With Libby Volckening and Win Ridabock

This class is FULL! See you next time, February 27!

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.

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

With Emily Redman, and Myk Freedman on lap steel.

Breathe, relax, and unwind with a flowing yoga practice guided by Emily Redman and accompanied by soft candlelight and meditative music provided by Myk Freedman on lap steel.

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.

SIGN UP ONLINE

Community Yoga & Wellness Center is a scent free space.

With Jorie Morgan

Saturdays from 4-5pm: January 10, February 21, March 21, April 18, May 16

Drop in, pay what you can, all are welcome.

Sound Baths for Sensitive Souls are group sound healing experiences that can assist you in relaxing and restoring in a safe environment. Many highly sensitive people (HSPs) are drawn to sound healing work, but some will leave experiences feeling drained, overstimulated, or even unwell. Trauma survivors, in particular, can benefit greatly from sound healing and can also be prone to vibrational reactivity. Sound Baths for Sensitive Souls are carefully designed to be gentle on the nervous system so that all those in attendance can rest, heal, and restore.

In these monthly gatherings, Jorie will work with a combination of crystal bowls, temple bells, and chimes. These instruments work with the principles of resonance, entrainment, and cellular healing in promoting general relaxation, resetting the nervous system, restoring mental clarity, and aiding in cellular restoration.  

Please plan on arriving at least five minutes early in order to set up a comfortable space for yourself. The studio provides mats, blankets, bolsters and chairs; and feel free to bring anything that would help you to feel more comfortable (eye mask, special blanket, pillow, etc).

Questions? Email Jorie at woollymammothstudio@gmail.com.

Bio: Jorie  Morgan(they/them) is a queer trauma survivor who believes that sensitivity and creativity are superpowers, and they use these tools in sound healing work to restore health to others and themselves. As a highly sensitive person (HSP), they have been both drawn to and challenged by most sound healing methods. So they set out to create sound healing experiences for other sensitive souls. Jorie uses a combination of crystal bowls, temple bells, and chimes. 

As an visual and performing artist, Jorie pulls from their background in music, composition, and improvisation to create experiences that are as artistic as they are healing. They compose each sound bath (whether one-on-one or group) using specific musical intervals known to embrace, release, and call in different emotional and physical states. This musical approach combines seamlessly with their intuitive skills and the inherent healing capabilities of the instruments.

Sound Healing Contraindications:

Please reach out to Jorie at  woollymammothstudio@gmail.com if any of the following apply to you, or if you have any questions. 

• Pregnancy 
  Avoid using sound healing instruments on the body during pregnancy, especially during the first 12 weeks. 

• Heart conditions 
  Keep a minimum distance of 20 cm from any implanted heart pacemaker, stent, or shunt. You should also consult your doctor before using sound healing if you have carotid stenosis, cardiac pacemakers, artificial heart valves, or cardiac arrhythmias. 

• Epilepsy 
  Some rare forms of epilepsy may be triggered by sound. You should consult your doctor to ensure you receive the right anti-epileptic medication and are in no danger of seizure from sound vibrations.

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

Registration Still Open and Spots Available!

With Jesse Leavitt

6 Thursdays: 10:30-11:30am, January 8 - February 12.

Cost: $90-120 sliding scale per person for the entire series.

Register by clicking this link

About the practice:

Trauma Sensitive Yoga is a gentle practice with guided options focused on present moment experience. 

You get to explore your own pace, pauses, and choices from the facilitated invitations and examples. 

Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga is an evidence-based intervention for complex trauma that uses body-up awareness of internal cues rather than cognitive processing. You will not be asked to share about any traumatic experiences. 

You can read more from Jesse and a private yoga practice blog written together with a participant in TCTSY sessions here: https://www.healwithcfte.org/blog/jesse-mariana

Individual info session via phone call available after brief registration form. Register by clicking this link

What is Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY)? TCTSY is an evidence-based intervention (EBI) for complex trauma and PTSD. Although TCTSY employs physical forms and movements, the emphasis is not on the external expression or appearance (i.e. doing it "right"), or receiving the approval of an external authority. Rather, the focus is on the internal experience of the participant and being present with oneself.  

This shift in orientation, from the external to the internal, is a key attribute of TCTSY as a complementary treatment for complex trauma. With our approach, the power resides within the individual-and growing their awareness of internal physical cues--to guide survivors toward restoring a felt sense of safety in their relationship to their body and to others.

Further, by focusing on the felt sense of the body to inform choice-making, TCTSY allows participants to restore their connection of mind and body and cultivate a sense of agency that is often compromised as a result of trauma. 

You are welcome to watch this video or share it with your clients who are wondering what/why trauma-sensitive yoga could help them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhz25kalsJ4 

Accessibility: Community Yoga and Wellness Center is a scent-free space located on the second floor, accessible by stairs. Questions about Community Yoga? Call 413-774-4700 or email info@community-yoga.com

About Jesse Leavitt:
Jesse is founder of transformative healing retreats through Our Fire Collective and an outpatient clinician at Greenfield Clinical and Support Options, Inc. He completed Trauma Center TraumaSensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Facilitator Certification in 2022. He has been coaching, counseling, and teaching for over 20 years, predominantly working with trauma survivors of all ages and care-work professionals in a position to steward secondary trauma. He engages in many forms of movement and contemplative practice for his own well-being - of which yoga is just one that creates safe enough ways to have a body and form a relationship with it. He is passionate about exploring embodied healing in partnership with others and their work and natural environments.

The School of Trusting The Voice presents
GROUP SINGING CLASS
Monthly on first Wednesdays: 7:15 – 8:45 pm (January 7, February 4, March 4 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 Kat Now

Special theme this month - Ganesha - for Good Luck to start the New Year!

Every month on First Fridays!

Leave behind the hectic pace of the modern world to find refuge within your own body in our beautiful studio with the glow of candlelight. Restorative yoga helps to calm the nervous system with gentle postures supported by props. This peaceful practice will quiet your mind and body and 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 to 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.

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, YouTube @EmbodiedMindfulness, and on Instagram @EmbodiedMindfulness.

With Megan Bathory-Peeler

Thursday January 1st ~ 10am–2pm. Beginner’s Welcome. Pre-registration required.

We live on an earth where change is the only thing we can be sure of. And our silky bodies, webbed with wisdoms belied by the rushings of our 21st-century lives, have the pacings of plants budding and light expanding.

~ Carolyn McVickar Edwards

2025 has challenged so many of us in so many ways. It has been easy to get flooded with information, to feel overwhelmed and ungrounded more easily. The events of 2025 have likely made connections more vivid, alive, and intense as many of us experienced new levels of opening, expansion, and growth in Self, with others, and in life itself. It is time for a clean start.

On January 1st, 2026, this annual Resolutions in Motion retreat offers a Clean Start for a new year. This retreat will create space for you to dissolve any residue of 2025 and open to the vast sea of potential that is the year ahead. Open to the creative and transformational opportunities available to each of us, especially if we are willing to dive beneath the noise, go deeper, and stretch ourselves further than ever before.

Space is limited in the beautiful Community Yoga & Wellness studio. ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUESTED.

The mind’s perception of our experience forms the world we live in. In this New Year’s Day retreat, we will SLOW DOWN, increase our awareness, and enhance our ability to sense and more accurately perceive ourselves in the present moment. With explorations of sound & silence; stillness & movement; art & language, we will practice how to surrender more gracefully, with less resistance, to change and reclaim the power of choosing how we respond to what is by entering the deep listening. This is Continuum.

What is the deep listening?

… a greeting from the secret ones inside the heart, a letter.

The branches of your intelligence grow new leaves in the wind of this listening.

There’s a river inside every human being.

Learn to be companions with it.

Give more of your life to this listening.

~ Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273)

4 hour retreat: $75. Limited resources? Pay what your heart allows.
Pre-registration required.

For more info/to register: Megan@Somanautiko.com  •  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.

Free and Open to All. SIGN UP ONLINE

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

With Megan Bathory-Peeler

Saturday, December 20, 2025 • 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. Continuum is a profoundly relevant awareness-awakening practice that reminds us how to slow down, quiet our minds, and open our hearts.

Solstice is the perfect time to embrace the contracting forces of our own resistance and meet the unknown with power, curiosity, and creativity. A cacao ceremony will be offered to enhance heart-mind opening as an optional part of entering the explorations.

The longer format of Continuum events allows us to 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.

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. What a wonderful way to approach this sacred time of year.

 Sit with your friends; don’t go back to sleep

Don’t sink like a fish to the bottom of the sea.

Life’s water flows from darkness.

Search the darkness, don’t run from it.

Night travelers are full of light,

and you are, too; don’t leave this companionship.

~ Rumi 

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

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 15 students. Pre-register online before 5:00pm Friday.

SIGN UP ONLINE

Community Yoga & Wellness Center is a scent free space.

Come clear your mind and soothe your heart with an evening of original call-and-response devotional music that weaves Sanskrit and Buddhist mantras into an accessible blend of modern musical styles. Everyone is welcome including kids of all ages!

This kirtan will be offered both in person ~AND~ via Facebook Live (Link below), and your mantra music guides for this uniquely uplifting mantra music experience will be Libby Volckening (keys/vox), Ezra Landis (guitar), Thomas Matherly (bass), and and special guest Ben Carr (percussion).

$20-30 suggested donation appreciated: 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 www.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), just click on this link around 7:00 pm: https://www.facebook.com/events/824040236982735 ^ Close any pop ups (and/or press ESC key) 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!

With Jesse Leavitt

Free informational session with Q&A and sample practice. This is an optional session and does not commit the participant to the full series. No registration needed; drop-ins welcome!

About the series: 6-part Trauma Sensitive Yoga series dates: 10:30am-11:30am, Thursdays, Jan 8, 15, 22, 29, Feb 5, 12. $90-120 sliding scale per person for entire series. Register by clicking this link

About the practice:

Trauma Sensitive Yoga is a gentle practice with guided options focused on present moment experience. 

You get to explore your own pace, pauses, and choices from the facilitated invitations and examples. 

Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga is an evidence-based intervention for complex trauma that uses body-up awareness of internal cues rather than cognitive processing. You will not be asked to share about any traumatic experiences. 

You can read more from Jesse and a private yoga practice blog written together with a participant in TCTSY sessions here: https://www.healwithcfte.org/blog/jesse-mariana

Facilitator Bio:

Jesse is founder of transformative healing retreats through Our Fire Collective and an outpatient clinician at Greenfield Clinical and Support Options, Inc. He completed Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) Facilitator Certification in 2022. He has been coaching, counseling, and teaching for over 20 years, predominantly working with trauma survivors of all ages and care-work professionals in a position to steward secondary trauma. He engages in many forms of movement and contemplative practice for his own well-being - of which yoga is just one that creates safe enough ways to have a body and form a relationship with it. He is passionate about exploring embodied healing in partnership with others and their work and natural environments.

What is Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY)? 

TCTSY is an evidence-based intervention (EBI) for complex trauma and PTSD. Although TCTSY employs physical forms and movements, the emphasis is not on the external expression or appearance (i.e. doing it "right"), or receiving the approval of an external authority. Rather, the focus is on the internal experience of the participant and being present with oneself.  

This shift in orientation, from the external to the internal, is a key attribute of TCTSY as a complementary treatment for complex trauma. With our approach, the power resides within the individual-and growing their awareness of internal physical cues--to guide survivors toward restoring a felt sense of safety in their relationship to their body and to others.

Further, by focusing on the felt sense of the body to inform choice-making, TCTSY allows participants to restore their connection of mind and body and cultivate a sense of agency that is often compromised as a result of trauma. 

You are welcome to watch this video or share it with your clients who are wondering what/why trauma-sensitive yoga could help them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhz25kalsJ4 

With Kat Now

Every month on First Fridays!

Leave behind the hectic pace of the modern world to find refuge within your own body in our beautiful studio with the glow of candlelight. Restorative yoga helps to calm the nervous system with gentle postures supported by props. This peaceful practice will quiet your mind and body and 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 to 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.

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, YouTube @EmbodiedMindfulness, and on Instagram @EmbodiedMindfulness.

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.

With Kat Now

Leave behind the hectic pace of the modern world to find refuge within your own body in our beautiful studio with the glow of candlelight. Restorative yoga helps to calm the nervous system with gentle postures supported by props. This peaceful practice will quiet your mind and body and 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 to 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, YouTube @EmbodiedMindfulness, and on Instagram @EmbodiedMindfulness.

With Emily Redman, and Myk Freedman on lap steel.

Breathe, relax, and unwind with a flowing yoga practice guided by Emily Redman and accompanied by soft candlelight and meditative music provided by Myk Freedman on lap steel.

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.

SIGN UP ONLINE

Community Yoga & Wellness Center is a scent free space.

Weekly on Sundays: 6pm-7:30pm
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; 20-minute silent meditation practice (sitting, laying down, standing); 10 minutes walking meditation; 20-minute silent meditation practice; 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

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

Lotus Light Kirtan invites you to a beautiful evening of devotional music & chanting- singing from our various faiths, raising our energies and connecting to our light within. Join us and our special guests as we raise the vibes in Greenfield!

Suggested donation at the door: $20
Cash or Venmo

Please note: Community Yoga & Wellness Center is a scent free space

Questions, or for more info: 404-295-3169

With Kat Now

Every month on First Fridays!

Leave behind the hectic pace of the modern world to find refuge within your own body in our beautiful studio with the glow of candlelight. Restorative yoga helps to calm the nervous system with gentle postures supported by props. This peaceful practice will quiet your mind and body and 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 to 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.

Cost: $20 SIGN UP ONLINE 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, YouTube @EmbodiedMindfulness, and on Instagram @EmbodiedMindfulness.

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 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.

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