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Special Drop in Class Sunday Nia ~ a fitness/dance/healing movement practice that draws on the martial, dance and meditative arts. It blends inspiring, soulful music with moves that make your body flexible & strong, your mind focused & relaxed.  Drop in with  Laurie Bass.

To register contact Laurie:  laurie@lauriebass.com.  Or just drop in! Not part of the All-Class-Holiday-Pass.

Special Drop in Class Sunday Yoga ~ Mindful and lively movement and exploration.  Drop in with  Laurie Bass.

To register contact Laurie:  laurie@lauriebass.com.  Or just drop in!  Not part of the All-Class-Holiday-Pass.

Share early New Year’s eve with reverence for what has occured this year, what you’ll offer the year to come, and what is before you right now.

Gentle mindful movement practice, progressive relaxation, contemplative practice, shared stillness, kind conversation and readings as we share the evening of reflecting and moving toward a new year.

  7-9pm. $15. With  Brant. RSVP 

Please RSVP/Preregister so we have enough space for all!

Thanks!  —  Brant

Begin the year with the tangible experience of blessing the challenges and joys of the year ahead.

A blessing is an offering toward an intention, a benediction, or grace.  Poet John O’Donohue offers a wonderful clarity about the nature of blessings in his book, To Bless the Space Between Us.   His lovely interview may be a helpful encouragement for this retreat:  The Inner Landscape of Beauty.

Here are a couple of John’s blessings:

• Blessing for a Friend on the Arrival of an Illness
• Beannacht from old Irish meaning benediction or blessing

For this retreat we’ll be invited to our own way of blessing the way forward into 2019.

There will be gentle mindful yoga practice, sitting meditation practice, progressive relaxation practice, kind group exercises, periods of reflection and conversation and more.

Please RSVP so we have enough space for all!

Thanks!  —  Brant

Nia ~ a fitness/dance/healing movement practice that draws on the martial, dance and meditative arts. It blends inspiring, soulful music with moves that make your body flexible & strong, your mind focused & relaxed.

Contact Laurie at this link to register:  HERE

Explore yoga in a safe, supportive, noncompetitive setting. Learn the basic breathing, movement, and meditation exercises that can help you be stronger, more relaxed and healthier. Each class will teach and practice a variety of yoga techniques. Welcoming all ages and abilities, Introduction to Yoga is a fun and enjoyable way to start a yoga practice.  Contact John to register.

Nia ~ a fitness/dance/healing movement practice that draws on the martial, dance and meditative arts. It blends inspiring, soulful music with moves that make your body flexible & strong, your mind focused & relaxed.

Contact Laurie at this link to register:  HERE

Explore yoga in a safe, supportive, noncompetitive setting. Learn the basic breathing, movement, and meditation exercises that can help you be stronger, more relaxed and healthier. Each class will teach and practice a variety of yoga techniques. Welcoming all ages and abilities, Introduction to Yoga is a fun and enjoyable way to start a yoga practice.  Contact John to register.

So much of masculinity is confusing in our current era.  There are so many expectations for men to be fierce competitors.  To master themselves, their professions, and their environment.  Yet, especially in this millennial world of #MeToo and other social trends, an out-of-control version of those male expectations has given masculinity a patina of darkness, of one-sided adolescent behavior.

There is balance to be found and has been part of the personal growth of men always.  The ancient fable Iron John speaks of this path of growth toward balance from childhood to manhood.  Robert Bly’s book of the same name stimulated a vibrant men’s movement in the 80′ and 90′.   Today such work continues and has evolved and grown over the decades and recently summarized in the New York Times article The New Iron Johns.

Let’s share some of the path of Iron John and the new, relevant version of that journey.  We’ll share a balanced experience of manhood with practices and a perspective  you can continue as a practice day-to-day: acknowledgement of virtues of masculinity,  nonviolent communication, breath work, masculinity meeting compassion,  clarity of purpose, restoration & resiliience, emotional & physical strength. 

Sun. Jan. 20th; 9am-12:30pm. $50 With Brant.  There is limited space so RSVP