xior (pronounced “choir”)
is a queer, experimental
vocal gathering.
no experience needed,
everyone is welcome!
april 27th
abide west, 15810 detroit ave, lakewood
free
3 - 5 pm
Big Forest Uta-kai (poetry party) returns to Larchmere Abide in April!
The form of poetry we will write, Gogyohka, celebrates the freedom in being a little off kilter, in surprising the pen with what the human experience has to offer. What’s more liberating than not knowing what will come next, what will come out of you, what moments and thoughts and feelings that have been stored for how many seasons and suddenly sprout onto paper?
Let’s refresh our hearts with little songs that could be wishes, could be reminders, could be anything, as long as the lines come from you. This is the time of possibility—a time to return to a poetic practice or start a new one. Join us as we come back together for the beautiful communal making we call Uta-kai!
***
No experience reading or writing is required. Please bring paper and a pen or pencil with you. This is not a poetry workshop. No critical evaluation of your poetry will take place. A heart cannot be questioned, only encouraged.
Light meal, good times, an embodiment practice, writing gogyohka, and optional sharing. Gogyohka Uta-Kai is super fun!
Sliding Scale 20/25/30
Join resident collage artist Rhi Gonzales for an evening of collaging -- gathering bits and pieces together to create masterpieces. We'll provide all the materials and some tasty drinks and snacks. You bring your body and heart and the willingness to create something beautiful from what you find. And you're welcome to bring any materials you'd like!
You can see some of Rhi's creations on instagram @self.rhiflective.arts
Friday, May 3rd, 6-8 pm
Abide West - Lakewood
$20/25/30 Sliding Scale
May 3rd - The Intersectional Environmentalist by Leah Thomas
If this is a topic that interests you, join us for discussion – no reading required.
We’ll arrive together with a slow asana practice and then share snacks and conversation.
From the 2022 TIME100 Next honoree and the activist who coined the term comes a primer on intersectional environmentalism for the next generation of activists looking to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change.
The Intersectional Environmentalist examines the inextricable link between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and promotes awareness of the fundamental truth that we cannot save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people -- especially those most often unheard. Written by Leah Thomas, a prominent voice in the field and the activist who coined the term "Intersectional Environmentalism," this book is simultaneously a call to action, a guide to instigating change for all, and a pledge to work towards the empowerment of all people and the betterment of the planet.
Thomas shows how not only are Black, Indigenous and people of color unequally and unfairly impacted by environmental injustices, but she argues that the fight for the planet lies in tandem to the fight for civil rights; and in fact, that one cannot exist without the other. An essential read, this book addresses the most pressing issues that the people and our planet face, examines and dismantles privilege, and looks to the future as the voice of a movement that will define a generation.
*****
About Murmurations:
“My dream is a movement with such deep trust that we move as a murmuration, the way groups of starlings billow, dive, spin, dance collectively through the air—to avoid predators, and, it also seems, to pass time in the most beautiful way possible.” – adrienne maree brown
In Murmurations, we gather monthly to discuss books rooted in social justice, community healing, Indigenous wisdom and the natural world.
We will build presence and connection through conversation and a slow yoga flow that reflects the themes of the reading. We always offer refreshments—please feel welcome to bring snacks to share.
The session will be guided by Tanya Reynolds, CYT-200, a graduate of Abide’s yoga teacher training and lifelong lover of reading and community (and always snacks).
Reading the book ahead of time is not required for attendance, and all are invited to join the discussion to your comfort level.
Please check your local library, independent bookstore or friends’ bookshelves for copies of the reading. Loganberry Books (on Larchmere, just two doors down from Abide), is offering all Murmuration Book Club titles at 10% off. Just mention that you're purchasing it for Abide's book club!
Cost: $15-$25 sliding scale
Time: Friday 6-8 p.m.
May 3rd, 2024
Embodied Astrology is a monthly offering from Anna Barr and Nicole Born Crow.
Bring yourself fully into each zodiac season through gentle yoga, somatics, and guided meditation. We’ll learn the traits and expressions for the current sun sign, and how we can use their lessons to move through the cycle of the year. We’ll close the practice with journaling and an option to connect over tea and astro chat. Mini astro journals provided.
For grounded and stubborn Taurus, we'll focus on themes of stability, safety and the senses.
Saturday, May 4th, 6-7:30 pm
Abide West - Lakewood
Sliding Scale $25 / $35 / $45
You are invited to join Holistic Wellness Practitioner Stacey Pickering for a restorative sound bath, including crystal singing bowls, intuitive vocalization & other vibrationally healing instrumentation.
Crystal singing bowls, made of quartz and other gemstones, are used in ceremony, meditation, and various transformative experiences. They produce strong, clear, true tones that resonate deeply in our bodies & energetic systems. The vibrations that ring out from the bowls create clear pathways in us for opening, release, connection, balance & stillness. Their powerful sounds can help us feel grounded, energized, peaceful, uplifted and whole.
Sound vibrations have the power to clear mental clutter & allow space for new neural pathways, helping to catalyze the creation of what we want to be & see more of in our lives & in the world.
Join Stacey to reset, rebalance, and reconnect with yourself.
Saturday, May 11th, 7 PM
Sliding Scale $20 / $25 / $30
Join Sororii, Cleveland’s new world-indie duo, and Hope Hamling, teacher at Abide Yoga, for a beautiful evening of cello, bassoon, vocals, and easygoing movement. Meaning sisterhood, Sororii invites soul-seekers to join in friendship to connect with their inner feminine and celebrate our shared humanity across cultures.
Sororii is a female-led band featuring Afro-Colombian cellist Carolina Borja, and bassoonist Arleigh Savage. Sororii formed in 2021 during the height of the pandemic with the spirit to reclaim sisterhood and explore feminine voices across cultures. Their music blends warm, melodic bassoon lines, plucked and strummed cello, and voice; creating instrumental grooves with underlying world, latin, and afro beats.
Hope Hamling is the founder of Abide Larchmere and Abide West in Lakewood. She believes that finding a sense of ease in the physical body is our birthright, and helps show you how.
May 17, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Sliding Scale 30 / 35 / 40
Somatic Human Design: an intro workshop to Human Design paired with
embodiment practice through Somatic Dance
Lead by sister duo, Tasha Brandt & Krystal Alexandria
Have you heard of Human Design but don’t quite know where to begin? Perhaps you’ve heard of auras. Did you know that your aura type works in a particular way? Come explore one of the most pivotal cornerstones of the vast Human Design system - Aura Types - through the lens of embodiment via somatic dance. Both Human Design and Somatic Dance are tools to decondition who we were taught to be in favor of who we are naturally designed to be. We’ll nerd out together, connect dots you never knew connected, and have embodied connection to ourselves (and each other!) through some lively and heart-led Somatic Dance.
Date: Saturday, May 18th, 2024 @ 1-4p
Where: Abide West, at the Willow Room Salon, Lakewood, OH
Duration: 3 hours
Price: $45 / $55 / $65
Attendee Max: 12 people
Curious about your pelvic floor? Taint misbeahavin'? Having symptoms that make you believe you might have some dysfunction down there? Join Dr. Jessica Jenkins, Pelvic Floor Therapist, and Hope Hamling, teacher at Abide Yoga, for an evening of information and exploration. We'll learn about our anatomy, then practice shapes and movement patterns to help create a more supple, strong pelvic floor. And because this is happening during the dinner hour, we'll also have a vegan, gluten free, nut free meal.
All genders and expressions welcome. Everyone has a pelvic floor!
About Dr. Jessica Jenkins:
Our expert, Jessica Jenkins, is dedicated to helping you achieve optimal health and wellness. She received her Doctor of Physical Therapy from Duke University and her B.S. in Biology/Chemistry from Denison University. She has more than a decade of experience treating patients from all walks of life in Northeast Ohio. Her specialties include pelvic floor dysfunction, infertility, peripartum issues, the LGBTQIA+ population, lymphedema, TMJ disorders, and chronic pain. She is an adjunct professor at Walsh University teaching Introduction to Pelvic Health and the Women's Health elective. Dr. Jenkins has co-created continuing education courses on treating pregnant and postpartum women as well as TMJ dysfunction. She is certified in lymphedema therapy as well as the Wim Hof Method. She is a trauma-informed practitioner. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her 4 children, partner, and extended family, photography, going to concerts, Wim Hoffing, and yoga.
Dr. Jenkins believes in a holistic, multifaceted approach to healing and strives to provide personalized care tailored to your unique needs.
Yay! Spring clothing swap!
Drop your gently used seasonally appropriate clothing (good condition only, please!) at Abide Yoga (before or after any class time), or arrange drop offs directly with Hope. All donations must be received by Thursday, April 18th to be included in the swap.
We’ll sort through it all, and display the best quality clothes for y’all to shop for free on Friday, April 19th, from 7 - 8:30. All unclaimed items will be donated to Laura’s Home Women’s Crisis Center / City Mission.
The Way of Tea (or Cha Dao) is an ancient meditative practice, one of shamans and sages, in which we are offered the opportunity to cultivate space and enter into the calm center of the present moment. Sitting with tea as the early Daoists did connects us with ourselves, Nature, community, and ultimately—Spirit, through subtle senses and an awakened presence. A tea ceremony is a chance to honor the sacred and the mundane, to calm our minds, open our hearts, and rinse off the dust of the world as it’s said.
Tea (Camellia sinensis) is known as the mother of all herbs in Traditional Chinese Medicine; a sacred plant revered by humans since as early as 4,000 BC. She is a gentle and nurturing spiritual balm, amplified when we are present and open to receiving her medicine; activated when combined with hot water and poured into our hearts. Tea meets us exactly where we are and ushers stillness from deep within.
Join Samantha Jones for tea ceremony and community. Sliding scale $20-$30. Advance signup helps us prepare, thank you for being helpful in that way!
Saturday, April 13th at Abide on Larchmere
Sounding it Out is about empowering ourselves to remember & reclaim our voices to support our own healing & liberation. In this practice we:
Slow down, tune in, & listen within
Notice what is asking for attention
Optionally: Bring care to the parts of us that need it through breath & vocalization (humming, toning, sighing, groaning, or whatever arises!). This can be done sitting, lying down, moving as needed, and even silently, in stillness, if desired.
Release practicing & nestle in to receive the restorative vibrations of crystal & Tibetan singing bowls, bells, chimes, gong, shruti box, rain stick, guda drum, & voice, and the (optional) nurturing touch of Reiki
Close our gathering together, with an invitation to share
You are invited to join Holistic Wellness Practitioner Stacey Pickering for a restorative sound bath, including crystal singing bowls, intuitive vocalization & other vibrationally healing instrumentation.
Embodied Astrology is a monthly offering from Anna Barr and Nicole Born Crow.
Bring yourself fully into each zodiac season through gentle yoga, somatics, and guided meditation. We’ll learn the traits and expressions for the current sun sign and how we can use their lessons to move through the cycle of the year. We’ll close the practice with an option to connect over tea and astro chat.
Mini astro journals provided!
Join Maya and Jadine for an afternoon of connection, movement, breath, and play.
Full Heart Family Yoga Flow is for all styles of families and for children between 4 to 11 years old. All siblings and friends are welcome as well. Class includes kid friendly breathwork, story time, yoga flow, peace forts and more!
Start the year in practice with your family and leave with activities to do at home and for all the moments in between. We hope you’ll join us!
Sliding scale $20 / $30 / $40 per family.
Selection for April: A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention by Rebecca Schiller
The latest research shows that while more than 3 percent of all adults (in the U.S., that’s more than 7 million people) suffer from ADHD, only 10 to 25 percent of these individuals receive accurate assessments and diagnoses. That leaves millions of people who are dealing with symptoms without any kind of support or accommodation, and often (especially in the case of women & femmes) blaming themselves for behaviors out of their control.
This month, we are reading A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind. Whether you are curious about the steady climb of ADHD diagnoses or have started to see patterns of this neurodivergence in your own life, this reading & conversation is for you.
About the book (from the publisher):
It should have been Rebecca Schiller’s dream come true: moving her young family to the English countryside to raise goats and coax their own fruit and vegetables from the land. But, as she writes: The summer of striding out toward a life of open fields and sacks of corn, I brought a confused black hole of something pernicious but not yet acknowledged along for the ride.
Rebecca’s health begins to crumble, with bewildering symptoms: frequent falls, uncontrollable rages, and mysterious lapses in memory. As she fights to be seen by a succession of specialists, her fledgling homestead—and her family—hang by increasingly tenuous threads. And when her diagnosis finally comes, it is utterly unexpected: severe ADHD.
In her scramble for answers, Rebecca’s consciousness alternately sears with pinpoint focus and spirals with connections. Childhood memories resurface with new meaning, and her daily life entwines with the history of intrepid women who tended this land before her. Her family weathers their growing pains where generations of acorns have fallen to rise again as trees, where ancient wolves and lynx once stalked the shadows.
Written in unsparing, luminous prose, this is an all-absorbing memoir of one woman’s newfound neurodivergence—and a clarion call to overturn the narrative that says minds are either normal and good or different and broken.
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About Murmurations:
“My dream is a movement with such deep trust that we move as a murmuration, the way groups of starlings billow, dive, spin, dance collectively through the air—to avoid predators, and, it also seems, to pass time in the most beautiful way possible.” – adrienne maree brown
In Murmurations, we gather monthly to discuss books rooted in social justice, community healing, Indigenous wisdom and the natural world.
We will build presence and connection through conversation and a slow yoga flow that reflects the themes of the reading. We always offer refreshments—please feel welcome to bring snacks to share.
The session will be guided by Tanya Reynolds, CYT-200, a graduate of Abide’s yoga teacher training and lifelong lover of reading and community (and always snacks).
Reading the book ahead of time is not required for attendance, and all are invited to join the discussion to your comfort level.
Please check your local library, independent bookstore or friends’ bookshelves for copies of the reading. Loganberry Books (on Larchmere, just two doors down from Abide), is offering all Murmuration Book Club titles at 10% off. Just mention that you're purchasing it for Abide's book club!
Big Forest Uta-kai (poetry party) returns to Larchmere Abide in March!
Let’s refresh our hearts with little songs that could be wishes, could be reminders, could be anything, as long as the lines come from you. This is the time of possibility—a time to return to a poetic practice or start a new one. Join us as we come back together for the beautiful communal making we call Uta-kai!
***
No experience reading or writing is required. Please bring paper and a pen or pencil with you. This is not a poetry workshop. No critical evaluation of your poetry will take place. A heart cannot be questioned, only encouraged.
Light meal, good times, an embodiment practice, writing gogyohka, and optional sharing. Gogyohka Uta-Kai is super fun!
Join resident collage artist Hayleigh Robertson for an evening of collaging -- gathering bits and pieces together to create masterpieces. We'll provide all the materials and some tasty drinks and snacks. You bring your body and heart and the willingness to create something beautiful from what you find.
Barefoot Groove is an embodied breath, dancing and shaking workshop to support you with reconnecting with your body, expressing yourself, and connecting with community
You are invited to show up and dance solo, or with friends. This night is all about you listening to your body and giving it what you need. Breathwork gives us a deep sense of choice, and it allows us to lean into what is right for our bodies. Through a variety of breath techniques designed to soothe your nervous system, you will enter a portal for release while dropping into your body. Each breath will connect you with yourself.
Dancing and shaking can help us to raise our energy and vibration by releasing tension in the body. It supports us in breaking up habitual physical and emotional holding patterns we might not even be aware of. We are looking to evoke a sense of joy through play, pleasure and fun.
We will begin with a community circle for introductions, guided breathwork to bring the nervous system into a relaxed state, and then break out the music and the dance moves. The invitation is to come as you are, move as you feel guided to, and simply HAVE FUN!
Held the 3rd Tuesday of each month, Grieving and Gratitude provides a safe and nurturing space for anyone who is grieving. Whether you lost someone recently or long ago, you are welcome here. Your loss is important and your grief is important.
Grieving and Gratitude is an invitation for processing, feeling, honoring, and meeting yourself where you are. An opportunity to be held and share in community without judgement about your person and how you are feeling followed by Restorative Yoga.
About Caitlin Miller:
In addition to being a Yoga Teacher, Caitlin is a hospice volunteer and a Certified Death Doula. She experienced Anticipatory Grief for close to 20 years and feels called to hold space for other people who are grieving someone special after the loss of her father last year. She believes that because death and grief are something we all have in common, there is a beautiful opportunity to be in community and uplift one another.
xior (pronounced “choir”)
is a queer, experimental
vocal gathering.
no experience needed,
everyone is welcome!
april 27th
abide west, 15810 detroit ave, lakewood
free
3 - 5 pm
Join Stacey Pickering and Lisa River Schenkelberg for an evening of welcoming in the generative, inherently creative energy of springtime. Through the practices of sound bathing, shamanic journeying, and active imagination, we'll settle our nervous systems, dive deep into the subconscious realm to see what wants to be grown from within us, then create an artwork based on what we found.
Saturday, March 16th, 6:00 - 8:30pm
Sliding Scale $30 / 40 / 50
the fix by Nayyirah Waheed
getting yourself together.
what about undoing yourself.
Winter Community {c.a.r.e} is a time of being with self through community. During our two hours together, we will mindfully breathe, meditate, reflect and commune. Winter can often feel challenging and isolating. Energy is low, this is the way of nature. Come into community, into a collective space for tending to one’s self through feeling, releasing, expressing, breathing and resting. Remember that you are never alone.
We humbly invite you to come as you are. Join Danielle Graham, a meditation teacher and yoga therapist and Nadeen al-Jijakli, a yoga instructor and sound healer, and allow yourself to take the evening off. Let us commune and connect through the practices of stillness, breathwork, meditation, poetry, yin and restorative yoga, Yoga Nidra and contemplative reflection, as well as through the shared vibrational experience of healing sounds and instruments.
Saturday, March 9th, 6 - 8 pm
Sliding scale $25 / $35 / $45
Come join the Artful Voyagers for an evening of reconnection and playful movement, ending with an epic sound bath. The full event is from 7-9pm, and we will lock the doors at 7:45 to avoid disruptions during the sound bath. We’d love to see you!
Sliding scale $20 / $25 / $30
The Way of Tea (or Cha Dao) is an ancient meditative practice, one of shamans and sages, in which we are offered the opportunity to cultivate space and enter into the calm center of the present moment. Sitting with tea as the early Daoists did connects us with ourselves, Nature, community, and ultimately—Spirit, through subtle senses and an awakened presence. A tea ceremony is a chance to honor the sacred and the mundane, to calm our minds, open our hearts, and rinse off the dust of the world as it’s said.
Tea (Camellia sinensis) is known as the mother of all herbs in Traditional Chinese Medicine; a sacred plant revered by humans since as early as 4,000 BC. She is a gentle and nurturing spiritual balm, amplified when we are present and open to receiving her medicine; activated when combined with hot water and poured into our hearts. Tea meets us exactly where we are and ushers stillness from deep within.
Join Samantha Jones for tea ceremony and community. Sliding scale $20-$30. Advance signup helps us prepare, thank you for being helpful in that way!
Every Sunday at 11 at Abide West in Lakewood
Embodied Astrology is a monthly offering from Anna Barr and Nicole Born Crow.
Bring yourself fully into each zodiac season through gentle yoga, somatics, and guided meditation. We’ll learn the traits and expressions for the current sun sign and how we can use their lessons to move through the cycle of the year. We’ll close the practice with an option to connect over tea and astro chat.
Mini astro journals provided!
January 5th - How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
If this is a topic that interests you, join us for discussion – no reading required.
We’ll arrive together with a slow asana practice and then share snacks and conversation.
About the book (from publisher):
This “important and timely” (Drew Faust, Harvard Magazine) #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in America—and how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves.
It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving more than four hundred people. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned-maximum-security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers.
A deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, How the Word Is Passed illustrates how some of our country's most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods like downtown Manhattan, where the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women, and children has been deeply imprinted.
Informed by scholarship and brought to life by the story of people living today, Smith's debut work of nonfiction is a landmark of reflection and insight that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country and how it has come to be.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the Stowe Prize
Winner of 2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021
*****
The session will be guided by Tanya Reynolds, CYT-200, a graduate of Abide’s yoga teacher training and lifelong lover of reading and community (and always snacks).
Reading the book ahead of time is not required for attendance. Please check your local library, independent bookstore or friends’ bookshelves for copies of the reading.
If you feel called to purchase the book, Loganberry (on Larchmere, just two doors down from Abide), is offering all Murmuration Book Club titles at 10% off. Just mention that you're purchasing it for Abide's book club!
Cost: $15-$25 sliding scale
Time: Friday 6-8 p.m.
March 1st, 2024
Big Forest Uta-kai (poetry party) returns to Larchmere Abide in February!
Let’s refresh our hearts with little songs that could be wishes, could be reminders, could be anything, as long as the lines come from you. This is the time of possibility—a time to return to a poetic practice or start a new one. Join us as we come back together for the beautiful communal making we call Uta-kai!
***
No experience reading or writing is required. Please bring paper and a pen or pencil with you. This is not a poetry workshop. No critical evaluation of your poetry will take place. A heart cannot be questioned, only encouraged.
Light meal, good times, an embodiment practice, writing gogyohka, and optional sharing. Gogyohka Uta-Kai is super fun!
Sliding Scale 20/25/30
Held the 3rd Tuesday of each month, Grieving and Gratitude provides a safe and nurturing space for anyone who is grieving. Whether you lost someone recently or long ago, you are welcome here. Your loss is important and your grief is important.
Grieving and Gratitude is an invitation for processing, feeling, honoring, and meeting yourself where you are. An opportunity to be held and share in community without judgement about your person and how you are feeling followed by Restorative Yoga.
About Caitlin Miller:
In addition to being a Yoga Teacher, Caitlin is a hospice volunteer and a Certified Death Doula. She experienced Anticipatory Grief for close to 20 years and feels called to hold space for other people who are grieving someone special after the loss of her father last year. She believes that because death and grief are something we all have in common, there is a beautiful opportunity to be in community and uplift one another.
Are you someone who deals with tension or discomfort in the neck, shoulder, jaw, around the eyes, or forehead? Have you held your steely gaze and clenched jaw for far too long?
There's a special worksop at Abide for that!
Join Emuna Miriam for this delicious class that involves yoga, breathwork, meditation, and the use of a kansa wand to help lessen the armoring effects of stress in the head, neck, and shoulders.
Sliding Scale $45 / $50 / $55 for the workshop and a kansa wand to bring home!
February 17th, 2024, 7:30 - 9 pm
At Abide on Larchmere
Immerse yourself in the multidimensional, healing sounds of the gong in this 75 minute gong journey.
Jayme Rose first connected with the gongs in 2020 when the world was asked to go within. After deepening her relationship to this sacred instrument, it is now with reverence and honour she shares it with others.
Her signature offering combines the gongs with Yoga Nidra to create a transformational experience and hold space for you to relax.
The state of Yoga Nidra allows one to access the mind that is underneath our normal processing and create a natural bridge to inner truth, while the sound of the gong takes you beyond time and space.
Feel free to bring any items to place on the altar or pack up your crystals to be cleared by the gongs!
Saturday, February 17th, 7 - 9 pm
Abide West, 15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood, OH
Sliding Scale $25 / $30 / $35
xior (pronounced “choir”)
is a queer, experimental
vocal gathering.
no experience needed,
everyone is welcome!
february 24th
abide west, 15810 detroit ave, lakewood
free
3 - 5 pm
Barefoot Groove is an embodied breath, dancing and shaking workshop to support you with reconnecting with your body, expressing yourself, and connecting with community
You are invited to show up and dance solo, or with friends. This night is all about you listening to your body and giving it what you need. Breathwork gives us a deep sense of choice, and it allows us to lean into what is right for our bodies. Through a variety of breath techniques designed to soothe your nervous system, you will enter a portal for release while dropping into your body. Each breath will connect you with yourself.
Dancing and shaking can help us to raise our energy and vibration by releasing tension in the body. It supports us in breaking up habitual physical and emotional holding patterns we might not even be aware of. We are looking to evoke a sense of joy through play, pleasure and fun.
We will begin with a community circle for introductions, guided breathwork to bring the nervous system into a relaxed state, and then break out the music and the dance moves. The invitation is to come as you are, move as you feel guided to, and simply HAVE FUN!
The Way of Tea (or Cha Dao) is an ancient meditative practice, one of shamans and sages, in which we are offered the opportunity to cultivate space and enter into the calm center of the present moment. Sitting with tea as the early Daoists did connects us with ourselves, Nature, community, and ultimately—Spirit, through subtle senses and an awakened presence. A tea ceremony is a chance to honor the sacred and the mundane, to calm our minds, open our hearts, and rinse off the dust of the world as it’s said.
Tea (Camellia sinensis) is known as the mother of all herbs in Traditional Chinese Medicine; a sacred plant revered by humans since as early as 4,000 BC. She is a gentle and nurturing spiritual balm, amplified when we are present and open to receiving her medicine; activated when combined with hot water and poured into our hearts. Tea meets us exactly where we are and ushers stillness from deep within.
Join Samantha Jones for tea ceremony and community. Sliding scale $20-$30. Advance signup helps us prepare, thank you for being helpful in that way!
Friday, February 16th th at Abide on Larchmere
Your hands are powerful portals to your nervous system. For an evening, let's dive into the wonderful world of yogic practices for the hands. We'll practice some heart-centric poses, and mudras, or hand gestures that create shifts in the energetic body. We'll learn about japa, a form of meditation that involves mantra repetition and a string mala beads. And then we'll make our own malas with gorgeous crystal beads.
Sliding scale 30 / 40 / 50
at Abide Larchmere
Saturday, February 10th, 6 - 8 pm
You are invited to join Holistic Wellness Practitioner Stacey Pickering for a restorative sound bath, including crystal singing bowls, intuitive vocalization & other vibrationally healing instrumentation.
Crystal singing bowls, made of quartz and other gemstones, are used in ceremony, meditation, and various transformative experiences. They produce strong, clear, true tones that resonate deeply in our bodies & energetic systems. The vibrations that ring out from the bowls create clear pathways in us for opening, release, connection, balance & stillness. Their powerful sounds can help us feel grounded, energized, peaceful, uplifted and whole.
Sound vibrations have the power to clear mental clutter & allow space for new neural pathways, helping to catalyze the creation of what we want to be & see more of in our lives & in the world.
Join Stacey to reset, rebalance, and reconnect with yourself.
Saturday, February 3rd, 7 PM
Sliding Scale $20 / $25 / $30
Embodied Astrology is a monthly offering from Anna Barr and Nicole Born Crow.
Bring yourself fully into each zodiac season through gentle yoga, somatics, and guided meditation. We’ll learn the traits and expressions for the current sun sign and how we can use their lessons to move through the cycle of the year. We’ll close the practice with an option to connect over tea and astro chat.
Mini astro journals provided!
Sliding Scale 25 / 35 / 45
Big Forest Uta-kai (poetry party) returns to Larchmere Abide in January!
The end of the year usually brings reflection and taking stock, and in the new year we often find ourselves basking in what dreams may come. In Japan, everyone takes time off on each side of New Year’s Day. They’re called “three lazy days.” Days to rejuvenate, recreate, and renew. Let’s refresh our hearts with little songs that could be wishes, could be reminders, could be anything, as long as the lines come from you. This is the time of possibility—a time to return to a poetic practice or start a new one. Join us as we come back together for the beautiful communal making we call Uta-kai!
***
No experience reading or writing is required. Please bring paper and a pen or pencil with you. This is not a poetry workshop. No critical evaluation of your poetry will take place. A heart cannot be questioned, only encouraged.
Light meal, good times, an embodiment practice, writing gogyohka, and optional sharing. Gogyohka Uta-kai is super fun!
Sliding Scale 20/25/30
12732 Larchmere Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44120 | 845.649.4721 | hope.abideyoga@gmail.com
