Hearth

practices to gather around

to warm us through the last of winter

 
 

These can be the longest hours, awaiting Spring. Even when the sun is a bright guest on winter days, and especially when the gray fades to gray, I feel in my bones the push-pull-tug of winter’s last weeks.

And, big sigh, beyond the now-ness of seasonality and breath, outside the hope I feel and the dreams I vision, there is an ache of a world that is breaking, burning, battling, and bereaving. To choose to be touched by life is to choose to be touched by life in ten thousand different ways.

How do we find moments of Pause to anchor into?

What nourishes our spirit, tends to our hearts?

I’m craving the warmth of our our togetherness. To sweep the hearth of our being, to ignite our vital center. I’m leaning into us as the stones around the fire, the kindling, the fire itself.

And these gatherings as poetic, restful pauses on this bridge between seasons, between feelings.

Support to uplift and nourish. You, me, us together.

 

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Hearth is collection of offerings, enrolled as a series. All of these invitations are included:

  • Saturday, February 25, 12pm - 1:30pm : inner hearth gathering on zoom (emergent togetherness, meditation and poetry / circle)

  • Wednesday, March 8, 2pm - 2:30pm : deep rest practice on zoom

  • Saturday, March 25, 12pm - 1:30pm : community hearth gathering on zoom (emergent togetherness, meditation and poetry / circle)

  • 1:1, 20 minute distance Reiki session to tend your fire: optional, of course. scheduling link provided upon registration

registration is closed.

sliding scale: $120, $90, $60

Times are ET, you can convert to your time zone here.

The deep rest practice will be recorded and available through through March 31st. The two emergent sessions (2/25 and 3/25) will not be recorded, but you’ll receive so much goodness, even if you miss it: a bank of poetry, readings, and a love note before and afterwards.

Please reach out with any questions. Email me here.



 

Learn more about each of the offerings:

 

  • Our first and last gatherings of Hearth will honor our emergent togetherness, offer a meditation, and offer space to share poetry or other readings.

    You’ll receive a collaboratively created archive of poetry and readings from our time together. 

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    Let’s feel the magic of words and the space between them lead us into connection.

    Let’s feel them in our bones. Let them linger on our lips.

    Let’s read them to each other over a cup of tea.

    Trading this translation of life for another one, expressions of our living, our loving, our losses.

    You don’t need to be a connoisseur or a writer to listen or share.

    You don’t need to love poetry to love a poem.

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    Poetry as a gathering place, a warm fire to tend, a space for us to weave ourselves into the rhythm of voices, the cadence of our breath. Poetry as medicine for these times, a soothing balm.

    Not a writing or poetry workshop, not analytical, not intellectual, just the warmth of togetherness. Meditation, Rest. Come for inspiration, to steep in presence, to nourish the creative spirit, to elicit connection, or to lean back into the container of poetic expression.

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    You are welcome to join with the camera on or off.

  • a pause

    an interlude.

    an invitation.

    a place to bring your exhaustion

    your questions

    your hope

    your deep feeling

    your whole being

    to the wellspring.

    for the tending of your tiredness or

    to vision to reflect to dream

    space for whatever needs space

    a call for the breath & a

    spark

    to return

    return

    return.

    Our rest informs our action and our action is sustained, nourished, by our rest.

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    What:

    Community Rest is a guided 30 minute practice over Zoom (20 minutes of practice with some buffer time on each end). Cameras are optional.

    Why:

    Without held time and space, intention and commitment, Rest like this is often overlooked. Too hard to prioritize, too easy to become distracted. Coming together in community is powerfully permissive and gently supportive.

    How:

    You only need yourself and a private space to lay down. Your willingness to be there.

  • After registering for Hearth you’ll receive a link to schedule your 20 minute session. Technology free, Distance Reiki is holistically supportive and profoundly connective. Gentle, focused energy will meet you wherever you are, and catalyze the vital flow of ki within you and around you.

    A liminal healing-scape, this session is vast with possibility.

    Read more about Reiki.

    The Distance Reiki session is a 1:1 offering which must be scheduled between February 25 - March 25.