Full Moon Samhain Ceremony with Live Music

with Alicia Mathewson and Dennis Port Yoga

Saturday, October 28th | 6-7:30pm

Join Joanna Benevides & Alicia Mathewson for a Full Moon Samhain gathering on Saturday, October 28th as we greet our Full Hunter's Moon in Taurus/Lunar Eclipse, and approach the sacred celebrations of Samhain. The end of the harvest season, when the nights grow longer and darker, there is a thinning of the veil between our world and the realm of the spirits, and a powerful time to commune with ancestors, spirits and guides. 

This powerful evening of ceremony, communal ritual, and personal reflection will incorporate a clearing lunar flow infused with embodied and explorative movement, breathwork, guided meditation, and the healing vibration and delicate sounds of Alicia’s angelic voice and soothing sounds. We will dive deep into these practices to help us harness the potent energy of the moon and the season, and make space to honor our connection to the land + sky energies, and earth + cosmic cycles. 

*Please bring a journal/notebook and pen as well as any sacred items (crystals, something from nature, malas etc.) that you would like to include in our alter, and you will leave with them fully charged and blessed after our time together. And of course, please bring your prayers and intentions for yourself, your loved ones, and our world. xo

The Spirit of Gratitude

at Soma Yoga

Thursday | November 23rd

10 - 11:30am

Gratitude is one of the most important foundations for us to hold in life. Even when we are in the heart of struggle and darkness, our gratitude can provide us with the resilience to keep going. Gratitude allows us to be Gardeners of Light- to grow more awareness, more trust, more kindness, more compassion, more care, more love. 

Join Joanna Benevides and your Soma community in bringing the spirit of gratitude to life. Through intention setting, intuitive and embodied movement, guided meditation and deep rest, we will connect deeply to the wisdom of our bodies, explore our internal landscape, and move to the rhythm of our heartbeat + breath in connection to everything around us. Together we will give thanks for the air that we breathe, for our bodies so capable and strong, and to all of life that sustains us, nurtures and nourishes us. Together we will commit to love and be Gardeners of Light.

* A portion of the proceeds from class will be donated to Project Bread, a local non-profit organization connecting people and communities in Massachusetts to reliable sources of food while advocating for policies that make food more accessible—so that no one goes hungry.

Winter Solstice Ceremony

with Joanna Benevides & Rachael Duda Maitland

at Soma Yoga

Friday | December 15th

6 - 8pm

For thousands of years the Winter Solstice has been recognized around the world, acknowledging the shortest day of the year as a return to light, and a rebirth of the sun. This sacred day is celebrated through ceremonies and rituals that honor our deep connection to nature, the land and sky energies, and the cosmic and Earth cycles. Practicing rituals help to ground and steady us by creating our own rhythm that connects us directly with the rhythms of the natural world around us. The Solstice offers us a beautiful opportunity to pause, and the still night an invitation to journey inward toward self-reflection, regeneration and renewal.

Join Joanna and Rachael for a sacred ceremony and a full body-mind-spirit immersion. You will be guided through an opening ceremony, followed by a warming and grounding practice, infused with intuitive and explorative movement, breathwork, and the power of sound to clear energetic blockages and ignite your inner fire, the force behind purification & release. Following, will be a guided meditation and healing rest to nourish & balance the nervous system, and quiet & calm the mind.

All are welcome and encouraged to join in the magic.

Winter Solstice Gathering with Live Music

with Leigh Aberti and Alicia Mathewson

at Dennis Port Yoga

Thursday | December 21st

6-7:30pm

Join Leigh, Joanna, Alicia and your yoga community for a sacred ceremony and a full body-mind-spirit immersion to honor and celebrate the Winter Solstice. You will be guided through an opening solstice ceremony, followed by a warming and grounding practice, infused with intuitive and explorative movement, breathwork, and the magic of rich and delicate sounds as Alicia’s healing music wraps you up in nourishment and love. Following, will be a deeply meditative experience and healing rest to soothe & balance the nervous system, and quiet & calm the mind. 

Annual New Year’s Eve Candlelight Yoga

at Soma Yoga

Sunday | December 31st

4:30 - 6:30pm

Join Joanna and your yoga community on the last night of 2023 for a sacred journey focused on planting the seeds of intention and prayers for the new year ahead. An invitation to breathe and reflect, release and receive, and connect to your inner wisdom, light, and joy that is awaiting you. A coming together in deep reverence, gratitude and love.

Joanna will guide you through an invigorating heart opening practice infused with ritual, intuitive and creative movement, breathwork, mantra, and the power of sound to help you move inward, ignite that fire within, and clear what is ready to be released. Deep and longer holds, meditation, and a crystal bowl sound bath will follow to invite your body & mind into a state of deep rest and rejuvenation.

It would be an honor for you to join us as we close out the year, and open to new beginnings to come.