Thursdays 5:30 to 6:30

Saturdays 10:30 – 11:45

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.

Fridays, 9 AM

June 5 through August 28

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.

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.  

David Behnke (baritone) and David Rhoderick (piano), in conjunction with the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, will be presenting a lieder concert, Simply Schumann, on Saturday, June 6, at 3 p.m. The program consists of Schumann’s Liederkreis, Op. 24, and his Liederkreis, Op. 39.

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This program represents the culmination of the Davids’ exploration of the great German, nineteenth-century song cycles. Previous concerts have included Schumann’s monumental Dichterliebe, as well as Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise.​

Both of the Liederkreis were written in 1840, a year in which Schumann devoted himself exclusively to song composition and which resulted in all of his major song cycles. Opus 24 was the first composition in this astonishingly creative outburst, and Opus 39, which came toward the end of the period, is considered one of the great masterpieces of the genre. The texts for both song cycles epitomize the Romantic Era’s focus on the natural landscape and its near obsession with the ecstasy of love.

Tickets are available at the door only. A donation of $20 is suggested, with all proceeds going to support the MVCMS’s year-round educational programming. ​

David Behnke is a graduate of the master’s-degree opera program at the Yale School of Music. He subsequently received a fellowship for study at the Paris Conservatory, was a winner of the Boston Opera Company Young Artist Auditions, performed as a resident artist with the Tri Cities Opera Company, and has sung with music festivals throughout New England. After a 30-year hiatus on Wall Street, he has been a frequent performer on Martha’s Vineyard, in repertoire spanning opera oratorio, art song, and Broadway. Most recently he was a featured soloist in Ariel Ramirez’s Misa Criolla and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical Songs with the Island Community Chorus.

Dynamic Aging

Sundays 9:30 – 10:30am

June 7th, 14th, and 28th

$120

In this 3 class movement series, we will mobilize our joints, address postural weaknesses, and focus on balance, breath, and feet. 
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Class is performed barefoot, and mats and props provided. 
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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).

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

Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9 – 10:30am

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 to 12:30

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. The practice also helps to calm the mind as it invigorates the body and builds a connection to the earth.

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).

What’s Written Within is an improvisational dance group that came together on the Island twelve years ago. Dance improvisation is a practice. People of all ages, of all ranges of experience with dance—or perhaps never having danced before—coming together to move with their unique body, with their unique story of what’s written within. Beginning with a gentle group warm-up, the hour will progress to loosely structured improvisations guided by prompts. Sound will be improvised by Bruce MacNelly.

About Sandy, the group’s facilitator

Sandy Broyard began exploring dance improvisation many years ago, with Mary Wigman in Berlin, Germany. Later she spent time with Group Motion in Philadelphia. She continued her journey discovering the body in motion, with Jack Weiner in New York. Sandy sees her role as a facilitator rather than teacher or director. She invites you to come and explore the possibilities, the fun, the surprises of dance that erupts in the moment.

Drop-ins welcome

Suggested donation: $10

For questions, please email [email protected]

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

6 PM

In this free lecture, Alessandro (Alex) Bocconcelli, oceanographer emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and founder of Centinela Patagonia, in Chile, will talk about his experience in Chilean Patagonia.

Since 2014 he has been working in the Chiloense region and on the Guaitecas islands of northern Chile, studying marine mammals and the impacts of the booming industrial salmon farming there. He will also talk about an educational/outreach program started by Centinela Patagonia in the rural schools of the Desertores Islands.

About Alex

Alessandro (Alex) Bocconcelli has been at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) since 1985, beginning as a summer student and then joining the Ocean Structures and Moorings Laboratory, as an engineer. Subsequently, for seven years he worked as director of operations for the Center for Marine Science Research at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Upon returning to WHOI, he worked as a research specialist for the Digital Acoustic Recording Tag (DTAG) Laboratory. His experience with tagging marine mammals includes working with the Watkins/Tyack Laboratory and with Mark Johnson at WHOI. 

Alex has authored and co-authored more than 50 technical papers and presented them worldwide. He is a member of the Marine Technology Society, the Society for Marine Mammalogy, and the European Cetacean Society. He has served on the board of trustees for the Masonboro Island Society and the Friends School of Wilmington, North Carolina. 

Alex is a graduate of the Merchant Marine Technical Institute in Camogli, Italy, and has undergraduate and graduate degrees in ocean engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has sailed in the Merchant Marine, as deck officer and captain, and has participated in more than 100 research cruises, as project engineer, chief scientist, or captain of the research vessel. In Italy, he is also a guest investigator at the CIMA Research Foundation in Savona, and at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dhorn in Naples. 

His research interests include marine mammal behavior (specifically tagging and the impacts of noise), fisheries technology and engineering, mariculture, the dynamics of moored and towed arrays, underwater sensor packages, surface and sub-surface mooring systems, data telemetry from oceanographic moorings, electromechanical cables and terminations, and marine operations with research vessels.

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.

Saturday, June 13, 2026

9:30–11 AM

Led by Island photographer Melissa Knowles, this workshop invites participants to slow down, look closely, and engage the world with greater presence—through observation, mindfulness, and image-making.
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​Using guided exercises in perception and contemplative practice, participants will explore both the science of sight and more intuitive ways of seeing. Accessible photography instruction will be blended with reflective and creative approaches that encourage attention, curiosity, and intentionality.

​Participants will be invited to notice what is often overlooked: light, texture, gesture, atmosphere, memory, and the emotional resonance of place and people. Through this process, photography becomes not only a tool for documentation but a practice of awareness and connection.
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​No prior photography experience is required, and cameras and lenses are provided. The price of this workshop is $25 per person.
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​About Melissa

Melissa Blythe Knowles is an artist, educator, and creative-care practitioner whose practice brings practical, emotional, creative, and spiritual support into everyday life—meeting people where they are, across experiences of living, illness, and grief. More information can be found at www.melissa-knowles.com.
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​At the heart of her approach is an attention to how we hold what matters—with people, materials, memory, image, and place. Her practice moves through photography, her publishing imprint Anima Press, teaching, material handwork, and creative companionship, with a simple, quiet sensitivity.
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​Her path has been shaped by both professional and lived experience across arts in health, education, advocacy, end-of-life care, and grief support—but most especially by the people she has loved and learned from, including her late partner, musician Geordie Gude, who encouraged her in the art of helping others feel deeply seen and heard through creativity.
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​Melissa’s studies with John Diamond, M.D., profoundly shaped her understanding of photography and perception. Through his teachings, she came to understand photography not simply as image-making, but as a relational and healing practice—a way of looking “beyond the obvious,” toward a deeper awareness of life, relationship, and spirit.
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Join author Lara O’Brien in celebrating the launch of her book The Power of the Prompt. She will sit in conversation with author and Martha’s Vineyard Times features managing editor Nicole Galland, to discuss writing, workshops, and creative community spirit, from Martha’s Vineyard to Ireland. Island-raised musician Violet Southwick will also perform, on violin and cello. 

The Power of the Prompt, a memoir and writing guide created by Ms. O’Brien along with writers from Howth Writing Workshops, will be published by Hooks & Reels Press. Blending memoir guides, writing prompts, and polished stories, the book celebrates the creative spirit and storytelling culture of Howth, Dublin, and explores how a local writing workshop became a vibrant literary community. 

Told through the lens of the Celtic calendar and the coastal landscape of Howth, The Power of the Prompt highlights the transformative role of creativity, shared storytelling, and supportive writing spaces. The book demonstrates how simple writing prompts can unlock powerful personal stories and how collective creative spaces nurture emerging writers. The book is for people who are curious about writing, writers, creatives, facilitators, teachers, and community-builders.

About Lara

Lara O’Brien, who lived on Martha’s Vineyard from 2004 to 2019, is the founder of Howth Writing Workshops and Retreats, which she runs in Howth, Ireland. She also cohosts at Europe’s number-one yoga retreat in Cadiz, Spain (Suryalila.com), holds writing workshops on the island of Vinalhaven in Maine, and is the founder of Hooks & Reels literary and musical events. 

Working with a diverse group of writers, Lara expertly guides participants through the creative process, from prompt-based writing sessions to live literary performances and community events. Her work focuses on creating welcoming and safe spaces where writers of all backgrounds can develop their voice, share stories, and contribute to enriching their community.
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Visit her website: laraobrien.com
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​Event runs from 3 – 5pm.

Join sound practitioner Priscilla Warner and her friend and collaborator, Alison Leipzig, for a transformative sound bath unlike any other!

In this special session, these two trained sound healers—who not only studied, but also perform, together—combine their gifts to create a deeply immersive experience. Participants will have the rare opportunity to receive hands-on sound healing when Priscilla and Alison lay sound bowls directly on the body, enhancing the vibrational impact.

This powerful collaboration offers a richer, fuller, energetic journey—one that resonates deeply within the body, mind, and spirit.

Come prepared to relax, receive, and be restored.

* While mats and blankets are available if needed, we recommend bringing your own, along with any other comfort items you might need.

Priscilla Warner is a New York Times-bestselling author whose books have addressed healing from trauma through interfaith dialogue, mindfulness, EMDR, and somatic experiencing. While quarantining during the Covid pandemic, Priscilla became a certified sound healer, and for the last six years she’s played antique and contemporary Himalayan bowls for individuals and groups dealing with trauma, loss, illness, and the everyday challenges we all face.

Read Priscilla’s essay on sound healing to learn more.

Alison Leipzig is a New York City–based sound healer, trainer, and creative entrepreneur. As co-founder of the internationally recognized Soul Camp, her work has been featured in O (the Oprah magazine), Forbes, and Good Morning America. She now leads transformative sound experiences and trains facilitators in the practice of sound and vibrational healing, helping individuals and organizations restore balance, clarity, and connection through the power of sound and frequency.

Both Priscilla and Alison trained at the Singing Bowl and Sound Institute of New York. They can be contacted for individual sessions.

A workshop for health professionals.

Read more and register here:

https://tinyurl.com/forhealthprofessionals

Tues, June 16, 2026

1:00–4:00pm

Registration Fee: $150

ARE YOU A NURSE, COUNSELOR, EMT, MEDICAL ASSISTANT, THERAPIST, DOCTOR, PA, MIDWIFE, DOULA, OR OTHER PROVIDER?

Learn and Discuss:

·      How your body and mind are impacted by chronic stress and trauma exposure.

·      Immediately useful strategies for self-regulation.

·      Developing a systemic approach to a systemic problem.

Presenters:

Dr. Melody Blass, PhD, Clinical Psychologist

Michelle L’Esperance Muñoz, CPM, Midwife and Doula

The Rasa String Quartet explores the musical space where classical and folk traditions intersect and influence one another. Formed in 2019, the Boston-based ensemble brings together violinists Emma Powell and Maura Shawn Scanlin, violist Kiyoshi Hayashi, and cellist Mina Kim, who are graduates of the New England Conservatory, the Shepherd School of Music, and Yale University.

They’ve earned top prizes at competitions including those of Chamber Music in Yellow Springs and the Associazione Europea di Musica e Comunicazione (Italy), and have performed at events like the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, the Celebrity Series of Boston, Rockport Music, and Newport Classical. Collaborators include renowned artists like Maeve Gilchrist, Liz Carroll, and Judy Collins.

Through performances, residencies, and collaborations across the country, Rasa delivers fresh, engaging programs that blend classical elegance with folk charm, celebrate global musical roots, and highlight underrepresented composers.

Takes place on 4th Saturdays, June 27 through Fall 2026

7–8:30 PM

*exceptions: August is 5th Saturday, October is 2nd Saturday

Partner/line/fun dancing! Dance steps will be taught.

Please join us for this once-monthly dance event brought to you by the Martha’s Vineyard ballroom dance group, PathwaysARTS, and Stillpoint. There will be a short dance lesson to start, followed by dancing to music provided by DJ Keren Tonnesen (from PathwaysARTS) and friends. People of all ages, and drop-ins, are welcome. No experience is required. Please wear comfortable shoes. Come with or without a partner.

COME DANCE WITH US!

The suggested donation for each of these gatherings is $10.



DROP-INS ARE WELCOME!

If you are interested in learning more, professional dance teacher Ellen Brodsky (from Falmouth) will be teaching one Saturday a month at one of the Island libraries: June 27 (West Tisbury Library, 1 p.m.), July 25 (Chilmark Library, 3 p.m.), August 29 (Vineyard Haven Library, 3 p.m.), September 26 (Aquinnah Library, 3 p.m.), October 24 (Oak Bluffs Library, 3 p.m.), and November 14 (second Saturday, Edgartown Library, 3 p.m.).

About the dancers
The Martha’s Vineyard ballroom dance group—a bunch of dance-happy amateurs and volunteers—has been meeting and dancing together for more than 30 years. We are delighted to have Ellen Brodsky bring her expertise to dance classes at the six Island libraries. PathwaysARTS is the wonderful Chilmark venue for music, dance, and more, active mostly in the off-season months. Stillpoint is providing this beautiful space to dance in, as well as being our collaborator. Thank you to all!