THE WINTER '12 SEASON CONTINUES...
...with an exciting lineup of transformative classes, workshops, films, and other events! Come to a class whenever you like - just check out the calendars for January 23-29 and January 30 - February 5. Then, drop in anytime! Preregistration recommended for workshops...

CELEBRATION OF THE SOUL: African Dance with Wyoma
Partial proceeds to benefit Sini Sanuman to end FGM
Saturday, January 28, 7:30-9:30pm ~ Join Wyoma for this monthly community dance party! Barefoot beat-bonding at tis best - lightly facilitated African and your own freestyle movement. Truth-telling in dance, song, and writing. We'll cultivate awareness of the mind-body-spirit connection and explore the human and divine forces of nature with an open heart. Come together with others to savor and celebrate the gift of your being.
Ashe! (Yoruba: Amen, Blessed be!). $15 or class card at door

SOUND HEALING CIRCLE with Brad Brockmann & Comma Williams
Sunday, January 29, 7-9pm ~ doors open 6:45, close 7:20
Join us on the last Sunday of the month to explore the transformative healing powers of sound. You will both co-create and receive sound healing, and learn how to improvise music with a healing intention. Bring your favorite instruments or just yourself, your voice and your love. Prior musical or healing experience is welcome but not required. We look forward to seeing you! Suggested donation $5-15

STORIES OF OUR LIVES: An Evening With True Story Theater
Friday, February 3, 7:30pm ~ True Story Theater, an Arlington-based improvisational theater company, wants to hear about your life. This troupe of skilled listeners will honor each story through the power of improvisatory drama, music, and movement. The stories you share will magically be brought to life as we explore this important common theme.  Come celebrate our community, bring a friend, share a special story, or just watch, listen and enjoy! $15 or class card at door ~ $10 for students/elders/low income ~ all are welcome
Taking Risks: What are the biggest risks we've taken?  What risks we feel called to take and why?

Dharma Film Series presents THE WORLD OF APU
Saturday, February 4, 7pm ~ Like his father before him, the young Brahmin dreamer Apu has come to the big city, 1930s Calcutta, to write a novel and make his fortune. By a strange sequence of events, Apu connects with the lovely Aparna, who is tragically betrothed to another. What follows will bring Apu the same kind of momentous challenges and unexpected opportunities for growth that marked the earlier Pather Panchali and Aparajito, culminating in one of the most uplifting embraces in all of cinema. Heartbreaking and utterly absorbing, the film immediately plunges one into a world long past, with scenes of almost magical beauty and simplicity. Though it is the final installment of Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s award-winning Apu Trilogy, one needn’t have seen the first two parts nor read the Bandopadhyay novels on which they’re based to enjoy and appreciate The World Of Apu, Ray’s wise masterpiece...and Apu’s. $10 at the door, with free refreshments and post-film discussion, $35/3 CEUs for mental health professionals

YOGA Rx: Ease Your Depression and Anxiety with Liz Owen
Saturday, February 11, 2-5pm ~ Medical science is now scientifically proving that practicing yoga changes brain chemistry by increasing neurotransmitters that fight depression and anxiety. In this workshop participants will practice a sequence of active and restorative yoga postures designed to ease symptoms of depression and anxiety and to create feelings of mental stability and well-being. The sequence is based on NIH-funded research, co-authored by Owen, which studied yoga’s potential to help treat depression and anxiety. You will experience what yoga practitioners have understood and experienced for millennia: that yoga can help us change how we think and how we feel so that we can live happy, healthy, and balanced lives.
$35 or class card x 2 + $5 ~ all levels welcome