Yoga with Linda

This is an opportunity to begin your day with presence, breath, and movement as you attune to the wisdom of your body and the stillness within. We’ll start with a few quiet moments to arrive, ground, and connect to breath, then move into a slow, fluid sequence designed to awaken awareness and cultivate inner calm. Each posture flows into the next, creating a seamless rhythm of motion and mindfulness that supports nervous system regulation, emotional balance, and mental clarity. We’ll close with time for intuitive movement or stillness, followed by a restful savasana to absorb the practice.

As with all yoga classes, the invitation is ALWAYS to tune into your body’s needs in the moment. You are encouraged to move at your own pace, pause when needed, or adapt the practice to honor how you’re feeling. Yoga is an invitation to listen inward, moment by moment, with curiosity, compassion, and care.

Although this class includes clear guidance in movement, alignment, and breath, it is not about performance or striving. It’s about showing up as you are, remembering your wholeness, and letting each breath carry you closer to yourself. The intention is for the practice to leave you more awake and alive in your body, calm and clear in your mind, and open and connected in your heart.

Linda Castronovo is a retired Amherst public school teacher, an exercise physiologist, and long-time Kripalu yoga teacher. In addition to this work, Linda has been a personal trainer, a wellness/fitness director, and field hockey and lacrosse coach. For the past ten years, she has organized free, donation-based daily yoga at Andrews Greenhouse and the Munson Library in South Amherst and now coordinates Everyday Wellbeing, a nonprofit committed to making vibrant wellbeing accessible to all by providing donation-based classes, workshops, and events that empower people to live their healthiest lives.

Yoga arrived in Linda's life via Runner's World magazine in 1979 while she was still in high school. The article promised improved strength, flexibility, and injury prevention. She tried only a handful of postures: warrior, triangle, cobra, downward dog, and child pose, but immediately felt calmer, more centered, and more awake to the world. Certified as a Kripalu Yoga Instructor in 1991, she continues her study with many teachers, including Patty Townsend and Onatah Stoll. Her personal practice has evolved over the years and now includes daily meditation, pranayama, and the group asana classes offered by Everyday Wellbeing and Yoga Outside -- which have become an important and essential way to start every day. She values every opportunity to practice yoga on and off the mat and is deeply committed to sharing the benefits of yoga and other forms of mindful movement with others.

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, or mail a check to Everyday Wellbeing to 5 Edgewood Terrace, Hadley MA 01035.