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Class Descriptions Free, Low Cost & Benefit Classes Sacred Circle Dance with Linda Blake SafeArt Movement with Tracy Penfield <<FREE! Birth Circle with Jessie Groneman Open House to Benefit NELCWIT Womancraft with Jeanie Erlbaum FREE INTRO: Inside Me Story Workshop with Rosie Fanale Improvising Music from the Inside with Rosie Fanale FREE INTRO: Pretzel Kids® Yoga with Frances Darling Inside Me Story Workshop with Rosie Fanale Exploring the Inner Landscape with Rick Roberts and Lindel Hart Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction with Jeanie Erlbaum Tai Chi with Canadian Master Sam Masich Pretzel Kids® Yoga with Frances Darling Zen Meditation Mini-Retreat with Melissa Myozen Blacker Roshi Foliage as Awakened Life: A Special Evening with Michael Walsh |
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Sacred Circle Dance with Linda Blake First Fridays 7:00 - 9:00 pm (Sep 3, Oct 1, Nov 5, etc.) Dance for joy, dance for fun, dance for peace,
This is what Sacred Circle Dance is and more… Circle Dance includes traditional folk dances, dances from all spiritual traditions, dances to celebrate the seasons of the year and seasons of our lives. Circle Dances may be playful, meditative, lively or sweetly flowing. The dances are simple and all dances are taught. No partners are needed. For more information or to pre-register, contact Linda Blake (516-766-0008 or lindab333@gmail.com).
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SafeArt Movement with
Tracy Penfield Explore your Inner Dance! If you are a woman who has experienced traumatic abuse of any type, at any time, this workshop is for you. Each of us has a unique movement vocabulary informed by our life experiences and our personal spirit. In this special workshop with SafeArt Founder and Director Tracy Penfield, you will be guided and supported to move as much or as little as YOU wish to discover and experience the transformative healing powers of your inner dancer. No movement experience is necessary to reap the benefits of SafeArt Movement. Women of all ages welcome. For more information or to pre-register, contact Tracy (802-685-3138 or tpenfield@safeart.org) or visit www.SafeArt.org.
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Birth Circle with Jessie Groneman Share your journey to motherhood in this circle of celebration and support. This birth circle is a space for pregnant mamas to come together and share their stories of pregnancy with other women who are going through it too. Every birth circle is different, but lots of juicy conversation is always on the menu! Join us! For more information or to pre-register, contact Jessie (617-529-7621 or greenwoman19@yahoo.com). |
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Saturday Sept 11, 8:30 am - 1:00 pm Help us kick off our Fall semester with an Open House to benefit NELCWIT: The New England Learning Center for Women in Transition. Starting at 8:30 am, there will be sample yoga and womancraft classes, starting with vigorous, transitioning to moderate, and finishing with a gentle, restorative session. Beginners are welcome in all classes! Feel free to call if you need help finding the right class for you. Beginning at 10 am, 10-minute massage and acupressure sessions will also be offered by donation. You can sign up in advance for a session by calling our main number below. All proceeds will go to NELCWIT, which serves Franklin County and the North Quabbin region of western Massachusetts by offering counseling, safe homes, advocacy and education to women and children who have survived domestic violence or sexual abuse. NELCWIT also offers domestic abuse prevention education for area schools, professionals and other groups. For more information about NELCWIT, visit their website www.nelcwit.org. Please come out to relax, stretch and to support two wonderful local organizations! For details, contact us (413-772-2050 or info@greenriveryoga.com) or revisit this link soon for an up-to-date schedule of specific offerings.
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Lifting the Veil: Evenings with Michael Walsh Michael is an awake person who has recently come to the area from California, where he lived as a hermit for some years. He embodies no particular tradition, but simply speaks the truth. Jan Frazier encountered him in 2008 and, having been deeply affected by his heart and wisdom, she encouraged him to come to the East and offer his teachings to others. Having been assured by Jan that people would be actually interested in the deeper truth as presented in common speech and using common English, Michael has decided to offer these occasional informal talks to offer the same for others as he chose to explore himself. "I do not teach what I THINK will help, but instead share the actual same observations which created me as I am." Never losing sight of the deepest yearning open souls feel, and just how close to living truth most of us are, Michael shares his journey -- how it works, the goal, the feel of the actual terrain, beyond religious, even beyond spiritual -- to the actual core You. Now. For more information, contact Michael (802-275-2151 or mwalsh7782@yahoo.com). For details about Michael, his new book, or CDs, visit MichaelWalsh2010.com. To read what Jan Frazier has to say about Michael, visit her blog http://www.janfrazierteachings.com/blog/?p=1882. |
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Womancraft with
Jeanie Erlbaum Tap your own resources for self-healing by learning the easy and enjoyable skills of gentle yoga, deep relaxation, visualization, and affirmation. Join us for this four-week series and take a mid-week mini-vacation. Make time for yourself, experience healthy transformation, create new positive possibilities for your life, and return to your daily life refreshed. Pre-registration with a $25 deposit by September 7 is required. For more information or to pre-register, contact Jeanie (413-773-9744 or je88@comcast.net). |
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Inside Me Story Workshop with Rosie Fanale Join us for this eight-week series combining techniques of the Focusing method and expressive arts in a learning adventure for parents and kids ages 6 - 10. Focusing is a body-centered technique developed by Eugene Gendlin in 1960. It builds self-compassion, confidence and clarity in making positive decisions. During times of stress or illness, Focusing can provide healing and peace, and the stress reduction the technique provides helps children to learn when they may be otherwise distracted. Led by instructor Rosie Fanale -- musician, music therapist, nurse practitioner, and certified focusing psychotherapist -- we will combine Focusing with art, music and movement to make it fun and help anchor these new skills into our bodies and into our daily lives! Class size is limited; pre-registration is required. The cost for the eight-week series is $88 and must be paid in full by October 6. In order to support each participant and the group process, we ask for a commitment to the whole series. No class November 24. ** Join us for a FREE INTRO CLASS offered on September 15. ** If you need special financial arrangements, have questions about the class, or would like to pre-register, contact Rosie Fanale (413-652-2519 or rfanale08@yahoo.com).
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An Afternoon of Contemplative Practice with Lindel Hart & Rick Roberts Sunday October 10, 3:00 - 6:00 pm By donation and open to all Join us for an afternoon of physical, spiritual and mental rejuvenation as we enter into the stillness that promotes self exploration through yoga postures, chanting and meditation. Come together in community with others for this mindful retreat from an overactive world to reconnect with your natural state of balance, harmony and peace. The afternoon will include an asana practice guided by Lindel Hart and chanting with Rick Roberts and friends, as well as time for silent meditation together. There will be no specific instruction for meditation; we'll simply sit quietly together. Like the quiet space between the in-breath and the out-breath, the stillness that arises out of yoga and chanting leads one easily and naturally into meditation. No vocal/musical, yoga or meditation experience is necessary to experience the joy of this afternoon of contemplative practice. All are welcome, regardless of the type of yoga, meditation or spiritual practice you may have. This event is FREE and open to all: donations appreciated. For more information, contact Lindel Hart (413-768-9291 or info@hartyoga.com) or Rick Roberts (413-367-9777 or Rick@PioneerValleyYoga.com). This program is supported in part by a grant from the Greenfield Local Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
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Pretzel Kids® Yoga
with Frances Darling What is Pretzel Kids® Yoga? To kids, we are fun, fun, fun! To parents, we are the answer to helping children stay physically fit and begin a lifelong love of yoga. We're all that and more... Our proven curriculum and amazingly fun yoga program incorporate traditional Hatha yoga postures with imaginative yoga games and relaxation techniques. All told: children laugh, learn, exercise, breathe, and relax. Better yet, they leave class with big SMILES on their faces... We can all say OM to that! For children ages 3 - 5. The cost is $45 for the six-week series (Oct 13 - Nov 17). Class size is limited; pre-registration is requested. ** Join us for a FREE INTRO CLASS offered on October 6. ** For more information/ to pre-register, contact Frances Darling (413-527-3157 or fmcgd1@verizon.net). For additional details about Pretzel Kids® Yoga, visit www.pretzelkids.com.
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Improvising Music from the Inside with Rosie Fanale Thursdays 7 - 9 pm (Sept 23, Oct 21 & Nov 18) $10 We all have a musical core inside of us, whether or not we have chosen to become musical performers of any kind. Music For People, a worldwide program founded by renowned Grammy winning cellist David Darling, has as its main intention to help anyone learn how to access the deepest music that lies within their core. Join us for a fun-filled exploration of musical improvisation techniques based on the Music for People program. We will use traditional musical instruments as well as "found" instruments from home (glasses, pots and pans, and anything else you might think of -- including and most of all your wonderful voice and your percussive body). Everyone is welcome, from those who have been told at one time that they were tone deaf to those who have become professional musicians. This unique, fun, centering, sound extravaganza is offered by Rosie Fanale, a graduate and 13 year participant of the Music For People programs. For more information, contact her at 413-652-2519 or rfanale08@yahoo.com). |
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Join us for this six-week program based on the UMass Medical School's program and learn simple yet powerful techniques for quieting the mind, along with support for integrating these tools into everyday life. While this course is designed for beginners, anyone who would like to deepen their current practice in a supportive group setting is welcome. Runs Oct 12 - Nov 16. Pre-registration with a $25 deposit by October 5 is required. For more information or to pre-register, contact Jeanie (413-773-9744 or je88@comcast.net).
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Tai Chi with Sam Masich Canadian Tai Chi Master Sam Masich is one of the most accomplished mid-generation practitioners of Chinese internal martial arts in the world today. Having begun his martial arts studies at age 18 with Yang Style Taijiquan and Judo, Sam has studied for over a quarter century with several of the great masters from both North America and China. In addition, Sam distinguished himself in competition as a quadruple and septuple gold medalist in national competitions and was a member of the Canadian National Chinese Martial Arts Team competing in China at The World Wushu Invitationals in 1985. Now formally retired from competition, Sam's teaching has taken him to over 100 cities in Canada, the United States, Mexico and throughout Europe, and his progressive approach to teaching traditional internal martial arts material is respected by students, contemporaries and elder generation masters alike. Particularly skilled in Yang-style Taijiquan, Sam is best known for tui-shou (push-hands) and the classical Taiji weapons, straightsword, sabre and spear. He is also the creator of the 5 Section Taijiquan Program. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to study in the States with Canadian Tai Chi Master Sam Masich. Space is limited; pre-registration is recommended. For details about the events, or to pre-register, contact Dorian Gregory (413-665-9753 or taichidorian@gmail.com). For more information about Sam Masich, visit his website www.SamMasich.com.
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Zen Meditation Mini-Retreat Hosted by Jeanie Erlbaum, the Practice Leader of Greenfield Zen, and led by her teacher Melissa Myozen Blacker Roshi, this mini-retreat will offer group instruction in Zen meditation and practice, as well as an opportunity for private meetings with the teacher. Join us and experience the freedom that Zen can bring to your life! Beginning and experienced meditators welcome. Pre-registration is required. To pre-register, contact Jeanie Erlbaum (413-773-9744 or je88@comcast.net). For more information, visit www.BoundlessWayZen.org or www.GreenfieldZen.org. Melissa Myozen Blacker Roshi is one of three guiding teachers of Boundless Way Zen. A Soto Zen priest, she is a Dharma successor to and received Inka Shomei from James Myoun Ford Roshi. She is the resident priest at Mugendo-ji, Boundless Way Temple, in Worcester, Massachusetts. |
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Foliage as Awakened Life Join us for this special evening wherein we will explore the circle of life and death, how nothing comes into being until something else is ready to leave. We will explore the Autumn Foliage as a metaphor for life coming full circle. Before foliage even hits the ground, it is preparing for the next generation of life. We will also include in our inquiry Kali, the Hindu goddess of death, also known as "The Black One," who has been sought by women and families for blessings of fertility for thousands of years. Let us look at where life truly starts, ends, and IS! This should be a really invigorating event. For more information, contact Michael (802-275-2151 or mwalsh7782@yahoo.com). For details about Michael, his new book, or CDs, visit MichaelWalsh2010.com. To read what Jan Frazier has to say about Michael, visit her blog http://www.janfrazierteachings.com/blog/?p=1882. |
Green River Yoga
& Movement Arts, 158 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Greenfield, MA 01301
413-772-2050 or
info@GreenRiverYoga.com
Last updated 9.1.2010
