Dance into the New Year
Yoga Dance: January 1st, 6 -7 PM, Munson Library
Dance into the New Year with Diana Peters-Ross
January 1, New Year's Day 2025
6 - 7 PM
Munson Library
1046 South East Street, Amherst
Embrace JOY! Ignite your creative and playful spirit!
Join Yoga and Danskinetics Instructor Diana Peters-Ross and begin 2025 with rhythm, flow, and fun! Explore the wisdom of your body through movement and music. This is a hybrid of yoga and freeform movement with the energy of global rhythms.
We’ll begin with guided familiar yoga postures, easing into some flowing movements that will lead us off our mats and around the room as energy builds. We’ll finish back on our mats with a short relaxation.
This program is offered freely and open to all.
Since space is limited, please register below.
Questions about Yoga Dance? Contact Diana at dianapetersross@gmail.com
Yoga for Healthy Bones
We had a great response to Masha Leuner’s online program on Yoga for Osteoporosis on Monday, December 16th. Almost eighty people registered (so they could receive the recording), and 35 people attended the program live via Zoom. Masha shared a handout with detailed written instructions for 24 poses. You can access it below.
Good news: Masha will be back to host another online training (date still to be determined) to dive more fully into the postures recommended for those with osteoporosis, osteopenia, and those interested in preventing bone loss with aging.
If you are not yet on our list of those interested in bone health, you can add your name and contact information below.
Finally, Linda’s Sunday Yoga class (8-9 AM) is gradually becoming a Yoga for Bone Health Class with gentle warm-ups, back strengthening, and lots of bone-building standing and balancing postures. Join us!
Final Sunday Qigong Class with Karen
Sunday, December 29th, 9:15-10:00 AM
Join us for Karen’s last class until April (she’s going on a Workaway to St. Kitts)!
You can still practice online on Sundays with Lynne Nicole Smith from Qigong Infused Yoga® via Zoom at 10:00 AM by donation via PayPal https://paypal.me/qigonginfusedyoga or Venmo (@lynnenicole).
January Qigong
In January we move our in-person Qigong classes to Saturdays. We got bumped out of our Sunday time slot and reserved as many Saturdays as we could 9:15-10:00 AM, but there is still a conflict on some Saturdays (due to a library program in the Main Hall). We’ve planned a Qigong Flash Mob at the Hampshire Mall. Join us between Planet Fitness and JC Penney for 45 minutues of public Qigong with Natalie Imbier. All Saturday Qigong meets 9:15-10:00 AM.
January 4 - Hampshire Mall (between JC Penney and Planet Fitness) - Natalie
January 11 - Hampshire Mall (between JC Penney and Planet Fitness) - Natalie
January 18 - Munson Library - Lynne
January 25 - Munson Library - Lynne
We hope to see you in a Qigong class soon!
Final Monday Tai Chi Class with Widi
Monday, December 30th 9:15-10:00 AM
Join us for Widi’s last class until April (he’s going on a Workaway to St. Kitts)!
Lunch & Learn at River Valley Co-op Easthampton
Friday, January 17, 2025 1-2:30 PM
This is a free Community Nutrition Education Workshop at River Valley Co-op in Easthampton (228 Northampton Street). Refreshments will be served.
Space is limited, and pre-regsitration is required.
New! Evening Yoga Class!
Restorative Candlelit Yoga with Tibetan Bowls
with Diana Peters-Ross and Liz Lacey
Tuesdays, January 21 - February 11, 2025
6 - 7 PM Munson Library 1046 South East Street, Amherst
Join Liz and Diana for a unique yoga experience of rest and relaxation. Practice restorative yoga while bathed in the healing sounds of Tibetan bowls to balance both sides of the brain and promote deep relaxation.
Restorative yoga is a gentle practice that offers numerous benefits for the body and mind. With longer-holding times in supported postures, participants experience deeper states of calm and tranquility. The slower pace invites mindfulness, soothes anxiety, improves sleep and circulation, and releases muscular tension.
Mats, blocks, and straps are available, but participants may want to bring some or all of the following comfort items: blanket, beach towel, pillow, cushion, bolster.
This program is offered freely and open to all. Since space is limited, please register below.
Questions about Restorative Yoga? Contact Liz Lacey at liz.s.lacey@gmail.com
Yoga Everyday at 8 AM
Our 8 AM yoga classes continue, every day of the week, throughout the year. Start your day with movement, mindfulness, and a dose of calm. We’re here for you. Let’s keep showing up together, one morning at a time.
See you at 8 AM at the Munson!
(Cancellations (due to weather) are posted on the calendar and on Facebook by 7 AM.)
Building the Future of Everyday Wellbeing
We continue to lay the foundation to bring vibrant well-being to more people, in more ways, than ever before. We dream of scaling our vision to enable similar pockets of community connection and vibrant health in neighborhoods and towns across Hampshire County. We’re gathering an Advisory Board to up-level our fund-raising so we can hire an executive director to coordinate a growing number of classes, workshops, and events - all free and open to all.
We’d like to offer peer-led groups for men, women, writing, and book study. We want to offer peer and expert support for heathy aging, emotional eating, strength training, body image, nutrition, navgating perimenopause and menopause, and other areas of interest so we can gather to learn, discuss, evolve, and grow. Let us know what interests you. What would you like to see offered?
In the meantime, checkout our new (and improving) website.
An upcoming event directed by Roberta Uno and choreographed by Tiffany Joseph
Coming in April! You’ve Finished Treatment. Now What?
Monday, April 21st 1 - 2:30 PM
Munson Library, 1046 South East Street, Amherst MA
Have you found it difficult to return to health since cancer treatment? Do you suffer from the ongoing side effects of your cancer care? Naturapathic physician, Amy Rothenberg will share a roadmap for lifestyle and natural medicine approaches to address health challenges that persist after cancer treatment, and to reduce the risk of recurrence. Dr. Rothenberg highlights the evidence for an integrative approach to healing, and makes sense of this overwhelming topic in an accessible, upbeat way. Dr. Rothenberg shares openly from her own experience as a cancer survivor/thriver.
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