Shantigar Foundation
in Western Massachusetts
Arts
Meditation
Nature
Jean-Claude van Itallie, Founder
1936 - 2021
Jean-Claude van Itallie
Scholarship Fund
Moving Body: Finding Peace,
Making Space for Grief
a Continuum Peace Prayer Workshop with Megan Bathory-Peeler
Saturday, July 26, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Fee: Sliding scale of $30-$125
A portion of proceeds will benefit the Traprock Center for Peace & Justice
For registration and questions: Contact Megan Bathory-Peeler
Email: megan@somanautiko.com or call: 413.772.0078
Plan to arrive at 9:00 am to orient and transition without stress. Bring a picnic lunch, water bottle, journal and pen, layers of clothing, and blankets or mats for exploring outside.
Enjoy an inspirational day with personal nourishment on Shantigar’s glorious mountainside. Devote yourself to reconnecting with internal peace and creativity, sourced directly from your moving, breathing body.
This workshop is lovingly held by Continuum teacher and somanaut, Megan Bathory-Peeler. With sound, breath, movement, stillness, and silence, share a peace prayer process that emerged from the work of Megan’s Israeli colleague, Leela Shalem, who holds healing spaces for people living in the crossfire of wars. Through this process, it is possible for anyone to dive deep and connect with a sense of security, sanity, and peacefulness that is stable and untouched by surrounding noise. While resting in that space, an opening to grief and a rekindling of one’s inner light occurs. Gathering as community in these times of chaos and uncertainty, we can create islands of coherence and sanity, breathing life into a new vision of the future.
More information and registration:
Megan Bathory-Peeler is an expert somanaut, fully engaged by the moving inquiry of what it takes to thrive in a human body in the 21st century. Her unique Somanautiko approach synergistically weaves three decades of professional interdisciplinary study and practice as a teacher of Continuum, Certified Somatic Therapist/Educator, bodyworker, choreographer, performance artist, activist, and mother. Megan’s greatest pleasure comes from co-creating safe spaces that allow people of all ages to return home to themselves, reclaim the power of their own creativity, and find ease in the innate wisdom of their bodies.
