Ready to take your belly dance journey to the next level? This 8-week mixed-level series is designed for dancers with some prior experience or those who have completed the foundational course. We'll build on core techniques with more challenging combinations, layered movements, and a dynamic choreography that evolves throughout the series.
You’ll be introduced to props such as canes, sagat (finger cymbals) and silk fans, exploring rhythm and coordination in new and exciting ways. This class encourages growth, creativity, and a willingness to try new things in a supportive, fun environment.
New students with previous dance experience may be accepted at the instructor’s discretion.
Join us for an astrology workshop with Una Bella: The Cosmic Mermaid!Your birth chart is a map of your unique gifts, challenges, and soul purpose. In this beginner-friendly workshop, you’ll learn the basics of astrology and how to read your own chart, including planets, signs, and houses.This workshop is perfect for the curious beginner, this class empowers you with deeper self-understanding and self-trust.No astrology experience is needed.
Meet yourself with less judgment and more compassion.
Join Vanessa Chambers, E-CYT 500, for a deeply supportive and introspective workshop designed for those who tend to second guess, overthink, or feel hesitant in trusting themselves. With over 20 years of personal practice and a thoughtful, grounded teaching style, Vanessa creates a space where you can gently quiet the noise and reconnect with your inner voice.
Through restorative yoga and guided self-reflection, you’ll begin to shift how you see and speak to yourself — from criticism toward compassion.
You’ll be guided through:
• Restorative yoga to soothe the nervous system
• Self-inquiry prompts & journaling• Self-forgiveness statements and affirmations
•The development of self-forgiveness statements and affirmations
• Creating your own affirmation/forgiveness deckBring a deck of cards — we’ll use what arises in practice to create something meaningful you can take with you, and use to bolster your inner speech day to day.
This is a space for the quiet ones, the thoughtful ones, the ones who have been hard on themselves… and are ready for something softer.
Sometimes the most powerful response to a troubled world is the simplest: to step outside, place one foot in front of the other and walk with intention.
This month, you are invited to join a community peace walk sponsored by "Schenectady Steps Toward Peace”
This will be an opportunity to slow down, breathe together and remember that even small acts of presence can ripple outward to our city, to our nation and to our world.
Meet Mati (rain or shine) at the circle across the street from Arthur’s Market. She will guide a walking meditation down to Riverside Park, beside the Mohawk River to the White Pine Tree of Peace that was planted last fall. where a labyrinth will be present for continued steps of quiet reflection.
Donations will be gratefully accepted with proceeds benefiting the Inner Bliss Scholarship Fund.
I hope you will join me, as we carry a simple intention:
that peace begins wherever people are willing to move forward together.
In the words of Walt Whitman - “Peace is always beautiful”.
Join Krystal for a gentle and supportive EFT tapping circle designed to help you release stress, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with your emotions in a safe space.
Each session will include guided tapping rounds focused on common themes like stress, overwhelm, self-doubt, and emotional buildup, along with space to slow down, check in, and simply be. If you have something you'd like to tap on, feel free to share if you're comfortable doing so.
This is a space rooted in radical acceptance — where nothing needs to be fixed and all feelings are welcome.
No experience with tapping is necessary. You’ll be guided every step of the way and leave with a simple, effective tool you can use in your daily life.
Come as you are.