Upcoming events
Happenings in Western MA by and for LGBTQIA+ folks and our allies
New Year’s Eve Yoga
with Sebastian Merrill: As we approach the new year, we will gather in the warmth of great company to honor what has been and turn our hearts toward new possibility. Re-align yourself with what matters most to you and receive the power of community to magnify our individual and collective intentions. This workshop will include joyful yoga, meditation, rest, and contemplation.
Sound Bath for Sensitive Souls
with Jorie Morgan: Sound Baths for Sensitive Souls are group sound healing experiences that will assist you in relaxing and restoring in a safe environment.
The Elements of Contact
Join Taina in an exploration of the many varied qualities of Contact Improvisation – slow and grounding, fast and flowing, energetic and emotional. Using the elements of Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Ether as our guides, you’ll cultivate these qualities in yourself and your dances.
Sound Bath for Sensitive Souls
with Jorie Morgan: Sound Baths for Sensitive Souls are group sound healing experiences that will assist you in relaxing and restoring in a safe environment.
Benefit Class: Thanksgiving Day Yoga
with Sebastian Merrill: All are welcome to join us for this special Thanksgiving Day yoga class to benefit Transhealth. Transhealth serves trans and gender-diverse communities through primary care, mental health care, community support, education, and advocacy. They are the only independent, non-profit healthcare organization in the U.S. solely devoted to serving trans and gender-diverse communities. All experience levels welcome. Pay-what-you-can, by donation: $5-$150.* All proceeds will go to Transhealth. Thank you for helping us support our local community.
Benefit Class: Sound Bath for Sensitive Souls
with Jorie Morgan: Special Sound Bath to raise funds for Trans Relocation Support in Western Mass. Every being has the right to feel safe and comfortable enough to relax, regroup and heal. In this time, when transgender and nonbinary individuals are being threatened and denied care and services, let us open our hearts and our capacity for giving. Let us support those of us who need sanctuary, and work to create communities of belonging. For this special Sound Bath, Certified Sound Healer Jorie Morgan will curate a journey of sound designed to settle our nervous systems, ground and open our energetic systems, and invite in qualities of lightness, curiosity, hope and connectivity. All who attend are invited to show up mindfully with intentions of allowing sound to settle our bodies so that we may engage in the work of healing.
Yoga and Sound
Immerse yourself in this blissful workshop of movement and sound meditation. This 90-minute Yoga & Sound workshop combines a revitalizing yoga practice with the deeply relaxing and restorative benefits of sound meditation.
Gentle Yoga at Forbes Library
An exciting collaboration with Forbes Library! Connect with your breath and align your body, mind, and spirit with a slow, grounding flow. Explore a variety of yoga postures and breathing techniques, practicing in a way that feels authentic to you. By the end of the class, you should feel more grounded and centered, with a deeper connection to yourself. All experience levels welcome. Free and open to the public.
Sound Bath for Sensitive Souls
Sound Baths for Sensitive Souls are group sound healing experiences that will 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.
Contact Improvisation for Cultivating Safety and Curiosity
This workshop is geared toward beginners who feel curious about learning Contact Improvisation (CI) but who have questions about how to ensure physical, emotional, or spiritual safety. Perhaps you’ve had an uncomfortable experience on the dance floor or have specific boundaries around touch or connection that you don’t know how to communicate. Maybe you’re energetically sensitive and want more tools for feeling safe in a communal dance space. Open to beginners and those with experience with CI.
Gentle Yoga at Forbes Library
An exciting collaboration with Forbes Library! Connect with your breath and align your body, mind, and spirit with a slow, grounding flow. Explore a variety of yoga postures and breathing techniques, practicing in a way that feels authentic to you. By the end of the class, you should feel more grounded and centered, with a deeper connection to yourself. All experience levels welcome. Free and open to the public.
Community Acupuncture Summer Series
Join us for a nourishing experience at our popup Community Acupuncture Clinic — a space where healing happens together. Our sliding-scale treatments ($50–$15) are offered in a peaceful group setting. Whether you're seeking relief from stress, pain, sleep issues, or just need a moment to reset, we are licensed acupuncturists here to support your well-being. Come as you are, rest for a time, and leave feeling more grounded, balanced, and connected. Book online to reserve your spot, walk-ins welcome based on availability.
Community Acupuncture Summer Series
Join us for a nourishing experience at our popup Community Acupuncture Clinic — a space where healing happens together. Our sliding-scale treatments ($50–$15) are offered in a peaceful group setting. Whether you're seeking relief from stress, pain, sleep issues, or just need a moment to reset, we are licensed acupuncturists here to support your well-being. Come as you are, rest for a time, and leave feeling more grounded, balanced, and connected. Book online to reserve your spot, walk-ins welcome based on availability.
Deathmother Circle with Jovan Sage
This circle centers curiosity around transformation, grief, and death. We get to explore the questions close to your heart. I will share my grief + death knowing, practices to support us and resources to nourish us. Grief will show up and this isn’t a space to process grief. If you are looking for that specifically, please reach out or explore my other offerings.
Community Acupuncture Summer Series
Join us for a nourishing experience at our popup Community Acupuncture Clinic — a space where healing happens together. Our sliding-scale treatments ($50–$15) are offered in a peaceful group setting. Whether you're seeking relief from stress, pain, sleep issues, or just need a moment to reset, we are licensed acupuncturists here to support your well-being. Come as you are, rest for a time, and leave feeling more grounded, balanced, and connected. Book online to reserve your spot, walk-ins welcome based on availability.
Community Acupuncture Summer Series
Join us for a nourishing experience at our popup Community Acupuncture Clinic — a space where healing happens together. Our sliding-scale treatments ($50–$15) are offered in a peaceful group setting. Whether you're seeking relief from stress, pain, sleep issues, or just need a moment to reset, we are licensed acupuncturists here to support your well-being. Come as you are, rest for a time, and leave feeling more grounded, balanced, and connected. Book online to reserve your spot, walk-ins welcome based on availability.
Community Acupuncture Summer Series
Join us for a nourishing experience at our popup Community Acupuncture Clinic — a space where healing happens together. Our sliding-scale treatments ($50–$15) are offered in a peaceful group setting. Whether you're seeking relief from stress, pain, sleep issues, or just need a moment to reset, we are licensed acupuncturists here to support your well-being. Come as you are, rest for a time, and leave feeling more grounded, balanced, and connected. Book online to reserve your spot, walk-ins welcome based on availability.
Community Acupuncture Summer Series
Join us for a nourishing experience at our popup Community Acupuncture Clinic — a space where healing happens together. Our sliding-scale treatments ($50–$15) are offered in a peaceful group setting. Whether you're seeking relief from stress, pain, sleep issues, or just need a moment to reset, we are licensed acupuncturists here to support your well-being. Come as you are, rest for a time, and leave feeling more grounded, balanced, and connected. Book online to reserve your spot, walk-ins welcome based on availability.
Deathmother Circle with Jovan Sage
This circle centers curiosity around transformation, grief, and death. We get to explore the questions close to your heart. I will share my grief + death knowing, practices to support us and resources to nourish us. Grief will show up and this isn’t a space to process grief. If you are looking for that specifically, please reach out or explore my other offerings.
Gather & Ground: Community Acupuncture Summer Series
Join us for a nourishing experience at our popup Community Acupuncture Clinic — a space where healing happens together. Our sliding-scale treatments ($25–$10) are offered in a peaceful group setting. Whether you're seeking relief from stress, pain, sleep issues, or just need a moment to reset, we are licensed acupuncturists here to support your well-being. Come as you are, rest for a time, and leave feeling more grounded, balanced, and connected. Book online to reserve your spot, walk-ins welcome based on availability.
Gather & Ground: Community Acupuncture Summer Series
Join us for a nourishing experience at our popup Community Acupuncture Clinic — a space where healing happens together. Our sliding-scale treatments ($25–$10) are offered in a peaceful group setting. Whether you're seeking relief from stress, pain, sleep issues, or just need a moment to reset, we are licensed acupuncturists here to support your well-being. Come as you are, rest for a time, and leave feeling more grounded, balanced, and connected. Book online to reserve your spot, walk-ins welcome based on availability.
Yoga and Sound
Immerse yourself in this blissful workshop of movement and sound meditation. This 90-minute Yoga & Sound workshop combines a revitalizing yoga practice with the deeply relaxing and restorative benefits of sound meditation.
Gather & Ground: Community Acupuncture Summer Series
Join us for a nourishing experience at our popup Community Acupuncture Clinic — a space where healing happens together. Our sliding-scale treatments ($25–$10) are offered in a peaceful group setting. Whether you're seeking relief from stress, pain, sleep issues, or just need a moment to reset, we are licensed acupuncturists here to support your well-being. Come as you are, rest for a time, and leave feeling more grounded, balanced, and connected. Book online to reserve your spot, walk-ins welcome based on availability.
Gather & Ground: Community Acupuncture Summer Series
Join us for a nourishing experience at our popup Community Acupuncture Clinic — a space where healing happens together. Our sliding-scale treatments ($25–$10) are offered in a peaceful group setting. Whether you're seeking relief from stress, pain, sleep issues, or just need a moment to reset, we are licensed acupuncturists here to support your well-being. Come as you are, rest for a time, and leave feeling more grounded, balanced, and connected. Book online to reserve your spot, walk-ins welcome based on availability.
Gentle Yoga at Forbes Library (Free!)
Connect with your breath and align your body, mind, and spirit with a slow, grounding flow. Explore a variety of yoga postures and breathing techniques, practicing in a way that feels authentic to you. By the end of the class, you should feel more grounded and centered, with a deeper connection to yourself.
Queer & Trans Yoga (5-Week Series with Fran Astino)
This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.
A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
Drop-ins are welcome!
Sliding-scale pricing: $100 - $150. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.
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.
sound bath for sensitive souls
Sound Baths for Sensitive Souls are group sound healing experiences that will 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.
Queer & Trans Yoga (5-Week Series with Fran Astino)
This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.
A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
Drop-ins are welcome!
Sliding-scale pricing: $100 - $150. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.
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.
Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer
Spanning the 7 weeks between Pesach and Shavuot, the Jewish Omer season invites self-study through a sacred practice of taking inventory. We are invited to count each day, marking the ancient accounting of the grain to be offered in honor of receiving Torah on Shavuot. During these weeks, we might also take inventory of our own strengths, resources, dreams, and inquiries in service of getting clearer about what we value & offer in the manifestation of collective liberation. One pathway for this exploration is through the sephirot, the mystical Kabbalistic anatomy that is overlaid on the Omer.
In this 7-week Omer series with LB, we will feel into the sephira of each week by exploring some of its energetic, spiritual, and embodied qualities.
Week 1 (April 16) – Chesed / compassion / right shoulder & arm
Week 2 (April 23) – Gevurah / justice / left shoulder & arm
Week 3 (April 30) – Tiferet / balance / torso
Week 4 (May 7) – Netzach / possibility / right hip & leg
Week 5 (May 14) – Hod / beauty / left hip & leg
Week 6 (May 21) – Yesod / foundation / expressive erotic self
Week 7 (May 28) – Shekhinah / presence / receptive erotic self
Practice will include invitational explorations of breath, movement, imagination, rest, reflection, and creative expression. If you have an active creative practice of any kind (e.g., journaling, drawing, collage, songwriting, poetry, dance), please feel free to bring your materials. Basic writing and drawing materials will be provided.
Open to all - no experience with Omer, Kabbalah/sephirot, somatic practice, or creative expression required! This series is structured to facilitate individual exploratory and expressive practice within a hybrid collective container, and will not include group discussion. There will also be an opportunity at the end of each session to mark the night of the Omer together (in English).
You’re welcome to join any number of sessions either in-person (masks required) or online.
LB Marger Moore (they/them) is a neuroqueer Jewish somatics practitioner and experimental earth-based ritualist interested in weaving justice-focused contemplative practices into the weft of bodies, land, and ancestral magic in service of collective liberation. Feel free to learn more at altarofearth.com.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
Wednesdays, April 16 - May 28, 7:30-9:00pm (in-studio & online).
Pay-what-you-can: $5–36 per session. 18% of proceeds will be redistributed equally between 1for3 and No Loose Braids.
Queer & Trans Yoga (5-Week Series with Fran Astino)
This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.
A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
Drop-ins are welcome!
Sliding-scale pricing: $100 - $150. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.
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.
Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer
Spanning the 7 weeks between Pesach and Shavuot, the Jewish Omer season invites self-study through a sacred practice of taking inventory. We are invited to count each day, marking the ancient accounting of the grain to be offered in honor of receiving Torah on Shavuot. During these weeks, we might also take inventory of our own strengths, resources, dreams, and inquiries in service of getting clearer about what we value & offer in the manifestation of collective liberation. One pathway for this exploration is through the sephirot, the mystical Kabbalistic anatomy that is overlaid on the Omer.
In this 7-week Omer series with LB, we will feel into the sephira of each week by exploring some of its energetic, spiritual, and embodied qualities.
Week 1 (April 16) – Chesed / compassion / right shoulder & arm
Week 2 (April 23) – Gevurah / justice / left shoulder & arm
Week 3 (April 30) – Tiferet / balance / torso
Week 4 (May 7) – Netzach / possibility / right hip & leg
Week 5 (May 14) – Hod / beauty / left hip & leg
Week 6 (May 21) – Yesod / foundation / expressive erotic self
Week 7 (May 28) – Shekhinah / presence / receptive erotic self
Practice will include invitational explorations of breath, movement, imagination, rest, reflection, and creative expression. If you have an active creative practice of any kind (e.g., journaling, drawing, collage, songwriting, poetry, dance), please feel free to bring your materials. Basic writing and drawing materials will be provided.
Open to all - no experience with Omer, Kabbalah/sephirot, somatic practice, or creative expression required! This series is structured to facilitate individual exploratory and expressive practice within a hybrid collective container, and will not include group discussion. There will also be an opportunity at the end of each session to mark the night of the Omer together (in English).
You’re welcome to join any number of sessions either in-person (masks required) or online.
LB Marger Moore (they/them) is a neuroqueer Jewish somatics practitioner and experimental earth-based ritualist interested in weaving justice-focused contemplative practices into the weft of bodies, land, and ancestral magic in service of collective liberation. Feel free to learn more at altarofearth.com.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
Wednesdays, April 16 - May 28, 7:30-9:00pm (in-studio & online).
Pay-what-you-can: $5–36 per session. 18% of proceeds will be redistributed equally between 1for3 and No Loose Braids.
Queer & Trans Yoga (5-Week Series with Fran Astino)
This series is designed especially for members of the LGBTQIA+ community who are looking to connect with their bodies and their breath in a supportive, community-oriented environment. This space aims to create a container where queer and trans folks can cultivate joy, a deeper relationship with their bodies, and a sense of connectedness to their yoga practice. Each class will feature time for community and connection and an alignment-focused physical asana practice, ending with gentle restorative movement.
A certified Accessible Yoga Teacher, Fran’s yoga teaching style is a testament to the belief that everyone deserves a space to explore and celebrate their unique identities. She finds it most important to foster an environment where yoga not only nurtures the body but aligns with principles of equity and justice. She has spent years studying to learn more about the needs of marginalized communities within the yoga space and has made it her mission to ensure that she creates as safe a space as possible for BIPOC, trans, and gender diverse folks.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
Drop-ins are welcome!
Sliding-scale pricing: $100 - $150. Drop in class rate: $20 - $30.
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.
Counting this Body: Embodying the Omer
Spanning the 7 weeks between Pesach and Shavuot, the Jewish Omer season invites self-study through a sacred practice of taking inventory. We are invited to count each day, marking the ancient accounting of the grain to be offered in honor of receiving Torah on Shavuot. During these weeks, we might also take inventory of our own strengths, resources, dreams, and inquiries in service of getting clearer about what we value & offer in the manifestation of collective liberation. One pathway for this exploration is through the sephirot, the mystical Kabbalistic anatomy that is overlaid on the Omer.
In this 7-week Omer series with LB, we will feel into the sephira of each week by exploring some of its energetic, spiritual, and embodied qualities.
Week 1 (April 16) – Chesed / compassion / right shoulder & arm
Week 2 (April 23) – Gevurah / justice / left shoulder & arm
Week 3 (April 30) – Tiferet / balance / torso
Week 4 (May 7) – Netzach / possibility / right hip & leg
Week 5 (May 14) – Hod / beauty / left hip & leg
Week 6 (May 21) – Yesod / foundation / expressive erotic self
Week 7 (May 28) – Shekhinah / presence / receptive erotic self
Practice will include invitational explorations of breath, movement, imagination, rest, reflection, and creative expression. If you have an active creative practice of any kind (e.g., journaling, drawing, collage, songwriting, poetry, dance), please feel free to bring your materials. Basic writing and drawing materials will be provided.
Open to all - no experience with Omer, Kabbalah/sephirot, somatic practice, or creative expression required! This series is structured to facilitate individual exploratory and expressive practice within a hybrid collective container, and will not include group discussion. There will also be an opportunity at the end of each session to mark the night of the Omer together (in English).
You’re welcome to join any number of sessions either in-person (masks required) or online.
LB Marger Moore (they/them) is a neuroqueer Jewish somatics practitioner and experimental earth-based ritualist interested in weaving justice-focused contemplative practices into the weft of bodies, land, and ancestral magic in service of collective liberation. Feel free to learn more at altarofearth.com.
Registration
Click/tap the button below to learn more about this offering and to register.
Wednesdays, April 16 - May 28, 7:30-9:00pm (in-studio & online).
Pay-what-you-can: $5–36 per session. 18% of proceeds will be redistributed equally between 1for3 and No Loose Braids.