MINDFUL MOVEMENT COMMUNITY EVENTS
Mindful Movement Introduces Thrive 2025 @ The Waterbury Library
We all know what we “need to do” to thrive – but maintaining practices that foster personal health, alignment, and joy, is NO easy feat!
Thrive 2025 is a multi-day workshop where you’ll explore setting realistic goals, and learn tools for supporting habit formation.
Transformation happens in the body, not the intellect…
Workshops include: Mindful Movement, habit & value discovery worksheets, & journaling – use these tools throughout 2025 and THRIVE!
Saturdays, 2/8, 2/22, & 3/8 10:30 - 11:30 AM
In: the Sal Room at the Waterbury Library!
MORE ABOUT THRIVE 2025…
Have you ever bought a diet or exercise program that was GOING to be THE ANSWER to living a healthy lifestyle once and for ALL?
How about a program that promised to help you color-code your closets, manage the mudroom mess, or organize your office – minimalist style?
You open the program, go directly to the Martha Stewart photos, healthy recipes cooked in a dream kitchen, or ‘do these top 5 exercises’…
You write a few things in your new 2025 calendar – ahh feels good, right?
Feels like you’re “doing something” – but without a process, the “cluttered closets” of your life will return to chaos.
What’s the process?
The process is practice that helps make change more permanent.
In Mindful Movement Thrive in 2025 you’ll:
Discover how to support the patterns you desire.
Learn to navigate the ups & downs of pattern change (because there will be some).
Set realistic goals, rather than fantasy perfection ones that get you dopamine hits, but zero results.
Practice sitting with the discomfort and friction of doing hard things (change can feel sticky).
Make a backup plan (life is never linear – in spite of what your new color coded calendar predicts).
Explore how Mindful Movement (body-literacy) supports personal growth (transformation happens in the body, not the intellect).
WINTER SOLSTICE CLASS
Wednesday, December 21, 2024 6-7 PM
A special class FOR YOU –
As we say so-long to the shorter days, and greet the promised return of spring-light, roll out your mat, and join me for Mindful Movements yoga class debut.
Winter solstice yoga practices usually include Sun Salutations, and restorative hip-openers. Poses that instill mobility, and remind us of the necessity of stability within ourselves.
There’s a saying in movement that hips hide, and house ‘stuff’– perhaps you’ve experienced tightness, instability, or feeling disconnected from your own hips.
In this class you’ll move through poses that support forward momentum, pause in stability, increase flexibility, and restore hip mobility.
Light a candle, join in community, and settle into this cozy at-home hip nurturing class.
All are invited, modifications shared.
Register – HERE
Cost $15 – HERE
Embodied Poetry Community Workshop
A Felt Sense of Words...
Join poet Mary Rose Dougherty and Mindful Movement with Becky, for a guided experience of breath awareness through spoken poems, writing, and movement.
Before we have the words to say it, we must experience what we feel in our body. Expressive creativity when merged with a felt sense, has the power to shift heaviness to a lightness of being, nourish the body, ignite the imagination, and center the soul.
No prior writing, nor movement/meditation experience necessary. All are welcome.
FOOD ~ MOVEMENT ~ COMMUNITY
Feeding families, providing access to well-being, and connecting community.
What: A 45 minute beginner-friendly Mindful Movement class. Movements you can expect: breath-awareness, gentle stretching, postural-alignment, standing balance, and grounding relaxation.
When: Monday, June 13th @ 5:30-6:15 PM
Where: Waterbury Food Shelf backyard garden…in the case of inclement weather, class will be postponed.
Address: 57 South Main St. Waterbury - next to H&R Block
Parking: Very limited – please park on the street.
COVID protocol: Masks optional, however please bring one (if mask-mandates are suggested, we’ll follow suit)
Bring: A food donation, a yoga mat, towel, or blanket, water bottle, a mask, insect repellent, and anything else to aid your comfort.
Suggested food donations:
Cereals, snacks
Granola bars, crackers
Ground coffee
Toilet paper
Jarred pasta sauce
Gift cards to Village Market or Shaws
Sara Whitehair - Director of the Waterbury Food Shelf. Sara is a Duxbury resident who believes that mindful movement is helpful for anyone at any stage of life. Sara invites you to stay for a quick tour of the food shelf after class.
Mindful Movement Class at the Grange Hall
Deepen your Breath, Cultivate Strength, Enhance Posture
A low impact resistance-band Mindful Movement practice focusing on breath-awareness, postural alignment, strength, and balance.
Whether you’re recovering from an injury, want to build strength, and stability, or release tension and improve flexibility, this class includes it all!
4-week Session:
Day/Time: Tuesdays, 9-10am
Dates: October 4th-25th
Cost: Full Session: $60 (bands sold at first class, $8/each)
What to Wear: Comfy layered clothes, sneakers optional.
What to Bring: Exercise mat, small towel, bands if you already have them.