FARMINGTON – To start this new year off right, a couple of yoga experts are offering you a chance to do just that.
Classes have started back up at Source 365 Living Arts Center with an added instructor and a new studio. An open house is set for Saturday, Jan. 14, from noon to 4 p.m. Yoga and Thai Yoga massage demonstrations along with a bake sale, raffles and more fun will be open to the public.
Sara Mulvey opened the center in 2005 after graduating from the University of Maine at Farmington with a bachelor’s degree in Community Health Education. While at UMF, she taught yoga classes at the fitness center to a growing and enthusiastic enrollment of college students as well as community members at the quiet hour of 6 a.m.
She moved her yoga classes and massage treatments to a colonial clapboard house on Clover Mill Road, calling it Source 365 Living Arts Center. The living arts activities, with the help of Joe Hodgkins of neighboring Temple, has included starting this area’s community supported agriculture, a consumer partnership with farm producers.
In 2008, a beautiful round gazebo for summer yoga classes was completed at the center. Unfortunately, at the same time, the economy began its historic downturn and Mulvey’s students and her massage-loving patrons began cutting back on class time and sessions in order to save.
Mulvey responded by entering the nursing program at the University of Maine at Fort Kent and after a few years more of schooling she recently graduated with a nursing degree. She is employed at Franklin Memorial Hospital in the pediatrics department and works part time at UMF’s heath center.
“I love it,” Mulvey said of her new career. Her love of yoga never left her and, coupled with former students asking about taking classes again, she decided to team up with another Sarah and reopen the center to daily classes and treatments.
Sarah Daigle is an experienced teacher of six years from Rhode Island Mulvey met at an intensive yoga certification class in 2005 held in the Berkshires. Daigle teaches yoga, is a Thai yoga massage therapist and Reiki master teacher.
“We have the same vision, so I moved up here in September,” Daigle said. That vision includes daily yoga classes massage and meditation, all good for the mind and body. Classes vary from three to 15 students attending classes held in the summer at the gazebo. Now that’s it’s winter, a newly renovated spacious studio upstairs is open for classes.
“People need it more than ever,” Daigle said of life’s stresses. “It really helps on so many levels.” Beginners are advised to take a smaller class so individual attention is available. The pair is planning to host cooking lessons with a local experienced chef who also happens to be named Sarah. In the meantime, all kinds of classes, from beginner to experienced, are just beginning.
“This is a good time to start,” Mulvey said for new students who want a happier new year.
Those ladies are wonderful. I recommend everyone go and check this out!
Meeting Sara M (and later Sarah D) and going for yoga lessons weekly along with my wife has been a wonderful experience for both of us. The yoga is tailored to your ability level and for me has made a big difference in my back pain….and it’s good for peace of mind as well. I too highly recommend Source 365 as a go to place for refreshing your body, mind, and spirit. Thanks to both Sara’s for creating an unique source of well being.
The Source is an amazing place to find some peace in this busy world filled with texting, computers screens and no time for stillness. No matter your age, shape, size, gender or fitness level, The Source is a place to find acceptance and community. No need to worry about feeling out of shape or not “up to par” as you might in a gym..don’t be fearful if you are a beginner and no nothing about yoga..you will be welcomed with open arms and hearts!! I have been going to Source for the past 3 years and cannot imagine life without it!! Come join the fun!!
I have practiced yoga with many different instructors but the passion and the knowledge that Sara and Sarah bring to their classes is PHENOMENAL!! They are full of positive energy and it spills over to you when you practice with them. In a nutshell, you enter Source 365 usually carrying stress and tension. When you exit, you feel renewed and energized :o) Who wouldn’t want to experience more positive influence in their life???
Go to THE SOURCE.
Nice. I think my friend Fred Norris said that is a good place.
Sara congrats…..when are the classes I am very interested in coming ;) you rock gurl
Thanks everyone for the sweet comments!
We have a special offer going on right now for new students. $10 for as many classes as you want to take for 10 days!
You don’t want to miss that! Even if you just take one class in those 10 days you still saved $5.
We have a newsletter if you want to get special offers and info about our upcoming events. Go to the first page of our website, there is a little email box that you can put your data in to get our emails!
Scheduling, pricing, descriptions, workshop and bodywork are all on the website.
source365livingarts.com
Thanks everyone!!
Where exactly is the Source Center. I am not familiar with it.
http://www.source365livingarts.com/contact-us.html
So glad to hear Source 360 is up and running. Sara M. is a fabulous yoga instructor!
It’s great the the Source is up and running again! These are wonderful, amazing, talented women with incredible energy! They can help you get where you need to be physically and emotionally through their work and instruction. The Source is a warm and friendly atmosphere– welcoming to anyone.