Upcoming Events
Yoga Flow with Amanda
Come as you are and join Dr. Amanda Ferraro PT, DPT, RYT for a mindful yoga flow that nurtures awareness of body and breath. This class weaves together asana, breathwork and meditation. All levels welcome.
Friday, October 2
5:00pm
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 2 & 3
8:00 – 9:30pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
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.
Saturday & Sunday, October 3 & 4
11:00am
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.
Open Mic Show and Tell
All shenanigans welcome! Singing, poetry, dancing, storytelling, jokes, your favorite rock… Please join us!
The first Wednesday of the month
6-8 pm at the Cottonwood Glade
2026 Dates:
October 7, November 4, December 2
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
2026 Dates:
October 10
Gentle Flow Restore with Gabriel Benjamin
We don’t have to choose between using our muscles and doing deep restoration. This class will have light movement just enough for healing blood flow and simple flexibility. After bringing awareness to our different ranges of motion and having a friendly conversation with our joints we will sink into reclining postures and deep repetition practices. The perfect balm for the busy world as we reset our nervous system.
Friday, October 16
6:00pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Gabriel-Benjamin-3
Paypal: @gabrielreesebenjamin
Gabriel Benjamin has been a dedicated yoga practitioner and teacher since 2001. With five certifications in Yoga and Ayurveda, Gabriel blends his deep understanding of body mechanics with a passion for movement and pranayama.
As an avid cyclist and endurance athlete, Gabriel is well versed in using yoga to treat injuries and balance the nervous system. Gabriel is also a writer, nature guide, and an advocate for mental flexibility. His teachings focus on helping individuals achieve their desired physical outcomes through a balance of mindfulness and strength, integrating mental and physical flexibility. He travels the globe leading retreats and workshops, where he shares his expertise on yoga, core fitness, and mobility.
Based in Folsom, California, Gabriel raises two young boys and learns about human nature while being in awe of their development. Gabriel is grateful for the early exposure he had with his mother Martha Posey who introduced him to the practice.
gabrielbenjaminyoga.com
Dynamic Hatha Yoga with Gabriel Benjamin
All levels welcome!
Friday & Saturday, October 17 & 18
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Gabriel-Benjamin-3
Paypal: @gabrielreesebenjamin
Gabriel Benjamin has been a dedicated yoga practitioner and teacher since 2001. With five certifications in Yoga and Ayurveda, Gabriel blends his deep understanding of body mechanics with a passion for movement and pranayama.
As an avid cyclist and endurance athlete, Gabriel is well versed in using yoga to treat injuries and balance the nervous system. Gabriel is also a writer, nature guide, and an advocate for mental flexibility. His teachings focus on helping individuals achieve their desired physical outcomes through a balance of mindfulness and strength, integrating mental and physical flexibility. He travels the globe leading retreats and workshops, where he shares his expertise on yoga, core fitness, and mobility.
Based in Folsom, California, Gabriel raises two young boys and learns about human nature while being in awe of their development. Gabriel is grateful for the early exposure he had with his mother Martha Posey who introduced him to the practice.
gabrielbenjaminyoga.com
Introduction to Contact Improvisation with Miriam Wolodarski
Contact Improvisation (CI) is a dance form that centers our felt sense of somatic touch: weight, gravity, and momentum carry contact improvisors into a direct sensory experience of the body in space and time. CI can be meditative, playful, or athletic: to the observer, it may look like a mix of ballroom, wrestling, acrobatics, and contemporary dance. For the practitioner, it is an opportunity to experience the biomechanical poetry of human bodies colliding. This gentle and fun introductory class is accessible to bodies of all abilities.
Saturday, October 17
2:00pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Miriam-Wolodarski
Miriam Wolodarski is a longtime dance art practitioner who believes in performance as a contemplative practice for both creator and observer. Her original performance work has appeared at local and international venues including YBCA and the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. She has taught at universities, festivals, and studios for over a decade, and is Artistic Director of the arts organization Sense Object, as well as manager of the culture and community center Berkeley Finnish Hall. Miriam holds a Master of Fine Arts in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University, and a Bachelor’s in Political Science from Uppsala Universitet. As a performer, she danced for Scott Wells & Dancers, and in Barbara Dilley’s Desolate Delight ensemble, among others. She is currently developing the dance laboratory Compostable Feminisms with her longtime collaborator Rosemary Hannon. www.senseobject.com
Circle of Laughter: A Workshop with Gabriel Benjamin
In this program we learn about the brain, enjoy brief storytelling, warm up and relax the body, go deep with the laughter meditation, and have a guided yoga nidra. Descriptions can’t do it justice! It has to be experienced 
smiles and euphoria guaranteed!
Saturday, July 19
5:30pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Gabriel-Benjamin-3
Paypal: @gabrielreesebenjamin
Gabriel Benjamin has been a dedicated yoga practitioner and teacher since 2001. With five certifications in Yoga and Ayurveda, Gabriel blends his deep understanding of body mechanics with a passion for movement and pranayama.
As an avid cyclist and endurance athlete, Gabriel is well versed in using yoga to treat injuries and balance the nervous system. Gabriel is also a writer, nature guide, and an advocate for mental flexibility. His teachings focus on helping individuals achieve their desired physical outcomes through a balance of mindfulness and strength, integrating mental and physical flexibility. He travels the globe leading retreats and workshops, where he shares his expertise on yoga, core fitness, and mobility.
Based in Folsom, California, Gabriel raises two young boys and learns about human nature while being in awe of their development. Gabriel is grateful for the early exposure he had with his mother Martha Posey who introduced him to the practice.
gabrielbenjaminyoga.com
Contemplative Dance Practice with Miriam Wolodarski
Contemplative Dance Practice (CDP) is a dancer’s meditation hall / a meditator’s dance hall. Based on the work of dancer and choreographer Barbara Dilley, the practice offers an array of tools to help us become aware of the movement of both body and mind. Through meditation we notice and focus, through movement we become alive and engaged, and through improvisational play we practice dropping our social mask, tuning to each other and our environment in new ways. The sessions consist of three parts: first, sitting meditation, in which we practice noticing the movement of the mind, and guiding our awareness. Second, facilitated personal awareness practice, in which we practice asking our body what it needs, letting go of ambition in favor of sensation and curiosity. Third, a series of improvisations in which we expand our awareness out into space to notice what is calling us, attending to the emergence of arrangements of time and space, relationships, influences, images, or emotions. The sessions are for all bodies; everyone is welcome to join, regardless of past movement experience.
Sunday, October 18
2:00pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Miriam-Wolodarski
Miriam Wolodarski is a teaching artist with over a decade of experience facilitating contemporary dance, improvisation, and composition at universities, festivals, and studios. Her work takes a kinesthetic approach to the socio-political, emotional, and philosophical questions we hold in our bodies. Miriam’s original performances have been supported by programs at YBCA, CounterPULSE, TragantDansa, Centre Cívic Barceloneta, and The Hemispheric Institute, among others. As a dancer, she has had the privilege of dancing for Barbara Dilley, Scott Wells, and Sara Shelton Mann, among others. She is currently the Artistic Director of the arts organization Sense Object. senseobject.com
Root, Release, Rise & Thrive with Korina Xristine
Join Korina Xristine in a gentle yet profound somatic experience. Ground into the safety and stability of the body and the earth; Release stored energy through breath, movement and sound; Clear and balance the energy centers (chakras); and Finally, integrate and celebrate your aliveness with a little somatic dance ✨
Saturday & Sunday, October 24 & 25
11:00am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Korina-Campos
Korina Xristine is a Somatic Release Coach and Yoga Teacher. Her passion is facilitating safe spaces for people to discover their own inner compass guiding them toward the unique and authentic expression of the life that is already moving through them. Korina believes that our own true medicine lies within and that the journey toward healing and growth is learning to trust that we are safe to open, to give and receive 
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, October 31 & November 1
11:00am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @moonayurveda
Elle is a Clinical Herbalist in private practice, serving the communities of North Lake Tahoe, Portola, Reno and virtually thru telehealth. She is a Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist, Ayurvedic Herbalist, Ayurvedic Body Therapist, Marma Therapist and Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist. She is living her dharma by assisting her community in the quest to maintain health, and to prevent and treat disease, whether it be mild, moderate, chronic or severe. Her passion is to help people heal their body and mind and to alleviate suffering through plant medicine. Elle is on the faculty at the California College of Ayurveda where she teaches Marma Therapy and the Ayurvedic Yoga Teacher Training. As a lifelong student herself, Elle is continuing her studies in Vedic Astrology, Jyotish, at the Vedic Institute of America. Things that bring bliss include snowboarding, my sons, traveling, mountain life, yoga, gardening, aromatherapy, flower essences, and medicine making. elle@ayurvedacollege.com
Songs of the Seven Celtic Nations with Kat MacMartin and Holly Sternberg Kozan
A 90 minute Celtic music concert hosted by Kat MacMartin and Holly Sternberg Kozan. Come experience an evening of music from the seven Celtic nations. Celtic music holds the wonderful power of connection, both from within and with those around you. It covers the range of human emotion, from the most profound sorrow to the most inspiring joy. Playing a variety of instruments ranging from fiddles, Celtic harp, Irish bouzouki, and guitar, Kat and Holly will provide insight into the culture and history of Celtic music as they take you through a journey full of beautiful haunting melodies and toe tapping jigs and reels.
Saturday & Sunday, November 21 & 22
7:00pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Holly-Sternberg
Holly and Kat have been playing together for over ten years. They met in 2016 in Reno, NV when Kat (who had previously studied classical violin) came to Holly to learn the subtle arts of folk fiddling and music. They soon became fast friends and Kat began attending the local weekly Celtic jam session with Holly. The two also began playing gigs together, and over the last decade have expanded their musical repertoire to include many genres of folk music and incorporated multiple instruments into their performances. Holly and Kat have performed all over the Western US and also in Scotland and Iceland, and they are very much looking forward to sharing their music with the Sierra Hot Springs community.