Upcoming Events

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, September 10
10:30am
On the Side Lawn 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

Chanting & Song Circle with Joel

Join us for an evening of shared song, chanting, and connection. This gathering is an open and welcoming space to listen, sing along, or share your own songs and chants. Accompanied by harmonium and simple melodies, we’ll come together in the spirit of community, allowing the music to unfold naturally. You’re invited to simply listen, join in with your voice, bring an instrument, or offer a song or chant of your own. Come as you are and share in the joy of singing together.

Thursday, September 10
6:00pm
On the Side Lawn at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @Joel-Swanson-27

I grew up most of my young adult life in the Midwest. Just around my 29th birthday I was fortunate to escape to the West Coast. Living on the west coast for quite some time exposed me to some unique spiritual practices/ experiences. I didn’t start to be sincere on my path until my thirties. Eventually one of my loves became Kirtan. The first time I played a harmonium my eyes filled with tears and it made my heart sing. Devotional songs/Kirtan have come to be a very important part of my own spiritual practice. I’m grateful whether I am just listening to it, singing it or sitting in meditation silently absorbed. I have had several opportunities to share devotional music with other musicians and other sincere hearts on the west coast, the Midwest and in North Carolina (places I’ve lived). I’m grateful I get to come and share it with more sincere hearts, and at my favorite hot springs on the planet.

 

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, September 11
8:00 – 9:30pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted

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, September 12
3:oopm
Sunday, September 13
11:00am
Meet on the Side Lawn at 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.

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:
September 12, October 10

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, September 18
5:00pm
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

Soulmatic Sanctuary with Jill Beam Beimers

Somatic’s of the Soul. Letting Spirit move the Body.
An embodiment lab, a space to unwind and drop~in with your authentic self.
In this time together we will explore the natural elements as they relate to our bodies. We will relax with the breath and follow where our movements want to take us in our internal terrain. This is a feeling based experience.

We’ll move into partner stretching with the idea of supporting and being supported while both remain relaxed and comfortable.

 

Saturday & Sunday, September 19 & 20
11:00am
In the Green Room at the Lodge
Gratuities Graciously Accepted
Venmo: @Jill-Beimers-101

 Co-creator of Ecstatic Dance Nevada City for 11 years. Also, San Diego Ecstatic Dance and Miami Ecstatic Dance.

Committed to Somatic Explorations for Body, Mind and Spirit balancing, centering and healing.
Has taught Pilates, Gyrotonics, and Yoga. Passionate about about self expression. 

Kundalini Yoga and Meditation with Charlotte

Conscious breathing has been used in cultures around the world, for thousands of years, for healing and attaining higher states of consciousness. Kundalini Yoga is an active meditation that involves the conscious alteration of movement and natural breathing patterns in order to seek clarity, ecstasy, and greater peace.
 

Thursday & Friday, September 24 & 25
10:30am
On the Side Lawn of the Lodge
Free to Guests – Gratuities Graciously accepted
Paypal: kubiak@hawaii.edu

Charlotte Kubiak is devoted to exploring somatic practices. She is a visiting massage therapist at Sierra Hot Springs, a yoga teacher, and a Breathwork facilitator.

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, September 26 & 27
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

Introduction to Weaving:Create a Drying Tray or Coaster of Reeds with Kayla

Learn the timeless craft of weaving by creating a small drying tray or coaster to take home. In this beginner-friendly class, you’ll gain foundational weaving skills while experiencing the slow, meditative rhythm of working with natural materials.

Friday & Saturday, September 26 & 27
3:00pm
In the Green Room at the Lodge
$10 Includes Class & Materials
Gratuities Graciously accepted
Venmo: @daughterofwater, Paypal: kaylakaylaohkayla@gmail.com

I guide people back into relationship with their bodies and the living world.

Through ancestral craft, radical health education, embodied practices, and community, I create spaces where people can remember they are not separate from nature, we are nature.

Supporting deeper relationship with body, earth, and spirit.

Kayla learning in ancestral craft comes from Tom Brown Juniors Tracker School in New Jersey, working and living for 5 years on Rosewater Ranch, and throughout her travels of the last decade.

 

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.

 

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

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

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 💗

IG: @medicinawithin

 

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