April 2026 TheraCommunity Newsletter


Spring arrives like a quiet invitation — a season of thaw and tender light that mirrors the slow opening of the heart. As buds unfurl and days lengthen, we’re reminded that growth is often gentle and incremental. Spiritually, spring asks for patience: to notice small shifts, to tend what’s fragile, and to trust that warmth will reach places that have been cold.

Rituals for this season can be simple and grounding. Try a mindful walk, paying attention to the textures, scents, and colors that reappear. Planting even a single seed or potting a small herb can become a practice of hope and attention, a concrete symbol that care cultivates life. Journaling about what you’re ready to let go of — like winter’s heavy layers — creates space for new intentions to emerge.

Spring also invites community and compassionate reconnection. Share a meal, a story, or a quiet moment with someone who lifts your spirit. Let the external renewal inspire internal gentleness: forgive a self-critique, celebrate a small step forward, and allow curiosity to replace harsh certainty.

At Theraexpressions, we honour the subtle work of becoming. This spring, give yourself permission to grow at your own pace and to celebrate each small unfurling.

Want to see what our classes and community are all about! Now is your chance!

Members can always invite friends and family to classes as their guests. All you have to do is have them register themselves.

NON Members: You’re chance to come to class happens every first week of the month!

Non members can attend classes the first week of the month

We have some new classes for you to check out!

Class Studio Schedule

Monday:

12pm Hatha Yoga with Miranda

5:30 pm Aerial Conditioning with Candace

Tuesday:

5:30pm Slow Flow Restorative with Miranda

Wednesday:

12pm Hatha Yoga with Keisha

5:30pm Aerial Yoga with Miranda

Thursday:

5:30 pm Aerial Nidra Restorative with Miranda

Friday:

5:30 pm Rooted and Regulated with Candace (1st Friday)

Saturday:

9:00 am Aerial Conditioning with Candace

11:00 am Vibrational Sound Healing Keisha (1st Saturday)

11:00 am Aerial Conditioning with Candace (2nd, 3rd, 4th Saturday)

WHY you should become a MEMBER of the THERACOMMUNITY!

Being a member of TheraCommunity is invaluable. Building connection, relationships, and having adventures along the way. Making friends can be hard, showing up for others can feel challenging, fear of sustaining relationships can bring upon unwanted obligations. At Theraexpressions you can come and go as you please, you can get involved in the community as much as you want, you can create the relationships you choose. All you have to do is show up for yourself.

Being a part of the community means community outings, gatherings, adventures, workshops, & retreats.

With every class, memberships, sign up for workshops and retreats you are keeping our dreams alive and our doors open.

Data shows that participating in group fitness classes significantly increases a person's commitment to their personal health goals compared to working out alone. Group settings foster accountability, social connection, and structured routines, which help turn exercise into a long-term habit rather than a temporary effort.

Key Findings on Commitment and Group Classes:

  • 45% Higher Adherence: A study in the American Journal of Health Behavior found that participating in group fitness classes increases adherence to physical activity by 45%.

  • Improved Consistency: Group exercise participants are more consistent, with 85% visiting their facility twice per week and 43% visiting four times per week.

  • Reduced Dropout Rates: Group exercisers stick with their routines 35% longer than those who exercise solo, with studies showing 95% of people who start a weight-loss program with friends completing the program.

  • Social Accountability: The structured nature of classes, such as pre-booking and the expectation of seeing peers and instructors, results in a 30% higher likelihood of sticking to fitness schedules.

Psychology of Commitment in Group Classes:

  • Social Facilitation: The presence of others can cause participants to push harder (a 24% increase in performance) and work out longer (a 200% increase in time) than they would on their own.

  • Stronger Exercise Identity: Group exercise membership is associated with a stronger personal identity as an "exerciser," especially among women.

  • Overcoming "Willpower Fade": While individual workouts rely on finite willpower, group classes transform exercise into a shared, enjoyable experience, reducing the "all-or-nothing" mentality that leads to abandoning fitness plans.

  • Reduced Stress: Group exercise has been shown to reduce stress by 26% and significantly improve quality of life, whereas individual exercise often results in higher stress levels.

Factors Strengthening Personal Commitment:

  • Group Cohesion: Participants who feel more connected to their fitness class are more likely to attend, arrive on time, and are more resistant to disruption.

  • Homogeneity: People tend to be more committed to classes where they perceive other participants are similar to them in age, fitness level, or attitude.

  • Supportive Environment: The communal support—including validation and companionship—strengthens personal commitment to attending, particularly for women.

April Astrology

Find out whats in store for this months astrology beyond the flowers!

April’s energy often feels like a decisive turning point — the push of spring’s growth combined with a deeper urge to act, refine, and realign. From a spiritual viewpoint, this month invites you to balance bold initiation with mindful presence.

Themes

  • Activation and courage: Spring’s assertive pulse supports stepping into new projects, speaking your truth, and claiming clarity about what you want to grow.

  • Releasing old patterns: As the earth sheds winter, use April to let go of habits, relationships, or beliefs that no longer serve your highest path.

  • Realignment of values: Inner priorities can shift now; spiritual practice helps you notice what matters and restructure daily life to reflect that.

  • Integration of feeling and will: It’s a good time to blend emotional honesty with decisive action so choices come from whole-hearted intention.

Spiritual practices for April

  • Intention-setting ritual: Create a short ritual (write intentions, breathe, plant a seed or light a candle) to mark what you’re inviting in this season.

  • Moon work: Use new-moon energy for beginnings and full-moon energy for release and gratitude. Keep notes on cycles and feelings.

  • Embodied action: Pair meditation with a small outward step each week (reach out, apply, create) to move energy into form.

  • Nature attunement: Spend time with emerging life—buds, birdsong, warming soil—to recalibrate and receive guidance from the natural world.

  • Gentle shadow work: Journal about recurring patterns you’re ready to transform, then choose one practical habit to shift this month.

Community and compassion

  • Share intentions with a trusted friend or group for accountability and mutual support.

  • Practice compassionate listening and allow your relationships to reflect the new clarity you cultivate.

Short guidance

  • If you feel restless, channel it into focused, soulful action rather than impulsive decisions.

  • Celebrate small growths; spiritual progress is often incremental and visible in subtle shifts.

Use April’s forward-moving energy as an invitation: act with courage, tend what’s emerging, and let your spiritual practice guide practical steps toward a life that feels more aligned and alive.


Our Online Membership is for all of our lovlies that live far away!

OUR OM YOUR MENTAL HEALTH APP is Live in Apple and Google stores in 176 Countries!

Our online membership is for our distance TheraCommunity, our folks who can’t make it into in person classes, folks who have busy schedules, and people that live all over the world!

For all of our distance people near or far we are ready to support you when you are ready!

Our New Revitalized Online membership includes

Weekly live Meditation, Yoga, Breathwork classes

Deconstruction Spiritual Seminars

Journal Questions

Selfcare tracker

Online chat community

Online Class Schedule

1st Friday of the Month- Rooted and Regulated with Candace (60 mins) live class

Bi weekly - Sundays with Jemima - Breathwork (60 mins) live class

Zoom link is in the online app membership for classes

2026 Workshop Alerts

ROOTED AND REGULATED NERVOUS SYSTEM RESET 4 PART SERIES

May 9-May 30

120 minutes per series session 1pm-3pm

Early Bird fee: $125.00 for series by April 1st

Members get 125 discount!

Fee: $150.00 for series

Workshops open to members and non members

Online options available for distance attendees (let us know if you will need to attend distance)

Space is limited

Introducing Our 4-Part Wellness Series: Rooted & Regulated 🌿

In a world that often feels overwhelming, finding your way back to balance, safety, and inner steadiness matters more than ever. That’s why we created Rooted & Regulated—a thoughtfully designed four-part series to support your healing, awareness, and resilience from the inside out. We are kicking off Mental Health Awareness Month with this series helping us to gain insight into a deeper awareness of who we are.

What to Expect:

🧘‍♀️ Meditation Practices
Learn accessible, grounding techniques to quiet the mind, build presence, and reconnect with yourself—no experience necessary. We will go over the history of Meditation and how to incorporate it into stress management techniques.

🌱 Trauma-Informed Yoga
Move at your own pace in a safe, supportive space. This session emphasizes choice, empowerment, and body awareness without pressure or expectation. Learn how to use the body to relieve stress and tension.

🧠 Mental Health Education
Gain practical insights into how your mind works, deepen your self-understanding, and walk away with tools you can use in everyday life. We will be discussing cognitive thought distortions and defense mechanisms along with the brain.

Nervous System Regulation
Discover how your body responds to stress and learn simple, effective ways to regulate and restore a sense of calm and stability. We will be focusing on polyvagal exercises and somatic exercises.

Continuing education credit available upon request for professionals attending

Register at the link provided and we will send you a text message on payment and additional information.

Text us for additional questions: 307-258-9956

Aerial Yoga for Beginners

MAY 17th SERIES!

Aerial yoga has many benefits, such as decompressing the spine and joints, and Inverting without compression on the head, neck or shoulders. It provides a fun full body workout, boosts immunity, naturally detoxifies, and enhances overall health. It also relieves pain, provides myofascial release, lengthens, strengthens and tones the whole body. Aerial increases flexibility, improves balance, range of motion, and increases blood circulation to the body and brain. It aids in digestion, reduces stress and anxiety,  increases focus and self esteem, and more!

 If you are a beginner wanting to learn aerial yoga, this workshop is for you! This six week aerial yoga workshop will teach you the basics, and have you confidently moving in the silks in no time. In aerial yoga we use silk hammocks as a prop for stretching, strengthening, yoga poses, inversions, swinging, flying, and you get to lay in the hammock for the final pose of every class, Savasana! This is a fun, comprehensive, and rewarding way to learn aerial.

 Classes will be one day a week, every Sunday at 1:30pm - 2:15pm , beginning on May 17th and ending on June 21st 2026. Each class will be 75 minutes long. Cost is $150.00 per person for the full 6 weeks. This class is available for members and no-members. Please check out our website for proper attire for aerial  www.theraexpressions.com

You will need to bring a water bottle, and a yoga mat if you have one.

text us at 307-258-9956 for registration and payment

2026 Thera Retreats Alert

Drala Buddhist Retreat

May 1-May 3

DEADLINE IS APRIL 1st

Regular Registration $550

Pricing covers: Lodging, 3 organic plant based meals a day, programming, and guides.

Travel costs not included

Our buddhist retreat focuses on Hiking, Yoga, Meditation, Journaling, community discussions

This retreat is for anyone looking to deepen their practice

Space is limited

This retreat is open to members and non members

Register at link below, instructions to follow