Evergarden Session

Psychiatrist Daniel Siegel describes the mind not as a single thing you can point to in the skull, but as a process—“the flow of energy and information, within us and between us.” He taught that we have a dynamic interpersonal nuerobiology. Candace Pert the neuroscientist who discovered the opiate receptor in the brain and explored the molecules of emotions, supported us to explore the ways our body is our subconscious mind. Psychotherapy has long touted the benefits and need to explore this subconscious, to unburdening what lays hidden and repressed. Yogi’s have known for thousands of years that your issues are in your tissues. Poets lament how lost and homeless our mental processes can be make us. Body workers bear witness to the sudden emergences of pent up emotions and memory.

Our brain, body, and emotions are far more interconnected than previously imagined. Traditions as old as Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine have assured us that this is the case. Across the fields of scientific study from biology to quantum physics we have caught up to these ideas, we are a brilliant confusing mysterious whole far more dynamic and integrated system than was once believed.

Beyond this simply being fascinating, there are real implication and practices that we can gain from these knowings that guide how we tend to our experience. We can explore these in dynamic and detailed ways. This will be the subject of our community session over the next few months. We will work with breathe, our vagus nerve, our interpersonal nuerobiology, the network of fascia the hold so much experience, our bones, and play with parts of our brain. With mindful somatic expressive work we will explore deepening a supportive connection to ourselves..

Morning medicine session - Monday at 8:30am EST to 9am 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 at Monday 8:30am EST to 9am 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 camera off and settle into their own process. If you cannot make the live time a recording will be uploaded to 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

Global Meditation - Tuesday the 2nd and 16th of September 3pm to 3:45 EST

In-person at Evergarden, free community event

Evergarden Community will join Thomas Hübl’s global community for a global download meditation on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month. In September that will be the 2nd and 16th. This is an international collective meditation with participants world wide. You can learn more about it here. This global mediation is done alone by individuals aware that they are joined at the same time by other meditators world wide. Our community will join their practice together in-person at Evergarden.

Sunrise session Wednesday 5:45 - 6:15am EST each week

Virtual by zoom only, $25 drop-in via Venmo or with Evergarden community subscription

Our sunrise session we will do a gratitude cultivation and engage in intuitive poetry of finding our first words of the day. Come and give it a try. Bring a pen, some paper and an openness to gratitude for a new day.

Our sunrise session will follow the sunrise on eastern standard time, I open the zoom session at 5:45, with weather permitting, camera facing the rising sun please feel free to join and settle in, the session reflection will begin at 6am for 15min.

The Creative Session - Collaborative Collage. Sunday October 12th 4pm to 6pm

The creative sessions happen each month at Evergarden, our in-person art studio office. This month we will create space to experience and express via collaborative art-making. Candance Pert, the neuroscientist who did ground breaking work on our intricately woven neurological system emphasized the essential human need for emotional expression and connection. This is particularly important in challenging times.

In our session this month we will begin a collaborative collage on a large section of our office space (see photo below). This collaborative art instillation will be made continuously over the next several months with all our communities invited to participate. If you have never made a collaborative art piece, please come and discover this beautiful communal experience. If you are connected to a community that might like to join, please invite. The theme of the collage will be together within what is broken and beautiful. Join us at each creative session, October 12th, November 9th and December 7th, from 4pm to 6pm at Evergarden.