. Bring your curiosity and an open mind, and you’ll have everything you need! 

Please wear comfortable layers of clothing you feel most cozy in, have a notebook to write in, and a full water bottle on hand.     

To register, email: megan@somanautiko.com

Suggested tuition: $30/drop-in

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.

Payments can be made via:
1) Cash or Check brought to class
2) Venmo

If you have any questions or need more information, please call Megan directly at: 413.772.0078

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

Come clear your mind and soothe your heart. Since 2013, Heart Centered Kirtan has been offering kirtan throughout New England with their original call-and-response devotional music. Weaving Sanskrit and Buddhist mantras into a unique blend of modern Western musical styles, Heart Centered Kirtans are meditative and uplifting experiences.

Your mantra music guides will be Libby Volckening (keys/vox), Ezra Landis (guitar), Chris Ball (bass), and Owen Landis (percussion).

$20 suggested donation. Let your heart guide you to offer more or less, whatever is right for you. Donations will be accepted at the door (cash/check/PayPal/Venmo) and online via Heart Centered Kirtan's website: https://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

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.

To join us via Facebook Live (you don't need a FB account to view), click on this link around 7 pm Friday: https://www.facebook.com/events/1841851862960087/
Close any pop ups and enjoy!

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

Questions? Call 413-834-4524, email heartcenteredkirtan@gmail.com, or visit www.heartcenteredkirtan.com

Hope to sing with you soon! 

In Person & via Zoom

Thursdays, March 20 - May 1: 7:30 - 8:30 am

Drop in any time!

In this time surrounding Spring Equinox, the first seeds turn underground, and the blanket of snow remains.  Join Abby Noyes for a light, morning asana practice to align our bodies with the seasonal rhythms and emerge out of winter with a coherent, stable, and fluid practice.  Each class will begin with gentle warmups, transition into fully expressed asana, and finish with a generous rest in Savasana. Modifications will be provided as needed.  Great for both beginners as well as ongoing practitioners.

Cost: $18 per single class. Community Yoga class cards accepted. SIGN UP ONLINE

For more info: call/text 415-515-0058 or email abigail.t.noyes@gmail.com

About the Instructor:

Abby Noyes began practicing yoga in 2003.  She received her 500 hour training from The Yoga Room, Berkeley, graduating from the Advanced Studies Program in 2022, and she became certified in Relax and Renew® Restorative Yoga in 2019.  Abby’s interest lies in helping students develop a deep-felt sense, and a functional understanding of their own anatomy and nervous system such that they might feel empowered and cohered, and deeper layers of patterning can come forward to unwind.  This expands our capacity to navigate our lived experience. In addition to this work, Abby is a gardener, herbalist, naturalist, cyclist, artist, and bodyworker offering Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy and Chi Nei Tsang Abdominal Massage.

Cancelled this month. Resumes Friday April 4th.

With Kat Now

Every month on First Fridays!

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.

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

Cost is $20.

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

About the Instructor:
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 Instagram @EmbodiedMindfulness and via her website embodiedmindfulness.wixsite.com/website

With Abby Noyes

Find refuge and tap into the regenerative power within your own body: Restorative yoga is an active relaxation practice, helping to calm the nervous system with gentle postures, careful propping, inner body visualization and gentle breath work. This class will begin with gentle warm-ups to relieve muscular tension, and then transition into the restorative poses, which are each held anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes. 

Abby Noyes, a Relax and Renew® Level 1 teacher, will guide you into a comfortable, completely supported expression of each pose, allowing you to release tension and quiet the nervous system, moving body and mind into balance.

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

With Lindel Hart

A weekly class on 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.

Cost: $18 or use your Community Yoga class card.

SIGN UP ONLINE

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 Megan Bathory-Peeler and Krista Feichtinger

Saturdays, January 25, February 22 & March 22: 1:00-5:00pm.

Winter is a time for rest and deep internal quieting. Winter can also be a tough time for many people. It is easy to feel isolated and disconnected. We can attend both needs: We can sustain ourselves by coming together for communal support and connection while sharing a deeply soothing, reflective, and nourishing practice like Continuum.

Come discover bodily joy. Come play with a lightness of being. Come let your living, moving body show you the path to healing what limits you and restore your creative potential this winter.

Continuum is a complete embodiment practice that increases awareness by cueing the mind and body to slow down with audible breath and subtle biological movements. Continuum enhances our ability to rest into what is, to be in the Here and Now, and to be happier in our own skins. By reconnecting to what is alive in each of us with more empathy and compassion for ourselves, we may find it easier to perceive the same in others & offer that gift out into the world around us.

Let these winter classes be a personal weekly retreat, or spiritual bath. Give yourself the gift of rest, reflection, acceptance, compassion, discovery, and inspiration at what can be a challenging time of year.

The longer format classes of Continuum are specifically designed to create a time and space for you to explore what it means to be in a human body-mind. Breath, vocalized sounds, meditative awareness, visual imagery, and simple, biological movements will help you recover and restore sensation and increase the innate fluid movement responses of your body that get lost in the speed of modern life and the cultural quicksand of fear, sorrow, and pain.

Everyone is welcome. Appropriate for all ages and abilities. Bring your curiosity and an open mind, and you’ll have everything you need!

Please wear comfortable layers of clothing you feel most cozy in, have a notebook to write in, and a full water bottle on hand.

Cost: $75/single workshop or $200/pre-pary for all 3 workshops in series

To register, email: megan@somanautiko.com

With Libby Volckening, E-RYT 500 and musician Win Ridabock.

Breathe, relax, and unwind with a soothing yoga practice guided by Libby Volckening and accompanied by soft candlelight and meditative soundscape provided by multi-instrumentalist Win Ridabock.

If you have joined us for Candlelight Yoga in the past, you know how special this is.  If not, come find out!

Cost: $20 preregistered. Masks optional. Class size is limited to 12 students. Pre-register online before 5:00pm Friday.

SIGN UP ONLINE

Community Yoga & Wellness Center is a scent free space.

CANCELLED DUE TO WINTER STORM. SEE YOU NEXT MONTH!

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.

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

With Kat Now

Every month on First Fridays!

In our busy lives where we are constantly called to outside stimuli, yin yoga is a supportive way to bring in a sense of balance, calm, and return to yourself. Connect to your body through slow and intentional movement with the gentleness of this yoga practice. 

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. This practice improves the flow of energy in your body to support overall mind/body/spirit wellness. Classes include teaching on mudra and mantra that you can carry into your daily life, and conclude with a soothing live music savasana to help you sink into deeper relaxation. 

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.

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 Megan Bathory-Peeler and Krista Feichtinger

Saturdays, January 25, February 22 & March 22: 1:00-5:00pm.

Winter is a time for rest and deep internal quieting. Winter can also be a tough time for many people. It is easy to feel isolated and disconnected. We can attend both needs: We can sustain ourselves by coming together for communal support and connection while sharing a deeply soothing, reflective, and nourishing practice like Continuum.

Come discover bodily joy. Come play with a lightness of being. Come let your living, moving body show you the path to healing what limits you and restore your creative potential this winter.

Continuum is a complete embodiment practice that increases awareness by cueing the mind and body to slow down with audible breath and subtle biological movements. Continuum enhances our ability to rest into what is, to be in the Here and Now, and to be happier in our own skins. By reconnecting to what is alive in each of us with more empathy and compassion for ourselves, we may find it easier to perceive the same in others & offer that gift out into the world around us.

Let these winter classes be a personal weekly retreat, or spiritual bath. Give yourself the gift of rest, reflection, acceptance, compassion, discovery, and inspiration at what can be a challenging time of year.

The longer format classes of Continuum are specifically designed to create a time and space for you to explore what it means to be in a human body-mind. Breath, vocalized sounds, meditative awareness, visual imagery, and simple, biological movements will help you recover and restore sensation and increase the innate fluid movement responses of your body that get lost in the speed of modern life and the cultural quicksand of fear, sorrow, and pain.

Everyone is welcome. Appropriate for all ages and abilities. Bring your curiosity and an open mind, and you’ll have everything you need!

Please wear comfortable layers of clothing you feel most cozy in, have a notebook to write in, and a full water bottle on hand.

Cost: $75/single workshop or $200/pre-pary for all 3 workshops in series

To register, email: megan@somanautiko.com

With Libby Volckening & Win Ridabock

Breathe, relax, and unwind with a restorative yoga practice
accompanied by soft candlelight and a meditative soundscape.

In Restorative Yoga, practitioners settle into a sequence of gentle, supported postures to facilitate gentle, progressive relaxation that restores body, mind and spirit. The journey into deep rest is enhanced by soft candlelight and a meditative soundscape that soothe and center the nervous system.

Join us and experience the magic!

Masks optional. Class size is limited to 12. Pre-register online before 5:00 pm Friday.

Cost: $20. SIGN UP ONLINE

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

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.

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

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