WELCOME!

Since 1995, we have been known for our welcoming atmosphere and excellence in teaching.  Beginners looking for support in getting started, seasoned practitioners seeking inspiration and guidance and teachers interested in opportunities to connect with a dedicated community- local islanders and out of town visitors – welcome!  Innerlight offers you the opportunity for a unique, personal experience in body, mind, and spirit. 

On behalf of all the teachers at Innerlight, we look forward to meeting you and supporting you in your journey.  -Kim Chandler, Director

We are dedicated to cultivating community, evolving consciousness, and sustaining vibrant health through teaching the transformational practices of yoga and meditation.

We offer more than 50 classes a week to a growing community of yoga students who range in age from toddlers and teens to students in their eighties. Our dedicated and diverse team of instructors includes teachers of advanced, vigorous vinyasa classes and teachers who work more therapeutically with gentle styles of yoga – and everything in between.

Our monthly workshop series offers students an opportunity for in-depth experience and study with our teachers on topics ranging from asana trainings and anatomy to personal growth and self discovery workshops. To complement our full schedule of yoga classes, private sessions with our teachers are available as well as afternoon yoga retreats. Each season we also offer the transformational experience of “40-Days of Yoga,” a group program that supports people in learning about and integrating a yogic lifestyle into their lives through nutrition, yoga practice, and self-reflective exercises. In addition, over the years, Innerlight has welcomed people from all over New England to study with preeminent guest teachers, including Richard Freeman, David Swenson, Beryl Bender Birch, Todd Norian, Ann Greene, Megha Nancy Buttenheim, Bhavani Lorraine Nelson, Linda Trichter Metcalf, and Tobin Simon. Each year we offer a comprehensive yoga teacher training for the next generation of teachers eager to share the many gifts of yogic practices.

Since 1995 students have come to yoga at Innerlight for many different reasons. Some come for stress release or to help lift the weight of depression or to heal an injury. Some come to yoga because they’ve heard it will help them sleep better or lose weight or enjoy life more. Some come to learn to breathe differently, for relief from anxiety, or to ease asthma. Athletes come to find a balance in their workout or more flexibility for already strong muscles. Some come full of resistance or skepticism only because a trusted person insisted. Some come with a desire for the quiet, inner peace that yoga brings. Some come for the mind, some for the body, some for the spirit.

Usually students discover that yoga gives them more than what they came for in the first place. No matter why we are drawn to practice yoga, we end up remembering more of who we are, more of what the Buddhists call our basic open-hearted goodness. We find our suffering, our dukha, diminished and our easeful nature, our sukha, more abundant and accessible. Many years after opening our doors at Innerlight, we continue to have fun, to be humbled, to learn, and to be enlivened through our practice of yoga together.