Offerings
AUTUMN SERIES
AUTUMN SERIES
Sacred Rest Community Sessions
Mondays at Atrium in the Breathe Building
2305 SE 50th Ave, Portland, OR 97215
Beginning October 6
7:00-8:15 pm
Thursdays on Zoom
Beginning October 9
5:30-6:30 pm
Join somatic facilitator Stacy Carleton as we disrupt hustle culture through collective rest.
We will check in with our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits through somatic inquiry, engage in gentle movement to settle our energy, read and reflect on excerpts from Tricia Hersey’s Rest is Resistance, share our stories of rest and unrest, and embody radical community care with a closing guided rest practice. This class weaves together inspiration from meditation, yoga, qigong, mutual aid networks, and community organizing.
In a society that demands hyperproductivity and nonstop busyness, explore what happens when we reclaim our birthright of rest and make space for slowness, tenderness, and the inherent wisdom of our divine bodies.
Please bring (optional):
Yoga mat + pillow + blanket
Sliding scale donation of $10-25
Sacred Rest
When was the last time you let yourself rest? Really rest? I bet it’s been a while…
Sacred rest sessions feature somatic healing modalities, meditation, readings, discussion, intuitive movement, or any combination of these. Our primary objective is to ground in community, 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.
Participants with the Leaven Community Fall Rest Retreat at Menucha Retreat Center on Kalapuya and Multnomah Lands (Columbia Gorge), November 2024
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.”