JourneyDance with Deneen McQueen

July 9–September 3

Thursdays, 10:30–11:30 AM

*no classes on July 30 and August 20

Join us to move, breathe, stretch, and dance to get out of your head and into your body. This transformative movement practice invites you to reclaim your wildness. It is a soulful journey that leads you to greater freedom, joy, and self-discovery. It invites you to tap into your personal power and intuition, and will provide a supportive and sacred space for you to let go of inhibitions. We release judgment of ourselves and others.

JourneyDance ignites imagination through movement, music, and creative visualization. The neuroscience of collective joy tells us there is something deeply healing about women moving together—being witnessed and feeling safe enough to soften, play, stretch, dance, breathe, laugh, cry, or simply exist as we are. Your body knows how to create its own dopamine. Come let movement be your medicine.

Absolutely no dance experience is necessary, and these classes are suitable for all women, of all abilities.

Wear comfortable shoes and clothes.

The price of participation is on a $20–$40 sliding scale.

About Deneen

Deneen McQueen’s dance classes are a radiant playground—infused with laughter, liberation, and the electric freedom that comes from women moving together in community. She brings a tapestry of embodied and clinical wisdom to her offerings. Her master’s degree in applied psychology is the overlay on her advanced certifications in JourneyDance, embodied transformation, Reiki, integrative nutrition, soul entrainment, and sistership circles, alongside her fitness-instructor training and being a licensed teacher. As the founder of Whole Soul Wellness, she guides women to enliven their divine feminine through mind, body, and spirit practices. She wholeheartedly believes in the power of movement as medicine and is excited to be collaborating with the Stillpoint community.

Deneen has crafted magical spaces for women to rewild, reconnect to their inner spark, and rejoice here on the Island and beyond. She has offered Zumba classes and wellness workshops for almost two decades at the Chilmark Community Center and The Yard, and ignited countless private and charitable functions with her vibrant party style. Deneen has also been honored with leading JourneyDance at Omega Institute and Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. When not frolicking on her beloved Vineyard she loves to offer other transformative events, such as women’s circles, ecstatic dance, and silent discos on the beaches of the world.

Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9–10:30 AM

This 90-minute practice offers the space to move with intention, depth, and presence. Rooted in mindful breath, the class begins with grounding and centering before building into a dynamic Vinyasa flow that strengthens, opens, and balances the body. With time to explore alignment, deeper postures, and meditative stillness, students are guided through a journey that connects body, mind, and spirit. The practice closes with restorative poses and a spacious savasana, leaving you grounded, refreshed, and renewed from the inside out.

About Camille

Camille Beauzile is a passionate and intuitive movement guide, blending over two decades of experience in the healing arts. As a certified Pilates instructor, 600-hour yoga instructor, seasoned bodywork therapist, and sound healer, she brings a holistic and deeply embodied approach to wellness. Her teaching emphasizes alignment, breath, and presence, empowering students to move with intention, strength, and grace.

With a background in therapeutic bodywork, Camille has a profound understanding of the body’s mechanics and subtle energy systems. Her sessions often integrate mindful movement, breath awareness, and sound healing to create a grounded, nurturing space where transformation can unfold. Whether guiding a dynamic Pilates class or a restorative sound bath, she meets each student with care, compassion, and a commitment to their unique path of healing and growth.

Camille believes that when we move with awareness, we remember who we are—resilient, radiant, and whole.

Tuesdays, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM

This is a one-hour class based on the gentle, flowing movements of Qigong (Chi Kung), known for its health benefits and ability to strengthen the body's core, bringing greater equilibrium. As it invigorates the body and builds a connection to the earth, the practice also helps to calm the mind.

About Kanta

Kanta Lipsky has been a yoga practitioner and teacher for many years. Her master’s degree is from Lesley University, in holistic studies and expressive therapy. She also loves plein air landscape painting and is the author and illustrator of the children’s book Pinkletink the Froggie. She lives on Martha’s Vineyard.

The fee for the class is on a sliding scale ($10–$30).

The Mighty Sisters Club

Wednesdays starting June 24 

11 AM–12 PM

Claire Ganz is offering a series of tea and art sessions for grown-ups, based on what she offers at the Chilmark Community Church Sunday school, and on the foundational belief that we are all glorious and imperfect. Each week’s session will include an offering of tea and craft project supplies.

Come for tea and play with stones, pens, wire, glue, beads, and clips. Make a clip-on weight to hold down outdoor tablecloths when the wind blows. Make a paperweight. Write encouraging words. The goal is joyful creation and connection.

Participation is on a $20 - $40 sliding scale.

Filmmaker Reece Robinson discusses his forthcoming feature documentary, TICKING POINT. Now in production, the film captures the island’s response to ticks and alpha-gal syndrome as residents, hunters, scientists, and public health officials work together to confront tick-borne illness at its source.

Drawing on nine months of filming, Reece will share early footage, discuss the filmmaking process, and offer an inside look at the island’s search for solutions as it unfolds in real time. The evening will include conversation and Q&A about the film, the tick crisis, and how the Martha’s Vineyard community can help shape the project going forward.

This program is free; donations are encouraged.

Reece Robinson is an Emmy award-winning documentary director and DP with a decade of experience telling character-driven stories. He embedded with doctors and patients at a NYC hospital for National Geographic’s The First Wave, and his work ranges from human rights conflict in Nepal (Madhesi) to acclaimed endurance documentaries like The Run Across America and Ride to Endure.

Having spent much of his life on Martha’s Vineyard, Reece has watched the tick crisis take hold of both his family and the island community.

ACE MV presents a Latin Dance Class, with Lorena Crespo
Thursdays, July 9, 16, and 23, and August 6 and 13

9–10 AM

Led by Lorena Crespo, this Latin dance class is a fun and inclusive space where everyone is welcome to learn rhythms like salsa, bachata, merengue, pop, and more. You can enjoy dancing, express yourself, stay active, and connect with different cultures through music and movement. The focus is on having fun, building confidence, and celebrating joy through dance.

The price of each class is $20.

About Lorena and ACE MV

Lorena Crespo is originally from Ecuador and has been teaching Latin dance classes on the Island since 2014. You could say that the rhythm of dance is truly in her bones, as she started dancing before ever taking her first steps. Beyond her passion for teaching movement classes, she is a certified ESL instructor with a master’s degree in education (curriculum and teaching). She teaches a variety of language classes with ACE MV, including Brazilian Portuguese and advanced English.

ACE MV (Adult & Community Education Martha’s Vineyard) is an Island nonprofit organization with the mission of empowering year-round Vineyard residents by providing equitable access to higher education, workforce training, community-building, and career navigation support. Learn more about ACE MV’s programs and classes by visiting its website: www.acemv.org

3:30–4:30 PM

Experience the calming effect of harmonic vibration, with pianist and acclaimed piano technician David Stanwood.  

Naptime is a meditation hour. David’s piano improvisations expand and slow down time—allowing space for unwinding, resting, dreaming, writing, drawing, and meditating.

The session features David’s continuous tonal bowing of the open strings on the piano, in concert with the gentle sounds of the forest surrounding Stillpoint. You might find yourself magically floating upstream… 

Yoga mats and cushions are provided.  

The price of participation is on a sliding scale ($10–$30).

About David

David Stanwood has been the Island’s own piano technician since 1979. As a tonal artist with heightened sensitivities to harmonics, he likes to say, “I hear what people feel.” 

In 1978, he received his certificate from the piano technology department of the North Bennet Street School, and was presented with its Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007. In 2019, he was inducted into the Piano Technicians Guild Hall of Fame. His accomplishments are too numerous to list here but you can read more on his website. David lives and works at his home on Lambert's Cove Road.

On view July 8–22
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Art Opening and Reception: July 9, 7:30 PM

“These paintings are not depictions of reality; they are better than reality.” —Julian Schnabel

Join us for an evening with artist Adam Guy as he presents a new collection of oil paintings created this spring on Martha’s Vineyard, a place he felt deeply called back to.

Developed through months of walking, observing, and painting, these works are inspired by the Island’s changing light, coastal landscapes, colonial stone walls, and quiet moments found in nature. Approaching the world with a sense of childlike wonder, Adam seeks to capture not simply what is seen, but what is felt—the beauty, mystery, and connection that reveal themselves when we slow down and pay attention.

Working in luminous layers of oil paint, he creates paintings that invite viewers to pause, breathe, and experience the natural world with renewed presence. Through color, light, and atmosphere, these works explore our relationship to nature and evoke a profound sense of peace, wonder, and belonging—an invitation to slow down, reconnect, and experience all that surrounds us.

At the art opening and reception, visitors will have the opportunity to experience this new body of work and hear Adam’s reflections on the creative process behind it.

About Adam

Adam Guy is an oil painter based in Hanalei, Hawaii. Inspired by a lifelong relationship with nature, his work explores the emotional and spiritual qualities found within the natural world. After years working in photography, he returned to painting, with a renewed sense of purpose. His creative practice is rooted in observation, gratitude, and a deep appreciation for the beauty that exists in both the extraordinary and the everyday.

Fridays, 9 AM

June 5 through August 28

** NO CLASS JULY 24 AND AUGUST 14

EFF’n Move (essentials for embodied, ecstatic, elevated, and empowered functionality) is a mindful, low-impact training approach focused on why you move, not just what you do. It uses resistance bands, body weight, and a blend of yoga, barre, and isometric techniques to build strength, mobility, and core stability.

Exercises are performed both standing and on the mat, with an emphasis on proper position and alignment to ensure safety and effectiveness. The method is adaptable to injuries and different fitness levels.

Key benefits include improved posture and core strength, greater muscular endurance, low-impact muscle toning, enhanced flexibility and balance, and increased body awareness through full-body conditioning. Carefully curated music playlists are included in this series of classes.

Class is capped at 15 participants.

About Tuni

Antonia (Tuni) Deignan is the mother of five children, but prior to that miraculous and ongoing adventure she was a professional ballet and jazz dancer performing and touring with several dance companies. A bike accident at age fifty-five forced a do-over in her movement practice. She now fuses her lifelong resource of dance alignment into a daily stretch, strength, balance, and functional-movement training program. She employs body weight and resistance-band exercises, along with intentional stretching, isolating musculoskeletal function while emphasizing whole-body awareness and safe mechanics. Her goals in fitness are to empower your daily activities with smart movement patterns, which come with consistent body-alignment checks, optimizing functionality and nurturing your ability to move powerfully and safely. 

She holds certifications in Hatha yoga (200), JKZ meditation (100), both mat and reformer Pilates, spinning, and exhale barre. She developed her own hybrid barre fitness class and trained several studios, including a chain of health clubs in Chicago (CAC). She owned and directed her own dance studio (T move) and pre-professional dance company, as well as taught for the Cleveland Ballet Company.

Side note: she also wrote an award-winning book, Underwater Daughter: A Memoir of Survival and Healing, published in 2023 by She Writes Press.

Stillpoint is honored to welcome former Thai monk Boonyod Nonthong (Benny) for a special morning of mindfulness meditation training designed for all levels, from complete beginners to longtime practitioners.

This session offers a gentle yet powerful training of the heart and mind.

We will begin with guided loving-kindness meditation (Metta), cultivating compassion, goodwill, and warmth toward ourselves and others. This practice softens the heart, nurtures emotional balance, and creates a sense of belonging.

From there, Benny will guide participants into mindfulness of the body, using breath and body awareness to ground in the present moment. Through guided practice, participants will explore the Four Foundations of Mindfulness—body, feelings, mind, and mental states—with calm, non-judgmental awareness.

Please bring a notebook for reflection.

About Benny

At age eleven, Boonyod Nonthong began his journey as a novice monk. He then studied at the Wat Pho Meditation Center in Bangkok, Thailand. At age twenty-one, he began studying with the esteemed Mahasi Sayadaw in the Vipassana (insight) tradition. This included approximately three years of intensive practice (18 hours daily) under the venerable guidance of BhaddhantaWirosana, Ph.D. He has resided at Wat Nawamintararachutis (NMR Meditation Center) in Raynham, Massachusetts, for the past three years, where he continues to deepen his monastic practice and share mindfulness with the community.  

Saturdays, 10:30–11:45 AM

This upbeat Pilates class blends preventative medicine, mind-over-matter focus, and joyful movement, emphasizing posterior chain activation to support posture, joint health, and long-term resilience. Through intentional breath and precise movement, you’ll build strength, clarity, and confidence in a playful, energizing flow—so caring for your body feels good now and for years to come.

About Camille

Camille Beauzile is a passionate and intuitive movement guide, blending over two decades of experience in the healing arts. As a certified Pilates instructor, 600-hour yoga instructor, seasoned bodywork therapist, and sound healer, she brings a holistic and deeply embodied approach to wellness. Her teaching emphasizes alignment, breath, and presence, empowering students to move with intention, strength, and grace.

With a background in therapeutic bodywork, Camille has a profound understanding of the body’s mechanics and subtle energy systems. Her sessions often integrate mindful movement, breath awareness, and sound healing to create a grounded, nurturing space where transformation can unfold. Whether guiding a dynamic Pilates class or a restorative sound bath, she meets each student with care, compassion, and a commitment to their unique path of healing and growth.



Camille believes that when we move with awareness, we remember who we are—resilient, radiant, and whole.

Summer Sessions

Sundays 9:30 - 10:30am 

Session I July 5th - July 26th

Session II  August 2 - August 30th (NO CLASS August 16th)

Registration

Class limited to 25. Your Venmo payment confirms your spot, submit payment to @Emily-Phillips-41, or email me for more options at [email protected]

Pricing 

Session I  $160

Session II  $160

Sessions I + II $300

Single class $45

In this 4 class movement series, we will mobilize our joints, address postural weaknesses, and focus on balance, breath, and feet.
 

Class is performed barefoot, and mats and props provided. 

Dynamic Aging is appropriate for anyone who can walk unaided, and who has a basic fitness level (can squat, get on the floor, and perform a push-up against the wall).

This is a hands-on celebration of Latin rhythms, voice, and collective sound, with Rosi Amador of Sol y Canto. Participants can discover the orchestra within, plus “circle singing.” Together, we build a spontaneous chorus!

What participants will explore:

• Circle singing, an improvisational, communal singing technique (created by Bobby McFerrin) in which participants stand in a circle to create spontaneous, unscripted music; a leader improvises melodic and rhythmic parts, assigning them to different sections to create a layered, in-the-moment musical experience that fosters community and deep listening, and opportunities for anyone to lead are offered
• Cuban salsa, Afro-Puerto Rican bomba, Afro-Uruguayan candombe, Brazilian rhythm games, and Venezuelan joropo
• Playful vocal and body-percussion patterns woven with rhythmic improvisation
• How to recreate the sounds of instruments, including piano (drum), barril, cuá, chico, repique, claves, congas, maracas, campana (cowbell), and more
• Vocal improvisation techniques from the beloved Brazilian troupe Música do Círculo

How it works: in this dynamic, two-hour workshop, Rosi will guide you through select vocal percussion and improvisation techniques inspired by Caribbean and South American rhythms. You’ll embody the sounds of a Cuban salsa band, a Puerto Rican bomba group, and much more. No experience is necessary—just your voice, your body, and your curiosity.

Why this workshop? The goal is to take the spirit of the Vineyard’s singing community into a rich world of global rhythm and harmony. This is a space for exploration, joy, and the discovery of just how musical your body already is.

About Rosi

Of Argentine and Puerto Rican heritage, Rosi Amador was raised by performer parents, who passed on to her their love of Latin American rhythms and musical styles. Her Nuyorican mother was a dancer, singer, and actress, appearing in the U.S. and Europe with Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, and Dean Martin, among others, and in Mexico with comic actor “Cantinflas” (Mario Moreno). Her father began in radio in Buenos Aires and later became an actor, touring all over Latin America. Rosi founded the award-winning Latin band Flor de Caña’s in 1984, which she also managed for ten years.

Following this, in 1994 she and her New Mexican guitarist/composer husband Brian founded Sol y Canto, with which they tour nationally and have released five CDs internationally.

She has been deeply influenced by popular Latin music, flamenco, jazz, North American folk, blues, and contemporary African vocal styles. In 1998 she founded her Latin music agency, MusicAmador, and was later the president of the Latin Music Division of the Roots Agency; both agencies represented major Latin American music and dance ensembles in the U.S. and Canada.



6:30–8 PM

Thursday, July 16 - Tulsi: Unconditional love & Divine guidance
Tuesday July 28 - Chamomile: Reclaiming joy & emotional resilience

Plant spirit meditations are guided ritual experiences that use the simple act of drinking tea as a pathway into presence, embodied wisdom, and connection with the natural world, not as with a commodity or resource, but as with a teacher and mentor.

Through mindfulness, breath, and somatic awareness, we’ll explore non-psychotropic plants that have for centuries been used for guidance, healing, restoration, and nourishment in traditional folk medicine.

By drinking plant infusions with the intention of opening ourselves to their teachings, participants are invited to build a connection with herbs and wild plants—not only as medicine for the body, but as teachers and elders that hold unique energetic signatures, offering emotional support and spiritual guidance. 

This session, led by Emily Galligan, includes an opening, grounding meditation; introduction to a plant, its tea, and its energetic and nourishing properties; a guided somatic meditation with the tea; reflection; and sharing. 

Please note: we will work with one single plant, chosen for safety and accessibility in addition to its gifts. If you have any concerns or medical/pharmaceutical contraindications, alternatives will be provided. You are also welcome to bring your own tea, but it is suggested that you work with a single plant rather than a blend.

* While mats and cushions are available, we recommend bringing any other comfort items you might need.

Please bring a journal or notebook for reflections.

The price of participation is on a sliding scale ($20–$40). 

About Emily
My grandmother always told me, “Whatever it is you want to do with your life, you’re already doing it.” So when I chose to pursue my master’s degree in environmental education, it wasn’t because I wanted to teach. It was because I remembered who I was as a young girl: nestled in the branches of a crabapple tree, barefoot in the stream, searching for salamanders, feeling completely at home in the natural world.

As I grew older, some part of me was always trying to find my way back to that feeling of belonging, yet the more I pursued the modern world’s version of success, the farther I drifted from it. After years of traveling and trying to find myself, I eventually returned to my roots: tending the land and my heart in tandem. And after nearly two decades of living on this island—growing my gardens, my children, and in many ways, myself—I began supporting others on their healing journeys. What I've learned from 15+ years of doing this work is that the greatest medicine is learning how to come home—to the earth, to our bodies, and to the inherent wisdom within.

I am a certified wellness coach, yoga teacher, womb-circle facilitator, and rites-of-passage mentor. My work is deeply rooted in earth-based spirituality and somatic healing practices. I am passionate about helping others reconnect with themselves through the wisdom of the body, the rhythms of nature, and that deeply felt sense of belonging.

Yoga with Mollie Doyle

Saturdays, 8 AM, June 27 through August 

*no classes on July 11 and August 15

Mollie’s classes focus on intelligent sequencing, linking breath to movement, and building a practice that brings consciousness, joy, and freedom into one's body and soul.

The cost of each class is $25. Register at mollieyoga.com

About Mollie
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Mollie Doyle has studied yoga for more than 25 years. She has practiced many forms of Hatha yoga (Iyengar, Ashtanga, Kripalu) with many masters: Sri K. Pattabi Jois, Richard Freeman, Richard Rosen, Kristin Leigh, and Barbara Verrochi. She is grateful to call her students—Colleen Saidman, Rodney Yee, and Heidi Fokine—her teachers. Mollie has more than 1,000 hours of training, is Yoga Shanti and Rodney Yee-certified, and is a member of Yoga Alliance, the registered yoga teachers' organization. She is also the founder of Yoga at The Yard, a founding member of the Yoga Collective @ Coho, and delighted to be teaching at Stillpoint MV. She teaches classes and workshops on Martha’s Vineyard (and wherever anyone puts their mat down), and is also a founding member of The Field Fund (www.fieldfundinc.org).

Date: Saturday, July 18, 2026

Time: 7–8 PM (doors open at 6:15 PM)

Location: Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center, Oak Bluffs

Get ready for the funniest evening of your summer!
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For ALL the details about this event, go to our dedicated Laughing Matters! web page HERE!

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