Learn yoga’s calming rhythms of breathing, movement, and posture in a tranquil Garden setting. Small class sizes enable instructor Jacqueline Gooding to offer individual pointers and address multiple levels of experience. Please bring a blanket, yoga mat, water and appropriate layered clothing for the season. Classes take place in the Garden or inside Garden buildings, […]

Horticulturist Dawn Lerch and designer David Pippin help you learn how to design and execute exciting and long-lasting arrangements for church settings that are also appropriate and inexpensive. After demonstrating various formats, Dawn and David help you create an arrangement. Designs emphasize using common garden greens and purchased material as accents. Take away an arrangement […]

Hut! Get ready to shape up your landscape in three sessions. Warm up by learning to measure, plan, and budget. Workout with techniques to install your landscape, and cool down with seasonal maintenance strategies.  Please note date changes below! Registration is closed for this class. 

Learn yoga’s calming rhythms of breathing, movement, and posture in a tranquil Garden setting.  Small class sizes enable instructor Jacqueline Gooding to offer individual pointers and address multiple levels of experience.  Please bring a blanket, yoga mat, water and appropriate layered clothing for the season.  Classes take place in the Garden or inside Garden buildings, […]

Use all those bits and pieces picked up on your neighborhood nature walks—or that the kids bring you—and make a work of art unique to you and your life. Use feathers, hatched bird eggs, dried flowers and plants, nut shells, even buttons and ribbons, old photos and sketches. Create unique handmade paper, or use paper […]

Mentors and students work on certificate projects together in an informal setting.  Open to BI certificate candidates only. Attendee $25

Snap out of the winter doldrums as David Pippin and Al Brockwell, two Richmond designers known for their creativity and exciting floral creations, take on tropical plants. Gather ideas for your own winter-busting arrangements as David and Al explain why they used materials the way they did and show off their final creations. Enjoy a […]

The Five Elements Form of T’ai Chi is filled with simple and gentle movements easily mastered in a short period of time. Students study the physical movements and philosophy of T’ai Chi as well as breathwork and meditation. Benefits include increased circulation, balance, and posture. Many find an increase in strength and flexibility and a […]