Join us on a journey toward peacebuilding, sustainability, and transformative leadership. Together, we can make a difference through community foodways, cultural preservation, education, environmental stewardship, and wellness.
At Legacies Peace Center, we believe peacebuilding begins within individuals, grows through community relationships, and expands through leadership. Our programs cultivate resilience, strengthen connection, and inspire locally led change through wellness, community foodways, and leadership development.
Whether you join a class, attend a workshop, partner with us, volunteer, or make a gift, every act of participation helps cultivate stronger, healthier, and more connected communities.
Sacred Ground Wellness: Embodied Peace Collective
A community-centered initiative of Legacies Peace Center's Sacred Ground Wellness program.
The Dahlonega Yoga Collective brings together local teachers and practitioners to offer accessible, inclusive, and community-rooted wellness experiences grounded in peacebuilding, embodiment, and connection.
Our Weekly Class:
Yoga Stretch with Betsy
Every Tuesday | 6:00-7:15pm
Release tension, improve mobility, and give your body the space it needs to unwind. This gentle practice focuses on mindful stretching, breath awareness, and supported movement to increase flexibility while promoting relaxation and ease.
Ideal for beginners, active individuals, or anyone looking to balance the demands of everyday life, this class offers a calming environment to reconnect with your body and leave feeling refreshed.
Our Next Featured Thursday Class:
Yin Yoga with Starr
Thursday, August 13th | 6:00-7:15pm
Yin Yoga offers an opportunity to slow down, turn inward, and create space for rest and restoration through longer-held, supported postures and mindful breath.
Designed to gently release tension and cultivate presence, this practice encourages both physical ease and mental stillness. Whether you're looking to unwind from a busy week, improve flexibility, or simply reconnect with yourself, this class offers a welcoming space to pause, breathe, and recharge.
Meet the Teacher: Starr Kriener
Starr is a Georgia native who grew up in Roswell and spent more than two decades making her way north, with Dahlonega always being her hoped-for final destination. She discovered yoga in 2016 and earned her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT-200) certification under Akasha Searcy in 2021. Drawn to yoga as a practice of slowing down rather than speeding up, Starr primarily teaches yin yoga, creating a calming space where students can expect long, supported holds, thoughtful readings, and the soothing sounds of crystal singing bowls to encourage deep relaxation and self-reflection. She believes yoga is a "work-in," not a "work-out," and hopes each student leaves feeling more grounded and connected to themselves. Outside the studio, Starr is retired from corporate life and enjoys caring for seniors, hiking, gardening, photography, and spending time with family and friends. She loves being part of the Dahlonega Yoga Collective because of its welcoming, heart-centered community and its shared belief that yoga has the power to heal, connect, and be accessible to everyone.
All DYC classes are donation-based — come as you are, contribute what you can. All are welcome.
Studio details and location are shared upon registration.
Nothing Grows Alone
Rooted & Rising in partnership with GMUUC's Kids Culinary Camp
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Legacies Peace Center is excited to partner with Georgia Mountains Unitarian Universalist Church (GMUUC) for this years Kids Culinary Camp as part of our Rooted & Rising program.
Executive Director Emily Cook will lead an interactive session exploring interdependence through the story of our food. Using fresh fruits and vegetables, children will discover how every meal is made possible through relationships - with healthy soil, pollinators, sunshine, rain, farmers, families, and communities.
Grounded in Legacies Peace Center's peacebuilding mission, this hands-on learning experience invites young people to see food not simply as something we eat, but as something that connects us to one another, to the earth, and to generations of people who have cultivated and shared food traditions before us.
By fostering gratitude, reducing food waste, and encouraging care for the natural world, Rooted & Rising helps cultivate the next generation of compassionate environmental stewards, thoughtful leaders, and peacebuilders.
Preserving the Voice of Granby
Special Project | Community Leadership & Cultural Preservation
Saturday, July 25, 2026
Every community has a story, but Granby's is written in the lived memories of its longtime residents, ranching families, and local leaders.
Legacies Peace Center is honored to support the Granby Oral History Project, one of our first special initiatives dedicated to community peacebuilding through cultural preservation and local leadership.
Led by Dr. Anne Chance, LPC's Director of Advancement, this professional heritage preservation project is designed to capture the stories, traditions, and lived experiences that define Granby's unique identity before they are lost.
Through structured workshops, custom educational curricula, and expert archival consulting, the project does more than document history - it strengthens community identity, fosters intergenerational relationships, and preserves local knowledge for future generations. The resulting oral histories will help create authentic cultural resources and exhibits that celebrates the people and places that have shaped Granby.
At Legacies Peace Center, we believe that preserving community memory is an act of peacebuilding. By honoring local voices, strengthening connections across generations, and ensuring that stories are not forgotten, communities build a deeper understanding of their shared past and a stronger foundation for their future.
We are excited to partner with the Granby community on this meaningful initiative and look forward to sharing updates as this special project unfolds.
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July 21, 2026: Nothing Grows Alone with Rooted & Rising in partnership with Georgia Mountain Unitarian Universalist Church
July 25, 2026: Preserving the Voice of Granby with Legacies Peace Center in partnership with the Granby Oral History Project
