CANCELLED

With Libby Garofalo, Breathwork Mastery practitioner, and Maressa McKee, Somatic Movement

A daylong retreat for moving beyond overthinking and into felt experience. We will journal, explore somatic movement and experience a Breathwork Mastery session.

This retreat includes:
-Guided intention setting to bridge body & mind
-A somatic movement class for nervous system support
-A homemade organic lunch
-A Rebirth Breathwork group session with breathe and debrief
-Support, nourishment and community

All are welcome. No prior experience necessary.

Cost: $225. Pre-registration required. Lunch provided. Space limited to 6 participants. Click here for more information and to register

Facilitators:

Libby Garofalo, LMT
Breathwork Mastery Practitioner, therapeutic massage & health + wellbeing coach

Libby is a breathwork facilitator and massage therapist with over 20 years of experience in bodywork. Her work is grounded in a nervous system–informed approach, with an emphasis on pacing, consent, and building connection to the body.
She is trained and certified through The School of Breathwork in a 1200+ hour Breathwork Mastery program (Rebirthing Breathwork), and spent a decade as a birth doula — experience that informs her attuned and responsive facilitation style.
She offers breathwork online, and breathwork and massage in person in the VT/MA/NH tri-state area.

Maressa McKee, LMT
CranioSacral, Pelvic floor/core rehab, somatic support, therapeutic massage, movement & body literacy classes

Maressa brings a diverse background in therapeutic modalities including massage, craniosacral therapy, somatic movement, pelvic care, sound healing, and herbalism.

Her work centers on helping people build a more connected, compassionate relationship with their bodies, with a focus on nervous system repatterning through movement and bodywork.
She has a particular interest in women’s health and offers both in-person and remote sessions, including pelvic floor and core rehabilitation, somatic movement, and craniosacral/massage hybrid work.

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

Swimming in Eros: A Love Warrior Continuum Dive

Bud Harris wrote: “Eros means personal relatedness, a keen interest in relationships, and a prevailing attitude that works for conciliation and reconciliation. It supports healthy interdependence on every level of life. Eros evokes self-integration, subjectivity, and the concern of individuals. Eros is rooted in the material universe and the earthy feminine qualities of love, receptivity, and transformation—new life being born. Eros supports the love of life, individuals, and the pains of bringing forth the future. Eros and love do not lead us to an end of the challenges of human life, but they support us in facing them, living through them, and when feasible being transformed by them in ways that enhance our growth, character, and wisdom.”

Continuum is a practice of swimming in Eros.

Bud Harris writes on: “Without being aware of it we have also created a culture that is murdering the great feminine principle of Eros—love, the source of life—that supports life and our potentials of healing and transformation. As a natural consequence of this murder, we are killing our humanity.

When love stops, the symptoms of the imbalance—anxiety, hopelessness, despair, mistrust, and then even violence and terror—increase.

The quest of a love warrior is to never settle for an interior wasteland caused by a discouraged or barren heart. We must be seeking the Grail in the forests of our interior lives. Choosing life means becoming fully engaged in living with body, mind, and heart. To be fully engaged with life we must be fully committed to our inner lives and resources. This means we must be on the journey to discover and mature our capacities for passion and compassion, for love and strength. Becoming a love warrior is to confront our fears, our suffering, our despair, and the shadow sides of our lives, our culture, and our history. And it is to do this with the confidence that comes from the good we have done and are still capable of doing.

William Butler Yeats wrote, ‘It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for the soldier to fight on the battlefield.’ It takes even more courage to examine the dark corners of our collective soul. We need love warriors to face and reverse the course we are on.”

Are you ready to become a love warrior? 

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

self love is

a revolution

that every atom

in your body is

marching for.

~ by s.r.w

Continuum is at its core a deep listening practice that cultivates dynamic awareness throughout the body. Beginning with simple breaths and vocalized sounds, these vibrations invoke subtle and spontaneous movements within the body. As these intrinsic movements emerge, they spark creative sensory imagery and increase fluid responsiveness in our embodied minds. Within the first few breaths, we recover and restore sensation and awareness that has been flattened and lost by the speed of modern life. This immediately increases our vitality, adaptability, and immunity — making us more resilient. Continuum is a profoundly relevant awareness-awakening practice that reminds us how to slow down, quiet our minds, and open our hearts.

Slowing down to the speed of water, our tissues hydrate themselves, becoming less dense and more spacious. Continuum helps us relocate ourselves, separate from the sensory overload of technology-driven culture, and drop into our place in the interconnected web of life on earth. It then becomes possible to explore the edges between the known and the unknown in Continuum’s essential inquiry — what is a body?

Continuum develops the non-judgmental witness, allowing to us to be fully present to our own process, without expectations of outcome. This enhances our ability to rest into what is, to be in the Here and Now. By reconnecting to what is most alive in each of us with more empathy and compassion for ourselves, it becomes easier to perceive the same in others and offer these gifts out to human and non-human beings around us. Continuum is a practice that deepens our trust in our own inherent wisdom and the interdependence of all things —skills and awareness that are critically needed in this time of ongoing human sanity recovery and climate-driven adaptability.

“Justice is what love looks like in public just like tenderness is what love feels like in private.” ~ Cornel West

 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/text: 413.772.0078

Sacred Investment: $40-$75 sliding scale ~ Those who can offer more help those who can offer less.

Payments can be made via:
1) Cash or check – Easy! Bring to class!

2) DIGITAL TRANSFER: Venmo (@meganbathory-peeler) or Zelle – Megan Bathory-Peeler

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.

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 Jorie Morgan

3rd Saturdays from 4-5pm: 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.

With Kat Now

Finding Inner Harmony with Yoga and Sound: A Nourishing Spring Series
A 3-part series that weaves together sound and yoga to nourish tired souls yearning for Spring.

Dates: March 20, April 17 & May 15, 6:00-7:30pm. Attend one or more!

Part 2: Tend To Creativity with Rest: A Restorative Practice Honoring the Goddess of Music

Connect to your innate creativity through a soothing restorative yoga practice with a peaceful live music savasana dedicated to the Goddess of music, insight and wisdom. Learn mudra and mantra to honor Saraswati, the Mother of Innovation, to support creating order out of chaos. Together we will dedicate our practice to connecting to Saraswati’s guidance in finding peace within as we ride the changing tides of life.

Everyone is welcome, regardless of prior experience with yoga, music, or lived experience with anxiety. This workshop is intended as a supplemental wellness practice, and does not replace professional physical or mental health.

Cost: $20 per class. SIGN UP ONLINE

Click here for a short video “sneak peek”!

Bio: Kat Now is a lifelong singer who trained at The Boston Conservatory and performed opera for 20 years. Kat teaches yoga and music as a therapeutic mindfulness practice. A Kripalu-trained teacher with additional training and experience teaching accessible yoga for disabled and neurodivergent communities. Learn more about Kat and Embodied Mindfulness offerings on her website, YouTube @ EmbodiedMindfulness, and on Instagram @ EmbodiedMindfulness.

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!

Leave behind the hectic pace of the modern world to find refuge within your own body in our beautiful, peaceful studio. 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: 7:15 – 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.

An 7-week committed series
April 1 – May 13
Drop-ins welcome for the first session

9:30-11:30am

About the Series

We will explore movement as an expression of material intelligence: sensation, gravity, impulse, rest. Practices invite participants to listen beneath habit and story, allowing motion to arise from contact with what is already present.

This is a space for remembering that bodies belong to the world—and that the world moves through our bodies.

Through movement, stillness, and attentive witnessing, we explore how bodies weave themselves into larger patterns: land, lineage, culture, and the living present. Practices and frames draw from Authentic Movement, Somatic Experiencing®, and Cultural Somatics. We work with sensation, image, impulse, and rest, allowing meaning to emerge slowly.

This is a space for:

• re-patterning relationship with self and environment

• cultivating trust in bodily intelligence

• exploring support, edges, and choice

• being witnessed without interpretation or fixing

This series is open to anyone curious about how embodied practice can support resilience, agency, and a sense of place—both within oneself and in the wider world. 
No prior experience is necessary.

Payment

Sliding scale: $155-315
Drop-in: $25–45

If cost feels prohibitive, please reach out and we can work something out.

Venmo: @Daniel-Davis-41442
PayPal or questions: danbeardavis (at) gmail (dot) com

A Note on Care and Support

Somatic care and witnessing 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 encouraged 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 me directly for a conversation before joining.

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

About the Instructor

Daniel Bear Davis (MFA, SEP) began training in Somatic Experiencing in 2012 and has been working in private practice since 2018. He regularly assists SE trainings and is an approved session provider to SE students. He brings an understanding of the body informed by 15 years of experience as a bodyworker 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, and currently offers one-on-one Somatic Coaching sessions.
www.bodywisdomrestoration.com
www.wovenbodywellness.com

Swimming in Eros: A Love Warrior Continuum Dive

Bud Harris wrote: “Eros means personal relatedness, a keen interest in relationships, and a prevailing attitude that works for conciliation and reconciliation. It supports healthy interdependence on every level of life. Eros evokes self-integration, subjectivity, and the concern of individuals. Eros is rooted in the material universe and the earthy feminine qualities of love, receptivity, and transformation—new life being born. Eros supports the love of life, individuals, and the pains of bringing forth the future. Eros and love do not lead us to an end of the challenges of human life, but they support us in facing them, living through them, and when feasible being transformed by them in ways that enhance our growth, character, and wisdom.”

Continuum is a practice of swimming in Eros.

Bud Harris writes on: “Without being aware of it we have also created a culture that is murdering the great feminine principle of Eros—love, the source of life—that supports life and our potentials of healing and transformation. As a natural consequence of this murder, we are killing our humanity.

When love stops, the symptoms of the imbalance—anxiety, hopelessness, despair, mistrust, and then even violence and terror—increase.

The quest of a love warrior is to never settle for an interior wasteland caused by a discouraged or barren heart. We must be seeking the Grail in the forests of our interior lives. Choosing life means becoming fully engaged in living with body, mind, and heart. To be fully engaged with life we must be fully committed to our inner lives and resources. This means we must be on the journey to discover and mature our capacities for passion and compassion, for love and strength. Becoming a love warrior is to confront our fears, our suffering, our despair, and the shadow sides of our lives, our culture, and our history. And it is to do this with the confidence that comes from the good we have done and are still capable of doing.

William Butler Yeats wrote, ‘It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for the soldier to fight on the battlefield.’ It takes even more courage to examine the dark corners of our collective soul. We need love warriors to face and reverse the course we are on.”

Are you ready to become a love warrior? 

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

self love is

a revolution

that every atom

in your body is

marching for.

~ by s.r.w

Continuum is at its core a deep listening practice that cultivates dynamic awareness throughout the body. Beginning with simple breaths and vocalized sounds, these vibrations invoke subtle and spontaneous movements within the body. As these intrinsic movements emerge, they spark creative sensory imagery and increase fluid responsiveness in our embodied minds. Within the first few breaths, we recover and restore sensation and awareness that has been flattened and lost by the speed of modern life. This immediately increases our vitality, adaptability, and immunity — making us more resilient. Continuum is a profoundly relevant awareness-awakening practice that reminds us how to slow down, quiet our minds, and open our hearts.

Slowing down to the speed of water, our tissues hydrate themselves, becoming less dense and more spacious. Continuum helps us relocate ourselves, separate from the sensory overload of technology-driven culture, and drop into our place in the interconnected web of life on earth. It then becomes possible to explore the edges between the known and the unknown in Continuum’s essential inquiry — what is a body?

Continuum develops the non-judgmental witness, allowing to us to be fully present to our own process, without expectations of outcome. This enhances our ability to rest into what is, to be in the Here and Now. By reconnecting to what is most alive in each of us with more empathy and compassion for ourselves, it becomes easier to perceive the same in others and offer these gifts out to human and non-human beings around us. Continuum is a practice that deepens our trust in our own inherent wisdom and the interdependence of all things —skills and awareness that are critically needed in this time of ongoing human sanity recovery and climate-driven adaptability.

“Justice is what love looks like in public just like tenderness is what love feels like in private.” ~ Cornel West

 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/text: 413.772.0078

Sacred Investment: $40-$75 sliding scale ~ Those who can offer more help those who can offer less.

Payments can be made via:
1) Cash or check – Easy! Bring to class!

2) DIGITAL TRANSFER: Venmo (@meganbathory-peeler) or Zelle – Megan Bathory-Peeler

With Libby Volckening and Nash Atkins

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 to 12 students.  Registration closes Friday 5 PM.

SIGN UP ONLINE

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

With Jorie Morgan

3rd Saturdays from 4-5pm: 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.

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 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, peaceful studio. 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: 7:15 – 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

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 Jorie Morgan

3rd Saturdays from 4-5pm: 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.

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

Breathe, relax, and unwind with an integrated 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.

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Community Yoga & Wellness Center is a scent free space.

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

Swimming in Eros: A Love Warrior Continuum Dive

Bud Harris wrote: “Eros means personal relatedness, a keen interest in relationships, and a prevailing attitude that works for conciliation and reconciliation. It supports healthy interdependence on every level of life. Eros evokes self-integration, subjectivity, and the concern of individuals. Eros is rooted in the material universe and the earthy feminine qualities of love, receptivity, and transformation—new life being born. Eros supports the love of life, individuals, and the pains of bringing forth the future. Eros and love do not lead us to an end of the challenges of human life, but they support us in facing them, living through them, and when feasible being transformed by them in ways that enhance our growth, character, and wisdom.”

Continuum is a practice of swimming in Eros.

Bud Harris writes on: “Without being aware of it we have also created a culture that is murdering the great feminine principle of Eros—love, the source of life—that supports life and our potentials of healing and transformation. As a natural consequence of this murder, we are killing our humanity.

When love stops, the symptoms of the imbalance—anxiety, hopelessness, despair, mistrust, and then even violence and terror—increase.

The quest of a love warrior is to never settle for an interior wasteland caused by a discouraged or barren heart. We must be seeking the Grail in the forests of our interior lives. Choosing life means becoming fully engaged in living with body, mind, and heart. To be fully engaged with life we must be fully committed to our inner lives and resources. This means we must be on the journey to discover and mature our capacities for passion and compassion, for love and strength. Becoming a love warrior is to confront our fears, our suffering, our despair, and the shadow sides of our lives, our culture, and our history. And it is to do this with the confidence that comes from the good we have done and are still capable of doing.

William Butler Yeats wrote, ‘It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for the soldier to fight on the battlefield.’ It takes even more courage to examine the dark corners of our collective soul. We need love warriors to face and reverse the course we are on.”

Are you ready to become a love warrior? 

Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to commit to life, to the power of love; to embrace the contracting forces of our own resistance, and to meet the unknown with power, curiosity, and creativity. A cacao or tea ceremony will be offered to enhance heart-mind opening as an optional part of entering the explorations.

self love is

a revolution

that every atom

in your body is

marching for.

~ by s.r.w

Continuum is at its core a deep listening practice that cultivates dynamic awareness throughout the body. Beginning with simple breaths and vocalized sounds, these vibrations invoke subtle and spontaneous movements within the body. As these intrinsic movements emerge, they spark creative sensory imagery and increase fluid responsiveness in our embodied minds. Within the first few breaths, we recover and restore sensation and awareness that has been flattened and lost by the speed of modern life. This immediately increases our vitality, adaptability, and immunity — making us more resilient. Continuum is a profoundly relevant awareness-awakening practice that reminds us how to slow down, quiet our minds, and open our hearts.

Slowing down to the speed of water, our tissues hydrate themselves, becoming less dense and more spacious. Continuum helps us relocate ourselves, separate from the sensory overload of technology-driven culture, and drop into our place in the interconnected web of life on earth. It then becomes possible to explore the edges between the known and the unknown in Continuum’s essential inquiry — what is a body?

Continuum develops the non-judgmental witness, allowing to us to be fully present to our own process, without expectations of outcome. This enhances our ability to rest into what is, to be in the Here and Now. By reconnecting to what is most alive in each of us with more empathy and compassion for ourselves, it becomes easier to perceive the same in others and offer these gifts out to human and non-human beings around us. Continuum is a practice that deepens our trust in our own inherent wisdom and the interdependence of all things —skills and awareness that are critically needed in this time of ongoing human sanity recovery and climate-driven adaptability.

“Justice is what love looks like in public just like tenderness is what love feels like in private.” ~ Cornel West

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/text: 413.772.0078

Sacred Investment: $30-$50 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 – Easy! Bring to class!

2) DIGITAL TRANSFER: Venmo (@meganbathory-peeler) or Zelle – Megan Bathory-Peeler

CLASS IS FULL!

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

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: 7:15 – 8:45 pm (February 4, March 4, April 1 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

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.

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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