Inspired by ballet exercises and functional fitness training, these Barre workouts integrate coordination, balance, and breath with precise low-impact movements to build strength, stability, and endurance, and to develop body awareness and control.  The routines target all areas, working arms, legs, core, and glutes to promote long, strong muscle while improving mobility, alignment, and posture.  The constant conscious movement, which challenges the body without overload, supports hormonal balance, regulating stress and reducing cortisol.  The sessions flow with intention and focus, creating a supportive environment that invites us to connect with our bodies, cultivate presence, and feel empowered in nurturing our wellbeing. Classes follow a clear structure–warm-up, main routine, and cool-down–with the strong beat of electronic music marking the rhythm and keeping our energy up.  All levels are welcome; Adriana will guide modifications and progressions so that each person can be safe and confident no matter their abilities or needs.  Classes may incorporate weights, resistance bands, exercise balls or sliders to support muscle activation and control while maintaining fluid movement.  Participants may be barefoot or wear socks; please bring a mat for certain floor exercises. ​

​Writing is healing. Writing brings our feelings and ideas to the forefront of our awareness, and writing unpacks or unravels whatever we’ve been holding inside.  Our journal circle will begin with time to settle into our space, then Sarah will facilitate a guided meditation or mindfulness exercise to tap into the writer within.  She will offer guidance and provide prompts for us to put pen to paper, but we are free to follow our own thoughts without any particular aim.  Often we may be surprised with where our writing leads us.  

Writing fosters connection.  We will end each journal circle with time to share.  While there is no pressure to share, our intention is to create a safe container for us to write and share in community, to support and hold each other through whatever comes up in our journaling.  This circle is open to anyone seeking connection, reflection, and clarity.  We hope to bring a group together on a monthly basis, each month centered around a different theme or topic.  In March with the equinox marking a turning point in our solar cycle, we will turn our attention toward new beginnings.  

This workshop invites us to move the body with strength and awareness, to sweat, to vibrate collectively, and to connect with the rich cultural and ancestral heritage of African dance.  Mónica will teach Guinean Style, an intense, liberating, and profoundly energetic expression of West African dance.  Through rhythm, movement, and combined vitality, we will explore the power of the emotive body and the joy of dancing without judgment.  After warming up, we will learn the steps to the beat, practice movements through the space, and bring it together in group sequences.  We’ll free our inner fire, embody our authentic being, and dance by the sea to the rhythm of the drum.  All are welcome; no prior experience is needed, but spaces are limited, so please join the group soon if you feel called to move, feel, enjoy, and let your body speak.  Dancing barefoot is recommended, but sneakers are fine, too.