Movement
2025 Movement Workshop with Megha Nancy Buttenheim
Let Your Yoga Dance
In these daily classes at Star Island, you will discover the true meaning of the phrase: Where Joy and Fun meet Deep and Sacred. As you dance your yoga through the chakras, you start slowly in meditation with relevant poetry reading, then flows into moving yoga. The class gets faster and more lively as the class progresses through the chakras. As you move to the 6th chakra ( ie: the third eye), you enter moving yoga cool down, Moon Salutation, and Dance Prayer. The class ends with relaxation and meditation. Be prepared, in this deeply joyous event, to reach within and find your daily DOSE of JOY. DOSE stands for: Dopamine ~ Oxytocin ~ Serotonin ~ Endorphins Let Your Yoga Dance promises that you’ll feel far more joyous, healthy, and fit at the end of class!
Let Your Yoga Dance – Where Joy and Fun Meet Deep and Sacred – is a 30 year-old transformational movement practice, created by Megha. It combines gentle yoga with user-friendly dance, qigong, and embodied positive psychology. It is a joy-filled journey through the chakras, the body’s energy centers. The Let Your Yoga Dance mission is: To spread joy and consciousness throughout the world by transmitting body health, brain health, heart health to all populations. Let Your Yoga Dance is a practice that literally anyone can do because it is offered in a safe, compassionate, brave, and sacred space. Having trouble standing and moving on your feet? Then do the whole practice in your chair!
Megha Nancy Buttenheim, M.A., E-RYT 1000, is CJO (Chief JOY Officer) and Founding Director of Let Your Yoga Dance® LLC, and author of Expanding Joy: Let Your Yoga Dance, Embodying Positive Psychology. Megha is a lifelong singer, dancer, and actor.
Her signature movement creation, Let Your Yoga Dance, Where Joy and Fun Meet Deep and Sacred, is the result of a lifetime of dancing, acting, plus 35 years of teaching yoga and Let Your Yoga Dance at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health where she is a Legacy faculty member. She has trained thousands of people in yoga, holistic health, embodied Positive Psychology.
Megha’s credo: Everyone is a Dancer.
Since Covid began in 2020, Megha has been leading her Let Your Yoga Dance Teacher Training on Zoom, along with workshops and ongoing classes in Gentle Yoga-Qigong, and Let Your Yoga Dance. She also leads weekly Let Your Yoga Dance classes on Insight Timer. Megha is an expert in working with people with Parkinson’s and special populations.
Find out more about Megha on her website: https://letyouryogadance.com/
What to bring or wear:
Comfortable clothing that allows for freedom of movement.
Community Solstice Class
Join Megha in an hour-long Let Your Yoga Dance community event dedicated to the Solstice, the longest day of the year. Along with energetic dances (including a little sign language), you will experience moving modifications on the Sun Salutation, you’ll explore your inner light, and delve into sunlit songs of hope and faith, such as “May the longtime Sun shine upon you.” Joining in community, you will open the portal to deeper joy and wisdom as you let your yoga dance in community, with the sun at your back