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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yin Yoga with Luke “Tt” King - J.S. Bryant School
Luke “Tt” King (he/him)
Experience the FIRST class in our new-to-us Learning & Wellness Center! Take a brief virtual tour and learn a little about the school and our mission, and then take a long slow breath and join Luke (he/him) for his Yin Yoga class. This class serves as an introduction to Yin Yoga for the community. Yin is a unique yoga style that focuses on nourishing the joints and the fascia, making it a balancing practice for “Yang” exercises that focus on muscular development. Yin practitioners experience a range of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits from the practice, where the style asks us to enter a pose, find stillness and stay awhile.
Tickets & Registration
A Zoom link and how to donate will be shared prior to the event. A suggested donation of $10 - $50 helps the J.S. Bryant School open their doors in 2025; everyone is welcome regardless of donation.
Email rsvp@jsbryantschool.org to let them know you’re interested in attending!