This rousing rock musical revitalizes the iconic story of the prophet Moses and illuminates the experiences of those around him—from his mother’s heart-wrenching sacrifice to an aspiring Pharaoh’s arrogant ambitions. This world-premiere concert performance features a selection of songs that will take you on a journey of love, loss, and liberation.

Performances will be at the Eastside Jewish Commons, 2420 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR 97232

Sunday, April 14, at 4pm

Sunday, April 21, at 4pm

Tickets on sale March 1. tickets here 

Learn more about the musical here.

$10 in advance, $12 at the door

This rousing rock musical revitalizes the iconic story of the prophet Moses and illuminates the experiences of those around him—from his mother’s heart-wrenching sacrifice to an aspiring Pharaoh’s arrogant ambitions. This world-premiere concert performance features a selection of songs that will take you on a journey of love, loss, and liberation.

Performances will be at the Eastside Jewish Commons, 2420 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR 97232

Sunday, April 14, at 4pm

Sunday, April 21, at 4pm

Tickets on sale March 1. tickets here 

Learn more about the musical here.

$10 in advance, $12 at the door

Freedom performances are a part of the Fertile Ground Festival of New Works, a citywide Festival taking place April 12 to 21 throughout Portland and surrounding areas. Fertile Ground presents “acts of creation,” produced by local organizations and independent producers. More information at www.fertilegroundpdx.org   

Part of the ORA/EJC Collaborative Educational Series

In this workshop, you will be writing FLASH MEMOIR. Flash memoir is SHORT. You will be writing poignant, well-crafted autobiographical vignettes, basically, about the people, places, objects, moments that are unforgettable—that shaped your life.

The miniature, a working, functioning complete world unto itself, is not merely a "small" or "brief" thing, or a "shortened" form of something larger. Miniatures transcend their size, like small-but-vicious dogs, dense chunks of fudge, espresso, a drop of mercury, parasites. Finally, and most strangely to me, miniatures are radically self-sufficient. –Mary Carr

Exactly. You will write one to two-page personal narratives. We will take each short piece through a number of drafts. Using feedback from me and others in the class, you will whittle down your personal stories until you have almost a prose poem. No rambling. Yes, editing will be a major part of this workshop. You will capture details so magnificently, that any reader will be able to SEE what you are describing. You won’t be telling stories, you will be showing stories. Craft and clarity will be the ultimate goals. Individual pieces may be woven together later in a variety of ways that we will discuss. Also, we will discuss easy illustrations, even if you consider yourself not to be a visual artist. AND if you would like to keep working with me one-on-one after the classes, we can set that up.

Leanne Grabel is a writer, teacher, illustrator, spokenword performer, and retired special education teacher. She has been in love with mixing word-based genres for the past 48 years mostly in Portland. Grabel has written & produced numerous multi-media spokenword shows, including “The Lighter Side of Chronic Depression” “Anger: The Musical,” “One Woman Shoe,” “Badgirls, and “The Little Poet.” Grabel's graphic memoir, Brontosaurus Illustrated, called by award-winning Larry Colton “the bravest book I’ve ever read,” was published by The Opiate Books in 2022. My Husband's Eyebrows, a collection of illustrated prose poems, was published by the Poetry Box in 2022. Grabel’s newest work, Old With Jokes, a performance piece, chapbook and postcards created for ArtLab 2023. Grabel is the 2020 recipient of the Bread & Roses Award for contributions to women's literature in the Pacific Northwest.

http://leannegrabel.com

leannegrabel@gmail.com

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MINDFUL COLLAGE

Let Creativity Bloom!

Collage allows for spontaneous and layered work that can be beautiful, personally meaningful and is fun and easy to do. We will work with a wide assortment of colored and textured art papers, scraps of paintings, old book pages, and whatever personal items you choose to add. I will lead a short guided meditation to provide cues to help us focus and get started, materials for inspiration and also share ideas about process, composition, color and design.

Discounts available for multiple class sign-ups please contact instructor: charbgold@gmail.com

Friday, April 12th, 12:30-4:30pm

Char Breshgold

I have been a working and exhibiting artist for 40 years. I paint, often from photos, using my art to tell stories. As a graphic designer, I help not-for-profits and businesses get their stories out. I have incorporated collage in handmade books and multi-layered paintings.

As a longtime meditator I find awareness of my breath to be very helpful in creating art. I was a member of The Girl Artists, a collaborative group whose archives have recently been acquired by The Smithsonian Archives of American Art. I am currently at work on a graphic memoir in paintings and stories about the AIDS crisis years.

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In these times of darkness, we invite you to join members of our movement and Nadav Tamir – J Street Israel Executive Director and former Israeli diplomat – in person at Eastside Jewish Commons on Thursday, April 11 to reflect on the current crisis and discuss our collective work to map a secure and peaceful future for Israelis and Palestinians.

Presented by J Street. All are welcome.

Register here

New Dream group

Do you wonder what your dreams are saying? Do you like to talk about your dreams and listen to others’ dreams?

R' Jill Hammer describes dreams as a “journey beyond the ordinary bounds of the self”. Using her ideas, and others’, we can explore the wholeness and healing that dreams are telling us. Working with a dream group helps us understand the vital messages in dreams -which can speak to us all, beyond the individual. We can learn from their lessons collectively.

While dreams, as a language, are always symbolic, this group will not focus on Jungian (or Freudian) dream analysis. It will be more based on collaborative dream work in a Jewish, LGBTQ inclusive setting facilitated by Bonnie Robbins

We'll meet two times a month at EJC, on Saturday afternoons, from 4-5:00pm, starting March 16 & March 30.

Bring your dreams and we'll see what they say!

Registration required, consider donating to EJC at checkout. 

Part of the ORA/EJC Collaborative Educational Series

In this hands-on introductory puppetry workshop, participants will explore breath as a foundation for the puppeteer's awareness and creative intelligence. We will practice bringing objects and tabletop puppets to life, through exercises that focus on collaborative theater-making. No theater or puppetry experience required. 

Ora Fruchter is a theater-maker, puppeteer, director and educator. Her most recent show, The Amazing Story Machine, uses found object puppets to celebrate imagination and collaboration. She kis the recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant, a Young Pioneers Award for innovation in Jewish education, and was selected as one of the Jewish Week's 36 Under 36 (2017).  www.orafruchter.com

All Ages $35/Person

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Northwest Gender Alliance presents a double feature:

“JULIA SCOTTI: FUNNY THAT WAY” 

and

“ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE”

With breathtaking emotional honesty, Funny That Way is a tender, funny, and powerful portrait of transgender comedian Julia Scotti that explores the unrelenting courage and humor it takes to be Julia.

At a time when the words gender dysphoria and gender reassignment surgery were rarely heard, Rick Scotti’s true awakening at age forty-seven led to a new identity. Shot over a period of five years, the film tracks Julia’s triumphant comeback and the complex process of reuniting with her children, as comedy becomes the shared language of identity, healing, and joy.

Anything’s Possible is a delightfully modern Gen Z coming-of-age story that follows Kelsa, a confident high school girl who is trans, as she navigates through senior year. 

Free (a donation of $5 is suggested); Register Here

New Dream group

Do you wonder what your dreams are saying? Do you like to talk about your dreams and listen to others’ dreams?

R' Jill Hammer describes dreams as a “journey beyond the ordinary bounds of the self”. Using her ideas, and others’, we can explore the wholeness and healing that dreams are telling us. Working with a dream group helps us understand the vital messages in dreams -which can speak to us all, beyond the individual. We can learn from their lessons collectively.

While dreams, as a language, are always symbolic, this group will not focus on Jungian (or Freudian) dream analysis. It will be more based on collaborative dream work in a Jewish, LGBTQ inclusive setting facilitated by Bonnie Robbins

We'll meet two times a month at EJC, on Saturday afternoons, from 4-5:00pm, starting March 16 & March 30.

Bring your dreams and we'll see what they say!

Registration required, consider donating to EJC at checkout. 

Death Cafe at EJC

The City of Roses Death Cafe will host a Death Cafe at EJC from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on both March 4th and March 27th

A Death Cafe is an open and respectful conversation about the topic of death with no agenda, objectives, or themes. We will introduce ourselves, including what brought each of us to the Cafe, and then allow the topics to flow. We will end with a brief check-out on how you are feeling or anything that is on your mind and heart. The Death Cafe will be facilitated by a volunteer from the City of Roses Death Cafe. Tea and cake will be served. The Death Cafe is free and open to all; donations to cover room rental and other expenses are appreciated.

Space is limited, please register

If you have any questions, please email the City of Roses Death Cafe at 1pdxdeathcafe@gmail.com. For more information about Death Cafes in general, check deathcafe.com.

Benjamin Barnett, Rabbi of Congregation Havurah Shalom in NW Portland, will speak about the current situation from his perspective as a rabbi. Marlene Eid, Instructor in Psychology and Women’s Studies at Portland Community College, will speak about growing up in Jerusalem and about her role as one of the founding members of the Gaza Community Mental Health Program. Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, Stanford University, will provide historical background and context. Mazen Malik, Oregon economist and human rights advocate, will speak about the history of Palestinian dispossession.

Free; register here

New Dream group

Do you wonder what your dreams are saying? Do you like to talk about your dreams and listen to others’ dreams?

R' Jill Hammer describes dreams as a “journey beyond the ordinary bounds of the self”. Using her ideas, and others’, we can explore the wholeness and healing that dreams are telling us. Working with a dream group helps us understand the vital messages in dreams -which can speak to us all, beyond the individual. We can learn from their lessons collectively.

While dreams, as a language, are always symbolic, this group will not focus on Jungian (or Freudian) dream analysis. It will be more based on collaborative dream work in a Jewish, LGBTQ inclusive setting facilitated by Bonnie Robbins

We'll meet two times a month at EJC, on Saturday afternoons, from 4-5:00pm, starting March 16 & March 30.

Bring your dreams and we'll see what they say!

Registration required, consider donating to EJC at checkout. 

Kochleffel Syndrome Klezmer Trio: Back by Popular Demand! Accordionist Martin Morgenbesser, violinist Andrew Ehrlich, and concertinist Liz Vilensky.

Enjoy our free monthly concert series with top Portland musicians! Pack a lunch or stop by one of the many pods at 24th and Glisan, bring your food in (no pork or shellfish please) and come and hear the music! Small concerts that are semi-acoustic and always enlivening. All are welcome. What better thing is there to do on a Friday afternoon?!

A klezmer concert on Erev-Erev Reb Paddy’s Day? It’s like a potato on the bima! Don’t worry we haven’t gone that green. We don’t know from Saints, but last year the trio brought their klezmer songs, good humor and even a touch of the Irish for our Jewish-adjacent wearers of the green and the rest of us. Kochleffel Syndrome. It's a Klezmer trio. It's a clinical diagnosis. It's a musical conversation between klezmorim that will take you on a journey through the Eastern European soundscape of Yiddishland. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll give a geshrai.

Free, no registration needed.

 Indie Lens Pop-Up, presented by ITVS, INDEPENDENT LENS, and EJC will host a screening of “Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s.” From award-winning co-directors Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green (“The Providers”), the intimate documentary follows three individuals—a political cartoonist, a mother turned boxing coach, and an optician—as they navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determination in the face of Parkinson’s disease.

 “Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's” presents the poignant stories of individuals as they manage symptoms and treatments, along the way to living fulfilling lives. Each is a tale of determination where, through ingenuity and adaptation, they offer insight into what it means to live with a degenerative illness.

A discussion featuring Dr. Elise Anderson, a movement disorder specialist with Providence Brain and Spine Institute, Caren Masem, who lives with Parkinson's and Peggy Rost, CSWA at Parkinson's Resources of Oregon will follow the screening.

EJC is wheelchair accessible, and the film is open-captioned. Our community partner for this event is Cedar Sinai Park.

Funded in part by ITVS, the Regional Arts + Culture Council, SE Uplift and individuals like you. Media support provided by OPB.

Free: RSVP here

Part of the ORA/EJC Collaborative Educational Series

Join us for the launch of the ORA/EJC collaborative educational series as we learn to needle felt a beautiful, one-of-a-kind kippah. In this 2 hour workshop, you will be taught the basics of needle felting and get to take home your handmade kippah. Led by artist Simcha Shields, this workshop is for complete newbies, lifetime artsy types, and everyone in between.

$50/Student (includes materials fee) 

Register Here

EJC Klezmer Jam

The people have spoken and what they've asked for is a Klezmer jam at Eastside Jewish Commons! Let's have one on a Sunday afternoon. Bring your instruments, sheet music, heart and soul, and don't worry about ability--this is a (facilitated) jam for all. We'll settle in and play for a couple of hours. This is our SECOND jam so once you sign up materials from the last jam will be sent to you and perhaps even new material! If you have a song to share, please bring it! Also if you play an instrument that is non-concert, i.e. Bb you'll have to be ready to transpose or make your own versions (don't worry if you don't what this means it's mainly for clarinet and trumpet players who read sheet music). 

Feel free to eat here (maybe it will start to become a Klezmer brunch), just no pork or shellfish. N.B. this is not a show, so while you might have a family member or two with you this is really not a place to listen to music but rather it’s a place to participate.

1 PM All Ages, Free, but please consider making a donation at checkout.

Register Here.

Rose City Self-Defense (formerly WomensStrength) is offering a workshop designed to help women identify their risks, evaluate their strengths and explore their options for dealing with the threat of violence. During this workshop emphasis will be placed on:

• Identifying prevention strategies if faced with a dangerous situation

• Exploring intuition as a safety tool and exploring bias

• Understanding and practicing boundary setting skills

• Introduction to de-escalation strategies

• Learning various escape options

• Practicing physical self-defense skills

Free, recommended for ages 13 or older, Registration required (Click Here)

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About Rose City Defense

History

In July of 2022, The Strength Programs (WomenStrength, GirlStrength and BoyStrength) moved from the Portland Police Bureau (PPB). We have moved to the Community Safety Division (CSD) under the City of Portland’s Office of Management and Finance. This move was for several reasons: CSD was created to house safety and prevention programs in 2021, and the Strength programs were a natural fit. The other significant reason is that we found in WomenStrength, it was hard to reach some communities with our association with PPB; specifically, communities of color and the LGBTQ+ community. This move to CSD was a positive move and motivated us to rebrand our name and also update our curriculum to focus on equity and inclusion of those who we have been missing.

The Youth Against Violence (formerly BoyStrength program) has moved under the Office of Violence Prevention.

Since 1979 we have provided free empowerment-based self-defense classes and personal safety workshops to people around the Portland metro area. We have taught self-defense skills to approximately 40,000 women and teenage girls, and personal safety workshops to over 110,000 people. In our self-defense classes we offer just more than just physical self-defense skills. Included are topics such as using your intuition, understanding different escape options, negotiating consent, information about abusive relationships, boundary setting and assertiveness skills. This holistic approach has been successful in teaching our students that physical fighting is our last resort and we have so many options to choose from if faced with the threat of violence.

Death Cafe at EJC

The City of Roses Death Cafe will host a Death Cafe at EJC from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on both March 4th and March 27th

A Death Cafe is an open and respectful conversation about the topic of death with no agenda, objectives, or themes. We will introduce ourselves, including what brought each of us to the Cafe, and then allow the topics to flow. We will end with a brief check-out on how you are feeling or anything that is on your mind and heart. The Death Cafe will be facilitated by a volunteer from the City of Roses Death Cafe. Tea and cake will be served. The Death Cafe is free and open to all; donations to cover room rental and other expenses are appreciated.

Space is limited, please register

If you have any questions, please email the City of Roses Death Cafe at 1pdxdeathcafe@gmail.com. For more information about Death Cafes in general, check deathcafe.com.

Ensemble Lebedik Presents

– קול ישא Women in Yiddish Song

Join an international trio of leading klezmer musicians featuring Berlin-based violinist Craig Judelman, Latvian-American accordionist Ilya Shneyveys and Minneapolis' percussionist, culture worker and songbird Sarah Larsson, celebrating women’s contributions to the rich and diverse legacy of Yiddish song and paying homage to those who paved the way for today’s flourishing global yiddish music scene. Highlighting the challenges of traditional life as well as the changes to the roles and opportunities available to women in Eastern European Jewish culture, this program features leading performers from the European and American klezmer scene presenting songs by and about Jewish women from the diverse canon of Yiddish song. After years touring with artists from Michael Alpert to the Klezmatics' Lorin Sklamberg, Alicia Svigals and Frank London, these artists represent the new vanguard of leadership at festivals and workshops across the globe.

Yiddish has often been called mame-loshn, or as we say in English, the “mother tongue” — both because of its role as the language spoken in the home and its connection to the songs, experiences, and aspirations of Ashkenazi Jewish women. When people think of Yiddish song, it’s often female performers of Yiddish theater hits such as the Barry Sisters, or more recently, Chava Alberstein, or maybe a nostalgic image of an old bubbe (grandmother) singing lullabies and chestnuts such as Mayn Shtetle Belz. While these are all wonderful, important associations, as with Ashkenazic culture in general, there is a rich history and body of work reflecting women’s experience that is generally underperformed and under-appreciated. 

All Ages

$18-$30  Sliding Scale 

Tickets Here

Lecture and Presentation

Flamenco, Sephardic, and Arab-Andalusian Music emerged from a shared cultural heritage in Southern Spain beginning around the 9th century. Today, these enduring musical forms and practices that emerged out of the cultural crucible of the Iberian Peninsula continue to inspire cross-cultural collaboration and experimentation that are truly sin fronteras.

“Un sonido que nos manda sentir”–a sound that makes us feel–that’s how flamenco singer David Lagos from Jerez de la Frontera describes the essence of flamenco. From medieval al-Andalus and la Convivencia and on to the diasporas of the present day the art form endures and thrives.

This talk by Flamenco dancer, scholar, and Ph.D. Elena Villa, explores some of the commonalities between three art forms (Flamenco, Sephardic, and Arab-Andalusian Music) that grew from a geographic space whose unique history saw rich cultural expansion and innovation, political turmoil, and the trauma of expulsion.

7 PM All Ages FREE: REGISTRATION REQUESTED, please consider donating at checkout ($6-$12 suggested donation). 

Elena Villa:
Elena Villa has combined a lifelong pursuit of dance studies, including a professional dance career, with a scholarly and academic acumen. She received an M.A. in Literature from UC Santa Cruz in 1998, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Oregon in 2006. Her scholarship focuses on representations of dance in literature and film, cultural and performance studies, feminist and postcolonial writers, Orientalism, and themes of self and other in 19th-21st-century narrative. Elena teaches in the English department at Portland Community College, Sylvania and teaches and performs flamenco and MENAT dances in diverse venues in the North West.

Wednesdays, In the Atrium

Community-lead knitting circle

For beginners who would like to learn how to knit, bring along size 9 or 10 needles. Yarn and instructions will be provided. If you are not (yet) a knitter, you are also welcome! The group includes friendly folks who are happy to teach and support beginners. Otherwise, bring alongside your projects to work on as folks gather to meet and greet.

Simple crafts welcome.

No RSVP required.

Come and enjoy/explore your inner self in "Yoga for Renewal", a gentle yoga class designed to help bring you back to yourself, to your own body and soul as we enter the season of turning within, planting the seeds of what will spring forth in the springtime (and we'll do it with humor and with heart!). We will stretch our bodies, moving and creating space for growth...and feel wonderful afterwards! This class is appropriate for both beginners and seasoned mature yogis. Bring a mat and begin the journey.

Starting Tuesday, December 12th, at 10 am.

Please dress in comfortable clothes and bring a mat to class.

$10/person/session. Tuesdays in the Yoga Room* . Class size limited, registration is required.

Drop-ins okay but please note doors are locked at 10 AM

*Please note that this class is in one of our upstairs rooms and cannot accommodate the ADA at this time.

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Sido Surkis grew up in a family of women doing yoga, receiving her Teacher Training Certificate in spring of 2019. Sido leads yoga in a light-hearted and trauma-informed class that allows people to experience their own yoga. Her focus is in supporting people to discover their own strengths, flexibilities, and groundedness through Gentle Yoga. Her philosophy bridges her strong connection with Judaism and her understanding of Yoga principles. Her class is light-hearted and fun, and she encourages students to connect with who and how they really are - she honors our differences while celebrating our successes!

"We are real people in real bodies, and our bodies long to move and to stretch, to lengthen and to fold, to expand, and to rest."

This event is co-sponsored by Co/Lab: Reimagine Jewish, Eastside Jewish Commons and the Oregons Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

Members of Portland’s overlapping Jewish communities are invited to join together in making art in order to mourn, and to make sense of senseless acts. This event, led by current and past Art/Lab Fellows, will be a Jewish space for introspection and respectful discussion.

We will have two simultaneous workshops: one using writing, and the other involving clay. No experience is required for either option! Please indicate your top choice when you register, and see details on what you will need to bring to the workshop.

During our final hour, we will come together as one large group, to share across the two approaches.

WORKSHOP #1: BRAIDED WORDS Facilitated by Holly Goodman, writer, journalist, teacher, and mother; and Merridawn Duckler, writer and visual artist.

Holly and Merridawn’s two-hour writing workshop will explore the intersection of memory, emotion, and current events. Participants will first create independent pieces in response to a series of prompts. Then they will alternate text threads of multiple, sometimes disparate-seeming stories, to weave them into something wholly new.

Nuts and BoltsBring along your preferred writing implements (electronic or analog—whatever works best).

WORKSHOP #2: SAFETY • GLASS Facilitated by Leila Wice, ceramicist, ritual maker, and Educator Artist Fellow at the Jewish Studio Project.

Through close textual readings and then hands-on experimentation with clay and glass, we will contemplate the meaning of safety to us, both as individuals and in community.

Nuts and Bolts We may get messy. Consider bringing an apron or old shirt to wear while we are sculpting.

Accessibility notes

- The event space is ADA Accessible.

- Air purifiers will be in use, and masks are required for participants.

- Workshop leaders will be unmasked when teaching from the front of the room. They will test for COVID before the event.- Trimet #12 bus stops half a block away from the EJC, at NE 24th and Sandy.

No one turned away for lack of funds.

REGISTRATION

Join Rabbi Ariel Stone and the Shir Tikvah community for services. All are welcome. We are an inclusive and participatory group that is committed to prayer, study and acts of loving kindness. We use an egalitarian Siddur translated by our Rabbi and members of our congregation. 

Location: Prayer room.

Email office@shirtikvah.org with any questions.

Join Rabbi Ariel Stone and lay leaders for a wide-ranging discussion grounded in the week's Torah portion. Every Shabbat, we dig through layers of the text to find meaning and a more complete understanding of our ancestors, our stories, and ourselves.  All are welcome. In English. Bring a commentary if you have one or borrow one of ours. 

Location: Atrium

Email office@shirtikvah.org with any questions.

At a time of division, acrimony and difficulty, it is important that we not lose sight of the important work being done to cross boundaries, create hope and to manifest the kind of Israeli society that we know is possible.  Come hear about the work of the Abraham Initiatives, whose boundary-breaking and courageous work in coexistence between Jewish and Palestinian Israelis is a bright light of hope in a terribly difficult time.

Register here

Wednesdays, In the Atrium

Community-lead knitting circle

For beginners who would like to learn how to knit, bring along size 9 or 10 needles. Yarn and instructions will be provided. If you are not (yet) a knitter, you are also welcome! The group includes friendly folks who are happy to teach and support beginners. Otherwise, bring alongside your projects to work on as folks gather to meet and greet.

Simple crafts welcome.

No RSVP required.

Come and enjoy/explore your inner self in "Yoga for Renewal", a gentle yoga class designed to help bring you back to yourself, to your own body and soul as we enter the season of turning within, planting the seeds of what will spring forth in the springtime (and we'll do it with humor and with heart!). We will stretch our bodies, moving and creating space for growth...and feel wonderful afterwards! This class is appropriate for both beginners and seasoned mature yogis. Bring a mat and begin the journey.

Starting Tuesday, December 12th, at 10 am.

Please dress in comfortable clothes and bring a mat to class.

$10/person/session. Tuesdays in the Yoga Room* . Class size limited, registration is required.

Drop-ins okay but please note doors are locked at 10 AM

*Please note that this class is in one of our upstairs rooms and cannot accommodate the ADA at this time.

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Sido Surkis grew up in a family of women doing yoga, receiving her Teacher Training Certificate in spring of 2019. Sido leads yoga in a light-hearted and trauma-informed class that allows people to experience their own yoga. Her focus is in supporting people to discover their own strengths, flexibilities, and groundedness through Gentle Yoga. Her philosophy bridges her strong connection with Judaism and her understanding of Yoga principles. Her class is light-hearted and fun, and she encourages students to connect with who and how they really are - she honors our differences while celebrating our successes!

"We are real people in real bodies, and our bodies long to move and to stretch, to lengthen and to fold, to expand, and to rest."