Berkshire Yoga Dance & Fitness

A new Sunday morning class is coming this fall! 🍂

We’re so happy to share that beginning this weekend, Mary Yarmosky { } will be bringing even more of her warmth, wisdom, and light to our schedule with Gentle Yoga every Sunday at 9:15am! 🙏🏻

Mary has been an important part of the BYDF family for years, and we’re so grateful to have her on our teaching team and woven into our community. Many of you already know and love her from Wednesday Yin & Restore at 5:30pm (don’t worry ~ that’s continuing!), or perhaps you know Mary from her years as an educator, as mom to four beautiful quadruplet daughters, or through her family’s Yarmosky Pediatric Dentistry practice.

However you know her, here’s another chance to spend a little more time with this beautiful soul. ✨

A lifelong lover of movement and teacher at heart, Mary taught everything from aerobics and strength to spinning before finding her way more deeply into yoga and completing her yoga teacher training at Kripalu { }.

In Gentle Yoga, Mary creates a warm, supportive space to slow down, reconnect with your body, and move in a way that feels good for you. With a thoughtful focus on alignment and plenty of options, she encourages students to listen inward and honor what they need that day. Whether you’re brand new to yoga or have been practicing for years, you’ll be welcomed just as you are. 💫

NEW! Gentle Yoga with Mary
🗓️ Sundays
🕤 9:15 AM
📍 In-Studio | Online

✨ Pre-registration required | Space is limited

Register through the Book Your Next Class link in our bio or at berkshireyogadancefitness.com/schedule

We’re so grateful to have Mary expanding her teaching offerings this fall, and we know you’re going to love spending Sunday mornings with her. 🤍

🌿 Fresh air, mindful movement & beautiful Berkshire views.

Here are a few sweet moments from last month’s Mindful Member Hike at Basin Pond in Lee with Cori { }. There’s something so special about stepping outside the studio, slowing down, connecting with nature, and enjoying some of the beautiful places we’re lucky to call home ~ together🤍

Ready for our next adventure? 🥾

This Saturday, September 12th, Amanda { } will be leading our next Mindful Member Hike at Greylock Glen in Adams!

📅 Saturday, September 12th
📍 Greylock Glen, Adams
🫶 Complimentary for BYDF Members

Our Mindful Member Hikes are a wonderful opportunity to take your practice beyond the studio, explore the beauty of the Berkshires, and enjoy some time together outside the studio.

A special thank you to Berkshire Natural Resources Council { } and Greylock Glen { } for welcoming our community onto your beautiful trails and helping make experiences like these possible! 🌿🙏

✨ Pre-registration required | Space is limited

Register through the Upcoming Events link in our bio or below:
https://berkshireyogadancefitness.com/events

..and save the date for our final Mindful Member Hike of the season:

🍂 Saturday, October 10th • 1:00 PM
🥾 The Boulders in Dalton
🌿 Led by Victoria Ehrich { }

We’d love to have you join us! 🤍

✨ You wanted it, you got it… more Pilates is coming your way this fall!

We’ve heard how much you’re loving Pilates at BYDF, and we’re so excited to continue growing our Pilates programming with three new class times on our Fall Schedule!

🌿 Tuesdays • 10:30 AM with Tricia
🌿 Thursdays • 5:30 PM with Julie
🌿 Sundays • 4:15 PM with Evelyn

We’re especially excited to celebrate Julie (pictured here!) and Evelyn , who have both recently completed their Pilates certifications! 🎉

Julie has been part of the BYDF family since the very beginning, sharing her energy and talents through so many different classes over the years. Many of you already know and love her from Candlelight Yoga on Tuesdays at 6:45 PM, and we’re thrilled to now have her adding a weekly Pilates class to her schedule on Thursdays at 5:30 PM. 🫶

We’re equally excited for Evelyn to bring her own energy and teaching style to Sunday Pilates at 4:15 PM, right before her beloved Yin & Restore class at 5:30 PM!

And there’s another new face joining our Pilates team! 💫 We’re thrilled to welcome Tricia to BYDF this fall, leading Tuesday Pilates at 10:30 AM. Stay tuned ~ we’ll be introducing Tricia and sharing more about her very soon!

We also want to share a special thank you to Antoinette, who has played such an important role in growing our Pilates program and building the wonderful community around it. 🙏 You can still find her leading Strong & Grounded, our mindful strength training class, Wednesdays & Fridays at 4:15 PM through October, along with subbing classes throughout the next couple of months before heading off on her travels later this fall.

Whether Pilates is already a tried-and-true favorite or you’ve been waiting for the perfect opportunity to give it a try, there are now even more ways to strengthen, move, and feel great with us this fall.

✨ Pre-registration required | Space is limited

View our Fall Schedule & register through the Book Your Next Class link in our bio or at berkshireyogadancefitness.com/schedule

We can’t wait to welcome you to your new favorite class! 🤍

We made the Top 5! 🌟

Thanks to your incredible support, Berkshire Yoga Dance & Fitness is officially a finalist for Best Yoga Studio in the Berkshires!

We are so grateful to everyone who voted during the first round and helped us get here. Now, final voting is open, and we’d be so grateful to have your continued support! 🙏

For more than 12 years, this studio has been a true labor of love ~ built one class, one connection, one gathering, and one person at a time. What started as a dream has grown into a community where people can move, breathe, grow, connect, and feel at home. 🫶

Being voted Best of the Berkshires would mean so much to all of us. Beyond the recognition itself, it would help more people discover our studio, support us in continuing to grow, and shine a light on the incredible teachers, practitioners, and community who make this place what it is.

If BYDF has made a difference in your life, we'd be so grateful for your vote!

🌟 Final voting is open through Saturday, September 12th
🌟 You can vote once each day
🌟 ...and it only takes a few seconds!

Vote through the link below—and come back each day through Saturday.
https://berkshire-eagle.votebestof.com/b/berkshires-readers-pick-2026/c/yoga-studio

Thank you for helping us get here, for believing in what we've created together, and for being such an important part of our community. 🤍

With love,
Rachael & all of us at BYDF
xo

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A new season of movement begins Tuesday! 🍂✨

As we soak up these final days of Labor Day weekend and summer begins to wind down, we’re getting ready to welcome a new season at BYDF.

Our Fall Schedule begins Tuesday, September 8th, with so many ways to move, breathe, strengthen, restore, and connect - along with new classes, updated offerings, and three wonderful new teachers joining our team!

A few things to look forward to this fall:

✨ NEW Gentle Yoga, Pilates, Dance Cardio, Empower Flow, Mindful Flow and Relax & Clear offerings
✨ Our seasonal outdoor classes at Proprietor's Lodge returning to the studio
✨ Three new teachers joining our BYDF community
✨ Special events, Free Class Week & more to come!

Thank you to everyone who shared feedback through our Fall Schedule Survey. Your input helped us shape the season ahead, and we’re so grateful to continue growing and evolving alongside this wonderful community.

The Fall Schedule is live now, and classes are open for registration!

🍂 Explore the schedule & book your next class through the link in our bio.

Wishing you a beautiful rest of your Labor Day weekend. We can’t wait to move into fall with you! 🤍

Best of the Berkshires voting is open! 🌟

There’s something pretty special about practicing yoga surrounded by the beauty of the Berkshires…and even more special about the community of people we get to share it with.

For more than 12 years, it has been our joy to create opportunities to move, breathe, connect, and feel at home together - inside our studio and out in some of the beautiful spaces that make the Berkshires such an incredible place to live.

And now, we’d love your help celebrating the community we’ve created together! 💫

First-round voting for Best of the Berkshires 2026 is open through August 30th, and we’d be so grateful for your support:

✨ Vote for Berkshire Yoga Dance & Fitness
✨ You can vote once each day through August 30th
✨ The Top 5 will advance to the finalist round in September

If BYDF has brought a little more movement, connection, joy, or wellbeing into your life, we’d be so honored to have your vote. 🤍

Vote through the link below:
https://berkshire-eagle.votebestof.com/b/berkshires-readers-pick-2026/c/yoga-studio

Thank you for supporting BYDF and all of the wonderful locally owned businesses, organizations, and people who make the Berkshires such a special place to call home. 🙏🏻

Welcome Back, Elizabeth! 💫

Some of you may have already had the pleasure of practicing with Elizabeth Nelson on Sunday mornings this summer. Elizabeth returned to her 8:00 AM Mindful Flow class at the beginning of June, and we’re so happy to share that she’ll be continuing in this time slot throughout the rest of summer and into the fall!

Elizabeth’s thoughtful Vinyasa classes beautifully balance flowing movement with moments of stillness, helping students build strength, reconnect with their breath, and leave feeling more grounded, refreshed, and at ease.

Drawing inspiration from her work as a writer and artist, she brings creativity, compassion, and a deep appreciation for the mind-body connection into every class. Her welcoming teaching style invites students of all levels to find joy in movement, nourishment in breath, and a deeper connection to the present moment.

🗓️ Mindful Flow
🕗 Sundays | 8:00 AM
📍 In-Studio & Online

Whether you’ve already enjoyed practicing with Elizabeth this summer or have yet to experience her class, we’d love to welcome you on Sunday morning.

Register through the link below:
https://berkshireyogadancefitness.com/schedule

Please join us in giving Elizabeth a warm welcome back! 🤍

We're so honored to partner with Berkshire Nursing Families to host this complimentary 6-week Prenatal Yoga Series beginning Sunday, August 2nd.

Pregnancy is a season of incredible change, and this series is about so much more than yoga. Each class offers an opportunity to:

🌿 Move in ways that support your changing body and prepare for birth.
🌿 Connect with other expectant parents in a warm, welcoming community.
🌿 Learn practical tools and resources for pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and early parenthood.

Whether you're in your first trimester or nearing your due date, you'll find movement, education, encouragement, and meaningful connection.

The series is led by Devin Raber, a certified prenatal yoga instructor with over nine years of experience helping families feel strong, informed, and supported throughout pregnancy.

📅 Sundays, August 2nd – September 6th
🕧 12:30–2:00 PM
📍 Berkshire Yoga Dance & Fitness
✨ Free | Pre-registration required

Ready to join us? Click below to sign up here:
https://www.berkshirenursingfamilies.org/yoga

As many of us here at Berkshire Yoga Dance & Fitness are moms ourselves, we've experienced firsthand the incredible support Berkshire Nursing Families provides during this sacred season of life. We're truly grateful to donate our space for this special program and to help make it accessible to expectant families throughout our community. 🙏

If you or someone you love is expecting, we hope you'll join this wonderful community. Please feel free to share this post or tag an expecting parent who might enjoy this free series.

We'd love to welcome you! 🤍

You can't control the weather... but you can choose how you show up. 💫

Outdoor yoga always comes with a little uncertainty. We watch the forecast, make our best call, and sometimes Mother Nature has other plans. 🌧️

This morning, we made it through almost the entire class at before the skies opened up. Within seconds, everyone jumped in to help cover equipment, move props, and laugh through the downpour.

Moments like these remind us that what we've built at BYDF is so much more than a yoga studio...It's a community of kind, flexible, generous people who know how to go with the flow ~ even when the flow turns into a summer rainstorm. 🤍

Thank you to everyone who embraced the adventure with us today. You made a rainy morning one to remember!!

Start with the yoga ~ stay for the wine. 🍷

There's something special about beginning the weekend surrounded by fresh Berkshire air, beautiful vineyard views, and a peaceful morning on the mat.

Join Emily { } this Saturday, July 25th for Outdoor Yoga at - a refreshing all-levels class overlooking the gorgeous rolling hills and Richmond Shores.

🗓️ Saturday, July 25th
🕥 10:30–11:30 AM
📍 Balderdash Cellars | Richmond, MA

After class, the winery opens at 12:00 PM, making it the perfect opportunity to stay, relax, and enjoy a glass of wine with friends while taking in the beautiful scenery.

✨ All levels welcome
✨ Pre-registration required
✨ Please bring your yoga mat and a blanket or towel for underneath if you'd like.

Register through the 'Upcoming Events' link in our bio or visit:
https://berkshireyogadancefitness.com/events

We can't wait to see you on the mat! 🤍