Rooted in Love
ROOTED IN LOVE 💛
A 5-Part Couples Series for Deeper Connection
Every relationship experiences rupture.
The question isn’t whether you will hurt, misunderstand, trigger, or disconnect from one another.
The question is: Can you find your way back?
Join us for a five-part experiential series designed to help couples understand their patterns, regulate together, communicate more honestly, and build the skills for lasting relational connection.
Topics covered are: Rupture & Repair, The patterns that pulls us apart, Shared nervous system regulation, Transparent communication, Building a relationship that repairs itself
This isn’t about becoming a conflict-free couple.
It’s about becoming a couple who can stay connected through conflict.
Together we’ll explore attachment, nervous system regulation, vulnerability, communication, relational responsibility, intimacy, and repair through teaching, guided practices, partner exercises, and meaningful conversation.
For couples who want to:
• Understand their recurring relationship patterns
• Communicate with more honesty and less defensiveness
• Feel safer during difficult conversations
• Deepen emotional and physical intimacy
• Break cycles that keep repeating
• Learn how to come back to each other after rupture
Because healthy relationships aren’t built by never breaking connection.
They’re built by learning how to return.
September 21- October 19.
Mondays 6-8pm
Address provided at registration
Very limited space available.
Email: rootedandopen@gmail.com
for details or to reserve your couple’s place.
Couples Transparent Communication
May 11th, 6-9pm
Transparent Communication for Couples
A 3-Hour Relational Workshop
In intimate relationships, silence can become sediment. Assumptions pile up. Defensiveness hardens like winter ground. Transparent communication is the practice of speaking honestly while staying connected, embodied, and emotionally responsible. It is the art of revealing rather than performing.
This workshop invites couples into a deeper experience of connection through presence, attunement, and courageous honesty.
Participants will learn how to:
* communicate needs, feelings, and boundaries clearly
* listen without immediately defending or fixing
* recognize nervous system activation during conflict
* slow down reactive patterns and return to connection
* speak from vulnerability instead of blame
* practice transparency with compassion and accountability
* build emotional safety through honesty and attunement
Through guided teaching, somatic awareness practices, structured partner exercises, and reflective dialogue, couples will begin learning how to create relationships where truth can breathe.
Register: email: rootedandopen@gmail.com
Sliding Scale
Address provides to those who register
Embodied Attunement
Embodied Attunement
A 4-Week Relational Presence Group
Co-ed
Modern life trains us to communicate quickly, think constantly, and live mostly in our heads.
Yet our deepest connections happen somewhere else entirely.
They happen in the body’s subtle language of presence, emotion, and nervous system attunement.
This four-week group explores how to:
• Slow down and feel your inner experience
• Communicate with honesty and transparency
• Listen beneath words into emotional truth
• Stay grounded in the body during connection
Drawing inspiration from the work of Thomas Hübl, this group becomes a shared space to practice relational awareness in real time.
Together we explore:
• Embodied presence
• Transparent communication
• Emotional attunement
• Nervous system co-regulation
Through guided practices, partner exercises, and group reflection, participants learn how to relate from a place of deeper authenticity.
No prior experience is required.
Just curiosity and a willingness to slow down.
Group Structure
4 weekly sessions
Small coed group format
Experiential and discussion-based
Each session includes:
• Guided embodiment practice
• Partner exercises
• Group integration dialogue
This Group Is Ideal For People Who Want To
• Feel more comfortable in their bodies
• Communicate more honestly in relationships
• Deepen emotional awareness
• Practice presence in connection with others
Rooted&Radiant (Copy)
🌸 Rooted & Radiant: A Women’s Circle of Presence & Power 🌸
✨ Are you craving deeper connection—with yourself and with other women?
✨ Longing to be truly seen, heard, and held—without judgment?
Join us for a sacred 6-week journey where we explore:
💬 Transparent & courageous communication
💗 The art of vulnerability as strength
🌿 Presence as a daily practice
🌊 Openness as a path to deep feminine power
This is a space where masks fall away, hearts open, and true sisterhood begins.
🔒 Intimate group, limited spots
📍 In-person
🗓 Begins Wednesday October 8th from 6:30-8pm
Ends, November 12th
✨ Come as you are. Leave more of who you are.
Call Hawthorn Healing Arts to reserve your space.
#WomensCircle #AuthenticConnection #VulnerabilityIsPower #PresencePractice #SacredSisterhood
Rooted&Radiant
🌸 Rooted & Radiant: A Women’s Circle of Presence & Power 🌸
✨ Are you craving deeper connection—with yourself and with other women?
✨ Longing to be truly seen, heard, and held—without judgment?
Join us for a sacred 6-week journey where we explore:
💬 Transparent & courageous communication
💗 The art of vulnerability as strength
🌿 Presence as a daily practice
🌊 Openness as a path to deep feminine power
This is a space where masks fall away, hearts open, and true sisterhood begins.
🔒 Intimate group, limited spots
📍 In-person
🗓 Begins Wednesday October 8th from 6:30-8pm
Ends, November 12th
✨ Come as you are. Leave more of who you are.
Call Hawthorn Healing Arts to reserve your space.
#WomensCircle #AuthenticConnection #VulnerabilityIsPower #PresencePractice #SacredSisterhood
Rooted&Radiant
🌸 Rooted & Radiant: A Women’s Circle of Presence & Power 🌸
✨ Are you craving deeper connection—with yourself and with other women?
✨ Longing to be truly seen, heard, and held—without judgment?
Join us for a sacred 6-week journey where we explore:
💬 Transparent & courageous communication
💗 The art of vulnerability as strength
🌿 Presence as a daily practice
🌊 Openness as a path to deep feminine power
This is a space where masks fall away, hearts open, and true sisterhood begins.
🔒 Intimate group, limited spots
📍 In-person
🗓 Begins Wednesday October 8th from 6:30-8pm
Ends, November 12th
✨ Come as you are. Leave more of who you are.
Call Hawthorn Healing Arts to reserve your space.
#WomensCircle #AuthenticConnection #VulnerabilityIsPower #PresencePractice #SacredSisterhood
Rooted in Love
💞 ROOTED IN LOVE 💞
✨ A 6-Week Couples Journey ✨
⠀
You love each other.
But life… gets loud.
Schedules. Stress. Old wounds. Silence.
And that deep connection? It gets blurry.
🫀This is your invitation to return to the heart of your relationship.
Over 6 sacred weeks, you’ll explore:
💗 Presence + nervous system safety
🗣 Honest, compassionate communication
🔥 Authentic presence + trust
🌿 Tools for repair, boundaries + reconnection
⠀
This isn’t just therapy.
This is a space to be seen, touched, and held — in truth, in love, and in your full humanity.
📍Bend, OR
🕯 Led by Shanti O’Connor – grief tender, somatic guide, relational healer, counselor, intuitive
📅 Starts September 10th | Spots limited
✨ Come as you are. Leave more rooted in love. ✨
To sign up: email
rootedandooen@gmail.com
Community Grief Ceremony
“Surrendering to your sorrow has the power to heal the deepest of wounds”
-Sobonfu Some-
In life it is necessary to grieve those things that no longer serve us in order to let them go. Grief is a common human emotion that impacts us all. It can come to us through divorce, illness, loss of dreams, conflict, death, change and so much more. Grief is an invitation to feel. It invites us to come into the body to shed light on those things that are ready to be released in order to heal. Because of this, we must have ways to move our pain. Grief needs to be regularly felt and released or it begins to smother our joy, creativity, and our ability to connect with our self and others.
Community Grief Ceremony is a safe way to learn how to lean into grieving within and among community. Communal grieving offers something that we cannot get when we grieve by ourselves. Through validation, acknowledgement and witnessing, communal grieving allows us to experience a level of healing that is deeply and profoundly freeing. Each of us has a basic human right to that genuine love, happiness and freedom.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
-People feeling grief for the loss of a loved one, a pet, a partnership, or job
-Anyone stuck in unhealthy relationships or emotionally unhealthy situations
-Those who feel called, but may not know yet what they are grieving.
-People in transition of any kind, whether through divorce, illness, accidents, or disappointed dreams
-People in recovery
-Front line workers such as therapists, educators, nurses, social workers, hospice caregivers, police men or women, activists
-Veterans
-Those feeling the collective grief of a violent world, or the environmental harm of the earth
-Anyone with sadness and pain to release
- People dealing with a chronic illness
- Those who have lost a loved one
ABOUT THE LINEAGE OF THIS CEREMONY:
This ceremony is inspired by the work of Sobonfu Somé who took the teachings and healing practices from her tribe–The Dagara tribe of West Africa to America. Over the course of her life she traveled all over the US and Europe, teaching people how to grieve through the Dagara tradition. Dagara rituals offer profound healing, making spirit tangible by preparing the mind, body and soul to receive the spirituality that surrounds us.
Her website to learn more about Sonbonfu
http://www.sobonfu.com
STATEMENT OF INCLUSION
No matter your gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or abilities, you are welcome here.
BIPOC, Trans, and LGBTQIA+ identifying participants encouraged to purchase a discounted ticket under the "pay what you can" ticket option
F ACILITATED BY:
This ceremony will be facilitated by Hillary Hurst, Barbara Largent, Shireen Amini, Shanti O'Connor and will be supported by various community members. Hillary Hurst is a mental health therapist who spent many years working with Sobonfu at grief rituals. Before Sonbonfu’s passing she asked Hillary to continue this work within her community. Barbara Largent is a physician and energy healer who does deep emotional and trauma release work. Shireen Amini (non-binary using she/her pronouns) is a queer, Puerto Rican-Iranian American musical artist who will support the ceremony as drum and song keeper. Shanti O'Connor is an intuitive energy healer, counselor and community organizer.
Supporting Clean Water in Africa:
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Wisdom Springs.
Wisdom Spring is a non-profit started by Sobonfu Some whose mission is to support leadership skills in youth and raises money to help countries in Africa access clean water.
To learn more about this organization please go to https://wisdomspring.org
HOSTED BY:
Hillary Hurst, Barbara Largent, Shireen Amini, and Shanti O’Connor
SCHEDULE:
Thursday, February 26, 2026
6:30PM Arrive/Register:
7:00 – 9:00 PM Opening Ceremony
Friday, February 27, 2026
8:30am Arrive/Settle in
Grief Ceremony: 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Lunch:1-2
Dinner: 5-6
Saturday, February 28, 2026
8 :30am: Arrive/Settle In
9 am-2pm: Integration/Closing Ceremony
WHERE:
The Grief Ceremony will be held indoors at...
Unity Community:
63645 Scenic Dr, Bend, OR 97701
********Unity is ADA accessible********
FOOD:
Snacks, tea, and coffee will be provided. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own lunch, dinner, and extra food. We will not be feeding you lunch and dinner. Unity has a very small kitchen to warm food, but not to cook it. Please bring your own cooler to store your food and food that is already cooked.
PLEASE BRING TO THE CEREMONY (Friday Morning)
Tall glass containing unscented candle- white, yellow, red, or blue
Color cloth for altars- yellow and/or red for ancestor altar, or blue and/or purple for forgiveness altar
Flowers for altars- white, yellow, red, or blue
One or more ritual objects from home for placement on the ancestor and forgiveness altars. All of these objects will be going home with you once the ceremony is done.
Water bottle, mug for tea, snacks for yourself and snacks to share
Pillow to sit on
Comfortable clothes, wear layers if possible, warm jacket to go outside
Your grief, loss, anger, sadness
Optional: vases, Food/snacks to share
DRUMMERS
This ceremony is supported by strong drummers who can hold a consistent beat and sing at the same time. If you are interested in drumming please bring your own drum Thursday night and be prepared stay 30 minutes after everyone leaves to practice the beat and song.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-grief-ceremony-tickets-1072324695029?aff=oddtdtcreator
THIRVE: WOMEN’S GROUP
Thrive Together: A 6-Week Women’s Group for Authentic Connection and Growth
Are you longing for genuine connection and a sense of belonging? Join us for a transformative 6-week journey where women come together to connect, grow, and support one another in a space built on mindfulness, transparency, and clear communication.
What Awaits You:
• Connection: Build deep, authentic relationships with a diverse group of women who value openness and support.
• Belonging: Discover a welcoming space where your voice is heard and your story matters.
• Diversity: Celebrate the richness of unique perspectives and shared experiences.
• Vulnerability: Explore the power of showing up fully and authentically, embracing both strengths and struggles.
• Growth: Engage in meaningful conversations and exercises designed to inspire personal and collective transformation.
• Mindfulness & Transparency: Practice being present, honest, and intentional in all interactions.
Details:
• Duration: 6 weeks,
• Time Commitment: 6:30-8:30pm per week
• Location: Address provided when you sign up
• Start Date: February 18th, 2025
This group is for women who are ready to invest in themselves and others, creating a foundation for deeper relationships and personal growth. Together, we’ll create a space where connection flourishes, vulnerability is honored, and growth becomes a shared journey.
Space is limited to maintain an intimate and meaningful experience.
Secure your spot today and take the first step toward a stronger, more connected you.
To register: email, rootedandopen@gmail.com
Queer Circle
Join a Free
Feminine-Identifying Queer Circle!
Are you a feminine-identifying member of the LGBTQ+ community looking for a safe, supportive, and empowering space? Join us in a free, inclusive circle where you can connect, share, and grow with others who truly understand.
What We Offer
• Open Discussions on love, identity, and experiences
• Healing & Empowerment
• Friendship & Solidarity in a safe, non-judgmental environment
Whether you’re looking to connect with others, explore your journey, or just relax in good company, this circle is for you! All are welcome to bring their authentic selves—come as you are.
Location: email for address
Date/Time: November 18th, 6-8p
Sign-Up: email at
rootedandopen@gmail.com
Let’s celebrate each other, create connections, and build a supportive community. Come join us—no fees, no pressure, just love and support.
Mama Nurture Circle
Next circle offering just for you moms. This is a circle for moms in any stage of parenting, you DO NOT need to have little children to join.
If you are looking for
-connection with yourself
-building a more intimate and intentional community
-emotional and spiritual growth
-time away from your responsibilities to relax and reconnect with your self
-learning new life/emotional tools
Then this is the group for you.
We gather every Monday for 6 weeks starting September 16, 2 hours each week to share ourselves, recenter our selves, and grow our inner landscape.
Weekly Activities include, but aren’t limited to:
-meditating
-check in
-weekly themed activities to spark our contemplation in ways meant to help us expand our thoughts and beliefs
-and working with archetypal meanings through oracle and tarot cards.
To register send me an email at
rootedandopen@gmail.com
$180
Sliding scale or payment options available and $20 discount for those able to pay in full with cash.
Your Sensual Nature
Your Sensual Nature is raw and unfilitered storytelling event. This is a women's sexuality storytelling event highlighting how women in our community feel about and experience their sexuality. The night will focus on vulva owners sharing and talking about sex through stories, poems, music, and professional movement.
All genders are welcome
18 and older only please.
For Tickets:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/your-sensual-nature-tickets-986030562957
Transformational Breathwork Class
Transformational Breathwork Class
Thursday, September 14th from 6-7:30Pm
Hawthorn Healing Arts
10 spots available
Sign up at Hawthorn 541-306-3752
$40
(This class will be offered the same time each month, the second Thursday from 6-7:30pm)
Transformational breathwork blends holotropic breathing, TRE (tension/trauma release exercises), and meditation. This is a class that is designed to create more vagal tone, downregulate the nervous system, release stress and trauma from your tissue, and find a new/spacious inner balance. Some benefits from this practice are, a reduction of stress, anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, and releasing trauma. Students will leave class feeling more grounded in his/her body, a deeper sense of relaxation, calm, peace, as well as an expanded state of consciousness, and more self awareness.
The first 15 minutes of class will focus on learning what TRE is, why it's important and how to do it. Then we will practice a 30 minute holotropic breathing exercise, after the breathwork we will move into practicing TRE and we will finish with a meditation and questions.
EmpowerHer
New weekly women’s group
"EmpowerHer: Finding Strength in Separation"
Are you going through a divorce or a significant change in a relationship, feeling lost, and in need of support? Look no further! Join "EmpowerHer," a nurturing and empowering community for women navigating the challenging journey of divorce or relational transition.
What We Offer:
- A supportive community where you can share your experiences and emotions.
- Inspirational success stories from women who have rebuilt their lives.
- Engaging group activities to help you heal and grow.
- Meditation and mindfulness practices to promote emotional well-being, presence, and self-discovery.
-Intentional rituals and healing ceremony to release the past and embrace a brighter future
Mindfulness for Healing and Presence:
At "EmpowerHer," we believe in the power of mindfulness to help you find inner strength and presence in the moment. We offer guided meditations, mindfulness practices, and intentional rituals to release the weight of the past, enabling you to center yourself, reduce stress, and find peace amidst life's storms.
Our Mission:
"EmpowerHer" is here to remind you that you are stronger than you think. With the right support, mindfulness practices, and a sense of presence, along with intentional rituals for release and healing, you can turn this difficult chapter into a fresh start filled with hope and opportunity.
Join us today and take the first step toward reclaiming your life. You're not alone in this journey; you're surrounded by a community of women ready to empower you and help you find presence in your newfound strength.
Monday, November 13th- December 18th, 6-8pm
Location: Address provided when register
Cost: $200
Register: email rootedandopen@gmail.com
Transformational Breathwork Class
Transformational Breathwork Class
Thursday, September 14th from 6-7:30Pm
Hawthorn Healing Arts
10 spots available
Sign up at Hawthorn 541-306-3752
$40
(This class will be offered the same time each month, the second Thursday from 6-7:30pm)
Transformational breathwork blends holotropic breathing, TRE (tension/trauma release exercises), and meditation. This is a class that is designed to create more vagal tone, downregulate the nervous system, release stress and trauma from your tissue, and find a new/spacious inner balance. Some benefits from this practice are, a reduction of stress, anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, and releasing trauma. Students will leave class feeling more grounded in his/her body, a deeper sense of relaxation, calm, peace, as well as an expanded state of consciousness, and more self awareness.
The first 15 minutes of class will focus on learning what TRE is, why it's important and how to do it. Then we will practice a 30 minute holotropic breathing exercise, after the breathwork we will move into practicing TRE and we will finish with a meditation and questions.
Transformational Breathwork Class
Transformational Breathwork Class
Thursday, September 14th from 6-7:30Pm
Hawthorn Healing Arts
10 spots available
Sign up at Hawthorn 541-306-3752
$40
(This class will be offered the same time each month, the second Thursday from 6-7:30pm)
Transformational breathwork blends holotropic breathing, TRE (tension/trauma release exercises), and meditation. This is a class that is designed to create more vagal tone, downregulate the nervous system, release stress and trauma from your tissue, and find a new/spacious inner balance. Some benefits from this practice are, a reduction of stress, anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, and releasing trauma. Students will leave class feeling more grounded in his/her body, a deeper sense of relaxation, calm, peace, as well as an expanded state of consciousness, and more self awareness.
The first 15 minutes of class will focus on learning what TRE is, why it's important and how to do it. Then we will practice a 30 minute holotropic breathing exercise, after the breathwork we will move into practicing TRE and we will finish with a meditation and questions.
Mama Nurture Circle
Mama Nurture Circle.
6 weeks, every Monday from 6-8pm
Limited to 8 moms
This is for Moms in ANY stage of parenting
Topics we’ll explore are inner child, inner self, vulnerability, sex, intimacy, relationships, changing body, authenticity…..
Spiritual practices like meditation, intuition, chakras, altars, tarot…. will be incorporated into our meetings as well.
Cost: $180
Register at
rootedandopen@gmail.com
Transformational Breathwork Class
Transformational Breathwork Class
Thursday, September 14th from 6-7:30Pm
Hawthorn Healing Arts
10 spots available
Sign at Hawthorn 541-306-3752
$40
(This class will be offered the same time each month, the second Thursday from 6-7:30pm)
Transformational breathwork blends holotropic breathing, TRE (tension/trauma release exercises), and meditation. This is a class that is designed to create more vagal tone, downregulate the nervous system, release stress and trauma from your tissue, and find a new/spacious inner balance. Some benefits from this practice are, a reduction of stress, anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, and releasing trauma. Students will leave class feeling more grounded in his/her body, a deeper sense of relaxation, calm, peace, as well as an expanded state of consciousness, and more self awareness.
The first 15 minutes of class will focus on learning what TRE is, why it's important and how to do it. Then we will practice a 30 minute holotropic breathing exercise, after the breathwork we will move into practicing TRE and we will finish with a meditation and questions.
Hearthstone Gathering
A homegrown conscious community gathering for teachers, artists, visionaries, healers, leaders, and YOU!
We are all teachers, artists, visionaries, healers, and leaders in some way. Our intention is to co-create community together, sharing ourselves and our “heartistry” to collectively expand our consciousness and anchor in heart-centered connection.
Hearthstone Gathering is a grassroots, home-grown, off-grid campout near the Newberry Caldera. We’ll spend 4-days and 3-nights together to sing, dance, swim, hike, play, learn, share, and harmonize with each other and nature. Each day there will be several different classes and workshops, and in the evenings we'll celebrate our time together around the campfire-hearth singing, dancing, drumming, and sharing.
SAFE & SACRED SPACE
We are creating a safe, sacred, and sober space. This is a family-friendly and community focused event. For clear connection and participation in this gathering, please leave all substances (including but not limited to alcohol, cannabis, mushrooms, tobacco, vapes) at home. If you have questions, please reach out. We don’t judge the use of these substances, and honor that there are other containers and gatherings for these things.
Workshops and Classes
Breathwork, meditation, plant walks, herbalism, hula hooping, music, singing, witnessing circles, acroyoga, sound baths, drumming, women's circle, activities for children and families AND MORE!
Evening Activities
Campfire time around the Hearth for drumming, dancing, singing, and sharing.
You will also have opportunities for hiking, swimming, connecting with self and others, and an invitation on the last night to share a song, poem, or a brief heartshare with the group. There will be plenty of spaciousness to participate in all the ways that call to you.
Children's Program
Each day we'll have a children’s program for ages 4-11 while the parents are engaged in workshops.
About the Campite
We are gathering at an established group campsite. There are vault toilets and limited picnic tables and fire rings. At this time, there is NO RUNNING WATER (the pipes are still not repaired). You will need to bring your own water for the weekend. Water will not be provided.
TICKETS
Earlybird // Tier 1 (Only sold June 13-July 14)
$125 for ages 12+
$65 for ages 4-11
Free for children 0-3
Family Pack: $300
This package is for 2 adult tickets (Ages 12+) and 2 children’s tickets (ages 4-11). Bring the whole family, or team with friends. Ticketholders do not need to be from the same family (we’re all community - gathering your peeps for power in numbers!)
Tier 2 tickets
$155 for ages 12+
$77 for ages 4-11
Free for children 0-3
Family Pack: $400
This package is for 2 adult tickets (Ages 12+) and 2 children’s tickets (ages 4-11). Bring the whole family, or team with friends. Ticketholders do not need to be from the same family (we’re all community - gathering your peeps for power in numbers!)
Tickets:
https://bendticket.com/events/hearthstone-gathering-9-7-2023
TICKETS INCLUDE
Camping for all 3 nights Thu 9/7-Sun 9/10
Access to all workshops and all activities
Not included
Camping supplies, food, water. You will need to bring your own camping gear, food and water for the weekend.
Once you purchase your tickets, we will send a suggested packing list, specific location and directions, updates on offerings, and lots of love!
Purchase tickets here
https://bendticket.com/events/hearthstone-gathering-9-7-2023
If you do not want to pay Bend Ticket taxes you can pay Shanti directly through cash, check or Venmo. To set up a direct payment email Shanti at: rootedandopen@gmail.com
We are so thrilled to connect and co-create with you!
Please message us directly or email us at hearthstonecommunitygathering@gmail.com
See you there!!
Transformational Breathwork Class
Transformational Breathwork Class
Thursday June 8th from 6-7:30Pm
Hawthorn Healing Arts
10 spots available
Sign at Hawthorn 541-306-3752
$40
(This class will be offered the same time each month, the second Thursday from 6-7:30pm)
Transformational breathwork blends holotropic breathing, TRE (tension/trauma release exercises), and meditation. This is a class that is designed to create more vagal tone, downregulate the nervous system, release stress and trauma from your tissue, and find a new/spacious inner balance. Some benefits from this practice are, a reduction of stress, anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, and releasing trauma. Students will leave class feeling more grounded in his/her body, a deeper sense of relaxation, calm, peace, as well as an expanded state of consciousness, and more self awareness.
The first 15 minutes of class will focus on learning what TRE is, why it's important and how to do it. Then we will practice a 30 minute holotropic breathing exercise, after the breathwork we will move into practicing TRE and we will finish with a meditation and questions.
Transformational Breathwork Class
Transformational Breathwork Class
Thursday June 8th from 6-7:30Pm
Hawthorn Healing Arts
10 spots available
Sign at Hawthorn 541-306-3752
$40
(This class will be offered the same time each month, the second Thursday from 6-7:30pm)
Transformational breathwork blends holotropic breathing, TRE (tension/trauma release exercises), and meditation. This is a class that is designed to create more vagal tone, downregulate the nervous system, release stress and trauma from your tissue, and find a new/spacious inner balance. Some benefits from this practice are, a reduction of stress, anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, and releasing trauma. Students will leave class feeling more grounded in his/her body, a deeper sense of relaxation, calm, peace, as well as an expanded state of consciousness, and more self awareness.
The first 15 minutes of class will focus on learning what TRE is, why it's important and how to do it. Then we will practice a 30 minute holotropic breathing exercise, after the breathwork we will move into practicing TRE and we will finish with a meditation and questions.
Transformational Breathwork Class
Transformational Breathwork Class
Thursday June 8th from 6-7:30Pm
Hawthorn Healing Arts
10 spots available
Sign at Hawthorn 541-306-3752
$40
(This class will be offered the same time each month, the second Thursday from 6-7:30pm)
Transformational breathwork blends holotropic breathing, TRE (tension/trauma release exercises), and meditation. This is a class that is designed to create more vagal tone, downregulate the nervous system, release stress and trauma from your tissue, and find a new/spacious inner balance. Some benefits from this practice are, a reduction of stress, anxiety, depression, and overwhelm, and releasing trauma. Students will leave class feeling more grounded in his/her body, a deeper sense of relaxation, calm, peace, as well as an expanded state of consciousness, and more self awareness.
The first 15 minutes of class will focus on learning what TRE is, why it's important and how to do it. Then we will practice a 30 minute holotropic breathing exercise, after the breathwork we will move into practicing TRE and we will finish with a meditation and questions.
Women's Group
Open to all who identify as a woman. This is a community of people who are committed to their growth and the growth of you.
If you say yes to this group you are saying yes to sharing yourself, your process, and your heart. Through vulnerably sharing yourself the hope is you find clarity and understanding on who you are and how to move forward in your life that is in alignment with your deep self. It can be deeply healing to share yourself, to be seen, to be heard and to offer that to someone else.
Details…
Tuesdays
May 2-30th (Except our first group will be on Monday May 1, then all the following groups will be on Tuesday)
6-8pm
Open to 8 women
$100
Sign up by email rootedandopen@gmail.com
BCX Frequency Healing
The BCX Ultra Rife machine is a powerful healing machine using frequency (sound, electricity, audio, and EMF). A frequency machine can help heal viruses, bacteria, parasites, lyme, chronic illness….there are well over 2,000 ailments it can help heal.
This will be a monthly clinic. If you are interested please text 541-306-8466 to set up your 30 minute session between 6-8pm on April 24th. Each session costs $45
To learn more about the BCX machine click here. BCX
Community Grief Ceremony
“Surrendering to your sorrow has the power to heal the deepest of wounds”
-Sobonfu Some-
In life it is necessary to grieve those things that no longer serve us in order to let them go. Grief is a common human emotion that impacts us all. It can come to us through divorce, illness, loss of dreams, conflict, death, change and so much more. Grief is an invitation to feel. It invites us to come into the body to shed light on those things that are ready to be released in order to heal. Because of this, we must have ways to move our pain. Grief needs to be regularly felt and released or it begins to smother our joy, creativity, and our ability to connect with our self and others.
Community Grief Ceremony is a safe way to learn how to lean into grieving within and among community. Communal grieving offers something that we cannot get when we grieve by ourselves. Through validation, acknowledgement and witnessing, communal grieving allows us to experience a level of healing that is deeply and profoundly freeing. Each of us has a basic human right to that genuine love, happiness and freedom.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
-People feeling grief for the loss of a loved one, a pet, a partnership, or job
-Anyone stuck in unhealthy relationships or emotionally unhealthy situations
-People in transition of any kind, whether through divorce, illness, accidents, or disappointed dreams
-People in recovery
-Front line workers such as therapists, educators, nurses, social workers, hospice caregivers, police men or women, activists
-Veterans
-Those feeling the collective grief of a violent world, or the environmental harm of the earth
-Anyone with sadness and pain to release
-People dealing with a chronic illness
-Those who have lost a loved one
ABOUT THE LINEAGE OF THIS CEREMONY:
This ceremony is inspired by the work of Sobonfu Somé who took the teachings and healing practices from her tribe–The Dagara tribe of West Africa to America. Over the course of her life she traveled all over the US and Europe, teaching people how to grieve through the Dagara tradition. Dagara rituals offer profound healing, making spirit tangible by preparing the mind, body and soul to receive the spirituality that surrounds us.
Her website to learn more about Sonbonfu
http://www.sobonfu.com
This ceremony will be facilitated by Hillary Hurst and Barbara Largent and will be supported by various community members. Hillary Hurst is a mental health therapist who spent many years working with Sobonfu at grief rituals. Before Sonbonfu’s passing she asked Hillary to continue this work within her community. Barbara Largent is physician and energy healer who does deep emotional and trauma release work.
HOSTED BY:
Hillary Hurst, Barbara Largent, and Shanti O’Connor
SCHEDULE:
Thursday, March 9, 2023
6:00PM Arrive/Register:
7:00 – 9:00 PM Opening Ceremony
Friday, March 10, 2023
8:30am Arrive/Settle in
Grief Ceremony: 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Lunch:1-2
Dinner: 5-6
Saturday, March 11, 2023
8:30am: Arrive/Settle In
9am-2pm: Integration/Closing Ceremony
WHERE:
The Grief Ceremony will be held indoors at...
Unity Community:
63645 Scenic Dr, Bend, OR 97701
FOOD:
Snacks, tea, and coffee will be provided. Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own lunch, dinner, and extra food. We will not be feeding you lunch and dinner. Unity has a very small kitchen to warm food, but not cook it. Please bring your own cooler to store your food and food that is already cooked.
Tickets:
You can purchase your tickets on Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-grief-ceremony-tickets-444892313887
Price:
Regular Price: January-March: $200
At the door:$250
Email rootedandopen@gmail.com to sign up or go to
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-grief-ceremony-tickets-444892313887 to sign up.
7 Gates to Healing
7 Gates is a deep dive into your internal landscape by exploring different gates of healing (grief, shadow aspects, and trauma....). Each week we'll explore a different gate through writing, sharing, meditation, ceremony, and ritual. Some, but not all topics explored will be, shadow work, loss, grief, shame, ancestral healing, and our relationship to the non-human world. We will spend the majority of our time together in ceremony and ritual.
It is the intention that each person will
-finish the group with deep clarity and understanding of the inner self.
-have a larger vocabulary for understanding the self
-reclaim lost parts of the psyche
-have new tools to integrate in day to day life
-feel a huge weight lifted from the body
-have expanded their community
-have expanded his/her heart
-know how to grieve in community
-will feel more safe to vulnerably express his/her truth
-will have a fresh/new perspective
Logistics
We will co-create an intimate container with 6-8 people.
This group is open to all genders and stages of life, so all who are called will be welcomed.
We will meet every other week for a total of 8 gatherings starting Monday, November 7st from 6:30-8:30pm until February 13th. Investment: $210 for 8 weeks.
Payment plans available
Email: rootedandopen@gmail.com to sign up
Tweaks and adjustments to the schedule can be made to accommodate scheduling needs at our first meeting.
When: November 7- February 13th
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Where: 33NW Louisiana Ave, Bend
Cost:$210
Register: rootedandopen@gmail.com
7 Gates to Healing
7 Gates is a deep dive into your internal landscape by exploring different gates of healing (grief, shadow aspects, and trauma....). Each week we'll explore a different gate through writing, sharing, meditation, ceremony, and ritual. Some, but not all topics explored will be, shadow work, loss, grief, shame, ancestral healing, and our relationship to the non-human world. We will spend the majority of our time together in ceremony and ritual.
It is the intention that each person will
-finish the group with deep clarity and understanding of the inner self.
-have a larger vocabulary for understanding the self
-reclaim lost parts of the psyche
-have new tools to integrate in day to day life
-feel a huge weight lifted from the body
-have expanded their community
-have expanded his/her heart
-know how to grieve in community
-will feel more safe to vulnerably express his/her truth
-will have a fresh/new perspective
Logistics
We will co-create an intimate container with 6-8 people.
This group is open to all genders and stages of life, so all who are called will be welcomed.
We will meet every other week for a total of 8 gatherings starting Monday, November 7st from 6:30-8:30pm until February 13th. Investment: $210 for 8 weeks.
Payment plans available
Email: rootedandopen@gmail.com to sign up
Tweaks and adjustments to the schedule can be made to accommodate scheduling needs at our first meeting.
When: November 7- February 13th
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Where: 33NW Louisiana Ave, Bend
Cost:$210
Register: rootedandopen@gmail.com
Hearthstone Gathering
Hearthstone gathering is a family friendly campout in the Newberry Caldera. It is our intention to bring community together to share ourselves so we can collectively expand our consciousness to help anchor in heart-centered living.
This is a weekend of coming together to sing, dance, swim, hike, play, and harmonize with nature. Each day we'll be offering 10-20 different classes and in the evenings we'll celebrate our time together with performances, dances, and singing around a campfire.
This is a sober weekend. With children present we want to hold a clean and conscious gathering. Please leave your alcohol, mushrooms, cigarettes, pot, and mind altering substances of all sorts at home.
Offerings
Kundalini yoga, chi-kung, breathwork, hiking, earth skills, belly dancing, contact improv,
Performances
We'll have a nightly musical performance. Stay tuned for confirmed artist and musicians.
Children's Program
Each day we will have a kids program for ages 4-11 offered while the parents are engaged in classes. The kids will go hiking, learn earth skills, do art, make music, and swim in the creek. Children under 4 can stay with their mom/dad and kids 12 and up are invited to join the adult classes.
Trade Fair
We will have a designated area for a participants to sell their wares/goods or trade. If you plan to bring something to sell you'll need a table or blanket to put it on.
Payment
12 and up - $177
4-11-$77
Eventbrite tickets can be found
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hearthstone-gathering-tickets-369272422757
If you do not want to pay Eventbrite taxes you can pay Shanti directly through cash, check or Venmo.
To set up email Shanti at,
rootedandopen@gmail.com
Intuition Class
Intuition class is a 6 week, in person series in Bend, OR. This is a small and inmate class to allow for deeper learning.
This class is for individuals who think or know they have intuition, but have a hard time consistently accessing it. Each week we’ll build upon the previous week exploring the different ways we can access intuition through simple exercises. By the end of the series each person will know what their intuitive gifts are and tangible ways to increase the strength of their gifts as well as consistently access them.
The weekly format will be
Short check-in
Questions/reflections about the homework assigned
Short discussion on the weekly topic
Group meditation
Intuitive exercises
This class is limited to 6 people. Upon payment your spot will be reserved and you will receive the address the classes will be held at.
Cost: $180
Payment: Cash, Check, Venmo
Register: rootedandopen@gmail.com
About Shanti……..
Shanti was born and raised in a psychic family. Through her parents she learned a lot about intuition and how to use it. As a child Shanti had many spiritual awakenings and psychic experiences that inspired her to become an intuitive/psychic healer. As an adult, Shanti has been studying psychic phenomenon for over 30 years. She has also had many teachers and guides who have shown her how to tap in and use her gifts more consciously. Shanti uses her intuition to help people heal and step into their power.
Women's Wisdom Circle
Are you looking for a community of like minded women to connect with? Women who know that their truth and wisdom is important to not only connect with, but to share. Women who are ready to live a more deeply authentic and aligned life. This is your opportunity to gather with other likeminded women to share your self and be inspired to live a more aligned life.
Women’s wisdom circle is open to all women in any stage of life. This is not a self-help group. This is a group of sovereign women who find joy in sharing their truth and wisdom and who feel inspired when hearing another woman’s wisdom.
Each gathering we’ll spend time meditating, doing a short journal exercise and then we’ll have time to share our self with each other through check ins and discussion topics. This is a closed group, so once the first group starts, new members will not be able to join.
Dates:
January 25th-February 22nd
Day/time:
Tuesdays from 6:30-8:30pm
Where:
33 NW Louisiana Ave, Bend, OR 97703
Cost:
$125
Cash, Check or Venmo
Sign-Up:
Email rootedandopen@gmail.com to sign up