Community Sessions
A compassionate and judgment-free healing space for rest-curious community members to learn, practice, and support each other in our rest journeys
This space is open to all, but centers BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) in my sociopolitical analysis.
December 2024
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Rested Receptivity
Friday 12/13/24
5-6:15 pm PT / 8-9:15 pm ET -
Rested Receptivity
Monday 12/16/24
5-6:15 pm PT / 8-9:15pm ET
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This month’s Collective Rest session offers somatic practices to help you decompress and shed energetic layers of heaviness in preparation for deeper states of relaxation. By softening tension in mind, body, heart, and soul, we can expand perception beyond the literal and become receptive to the subtle, intuitive, and animate forces around us.
Then you’ll journey through the portal of rest to connect with an animal guardian who will bring you to 3 wise beings – tree, river, and mountain – who each have a message for you. Through visualization, you’ll open up your perceptual senses to listen for wisdom from the land of your body and the land around you.
Rested Receptivity
What To Expect
Who is this for: This practice is accessible to anyone who can sit or lie down with headphones. It has been intentionally designed to provide relief for anxiety, depression, stress, overwhelm, insomnia, and/or exhaustion.
How to prepare: Change into loose-fitting clothing. Grab your blankets, pillows, and sweaters. Close the door, window, and blinds. Set up your space in a way that brings pleasure, joy, and comfort.
Headphones are recommended, but not necessary.
Overview: We'll begin with a 20-30 min activity that inspires reflection on the theme and brings newfound awareness to our relationship to rest.
Then, we’ll transition into a juicy 30-40 min guided practice featuring a combination of nervous system regulating exercises, gentle breathwork, visualization, and/or yoga nidra meditation.
Everything offered in this space is optional. Please know you’re always welcomed to do what feels good to you.
Collective Rest is committed to creating accessible spaces where tired and trauma-impacted human beings can rest and heal, together.
Our community sessions are free to acknowledge how systemic oppression — racism, capitalism, colonialism, patriarchy, and ableism — inequitably distributes the conditions and resources to feel safe enough to take rest.
To sustain this work, please consider:
Bringing Collective Rest @ Work to your corporate, non-profit, or community-based organization
Making a donation on Venmo (@cassandra-lam) or Paypal ([email protected])
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