Experience a transformative moving-meditation with Alyx Braunius. Beginning with meditation and mindful breathing; transitioning into a vinyasa-style practice, which emphasizes a seamless breath-to-movement flow, and concluding with intentional, deeper asanas (postures). Join us to alleviate stress, fostering balance and restoration for the body, mind, and soul through these rejuvenating relaxation practices. Suitable for beginners.

Bring your own mat

$15 suggested donation

Alyx is native of Otsego County, driven by a love for wellness and travel. She spent 5 weeks on a spiritual journey with her husband and immersed herself in the age-old traditions and rituals of yoga on Koh Phangan island in the Gulf of Thailand. Focusing on Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga.

Yoga inspires her to live mindfully, fostering strength, flexibility, fearlessness, and openness on and off the mat. Her classes offer a non-judgmental space for collective growth with love and compassion.

Trainings and Certifications:
Yoga Teacher, One Yoga, Koh Phangan, Thailand 2020
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York 2022

Join area teachers in a discussion on the impact of race in our schools and communities, based on the book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Dr. Waid will lead a conversation on how to navigate difficult discussions with students, families, and community members in a five sessions series starting Saturday April 18th through Saturday May 16th. The study group will meet in the lounge at The Gatehouse.

Teachers may contact the Catskill Regional Teacher Center to request a copy of the book. Non-teaching participants are asked to obtain their own copies.

About the book:

Tatum examines how racial identity develops for Black, White, and other students, and how those developmental processes shape peer groups, classroom climate, and academic engagement. She argues that avoiding conversations about race does not reduce tension; it prevents us from understanding our students' lived realities and from interrupting patterns of inequity in schools.

What participants will do:

Read and discuss selected chapters using guided protocols and reflection questions.

Explore how racial identity and systemic racism show up in daily school life (curriculum, discipline, relationships, expectations).

Examine current practices through an equity lens and identify barriers and opportunities for change.

Develop at least one actionable step to strengthen safety, connection, and voice for students across racial and ethnic groups.

Why this learning matters:

Patterns of self-segregation, opportunity gaps, and racialized outcomes remain a reality in schools across the country. This study offers research, language, and tools to help educators respond with courage and skill, moving beyond silence or defensiveness toward more intentional, identity-affirming practice.

About the facilitator:

Dr. Nicole Waid of SUNY Oneonta brings experience in teacher education and equity-focused practice and will support participants in creating a brave space for dialogue. She will model strategies for facilitating difficult conversations that educators can adapt for their own classrooms, teams, and communities.

Sacred Writing Circle: Dear Mother

In this Sacred Writing Circle, we’ll reflect on our mothers—biological, adoptive, chosen, spiritual, and more. Through guided meditations, creative writing exercises, and open-hearted sharing, we’ll co-create a supportive and generative space to write about the mothers in our lives: the mothers we have or had, the mothers we lost or found, the mothers we needed or still need. Rooted in personal storytelling and inspired by the world’s spiritual traditions, this Sacred Writing Circle is an invitation to sit with the range of experiences, emotions, and memories invoked by the phrase, “Dear Mother.”

This Sacred Writing Circle is facilitated by Gianluca Avanzato, a writer, artist, musician, and teacher from Oneonta, New York who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and a Diploma in Interreligious Studies. In his work, including 1:1 creativity coaching, Gianluca emphasizes process over product, transformation over transaction, and fluidity over forcefulness.

Everyone is welcome: no religious/spiritual affiliation nor creative writing experience necessary. A warm welcome to LGBTQIA+ folks as well as those who have felt left out or cast out by traditional religious institutions.

Please note: This Sacred Writing Circle is a gathering for creativity, connection, and conversation. This is not a therapy group and will not be facilitated as a clinical or therapeutic service.

Join us for a solo performance by John Houshmand, an innovative guitarist and composer known for his deeply expressive playing and bold improvisational style. A co-founder of the pioneering ensemble Laurasia, John brings decades of musical exploration to the stage.
Expect both introspective passages and bursts of creativity that show his guitar mastery in full bloom.

John is also a sculptor and designer who lives in the Catskills, where he leads a studio crafting large-scale, sculptural furniture from reclaimed American hardwoods.

All are welcome to this fiber enthusiast, knitting and crocheting group, new knitters included! Bring your fiber projects and get some inspiration from your fellow creatives!

End your week on a gentle note with a calming 90-minute meditation gathering at The Gatehouse. Whether you’re arriving frazzled, tired, or simply in need of a reset, this session is designed to help you unwind, reconnect with yourself and others, and step into the weekend feeling centered and refreshed.

No prior experience is necessary—each meditative and grounding practice will be simple, accessible, and fully guided.

Chairs will be provided, but feel free to bring your own meditation cushion or any items that help you feel comfortable.

Come as you are—all are welcome.

Experience a transformative moving-meditation with Alyx Braunius. Beginning with meditation and mindful breathing; transitioning into a vinyasa-style practice, which emphasizes a seamless breath-to-movement flow, and concluding with intentional, deeper asanas (postures). Join us to alleviate stress, fostering balance and restoration for the body, mind, and soul through these rejuvenating relaxation practices. Suitable for beginners.

Bring your own mat

$15 suggested donation

Alyx is native of Otsego County, driven by a love for wellness and travel. She spent 5 weeks on a spiritual journey with her husband and immersed herself in the age-old traditions and rituals of yoga on Koh Phangan island in the Gulf of Thailand. Focusing on Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga.

Yoga inspires her to live mindfully, fostering strength, flexibility, fearlessness, and openness on and off the mat. Her classes offer a non-judgmental space for collective growth with love and compassion.

Trainings and Certifications:
Yoga Teacher, One Yoga, Koh Phangan, Thailand 2020
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York 2022

Local herbalist and herb farmer, AC Hill is back at The Gatehouse for our first plant walk of the season!

Meet at the shop to grab a delicious beverage and meet the fellow plant walkers before embarking on a journey around the block to discover the plants that are popping this spring. We will likely see some edible spring greens that can make a delicious stir fry or frittata such as nettle, dandelion, chickweed, cleavers, garlic mustard, and more. Perhaps some spring flowers will be making a show for us.

AC will share her stories and knowledge about the plants medicinal and edible uses, and help you to be able to recognize it again in your own yard. If you love to learn about plants or share your own knowledge about them, please join AC and The Gatehouse crew for this fun and interactive experience.

Dress for the weather, if it's raining we can take a shorter walk, gathering some plants along the way and bring them back to The Gatehouse to discuss further in the dry space.

This is a sliding scale $10-$20 donation based class, no one turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF)

AC Hill (she/her) is an herbalist, farmer, and teacher growing herbs to make into herbal remedies at her small herb farm in West Edmeston, NY about 25 minutes from the Gatehouse. She sells her high quality herbal products at the Cooperstown Farmers market every Saturday under the name Traveling Herb Farmer. AC loves teaching hand on medicine making classes, leading plant walks and running her online herb school, The Actaea Institute of Herbal Medicine and Aromatherapy which offers some online workshops as well as an 8 month diploma program. She and her husband Isaac Hill host the Plant Cunning Podcast where they have interviewed some of the most influential herbalists, gardeners and spiritual practitioners in the world. They have an in-person conference at their farm July 24-26, 2026 called the Plant Cunning Conference. Visit PlantCunningConference.com to learn more about that and TravelingHerbFarmer.com for product info.

Experience a transformative moving-meditation with Alyx Braunius. Beginning with meditation and mindful breathing; transitioning into a vinyasa-style practice, which emphasizes a seamless breath-to-movement flow, and concluding with intentional, deeper asanas (postures). Join us to alleviate stress, fostering balance and restoration for the body, mind, and soul through these rejuvenating relaxation practices. Suitable for beginners.

Bring your own mat

$15 suggested donation

Alyx is native of Otsego County, driven by a love for wellness and travel. She spent 5 weeks on a spiritual journey with her husband and immersed herself in the age-old traditions and rituals of yoga on Koh Phangan island in the Gulf of Thailand. Focusing on Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga.

Yoga inspires her to live mindfully, fostering strength, flexibility, fearlessness, and openness on and off the mat. Her classes offer a non-judgmental space for collective growth with love and compassion.

Trainings and Certifications:
Yoga Teacher, One Yoga, Koh Phangan, Thailand 2020
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York 2022

Join area teachers in a discussion on the impact of race in our schools and communities, based on the book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Dr. Waid will lead a conversation on how to navigate difficult discussions with students, families, and community members in a five sessions series starting Saturday April 18th through Saturday May 16th. The study group will meet in the lounge at The Gatehouse.

Teachers may contact the Catskill Regional Teacher Center to request a copy of the book. Non-teaching participants are asked to obtain their own copies.

About the book:

Tatum examines how racial identity develops for Black, White, and other students, and how those developmental processes shape peer groups, classroom climate, and academic engagement. She argues that avoiding conversations about race does not reduce tension; it prevents us from understanding our students' lived realities and from interrupting patterns of inequity in schools.

What participants will do:

Read and discuss selected chapters using guided protocols and reflection questions.

Explore how racial identity and systemic racism show up in daily school life (curriculum, discipline, relationships, expectations).

Examine current practices through an equity lens and identify barriers and opportunities for change.

Develop at least one actionable step to strengthen safety, connection, and voice for students across racial and ethnic groups.

Why this learning matters:

Patterns of self-segregation, opportunity gaps, and racialized outcomes remain a reality in schools across the country. This study offers research, language, and tools to help educators respond with courage and skill, moving beyond silence or defensiveness toward more intentional, identity-affirming practice.

About the facilitator:

Dr. Nicole Waid of SUNY Oneonta brings experience in teacher education and equity-focused practice and will support participants in creating a brave space for dialogue. She will model strategies for facilitating difficult conversations that educators can adapt for their own classrooms, teams, and communities.

Join us at The Gatehouse for an intimate afternoon of timeless songs and classic charm with The Turnaround.

Emily Falco will be joined by her father, Gerry Falco on piano, along with Chris Wolf-Gould on bass, for a beautifully stripped-back set of voice, piano, and bass—perfect for a cozy Sunday afternoon.

Emily and Gerry are known for their pop-up style performances of favorites and lesser-known gems from the Great American Songbook, blending elegance, wit, and old-school sophistication. Based in beautiful Oneonta, their sound feels right at home in The Gatehouse’s warm and welcoming atmosphere.

Settle in with a coffee, enjoy the music, and spend your Sunday afternoon with classics that never go out of style.

All are welcome to this fiber enthusiast, knitting and crocheting group, new knitters included! Bring your fiber projects and get some inspiration from your fellow creatives!

Experience a transformative moving-meditation with Alyx Braunius. Beginning with meditation and mindful breathing; transitioning into a vinyasa-style practice, which emphasizes a seamless breath-to-movement flow, and concluding with intentional, deeper asanas (postures). Join us to alleviate stress, fostering balance and restoration for the body, mind, and soul through these rejuvenating relaxation practices. Suitable for beginners.

Bring your own mat

$15 suggested donation

Alyx is native of Otsego County, driven by a love for wellness and travel. She spent 5 weeks on a spiritual journey with her husband and immersed herself in the age-old traditions and rituals of yoga on Koh Phangan island in the Gulf of Thailand. Focusing on Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga.

Yoga inspires her to live mindfully, fostering strength, flexibility, fearlessness, and openness on and off the mat. Her classes offer a non-judgmental space for collective growth with love and compassion.

Trainings and Certifications:
Yoga Teacher, One Yoga, Koh Phangan, Thailand 2020
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York 2022

Experience a transformative moving-meditation with Alyx Braunius. Beginning with meditation and mindful breathing; transitioning into a vinyasa-style practice, which emphasizes a seamless breath-to-movement flow, and concluding with intentional, deeper asanas (postures). Join us to alleviate stress, fostering balance and restoration for the body, mind, and soul through these rejuvenating relaxation practices. Suitable for beginners.

Bring your own mat

$15 suggested donation

Alyx is native of Otsego County, driven by a love for wellness and travel. She spent 5 weeks on a spiritual journey with her husband and immersed herself in the age-old traditions and rituals of yoga on Koh Phangan island in the Gulf of Thailand. Focusing on Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga.

Yoga inspires her to live mindfully, fostering strength, flexibility, fearlessness, and openness on and off the mat. Her classes offer a non-judgmental space for collective growth with love and compassion.

Trainings and Certifications:
Yoga Teacher, One Yoga, Koh Phangan, Thailand 2020
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York 2022

Lyrical Sounds: An Offering of Poetry and Contrabass is a dynamic, collaborative performance where music and poetry unfold together in real time. As a poem is read, bassist Evan Jagels responds intuitively—layering tone, rhythm, and movement beneath the words, echoing their emotion and shaping the atmosphere in the moment. The result is a conversation between sound and language, where no two performances are ever quite the same.

Poets from the Bright Hill Press and Literary Center in Treadwell, NY will be reading, including Bright Hill founder, Bertha Rogers.  A longstanding force in the regional literary community, Bright Hill has fostered generations of writers and continues to be a vibrant space for creative expression.

Evan Jagels is a versatile upright and electric bassist, producer, educator, and Recording Academy voting member whose career has taken him from Carnegie Hall to international stages. He has performed alongside acclaimed artists including Ray Vega, Antonio Hart, and four-time Grammy-winning cellist Eugene Friesen, and recorded with a wide range of influential musicians across genres.

Join us Friday, May 22 from 4–6 PM for this immersive performance celebrating the natural interplay between spoken word and live music.

The Gatehouse and The Morris Village Library present: Lattes & Literature. If you love to read and love to talk about what you’re reading, join our book discussion group! Come tell us about what you are reading and get some reading recommendations from your bookish neighbors! Bring your book and stay to read after the discussion.

Join us for a cozy evening of live music, poetry, comedy, and more, hosted by the one and only Khalil Jade! Performers can sign up when they arrive (first-come, first-served).

Grab a coffee, enjoy the show, or take the stage yourself—see you there!

Join us for some live music with local musician Andrew Carrington!

Andrew has been making music since childhood, picking up instruments like guitar, trumpet, piano, violin, and bass along the way. In recent years he’s turned his focus to songwriting, quickly building an impressive catalog of heartfelt, lyrically rich originals. Influenced by artists like Jeff Tweedy, Ryan Adams, Luna, and Mark Kozelek, Andrew brings a warm, soulful sound that’s all his own.

Come relax, listen, and support a young artist creating something genuine right here in our community.

All are welcome to this fiber enthusiast, knitting and crocheting group, new knitters included! Bring your fiber projects and get some inspiration from your fellow creatives!

End your week on a gentle note with a calming 90-minute meditation gathering at The Gatehouse. Whether you’re arriving frazzled, tired, or simply in need of a reset, this session is designed to help you unwind, reconnect with yourself and others, and step into the weekend feeling centered and refreshed.

No prior experience is necessary—each meditative and grounding practice will be simple, accessible, and fully guided.

Chairs will be provided, but feel free to bring your own meditation cushion or any items that help you feel comfortable.

Come as you are—all are welcome.

Join us for a plant sale hosted by Roaming Roots Farm!

Get your garden growing with a beautiful selection of healthy, locally grown plant starts—perfect for your summer planting. Swing by, sip a coffee, and pick out everything you need to bring your garden to life.

Support local. Grow something good. See you there!

Experience a transformative moving-meditation with Alyx Braunius. Beginning with meditation and mindful breathing; transitioning into a vinyasa-style practice, which emphasizes a seamless breath-to-movement flow, and concluding with intentional, deeper asanas (postures). Join us to alleviate stress, fostering balance and restoration for the body, mind, and soul through these rejuvenating relaxation practices. Suitable for beginners.

Bring your own mat

$15 suggested donation

Alyx is native of Otsego County, driven by a love for wellness and travel. She spent 5 weeks on a spiritual journey with her husband and immersed herself in the age-old traditions and rituals of yoga on Koh Phangan island in the Gulf of Thailand. Focusing on Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga.

Yoga inspires her to live mindfully, fostering strength, flexibility, fearlessness, and openness on and off the mat. Her classes offer a non-judgmental space for collective growth with love and compassion.

Trainings and Certifications:
Yoga Teacher, One Yoga, Koh Phangan, Thailand 2020
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York 2022

Experience a transformative moving-meditation with Alyx Braunius. Beginning with meditation and mindful breathing; transitioning into a vinyasa-style practice, which emphasizes a seamless breath-to-movement flow, and concluding with intentional, deeper asanas (postures). Join us to alleviate stress, fostering balance and restoration for the body, mind, and soul through these rejuvenating relaxation practices. Suitable for beginners.

Bring your own mat

$15 suggested donation

Alyx is native of Otsego County, driven by a love for wellness and travel. She spent 5 weeks on a spiritual journey with her husband and immersed herself in the age-old traditions and rituals of yoga on Koh Phangan island in the Gulf of Thailand. Focusing on Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga.

Yoga inspires her to live mindfully, fostering strength, flexibility, fearlessness, and openness on and off the mat. Her classes offer a non-judgmental space for collective growth with love and compassion.

Trainings and Certifications:
Yoga Teacher, One Yoga, Koh Phangan, Thailand 2020
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York 2022

Turn your jeans into wearable art! Got a pair of jeans that could use a little personality? Bring them along and give them a creative makeover.

Join Tracie Martinetti for a fun and relaxed afternoon where she will guide you to paint, doodle, embellish, and decorate denim until it becomes something completely unique. Think flowers, patterns, patches, sparkle, or whatever your imagination dreams up.

Bring: A pair of jeans you’d like to transform. When selecting jeans… the paints work best on lighter colored or white jeans.

We provide: Fabric paints, embellishments, and creative inspiration.

Come get a little creative, laugh a lot, and leave with a pair of jeans that are completely one-of-a-kind… your very own wearable art.

No artistic experience needed — just bring your jeans and a sense of fun. $35 per person.

Mingle & Meet baby goats from "NY Goat Yoga" this spring! Family friendly. The goats will be mingling in the courtyard next to The Gatehouse.

Join us for an afternoon of music with Mike Herman at The Gatehouse!

Mike Herman is a North Country Blues musician from Schoharie County in the Northern Catskills. Mike's songs have a real down home, danceable quality to them. His rural tinged lyrics, bouncy melodies and solid fingerpicked guitar, reflects his deep Piedmont Blues influences and the love he has for the Country Blues. Along with tasty guitar lines, the addition of bittersweet vocals round out his songs nicely.

All are welcome to this fiber enthusiast, knitting and crocheting group, new knitters included! Bring your fiber projects and get some inspiration from your fellow creatives!

Experience a transformative moving-meditation with Alyx Braunius. Beginning with meditation and mindful breathing; transitioning into a vinyasa-style practice, which emphasizes a seamless breath-to-movement flow, and concluding with intentional, deeper asanas (postures). Join us to alleviate stress, fostering balance and restoration for the body, mind, and soul through these rejuvenating relaxation practices. Suitable for beginners.

Bring your own mat

$15 suggested donation

Alyx is native of Otsego County, driven by a love for wellness and travel. She spent 5 weeks on a spiritual journey with her husband and immersed herself in the age-old traditions and rituals of yoga on Koh Phangan island in the Gulf of Thailand. Focusing on Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga.

Yoga inspires her to live mindfully, fostering strength, flexibility, fearlessness, and openness on and off the mat. Her classes offer a non-judgmental space for collective growth with love and compassion.

Trainings and Certifications:
Yoga Teacher, One Yoga, Koh Phangan, Thailand 2020
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York 2022

Experience a transformative moving-meditation with Alyx Braunius. Beginning with meditation and mindful breathing; transitioning into a vinyasa-style practice, which emphasizes a seamless breath-to-movement flow, and concluding with intentional, deeper asanas (postures). Join us to alleviate stress, fostering balance and restoration for the body, mind, and soul through these rejuvenating relaxation practices. Suitable for beginners.

Bring your own mat

$15 suggested donation

Alyx is native of Otsego County, driven by a love for wellness and travel. She spent 5 weeks on a spiritual journey with her husband and immersed herself in the age-old traditions and rituals of yoga on Koh Phangan island in the Gulf of Thailand. Focusing on Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga.

Yoga inspires her to live mindfully, fostering strength, flexibility, fearlessness, and openness on and off the mat. Her classes offer a non-judgmental space for collective growth with love and compassion.

Trainings and Certifications:
Yoga Teacher, One Yoga, Koh Phangan, Thailand 2020
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, New York 2022

All are welcome to this fiber enthusiast, knitting and crocheting group, new knitters included! Bring your fiber projects and get some inspiration from your fellow creatives!