Transhealth offers a peer support group for their patients and clients as well as trans and gender-diverse community members ages 13-18. This group is non-clinical and is not intended as group therapy. Rather, this group is for trans and gender-diverse individuals to build support and community through discussions and activities.

Dates: First Thursday of the month

Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm EST

Location: Join either in-person at the Transhealth Community Room or virtually via zoom

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This is a FREE support group.

To register, please complete this form. For more information, please email thcommunity@transhealth.org.

Transforming Parents is a peer support group for parents or caretakers of children who identify beyond the gender binary, including, but not limited to, transgender, non-binary, queer, trans-masc or trans-fem. Some of the children are exploring and questioning their gender identity. This group has been meeting since 2012 to provide information and support. The participants usually have adolescent or adult children; they welcome families with elementary age children. Join them to receive and provide support and learning.

Dates: First Wednesday of Every Month
Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm EST
Location: Join either in-person at the Transhealth Community Room or virtually via zoom

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This is a FREE support group.

To register, please email Transhealth at transformingparents@gmail.com and a member of the team will contact you. Transhealth looks forward to hearing from you!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Join Wistariahurst Museum as they present Mindfulness at the Museum: A SonorousLight™ Sound Bath. This immersive experience is meant to heal and melt away all stress and tension as a cocoon of sound surrounds guests. Unwind and relax as the soothing vibrations of crystal and Himalayan singing bowls, gongs, and other instruments wash over you. These tranquil sessions are led by the amazingly serene Donnabelle Casis, who uses her training with KIN Unified Health Institute in Sound Therapy to help others use sound to help promote physical health and emotional well-being.

Mindfulness at the Museum will be held every fourth Wednesday of the month from 6:30 pm-7:30 pm. For a one-hour sound bath meditation, bring comfortable clothing, a yoga mat, blankets, a pillow, an eye mask (optional), and a water bottle.

Doors open at 6:00 pm, with doors closing at 6:25 pm and the session starts promptly at 6:30 pm.

Space is limited and reservations are required to attend this event. Don’t miss this chance to relax and unwind through the healing power of sound inside Wistariahurst Museum.

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Cost: $35 per person, with a $5 discount for museum members with the code WISTY.

Pre-registration is required, and tickets are non-refundable.

Transhealth invites you to join their hybrid support group for parents who identify and belong to the trans and gender-diverse community. Facilitated by one of their experienced trans Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LICSW), this group is free and open to all.

Dates: Last Wednesday of Every Month

Time: 6pm – 7:30pm EST

Location: Join either in-person at the Transhealth Community Room or virtually via zoom

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This is a FREE support group.

Transhealth invites you to join Writing to Heal, a narrative processing group led by experienced Transhealth therapists, that fosters a safe, supportive, and validating environment to explore through written word the complexity of one’s experience, develop skills to increase self-acceptance, shift troubling life narratives, and practice the use of writing as a grounding technique in moments of distress.

Open to Queer, Trans, Gender-Diverse individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, and mental health difficulties, 18 and older.

Dates: Wednesdays until April 24, 2024

Time: 3:30 – 5pm EST

Location: Virtual

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Cost: Insurance accepted. Private pay options available.

This is a closed group: anyone interested must complete an intake screening prior to acceptance. To sign up or for questions, email narrativegroup@transhealth.org.

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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.

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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.

Transhealth offers a peer support group for their patients and clients as well as trans and gender-diverse community members ages 30+. This group is non-clinical and is not intended as group therapy. Rather, this group is for trans and gender-diverse individuals to build support and community through discussions and activities.

Dates: Third Thursday of the month

Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm EST

Location: Join either in-person at the Transhealth Community Room or virtually via zoom

Registration

Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering.

This is a FREE support group.

To register, please complete this form. For more information, please email thcommunity@transhealth.org.

Transhealth invites you to join Writing to Heal, a narrative processing group led by experienced Transhealth therapists, that fosters a safe, supportive, and validating environment to explore through written word the complexity of one’s experience, develop skills to increase self-acceptance, shift troubling life narratives, and practice the use of writing as a grounding technique in moments of distress.

Open to Queer, Trans, Gender-Diverse individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, and mental health difficulties, 18 and older.

Dates: Wednesdays until April 24, 2024

Time: 3:30 – 5pm EST

Location: Virtual

Registration

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Cost: Insurance accepted. Private pay options available.

This is a closed group: anyone interested must complete an intake screening prior to acceptance. To sign up or for questions, email narrativegroup@transhealth.org.

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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

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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.

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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.

Transhealth invites you to join Writing to Heal, a narrative processing group led by experienced Transhealth therapists, that fosters a safe, supportive, and validating environment to explore through written word the complexity of one’s experience, develop skills to increase self-acceptance, shift troubling life narratives, and practice the use of writing as a grounding technique in moments of distress.

Open to Queer, Trans, Gender-Diverse individuals experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, and mental health difficulties, 18 and older.

Dates: Wednesdays until April 24, 2024

Time: 3:30 – 5pm EST

Location: Virtual

Registration

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Cost: Insurance accepted. Private pay options available.

This is a closed group: anyone interested must complete an intake screening prior to acceptance. To sign up or for questions, email narrativegroup@transhealth.org.

Join Fran Astino (she/her) as we gather to harness the powerful energy of the Full Moon, engaging in rituals, meditation, breathwork, and journaling. Full Moons are time for release, letting go of what no longer serves and embracing the fullness of one’s potential. The circle provides a safe and nurturing space for individuals to share their experiences, receive support, and amplify their intentions.

Fran will offer a sound bath and guided meditation, along with opportunities to learn more about the Full Moon and how to harness its energy!

Registration

This event is $30.

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TIP: Purchase the Full Moon Circle Workshop Credit and then complete registration for the event.

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Hosted by Elayna Sturm (they/them)

Coming out of Winter, a state of rest and dreaming, we enter into the freshness of Spring! We shed our winter layers of insulation and protection as we grow anew into the world. Sewing hopeful seeds, we embrace intentional action and create the world(s) we want to live in. In this spring equinox event, we will come together to reflect on winter and set our intentions for spring through a communal altar, planting seeds (literal and metaphorical) and collaging/vision boarding. If you’re curious but not sure if this is your jam, you are invited to come anyways with any craft you want to work on and bask in the cozy creative space of Sulis Studio with us!

Planting/potting supplies will be provided, as well as some collaging supplies. If you want to bring something to add to the communal altar (a small trinket, candle, note, drawing, flower, leaf, etc.) or bring your own crafting supplies, you are welcome to.

This event has a cap of 20 people. Pre-registration is recommended, though I will do my best to update the website/my instagram story with information about how many spaces we have left the day of.

If you have any questions/inquires about the event, please don’t hesitate to email me at thefantasiesofyouth@gmail.com or dm me on instagram at @thefantasiesofyouth

Sulis Studio Accessibility info: Sulis Studio is on the second floor, #253, and can be accessed via stairs or ramp plus elevator. If you plan to use the elevator, please contact Elayna (thefantasiesofyouth@gmail.com or insta: @thefantasiesofyouth) to assist in operating it. The studio has lots of open space for moving around in, and a variety of seating/standing options. There are stalled and wheelchair accessible bathrooms on the first floor of the building.

*Masks are required for this event*