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Queer & Trans Yoga with Sebastian Merrill
This 6-week series is designed especially for LGBTQIA+ identified students who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community oriented environment.
Queer & Trans Yoga with Sebastian Merrill
This 6-week series is designed especially for LGBTQIA+ identified students who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community oriented environment.
Rethinking Art and Business: Discovering Old Beliefs to Connect with Flow
The intersection of art and business is complicated. Creativity requires freedom and flow, a capacity to tune into your artistic vision. And, yet to maintain and sustain yourself, money is required. Yet often the need for financial nourishment feels like compromising your values, selling yourself short, or becoming dependent on others in a way that feels icky. In this workshop, we’ll rethink the meeting point of creativity and business from a place of ease, integrity, and purpose.
This includes:
— Identifying limiting beliefs that keep you out of flow on the business side of your work.
— Reimagining business growth from a place of creativity and self-trust.
— Crafting action steps that feel nourishing and in alignment with both your artistic vision and financial goals.
Beth Pellettieri is a Creative Business Coach and Martha Beck Wayfinder Life Coach. She works with heart-centered, creative business owners to find fun, fulfillment, and financial peace. You can learn more about her work at www.bethpellettieri.com or IG @bethpellettieri.
Registration
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Sunday May 19th from 3:30 pm — 5 pm at Northampton Center for the Arts.
Sliding scale pricing.
Queer & Trans Yoga with Sebastian Merrill
This 6-week series is designed especially for LGBTQIA+ identified students who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community oriented environment.
Radical Rest: Queer & Trans Restorative Yoga
Relieve deep-set tension with yoga instructor Sebastian Merrill (he/him) and licensed massage therapist el nyberg (they/them). Sebastian will guide the class through a meditative sequence of gentle, floor-based, prop-supported restorative postures with long holds (5-12 minutes per shape).
While breathing and settling into rest, Sebastian and el will offer optional hands-on support and bodywork. This workshop is designed specifically for the LGBTQ+ community to provide a supportive space to slow down, receive healing touch, and practice self-care in service of our own well-being and the well-being of our relationships and communities.
This workshop is appropriate for many levels of experience and ability, including beginners and those who struggle to access stillness and relaxation. All bodies, sizes, and abilities are welcome and celebrated.
Please note: Masks are required for this workshop.
Registration
Saturday, May 25th, 12-2pm (in-studio only)
Sliding-scale workshop pricing: $30-50.
A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:
Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.
Queer & Trans Yoga with Sebastian Merrill
This 6-week series is designed especially for LGBTQIA+ identified students who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community oriented environment.
Queer & Trans Yoga with Sebastian Merrill
This 6-week series is designed especially for LGBTQIA+ identified students who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community oriented environment.
Hampshire Pride
Hampshire Pride returns on Saturday, May 4, 2024!
Hampshire Pride is a grassroots organization that formed in 2023. Pride has always been an important part of the fabric of Northampton, and western Massachusetts in general. After not having an event since pre-pandemic, Clay Pearson, along with Celina Almendarez and Kayla Abney felt the calling to bring Pride back to Hampshire County.
With only nine weeks to plan, no prior experience in putting on an event like this, and $0 to start, they brought in several other members and all worked non-stop around the clock to make the event happen on the traditional first weekend of May that started in 1982 (the first pride outside of NYC!) as a response to Stonewall.
The hard work and dedication of all involved certainly paid off as Hampshire Pride 2023 went off with a huge success, estimating around 15,000+ attendees. They are back again this year for Hampshire Pride 2024 and can't wait to celebrate again with you all!
Hampshire Pride is committed to creating a space where people of all genders, gender expressions, sexual orientations, races, and ages can come together in a day of joy.
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Pride Sensual, Sexy Dance Class
On Friday May 3rd from 7pm - 8:30pm, join Kaci Kokoski of Empowered Movement in the Valley for a Pride themed sensual, sexy adult dance class at Northampton Center for the Arts. No experience necessary, this is a safe, inclusive, welcoming space to move your body and build confidence.
Registration
Drop-ins are welcome! Sliding scale $15 - $25 via Venmo
Direct Message @empoweredmovement_inthevalley on Instagram to sign up or get more info
Queer & Trans Yoga with Sebastian Merrill
This 6-week series is designed especially for LGBTQIA+ identified students who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community oriented environment.
Your Soul’s Music: A Writing, Movement, and Sound Workshop
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This workshop is for anyone wanting to find, deepen their connection to, or reawaken their voice. Through guided meditation, journaling prompts, intuitive movement, and mindful movement/Alexander Technique, Threadgill will lead you on a journey to your creative voice. Bring a notebook or journal, wear clothing comfortable to move in, and expect to explore sounds of your voice.
Find out what past participants had to say about this workshop.
Registration
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Sliding-scale workshop pricing: $30-$50
Student price: $15
A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:
Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.
Spring Fashion Market at The Majestic Saloon
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Join BUFFET, Shapeshifters, Styles by Shimmer, Autumn Wilde Arts, and the Majestic Drag Collective for a FAT, QUEER, VINTAGE fashion market at The Majestic Saloon in Northampton on Saturday April 27th from 12pm - 5pm.
Registration
No registration required, this event is FREE to attend.
Click/tap the button below to learn more about The Majestic Saloon.
Lost & Found: Finding the Power In Your Voice Book Reading & Concert
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Join vocalist/composer, voice and movement teacher, and author Pyeng Threadgill as she reads excerpts from her recent memoir, Lost & Found: Finding The Power In Your Voice, and shares a special evening of music.
Growing up in the 1980s in the heart of New York City's downtown music and art scene became fertile ground for seeds of creativity, doubt, and eventual empowerment for Pyeng Threadgill. From motherhood to travel, from ancestry to the body—evolving from a passionate performer to injured performer, from voice student to voice and movement teacher—Lost & Found examines the visceral and ephemeral experiences of the voice, for the body and for oneself in the world, as both a spiritual and political act. Threadgill is joined by guest guitarist and Amherst local John Caban.
Find out what readers are saying about Lost & Found.
Registration
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Donation-based pricing: $10-$40
A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:
Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.
Yoga for Creativity: A Writing & Yoga Workshop in Participation with the Northampton Literary Walk
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With Award-Winning Poet and Yoga Instructor, Sebastian Merrill, this writing and yoga workshop will include an asana practice designed to spark our creativity, followed by generative writing. We'll cultivate a sense of wonder, intuition, and magic with various tools including meditation, bibliomancy, and tarot.
The act of writing is an act of revelation: this workshop will provide you with techniques and skills to act as a medium for your writing, discovering new ideas, shapes, and forms through your own subconscious. This workshop is for anyone who wants tools and structure for supporting their own creative practice.
This event is open to the general public, but we hope to hold space for Northampton Literary Walk Participants. If you would like to participate in the Northampton Literary Walk, learn more here.
Registration
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Pay-what-you-can, by donation: $0-$40
A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:
Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.
Our Way Home: A Writing and Somatic Healing Experience with Sherry Sidoti
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Is healing found in “letting go” as the spiritual teachings insist, or is it found by digging our heals deeper into the earth and holding on to our humanness?
Join Sherry Sidoti, yoga teacher and author of the memoir A Smoke and a Song, to explore movement, meditation, and memoir writing as muse for meaning-making and healing.
The two-hour workshop includes a thirty- minute accessible movement and contemplation practice, a writing prompt and time for free writing, group sharing (optional) and Q & A.
No writing or yoga experience necessary–just a willingness to show up authentically and an openness to discover what wants to find you in the process.
Themes we explore:
Cellular memory and the stories homed in our bodies
Transgenerational inheritance and dharma
The complexity of memory/What is truth?
Movement and contemplation practices we explore:
Gentle yoga practice
Five Sense Awareness
Inner and Outer Resourcing
Registration
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Sliding scale workshop pricing $40-$50
A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:
Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.
A Smoke and Song Book Talk
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Join us in this candid “behind the book” conversation of Sidoti’s A Smoke and a Song, moderated by local author and writing teacher Celia Jeffries. We’ll explore the writing process, risks and rewards of sharing our stories, and the healing potential of embodied writing. Bring your memoir writing and publishing questions!
Sherry Sidoti is a yoga teacher, writing teacher, and award-winning author. Her debut memoir, A Smoke and a Song, earned the Gold Medal for Inspirational Memoir of 2023 with the Living Now Book Awards and the 2023 Reader’s Favorite Five Gold Star Memoir. Sherry lives on Martha’s Vineyard.
Celia Jeffries is a writer, editor, and memoir writing teacher. Her debut novel, Blue Desert, was a finalist for both the Sarton Historical Fiction award and the IPNE Literary Fiction award, and was the February 2023 Editor’s Choice by the Historical Novel Society.
Registration
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A note regarding accessibility to all Sanctuary offerings:
Sanctuary has a range of scholarship options available. If the cost of participating is prohibitive, please email them at studio@yoga-sanctuary.com to learn more.
Queer & Trans Yoga with Sebastian Merrill
This 6-week series is designed especially for LGBTQIA+ identified students who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community oriented environment.
Queer & Trans Yoga with Sebastian Merrill
This 6-week series is designed especially for LGBTQIA+ identified students who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community oriented environment.
Trans Day of Visibility Resource & Art Fair
Let's celebrate our joy, strength, and resiliency on Trans Day of Visibility 2024!
Join Translate Gender’s annual Resource and Art Fair on Sunday 3/31 from 4-7pm at the Northampton Center for the Arts.
You’ll find:
Art made by Trans Makers
Clothing Swap
Community Resource Tables
Name Change Help
Music
Food
The resource and art fair will showcase affirming and inclusive community based organizations; trans and gender expansive artists; a gender affirming clothing swap; name change support and legal resources; as well as light refreshments and performances! The event is free and open to youth, families, and community members.
Find more information on Translate Gender’s Facebook event, linked below.
Small Victories Grand Opening at Thornes Marketplace
Join Small Victories for the opening of their retail shop in Thornes Marketplace! They'll have plantable seed paper greeting cards, art prints, accessories, and more, straight from their studio in Easthampton, MA - plus goody bags for the first 100 visitors who sign up for their mailing list!
As always, Small Victories donates 10% of their profits from every item you purchase to organizations that support biodiversity and imperiled species or improve the lives of gender-expansive and LGBTQ+ individuals.
Registration
This event is FREE
Click the button below to learn more about Small Victories
Queer & Trans Yoga with Sebastian Merrill
This 6-week series is designed especially for LGBTQIA+ identified students who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community oriented environment.
Yoga & Your Pelvic Floor for Birthing Bodies at All Stages
Join Sebastian and Em for a nurturing workshop designed for individuals at all stages of the birthing experience: whether you’re thinking about carrying a baby, are currently pregnant or gestating, or have given birth. This workshop will help you explore your own connection with your pelvic floor, fostering strength, flexibility, and mindfulness.
Queer & Trans Yoga with Sebastian Merrill
This 6-week series is designed especially for LGBTQIA+ identified students who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community oriented environment.
Queer & Trans Yoga with Sebastian Merrill
This 6-week series is designed especially for LGBTQIA+ identified students who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community oriented environment.
Hope is Here: Art in the Café at River-Valley Co-Op
Artist Elayna Sturm (The Fantasies of Youth) translates dreams into something tangible. Via intersectional research and multimedia artwork, Elayna’s work incorporates elements of land, historical contexts, holism, queerness, spirituality, community, and lineage among the intertwining of their own lived experiences.
Registration
This is a FREE event and will be on view through the month of March at the Northampton River Valley Co-Op store in their cafeteria.
Queer & Trans Yoga with Sebastian Merrill
This 6-week series is designed especially for LGBTQIA+ identified students who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community oriented environment.
Yoga for Creativity
This writing and yoga workshop will include an asana practice designed to spark our creativity, followed by generative writing.