Upcoming Events

Tai Chi Gong in the Water with Kiara Vicini

Join us in the Warm Pool for a meditation in motion with Tiger Mountain Tai Chi Gong.
A Form with many health benefits, physical & mental. We’ll practice harmonizing body, breath & mind with special awareness for the water element and how it affects the quality of the movements.
Repeating this fluid sequence slowly, smoothly and continuously we cultivate balance, tranquillity & inner strength.
With regular practice we can develop effective skills of self-regulation for more resilience in our daily life.

Wednesday, August 13
4:30pm
Thursday, August 14
10:30am
In the Warm Pool at the Temple Dome Pool Area
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Kiara-Vicini
Paypal: paypal.me/kiara50

Originally from Italy, Kiara was inspired by the beauty of nature and the wisdom of the body to study movement education and holistic health care. She is a certified Tai Chi for Health instructor and has a private practice offering therapeutic treatments, teaching body awareness systems for self-care, pain relief and fall prevention.

Vinyasa Flow with Dr. Amanda Ferraro DPT, RYT

Join Amanda in a fun, strength vinyasa flow. The class will begin with going inward, setting an intention and using your breath to move from one posture to the next. Focusing on proper alignment, this class will have you feeling balanced, strong and open.
 
Friday, August 15
2:00pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @AmandaFerraro
Paypal: aferraro17@gmail.com
 
Dr. Amanda Ferraro DPT, RYT lives here locally in Sierraville. She is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and a yoga instructor. Amanda became a certified yoga instructor in 2022 in Bali and has since been guiding students both in person and online.
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, August 15
8:00 – 9:30pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted

Iyengar Yoga with Marianne Reagan

Marianne Reagan is a certified, highly experienced, Iyengar Yoga teacher who has been offering classes at Sierra Hot Springs for nearly twenty years. She teaches a relaxed, basic asana class designed to open the body, focus the mind and build awareness of self. Modifications are encouraged to personalize the experience and allow everybody to participate with comfort and ease.

Saturday & Sunday, August 16 & 17
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Paypal: reagan.marianne@gmail.com

Yin: 75-Minute Saturday Evening Class with Desi

Yin Yoga is a beautiful complement to soaking in the hot springs. Join us before or after your soak to ease into deep relaxation and reconnect with your body. This mindful practice helps you slow down and tune inward.

We’ll begin close to the ground with gentle breathwork to help you settle onto your mats. Then, we’ll shift into longer-held Yin poses (3–5 minutes) to nourish the deeper connective tissues, with mindful transitions in between. Music will accompany the practice.

 

Saturday, August 16
7:00-8:15pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @TrailRunningYogi_Desi

I took my first yoga class in 2008 while visiting Costa Rica and haven’t looked back since. Yoga continues to bring me a sense of community, ease, clarity, and joy.

Over the years, I’ve gravitated toward slower practices that support deep tissue release and connection to yoga philosophy. I’m trained in Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, and Yoga Nidra, with a 200-hour YTT from The Grinning Yogi (Pacific Northwest) and an additional 75-hour YTT from Channels of Healing / East Wind Yoga (Auburn, CA).

In my classes, I prioritize inclusivity, alignment, and creating a welcoming space where everyone can show up just as they are—whether it’s their first class or their hundredth. I enjoy blending movement and stillness, and working with fascia, especially as someone who understands the stiffness and injuries that come from running and commuting.

When I’m not on the mat, you’ll likely find me trail running somewhere beautiful.

I hope to practice with you soon!

Vin-Yin: 60-Minute Sunday Class with Desi

Class will begin close to the ground with gentle movement and breathwork to help you settle onto your mats. We’ll shift in a short, Vinyasa flow to build a little fire; and we’ll close class with longer-held Yin poses (3–5 minutes) to nourish the deeper connective tissues, with mindful transitions in between. Music will accompany the practice.

 

Sunday, August 17
1:00pm-2:00pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @TrailRunningYogi_Desi

I took my first yoga class in 2008 while visiting Costa Rica and haven’t looked back since. Yoga continues to bring me a sense of community, ease, clarity, and joy.

Over the years, I’ve gravitated toward slower practices that support deep tissue release and connection to yoga philosophy. I’m trained in Vinyasa, Yin, Restorative, and Yoga Nidra, with a 200-hour YTT from The Grinning Yogi (Pacific Northwest) and an additional 75-hour YTT from Channels of Healing / East Wind Yoga (Auburn, CA).

In my classes, I prioritize inclusivity, alignment, and creating a welcoming space where everyone can show up just as they are—whether it’s their first class or their hundredth. I enjoy blending movement and stillness, and working with fascia, especially as someone who understands the stiffness and injuries that come from running and commuting.

When I’m not on the mat, you’ll likely find me trail running somewhere beautiful.

I hope to practice with you soon!

Yoga with Cab Spates

Cab Spates began studying yoga on the north shore of Oahu with Carol Campbell Dudley of Sandy Feet yoga in 1994. Frequent trips to the silent dance center studying with many senior Iyengar teachers. Kofi Busia, Marla Apt, Manuso Manos, John Leebold and more became a base of his practice… Other influences include studying Tai Chi with Herbert Pong in 1994 and Chi Gong at Tai Chuan University in Honolulu. Cab has had many other amazing teachers/ collogues including Gui Alves the Derose Method, Ashtanga with Zachary Hitchcock student of Pattabi Jois., Mara J Pike of Jasmine yoga and student of Shadow Yoga Yoga’s Shandor Remete. Later influences include teachers from Bhaktifest. Mark Whitwell, Shiva Rea, David Saul Raye, Dharma Mittra, Duncan Wong and more… Expect a unique class experience tailored to the needs of the participants in the given environment.
 

Thursday, August 21
10:30am & 4:00pm
At the Cottonwood Glade
Friday, August 22
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @cab-spates

Cab first came to yoga for help with back problems from years of surfing in 1994 and discovered a vast spring of untapped possibilities.
Visit optimysstique.com for more insight about Cab Spates

Bicicletas por la Paz in Concert

Bicicletas por la Paz sprinkles Traditional Colombian folklore with a modern psychedelic twist that keeps the dance floor moving. This seven-piece creates a high-energy sound with thick harmonies and hip-hop drive to keep you moving. They share a strong message of people power in Spanish and English to infuse their audience with joy and community.
 

Friday, August 22
7:00pm
On the Lawn at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @carolynherlehy
Paypal: @Herlehycj@gmail.com

bicicletasporlapaz.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:
August 23 September 20, October 18, November 22, December 20

The Voice of Nature: A Journey Through the Primal Voice with Colton Jones

Unlock the raw, healing power of your voice. The Voice of Nature is an experiential vocal workshop exploring throat singing, primal tones, and natural sound expression—rooted in ancient traditions and intuitive awareness. Whether meditative, energizing, or deeply emotional, this practice reconnects you with the earth, your body, and your inner voice.

No experience necessary—this is a space for exploration, not performance.
Come as you are, and let your voice grow wild.

Throughout millennia, singing has been an integral part of the lived experience. Its presence echoes not only through human cultures, but across the animal kingdom—birds, whales, cats, mice, dogs, even insects—all resonating with the primordial hum of the world around them.

This workshop will guide you through vocalization techniques designed to let you ride the wave of sound as it moves through you, rather than trying to force it into shape. Those who’ve never considered themselves “good singers” will discover that their voice is just as magical as any other—and seasoned singers will find themselves using their voice in ways they never imagined.

Through this practice, you may find power, confidence, healing, and a deep sense of harmony with the world around you.

Come sing the universe—and feel it resonate within you.

 

Saturday, August 30
4:00pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Ca$h App: $salandrialis
Zelle: salandrialis@gmail.com

Colton Jones is a wilderness walker, throat singer, and spiritual explorer with a deep love for natural sound and primal expression. Drawing from cross-cultural traditions and his own intuitive practice, he guides others in reclaiming the voice as a sacred, embodied tool for healing, presence, and self-discovery

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:
September 4, October 2, November 6, December 4

Forest Bathing Walk with Robert Bray

Immerse yourself in the natural splendor of Sierra Hot Springs, deepen your connection to its healing powers, and discover the simple pleasures of nature that are right here just for us with a forest bathing guided walk by Robert Bray.  Forest Bathing (or Forest Therapy) is a slow, gentle and meditative wander, activated by invitations offered by the guide and designed to deepen your sensory connection to nature. It is inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku, or “bathing in the atmosphere of the forest,” developed to foster well-being and good health through the embodiment of the healing powers of nature.  We won’t walk far, it’s not a hike, we won’t literally bathe in water.  Walks last about 90 minutes. The focus is on connection to and relationship with the more than human world. Bring your curiosity, wear sturdy shoes, bring water if needed.
 

Saturday & Sunday, September 6 & 7
4:oopm
Meet at the Main Entrance to the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @PleasuresOfPresence

Robert Bray (he/they) is a certified forest bathing guide at the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy (ANFT), whose motto is, “The forest is the therapy, the guide opens the doors.”  When not hiking the Sierras, Cascades or Bay Area trails, he leads forest bathing walks in redwoods, deserts, coastal wilderness and the parks of San Francisco, where he resides. Robert enjoyed a 40-year career in social justice and human rights activism, communications and philanthropy before discovering his passion for forest bathing.  
“Go out in the woods, go out.  If you don’t go out in the woods, nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.” 
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves.

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.

Saturday, September 6
8:30pm
Sunday, September 7
10:30am
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.

Land in Dance with Miriam Wolodarski

Join us for a gentle movement session dedicated to experiencing the beautiful Sierra Valley directly through the senses. Through a mix of still and moving contemplation, we’ll delight in texture, shape, tone, and color, let ourselves be moved, and find new ways to connect with the environment, ourselves, and others. All bodies and abilities are welcome regardless of experience. It is recommended to wear sun protection, and clothes you don’t mind getting dirty.

Thursday, September 11
6:00pm
At the Cottonwood Glade
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

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.

Friday & Saturday, September 12 & 13
10:30am
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

 

Fall Transition Sound Meditation with Gyöngyi Ridenour
New Beginnings · Harvesting Emotions · Inner Clarity

As we approach the September New Moon and the autumn equinox, you’re invited to pause, reflect, and attune to the sacred shift of the seasons. This sound meditation is designed to guide you through the energetic doorway of fall transition—a time to gently release what no longer serves and make space for new intentions to take root.
With the support of grounding frequencies, healing instruments, and guided inner reflection, we’ll tune into the emotional harvest of the year so far—honoring what you’ve grown, what you’re ready to let go of, and what you now feel called to create.
This class will include:
Gentle breathwork to calm the nervous system
Guided meditation for emotional harvesting and release
A soothing sound bath to nourish your energy body
Intention setting to align with the coming new moon
Come as you are. No experience needed—just an open heart and the courage to begin again.
✨ Perfect for grounding, clarity, emotional reset, and entering the new season with presence.
 

Friday, September 19
8:30pm
Saturday, September 20
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Gyongyi-Ridenour

Gyöngyi Ridenour is a seasoned Sound Healer with over 15 years of experience, offering transformative healing experiences through sound. Born in Romania with Hungarian roots, Gyöngyi’s journey has taken her across the globe, settling in the USA where she has cultivated her expertise in sound healing.
Her transformative encounter with Metal Singing Bowls in Austria, under the guidance of Ulriche K., a certified Sound Healer, inspired her to become certified as a Sound Healer, Reiki Master, Emotion Code practitioner, and AromaTouch practitioner with DoTerra. Gyöngyi’s 15 years of sound healing experience have led her to train over 50 individuals in sound healing and offer her services at festivals, retreats, and women’s circles.
In 2012, Gyöngyi traveled to India to earn her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification, integrating sound and essential oils into her classes in the Lake Tahoe region. Her journey also includes certifications in life coaching and psychic abilities, enhancing her capabilities as a healer.
Gyöngyi has been a valued member of The Sanctuary and Mountain Lotus Studio in Truckee for several years, where she leads sound healing meditations, yoga sound healing and offers private sessions, contributing her expertise and passion for holistic wellness. Passionate about guiding others towards well-being, Gyöngyi specializes in mindset assessment as a spiritual life coach, helping individuals gain new perspectives and take inspired actions towards their goals. Gyöngyi’s focus on holistic tools and experiences supports others on their path to greater well-being and fulfillment. In the winter, she also teaches cross-country skiing part-time and she is a certified Level 3 PSIA member instructor at Tahoe Donner in Truckee.
gyoharmony.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, September 20
4:oopm
Sunday, September 21
10:30am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Shannon-McLain_1444

Shaelyn (RYT–200) is an international yoga teacher and mindfulness-based leadership practitioner. Her yoga teachings, influenced by the Dynamic Release Method TM, are grounded in the Hatha vinyasa style, emphasize nervous system repair, the mind-body connection, myofascial release, and intentional alignment. She is also certified in restorative yoga and sound healing. 

She holds both a PhD and an MS in Mind-Body Medicine from Saybrook University, where she also serves as a graduate professor in the College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences. Shaelyn is an experienced wellness coach who ran her own private practice for several years and served as the head of health coaching for a virtual integrative healthcare company. She is also a professionally trained facilitator (through Saybrook University and the Center for Mind-Body Medicine) equipped to lead transformative groups using a variety of mind-body therapies and modalities that support meditation, spiritual insight, and overall well-being. 

Circle Singing with Kappé Rousseau

Circle Singing is collective vocal improvisation: making stuff up and singing it together on the fly.
The facilitator creates melodies and sings them to sections of the circle. Layers of harmonies, rhythms, counter rhythms spring up with no written music. Participants will get the experience of hearing their part as an integral piece of the whole experience. The facilitator offers the pulse, feel and vibe of the flow of emotion.

Friday, Saturday & Sunday, September 26, 27, 28
8:30pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Kappe-Rousseau

My passion for musical creativity started at an early age when I became bored with piano lessons. I had to ‘practice’ or at least ‘play’ the piano every day for an hour. I started making things up – changing things up and re-arranging the music. Later in life, I lived in NYC for a time and I created a business of ‘arranging’ music for artists who were looking to attract interest in their songs. I can hear where the music is going in my head and then lay it out, or play it out.
I’ve played professionally as part of a group and solo for years. I have a background in classical/orchestral performance in percussion. My main instrument is piano and I am just as comfortable with guitar in open tunings. I have a BA in Music from U.C. Berkeley. My background in Circle Singing is from Oakland California and the Circle Singing team of Bobby McFerrin. I decided to bring Circle Singing anywhere I can so that people can experience the power of the collective voice and also tap deeply into their inner being and soul and SING!
www.circlesing.org