Yoga Dance with Diana Peters-Ross and Robin Diamond
Friday, April 4, 2025
6:30 - 8:00 PM Munson Library
1046 South East Street, Amherst
Embrace JOY! Ignite your creative, playful spirit!
Join Yoga, Danskinetics, and Journey Dance Instructors Diana Peters-Ross and Robin Diamond for an evening of rhythm, flow, and fun! Explore the wisdom of your body through movement. This is a hybrid of guided yoga, freeform movement and dance with some interactive opportunities.
We’ll begin with guided familiar yoga postures, easing into some flowing movements that gradually lead us off our mats and around the room, as the rhythms of global music fill the space and the energy builds. It will culminate back on our mats with a short relaxation.
Make time to bounce, play, and explore! Let your body lead the way as we co-create a unique movement experience together.
This program is offered freely and open to all. Donations are gratefully accepted but never expected.
If you'd like to support our mission to make vibrant health accessible to all by offering free, donation-based classes, workshops, and events, please make a donation via Venmo @everydaywellbeingMA, or mail a check to Everyday Wellbeing to 5 Edgewood Terrace, Hadley MA 01035.
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Diana Peters-Ross
If you have questions, please email Diana directly at
Daily Yoga 8:00 - 9:00 AM
Munson Library
1046 South East Street, Amherst
We offer an 8:00 AM yoga class EVERY DAY, 365 days per year.
This is an opportunity to start your day with movement, mindfulness, and a dose of calm as you deepen your connection to mind, body, and spirit.
Check the calendar above to see who's teaching and join us!
If we have to cancel due to weather, it will be posted on the calendar and on our old Facebook page by 7 AM.
There is no charge for any of our offerings. If you'd like to support our mission to make vibrant health accessible to all by offering free, donation-based classes, workshops, and events, please make a donation via Venmo @everydaywellbeingMA, or mail a check to Everyday Wellbeing to 5 Edgewood Terrace, Hadley MA 01035.
Nature Walks
Evidence suggests that spending time in nature offers emotional, mental, and physical benefits. Sharing a walk with others increases the positive impact on our health.
Our Valley has unique geology and natural history that has provided inspiration for artists, poets, writers and naturalists. We will enjoy the scenery of local fields, pastures and woodland forests to observe birds, wildlife, plants and trees.
"There is nothing like nature to bring you back to your self and connect you to your senses."
- Mark Coleman, Author of Awake in the Wild
Kathy Kellogg has been hiking and walking in nature her whole adult life. She's hiked Diamond Head, Iao Valley State Park and the Grand Canyon, as well as parts of the Appalachian Trail. She has an understanding of forest bathing and a great appreciation for the beauty, calm environment, variety of trees and vegetation, and changing seasons of the natural world. She is also a flower gardener and seeker of new ways to be in nature. She looks forward to sharing her passion for the natural world with others who are interested in walking together.
Contact Kathy Kellogg with questions at kelloggkl@gmail.com
If you'd like to add your name to an email list to receive reminders about upcoming hikes, events and nature walks, please click the link below.
Next Scheduled Nature Walk:
Saturday, April 12th
11:00 AM
Peace Pagoda
100 Cave Hill Road, Leverett
We will begin across the street (with additional parking) for a wooded nature walk of almost 2 miles. We will then return to the parking lot and walk up to the Peace Pagoda, approximately 3/4 of a mile up and back.
Please allow 2 hours for this event.
Rain date, Sunday, April 13th at 11:00.
Meditation Practice
Join an on-going inquiry into the practice of meditation (sitting in silence) immediately after our daily asana practice at 9:10 AM at the Munson Library. This is a peer-led, drop-in session that varies in length from 15-20 minutes.
If you are interested in more formal, guided practice, please complete the interest form below. We will contact you about other offerings and opportunities as they become available.
Qigong with Karen Sumaryono
Qigong is a gentle, healing practice that involves slow movements, deep breathing, self massage, and meditation. It’s easier on the joints than many yoga postures and is especially gentle on the knees, wrists and shoulders. A mostly standing practice that is over 5,000 years old, Western research has proven Qigong's healing and preventative health effects.
Saturdays 9:15-10:00 AM - Munson Library
All are welcome! Interest in Qigong continues to grow, and beginners are always welcome to join the practice!
Learn to Use Yoga Blocks
with Tiffany Joseph
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Noon - 1:00 PM
Munson Library
1046 South East Street, Amherst
Yoga blocks are dense rectangular props used to make yoga poses more accessible or challenging. They can be used to support the body, improve alignment, and enhance muscle engagement during a yoga practice. Blocks can be used to create more space in a pose by allowing you to rest your hands or other body parts on them. They can be used to create resistance or provide support for the back, hips, and head, allowing you to relax more deeply into a pose and improve alignment. Blocks can be used to stabilize poses and improve balance, especially in standing or balancing poses. They can also help prevent injury by providing support and preventing misalignment in certain poses.
Join long-time yoga teacher and dance instructor, Tiffany Joseph in this one-hour class designed to teach you how to make the most of your yoga block. No experience necessary. All ages are welcome.
Bring your own blocks if you have them. There will be a limited number to borrow, but please register below so we'll be sure to have enough for everyone.
Tiffany Joseph is a holistic health, wellness, and movement coach with 20 years of experience. She is known for her authentic, creative, compassionate, non-judgmental, and energetic teaching style.
Tiffany has Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Massachusetts in Communications and Social Justice Education. She is certified in Yoga and Zumba instruction and is a Shiatsu and Reiki practitioner. Additionally, Tiffany is an avid gardener and practices herbalism. She is a community activist and provides educational workshops on a variety of social justice issues.
Tiffany intends that every student feels more deeply connected to their body, stronger, healthier, and growing through their healing journey.
Book Group Forming
Are you interested in joining a group of 4-8 women to read Body Thrive by Cate Stillman with Annabelle Keil and Linda Castronovo? Together, we’ll meet regularly to read and experiment with 10 habits from Ayurveda and Yoga that will allow you to access more energy and vitality.
Click the button below to let us know your availability and interest.
You've Finished Treatment, Now What?
with Dr. Amy Rothenberg, Naturopathic Physician
Monday April 21 from 1 - 2:30 PM (Patriot's Day) at Munson Library
Dr. Amy Rothenberg, a long time licensed naturopathic doctor, will share information from her broad experience as a health care provider and three-time cancer survivor. She shares how to use natural and integrative medicine approaches to address challenges that persist from conventional cancer care and how to shift the internal environment to be less hospitable to further cancer.
This workshop is also pertinent to those living with cancer and the loving family and friends who caretake. She brings levity to this often-difficult topic while highlighting the evidence for whole-person and integrative approaches to healing.
Dr. Amy Rothenberg has practiced as a licensed naturopathic doctor since 1986. She is the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians 2017 Physician the Year and the author of You Finished Treatment, Now What? A Field Guide for Cancer Survivors (Koehler Books). She served on the Board of Health in Amherst for six years and as Vice President of the Board of the Amherst Survival Center. Dr. Rothenberg is a beloved teacher in the world of integrative medicine. Her humor, grace and knowledge as both a doctor, a cancer survivor, a wife, and mother inform her clinical practice, teaching, and writing. She shares her life with partner, Paul Herscu ND, MPH. Together, they raised three wonderful, now adult children and continue to enjoy the good life in Western Mass, including the arrival of their first grandchild. When not working in the world of natural medicine Dr Rothenberg enjoys spending time with family and friends, on the ballroom dance floor, making art, and playing the guitar.
There is no charge for this workshop (or any of our offerings), but space is limited. Please register.
If you'd like to support our mission to make vibrant health accessible to all by offering free, donation-based classes, workshops, and events, please make a donation via Venmo @everydaywellbeingMA, or mail a check to Everyday Wellbeing to 5 Edgewood Terrace, Hadley MA 01035.