This community events calendar is the place to find fun activities and things to do throughout Lewis County, including Centralia, Chehalis and beyond.
Blessings all,
Come and join us for our monthly get together. These gatherings will include a discussion segment, a healing segment, (where everyone gets a healing and gets to be a healer), and lastly a social/snack segment. Don’t worry about your healing knowledge as that is one of the aspects of this gathering, everyone having an opportunity to learn. This group does have a Naturopath, several Energy Medicine and Zero Point Energetic practitioners as well as Reiki Masters. This will be a monthly activity. This month we will discuss stone and sound therapy.
Please bring whatever you would like to share. Everyone can lead a discussion, just let me know so we can get it on the calendar. I prefer a more holistic viewpoint to healthcare and I know many of you do as well. Please bring a snack to share. I am looking forward to seeing all of you.
The wheel has turned again and brought us to the time of the first harvest. Join us as the story of Lugh is woven and the beginnings of this celebration are revealed. Join us for the gathering of the tribes as we celebrate with food, community and weave intentions into a web of our own making.
We are a community, a group of people, alike yet different. There’s no shame in depending on each other. There’s heroism in ordinariness and connectedness and using relationship skills to get through difficult times. Look at the things in your living room or refrigerator and realize they were made by thousands of people on different continents. We are all interconnected. What one does affects the others, either positively or negatively. If the web is plucked, it sends ripples out in all directions, but as long as the strands remain intact, the web will not fall apart. We are individuals, strong in our own right. Yet there is a special strength, a bond when many people come together to weave intentions.
Have you ever wanted to learn how to make pickles? Well, you are in luck, as the activity we are going to do to celebrate the first harvest as a community is making pickles. No prior experience is necessary. We will have a donation box to cover the cost of the ingredients and the canning jars.
What you need to bring:
As this is a potluck, you will need to bring a potluck dish. Please post the dish that you are bringing so they are not duplicated. As this is a first harvest festival, think of the bounty of this time of year such as fruits and vegetables from your garden. If you have special dietary needs make sure to bring something that you can eat in case others do not. I will be providing the main meat dish and a couple of gallons of tea as well as flavored waters.
Two quart-sized canning jars with lids.
You should bring a chair as there are limited ones here to sit in the circle with.
Please bring a cup for toasting.
A drum circle always follows so please bring your drums, your noisemakers and your voices and sing them strong.
Looking forward to meeting new friends and greeting old ones… Welcome to the Sanctuary.
Join us at the Sanctuary for medicine making with the emphasis on antibacterial, aches and pains. In this workshop, we will be making pain and headache formula, marijuana potion salve and antifungal/antibacterial salve. You will need Comfrey root, Plantain leaf and a Goldenseal Root powder infused oil made for the antifungal/antibacterial salve. You can make this in the oils class on July 15.
What you need to bring:
1-quart jar with the top
1-pint jar with the top
Olive oil
Cutting board
Knife
How many of you have gone into a crystal shop and wondered which stones would resonate in your life? Now that you have the stones, what do you do with them? How do you clean them?
You are in luck my friends because in this workshop we will discuss the qualities and properties of 25 empowerment stones. We will begin by taking a stone quiz to find out which ones you need to have in your life and why. We will learn how to clear and clean your stones and the right and wrong way to use them. Then you, yes you, will put your intent in and charge your own stones.
Mirror mirror on the wall; do you see yourself at all?! Often in life, we believe the vision that others have of us, leaving us feeling disempowered and lost. Are you ready to let that go? Are you hungry for nourishment, self-love and a deeper connection to whom you were born to be? Are you ready to let go of limiting beliefs and self-sabotage? It is time sisters, to be the powerful woman that you were meant to be.
This profound workshop will nourish your mind, body and spirit by connecting you to the natural world and introduce you to the powerful woman that you already are. Come and transform yourself through holistic coaching and nature-based rituals that will help guide you to powerful insights, self-discovery and personal growth. In this journey, we will create sacred soul songs, write our pain and speak it freely. You will bless yourself with power charged waters and beautify yourself with silken scarves and jewelry, and then and only then will you look into the mirror….. The Oracle will speak to the depths of the beauty that you are, and you will dance around the fire and sing your soul song.
Each participant will need to provide two scarves and a few pieces of costume jewelry (thrift stores are the best place to find these).
Join us at the Sanctuary as we weave sorrow, anger and acceptance together, embracing the space that we are currently in and allowing release to happen in our lives.
Change is something that occurs each and every moment in our lives. Since nothing is constant, it may sometimes seem as if we are losing something whenever things do change. Understanding that this is part of our daily existence and that there will not only be gains but also losses in our lives can help us more readily accept and deal with whatever happens.
Whenever we lose something or somebody we love, it is important for us to take time out for ourselves and truly feel the weight of what we are experiencing. Although it may seem that doing so will push us into a deeper state of sadness, truly giving ourselves permission to be with whatever arises actually creates space for us to begin the healing process. This is because the act of grieving is a natural process, allowing us to sort through the range of emotions that are present in our everyday existence. Even though it may sometimes seem easier to involve ourselves in activities that take our minds off of our sadness, this will only make the route to healing more difficult. Unless we listen to where we are in the moment, the emotions we experience will only grow in intensity, and our feelings will manifest themselves in more powerful and less comfortable ways. Once we consciously acknowledge that these emotions are present, however, we are more able to soothe the sorrow of the moment. In so doing, we become more open to our natural ability to heal ourselves.
Grieving doesn’t have to be a process that keeps us rooted in our thoughts of fear and sadness. For the moment we might feel despondent, but by expressing and coping with our true feelings, we face the sadness head-on. When we allow ourselves to accept and deal with our loss fully, we will then be able to continue our life’s journey with a much more positive and accepting outlook. This will make it easier for us to see that our grief is ephemeral and, just like our moments of happiness, it will also come to pass.
Have you ever felt lost for words? Imagine not having the vocabulary to describe an event in your life, and feeling imprisoned by it for years. This talk explores the power of storytelling and its role in healing. With an emphasis on South Asian cultural expectations, her own story of sexual abuse and the need to create a space for talking about taboo issues, Indapure illustrates how the act of storytelling is therapeutic to the storyteller and beneficial to the listener.
Ms. Indapure is a volunteer, storyteller, activist, artist and community organizer. Her formal training includes a BA in English literature, an LLB from the University of Pune, and an LLM from the University of Nottingham.
This program is sponsored by Humanities Washington and the Friends of the Chehalis Timberland Library.
Join Kristen Rubis for a deeply nourishing evening of breath work, meditation and sacred sound healing.
Kristen performs healing sound through Tibetan metal bowls, crystal quartz singing bowls and other soothing percussive
instruments. All Welcome ~ Namaste.
$30*
*plus tax. Unlimited members receive 10% off
Space is limited. Pre-registration strongly recommended.
Go on a journey with internationally acclaimed musician and dancer, Lis Addison, and experience how chant/song and dance/movement have been and are used as sacred tools for spiritual connection, healing, guidance and unity
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2
2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
$55* Early Bird (ends 10/26)
$65* General (begins 10/27)
* Plus tax. Unlimited members receive 10% off
Topics include:
• Vibrational Healing
• Creating Unity with Song and Dance
• Activating Your Chakras and Light Body
• Ancient and Future Healing Rituals
Outcomes:
• move stuck energy
• release old trauma
• empower your voice
• improve self-worth
• develop social cohesion, unity and a feeling of belonging with others in the group
Lis Addison is an award-winning and internationally recognized Composer, Vocalist, Dancer and Electronic Musician who does her own production. She is best known for her trancey electonic compositions that support sacred healing chants and songs, and like time travel, transport the listener into the Realms of Light. Her compositions range from meditative to ecstatic and are designed to inspire, empower and support healing for the individual and the natural world.
Addison’s music can be heard on conventional and internet radio and in dance, yoga, healing and meditation centers from Alaska to Zimbabwe. Her music has received favorable reviews in Africa, Canada, Europe, India, Korea, Mexico, Russia and the US and she has performed extensively throughout the United States.
Addison is a pioneer in the field of electronic music having received her MFA in electronic music and recording in the late 1980s where she began her exploration of vocals, electronics and rhythm. As the field has grown, so has she, releasing 10 albums and scoring soundtracks and sheet music. Addison is also a dancer and teaches that the meditative state is not the only way to healing so she gets people up moving, chanting, singing and dancing with her signature practice Kinetic Voice (KiVo). When not recording, she convenes dance and chant circles in the US, Europe and Africa.
Join Kat Eggers for this special two-hour workshop focusing on the Breath and how your breath can be used in yoga and in life to heal your body, mind and spirit.
The body has a built-in internal massage system called the breath. When the biomechanics of our natural breath is compromised we can experience all kinds of mysterious symptoms, including poor digestion, sleeplessness, neck and shoulder pain, lower back and hip pain, high blood pressure and fatigue.
When we breathe mindfully and with body awareness, our food becomes more nourishing, our sleep more restful, our stress more manageable. We might find chronic pain magically disappears, that gravity rests lighter on our shoulders, that it’s easier to focus.
Combining yogic principles with Western Science, Kat Eggers, biologist and registered yoga teacher, will teach how to breathe to heal and improve the quality of your life!
