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Join Megan Callahan and Nick for an afternoon of Kirtan.
Kirtan is an ancient devotional musical and communal tradition, rooted in Bhakti yoga. Mostly call and response style, this beautiful practice originated in ancient India and involves singing sacred mantras, mostly in Sanskrit to to foster inner peace, joy, spiritual connection, emotional and mental wellbeing as well as community bonding.
All are welcome, regardless of spiritual beliefs and tradition for this powerful practice and community experience. Megan Callahan, Nick Stroczkowski and friends will lead the group in simple and accessible chants.
Registration for this event is sliding scale. And please join us for an optional potluck communal meal afterwards. Bring a dish to pass or something to share. Children are welcome.
Saturday, May 2, 2026
5pm – Potluck following
$25
DRUMMING WORKSHOP with Griffin Brady (Slyboots)
Join us for an afternoon of rhythm, connection, and community!
1:00 PM – Grown up & Kids Drumming circle
A fun, interactive class for young participants to explore rhythm and play together.
2:00 PM – Community Drumming Circle
Open to all levels—come drum, connect, and feel the energy of making music together.
Led by Griffin Brady, Executive Director of the Bernard Woma Dagara Music Center USA and Headmaster of the Buffalo World Music & Dance Academy.
No experience needed. All are welcome.
Come feel the rhythm. Come build community.
Rate: $10 for Kids $15 for adults
Sunday, April 19th
1pm Grown up & Me Drumming
2pm Community Drumming
Think you can’t wear a Saree? Think again, we are offering an opportunity for you to feel and look your best.
What to expect: We will learn how to drape a saree, we will learn some interesting history and facts about it and then have a short dance choreography!!
What to bring: Bring a saree that you have tucked away waiting for that special occasion or borrow one from us.
Bring a long skirt or leggings to wear underneath.
Date to be determined 2026
6:30pm – 8:00pm
$20
Join Ancient Alloys, as we embark on another meditative sound bath with gongs.
Reserving your spot is HIGHLY encouraged, as we are reducing capacity for this event.
What is a gong meditation sound bath?
A sound bath using gongs is a meditative sonic experience, where the participant is “bathed” in sound waves from various gongs. The practice finds it’s roots in ancient cultures and Kundalini yoga and is more recently used by sound healing practitioners. The participant can expect to be taken on a meditation journey enhanced and assisted by the frequencies of these ancient instruments. The experience will last roughly 45 minutes and led by Liz Holland, MM Percussion Performance.
Thursday, March 26, 2026
7pm-8pm
$25
Get ready to travel back to the golden era of Bollywood with this high-energy, playful dance workshop inspired by an iconic song.
Participants will explore signature Bollywood movement, expressive gestures, and rhythmic footwork while learning a fun and accessible choreography set to this legendary track. We’ll also touch on the cultural context of the song and film, inviting dancers to embody confidence, playfulness, and character as we move.
This workshop is open to all levels — no prior Bollywood dance experience needed. Come ready to move, laugh, and connect with the timeless magic of Bollywood.
✨ Bring your energy, your expressions, and your love for all things retro Bollywood!
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
6:30pm – 8:00pm
$20
Join us as we open our doors to celebrate 4 years in our studio space and the beautiful community that fills it. Come say hello, explore the studio, connect, and get a taste of what we offer. All are welcome!
Classes & celebration are free, if you would like to support our studio please use the link to do so.
February 28, 2026
10am-6pm
Slow down, breathe deeply, and reconnect—body, mind, and spirit. This Beyond the Mat experience begins with a gentle, grounding yoga practice designed to release tension, restore balance, and invite ease into the body. Through mindful movement and breath, we’ll create space to settle inward and arrive fully in the present moment. From there, we’ll transition into a bracelet and necklace-making craft, allowing creativity to flow in a relaxed, supportive environment. Using simple materials, you’ll have the opportunity to create a piece of jewelry that reflects your intentions, personal journey, or simply the joy of making something with your hands. This class is about more than yoga or crafting—it’s about community, self-care, and taking time to slow down together. No prior yoga or jewelry-making experience is needed. Come as you are and leave feeling grounded, inspired, and connected.
Tuesday, 2/24/2026
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Cost: $35/Sliding Scale
Silk Fan Flow is a beginner/all levels workshop. Come learn something new or brush up on your skills! We will cover basics of fan dance, and integrate footwork and whole body movements to take your fan dancing to the next level. Please bring your own set of fans if possible. Extra fans will be available for practice in needed.
The class is open to all levels and focuses on mindful movement, coordination, and expressive freedom. Holli will guide dancers through foundational techniques, short movement phrases, and opportunities to explore personal expression with the fans.
February 14, 2026
2-3:30pm
$20
Get ready to travel back to the golden era of Bollywood with this high-energy, playful dance workshop inspired by the iconic song “Choli Ke Peeche” from the classic film Khal Nayak. Known for its bold rhythm, expressive storytelling, and unforgettable choreography, this workshop will celebrate the joy, drama, and sass that define retro Bollywood dance.
Participants will explore signature Bollywood movement, expressive gestures, and rhythmic footwork while learning a fun and accessible choreography set to this legendary track. We’ll also touch on the cultural context of the song and film, inviting dancers to embody confidence, playfulness, and character as we move.
This workshop is open to all levels — no prior Bollywood dance experience needed. Come ready to move, laugh, and connect with the timeless magic of Bollywood.
✨ Bring your energy, your expressions, and your love for all things retro Bollywood!
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
6:30pm – 8:00pm
$20
Saturday, 12/13/2025
Time: 1pm-4pm
Cost: $35-50/Sliding Scale
We will be decorating on canvas, ornaments and earrings (perfect for gift giving)
No experience needed – just bring your love for art and each other!
What to Expect:
Step-by-step Dot Mandala painting – A fun and easy technique for all ages!
Quality bonding time – Create beautiful memories together through art.
All materials provided – Just bring your creativity!
A calming and joyful atmosphere – Relax, unwind, and enjoy the moment.
Refreshments, Chai and Snacks provided!
Thursday, 12/11/25
Time: 6:30 – 8:00pm
Cost: $35
Sunday, 12/7/2025
Time: 2pm-3:30pm
Free & Open to the public
Friday, 11/21/2025
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Cost: $35/Sliding Scale
We are thrilled to host our 3rd Annual Community Diwali Celebration, a free event open to everyone. Each year, this celebration brings together people of all backgrounds to experience the Festival of Lights through dance, music, crafts, and community connection.
Free and open to the public
Sunday, 11/2/2025
Time: 2-3:30pm
Cost: FREE
October’s offering is discovering everyday gratitude. This workshop will guide participants through a daily routine of gratitude based on Nancy’s executive function coaching practice and healing work. Nancy will combine meditation, intention, and intuition to guide you through a discovery process that will leave you feeling more connected to your Self.
Friday, 10/24/2025
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Cost: $35/Sliding Scale
Workshop: Monday, October 20th
Join us for a special Kathak workshop with Labonee Mohanta, internationally acclaimed disciple of Pandit Chitresh Das.
Open to dancers, musicians, and enthusiasts of all level. Immerse yourself in the beauty of Kathak through rhythm, footwork, spins, expression, improvisation, and Kathak Yoga.
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Rate: $35
Location: 3200 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY
Monday, 10/21/2025
6:30pm-8:30pm
$35
Join us for a day of incredible dance classes led by some of Buffalo’s finest instructors.
🌍✨ Rhythms of the World is BACK! ✨🌍
We are so excited to celebrate the 2nd year of this incredible day of movement, music, and community connection. 💃🏽🥁 Join us on Sunday, October 5th from 10AM–5PM for a full day of energy, creativity, and joy (and don’t worry—you’ll still make it home in time for the game 😉).
Come ready to move, learn, and experience rhythms from across the globe in a space filled with culture, community, and love. 💜
📍 Save the date, invite your friends, and let’s make this year even bigger and better!
What to expect: Salsa, Hip Hop, Bhangra, and more!
Sunday, 10/5/2025
10am- 5:00pm
Early Bird Rate: $65
After 9/26 price goes up:
$75/day and $25/per class
Join Gaitrie & Megan on Autumn Equinox
This September we invite you to honor the Autumn Equinox with an evening of movement, breath, and healing. As we transition from the brightness of summer into the grounding energy of fall, this workshop will offer space to pause, reflect, and realign. Through gentle movement, mindful breathing, and restorative practices, we will tune into balance—light and dark, letting go and welcoming in.
Monday, 9/22/2025
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Cost: $35/Sliding Scale
Friday, 7/25/2025
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Cost: $35/Sliding Scale
Step into the rhythm of summer with our next Beyond the Mat session:
Beats & Flow with DJ Lisa Lux 🎶✨
Join us for a powerful evening of movement and music as Meagan McClain Kwacz guides an invigorating yoga flow to honor the energy of the Summer Solstice. As the sun reaches its peak, we’ll align our bodies and breath with the beats of DJ Lisa Lux, creating a space to release, renew, and celebrate.
This special evening will awaken your senses, ground your spirit, and connect you more deeply with your inner rhythm and our beautiful community.
🌟 Spots are limited! Once registered, you’ll receive full location details.
* This month, 100% of the proceeds from our Beyond the Mat series will be donated to support DJ Lisa Lux and her ongoing treatments for stage 4 breast cancer. Join us in holding space, healing, and hope for a beloved member of our community.
Friday, 6/20/2025
Time: 7 pm-8:30 pm
Cost: $35/Sliding Scale
Friday, 5/16/2025
Time: 7pm-8:30pm
Cost: $35/Sliding Scale
Saturday, 5/03/2025
Time: 4-5:30pm
$15 (Please pay via venmo)
Venmo @gaitrie-subryan
Megan Rakeepile is a Buffalo-born artist with over 30 years of dance experience, specializing in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Fusion styles rooted in the African diaspora. She began training at Miss Barbara School of Dance (1991–2006), later competing and studying at Buffalo City Ballet (1998–2007), and attended NYSSSA in 2004 and 2005. A graduate of Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts (2008), Megan continued her training in Toronto at Ballet Creole’s Professional Training Program (2008–2010), earning certification in modern, classical, and traditional dance forms.
She performed and taught in Toronto and later joined Garth Fagan Dance Co. in Rochester (2010–2011) before returning to Buffalo to focus on community and youth arts. Since 2012, she’s led nonprofit programs in partnership with local organizations and churches. In 2014, she founded MahatmaMmoho Collective (Stepping Together Collective), bringing artists together to foster unity and cultural exchange through the arts.
On Saturday, January 11th. We are inviting you to a day full of FREE dance, yoga, and movement classes, followed by an afternoon of joy, connection, and celebration.
Open House Schedule (10 AM – 3:30 PM) Studio Celebration (4:30 PM – 6 PM)Saturday, 1/11/2025
Time: 10:15am- 6:30pm
Cost: FREE
Join us for a day of incredible dance classess led by some of Buffalo’s finest instructors.
What to expect: Salsa, Bellydance, Modern, Garba and more!
10-11am Drumming Class with Griffin Brady
11:15-12:15 PM Salsa Class with Natasha
12:30-1:30 PM Indian Classical Dance with Nitya
2PM-3:15 PM Modern Contemporary dance w/ Holli Simme
3:30-4:30 PM Bellydance with Kenzie
5-6 PM Somatic Movement with Megan and Live Jazz by Alex McArthur (Equinox Special)
Sunday, 09/22/2024
10 – 6:00pm
Cost: $60/day, $20/class
Let’s get the wedding season ready! We are calling all guests, bridesmaids, bridal parties, aunties, uncles, and even the cameraman!
In this class, you will learn three upbeat, fun for your next Indian wedding, and you will receive the music track for your playlist (or share it with the DJ)!
Be ready to make some moves on the dance floor and party all night long with everyone.
Friday, 06/21
Time: 7 – 8:30pm
Cost: $35
As early as 4000 B.C., gongs have been used as spiritual tools to help guide meditation. A gong produces motions and vibrations that cause frequencies of difference ranges. Scientific studies have shown the therapeutic use of sound frequencies to benefit overall health and well-being. Immersion in a full gong bath takes the participant on a journey of meditation and self-healing.
A sound bath using gongs is a meditative sonic experience, where the participant is “bathed” in sound waves from various gongs. The practice finds it’s roots in ancient cultures and Kundalini yoga and is more recently used by sound healing practitioners.
The participant can expect to be taken on a meditation journey enhanced and assisted by the frequencies of these ancient instruments. The experience will last roughly 45 minutes and led by Liz Holland, MM Percussion Performance.
Liz Holland M.M., practitioner of Ancient Alloys, has been a percussionist for her entire life. She holds a M.M. in Percussion Performance, with a focus in exploratative techniques of percussive instruments for new music. She has been features in Drum! magazine, Modern Drummer, and has toured and performed around the country many times. A native of Buffalo, NY, she is now based in Seattle, Washington.
Thursday, May 23rd
Time: 7-8pm
Cost: $25
The name Bharatanatyam signifies three concepts coming together, BHA- bhaava or emotions, RA- raaga or melody/musicality and TA- taala or rhythm. This class will take the dancers through these three fundamental concepts through a dive into Kalakshetra technique of Bharatanatyam. Participants will get a chance to explore emotion, story-telling and rhythm through their bodies and embody movement patterns such as crisp turns, deep plies, rhythmic grounded patterns with feet, classical hand gestures and graceful angular movements that are the signature of Bharatanatyam.
The dancers will get a chance to explore emotion, story-telling and rhythm through their bodies and embody movement patterns such as crisp turns, deep plies, rhythmic grounded patterns with feet, classical hand gestures and graceful angular movements that are the signature of Bharatanatyam.
Bio:
Nitya Seshadri Vedantam is a performer-teacher-choreographer of Bharatanatyam and Modern dance. She holds a diploma in Bharatanatyam from Kalakshetra and
a Master’s in Dance from Hyderabad Central University and an MFA in dance from SUNY Buffalo. She is currently an adjunct faculty at SUNY Buffalo where she teaches various courses including Global Dance Studies. She is an empanelled artiste of the Broadcasting Ministry of India. She has conducted several performances, master classes and workshops across the globe, including University at Buffalo, SUNY Fredonia, Purdue University, Ithaca College, Buffalo State College, Southern Utah University, Hyderabad Central University and MGI Mauritius.
Nitya’s conference presentations include ACDA North-East Regional Conference,
NYSDEA, NDEO and DSA. She has served as the graduate representative 2018-19, on the board of National Dance Education Organization (NDEO). Nitya also served as an adjunct faculty of dance at the Buffalo State College. Her dance style reflects the symbiosis between Bharatanatyam and modern dance, creating new avenues for movement exploration.
Kids class:
Adult Classes:
Labonee Mohanta, disciple of Kathak maestro Pandit Chitresh Das, began her training in Kathak dance at the early age of 8. She is a prominent solo artist, regularly performing Kathak solos to great acclaim in dance and music festivals throughout the United States, Canada, India, and Europe. Labonee has become renowned for dynamism in her dance, fiery footwork, subtlety and grace in movement, and performing some of the fastest pirouettes in the field of Indian dance today. She also employs the technique “Kathak Yoga” where she simultaneously sings the rhythmic cycle, dances complex mathematical patterns, and plays an instrument at the same time. Labonee is the Artistic Director of Lavanya Academy of Indian Arts in California, where she trains her dance company and teaches 50 students in 3 locations in the Bay Area.
**Prices increase October 4th
Kids: 10/8/2024
Time: 6:15PM- 7PM
Adults: 10/8/2024 & 10/9/2024
Time: 7-8:30PM
Celebrate Spring Equinox with us:
Why 108 Salutations? It is a meditative practice that connects the body, the mind, and the universe specifically when nature is undergoing a change.
Tuesday, 03/19/2024
7 – 9 pm
Cost: $25 |
Let’s go to Jamaica!!! Enjoy a movement class introducing the traditional folk and contemporary dances of Jamaica. Taught by Nicolette Ferguson, be prepared to engage your mind, body and soul. Don’t forget your water bottles and attire is bare feet and comfortable clothing.
Date: Friday, 01/12/2024
7-8:30pm
Sliding Scale $10-$25
Garba is a fun dance form that originates from the state of Gujarat in India. The steps are easy to learn, and it’s fun to watch even if you’re not the dancing type! Garba is typically done during Navratri, it is a Hindu festival, literally meaning “nine nights”. While this festival is celebrated in various ways across India, Gujarat follows the prime tradition of performing Garba dance for nine nights as a symbol of respect for the goddess. Open to adults and kids
Friday, 10/13
7- 8:30pm
Cost: $20 | $30 (day of)
Wine and Snacks provided!
Wednesday, August 16th
Time: 7:00 – 9pm
Sold Out
The goal of this class is to strengthen the larger muscle groups of the body, building balance and stability, while incorporating the multiple benefits of a mindful yoga practice. In this class we will use physical postures (asanas), breathing exercises, and meditation to improve our overall health and wellness.
* We will have a live sitar player as a musical accompaniment.
Thursday, August 10th
Time: 7:00 – 8pm
Cost: $30
In this free workshop we will focus on:
– Learn choreography from Gaitrie Subryan of Devi Bollywood and Megan Rakeepile from Mahatammoho Collective. The choreography will be an excerpt from our production “Find Your Beat”
– Afro-Caribbean and Indian/Bollywood movements, vocabulary and technique
– Discussions with drummers and choreographers about the creative process and artistic direction with this excerpt
– Rhythm, sounds, energy
This workshop is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Statewide Community Regrant (SCR) program
