CLASSES AND OFFERINGS
Grounding and Centering: Practices for Holding Steady
Grounding and Centering: Practices for Holding Steady
Grounding and Centering: Practices for Holding Steady
Learn how to reset your nervous system and come back to center. This two-hour experiential workshop teaches grounding practices—like breathwork, humming, touch and visualization—that you can use anywhere, anytime.
Mindfulness Foundations: Practices for Daily Life
Grounding and Centering: Practices for Holding Steady
Grounding and Centering: Practices for Holding Steady
This six-week course introduces awareness of body, feelings, thoughts and beliefs—practical tools to ground attention, reduce stress, and approach daily life with more clarity, compassion, and ease.
Mindfulness for Fundraisers: Presence and Resilience
Grounding and Centering: Practices for Holding Steady
Mindfulness for Fundraisers: Presence and Resilience
This eight-week series helps nonprofit fundraisers cultivate presence, resilience, and compassion, so you can navigate challenges with ease, deepen relationships, and sustain your energy in a demanding field.
Meditations on the Seasons: Letting Go, Welcoming the Dark
Meditations on the Seasons: Letting Go, Welcoming the Dark
Meditations on the Seasons: Letting Go, Welcoming the Dark
This midpoint marks the time between the fall equinox and winter solstice. As we enter the darker months, it invites us inward: to rest, renew, and release. What in your life is ready to be let go? In making space, the door opens for new life to emerge.
Finding Calm in the Chaos: A Series for Turbulent Times
Meditations on the Seasons: Letting Go, Welcoming the Dark
Meditations on the Seasons: Letting Go, Welcoming the Dark
This six-week series helps you meet the turbulence of today's world with greater presence and equanimity. The course focuses on grounding practices and cultivating a deeper awareness of personal values.
Now We Are Older: Embracing Change, Letting Go
Meditations on the Seasons: Letting Go, Welcoming the Dark
Now We Are Older: Embracing Change, Letting Go
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Grounding and Centering: Practices for Holding Steady
In a world that moves fast and pulls us in many directions, it’s easy to feel scattered, tired, or overwhelmed. This two-hour session offers simple, effective tools to help you return to your center and feel more grounded, no matter what’s happening around you.
Through a blend of guided practices, gentle movement, and discussion, you’ll explore techniques such as:
- Breathing practices to calm and steady the nervous system
- Visualization to create a sense of inner safety and balance
- Humming and vocal toning to regulate energy and release tension
- Compassionate touch to reconnect with the body
- Other mindfulness-based exercises to build presence and ease
You’ll leave with a suite of practices you can use anytime—before a big meeting, during stressful moments, or simply to reconnect with yourself. No prior experience is needed; all are welcome.
Cost: $50 (sliding scale available, if cost is a barrier, please reach out)
Registration
Sessions meet via Zoom. New dates coming soon.
Mindfulness Foundations: Practices for Daily Life
This series offers a welcoming introduction to mindfulness practice—an evidence-based approach to cultivating greater awareness, presence, and compassion in daily life. If you're new to mindfulness meditation, this is a great place to start.
We’ll meet virtually once a week for six weeks, with each 60-minute session exploring a different aspect of inner experience: the body and breath, feelings, thoughts, and beliefs. Through guided meditations, short talks, and discussion, you’ll learn practical tools for noticing where your attention goes, how you relate to your experience, and how to respond with more clarity and intention.
This course is for anyone curious about mindfulness—whether you're new or looking to reconnect with the basics. Come see for yourself how these practices might support you.
What You’ll Receive:
- Six weekly 60-minute sessions (live)
- Weekly resources, including session recaps, recorded guided meditations, and reflection prompts
- Six mid-week “booster” meditations: 15-minute guided drop-ins to reinforce the week's themes and support consistent practice
Cost: $150
A limited number of sliding scale spots are available for those with financial need. If cost is a barrier, please reach out.
Registration
Choose the option that works best for you to sign up. Classes meet via Zoom once a week for 6 weeks. The optional drop-in sessions are Fridays at 12:00 PM EDT.
Option 1: Tuesdays (registration closed)
7:00–8:00 PM Eastern / 4:00–5:00 PM Pacific
Starts Tuesday, October 21
Option 2: Thursdays
12:00–1:00 PM Eastern / 9:00–10:00 AM Pacific
Starts Thursday, October 30
Mindfulness for Fundraisers: Presence and Resilience
This eight-week virtual series offers a welcoming overview of mindfulness practice — an evidence-based approach to cultivating greater awareness, presence, and compassion in daily life.
Designed specifically for nonprofit fundraisers, the program addresses the unique pressures of working in development, where deadlines, relationships, expectations, and performance goals often compete with personal and professional well-being.
Each week, we’ll explore simple, practical tools to help you manage stress, stay grounded in high-stakes situations, and bring more ease into your work. Through short talks, guided meditations, and discussion about the joys and struggles of raising money, you’ll learn practices for:
- Responding to challenges with awareness and skill
- Connecting with donors and colleagues more authentically
- Protecting your energy and avoiding burnout in a demanding field
This series is for anyone curious about how mindfulness can support your work as a development professional. No prior experience is needed.
What You’ll Receive:
- Eight weekly 60-minute sessions (live)
- Weekly resources, including session recaps, recorded guided meditations, and reflection prompts
- Eight mid-week “booster” meditations: 15-minute guided drop-ins to reinforce the week's themes and support consistent practice
Cost: $200
Registration
Choose the option that works best for you to sign up. Classes meet via Zoom once a week for 8 weeks. The optional drop-in sessions are Fridays at 12:00 PM EDT.
Option 1: Wednesdays (registration closed)
12:00–1:00 PM Eastern / 9:00–10:00 AM Pacific
Starts Wednesday, October 15
Option 2: Thursdays (registration closed)
5:00–6:00 PM Eastern / 2:00–3:00 PM Pacific
Starts Thursday, October 23
Meditations on the Seasons
Meditation for All Hallows Eve: Letting Go, Welcoming the Dark
Across time and cultures, people have organized their lives around the rhythms of the seasons. The cycle of the year is marked by eight key points: the solstices, the equinoxes, and the midpoints between them. This eightfold pattern reflects nature’s cycles of growth, change, death, and renewal. In eventful times, this annual cycle offers a steady rhythm—an invitation to pause and reconnect with the world around us.
The next gathering honors the midpoint between the fall equinox and the winter solstice, a time many of us know as Halloween (it goes by other names, too). It’s a potent time of year, imbued with rich traditions—a time that honors the full cycle of beginnings and endings, life and death, light and darkness.
As we move further into the dark part of the year, this midpoint invites us to turn our attention inward, celebrate the power of rest, regeneration and renewal, and practice letting go. Are there aspects of your life that are changing or coming to an end? Are you holding onto something that needs to be released—a pattern of thinking, a habit, a relationship, an attitude, a way of working, or something else? In letting go of what no longer serves, we can make space for new life to emerge.
This class includes:
- Short talks on the energies and cultural histories of this time
- Guided meditations and reflections
- Time to journal or share
Optional: If you wish, bring a candle; a picture of an ancestor or loved one; or some leaves, acorns or pinecones—anything that symbolizes change or transformation to you.
Registration
Choose the option and click the link that works best for you to sign up:
Option 1: Thursday, October 30
7:00 PM–8:15 PM Eastern / 4:00–5:15 PM Pacific
Option 2: Saturday, November 1
12:00–1:15 PM Eastern / 9:00–10:15 AM Pacific
Suggested cost is $25, but please come regardless of your ability to pay. You are welcome! Venmo and PayPal info is available on the registration page.
Finding Calm in the Chaos: A Series for Turbulent Times
“We were made for these times. It’s not that we are so special. It’s that we are being called by the world itself to come forward and serve the world with our unique gifts and talents.” —Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate (2019–2022)
When we’re navigating worry or upheaval, it can be hard to know how to come forward and serve. The needs are many, and the urgency (and distractions) can feel relentless. That makes it even more important to find ways to steady ourselves—because taking care of ourselves in this way helps us care for the world around us.
Mindfulness offers simple, steadying practices to help us stay grounded and clear—even (especially) as we face what’s hard.
This six-week series explores mindfulness practices to support you in meeting the challenges of daily life with greater presence and compassion. Each one-hour session builds on the last, weaving together guided meditations, brief teachings, and space for reflection and discussion.
Together, we’ll explore:
- Grounding attention in the body and present moment
- Meeting difficult emotions with kindness and awareness
- Recognizing and changing patterns of reactivity
- Cultivating resilience and wise engagement in the face of stress
- Reconnecting with what brings meaning, purpose, and care
- Bringing mindfulness into everyday life and relationships
Sessions are accessible to both newer and experienced meditators (though if you're brand new to meditation, consider taking an introductory course first). You’ll leave with practical tools and insights to support you—no matter what’s unfolding in or around you.
Cost is $150 for the six-week series (limited sliding scale spots available). Venmo and PayPal info is available on the registration page.
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