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  • Bright Shadow Book Club

    The Bright Shadow Book Club is a space for people who don’t usually join book clubs - and who may be curious about how we navigate cycles of light and dark, risk and rest, love and loss, especially as they show up in relationship with the natural world.

    We alternate between online and in-person. Check the link below for free tickets to the next meet-up.

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  • Bright Shadow Yoga

    An opportunity to tend the nervous system through healthy stress, mindful pauses, and deepening our ability to understand the body’s language. Each class flows like a river's unfolding, contracting with effort (flow) and expanding into rest (yin). Our community rate is $10.

    Our next Yoga Pop-Up is TBD. Check back soon!

    Other Yoga Options

  • Bright Shadow in Service

    Bright Shadow joins Mountain True for a day of service to our waterways as well as service to our own ways of healing, our connections to the natural world, and to our more-than-human communities. While Mountain True brings the gear and the guidance for knowledgable action, Bright Shadow supports the stabilization of our internal riverbanks. Whether flooded by grief, loss, or overwhelm, we will plant each stake together and look to a shared horizon.

    No experience needed. Come as you are, and dress for the cold.

    Save the Date for December 12, 2026

    Registration Coming Soon

  • Bright Shadow Dawn Patrol

    We wake early and meet at a trailhead. We breathe in, breathe out, feel the effort in the silence, movement in the stillness. We share our burdens without words as we climb a trail, ascend a ridgeline. We pause as we receive the light coming over the horizon, exhale and feel the shadows melt away.

    Dawn Patrol is poetry in motion, an opportunity to find meaning in the physical aspects of body, nature, and community.

    Check back for dates and location of these early morning adventures in 2027.

    More Info Coming Soon
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