UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
(of mangoes, dancing, and me)

Friday, September 18th 
At The Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theater, Middlebury College

5:00 - 6:00 pm

An anti-diet dance theater performance that uses an intersectional approach to understand anti-fatness in relation to capitalism, race, and patriarchy through an historic lens, current analysis, and personal experience.

Using dance, song, storytelling, research, and projections, this one-hour show is also about body liberation, pleasure, dancing alone in the mirror, eating mangoes, and shaking off that which binds us.

This is a FREE OFFERING and open to the public! No ticket needed. 

Sponsored by:

• Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies Department

• Black Studies Department

• Dance Department

• Academic Enrichment Fund

• Committee on the Arts

• Feminist Resource Center.

Performed by Laura Haines, Winnie Looby, Alex Heisler, Zoraya Hightower, Hadley Mueller, Rhonda Doonan, and Rachel Siegel. 

https://www.towardliberation.net/unconditional-love

Join us as we resist body fascism through feminist noncompliance, creativity, and joy!

PLANT PEOPLE BOOK GROUP

Thursdays, June 25, July 30, August 27, September 24, October 29

6:00-7:30 pm

Join Maggie (Pathway to Plant) + Jessica (Cunning Folk Apothecary) as we dive into Botany of Empire. Join us as we investigate the past so that we can imagine our way into a relational future with the plants in our world. We will meet for 6 joyful, inquisitive discussions.

This is a FREE OFFERING offered for our community!

To RSVP email [email protected] or [email protected].

THE PACHAKUTI MESA TRADITION:

Cross-Cultural Shamanic Arts for Personal + Planetary Renewal. Held in St Albans, Vermont.

Begins September 25-27, 2026

Join Thomas Mock for a year long apprenticeship - meeting 5 weekends - over the course of a year.

Enter the heart of a living earth + realign your soul with the cosmos, self with community and spirit with the sovereign sanctity of Nature.

You'll create your own Healing Alter + experience time-honored Peruvian shamanic ceremony, service + cosmovision.

Reach out to Thomas with more questions. 802.369.4331 | [email protected]

HOLISTIC HEALER GATHERINGS

You're invited to our upcoming holistic healer gatherings. It’s a great place for you to be in community + be supported and it’s totally free!

First gathering is Sunday, October 11th, 2026 from 3-5pm

in The Studio at The Sanctuary for Healing  Liberation

Open to all people who spread light, these gatherings are devoted to connection, grounding & the kind of community that feels like exhaling. This is time to come home to yourself, to be with people who understand the path & to be held in a supportive circle where you don't have to perform or fix anyone else.

Hosted by The Sanctuary For Healing + Liberation Founder, Ash St. Gelais

*All attendees must RSVP*

She Bravely Returns

An Immersive Women's Wellness & Writing Experience

Sunday, October 25th from 1-4:30 pm
At The Sanctuary for Healing & Liberation 

In a world that constantly asks women to give more, do more, and carry more, She Bravely Returns offers an afternoon to turn some of that care back toward yourself. This intimate, immersive women's wellness experience brings together four local facilitators to explore different pathways to wellbeing—from listening to your own inner voice and understanding what your body is communicating to reconsidering how you nourish and care for yourself.

You'll move through intimate, hands-on experiences designed to offer personalized attention, practical tools, and new ways of thinking about your own care.

You'll begin and end the afternoon together through reflection and writing, while the heart of the experience unfolds through small-group sessions with our wellness practitioners.

There is nothing to prepare, prove, or perform. Come exactly as you are.

Because caring for yourself isn't an indulgence. It's where everything else begins.

Early Bird: $97|
Only 7 Early Bird tickets available.

Regular Registration: $125
This gathering is intentionally limited to 20 women to preserve the intimate, experiential nature of the afternoon.

Please RSVP through the link below.

CREATING CALM AMIDST CHOAS

“Nourishing ourselves on the inside of our very being helps us to cope with the complexities and uncertainties of life, the helplessness we feel when we can’t control world events.”

-Yoga Path to Awareness, Swami Radha

Wednesday, October 21 7:00- 9:00pm

Through relaxing deeply, an opening is created to come back into that calm place of balance and harmony in both inner and outer worlds—being nourished in body, mind and spirit. Recharge and energize through guided practices and reflections, connecting with your inner light and the beauty that surrounds us.

Bring a journal & yoga mat

[email protected]

Walt Fritz, PT’s Foundations in Manual Therapy Seminar: Voice and Swallowing Disorders

October 8 - 9 , 2026

Walt Fritz, PT’s Foundations in Manual Therapy Seminar: Voice and Swallowing Disorders targets the patient populations of speech-language pathologists/therapists, physicians, physical therapists/physiotherapists, occupational therapists, massage therapists, registered dental hygienists, osteopaths, voice teachers/coaches, and those with interest in treatment to issues of breathing, the neck, TMJ, tongue, and related areas/topics.