Workshop Series

Blue Heron offers movement arts classes in series, providing ongoing learning for students in one particular technique. Series are purchased as packages and are separate from our Passcard Class offerings. Please visit our Series Schedule to view and register for our current offerings.


Blue Heron Tai Chi/Chi Gong Mini-Series
with Peter Mosher
Tuesdays, Jun. 24th - Jul. 15th
6:15pm to 7:15pm

Blue Heron Tai Chi/Qigong is a synthesis of qigong (chi kung), tai chi, yoga, and mindfulness meditation practices which provide a system that enhances and maintains the health of the entire body, mind and spirit. The muscular-skeleton system is stretched and toned, the organ systems are balanced and energized, and the mind is cleared and focused. In this 4week mini series you will learn this restoring series. It helps to improve balance, strength, organ functions, and over all well being. Tai Chi and Qigong practices are done standing and moving gently through the space around you to clear any blockages in the body and in the energy field. Join Peter Mosher for an introduction to this balancing and restorative system of Chi Gong. Early Registration before 6/21:$60, after, $65.

Pilates Core Challenge
with Janet Richards
Wednesdays, Jun. 25th to Aug. 27th
6:00pm to 6:50pm

Try our new core-based pilates mat workout incorporating the use of a small ball to engage more muscles and get better alignment. In this 10-week series you will learn how to inhance your traditional pilates workout with the use of a small ball for an added challenge to your core and stabilizer muscles. Certified Pilates instructor, Janet Richards will share her experience and love of Pilates as you learn new Pilates moves and share laughs. Improve your strength, balance, flexibility and overall posture in this 10-week series. Spaces Limited! Early Registration by 6/23: $160, after $165.

Belly Dance Series
with Rebecca Snyder
Wednesdays, Jun. 25th - Jul. 30th
7:00pm to 8:15pm

Experience multi-dimensional belly dance! This 6-week series offers a traditional belly dance class plus chi gong inspired moving meditations, or "Bellygong". Our dance form consists of powerful, ancient movements from various belly dance roots and stylizations, including American Tribal and Cabaret, traditional Middle Eastern and Indian Folkloric, and new contemporary Folk fusions. This dance is an evolving community conversation that brings joy to the heart, strength and grace to the body and calm confidence to the mind. In the Bellygong training we incorporate breath and focus on specific acupuncture points with our movements. We experience relaxation, better body awareness, and a current of healing connection with ourselves, our dance partners, the music and our world. Together we will learn to move in a state of harmony that transforms both dancers and audience, bringing a new depth to the dance and enhanced vibrancy, health and a holistic understanding to the collective body-mind. Come prepared to move and be moved! Cost: before 6/23: $96, after, $100.

Pilates Core Challenge
with Janet Richards
Wednesdays, Jun. 25th - Aug. 27th
6:00pm to 6:50pm|

Try our new core-based pilates mat workout incorporating the use of a small ball to engage more muscles and get better alignment. In this 10-week series you will learn how to inhance your traditional pilates workout with the use of a small ball for an added challenge to your core and stabilizer muscles. Certified Pilates instructor, Janet Richards will share her experience and love of Pilates as you learn new Pilates moves and share laughs. Improve your strength, balance, flexibility and overall posture in this 10-week series. Spaces Limited! Early Registration by 9/21: $165, after $170.

Infant Itsy Bitsy Yoga
with Linda Dobry
Thursdays, Jun. 26th - Jul. 31st
10:00am to 10:45 AM

Infants Itsy Bitsy Yoga (newborn to precrawlers) is a calming and nurturing yoga practice, offering ways to make babies happier and more comfortable with their bodies. Parent and child will practice poses and techniques developed by Helen Garabedian (Infant Development Movement Educator and Yoga Teacher), specifically to soothe and support a baby’s development. This class offers the parent or childcare provider special time and techniques to form and the enhance necessary bond with baby. Register before 6/24: $90, after $96.

Tots Itsy Bitsy Yoga
with Linda Dobry
Thursdays, Jun. 26th - Jul. 31st
11:00am to 11:45 AM

Tots Itsy Bitsy Yoga ( crawlers to 24 months) offers you and your child a supportive, fun-loving, and active yoga practice, for a time when a baby is becoming naturally more active. This class playfully teaches tots yoga postures while standing, sitting, walking and jumping! Parents continue to enhance the bond with their child, while enjoying a little yoga themselves. Register before 6/24: $90, after $96

Kids Yoga Series
with Linda Dobry
Thursdays, Jun. 26th - Jul. 31st
4:30pm to 5:15pm

Join us for a Kids yoga series (ages around 4 - 7) to playfully engage your childs understanding of the connection between the body and mind. Your child will have fun learning poses, breathing, and calming/relaxation techniques, while listening to and learning stories and songs connected to this/her world. Yoga has been proven to build self esteem, relieve stress and minimize negative aspects of ADD and ADHD. Age range is flexible, call for details. Registration by $90, after $96.

Tweens Yoga Series
with Linda Dobry
Thursdays, Jun. 26th - Jul. 31st
5:30pm to 6:15pm

Join us for a Tweens Yoga Series (ages 8 - 12) for the wondrous age between a child’s early years and the teens! In this class, children are taught poses, breathing, brain building activites and tips to manage stress, so their bodies can retain their natural elesticity and build strength, while developing into radiant and enthusiastic teens! Early Registration before 6/24: $90, after:$96.

Intro to Kettlebells: Dynamic Strength Training
with Josh Elliott
Saturdays, Jun 28th - Aug. 2nd
12:00pm to 1:00pm

Build on flexibility gained in your yoga practice and stabilize your joints with "Kettlebells." This 8-week introductory class will provide the foundation for a safe and productive kettlebell workout. A 'kettlebell' or girya is a traditional Russian cast iron weight that looks like a cannonball with a handle. Kettlebell workouts increase strength, endurance, agility and balance, challenging both the muscular and cardiovascular system with dynamic, total-body movements. Registered Kettlebell Instructor, Josh Elliott helps you to develop "all-purpose strength" and build "functional muscle" needed to perform every day tasks (lifting kids, opening jars, etc.) Kettlebell training boosts your body's resilience, endurance, and increases both strength and flexibility.Uncover your body's potential in this 8 week series designed to tone and strengthen every muscle in your body! Kettlebells provided. NO CLASS NOV 8. Early Registrations before 9/24: $130, after $135

Introduction to Pilates Mat
with Janet Richards
Saturdays, Jun. 28th - Aug. 30th
8:30am to 9:20 AM

Pilates floor work exercises strengthen and stretch your entire body while decompressing your spine and improving posture, leaving you energized and refreshed. Our beginner mat ten week series introduces you to the principles of the Pilates Method while waking up your deep abdominal and spinal muscles and teaching you how to modify the workout to a level appropriate for you. Janet Richards, certified Pilates instructor, will provide individual attention and and a supportive environment to make even brand-new beginners feel at ease. Early Registration by 9/24: $165, after $170.

Yoga Fundamentals
with Abby Burgess
Sundays, Jun. 29th - Jul. 27th
11:00am to 12:00pm

An interactive class designed for those new to yoga or who would like to revisit the fundamentals. This workshop is designed as a series of 5, one hour sessions, that provide a foundation of basic yoga principles, poses, and alignment. Personal attention is given to each student to increase body awareness and to provide proper alignment tools to empower the new student. Provides a foundation of basic yoga principles, poses and alignment, including breath work and meditation. Blocks of five sessions can be purchased and are recommended before advancing to other classes. No Class Sept 29. Cost: $70

Intermediate Kettlebells: Dynamic Strength Training
with Josh Elliott
Saturdays, Jul. 5th - Aug. 9th
11:00am to 11:50am

Continue to build upon your Kettlebell foundation with this 8-week workout series. Classes will be held as a work-out circuit with your instructor present to continue to fine tune your form and teach new exercises. You will use this 50 minute class to practice swings, presses, cleans, Turkish get-ups, and learn new exercises to enhance your Kettlebell workout. All participants must have completed an introductory Kettlebell series at Blue Heron. Spaces Limited! Early Registrations before 6/19: $125, after $130. Drop-Ins: $18.

Synergy Dance Series
with Elyse Williams
Thursdays, Jul. 10th - Aug. 21st
7:00pm to 8:30pm

Move your body and connect with your own healing potential in this 6 week summer series. SynergyDance is a movement therapeutics class based on working deep within the body on the subtle energies that are manifested into the five elements and their associated patterns and body parts based on principles of Polarity Therapy. The class begins with deep stretching and still motion principles, activating deep energetic circuits within, and then the second part of class is expressive dance when we dance through the associated movements and emotional states of the elements. By moving through these elements consciously, participants make such concepts tangible, and can use this newfound knowledge to identify the causes of energy blocks and bring them to awareness, earning Synergy’s floor work high praise over the years from doctors, chiropractors, cranial-sacral therapists and energy practitioners. No class August 14th. Early registration before 7/8: $96, after, $100.

Pulling Down the Moon: A Yoga for Fertility Program
with Sara Shelley
Sundays, Aug. 24th - Oct. 5th
9:00am to 10:30 AM

In our six-week series, Pulling Down the Moon, Sara Shelley will teach you how to optimize your fertility. Incorporate a yoga practice that calms and restores your nervous system while stimulating a flow of energy to the reproductive organs. This workshop is designed specifically for women who are in the process of trying to get pregnant, are undergoing fertility treatments, or who hope to be pregnant sometime in the future. No yoga experience required. Sara specializes in Yoga and Meditation for the childbearing years. She empowers her students to cultivate greater trust, confidence and ease during this transforming time of life. Sara holds a Masters degree in Dance Movement Therapy, is a Certified HypnoBirthing Childbirth Educator, and the mother of 2 boys. REGISTRATIONS ACCEPTED THROUGH: Info@pullingdownthemoon.com or CALL 1- 866 727-4423 FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT: www.pullingdownthemoon.com. Cost: $210.00.

Yoga Fundamentals
with Ashley Litecky
Mondays, Sept. 22nd - Oct. 27th
6:15pm to 7:15pm

An interactive class designed for those new to yoga or who would like to revisit the fundamentals. This workshop is designed as a series of 5, one hour sessions, that provide a foundation of basic yoga principles, poses, and alignment. Personal attention is given to each student to increase body awareness and to provide proper alignment tools to empower the new student. Provides a foundation of basic yoga principles, poses and alignment, including breath work and meditation. Blocks of five sessions can be purchased and are recommended before advancing to other classes. No Class Sept 29. Cost: $70

Belly Dance Series
with Rebecca Snyder
Wednesdays, Sept. 24th - Nov. 12th
7:00pm to 8:15pm

Experience multi-dimensional belly dance! This 8-week series offers a traditional belly dance class plus chi gong inspired moving meditations, or "Bellygong". Our dance form consists of powerful, ancient movements from various belly dance roots and stylizations, including American Tribal and Cabaret, traditional Middle Eastern and Indian Folkloric, and new contemporary Folk fusions. This dance is an evolving community conversation that brings joy to the heart, strength and grace to the body and calm confidence to the mind. In the Bellygong training we incorporate breath and focus on specific acupuncture points with our movements. We experience relaxation, better body awareness, and a current of healing connection with ourselves, our dance partners, the music and our world. Together we will learn to move in a state of harmony that transforms both dancers and audience, bringing a new depth to the dance and enhanced vibrancy, health and a holistic understanding to the collective body-mind. Come prepared to move and be moved! Cost: before 9/21: $96, after, $100.

Pilates Core Challenge
with Janet Richards
Wednesdays, Sept. 24th - Nov. 26th
6:00pm to 6:50pm

Try our new core-based pilates mat workout incorporating the use of a small ball to engage more muscles and get better alignment. In this 10-week series you will learn how to inhance your traditional pilates workout with the use of a small ball for an added challenge to your core and stabilizer muscles. Certified Pilates instructor, Janet Richards will share her experience and love of Pilates as you learn new Pilates moves and share laughs. Improve your strength, balance, flexibility and overall posture in this 10-week series. Spaces Limited! Early Registration by 9/21: $165, after $170.

Introduction to Pilates Mat
with Janet Richards
Saturdays, Sept. 27th - Nov. 15th
8:30am to 9:20am

Pilates floor work exercises strengthen and stretch your entire body while decompressing your spine and improving posture, leaving you energized and refreshed. Our beginner mat ten week series introduces you to the principles of the Pilates Method while waking up your deep abdominal and spinal muscles and teaching you how to modify the workout to a level appropriate for you. Janet Richards, certified Pilates instructor, will provide individual attention and and a supportive environment to make even brand-new beginners feel at ease. Early Registration by 9/24: $165, after $170.

Intermediate Kettlebells: Dynamic Strength Training
with Josh Elliott
Saturdays, Sept. 27th - Nov. 15th
11:00am to 11:50am
Saturdays, Sept. 27th - Nov. 22nd
12:00pm to 1:00pm

Continue to build upon your Kettlebell foundation with this 8-week workout series. Classes will be held as a work-out circuit with your instructor present to continue to fine tune your form and teach new exercises. You will use this 50 minute class to practice swings, presses, cleans, Turkish get-ups, and learn new exercises to enhance your Kettlebell workout. All participants must have completed an introductory Kettlebell series at Blue Heron. Spaces Limited! Early Registrations before 9/24: $130, after $135. NO CLASS NOV 8.

Yoga Fundamentals
with Abby Burgess
Sundays, Sept. 28th - Oct. 26th
11:00am to 12:00pm

An interactive class designed for those new to yoga or who would like to revisit the fundamentals. This workshop is designed as a series of 5, one hour sessions, that provide a foundation of basic yoga principles, poses, and alignment. Personal attention is given to each student to increase body awareness and to provide proper alignment tools to empower the new student. Provides a foundation of basic yoga principles, poses and alignment, including breath work and meditation. Blocks of five sessions can be purchased and are recommended before advancing to other classes. No Class Sept 29. Cost: $70