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.
March 2024
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Ancestral Strength & Protection
Monday 3/11/24
2-3pm PT / 5-6pm ET -
Ancestral Strength & Protection
Wednesday 3/20/24
5-6pm PT / 8-9pm ET
Register for March Community Rest Sessions
Ancestral Strength & Protection
With so much intensity and charge in the air as we continue to witness multiple genocides, this session is dedicated to creating a space for us to connect with our lineage – the people, places, and beings we come from and belong to – for ancestral strength, guidance, and protection.
By rooting ourselves into these relationships, which exist beyond time and space and are always alive within our cells and spirits, we remember that we are never walking our path or doing our work alone.
This month’s Collective Rest session combines gentle non-activating breathwork, visualization, and yoga nidra meditation to deliver ancient mind-body-heart-spirit healing technologies in an accessible format.
There will be no creative reflection exercise. Instead, we will devote our time together to lying down, resting, and receiving much-needed messages from our bodies and our ancestors.
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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