Offerings
WINTER SERIES
WINTER SERIES
Community Rest Sessions
Leaven Community
Portland, OR
More times and dates added soon!
We practice collective rest inspired by Tricia Hersey’s book Rest is Resistance. But this is not be a book club: no pre-reading and no homework! Instead, we read and reflect on a few pages together each week before engaging in our somatic rest practices.
These gatherings are held at:
Leaven Community Center
5431 NE 20th Avenue
Portland, OR 97211
Please bring (optional):
Yoga mat + pillow + blanket
Sliding scale donation of $5-20
Sacred Rest
When was the last time you let yourself rest? Really rest? I bet it’s been a while…
Community rest sessions might feature somatic healing modalities, meditation, readings, discussion, intuitive movement, or any combination of these. No matter what we do, our primary objective is to get cozy, reflect, and receive.
We meet for 60-120 minutes to explore our rest stories and practice the power of resting as radical community care.
Participants are asked to bring their own blanket, pillow, yoga mat, and water if possible.
Sessions take place over Zoom or in person at various locations in Portland, OR.
Sacred Rest is for people who are:
Burnt out, exhausted, and seeking to restore their innate resilience and vitality
Feeling deeply disillusioned by productivity culture and late-stage capitalism
Needing some help creating regular time and space for rest in their lives
Looking for accountability and structure in creating a rest practice
Desiring the solidarity and support of community as they explore their relationship to rest
Wanting to develop courage and self-compassion as they navigate the challenges of choosing rest in a rest-hostile culture
“Our liberation is deeply connected to the portal of healing we can tap into when we rest. Wherever our bodies are, we can find rest, ease, and liberation. Part of our decolonizing resides in deprogramming from our brainwashing about rest as our divine right. We are divine. Our bodies are divine and a site of liberation. Wherever our bodies are, we can find, snatch, and center rest.”