Salt & Light Academy begins small.
Our programs are designed as living gatherings; small, intimate, and participatory. Each one is an invitation into shared attention and imagination.
We learn not by consuming information, but by practicing presence together.
Explore Our Programs
All gatherings begin on Academy Hill and move gently outward into Hudson. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is amplified. Everything is meant to be lived at human scale.
The Lamplight Tarot Almanac
Spring–Summer 2026 · Academy Hill, Hudson
A 22-week seasonal gathering from Spring Equinox into summer in which participants engage the Major Arcana through conversation, song, and place-based walking in Hudson.
Pilgrimage Walk
Hudson & River Paths
Seasonal walks through streets, hills, and river edges that cultivate perception, place-memory, and shared attention.
Salons
Conversation Evenings
Small gatherings for reflective reading and discussion around texts, symbols, and questions of meaning.
Shanty Singing Sessions
Song & Collective Voice
Participatory sessions composing and singing simple sea-shanties that carry themes of place, work, and imagination.
Ongoing Explorations
Small gatherings devoted to deepening attention, imagination, and communal meaning-making.
Core Program Forms
The Salt & Light Year
A calendar shaped by the light.
Spring — Emerging Light (Attention)
Theme: learning to notice
Equinox Walk to the Parade Ground
We meet on Windmill Hill and walk slowly down Warren Street to the statue of St. Winifred on the Parade Ground. There, we read a short passage, sing our first shanty in call and response, and return uphill in silence.
Other spring gatherings may include:
A river walk: Keeping Time Without Clocks
A living room evening: Cousin Hannah’s Balm and our first singing lesson
Date: TBD
Summer — Shared Light (Fellowship)
Theme: learning to gather
Twilight Porch Sings
We gather near sunset. A shanty is learned. Conversation unfolds. Bread and lemonade are shared at table.
Other summer moments may include:
A slow Warren Street walk (no phones)
A field sit: twenty minutes of silence, then song
Date: TBD
The Salt & Light Year
A calendar shaped by the light.
Autumn — Fading Light (Interior)
Theme: learning to listen
Lamplight Evenings
We meet in a room lit only by lamps. We read a passage from Judah or Hannah. We sing softly. We speak about the Inward Light.
Date: TBD
Winter — Low Light (Meaning)
Theme: learning to carry meaning
Candlelight Shanty Night
No overhead lights. Candles, soup, voices, and the story of the tabinet cloth. A night devoted to carrying something for someone else.
Date: TBD