Healing and Wellness Series

Chicago Therapy Collective's Healing & Wellness Series is a weekly space for trans, non-binary and queer community members to tune inwards, explore a variety of healing modalities, and build community. Classes in December will be Sundays at Cheetah from 1:30-4pm. There will one Saturday offering on 12/21.

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• 2:00-3:15pm: Yoga with Elena K.
• 3:30-4:45pm: Yoga with Alan K.

*Sign up for one or both classes. You must reserve your spot. Capacity is capped at 15 students for each class.

Program Vision:

Our intention for this Healing and Wellness Series is to offer our community curated healing and wellness practices across various modalities that collectively nurture us amid the tumultuous times we find ourselves in. Our goal is to disrupt the status quo of stress, isolation, and limited resources for accessible, inclusive health, wellness, and care by providing a wealth of sorely needed offerings. Through the series, we will strive to create an experience that rebuilds connections between mind, body, and soul.

Class:

Yoga w/ Elena K.

2pm-3:15pm

SATURDAY @ CHEETAH GYM

Bio:

Influenced by her practice in multiple forms of the yoga discipline, Elena teaches with a focus on energetic alignment and intentional sequencing. Her hope is to create a unique practice for her students; through movement, breath work, and simple mediation, a space to be curious and become more deeply rooted in the evolution of themselves.

Your Body is an Orchestra w/ Darling Shear

3:30PM-4:45 PM

SATURDAY @ CHEETAH GYM

Darling is a Chicago Native but has roots in Atlanta where Darling started dance training. Darling attended North Springs Charter School of the performing arts, began dancingprofessionally right out of high school and in that time worked with many great choreographers. The highlights were working with Bubba Carr choreographer/artistic director to Cher for 12 plus years, Rhonda Henriksen soloist with Hubbard Street and Twyla Tharp, Tracy Vogt former Philadanco dancer, Lauri Stallings Hubbard street soloist and founder/artistic director of gloATL.

Darling moved back to Chicago the summer of 2011 to start as a freelance dancer/choreographer. Darling has worked with The Fly Honeys of the The Inconvenience,Links Hall, Victoria Bradford, Ayako Kato, chances dances, no small plan productions, Slo’ Mo, the Public hotel, Soho House Chicago, Growing Power inc., EXPO Chicago, Queen at Smart Bar, SAIC, Depaul museum, University of Chicago, University of Illinois in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago Film Archive, Salonathon, and Open TV beta. In 2018, Darling was chosen as the cover model and also quoted in Micah Salkind's Oxford published book 'Do you remember house? Chicago's queer of color underground'. Followed by receiving the Between Gestures scholarship to Austria to attend Impulstanz in Vienna also the Chicago Dancemakers Forum fellowship and Links Hall CoMission Fellowship along with a 3Arts nomination in 2019 and 2022 and 2020 Darling became a cohort to Hubbard Street Dance. In September of 2023 Darling performance alongside Grammy winning artist Corrine Bailey Rae for B.A.R(Black Artist Retreat) created by Theaster Gates and performed in the Stoney Island Art's Bank. To close out Darling, made history co-producing and performance with Slo'mo Queer dance party and NBC Chicago airing a love broadcast cast for NYE for at the newly renovated Ramova Theater in Bridgeport.

Darling's mission has been one with a strong spiritual center and allowance of universal well-being.

Class Description:

'Body is an Orchestra'

A kinetic linguistics class that combines pedestrian mannerisms/gestures and classical modern, jazz and ballet techniques to help bring your awareness to a 360 focus for more robust expression and exploration to your personal movement practice.

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