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Discover Centered Life
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Find Your Center
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About Us
A welcoming space for all
Centered Life is a contemplative arts center which hosts sensory immersion experiences in an indoor nature inspired sanctuary.
Relax, de-stress and find your peaceful center while nurturing your inner being with a visit to our tranquil sanctuary.
Learn more today about how finding your center can have lasting positive impact on your daily experience of life, enabling you to live with less stress, more peace and increased energy.
Centered Life Sanctuary
Nature inspired sensory immersion
Centered Life Sanctuary offers experiences which help people connect to and nurture their inner well-being. Through a variety of contemplative practices, including Meditation, Yoga and Mindful Art classes, we support wellness and creative expression. The tranquil atmosphere of the sanctuary invites you to find your peaceful center and then carry that peace with you back out into your daily life.
When faced with illness, stress, adversity or overwhelm in life, even the strongest person can become weary or exhausted. Finding sanctuary – a place of rest and reflection – can re-energize body and mind, leading to reduced stress, renewed focus and inspiration to find new ways of approaching the challenges of life.
Following are some of the experiences you can book at the Sanctuary. If you have questions or want to request more information, reach out to us at hello@discovercenteredlife.com
Community Admission
Enjoy a visit to the Sanctuary during our community admission hours from 11am-4pm on Saturdays. This is a great activity for individuals, friends or families looking for a fun and peaceful outing.
Nature Immersion
The Campfire Room provides warmth and comfort with optional heated neck wraps and a sparkling indoor “campfire”. Nature lovers enjoy the immersive meditative quality and beauty of our vibrant nature films.
Candlelight Admission
Enjoy a 2 hour evening visit on Thursday and Friday evenings. A wonderfully relaxing way to find peace in the serene and calming ambiance of the Sanctuary with candlelight throughout.
Contemplation Corner
Play chess, curl up with a good book or sit and write a letter at our vintage writing desk, stocked full of stationary supplies. This cozy room provides a restful space to help you clear your mind, reflect or express yourself.
Listening Room
Enjoy music the old fashioned way, on a vintage turntable. Sit back and simply relax, or choose from a variety of music and art related activities including mess-free water painting and more.
Healing Arts Room
Enjoy beautiful authentic hand-crafted Tibetan Singing Bowls and other instruments which can help resonate well-being, peace and calm. This room also offers painting & other mindfully creative activities.
Healing Arts Classes
Discover the beauty of Kinusaiga, a Japanese craft that turns fabric scraps into art and more. In these relaxing classes held in the Healing Arts Room of the Sanctuary, you are encouraged to get in touch with your inner creative.
Conversations in Sanctuary
Participate in meaningful conversations in a tranquil, stress-reducing environment. What do people in our community need? Let’s talk. The last Thursday of each month we hold space for meaningful conversations from 5-7PM. Light refreshments served.
Gift Shop
Centered Life’s Gift Shop, located in our Welcome Center, offers a variety of sustainable handmade cushions, including premium meditation & yoga cushions, healing support cushions, home goods, contemplative books, gifts and more.
Yoga
Gentle Yoga for beginners. This is a unique opportunity to learn restorative yoga in a convenient and tranquil environment overlooking Main Street. Offered weekly on Saturday afternoons from 4:30-5:45pm. Registration required.
Peaceful Practices
Learn practices centered around intentional stress relief and rest to nourish your body and soul. These evening mini retreats will help you find your peaceful center in our serene sanctuary and then carry that peace with you back out into your daily life.
Meditation
Meditation on Main is designed to help you take your seat and find your center. Connect with others and learn to meditate or deepen your practice in a supportive community environment. FREE Intro to Meditation is offered on the First Sundays of each month.
Sanctuary Visits – What to Expect
- Check your confirmation email for arrival time
- No outside footwear is permitted in the sanctuary; guests may bring socks or purchase a comfortable pair in our gift shop
- To ensure all guests can unplug and de-stress without distraction, use of personal electronics is permitted in the foyer only
- Street parking is available as well as a lot behind the building with additional municipal parking available nearby
Where you see this symbol expect an intuitive, embodied experience that celebrates the arts.
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Where you see this symbol expect a blend of art and science, providing an integrated learning experience. Move what you are learning from your head to your heart by engaging both mind and body.
Sustain your steadiness
Change is inevitable and turmoil sometimes can push us off balance. A centered life is not something we achieve once. Rather it’s a way of tapping into our innate resiliency to thrive regardless of circumstance. It’s returning to center over and over again, regardless of the challenge or crisis of the day.
Find community
The Centered Life Sanctuary is made possible by the cooperation of a team of people who offer their support, skill, insights and hard work. We are a diverse, intergenerational and nonpartisan group interested in making contemplative sanctuary available for individuals from all different backgrounds and life perspectives to enjoy. We are committed to holding respectful space for both secular and interfaith points of view, nurturing meaningful conversations and collaborating in support of common goals for the benefit of our community.
Here, no matter what you are going through in life, you will find open-hearted, compassionate community.
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Rest and relax
The Centered Life Sanctuary provides a peaceful, enriching environment in which you are invited to set your burdens down for a moment. This serene space, infused with elements of art, music and nature, can help reduce stress and refresh your inner being. No matter how turbulent or demanding your experience of the outer world might be, here you can just “be”. Rest. Be present. Be still. Be well.
Discover Centered Life
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Contact: hello@discovercenteredlife.com