Sanctuary Studios

02/23/2026

Meet Lena Hann!

Lena Hann is a registered yoga teacher with an additional 100 hours of training in breathwork and meditation. Lena uses easy-to-understand language and gentle techniques to help students of all levels build knowledge and confidence that they can practice both on and off the mat.

Lena will be leading a Breathwork & Meditation session every Sunday at 5:30 PM beginning on March 8th.

Each 30-minute Breathwork & Meditation session explores different breath techniques to prepare the body for meditation, followed by guided meditation and a relaxing sound bath. The benefits of breathwork and meditation are endless and include unlocking creativity, increasing focus, and finding mind-body balance.

Register for a session now in preparation - we're back in the studio next week!
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02/22/2026

A few weeks ago, we asked this community what workshops you’ve been wanting to share inside Sanctuary and you showed up. The Quad Cities is full of deeply talented humans, and we’re honored to open our Sundays to a range of offerings from within our own community!

A Somatic Alignment Workshop with Trisha Kaufman is up first on March 15th at 12 pm. During this, we'll gently engage, then soften, then invite the nervous system to reorganize patterns and support more efficient movement. This is a practice that builds body awareness, refines alignment, and helps you move with more clarity, stability, and ease.

Here's what we else have coming up:
March 22 | 4 pm - Guided Free Movement with Karin
April 12 | 12 pm - Somatic Alignment Workshop with Trisha
April 19 | 4 pm - Functional Core Stability with Sara
May 10 | 12 pm - Somatic Alignment Workshop with Trisha

As with all classes, these workshops are pay-what-you-can. You can register now at our website.

Are you interested in hosting a workshop at Sanctuary? Send Kaleigh a message at kaleigh@sanctuarystudiosqc.com to connect.

02/21/2026

While we know the studio break can be hard on our community and its commitment to moving together, it is such a powerful gift to our teachers.

It gives them time to hike and hang with their families and slow down over morning coffee… all things that should belong to all of us as often as possible.

And to our Outer Circle members: this is what your dollars do. They give our teachers back precious time without making them worry about the money. We are grateful in ways we’ll never be able to express ❤️

Classes resume March 2nd. We can't wait to see you.
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02/20/2026

If you've been looking for another way to come you home to yourself, this is it. And we can’t wait for you to meet Laura Vincent-Arnold, who will be guiding the way!

Laura is a board certified art therapist, certified SoulCollage facilitator, and prolific artist who doesn’t limit herself to a certain medium but gravitates toward clay, paint, poetry, and found object sculpture. One of her dreams has been to offer art as a profound tool of self-care, exploration, and connection in a community setting.

Now, Laura is bringing that dream to life at Sanctuary by offering pay-what-you-can art therapy in the form of Soul Collaging each Sunday.

Register for her first class on March 8th at 2:30 on our website and help us warmly welcome Laura to our community!

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02/18/2026

Please help us welcome Adhana McCarthy to the Sanctuary Studios team!

With 20 years of experience as both a yoga therapist and a seasoned clinician in the military medical field, Adhana creates spaces to guide you trust your inner compass, speak your truth, and take bold action.

Adhana will be leading biweekly Inner Compass Yoga sessions on Sundays at 1 PM. Join her to reconnect with your internal compass by learning to trust your body’s wisdom, stop overriding yourself, and gently embracing your truth.

Adhana's first session begins March 8th and is available for registration on our scheudle. Let’s show her what Sanctuary community feels like by filling up that class! As always, sessions are pay-what-you-can.

Register at sanctuarystudiosqc.com

02/17/2026

Changes are happening at Sanctuary. We planted the seeds. We've composted. And we're harvesting the fruit.

Rooted and steady in the midst of it all: Sunday Sound Meditation with Erica Franzen.

Sound meditation is an ancient practice that gently invites your nervous system to soften and your body mind to settle back into balance. Using Himalayan singing bowls, gongs, chimes, drums, and tuning forks, each session supports emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.

Erica Franzen is a Licensed Sound Therapist and Acutonics Practitioner who brings deep care into each session. She draws from a wide range of healing modalities that assist the soma and the psyche through transitions in every stage of life.

Come experience it for yourself every Sunday at 10:30 AM, resuming March 8th. As with all classes, Sound Meditation is pay-what-you-can. There's always a place for you.

02/16/2026

We don't often share what people share with us about their experience at Sanctuary because it's so personal, but this past weekend, we were flooded with so much love, we just had to let you lay eyes on it too.

Come experience something sacred for yourself. Classes resume March 2nd with so much more in store for you. Stick around, we'll be sharing more soon!

02/15/2026

Yesterday we laid to rest our Saturday Somatic sessions and it was an experience that deserves to be honored.

For two years, the Saturday Sessions have been the soil out of which the rest of Sanctuary grew. Our early financial support came entirely from people who practiced in this session regularly. The PRESENCE these people brought week after week was like a magnet, drawing more people to this little local studio.

What we made together on those mornings was a kind of magic that defies description.

And the best news is that it isn’t over. What we made becomes the seed to grow what comes next and with a seed this special, we have no doubt that the magic has just begun.

02/12/2026

In our last few days before our break, we really want you to know one thing:

The practice is not the same if YOU aren’t there, so consider yourself invited and find a class, workshop, or quiet moment for meditation when we open again March 2nd.

Come as you are.
Pay what you can.
Every body belongs.

02/11/2026

At Sanctuary, the money matters.

But not necessarily for the reasons you think.

Sure, we have hard costs that need to be covered every month, but the real magic of the money isn’t really about paying bills.

It’s about the fact that we pay them TOGETHER, allowing us a living example of what becomes possible when we stop insisting that we go it alone.

It’s about the reality that our economic model puts us in right relationship with each other long before you step through the studio doors.

It’s about what becomes possible when we can see, smell, touch, taste, and hear what actual community feels like.

This isn’t a theory or an experiment. It isn’t charity.

It is a powerful invitation to create something that heals everything it touches, an invitation we continue to extend to you.

Come be a part of what we do.

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02/10/2026

You were not meant to carry the weight of your life on your own.
Let us lift it with you.

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02/10/2026