Monkton News: Voice Activation workshop dives deep on Saturday

Also on Saturday, Aug. 22, join Melanie Cote for this month’s Poetry Club.

Monkton News: Soccer season starts soon

It’s time for Monkton Rec Fall Registration.

Monkton News: Make slime or flower arrangements this week

Monkton continues with many activities around town.

Monkton News: Enjoy summer programming at the library

This summer’s theme is “Unearth a Story.”

Monkton News: See the Monkton History Museum’s new exhibit

The museum will have their soft opening of the new exhibit “Choices and Changes: The Early People of Monkton.”

Monkton News: Community events and support for the library

Join Melanie Cote and a welcoming group of poetry lovers on Saturday, June 20 for the monthly Poetry Club meeting

Ways of seeing: Togetherness in dance, song and silence

“I’m a group person. Not the exclusive kind of cliques that offer an empty status, but rather those that welcome and encourage.”

Monkton News: Plant pot donations accepted at two locations

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Monkton News: Yoga classes and library events

Join in on the fun at the Russell Memorial Library for Stitch & Spin on Sunday.

Karl Lindholm: Panthers’ athletic success secret is a ‘wellness guru’

Here’s the setting: The cavernous Virtue Field House at Middlebury College, 10 a.m. on a quiet Sunday morning early in the fall, the football season. Some 40 to 50 young men, all dressed similarly, shorts and t-shirts with “Middlebury Football” lettering, … (read more)

Local project that pays people of color to do yoga is thriving

In 2020, Joanna Colwell launched a radical program at her yoga studio in Middlebury. The Yoga Equity Project would pay people of color to take classes there. The idea was to make Otter Creek Yoga a more inclusive space by breaking down two of the barriers … (read more)

Ways of Seeing: On preventing future suffering

I taught my first yoga classes over thirty years ago, when my teacher and mentor Gayna took her annual two-month long winter trip to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and asked me to fill in for her while she was away.

Yoga studio promotes equity and inclusion

“Yoga For Every Body” is a slogan that the Otter Creek Yoga Studio started using earlier this summer. It is meant to capture the Middlebury studio’s mission to ensure that it is a space that is inclusive and welcoming to all. 

Ways of Seeing: Discovering the ‘Light’ with yoga

Most people show up to yoga class for gentle movement, deep breathing, and stress reduction, but if they come to my classes they get yoga philosophy too.

Prem Prakash lifts the bar

When most folks in Addison County hear the name Prem Prakash, they think yoga. The East Middlebury resident has been teaching yoga and meditation in our area for more than 30 years.

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