Come hold your friends and explore platonic touch with us! Abby, Dannie, and Hayleigh will all be on hand to help hold space. This is not a facilitated event or workshop, but instead a sweet time to come and get quiet and feel more grounded in community. We're gonna keep the lights down, make some sound, play some music, and get held. This event is strictly platonic and we will all do the work of maintaining a non-sexualized container. Everyone is encouraged to participate at their own comfort, and whether you wanna come hold your friend or partner in a communal space, navigate new touch with a stranger, or even just keep to yourself and feel things out, you're very welcome here.

Sunday, March 30th

8:00 - 10:30 pm

at Abide West / Willow Room

Sliding Scale $20/25/30

Illuminating Our Voices is excited to offer generative & interactive writing workshops at Abide Yoga Studio.

{why} Our voices, insights, visions, imaginations ... who we are, where (and who) we come from are invaluable. We are all creative beings. We all have stories. Isn't it time you wrote yours?

{who} You! Everyone! If this is your 1st writing workshop or your 50th; If you consider yourself a 'non writer' or you've already published or somewhere in between - You will find a writing home here.

{how} Each session we will be propelled by unique writing prompts and exercises. (Think of prompts as mental trampolines!)

{when} In person monthly workshops:

3rd Sundays 1-4p EST: January 19, March 16, March 30 {2025}

{where} Abide West. 15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood, Ohio

{your facilitator} Isabella has been writing with the AWA methodology since 1999, facilitating AWA philosophy based workshops since 2009, and became AWA certified facilitator in 2019. Originally from The Bronx, she now calls Cleveland home. For 25+ years she has worked in education including K-12 teaching, non-profit management & college administration, always finding joy in shared spaces of learning and engagement.

{cost} Sliding Scale

per session: 25 / 35 / 45

Carve out time for intentional stillness and deep meditation during the hours where we often encounter a tendency to push past our capacity and disengage from our bodies, boundaries, and deeper insights. When we practice Yoga Nidra, we learn to stay present with our physical selves while reconnecting to deeper layers of intuition and the subconscious. We take time to enter into the liminal space between wakefulness and sleep, where our brainwaves begin to slow down and spaciousness abounds. Here, we can daydream and remember the profound potential of time spent doing nothing.

Practicing yoga nidra in the middle of the day can help us re-energize for the remaining daylight hours ahead. And new moon days are all about potential and beginnings, planting the seeds of what you'd like to reap. As we practice yoga nidra, we'll notice the energies present within us, and give them space to settle.

Saturday, March 29th

at Abide West / Willow Room Collective / Virtual

15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood 

1 - 2 pm

Sliding scale $20 / 25 / 30

Sign up for in-person

Sign up for virtual

Soooooo can we talk? Things are pretty bonkers right now, no? I'm gonna guess that you may be feeling the need to take extra care of yourself. If your body is holding onto a lot, join Sarah-Jane Webster, LMT, CYT to release some of the tension. This 90 minute class is all about gentle shapes and light massage. We'll feel our bodies, find our breath, and give ourselves a bit of space.

Sliding scale $30 / 35 / 40

Friday, March 28th, 7 - 8:30pm

at Abide West Lakewood, at the Willow Room Collective

15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood, OH

Casey Lewis @caseylynnlewis & Stacey Pickering @we_are_vibrational_energy have been co-creating Sound Bath + Reiki offerings together for quite some time, as well as engaging in their own vocal sounding practices individually & in small groups. Both regularly experience supportive, transformative healing through their explorations with vocalizing - humming, toning, groaning, growling!, or whatever arises. As their collaborative Sound + Reiki offerings have evolved, they feel guided to not only share their vibrational support with folks for the time that we are gathered, but to help (re)connect participants with the medicine that those of us with breath & voice carry within and can almost always access.

Sounding it Out is about empowering ourselves to remember & reclaim our voices to support our own healing & liberation. In this practice we slow down, listen within, and notice what is asking for attention. We will bring care to the parts of us that need it through breath & vocalization (whatever arises! - maybe even a simple song / chant invitation). This can be done sitting, lying down, moving as needed, and even silently, in stillness, if desired.

Then, we'll release the practice & nestle in with blankets and bolsters to receive the restorative vibrations of crystal & Tibetan singing bowls, bells, chimes, gong, shruti box, rain stick, guda drum, & voice, and group hands-off (& possibly, optionally 1:1 hands-on) nurturing Reiki.

We'll take some time to process silently, with the option of journaling or artistic expression - bring supplies if you desire! -
then close our gathering, with an invitation to share.

Of course, vocal sounding is optional, as are all parts of these gatherings. Silence can surely be medicine too. But if there is something in us that fears being heard, perhaps a supportive container of nonjudgement is the perfect place to lean in with curiosity & compassion, and explore what happens when we give ourselves permission to have a voice.

Saturday, March 22nd, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
At Abide West at Willow Room, 15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood

Sliding Scale $35 / 40 / $45

This year feels different – heavy, terrifying, enraging, yes – but instead of retreating, self-isolating and mourning, we are hungry for connection and community. We are taking stock of our resources. Some are limited, like our time on earth; others are boundless, like our capacity for giving and receiving love. How do we maximize and nurture goodness in the time we have right now?

Our 2025 Murmurations books are meant to guide us toward what matters, and help us recognize the quiet, mobilizing power of love in all its forms.

March 21: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals a book by Oliver Burkeman 

I tend to look sideways at books promising “productivity” – but this is not that. Instead, Oliver Burkeman puts into words and numbers our time alive (4,000 weeks, if we’re lucky), and how to consider spending our time within those weeks. This is a mind-shifting read if you’ve ever thought about changing your relationships with work, family, nature, Phone, or any of the things we’d like to spend more or less time on each day.

About the book:

Nobody needs to be told there isn't enough time. Whether we're starting our own business, or trying to write a novel during our lunch break, or staring down a pile of deadlines as we're planning a vacation, we're obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless struggle against distraction. We're deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and yet the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. 

Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks, the average length of a human life.

Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with "getting everything done," Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that many of the unhelpful ways we've come to think about time aren't inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we've made as individuals and as a society--and that we can do things differently.

Friday March 21st at Abide West at Willow Room Collective

15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood

Sliding Scale: Pay What you Wish $5 - $30

Bring a snack or drink to share!

The Spring Equinox marks the balance between light and darkness, which can remind us of the duality of grief. Sometimes conflicting and out of balance, especially in early grief, both light and dark emotions coexist as we grieve. In grief, there are moments of acceptance, warmth, joy, and healing, but also times of sadness, longing, guilt, and loss. Grief holds space for both pain and healing - both can be essential to our journey.

We will create a communal space of healing by incorporating a community altar, breathwork, collage art, journaling, and shared time in community. The act of collaging allows for deep self-expression, helping us give form to emotions that might be hard to put into words. 

A Grief Circle is a safe, sacred space to honor your grief, hold space for one another, and find connection as we ebb and flow. We welcome you to come as you are, with your grief and your love. All grief is welcome here: loss of people, transitions, illness, identity, societal, and beyond. 

Participants are invited to bring photos, objects, or items that represent their grief for the altar and a journal. Light Snacks and Tea will be provided. 

Saturday, 3/15 6PM – 8PM

Sliding Scale $15 / $25 / $35

at Abide on Larchmere

Sacred Seasons Yoga

Somatic Yoga Therapy meets Ancient Pagan Rituals to bring you the depth and breadth of experience you crave.

With 2025 already starting out as a year of great upheaval and uncertainty, what do we need to build our resilience? We will explore the ideas of patience, preparation, protection, and purification through the lens of Yoga.

As a certified Yoga Therapist, Caressa offers slow, mindful poses which can help increase circulation. For this month, we will focus on building heat and internal strength. With reverence and intention, we'll begin with altar building, invoking the elements, and a centering meditation.

In this March session of Sacred Seasons Yoga at Abide, experience the special areas of yoga that support and nurture your energy:
• Pranayama (breath practice)
• Mudra (hand gestures)
• Mantra (sacred sounds)
• Meditation

We'll  wrap up our time together with journaling, reflection, and divination with oracle cards.

Saturday, March 15th

5:00 - 6:30pm

at Abide West at Willow Room

15810 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, OH

Sliding Scale $30 / 35 / 40

Join Hayleigh Robertson & Dannie Horton of Cleveland Embodiment Collective in a practice of talking and touching in a facilitated container that strives to be safe for all. 

Explore what it feels like to ask for and offer platonic touch. We'll work as a group and in pairs. Bring a friend, practice with a stranger, or just show up and be present with us! There's never any pressure to participate in any particular way. All bodies welcome.

March 14th, 7 - 10 pm

Sliding Scale $20 / $25 / $30

At Abide on Larchmere

Magick Moon Circle

Join us each month for a sacred Full Moon Circle, where we honor the unique energies of the lunar cycle through tea, rituals, and restorative practices. This circle is designed to nurture your mind, body, and spirit with a blend of magickal activities and community connection.

What to Expect:

Herbal Tea & Wisdom: Sip on moon-inspired herbal teas while learning about their magickal properties.

Moon Ritual: Engage in a themed ritual to release, manifest, or deepen your spiritual connection with the current full moon.

Yoga: Slow flow, Yin, or restorative yoga to ground, relax, and release
tension.

Meditation with Reiki: Experience a soothing group Reiki session to restore and heal your energy.

Oracle & Tarot: Receive intuitive guidance through card pulls for personal insight.

Magickal Take-Home Item: Take home a sacred item for your altar.

Snacks & Socializing: Enjoy light bites and connect with like-minded souls in a supportive, nurturing space.

Each circle offers a transformative experience, leaving you feeling renewed, inspired, and aligned with the energy of the full moon. 

What to bring:

A journal and pen for journaling & reflecting
Comfortable clothing for yoga and relaxation
An open heart and mind
Any personal ritual tools or items you’d like to bring to be charged at our community altar (optional)

About Farrah and Jen:

Farrah Matlock (She/They), C.Y.T. 300, Reiki Master Level
Farrah is a Yoga & Meditation Instructor, Reiki Practitioner, Green Witch and Moon Circle facilitator, creating sacred spaces for reflection and connection. With a deep understanding of energy anatomy, she helps students cultivate self-awareness and empathy. Guided by her Taurus Sun, Leo Moon, and Sagittarius Rising, Farrah uses self-study to cultivate gentleness and confidence, helping others to navigate a world that increasingly demands balance and self-regulation.

Jen Garry (She/Her), Reiki Level 1, Permaculture Designer, Herbalism and Gardening Aficionado

A passionate gardener, she grows vegetables, fruits, and native wildflowers while co-facilitating Magick circles to inspire spiritual
growth and connection. Guided by her Virgo Sun, Libra Moon, and Leo Rising, Jen empowers others to heal, grow, and deepen their connection to nature.

You are invited to join Holistic Wellness Practitioner Stacey Pickering for a restorative sound bath, including crystal singing bowls, intuitive vocalization & other vibrationally healing instrumentation.

Crystal singing bowls, made of quartz and other gemstones, are used in ceremony, meditation, and various transformative experiences. They produce strong, clear, true tones that resonate deeply in our bodies & energetic systems. The vibrations that ring out from the bowls create clear pathways in us for opening, release, connection, balance & stillness. Their powerful sounds can help us feel grounded, energized, peaceful, uplifted and whole. 

Sound vibrations have the power to clear mental clutter & allow space for new neural pathways, helping to catalyze the creation of what we want to be & see more of in our lives & in the world.

Join Stacey to reset, rebalance, and reconnect with yourself.

Saturday, March 8th, 7 PM

Sliding Scale $20 / $25 / $30

At Abide Larchmere

Join Sabah Bhat for a slow flow class and lovingkindness meditation. Suggest donation of $10/20/30 to Democracy Forward or The Ohio Women’s Alliance (or both), donations are made directly to these orgs.

Register at https://forms.office.com/r/EgewRnXZks

Do you have a body? Are you interested in better understanding your body and its cycles? Then come to this workshop!

Cycles are all around us, impacting our daily lives. Come discuss ways to be empowered to better recognize cycles and their impact, how to convert them to growth spirals, and when to collapse and compost the energy to spread it in new directions. We will discuss cycles in your body and the world and how recognizing these cycles or even charting them (worksheet provided) can help you better understand your moods, feelings, and how to better accomplish your goals based on your cycle and cycles around you. Discussion will include menstruation, but this workshop is open and applicable to everyone with a body, whether you menstruate or not.

Led by Beck Swab

Sunday, March 2nd, 1 - 3:30 pm

at Abide West / Willow Room Collective

15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood

Sliding Scale $20 / $25 / $30

Astro Circles: Embodied Astrology of Pisces

What does Pisces season feel like in our bodies? How do we move through and embody the traits of this zodiac season? In Astro Circles, we use astrology and the wheel of the year to bring ourselves more fully into each zodiac season.

Each session includes restorative movement, ritual, guided meditation, and of course, astrology! We’ll close the practice with journaling and connection over astro chat to see where Pisces shows up in our birth chart.

For Pisces season, the body focus will be the feet and lymphatic system, as well as connecting with our inner dreamer and the cycles of death and rebirth. 

Saturday, March 1st

6:00 - 7:30 pm

Sliding Scale $15 / 20 / 25

Own Your Purpose with Human Design: An Intermediate Workshop exploring true alignment with your authentic purpose and design

So you’ve got the Human Design basics down – you’re using your authority, you’re seeing your aura type in action, and you’re LOVING the soul-level validation that comes from using your strategy - and now you’re craving more next level, life-changing Human Design tools!

Join Krystal Alexandria, Ease Mentor and creator of the AstroHD Readings & Workshops, for an emboldening afternoon centering just how badass your purpose is and what the heck to do with it in your everyday life. You’ll be reminded that who you authentically are is 100% on purpose and you’ll leave encouraged to take up space in exactly who you are and why you’re here.

Come ready to learn:

• The meaning of your Incarnation Cross and how it connects to your purpose, your self-care, your deep karmic triggers, and your ability to re-center into your purpose when life knocks you away from it

• How to leverage certain gates in your chart to give you clues into how to bring your purpose to life

• How to use your chart to connect deeply and authentically with others in your life and in this communal space, too!

NOTE: Prior Human Design foundational knowledge is required for this workshop  whether you’ve attended a foundations workshop with me or learned elsewhere. Skipping forward to this piece of learning without the basics doesn’t ultimately serve your “Human Design Experiment” as it’s known, so please be sure to join us at the next Get To Know Your Human Design Chart Workshop on October 12 @ 1-4p at Abide West if you’d like to attend this one. If there is interest in hosting either of these workshops again, we can host another!

When: Saturday, March 1st @ 1-4p

Where: Abide West (Lakewood)

Price: $45 - $55 - $65

Duration: 3 hours

Attendee Max: 12 people

What to bring:

• A notebook, water bottle, and be sure to wear comfy clothes as we will be seated on pillows and bolsters on the floor in the movement space

• Light snacks will be provided (fruit, nuts, etc.)

• Your Human Design chart will be printed for you and available upon arrival - Please ensure you fill out the google form to send your birth data at least 48 hours ahead of the workshop

• There is a quiet room separate from the larger group should you need some solo down time

• You are welcome to email krystal@krystalalexandria.com should you need/desire any additional accommodations

Please fill out this form to help us create your chart: https://forms.gle/XrzEUd7tTc9Vhrka6

Soooooo can we talk? Things are pretty bonkers right now, no? I'm gonna guess that you may be feeling the need to take extra care of yourself. If your body is holding onto a lot, join Sarah-Jane Webster, LMT, CYT to release some of the tension. This 90 minute class is all about gentle shapes and light massage. We'll feel our bodies, find our breath, and give ourselves a bit of space.

Sliding scale $30 / 35 / 40

Friday, February 28th, 7 - 8:30pm

at Abide West Lakewood, at the Willow Room Collective

15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood, OH

Carve out time for intentional stillness and deep meditation during the hours where we often encounter a tendency to push past our capacity and disengage from our bodies, boundaries, and deeper insights. When we practice Yoga Nidra, we learn to stay present with our physical selves while reconnecting to deeper layers of intuition and the subconscious. We take time to enter into the liminal space between wakefulness and sleep, where our brainwaves begin to slow down and spaciousness abounds. Here, we can daydream and remember the profound potential of time spent doing nothing.

Practicing yoga nidra in the middle of the day can help us re-energize for the remaining daylight hours ahead. And new moon days are all about potential and beginnings, planting the seeds of what you'd like to reap. As we practice yoga nidra, we'll notice the energies present within us, and give them space to settle.

Thursday, February 27th

at Abide West / Willow Room Collective / Virtual

15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood 

1 - 2 pm

Sliding scale $20 / 25 / 30

To attend in person, sign up here

To attend online, sign up here

This year feels different – heavy, terrifying, enraging, yes – but instead of retreating, self-isolating and mourning, we are hungry for connection and community. We are taking stock of our resources. Some are limited, like our time on earth; others are boundless, like our capacity for giving and receiving love. How do we maximize and nurture goodness in the time we have right now?

Our 2025 Murmurations books are meant to guide us toward what matters, and help us recognize the quiet, mobilizing power of love in all its forms.

Feb 21: All about Love: New Visions a book by Bell Hooks 

If you’ve never read bell hooks, this is a wonderful place to start. If you’re not able to read bell hooks, come to the session anyway – the discussion will be for everyone.

About the book:

"The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society's failure to provide a model for learning to love.

Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation.

Friday February 21st at Abide West at Willow Room Collective

15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood

Sliding Scale: Pay What you Wish $5 - $30

Bring a snack or drink to share!

Listen friends. Cleveland winter is cold and it is grey. It can feel very very blah. Abide & Willow to the rescue! Reconnect with your inner vitality and embrace the power of pleasure at this juicy, warm, joyful afternoon retreat. 

 What Awaits You:

• Sauna: Unwind and get a little sweaty in the soothing warmth of the sauna.

• A.S.S. Class (Awakening the Sacral & Sensual): Reignite your connection to the sensual energies that fuel creativity, pleasure, and delight.

• Vocalization Practice: Discover the power of your voice in a loosely guided experience that harmonizes your inner and outer worlds. Remember that the vocal cords and the pelvic floor (and the yoni!) are similarly shaped structures!

• Delicious Lunch: Nourish your body with a thoughtfully prepared meal designed to delight your senses.

• Treats!: Indulge in the sweetness of the moment with the beauty of fresh blooms and decadent chocolates.

Don’t miss this opportunity to reconnect with your body and the beauty of the world around you, even in these cold, dark days.

February 15th, 2025

12 - 3:30 pm

at Abide West at Willow Room Collective

15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood

Sliding scale $90 / $110 / $130

Carve out time for intentional stillness and deep meditation during the hours where we often encounter a tendency to push past our capacity and disengage from our bodies, boundaries, and deeper insights. When we practice Yoga Nidra, we learn to stay present with our physical selves while reconnecting to deeper layers of intuition and the subconscious. We take time to enter into the liminal space between wakefulness and sleep, where our brainwaves begin to slow down and spaciousness abounds. Here, we can daydream and remember the profound potential of time spent doing nothing.

Practicing yoga nidra in the middle of the day can help us re-energize for the remaining daylight hours ahead. And full moon days are all about completeness and clarity, fullness and ripeness. As we practice yoga nidra, we'll notice the energies present within us, and give them space to settle.

guided by Ava Leben

Wednesday, February 12th

at Abide West / Willow Room Collective / Virtual

15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood 

1 - 2 pm

Sliding scale $20 / 25 / 30

Click here to sign up to attend online

Click here to sign up to attend in person at Abide West

You are invited to join Holistic Wellness Practitioner Stacey Pickering for a restorative sound bath, including crystal singing bowls, intuitive vocalization & other vibrationally healing instrumentation.

Crystal singing bowls, made of quartz and other gemstones, are used in ceremony, meditation, and various transformative experiences. They produce strong, clear, true tones that resonate deeply in our bodies & energetic systems. The vibrations that ring out from the bowls create clear pathways in us for opening, release, connection, balance & stillness. Their powerful sounds can help us feel grounded, energized, peaceful, uplifted and whole. 

Sound vibrations have the power to clear mental clutter & allow space for new neural pathways, helping to catalyze the creation of what we want to be & see more of in our lives & in the world.

Join Stacey to reset, rebalance, and reconnect with yourself.

Saturday, February 8th, 7 PM

Sliding Scale $20 / $25 / $30

At Abide Larchmere

Sacred Seasons Yoga

Somatic Yoga Therapy meets Ancient Pagan Rituals to bring you the depth and breadth of experience you crave.

With 2025 already starting out as a year of great upheaval and uncertainty, what do we need to build our resilience? We will explore the ideas of patience, preparation, protection, and purification through the lens of Yoga.

As a certified Yoga Therapist, Caressa offers slow, mindful poses which can help increase circulation. For this month, we will focus on building heat and internal strength. With reverence and intention, we'll begin with altar building, invoking the elements, and a centering meditation.

In this February session of Sacred Seasons Yoga at Abide, experience the special areas of yoga that support and nurture your energy:
• Pranayama (breath practice)
• Mudra (hand gestures)
• Mantra (sacred sounds)
• Meditation

We'll  wrap up our time together with journaling, reflection, and divination with oracle cards.

Saturday, February 8th

5:00 - 6:30pm

at Abide West at Willow Room

15810 Detroit Avenue, Lakewood, OH

Sliding Scale $30 / 35 / 40

Astro Circles: Embodied Astrology of Pisces

What does Pisces season feel like in our bodies? How do we move through and embody the traits of this zodiac season? In Astro Circles, we use astrology and the wheel of the year to bring ourselves more fully into each zodiac season.

Each session includes restorative movement, ritual, guided meditation, and of course, astrology! We’ll close the practice with journaling and connection over astro chat to see where Pisces shows up in our birth chart.

For Pisces season, the body focus will be the feet and lymphatic system, as well as connecting with our inner dreamer and the cycles of death and rebirth. 

Saturday, March 1st

6:30 - 8:00 pm

Sliding Scale $15 / 20 / 25

at Abide West / Willow Room Collective

15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood

Join resident collage artist Rhi Gonzales @selfrhiflectivearts for an evening of collaging -- gathering bits and pieces together to create meaningful works of art. We'll provide all the materials, bring your own snacks and drinks. Bring your body and heart and the willingness to create something beautiful from what you find internally and from the materials. We'll start with a brief gentle, grounding movement practice, then get snipping!

Friday, November 8th, 6 - 8 pm

Abide West Lakewood

$25 / 30 / 35 Sliding Scale

Get to Know Your Human Design Chart: Learn the basics of HD and be reminded that who you are is 100% on purpose

Do you find yourself curious as to all the buzz about Human Design but are confused or don’t have the time to research it all yourself? Do you feel caught between the demands of a capitalist world and your natural impulses for creativity, rest, connection, and community? There are reasons for that! Join Krystal Alexandria, Ease Mentor and creator of the AstroHD Readings & Workshops, for an unexpectedly emboldening and connective afternoon workshop exploring the fundamentals of Human Design in community. You’ll be reminded that who you authentically are is 100% on purpose and you’ll leave encouraged to follow the quiet intuitive nudges as a valid and sustainable method to live your life. 

What you’ll learn:

• How to easily navigate the foundations of your own Human Design Bodygraph chart

• The 6 core, life-changing tools that live within your chart

• How to build sustainable self-care practices based on your unique design

When: Saturday, February 1st @ 1-4p

Where: Abide West at Willow Room, 15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood, OH 

Price: $45 - $55 - $65

What you need to bring:

• Bring with you a notebook, water bottle and be sure to wear comfy clothes as we will be seated on pillows and bolsters on the floor in the movement space

• Light snacks will be provided (fruit, nuts, etc.)

• Your Human Design chart will be printed for you and available upon arrival

• There is a quiet room separate from the larger group should you need some solo down time

• You are welcome to email krystal@krystalalexandria.com should you need/desire any additional accommodations

Please fill out this form prior to our gathering: https://forms.gle/JCHMN3J6PGG9QvoT8

Casey Lewis @caseylynnlewis & Stacey Pickering @we_are_vibrational_energy have been co-creating Sound Bath + Reiki offerings together for quite some time, as well as engaging in their own vocal sounding practices individually & in small groups. Both regularly experience supportive, transformative healing through their explorations with vocalizing - humming, toning, groaning, growling!, or whatever arises. As their collaborative Sound + Reiki offerings have evolved, they feel guided to not only share their vibrational support with folks for the time that we are gathered, but to help (re)connect participants with the medicine that those of us with breath & voice carry within and can almost always access.

Sounding it Out is about empowering ourselves to remember & reclaim our voices to support our own healing & liberation. In this practice we slow down, listen within, and notice what is asking for attention. We will bring care to the parts of us that need it through breath & vocalization (whatever arises! - maybe even a simple song / chant invitation). This can be done sitting, lying down, moving as needed, and even silently, in stillness, if desired.

Then, we'll release the practice & nestle in with blankets and bolsters to receive the restorative vibrations of crystal & Tibetan singing bowls, bells, chimes, gong, shruti box, rain stick, guda drum, & voice, and group hands-off (& possibly, optionally 1:1 hands-on) nurturing Reiki.

We'll take some time to process silently, with the option of journaling or artistic expression - bring supplies if you desire! -
then close our gathering, with an invitation to share.

Of course, vocal sounding is optional, as are all parts of these gatherings. Silence can surely be medicine too. But if there is something in us that fears being heard, perhaps a supportive container of nonjudgement is the perfect place to lean in with curiosity & compassion, and explore what happens when we give ourselves permission to have a voice.

Friday, January 31, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
At Abide West at Willow Room, 15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood

Sliding Scale $35 / 40 / $45

Let's join together in this soup potluck style community gathering. The idea is that we all make a big pot of soup, which will be split up among attendees so everyone goes home with delicious soup for their freezer. We'll package the soup at the event so that folks can bring along their own takeout containers. Break out your big stock pot and get simmering!

January 26th, 3 - 4:30pm

Bring a bowl, a spoon, takeout containers if you plan on bringing food home, and a pot of your favorite soup!

Register: https://www.wellnessliving.com/rs/event/abide_yoga_cleveland?k_class=738719&k_class_tab=43393

“In our relentlessly busy contemporary world, we are forever trying to defer the onset of winter. We don’t ever dare to feel its full bite, and we don’t dare to show the way that it ravages us. An occasional sharp wintering would do us good. We must stop believing that these times in our lives are somehow silly, a failure of nerve, a lack of willpower. We must stop trying to ignore them or dispose of them. They are real, and they are asking something of us. We must learn to invite the winter in. We may never choose to winter, but we can choose how.” Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Grief and Winter seem to go hand in hand: isolation, darkness, quietness, and transformation. What would happen if we honored both? What if that was the norm? A Grief Circle is a safe, sacred space to honor your grief, hold space for one another, and find connection during this gray season. We welcome you to come as you are, with your grief and your love. All grief is welcome here: loss of people, transitions, illness, identity, societal, and beyond. We will create a communal space of healing by incorporating a community altar, a bay leaf ritual, breathwork and restorative yoga, journaling, and shared time in community. 

Participants are invited to bring photos, objects, or items that represent their grief for the altar and a journal. Light Snacks and Tea will be provided. 

Saturday, 1/25 6PM – 8PM

Sliding Scale $15 / $25 / $35

at Abide on Larchmere

Join Casey Lewis, Hope Hamling, and Samantha Jones for an afternoon of warmth, care, and togetherness. We'll enjoy a tea ceremony, a gentle qigong practice to stoke our energetic coals, rest practice with scalp massages and reiki, yummy snacks, and sauna time in Hot Haus's brand new beautiful mobile sauna.

This retreat is inspired by the Danish concept of Hygge—the art of creating coziness and contentment in the darker months. It’s about slowing down, embracing comfort, staying warm, and finding joy in simplicity and togetherness.

We're excited to offer you time and space to come back to yourself--and each other.

January 18th, 2025

2 - 5:30 pm

at Abide West at Willow Room Collective

15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood

Sliding scale $90 / $120 / $150

Long week? Body feeling every minute of it? Join Sarah-Jane Webster, LMT, CYT to release some of the tension during this 90 minute class. We'll move through gentle shapes to feel our bodies find our breath, and light massage will be offered throughout.

Sliding scale $30 / 35 / 40

Friday, January 24th, 7 - 8:30pm

at Abide West Lakewood, at the Willow Room Collective

15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood, OH