Welcome to The Spiral Goddess Collective,
​a Center for Mind/Body Movement!

We are a center for embodied, somatic movement, for community connections and self-exploration, for joy and healing. We offer a sacred space full of light and air (and plants that love the light and air!), as well as art and critical/creative expression pieces that evoke emotion, contemplation, and conversation. We offer weekly yoga, dance, and meditation classes, community events, and movement-based workshops that are trauma-informed, open to a diversity of minds/bodies, and require no previous experience. 

We believe that yoga, dance, healing, and transformation should be affordable and accessible and, thus, 100% of our profits go to our Spiral Goddess Collective Care Fund (scholarship program). We also promote economic justice through sliding scale and pay-what-you-can options.

We opened our doors in October of 2022 and we continue to grow ourselves, our programs, and our collective of careworkers, teachers, instructors, facilitators, and healing artists—the team that we call Collective Curators. We also continue to grow our community and cultivate unique and innovative approaches to embodied movement, providing opportunities for individual and collective transformation.

We aim to give back to our community through donations, service, and referrals and humbly work to meet the community's vast and evolving need for connection, embodiment, learning, and healing through embodied movement.

Read more about our mission and vision, meet our curators, and check out of schedule of weekly classes and events. And then please join us on the 4th floor (up four flights of stairs). All are welcomed, all are wanted, all are needed.

Go straight to our schedule 
​to Sign up for Classes
and/or check out this pdf Weekly Class schedule
(or just drop in!
​16 State St, Bangor, ME)

The Spiral Goddess Collective Care Fund

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Color pencil drawing by Sarah Hentges.
We believe that opportunities for healing through embodied, conscious movement—specifically yoga and dance—should not be limited to those who can afford the privilege to attend classes. Our Spiral Goddess Collective Care Fund (SGCCF) attempts to remedy this inequality and increase inclusion by offering free and low-cost programs to the Bangor community as well as sponsored punch-card passes provided through a simple application process.

Trauma-Informed Programs 

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Sarah (she/they/we) and Sen (she/they) were honored to receive Rainbow Awards at the 2024 Bangor Pride Festival. These awards speak to our queer, feminist, trauma-informed approach to movement and healing and to the inclusive, accepting space that we curate with love.
​A trauma-informed approach provides opportunities for empowerment, helping people to respond rather than react when something activates our flight, fight, freeze, and appease reactions. It helps us find emotional balance.

​In short, a trauma-informed approach provides options and aims to empower participants to make choices about how to move their body in each moment. It teaches us to pay attention and to align our choices for breath and movement in ways that enhance our mind/body health, relieve stress, and support our overall well-being. Further, a "brave space" or a "safe enough" experience is created to enhance feelings of safety and belonging as well as relaxation and comfort.

Yoga and dance are healing modalities—​not therapy—​but tools to help people tap into their own innate ability toward physical and emotional healing and individual and collective transformation.

Embodied Movement for Individual and Collective Transformation

While we offer a variety of types of yoga, we are more than a yoga studio—we are a Center for Mind/Body Movement.

We emphasize practices that give us the opportunity to connect our minds and bodies, to be in our bodies authentically and unapologetically. Yoga and meditation certainly provide this opportunity, but conscious dance—embodied, somatic, creative movement—is a passion that The Spiral Goddess Collective was built upon. 

Sarah's JourneyDance training and teaching was what led to a series of synchronicities that birthed a dream—to create and curate (and manage and finance!) a space where people could come together to dance without mirrors, with power and curiosity, without judgment or competition, without the pressure to perform or perfect, and without the damaging myths tied to the fitness industry where she taught for 25 years.

Learn more about the philosophies and theories that inform and inspire the work of The SGC in Sarah's forthcoming book and on our Spiral Goddess School of Dance and Somatic Movement page.

Not so business-as-usual

The Spiral Goddess Collective is a project of Sarah Hentges,
​Ph.D., E-RYT-200+, YACEP

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Sarah's new book will be available February, 2025!
The Spiral Goddess Collective, a Center for Mind/Body Movement is based upon the vision of Dr. Sarah Hentges. Her scholarly and community work come together at The SGC space and in the content of this website. As a professor of transdisciplinary cultural studies at the University of Maine at Augusta she teaches a variety of college courses and conducts research (and writes books!) that inform her somatic approach to yoga, dance, social justice, and embodied movement. (Check out the archive of her Culture&Movement blog) She considers The SGC to be her laboratory, her art studio, and the community space where theory and practice come together. She dreams big and works hard to support the collective offerings of our curators.

Sarah hopes that we will all Move and Be Moved!​