As Gandhi well knew, spinning soothes the soul. Slow, quiet, meditative—spinning is the antidote to our stressed-out, too-busy, always-on world. Beyond the obvious benefit—more yarn!—spinning = self-care. Time spent spinning fills us up; it makes us better friends, spouses, and parents; and it helps us feel more comfortable in our own skin.

When Gandhi was leading India’s fight for independence from the British, he looked forward to going to jail so he’d have more time to spin. Makes perfect sense to us.

We’re on a mission to make top-notch spinning instruction more accessible, by offering spinning workshops and classes online. Imagine: taking a spinning class without having to travel to a fiber festival or even pack up your wheel!

SPIN SCHOOL

Spin School is Sheepspot’s signature online course. Spin School takes new and self-taught spinners from feeling confused, frustrated, and overwhelmed at their wheels, to feeling confident, relaxed, and filled with joy as they create yarns they love and enjoy every step of the process.

Spin School will let you cut through all the spinning noise on the internet; provide you with reliable information that’s well-sequenced, clear, and actionable; and give you manageable, concrete exercises that you can use to build the knowledge base and manual skills you need to create yarns you love and can’t wait to use. There’s a lot involved in becoming a versatile and confident spinner. Spin School breaks down the process into clear steps, so you can ditch the overwhelm and easily and confidently get to spinning yarns you love—much faster than you could if you go it alone.

Spin School is currently closed to new members and will re-open in March.

The Guild by Sheepspot

The Guild By Sheepspot is a membership community that helps intermediate and advanced spinners go from feeling stuck, uninspired, and uncertain about the next steps in their spinning journey to feeling excited about sitting down at their wheel, prepared to let go of the “rules,” and ready to step into their full potential as fiber artists.

The Guild is currently closed to new members and will reopen in December.

The Spinning for the Soul Retreat

An intimate fall weekend with fellow spinners, in a setting that rewards the eye with awe-inspiring beauty wherever one looks, where the loudest sounds are the ocean’s waves, birdsong, and the baahs of sheep, and where you can breathe clean air that smells like the ocean and see so. many. stars when you look up at night.

Held in Upper Kingsburg, Nova Scotia each October, Sheepspot’s Spinning for the Soul retreat gives you permission to unplug from a noisy world and spend a weekend in an intentional community of spinners committed to mindful making that feeds our souls. Enabled and inspired by the physical beauty of the site, we revive our spirits as we renew our spinning practice and reconnect with nature. Guests leave feeling relaxed, centered, clear-minded, and ready for what’s next.