This mindfulness photography course invites participants to slow down and connect with the present moment while exploring the art of seeing. Using smartphones, SLRs, or mirrorless cameras, students learn fundamental photographic techniques while shifting their focus from capturing the “perfect shot” to exploring texture, color, and light with curiosity and heightened awareness of themselves and the surrounding landscape. Guided by mindful breathing and calming soundscapes, photography becomes a meditative practice that supports technical growth, reduces stress, and fosters a joyful connection with the natural world.

This hands-on course focuses on transforming wild Appalachian ingredients into thoughtful, finished dishes and preparations. Ingredients will be responsibly harvested and selected in advance so we can devote our time to working with them confidently and precisely. Participants will work with wild, hyper-native ingredients and learn how to clean, process, preserve, and cook them using both traditional and modern techniques. The course bridges rustic knowledge with professional kitchen discipline, making these foods practical and accessible for home cooks. Vegetarian and vegan preparations will be included wherever possible.

In this course you will learn the basics of yoga and how to move with integrity and confidence in the body you live in- because your body is a yoga body! All bodies are yoga bodies because yoga is and has always been meant for everyone. All practitioners, regardless of weight, age, or physical limitations have exactly what they need to take this course because a true and transformative yoga practice is about more than the body. We will experience the basics of practice through movement, breath and meditation and most importantly, how to fit the practice to the bodies we live in. Building strength, flexibility, mobility, balance and health is not the goal ~ those are simply consequences of realizing that the body is simply the path to the soul, the depths of our own hearts. The true goal of practice is to become more deeply and wholly yourself ~ building wisdom, dissolving stress, connecting to community ~ this is how we create the more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible.