Gather & Rise: A Day of Joyful Gifts

Name: Gather & Rise: A Day of Joyful Gifts
Start: 2024-06-02T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-02T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 537 Hottenstein Rd Kutztown PA 19530

Schedule

Sun Jun 02 2024 at 09:00 am to 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

537 Hottenstein Rd Kutztown PA 19530 | Kutztown, PA

Join us for a day to promote inner peace and connection to yourself, with others, and to our Mother Earth with workshops by presenters from the Hummingbird House Community. Our mission is to be of service in supporting our community in mindful practices and ways of living so that we can all live together in a more peaceful way. Honoring our connection to Spirit and to the elements we will weave ancient traditions with modern ways to bring you practices to bring into your daily life to support joy and happieness. We look forward to being with you and celebrating the joyful gift we call life!
9am-11am Opening Cacao Ceremony
11am-11:15am Break
11:15am-12pm Yoga
12:00pm-12:30 Yoga Nidra
12:30pm-12:45pm Break
12:45pm-1:45pm Lunch & Mindful Eating workshop
1:45pm-2:30pm relax, enjoy, shopping, and socialize
2:30pm-4:30pm Native Medicinal Garden Workshop
4:30pm-4:45pm Break
4:45pm-5:45pm- closing circle and sound healing
5:45pm-6:15pm- shop and socialize
Also:
-Throughout the day we will have a sacred fire that you can go to sit in silence and make prayers/offerings.
-A nourishing vegetarian lunch will be provided. Sun tea will be available throughout the day.
-A market with some native plants, herbal remedies, and shamanic jewelry will be set up.
-Free time to enjoy the peaceful yard, go for a walk, or socialize
**ALL proceeds will go to the Hummingbird House to fund further education with Indigenous teachers so that we can continue to grow and share with our community. We thank you for your support!
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PRESENTERS:
Ashley Winkelspecht- Mindful Eating Workshop
Darcy Dodd- Yoga Nidra Session
FreeDom Flowers- Opening Cacao Ceremony & Closing Ceremony
Ongela Djerf- Yoga Session
Richie Mitchell- Native Medicinal Gardening & Landscaping Workshop
Heart Weavers Sound Healing Collective

EVENTS:
OPENING CACAO CEREMONY-
Join FreeDom in coming together to honor and celebrate life as we share in ceremonial cacao. Bringing the love and wisdom of Mama Cacao’s Spirit, honoring the Indigenous protectors of Cacao, while we open discussion, contemplation, meditation/prayer, and song in connection with community.
For thousands of years the Indigenous people of Central and South Americas have used cacao for medicinal, celebrational, and ceremonial purposes. The scientific name for Cacao is Theobroma cacao which means “Food for the Gods” and it is believed to have been sent from the heavens as a gift to mankind.
Cacao is gentle yet very powerful plant medicine. When consumed intentionally and in ceremony, it subtly releases energy blockages and barriers that we unconsciously build against ourselves and others. It is a doorway to invite us to open to our consciousness and our hearts. Join me as we collectively create higher frequencies of love through our body, minds, and spirits.

YOGA SESSION-
Come join our uplifting yoga class where we gather as a community to rise together through breath, movement, and mindfulness. Embrace the power of togetherness as we support each other on our journey towards greater strength, flexibility, and inner peace. Let's cultivate connection and harmony as we flow through asanas, aligning mind, body, and spirit in unity.
Please bring your yoga mat and water bottle, and any props you prefer, ie blocks, strap, blanket.

YOGA NIDRA SESSION-
Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation practice that allows you to rest for awhile in the delicious state of consciousness that happens right before you go to sleep and again, right before you wake up. It can feel like floating without effort or being deeply held and supported. Research has also shown that Yoga Nidra helps improve many stress related medical conditions when practiced on a regular basis.

MINDFUL EATING WORKSHOP-
Across time and traditions people have been in relation with food from snacking on berries during a walk in the forest to profound rituals.
Mindful eating is a practice to bring awareness and joy to the experience of the food we consume.
As we Gather together for a nourishing lunch Ashley will guide us on a journey of cultivating deeper awareness and connection with food and our relation to it.
During our mindful eating journey we will explore…
- A moment of gratitude and blessing for our food.
- Bringing our intention to the present moment and becoming aware of our thoughts, emotions, physical sensations and how that plays a role in our relationship with food and our digestion.
- Importance of knowing where our food comes from and who prepared it?
- Engaging all our senses: how does the food look, smell, sound, feel, and taste!
- How can mindful eating be brought into daily life? What are the benefits?

NATIVE MEDICINAL GARDENING & LANDSCAPING WORKSHOP-
There is so much more to gardening and landscaping than meets the eye. This workshop will really help you connect with nature and to ground in for the 2024 growing season! You will learn how to incorporate native, edible, and medicinal plants into your gardens and landscapes, while exploring how to use ecological landscaping as a way to bring balance and peace to your life.
Richie Mitchell of Bear Creek Organics will be sharing his knowledge about Ecological Edible Landscaping with a focus on Natives that produce food and medicine specifically in our local area. We will be focusing on berry bushes, fruit trees, and perennial flowers as we learn about how to analyze the landscape and select the proper plants for a specific location at the Mama Flowers Studio. We will learn about the history, biology, growing requirements, and ecology of some very special native plants; and we will plant them together as part of the workshop.
There will also be a strong focus on how to connect with and read the landscape, and also how to connect to your own life and spirit when designing and implementing your own gardens and landscapes. We will pay attention to how we give respect to the land and how to commune with our gardening projects in a deeper way. We will examine how our gardening hobby can heal and teach us on a deeper level - bring divine connection, healing and beauty to our lives, our families, and our communities.

SOUND HEALING-
Join the Heart Weavers Sound Healing to help you integrate your day. We will be sharing healing vibrations to bring you to a state of resonance. Connecting you to every cell of your being and to the pulse of the Univeral vibration.
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