Upcoming Events
Vinyasa Flow with Dr. Amanda Ferraro DPT, RYT
4:00pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @AmandaFerraro
Paypal: aferraro17@gmail.com
For more information visit DrFlowTherapy.com
Silent Disco Dance Party: Open Movement & Stretch Time
Join us in the Green Room for a silent Disco dance party! Headphones are available for check out at the front desk
Friday & Saturday, October 31 & November 1
8:00 – 9:30pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Sivanada Yoga with Elle Walker Buckton
This class is in the Sivanada style which consists of a bit of meditation, pranayama and yoga asana that focuses on balancing the flow of energy through the chakras as well as postures that emphasize exertion followed by deep relaxation.
The class is a moving meditation that brings stillness to the mind. Open to all levels of yogic ability.
Saturday & Sunday, November 1 & 2
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @moonayurveda
Elle is a yogini and an Ayurvedic Practitioner. Her Yogic lineage is Sivananda Yoga. She sees Ayurvedic patients in her office in Olympic Valley, CA and is on the faculty at the California College of Ayurveda in Nevada City, CA where she teaches Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy, Marma Therapy and other body therapy intensives and workshops. She also teaches Ayurveda 101 and Healing Your Life which are on line zoom classes open to the general public through the college. Elle hosts yoga retreats in Costa Rica annually as well as retreats in Northern California. It is her dharma to bring yoga and Ayurveda to her community with love and compassion.
ayurvedaluna.com
Open Mic Show and Tell
All shenanigans welcome! Singing, poetry, dancing, storytelling, jokes, your favorite rock… Please join us!
The first Thursday of the month
6-8 pm in the Green Room
2025 Dates:
November 6, December 4
Yin Yoga with Dr. Amanda Ferraro DPT, RYT
4:00pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @AmandaFerraro
Paypal: aferraro17@gmail.com
For more information visit DrFlowTherapy.com
Make Your Own Oracle Card with Mara Belzer
Connect with your creative spark as you engage in the sacred and ceremonial act of making an oracle card!
Stop by anytime 11am-1pm to play
What do you know? What are you remembering? What truths want to find you? What do you want to encode into your being? What are you working with?
Make oracle cards to remember.
To remember the truths and downloads. To encode every cell of your being with the gorgeous remembrances you are having. Make oracle cards to remind you of the FACT that you are a most magnificent being in the universe, deserving of every last delicious dream you can conjure. Make oracle cards to honor your channel, the wisdom that comes through your connection with source, and the path you are walking through life.
Make oracle cards to map, integrate, and alchemize your journey:
The initiations, the highs, the lows, and everything in between.
These cards become a touchpoint, a reminder for you, wherever you are in the process.
You are the Oracle. Your art is documentation. Anchor your connection to god/source/spirit in yourself through yourself: Through your art.
**This activity is for all levels ~ no prior art skill or channeling experience needed. We’ll be using collage to create our cards.**
Saturday & Sunday, November 8 & 9
11:00am – 1:00pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Mara-Belzer
PayPal: @MaraBelzer
Mara Belzer is an Artist, Intuitive, and Creativity Coach living in Nevada City, CA. Her whole life has been dedicated to exploring creativity and intuition as a way to go deeper into herself, and the mystery of the unknown. She believes everyone is creative, that everything we do is a creative act, and that art making is a powerful way to bring out your most authentic voice in all areas of life ~ thus becoming the most fully expressed version of yourself.
Gathering the Light, Planting New Dreams with Natalie Pyrooz
In mid-November as daylight wanes, we begin to settle into the season of quiet and darkness. Join a heart-led, nature-rooted ritual to honor the transition into the dark half of the year, recognizing the light we each carry inside, and planting metaphorical dream seeds of intention to incubate through the winter.
4:00pm
Website: www.nataliepyrooz.com
IG: wild.heart_quiet.mind
Contact: natalie.pyrooz@gmail.com
Revitalizing Yoga Flow with Natalie Pyrooz
Our class will bring together elements from breathwork, mudra, mantra, and a gentle flow designed for all bodies and abilities.
Sunday, November 16
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @natalie-pyrooz
Natalie has a background in botany, and is healing artist using tools from yoga, Ayurveda, Thai massage, sound, and nature, based in rural Lassen County.
Website: www.nataliepyrooz.com
IG: wild.heart_quiet.mind
Contact: natalie.pyrooz@gmail.com
SOMA Awakening Breath with Kat Stewart
Transformative Breathwork practice to supercharge your mind, body, and spirit into a state of passion, flow, and manifestation. Conscious breathing is a powerful, inner pharmacy for deep healing, altered states of consciousness, and numerous health benefits.
Warm up with Kundalini Yoga, end in Restorative Yoga
75-minute practice
Friday, November 21
4:00pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @ShantiKat
Kat has been living and inspiring the practices of yoga, breathwork, bhakti, and dance for over 40 years. Her teaching style weaves mindfulness into the body with a focus on alignment, pranayama techniques, and a moving meditation, offering students a grounded and embodied experience.
For more information, visit yogainnapa.com
Yoga: Asana & Breathwork with Kat Stewart
Wake up your body and energy with a slow flow Yoga practice mixed with Pranayama Breathwork techniques to liven your energy.
Good for All-Levels
Saturday, November 22
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @ShantiKat
Kat has been living and inspiring the practices of yoga, breathwork, bhakti, and dance for over 40 years. Her teaching style weaves mindfulness into the body with a focus on alignment, pranayama techniques, and a moving meditation, offering students a grounded and embodied experience.
For more information, visit yogainnapa.com
New Moon Drum Circles
Bring drums, noisemakers and yourselves…
The Saturday closest to the New Moon
8:00pm – Midnight
At the Drum Circle past the Meditation Pool
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously Accepted
2025 Dates:
November 22, December 20
Living in Love In Concert
Sunday, November 23
8:30pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @LivinginLoveMusic
Healing Sound Bath with Devah
Time to be good to you. Settle deeper while drifting away with your own inner flow. This bath will include gongs, quartz singing bowls, flute, chimes, gentle drumming and some other soft surprises. I look forward to journeying with you.
Friday, November 28
8:30pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @heartglow
Devah has been working with Reiki and Sound for 15 years. Born and raised in Ireland he traveled the world for 15 years sitting with masters in Japan, India, Tibet and Portugal to refine his offering. He now lives here in the states and is excited to share sound with you all at his favorite hot spring.
Royal Connections, a 60 Minute Renga Writing Tea Party Workshop
with Professor Angelica Padmavati
Join me in a rare opportunity to build community, connection, and light-hearted pleasure over tea with the centuries-old, collaborative poetry art form, known as Renga.
The Renga, or linked poem, has ancient Japanese roots and was later elevated into a sacred, refined court art. Renga, used for centuries as a sort of parlor game to cultivate creativity and social connection by writing a poem in community, will continue in its true form here at Sierra Hot Springs. We will join in the lineage of other Renga poets, as we relax, let go, and surrender to the writing process with the goal of shared artistic expression and social connection.
Our completed Renga poem will then be in communication with other Renga poems spanning eons!
In the workshop, I will offer you some green tea to sip and a poetic prompt to ponder, which will be the catalyst for the collaborative poem that we will compose in our valuable time together.
Saturday, November 29
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Angelica-Padmavati
Angelica Padmavati is a Writer, Professor, Natural Foods Chef, and Yoga Siromani specializing in Sivananda, Yin, Sacral Chakra, Water, and Yoga for All Bodies. She teaches English at Laney College in Oakland and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College and a BA in English Literature from Mills College, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. Her poetry and essays have earned the Mary Merritt Henry Poetry Award (2022, 2023), the Ardella Prize (2023), and Best Sonnet at John Cabot University in Rome. Angelica’s work appears in The Pointed Circle, The Womanist, Thrasher Magazine, and The New Overland Express. Her forthcoming collection, Waxing Water & Wild, honors the women who shaped her. She finds joy in poetry, cooking, nature, yoga, and family.
Sitting with Mother, a 90 Minute Eco-Poetry & Ceremonial Cacao Soiree with Professor Angelica Padmavati
Enjoy the engagement of all 6 senses as you drink warm, comforting, ancient cacao, engage with nature, and then channel your inner poet through pen to page. Have you ever enjoyed watching a sunset over an ocean swell or a majestic mountain range, and felt overcome with gratitude, inspiration, and an overwhelming sense of awe? Walked through the forest, and felt your nose prickle with the aromatic delight of eucalyptus, or cedar, as your eyes dart from blooming wildflowers, sparkling bodies of water, faces in rock, or unique patterns in branches overhead?
Have you hummed along to sycamore-sounds, staccato crunching of dry needles under feet, or hawks cawing? Have you tasted a dense current of air on the wind, all spicy and pine, all fruity madrone berries, and savory mushrooms simultaneously?
Touched multi-colored mosses on ancient rocks or the rough bark of a Redwood tree, as a warm breeze and sun streams through the green canopy overhead?
Most importantly, have you pondered how we are connected to Mother Nature, and how each of us fits into the Global Landscape? Have you wondered how to write about these intangible musings? Professor Padmavati will provide a grounding poetic prompt to help guide your interaction with the natural world. You will revel in all of your senses as you translate the experience of sitting with our Mother into your writing
Sunday, November 30
12:00pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Angelica-Padmavati
Angelica Padmavati is a Writer, Professor, Natural Foods Chef, and Yoga Siromani specializing in Sivananda, Yin, Sacral Chakra, Water, and Yoga for All Bodies. She teaches English at Laney College in Oakland and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Saint Mary’s College and a BA in English Literature from Mills College, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. Her poetry and essays have earned the Mary Merritt Henry Poetry Award (2022, 2023), the Ardella Prize (2023), and Best Sonnet at John Cabot University in Rome. Angelica’s work appears in The Pointed Circle, The Womanist, Thrasher Magazine, and The New Overland Express. Her forthcoming collection, Waxing Water & Wild, honors the women who shaped her. She finds joy in poetry, cooking, nature, yoga, and family.
Wreathmaking with Jess Tunis
A wreath is a celebration of the season, whatever that means to a given individual, an ancient ritual that calls up our connection to tradition and the land that sustains us. We have gathered and harvested materials all year to create this offering for you. In this class, participants will be able to choose a handmade wreath base, and select from a wealth of sustainably harvested evergreen and dried floral plant material to create a long-lasting, beautiful seasonal wreath. All class materials are provided. Join us to create your own unique fragrant and bountiful celebration of the season.
Saturday & Sunday, December 6 & 7
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @jessicatunis
Jess Tunis is an experienced facilitator and teacher, who brings intention, humor, and engagement to every class. They will guide and support your process, and offer practiced techniques and advice to make your unique wreath both beautiful and sturdy.
Sivanada Yoga with Elle Walker Buckton
This class is in the Sivanada style which consists of a bit of meditation, pranayama and yoga asana that focuses on balancing the flow of energy through the chakras as well as postures that emphasize exertion followed by deep relaxation.
The class is a moving meditation that brings stillness to the mind. Open to all levels of yogic ability.
Saturday & Sunday, December 13 & 14
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @moonayurveda
Elle is a yogini and an Ayurvedic Practitioner. Her Yogic lineage is Sivananda Yoga. She sees Ayurvedic patients in her office in Olympic Valley, CA and is on the faculty at the California College of Ayurveda in Nevada City, CA where she teaches Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy, Marma Therapy and other body therapy intensives and workshops. She also teaches Ayurveda 101 and Healing Your Life which are on line zoom classes open to the general public through the college. Elle hosts yoga retreats in Costa Rica annually as well as retreats in Northern California. It is her dharma to bring yoga and Ayurveda to her community with love and compassion.
ayurvedaluna.com
Slow Flow with Shaelyn McLain
Rooted in Hatha vinyasa and inspired by the Dynamic Release Method™, this slow flow class emphasizes nervous system repair, mindful movement, and the healing power of the mind-body connection. Expect intentional alignment, myofascial release techniques, and breath-guided sequences designed to restore balance and deepen awareness from the inside out. Suitable for all levels.
Saturday & Sunday, December 13 & 14
4:oopm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Shannon-McLain_1444
Shaelyn is an international yoga teacher, mindfulness-based leadership practitioner, and sound healer with over 12 years of experience in the wellness field. Her classes, influenced by the Dynamic Release Method™, are rooted in Hatha Vinyasa and emphasize nervous system repair, myofascial release, intentional alignment, and the mind-body connection. In addition to being a certified yoga teacher, Shaelyn holds both a PhD and Master’s degree in Mind-Body Medicine from Saybrook University, where she also serves as a graduate professor and core faculty member. She integrates academic scholarship with experiential mind-body practices and facilitates transformative, trauma-informed experiences that foster wellness in mind, body, and spirit. Shaelyn brings the same depth and integrity to the mat as she does to the classroom, blending evidence-based practices with embodied wisdom. Passionate about creative expression, trauma-informed healing, and integrative modalities, Shaelyn guides students toward deeper embodiment and authentic connection.
Circle Singing with Kappé Rousseau
Friday, December 19 & Sunday, December 21
8:30pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Kappe-Rousseau
www.circlesing.org
The Vision Workshop™ with Kappé Rousseau
• Do you want to bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be?
• Do you have a dream, yet don’t know where to begin to achieve it?
In 1853, Henry David Thoreau wrote a famous essay called “Walden,” in which he included a hidden code for prosperous living. During this dynamic Vision workshop, you will unlock this code so that you can harness your life’s purpose and the prosperity you deserve!
• A 5-point test for determining whether your dream is right for you.
• To recognize and rewire old patterns that no longer serve you.
• What wealthy people do that creates sustained success.
• The number one factor that causes people to lose steam when going after a dream, and how to stay motivated and override it.
• A proven method for dissolving resistance to prosperity so you can attract higher levels of results and abundance.
• The 1 critical thing you must do to reach your dream.
And much more!
Kappé’s mission is simple: To help people step into the most empowered, alive and purposeful version of themselves. Clarity, Purpose, Prosperity
Saturday & Sunday, December 20 & 21
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Kappe-Rousseau
Certified DreamBuilder® Life Coach with the Brave Thinking Institute
Kappé helps clients reconnect to their inner resonant wisdom and awaken the infinite potential and power within.
Today, Kappé brings this same spirit of creativity and connection to her Vision Workshops — Helping people clarify what they truly want, break free from the patterns that hold them back, and align with the mindset and energy needed to realize their dreams
Kappé Rousseau
510-384-8164
Qigong: Tools for Self-healing: 1-1/4 hour class With Beth Freewomon
Qigong (A.K.A. Chi Gong) is a moving meditation technique that not only improves physical fitness, but also assists us in achieving a deeper sense of calm, relieves tension and stress, and helps us recover from injury and illness. It is part of the ancient systems of Taoism and Chinese medicine that value the interconnectedness and inherent wholeness of all of our Self and our body’s seeming parts. Qigong supports our bodies’ natural capacity for self-healing. Qigong allows us to relax, get out of “fight or flight” and our parasympathetic nervous system to take over so healing can happen. Our practice includes conscious breathing, stretching, activation of chi, flowing movements and more.
Friday & Saturday, January 9 & 10
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Beth-Freewomon
Beth Freewomon (she/her/hers) is the owner of The Open Hearth–Tools for Self-Healing (www.IAmTheOpenHearth.com). With her passion for holistic health and her confidence in the body’s self-healing capacity, she shares the practice of Qigong with enthusiasm and the intention to empower. Not only is she certified as a Holden Qi Gong teacher, (by Lee Holden), she is an advanced student of Dr. Joe Dispenza, integrating the healing power of meditation and coherence into her own health and well-being practices. She currently lives in Santa Cruz, CA.