Evergarden Sessions
“Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.”
—John O'Donohue, Anam Cara
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.”
—Rumi
“The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them.
How much sorrow can I hold? That’s how much gratitude I can give.”
—Francis Weller
Morning Medicine Session: Monday, 8:30 am - 9:00 am EST each week.
In-person at Evergarden and on Zoom, $25 drop via Venmo or with Evergarden community subscription
This session is a weekly practice group that happens on Zoom and in-person at Evergarden. We meet on Monday from 8:30 am EST to 9 am EST each week. In the session, you will be guided through a practice from various psychotherapeutic and healing traditions, including mindfulness, somatic, depth, systems, expressive and creative arts and more. This group will help you to; navigate stress, build mind-body connection, develop insight into yourself, deepen your capacity for grounding, cultivate positive emotional states. The group is come as you are, no prior knowledge necessary. The focus is on practice; you will not be asked to share, most participants keep their camera off and settle into their own process. If you cannot make the live time a recording will be uploaded to the Morning Medicine archive on our community portal. Our practice community is global; we have people joining from around the world, allowing for a rich collective experience
Sunrise Session: Wednesday, 6:00 am - 6:30 am EST each week
Virtual by Zoom only, with Evergarden community subscription
In our sunrise session we welcome the new day with first words. After a practice of of welcome and gratitude cultivation we listen to our first words of the day. From these words we weave together poetry from the session. Come and give it a try. Bring a pen, some paper and an openness to gratitude for a new day.
I open the zoom session at 6am, with weather permitting the camera facing the rising sun, join at 6am and settle in, breath and settle into the intention for the sessions, the guided reflection will begin at 6:15 am for 15min. We then each take the words collected and make our own poem. Our growing collection of poems can be found here.
Mud Session: Thursday June 18th 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm EST
In-person at Evergarden, Zoom by request with Evergarden community subscription
* Please confirm participation; this helps with materials preparation
In this session we invite the beauty of somatic expressive arts to hold our deep work with what is muddy in our lives. This session is an intentional dive into that inner mud that wants to transform into life giving nutrients. We will offer time to our fear, jealousy, aggression, pride, angst, those parts of each of us that need loving care. We will be guided through a gentle process to connect with our inner experience, and then engage in an expressive arts process for release expression and support. The value and importance of this session comes from the knowing that, what is in the one is in the whole and what is in the whole is in the one. Together we can contribute to the transformation of our communities and societies with small acts of personal transformation.
Monthly Medicine with Processing - June 14th 9:00 am -10:00 am Pacific Time/12pm EST
Virtual by Zoom and in-person at Evergarden with Evergarden community subscription
This weekend pacific time session will follow the same format as the Monday Morning Medicine. However, incorporating community feedback, in this session we will engage cameras on and create space for deepening community connection and processing post session. Community members have expressed a profound shift in their experience with these session and noted the value that space to share would offer. This means we will follow the same guided 25 minute practice as our usual morning medicine session, then allow for space for sharing our experience.