Upcoming Community Events
Spaces to breathe, move, connect, and come back to yourself.
Healing doesn’t only happen in the places where we sit and talk about our lives. Sometimes it happens through breath. Through movement. Through being witnessed. Through allowing our bodies to have a voice in the conversation.
These community experiences are an invitation to step out of the everyday and into intentional spaces where you can slow down, listen inward, explore what’s present, and connect - with yourself and with others.
You don’t have to do this work alone. There is space for you here.
UPCOMING EXPERIENCES
SEPT 25 | BREATHWORK + SOUND | GVST WELLNESS
6:30–9:00pm | EXPLORE ↓
Next date TBD | THE WAY WE MOVE | CrossFit Freshwater
7:30–9:00pm | EXPLORE ↓
NOV 6 | EMBODIED EVOLUTION | A Somatic Exploration
GVST Wellness | 6:30-9 pm | EXPLORE ↓
Nov 20 | BREATHWORK + SOUND | GVST Wellness
6:30-9 pm | EXPLORE ↓
Dec 11 | BREATHWORK + SOUND | Hippie Yoga
6:30-9 pm | EXPLORE ↓
BREATHWORK + SOUND
An invitation to breathe, listen, and come back into relationship with your body.
Breathwork + Sound is an intentional, trauma-informed experience designed to help you slow down, reconnect with your body, and create space for greater awareness, movement, and integration.
Through conscious connected breathwork, somatic awareness, therapeutic sound, restorative movement, and reflection, you’ll be supported in moving beyond the thinking mind and into a deeper relationship with your body.
There is nothing you need to force, accomplish, or release. Your experience is your own, and you are always encouraged to listen to your body and honor your capacity throughout the practice.
UPCOMING CEREMONIES
Nov 20 | GVST Wellness | 6:30–9:00pm
Dec 11 | Hippie Yoga | 6:30–9:00pm
Want to know more about the experience?
Learn more about what to expect, how breathwork may support you, integration, and how to prepare for your ceremony.
WHAT TO EXPECT We begin by creating a grounded container and talking about the breathwork practice, including how conscious connected breathing works, what you may experience, and ways to approach the practice with curiosity rather than expectation. You’ll then be guided into a conscious connected breathing pattern—a continuous, rhythmic breath that can help shift your attention away from the thinking mind and toward the sensations and experiences happening within your body. As the breathing continues, you may notice physical sensations, emotion, movement, memories, imagery, insight, resistance, spaciousness, or deep connection. You may also have a quiet or subtle experience. There is no particular experience you are supposed to have. Throughout the journey, you are encouraged to remain in relationship with your body. You can slow your breath, change your breathing pattern, move, rest, or pause whenever you need. After the active breathwork journey, we intentionally slow down. Sound, restorative movement, stillness, and reflection create space for your body and nervous system to settle and for you to begin integrating whatever emerged. **WHAT CAN BREATHWORK + SOUND SUPPORT?** Every breathwork experience is different, and there is no particular outcome you need to reach. Instead, the practice creates space to become curious about what is present and deepen your relationship with your body. Breathwork and sound may support you in: • Creating space for emotions and sensations to be felt, witnessed, or expressed • Deepening awareness of your body’s patterns, needs, and inner knowing • Moving out of habitual thinking and into greater connection with your body • Experiencing deep relaxation and rest • Cultivating curiosity and compassion toward your internal experience • Strengthening your relationship with yourself **INTEGRATION + AFTER THE CEREMONY** The ceremony doesn’t end when the breathing stops. Integration is the process of allowing an experience to settle and noticing how what arose may inform the way you care for yourself, relate to yourself, or move through your everyday life. We’ll offer grounding and reflection practices to help you begin making space for what emerged. There is no pressure to immediately understand or make meaning of everything you experienced. Sometimes integration is about understanding. Sometimes it is about noticing. And sometimes it is simply giving yourself permission to rest. **WHO IS THIS EXPERIENCE FOR?** Breathwork + Sound is open to adults 18+ and welcomes both beginners and those with an established breathwork practice. No previous experience with breathwork, yoga, meditation, or sound healing is necessary. You do not need to arrive knowing what you want to work on, what you need to release, or what you hope will happen. Curiosity and a willingness to listen to your body are enough. **WHAT TO BRING** We recommend bringing: • A yoga mat • One or two blankets • A pillow or yoga bolster • A water bottle • Comfortable clothing and layers • Any small comfort items that help you settle into your space You may also want to bring a journal and pen and an eye mask. You are welcome to create a comfortable “nest” for yourself. **IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS + CONTRAINDICATIONS** Conscious connected breathwork can be an activating practice and may not be appropriate for everyone. Please contact us before participating if you are pregnant or have concerns related to asthma or other significant respiratory conditions, heart disease or cardiovascular conditions, uncontrolled high blood pressure, epilepsy or a history of seizures, or a history of severe mental health conditions. If you are unsure whether this style of breathwork is appropriate for you, please reach out before registering. We are happy to have a conversation about your needs and whether modifications or another practice may be more supportive. Participant choice, agency, and safety are important parts of this experience. You are always encouraged to listen to your body, modify the practice, slow or change your breath, or stop at any time.
THE WAY WE MOVE
Move. Notice. Connect.
What if the way you move could tell you something about the way you move through life?
Using the Jo, a wooden staff used in the Japanese martial art of Aikido, we’ll explore a simple sequence of movements designed to bring curiosity to how you move, respond, communicate, and connect.
We’ll begin individually and then move into partners and eventually a larger group, noticing what changes when others enter the experience.
Where do you rush?
Where do you get stuck?
What comes easily?
What happens when it doesn’t?
No movement or Aikido experience is necessary. Come on your own or bring a partner, friend, or family member. All are welcome.
Next Date TBD | CrossFit Freshwater | 7:30–9:00pm
Curious about what we’ll explore?
Go deeper into how movement, connection, and relationship become part of the experience.
WHAT WE’LL EXPLORE The Way We Move is an experiential practice rooted in curiosity rather than performance. Using a simple sequence of movements with the Jo, we’ll begin by exploring the movement on our own giving you space to notice your natural rhythms, responses, and patterns. From there, we’ll begin moving with another person and eventually as part of a larger group. As the experience shifts, we’ll pay attention to what happens within you when relationship enters the movement. What happens when you miss a connection? Can you slow down? Can you communicate what you need? Can you stay connected to yourself while staying connected to another? Throughout the experience, we’ll pause for reflection and conversation, creating space to notice how the patterns that emerge through movement may also show up in your relationships, work, family, and everyday life. There is nothing to perfect and no “right” way to move through the experience. The invitation is simply to notice, to become curious about the ways you respond, adapt, connect, and find your way back when something doesn’t go as planned. WHO IS THIS EXPERIENCE FOR? No movement, fitness, or Aikido experience is necessary. Come on your own or bring a partner, friend, or family member. All 18+ are welcome. You’ll be guided through each part of the experience, with space to move at your own pace and honor what feels supportive for you.
EMBODIED EVOLUTION
A Somatic Exploration for Women
You’ve done the reflecting. You understand so much about yourself. And still, there may be patterns you can feel living in your body that insight alone hasn’t been able to shift.
The way you brace when things feel uncertain. The part of you that learned to stay small, stay quiet, take care of everyone else, or hold it all together. The emotions you learned to contain. The needs that went unmet. The expressions of yourself that, somewhere along the way, stopped feeling safe to fully inhabit.
Embodied Evolution is an invitation to meet those places differently.
Through breath, intentional movement, guided imagery, sound, and deep rest, we’ll journey through the stages of your life not simply by remembering your story, but by allowing your body to become part of the conversation.
This is not about changing what happened.
It is about creating space in the present for your body to experience something different.
Nov 6 | GVST Wellness | 6:30-9pm
Ready to explore a little deeper?
Learn more about the journey, who this experience is for, and what you’ll be invited to explore.
THE JOURNEY This immersive somatic experience invites you to explore the stages of your life not simply by remembering your story, but by allowing your body to become part of the conversation. Through a three-part circular breath, intentional movement, and guided imagery, we will slowly journey backward through time, moving from your present-day self toward your earliest experiences and eventually into the womb. Along the way, you’ll be invited to notice what arises in your body: sensation, emotion, movement, memory, longing, resistance, or perhaps something you don’t yet have words for. There is nothing you need to force or figure out. At the center of the experience, we rest. And from that place, we begin again. As we reverse our movement and journey forward through the stages of life, you’ll have the opportunity to meet yourself with what may have been missing the first time. To reclaim the voice that wasn’t expressed. The tenderness you needed. The boundary you couldn’t yet hold. The freedom to take up space. The permission to play, grieve, rage, soften, receive, or simply be. This is not about changing what happened. It is about listening to the younger versions of yourself with the wisdom and capacity you have now and exploring what it feels like to offer yourself choice, compassion, expression, protection, and permission. REST + INTEGRATION Following the movement and breathwork journey, you’ll be invited into deep rest supported by sound and vibration, allowing space for your body and nervous system to settle and integrate. We’ll move slowly into personal reflection before gathering together over tea and chocolate for optional sharing, witnessing, and connection. You are always welcome to choose how much or how little you wish to share. WHO IS THIS EXPERIENCE FOR? Embodied Evolution is a women-only experience created for the woman who feels ready to go deeper. For the woman who has already done a lot of healing and self-reflection, but knows there are places within her that cannot be reached through thinking alone. For the woman who is beginning to recognize the patterns that have shaped her relationships, her choices, her voice, and the way she moves through the world—and is curious about what might exist beyond them. For the woman who longs to feel more at home in her body, more connected to herself, and more free to live from who she is now rather than only from what she learned she needed to be. You do not need to arrive healed, clear, fearless, or knowing exactly what you need. Come with curiosity. Come with your body. Come with a willingness to listen. There may be parts of you that have been waiting a very long time to be met.
"I always feel grounded, peaceful and in touch with my inner self after one of these sessions. I keep going to them because each experience has been unique and just what I needed at the moment! It lifted the weight off my shoulders while I was actively grieving a loved one. Another time it felt like I could feel my soul! At minimum you will find a deep sense of relaxation and peace. You don’t need to know anyone to attend, in fact, going alone can help you feel connected to the world around you in a way you didn’t know possible. If you feel even somewhat called to go to this class, I highly recommend you take the leap!"
~ Breathwork + Sound Ceremony Participant