Wellness
We invite you to come as you are and gather as a community!
Wellness at The Meetinghouse is a place of refuge from our hectic lives. We know that self-care is self-preservation. But we also know that we don’t always make time for it. We have intentionally created a space for you to come nurture your body and mind while being in community.
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Upcoming Wellness Events
Align + Flow Yoga
This class will move through asana with a focus on alignment — using props, adjustments and cues that create body awareness to deepen your practice. An excellent class for all […]
Baby + Me: 6-Week Postnatal Session Yoga
Baby + Me: Special 6-Week Postnatal Session Yoga Meet other mamas and take time for you! This session-based class will build community and focus on adults, stretching and strengthening where […]
Baby + Me: 4-Week and 6-Week Postnatal Yoga
Baby + Me: Special 4-Week and 6-Week Postnatal Session Yoga We are pleased to offer a 4 week and 6 week option to accommodate return to work schedules. This is […]
Slow Flow / Yin Yoga
This all-level 60-minute class is breath-centered and holds poses a little longer to get deeper into connective tissue — always with safety and support in mind. Often, sequences will stay […]
Meetinghouse Flow
Our signature class (aka Vinyasa Yoga). A flow centered on our breath, each class features a thoughtful sequence that builds to standing and balance poses. This is a 60-minute for […]
Lunchtime Meetinghouse Flow
Same vinyasa-based sequence as Meetinghouse Flow, but more focused for a 45-minute class that can easily fit into the rest of your daily routine! Our signature class (aka Vinyasa Yoga). […]
The Wellness programs at The Meetinghouse are designed to support the eight dimensions of wellbeing as outlined by the National Institute of Health (NIH)
Physical
Eating well, exercising regularly, getting enough sleep, and managing health.
Emotional
Being aware of your feelings, responding constructively, and practicing gratitude.
Social
Cultivating healthy relationships and contributing to your community.
Intellectual
Using your intellect to enrich your life.
Environmental
Being mindful of your impact on the environment.
Spiritual
Connecting with your spirituality.
Occupational
Finding fulfillment and purpose in your work.
Financial
Managing your money responsibly.
We’re actively designing new classes and workshops to address these dimensions and provide meaningful opportunities for personal growth throughout the year. We invite you to join us on this journey and develop your own sense of wellbeing and community.
What We Offer
Yoga
The practice of yoga is breath centered. It is a moving meditation that begins to still the mind. Through that, we begin to cultivate a sense of calm and in turn create mental strength and flexibility. Both help us to become more intentional and less reactive, which is not only practical but vital in these challenging times.
View Wellness Classes- Slow Flow/Yin
This all-level 60-minute class is breath-centered and holds poses a little longer to get deeper into connective tissue — always with safety and support in mind. Often, sequences will stay a bit closer to the mat. This type of class is an important part of any practice, to help build strength while finding release. - Meetinghouse Flow
Our signature class (aka Vinyasa Yoga). A flow centered on our breath, each class features a thoughtful sequence that builds to standing and balance poses. This is a 60-minute for all levels with variations offered throughout the practice. - Lunchtime Meetinghouse Flow
Same vinyasa-based sequence as Meetinghouse Flow, but more focused for a 45-minute class that can easily fit into the rest of your daily routine. - Align + Flow
This class will move through asana with a focus on alignment — using props, adjustments and cues that create body awareness to deepen your practice. An excellent class for all levels, with variations offered. Come ready to learn and play!
Meditation
In today’s fast-changing world, meditation offers a powerful path to balance and integration. At The Meetinghouse, we provide a variety of meditation practices throughout the year to help you reconnect with yourself.
View Wellness ClassesOur Meditation sessions offer practical insights and benefits, including:
- Gently shifting your focus from a restless mind to the present moment
- Cultivating gratitude and compassion in daily life
- Tapping into the heightened energy and focus that comes from meditating with a group
Whether you’re new to meditation or have an established practice, we invite you to join us. All levels are welcome.
Workshops
Guided by the NIH’s eight dimensions of well-being — physical, emotional, spiritual, social, intellectual, occupational, environmental, and financial — we are developing workshops to support growth in each of these areas. Upcoming workshops include, but are not limited to, the following.
View Wellness Classes- Reiki and Yoga
The yoga and reiki workshop will blend the moving meditation of the yoga practice with an assisted shavasana and mini reiki session for each participant. - 7-Day Wellness Reset
Nourishing the body is key to nurturing the mind and soul. The 7-Day Wellness Reset offers a holistic approach with clean eating meal prep and recipes, morning and evening digital detox tips, meditation support, and unlimited yoga and Pilates classes over seven days. By the end of the reset, our goal is for you to feel refreshed, revitalized, and inspired to continue your wellness journey. - Honoring the Rhythms of the Seasons
Join us for yoga, food, a walk and a discussion on leadership and play as we welcome in the spring, summer, fall and winter with special programs.
What People Say
About Holistic Wellbeing
Claire Walker Moffatt, Founding Wellness Resident
WELLNESS RESIDENT
Kate Loewengart
Kate Loewengart is the Wellness Resident at The Meetinghouse. With a diverse background that spans hospitality, marketing/advertising and yoga, mindfulness and early childhood education programs, she has built her career by connecting people, building communities and strengthening organizations. As the Wellness Resident, Kate oversees our yoga and meditation studio. She also works collaboratively with our other residents and The Meetinghouse leadership to explore how wellness perspectives can enhance our programs. She looks forward to casting a wide net on wellness activities, and creating more ways for The Meetinghouse to serve the community through wellness-related programs.
For Kate, wellness is more than a group of yoga poses or a moment of stillness. What happens beyond the mat or cushion is where true yoga — and overall wellness — begins. Kate strongly believes that the practice of listening to ourselves and mindful presence with others is the most effective way to promote positive change in the world. Read more about Kate here.
INSTRUCTOR
Jean DeVoe
Jean DeVoe came to yoga years ago as a mom of three in need of a peaceful space. Through the quiet practice of yoga, she found many tools for bringing authenticity and self-renewal to her life. Yoga has been so integral to her well-being, that she completed her 200-hour teacher training certification as well as her 300 hour advanced teacher training at Lyn Kehoe Power Yoga so that she could share this knowledge with her community. Jean has a dance and choreography backgroundthat contributes to her passion for anatomy, alignment, and integrity of movement. In addition to teaching yoga, Jean teaches preschool creative movement classes and contemporary dance classes in Wilton, CT.
Jean enjoys teaching a process oriented, multi-level yoga class, with a focus on compassion, mindfulness, and self-appreciation.
INSTRUCTOR
Kristy Liesegang
Kristy Liesegang is a longtime Ridgefield native, married and has two grown children. Over the last decade, she became fascinated with healing and the human spirit’s connection. She became a certified yoga instructor through Lyn Kehoe Power Yoga and has since completed RYT 500-hour training, Yin Yoga certification, a Master Level Usui Reiki Energy Healing.
In addition to The Meetinghouse, Kristy teaches yoga at The Well Studio. She also volunteers weekly at Ann’s Place and Ridgefield Visiting Nurse providing Reiki treatments to patients, as well as, staff members.
Kristy’s approach to yoga is about the balance between strength and flexibility for all levels. She aspires to motivate students to look beyond their physical selves and challenge their minds and bodies in a healing way. Learn more about Kristy here.
INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Fanta Waterman
Fanta Waterman is the Leadership and Community Empowerment Resident at The Meetinghouse.
Grateful for how the principles and practice of yoga have influenced her personal experiences as well as her leadership journey, Fanta believes that yoga principles and practice can help with reflection, strength and resilience-building, and incorporates this ideology into her work with social entrepreneurs and health leaders as well as her yoga students. With over 500 hours of registered training with the Yoga Alliance and holding a Master of Public Health in Community Health Education and a PhD in Public Health, Dr. Fanta Waterman is a clinical assistant professor in Public Health Leadership and consultant to healthcare organizations aimed at increasing community access and representation in healthcare evidence, literature, and leadership. Read more about Fanta here.
