Upcoming Events

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, December 12 & 13
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, 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

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, December 19 & Sunday, December 21
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

The Vision Workshop™ with Kappé Rousseau

3 Keys to Mastering Your Results
• Do you want to feel more purpose and fullfilment in your life?
• 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?
If these questions resonate with you, then you are going to love this workshop!

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!

You will learn:
• Three essential keys for mastering your life results.
• 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

About Kappé Rousseau
Certified DreamBuilder® Life Coach with the Brave Thinking Institute
For over 40 years, Kappé has inspired organizations and individuals to envision bold possibilities, accelerate meaningful results, and design lives they truly love.
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
For more information:
Kappé Rousseau
510-384-8164

Into the Sound: New Moon Drum & Voice Circle with Kappé Rousseau

We begin in rhythm under the New Moon sky, gathering around the pulse of the earth. Then we cross a threshold into the sanctuary of voice, where intuition awakens and inner truth becomes audible. Rhythm clears the path. Voice reveals the way. Come journey inward through sound, intention, and connection

Saturday, December 20
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

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.

Saturday, December 27
11:00am
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

 

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.

Sunday, December 28
11:00am
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

New Years Eve Fire Circle

Bring drums, noisemakers and yourselves…

December 31, 2025
8:00pm – Midnight
At the Drum Circle past the Meditation Pool
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously Accepted

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

2026 Dates:
January 1, February 5, March 5, April 2, May 7, June 4, July 2, August 6. September 3, October 1, November 5, December 3

Yoga Rx with Amber Abbott

Yoga Rx is a therapeutic yoga class designed to support healing and restoration for those dealing with injury, chronic pain, and postural misalignment. This class emphasizes slow, gentle movements and deep stretches, targeting the myofascial tissues to release tension and promote flexibility. Incorporating elements of Restorative, Yin, and Yoga Nidra practices, Yoga Rx provides a deeply relaxing experience, with soothing, affirmative suggestions to relief pain, enhance relaxation and foster a sense of inner calm. Ideal for anyone seeking a mindful approach to physical and mental recovery.

Saturday & Sunday, January 3 & 4
11:00am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Amber-Abbott-4
Paypal: @AAACoaching

Amber Abbott is a Yoga teacher and Hypnotherapist with over 15 years experience leading classes, events and private sessions. Her passion is helping people who are suffering from chronic pain, that could be physical, mental or emotional. She believes yoga and meditation can be used in a therapeutic way to address the root cause of pain and suffering and help facilitate a happy, healthy life. She loves spending time in nature, traveling and learning new ways to make the world a better place.
amberabbottcht.com

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.

 

Website: https://iamtheopenhearth.com/
FB:https://www.facebook.com/TheOpenHearth
IG: https://www.instagram.com/theopenhearth
contact: bethfreewomon@yahoo.com

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, January 10
3:00pm
Sunday, January 11
11:00am
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

Midwinter Medicine: A Wild Wellness Ritual with Natalie Pyrooz

This guided winter ritual invites you to slow down, breathe deeply, and meet the season with presence. We’ll cultivate our inner flame, work with supportive plant allies, wander slowly through the landscape in a mindful walking meditation, and explore simple insights for winter wellbeing. We’ll close with a vision journaling practice to help you uncover what wants to emerge as the light returns. A peaceful and restorative reset for mind and heart ~ come as you are!
Bring: a journal and pen/pencil, warm clothes for a 20-minute walk (weather permitting)

 

Saturday, January 17
3:00pm
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

Revitalizing Yoga Flow with Natalie Pyrooz

Join Natalie for an awakening slow flow to bring focus and peace to the mind and revitalize your body, head to toe. Draw your attention inward and to the present moment, open your heart, and explore your physical body.
Our class will bring together elements from breathwork, mudra, mantra, and a gentle flow designed for all bodies and abilities.


Sunday, January 18
11:00am
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

The Work of Byron Katie:  A Process of Self-inquiry & Yoga for the Mind with Helena Montelius

The Work is a completely accessible, user-friendly form of the ancient way of spiritual inquiry; a simple method anyone can use to untangle difficulties in work, love and fa mily, and at the same timeit opens the deepest spiritual directions.

We welcome you to experience this powerful tool for inner peace,
conflict resolution and mental balance.

Saturday & Sunday, January 24 & 25
11:00am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Helena-Montelius
Paypal: info@lookwithininstitute

Helena Montelius, 64, has been a Mental Health Coach, Meditation Teacher and Certified Facilitator of The Work for decades. She shares her mental health tools through online classes and live retreats

worldwide.
http://www.lookwithininstitute.com
Look Within Institute on Sound Cloud, You-Tube and FB. 

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, February 7 & 8
11:00am
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

Live Acoustic Music with Liam Kyle Cahill & Kasey Christensen

With five albums and 1000+ shows under his belt, folk-rocker Liam Kyle Cahill brings energy and passion to his extensive mix of original and cover material. His songs shine as bright as his smile with the kind of storytelling that touches something deep within all of us.
Kasey Christensen is a Reno-based folksinger that combines her silky, soulful voice with the sweetness of an acoustic guitar or ukulele to paint an audible landscape that draws audiences in.

Saturday, February 14
7:00pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @LiamKyleMusic, @Kasey-Christensen-1

liamkylecahill.com
www.instagram.com/kasey.christensen.music