Introduction To CAPOEIRA! 6 CLASS PASSES Now Available For Kids or Adults/Teens

Start the New Year with a flexible 6-class introduction to Capoeira! Learn the basics of this exhilarating practice, which combines movement, martial arts, and music with a mental health twist. This pass will allow you or yours to attend any 6 Center classes with Contramestre Compasso (Jason Ri, LMHC). $95 for adults/teens here; $75 for kids 6-12 here!

SHAMANIC JOURNEY: A Circle with Comma Williams ~ Friday, March 13, 7:30-9:30pm

Shamanic journey is a tool that has been traditionally used by indigenous shamans for the healing of individuals and communities. Most commonly, shamans use drums and rattles to shift their consciousness into non-ordinary reality, a trance-like state, to communicate with their helping guides and spirits. We know now that anyone can learn to journey! Join Comma Williams for this monthly crossing into non-ordinary reality to gain insight, information, and clarity about your path. $20 or Pass: Unlimited, 10 Class, Pre/Postnatal ~ register here!

TODDLER + ME YOGA with Ana Baumgart Schreck ~ Sunday, March 22, 10:15-11:15am here!

Toddler + Me Yoga is a fun class for one child (ages 1-3) and one adult (parents, grandparents, and caregivers are welcome). TMY starts with a mindful moment, then explores calming breath exercises and yoga poses everyone can try, and ends with lying down with blankets for quiet relaxation. Toddlers will learn responsibility by helping to set up and put away yoga props. Adults (parents, grandparents, caregivers) are welcome without kids if they want to learn how to bring yoga to their toddlers at home. Expect animal poses with noises, poses for toddlers and adults to do together, and some quiet time as well. All bodies are welcome, as are beginners - no yoga experience necessary! $25, or Pass: Pre/Postnatal, 10 Class ~ spaces limited ~ register today!

DHARMA TALK + MEDITATION with Lama Tsering ~ Sunday, March 22, 12-2pm ~ Free/Donate

You’re invited to receive Buddhist teachings (dharma), practice meditation, and experience the relevance and benefits of Buddhist philosophy and meditation in daily life. People of all ages, backgrounds, and beliefs are welcome to this freely offered monthly event ~ donations gratefully accepted. Tsering Ngodup is a lama, or spiritual teacher, authorized to teach by HH ShaMar Rinpoche. He has devoted over 26 years to sharing the religious and spiritual teachings of Tibetan Buddhism in the West. He has traveled across the world, translating and interpreting Buddhist teachings for highly accomplished Tibetan lamas and masters from all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism. He is currently a chaplain at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Spring PLAYSHOP For Creativity Manifesting Your Vision! with Chandra Cantor & Robin Shaw ~ Sunday, March 22, 12:30-3pm here!

Spring is upon us! What a time for reconnecting to the roots of what is important to us so that we can manifest blooms that feel beautiful, and most connected to our authentic and potent selves! We will explore creatively through movement, journaling, art making and sharing in community. Nurture self and community. Receive support. Choose delightful, meaningful creative expression! We hope the Playshop will offer you the opportunity for renewal and release! If you are craving some space for creative expression and impulse, if you want to reconnect to what you'd like to manifest in the world, if you'd like to be with this in the structure of supportive community, this is for you! Bring along a journal, art supplies of any kind (we will also supply many), and dress in loose comfortable clothes, especially if you’re staying for Restorative Yoga and Massage afterwards  This is for all levels, and no prior art, movement or yoga experience is needed. There is the option to take this Playshop along with the Restorative Yoga and Massage Workshop that follows from 3:30-5:30pm. Chandra and Robin are very excited to host this gentle and creative day for love, inspiration, renewal and letting go! Reach out with any questions you may have for Robin or Chandra. $40, or $75 for Playshop and Restorative Yoga & Massage Workshop at 3:30pm ~ register here!

RESTORATIVE YOGA + MASSAGE with Chandra Cantor, Robin Shaw + Nelson Té ~ Sunday, March 22, 3:30-5:30pm here!

Join Chandra, Robin, and Nelson for an afternoon of deep relaxation and massage! Chandra will guide the class through a sequence of Restorative Yoga postures - long holds in passive, gentle poses supported by yoga props - while Robin and Nelson, massage therapists, offer therapeutic bodywork. This luxurious 2 hour class is a wonderful opportunity to slow down, practice self-care, and receive healing touch. All levels welcome. Reach out with any questions you may have to Robin or Chandra. There is the option to take this workshop along with Spring Playshop For Creativity from 12:30-3pm. $40, or $75 with the Playshop ~ space is limited - reserve your spot here

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CAPOEIRA! Kids Age 6-12 with Compasso Jason Ri ~ Fridays, 4-5pm

Get your child moving, learning, making music, building community, and developing resilience, values, and self-discipline in a fun class! Capoeira is a multi-faceted artform - movement, music, martial arts, and fun with an Afro-Brazilian flare! It teaches children to move their bodies, strengthen their spirits, and facilitates community-oriented awareness. CM Compasso (Jason Ri) also incorporates resilience training and aspects of mental health into his classes. Children ages 6 + are welcome to the rolling enrollment, and parents are welcome to participate and help their kids train! More at arlingtoncapoeira.com. $14 drop in, or $120 Kids 10 Pass ~ join here! 

CAPOEIRA! Teens/Adults with Compasso Jason Ri ~ Fridays, 5:30-7pm

Movement, music, martial arts, and community with an Afro-Brazilian flare! Capoeira is a multi-faceted artform that moves our bodies and enlivens our spirits. Adult classes are tailored to your level, and as a community-oriented art form, students help each other grow and develop in skill, not just following instructions.  CM Compasso (Jason Ri) also incorporates resilience training and aspects of mental health into his classes. Teens and adults are welcome to enroll! More at arlingtoncapoeira.com. $20 drop in, or Pass: 10 Class, Unlimited ~ Join here!

PRENATAL YOGA with Barrett Reinhorn ~ Sundays, 6-7:30pm ~ In Person & Livestreaming

Prenatal Yoga is designed for students who are pregnant and have an ongoing practice as well as pregnant students brand new to yoga. Learn practices that build strength, flexibility, calm and focus — all the way through to delivery. We begin class with a ‘check-in' to share with the others how we are doing, which builds a caring community within the group. This class is appropriate for all stages of pregnancy. Single class $25, 4-class Prenatal Yoga pass $80 ~ join here

OmDRUM: A Welcoming Circle ~ Pasha Cohen ~ Mondays, 7:30-8:30pm ~ In Person

Join professional percussionist and teacher Pasha Cohen for a lively weekly drum circle. We’ll explore together how to use the Drum as a tool for meditation and self-healing, sampling African and Western styles of hand drumming. All ages and levels of experience are welcome in OmDrum’s judgment-free space. Bring a drum if you have one, or rent one from Pasha…and if you have any friends who might like to try drumming, please tell them about it! $20 or Pass ~ $5 drum rental ~ register here

BABY & ME YOGA with Barrett Reinhorn ~ Thursdays, 10-11:15am ~ In Person

Postnatal yoga classes welcome new moms/parents with infants for a bit of quiet reflective time while building back their strength. Classes specifically focus on creating connection and comfort in the back, chest, abdominals and pelvic floor – all the places that are achy after pregnancy, birth, and life with a newborn! We focus on recovering from birth, but add a little baby yoga into the mix too (especially if the babies are restless!). Parents are welcome with or without their babies, anytime from early postpartum until babies are crawling. Bring a baby blanket for your baby to lie on, and anything else to make you and your baby comfortable (yoga mat, car seat, toy, etc). Attend single classes or buy a discount multi-pass ~ join here

AWARENESS THROUGH MOVEMENT: Feldenkrais with Ruth Knill ~ Thursdays, 11:30a-12:30p ~ In Person & Livestream ~ Join here

The Feldenkrais Method® of somatic learning is a gentle and pleasant way to improve the quality of your movement and your awareness of your embodied self. By engaging with your habits of movement in a supportive, exploratory way, Feldenkrais can help you to discover more comfortable and efficient ways of moving and being. Safe and gentle, yet challenging in surprising and satisfying ways, the material in each class is tailored to suit the needs and interest of the participants. Attend single classes or buy a discount multi-pass ~ join here