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PAST ​Classes / Series / Events


Festival of Resistance!

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We are excited to be in collaboration with Access Cafe to offer a few upcoming workshops as part of the Festival of Resistance events happening across the US.   Come join us in connecting with community, gathering skills and getting ready for resistance and resilience for these upcoming years.  
Shall we Grow our Resistance Together?

Growing Resilience Q&A Call

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Bring your questions and learn more about the upcoming Growing Resilience Course.

Saturday, January 10th, 10:30-11:15am
JOIN THE Q&A CALL

In It for the Long Haul: growing embodied capacity for the sake of collective liberation

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On Pause Until Winter 2025
Online/ZOOM

Facilitated by Amanda Franz

A weekly online offering of gently guided body-based somatic practices to center, presence, move and grow capacity; reshaping ourselves together, within community.

Come to one. Come to all.


Integrative approach drawing from/influenced by BodyMind Centering, Contact Improvisation, Axis Syllabus, Resmaa Menakem/Somatic Abolitionism and the Strozzi Institute.
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Forest Breathwork- popup mini series

Forest Breathwork
an OUTDOOR
Breathwork Practice Group
Fridays 8:30-9:30am
Sept 20-Oct 11
Worcester, VT
Facilitated by Amanda Franz
Suggested $40-120

Space is limited. 
​Request registration here:
Register Here

PRIDE Events

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Queer Contact Improv Jam:
   Thursday, May 30th, 6:30-8:15pm
   Thursday, June 13th, 6:30-8:15pm
    by donation


Movement space for queer-identified folks and allies with experience in the form of Contact Improvisation.
Opening circle 6:45-7pm.


Queer Shake:
   Friday June 7th, 5-6:30pm
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​Shaking is a durational practice that helps relieve our bodily selves from staying stuck in trauma responses.

Brief opening circle.  60-minute shake.  Closing circle.  

more info about the shake


Embodied Explorations of Collective Resilience/Resistance

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Thursdays 6:30-8pm
facilitated by Amanda Franz

​Pre-Registration helpful. Drop-in's Welcome
$10-30 suggested donation. 
No one turned away for lack of funds.

APRIL
4th: Embodied Support
11th: Circles of Support/Pod Mapping
18th: Nervous System 101: Education & Practices
25th: Making Space for Grief

learn more/register

Tending Our Grief: community grief rituals

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Factilitated by Hazel Turrone & Amanda Franz

2024 OFFERINGS COMING SOON
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Outdoors at Hubbard Park

We welcome you to join us in creating space for grief… to be and move with what we are carrying individually and collectively and to find support in being held in the space of our collective container. ​​
Learn More and Register Here


Mutual Aid Shake

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Facilitated by: Alexia Buono
Supported by: Amanda Franz

Thursday July 20, 2023, 7-8pm
Thursday August 3, 2023, 7-8pm


A collective Shake to help organizers, volunteers, & residents move some of what we've been holding together as we navigate the flooding here in central VT.
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Let's shake together to help us keep going. 
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QUEERING CONTACT: 
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a queer centered movement space for the practice of Contact Improvisation

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Monthly Focus Jams 
facilitated by Amanda Franz
-Temporarily on Pause-

Please reach out to express interest: [email protected]

Movement space for queer-identified folks and allies with experience in the form of Contact Improvisation.
LEARN MORE HERE

My Grandmother’s Hands 8-Week Facilitated Study Group
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Summer 2021

Facilitated by: Marlena Tucker-Fishman, Abbi Jaffe, Amanda Franz, Hazel Turrone 

Featuring: My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP

Join together to engage deeply with Resmaa Menakem’s potent book My Grandmother’s Hands.  Experienced facilitators will guide important conversations and somatic practices.   
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Positionality Workshop for Educators 
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August 21, 2021

with Alexia Buono, PhD

Educators will be guided through a personal and relational interrogation of their own positionalities, including a critical learning and analysis of power, privilege, oppression, and liberation.
 
Learn More and Register Here

BLACKOUT: How I Became White in America
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July 2021

Created and performed by Ethelyn Friend

This solo performance reflects one white woman’s discovery of her family’s direct links to slavery.  A somatic, musical and theatrical exploration of white guilt, denial and responsibility. 

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Garden Project & Community Work Days
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Summer 2021

We offer food, connection and skill building to people interested in growing resilience and supporting food justice through a community garden project centered in practicing relationship to all life.
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The Everything Space Showcase & Fundraiser 
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Saturday, April 11th, 2020 7-9pm

Join us for a fundraiser and showcase of storytelling, performance, community, and a sampling of what The Everything Space has to offer!

Come experience some of the ways that we unleash the body’s intelligence to co-create a more resilient world.


We are raising crucial funds to keep our space open.

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Growing Resilience: Being Trauma Informed
​10 Week Course
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Jan 27-April 6, 2020 
*no class March 2nd
Mondays 4pm-7:30pm


with Abbi Jaffe and Amanda Franz
and teaching assistant Brita Fisher 


The prevalence of trauma and its effects is astounding. This insightful and embodied course will support you in your efforts to create accessible and trauma informed spaces, classes and private practices.  Join us for our 5th Growing Resilience Course.  
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Contact Improv WEEKLY Jam  
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Every Wednesday 7-8:30pm 

​with Sarai, Mandy, Lucy, Hazel, Abbi or a guest facilitator 

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Drop in and improvise with your full self.  
​Join a welcoming community.



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Emergent Intelligence: Honing the Body's Voice
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February 4 - March 3
Tuesdays 5:30-7:30pm

*no class Feb 18

with Lucy Schmid and Lenna Wertenbaker

Let your body become the narrator. Move and communicate in unscripted ways. Join Lucy Schmid and Lenna Wertenbaker for an exploratory workshop in locating and giving voice to the stories that live in our bodies.
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The Body as Language: A Writing Class
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March 25 - April 22
Wednesdays 5:30-7:30pm


with Tessa Micaela

Where and how does language move through, from and towards the body? Five weeks of poems, writing practices, somatic engagement, and conversation. ​
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CoMotion Dance
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 Fridays, January 10 - March 20
9:30-10:15am
​*no class Feb 28


with MC DeBelina Doyle

This class engages both child and adult through a variety of techniques exploring the joy of movement. 
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For ages 0-5 & their caregiver.
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The Four Elements: Exploring the European Roots of Elemental Systems
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Thursday January 30
6-7:30pm


with Jamie Waggoner and Murphy Robinson


Calling the four directions or four elements is a practice shared by many traditional cultures around the world. In this workshop we will trace the European elemental system and how it developed over time, in an effort to understand what a revival of these practice can look like people who seek to connect with their indigenous European ancestry.
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Reticulations: Remembering Ourselves into the Web of Life
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Tuesdays March 10,17,24,31
6:30-8:30pm


with Hazel Turrone

Through 4 weeks of movement, art and sound we will explore, honor, and dismantle the intricate web of all that our bodies carry as we journey toward re-weaving/re-membering ourselves into the very source of life that we are.
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Archery, Intention, and Inspiration
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Thursdays Feb 13 - March 26
 5:30-7:00pm
*no class March 19


with Murphy Robinson

This indoor winter archery class teaches form & safety in an inclusive environment. Together we will shoot arrows, set intentions, share our insights, and seek wisdom from archery-themed story & myth.
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Playback Theater 
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​​with Lucy Schmid


​Tell true stories, practice listening and expressing with your whole body, and embrace the spirit of improvisation!
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Annual Decolonization Event 
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Stay Tuned for 2020 date and guest speaker
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facilitated by guest speakers with the support of Amanda Franz, Abbi Jaffe, Erok, Lane Fury, Yepeth Perla Rubin, and others


Join invited guest speakers to engage in learning and un-learning and continuing to grow in community.   
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The Burlington VT Annual Contact Improv Jam
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Sept 6-8, 2019
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At City Hall on Church Street in Burlington VT

Join us for a whole weekend or drop-in for a dose of embodied community.
  

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PAST Offerings
located at Reciprocity in Underhill VT


Circling and Embodiment Weekend:
Practices that Support Vital Community
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Aug 2, 6pm - Aug 4, 15, 3pm 2019
with Amanda Franz and Abbi Jaffe
including  guest circling facilitators: 
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Michelle Huber, Patrice Shelburne, Ryan McArdle, Brooks Yardley
Location: Reciprocity Vermont Embodiment Center, Underhill VT


We want to support vitality within community as the ground for transformation and revolution within ourselves and within society.

Join skilled embodiment and circling facilitators for a weekend of exploration within a community of practice.
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Jam Jams: Embodied Community Retreats 
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Dec 6-8, 2019
with Amanda Franz and Abbi Jaffe 

Listen deeply, learn and grow within community.  
Transformative and collaborative.


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The Work That Reconnects (Joanna Macy) 
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Calling all world changers, world lovers, good people who care about the direction of our planet, peoples, and communities!

The Work That Reconnects offers us tools to not only see and understand what is happening right now, but also skills for hope and change even in moments of crisis.
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Natural Fitness Class Series 
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Private sessions available. 
Contact Abbi to schedule you or your group fitness experience.

with Abbi Jaffe

Develop  full body strength within a compassionate community.  

All levels.  Train to be ready to move dynamically with ease.  
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​Co-Regulation Study Group: Tending the Nature of Our Shared Nervous System
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Fridays 10-12:30
Feb 15, March 15, April 12, May 17

with Amanda Franz
​Location: Plainfield

Co-regulation is an innate process of attuning to self and other for inner regulation. Since humans are socially oriented species, our nervous systems are wired for this as a necessary support. Learn about and be supported in a practice of co-regulation with others and the surrounding natural world.
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Axis Syllabus Study Group
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No classes scheduled 
Collecting names to fill the next cohort.
Contact  Amanda Franz if interested. 
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The study group is a facilitated inquiry into the content of Axis Syllabus, a somatic study of human movement. Explore anatomy, bio-mechanics, tonal modulation and kinetic chains with a question of "How does what I learn change me?"
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Rise Up Dance Therapy 
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No classes scheduled
with Sarai Hinkley ​

Dance therapy to stir and awaken a body of resistance.

Authentic movement, somatic exploration, contact improvisation and speaking from the body.
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Listening from Within:
​Foundational Practices of Contact Improvisation Series
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Spring 2020- stay tuned!

with Amanda Franz

Learn skills to share the dance and open movement possibilities.  

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Supporting One Another: 
Partner-based communication practices
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with Amanda Franz

​Use listening and sharing exercises to cultivate the foundations for better communication.

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A partner practice.
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Bodies of Change: Embodiment & Social Change Discussion Group
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Used to be the 1st Wednesday of each month
5:30-6:30pm
​with Sarai Hinkley
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Join the conversation around issues of social change and embodiment. The goal is to share ideas, knowledge, experience and inspiration. Bring a lunch, if desired.
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Circling Series
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Circling is a practice of being present and communicating what is most alive within one’s self and between those with whom you are circling.  

In circling we will practice noticing what is happening within one’s self in the moment, sharing and owning our experience, discovering someone else’s world with curiosity and acceptance, sharing the impact that someone has on you, uncovering relational blind spots and more​.  

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Each circling session with be supplemented with meditation or embodiment practices.

Together we will discover what unfolds when we hold space for each other to be exactly how we are. 
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Community Practice of Resilience (CPR)
Monthly Event
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Currently on Break.
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Past CPR's have included:

*Authentic Relating Games with Ryan McArdle
*Playback Theater with Joanie Begin-Morin
*Mindful Eating with Abbi Jaffe and Lisa Mase
*Reclaiming Resilience through The Work That Reconnects
with Amanda Franz and Adin Buchanan  
*Rewilding Consciousness (The natural history of neurodiversity)
​with Sean Donahue 
*Dear Teachings with Murphy Robinson
*Nourishing Touch with Hazel Turrone
*Supportive Listening with Amanda Franz

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Robin Hood's Arrow: Piercing the Illusion of Capitalist Culture
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to be offered again in 2019
with Murphy Robinson

Learn archery as an embodied practice to clear your mind and direct your will, as we question and heal the impact of capitalist culture on our minds and hearts.
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Queer Contact Improv Class & Jam
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with Sarai Hinkley

An introduction to Contact Improvisation for anyone who identifies as Queer, Trans, Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Intersex, Asexual, Nonbinary, Two Spirit, Agender, Gender Non-Conforming etc.

Open to dancers of all levels of experience.
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Somatic Movement ~ Deepen Your Awareness : Re-Awaken Your Body
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2019 schedule coming soon.
with Amy Lepage 
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Based on the work of Thomas Hanna, this series offers a safe, gentle practice that explores sensing and noticing our internal landscape, unraveling tension and holding patterns while re-educating the communication pathways between the brain and body. This allows for greater Freedom and Function in all the activities you love and want to continue to do throughout your life.
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Community of Play Retreat:
Acro Connection, Natural Fitness, Social Justice and More 
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Sept 29-Oct 1, 2017 (Stay tuned for a future retreat)
with Abbi Jaffe, Lori Flower and Jeff Mandell 


What makes you feel relaxed, awake, ready to find playfulness and joy?
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The Everything Space:   64 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Montpelier VT 05602, Unceded Territory of the Abenaki Nation
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​Contact Us

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The Everything Space                15 State Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 303          Montpelier VT 05602       (accessible by elevator)

Unceeded Homeland of the Abenaki People ​    
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    • Amanda Franz, RSME/T >
      • Schedule with Amanda
    • Abbi Jaffe RSME/T
    • Fees & Accessibility Options
  • Classes/events
    • Growing Resilience Being Trauma Informed Course >
      • Apply for Growing Resilience!
    • Somatic Practice for Resilience/Resistance
    • Somatics for the People!
    • Re-Embodiment Training
    • My Grandmothers Hands Study Group >
      • MGH BIPOC Folks Group
      • MGH White Folks Group
  • Garden
    • Sign up HERE for Garden Community Work Days
    • Our Values >
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      • Justice work - Food, Environmental, Social, Bodily
      • Practicing Community
      • Everything is Alive! Everything is Connected!
      • Active Practice of Learning
      • Deep/Somatic/Embodied Listening and Awareness
      • Centering Ancestors
      • Healthy Accountability to Commitments and Responsibilities
      • Emergent Education
    • Garden Vision
    • Garden Support
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