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.
January 2025
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Revelatory Reflections
Monday 1/20/25
3-4:15 pm PT / 6-7:15 pm ET -
Revelatory Reflections
Monday 1/27/25
5-6:15 pm PT / 8-9:15pm ET
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This month’s Community Rest Session will explore reflection as a rest practice. This is a tender space dedicated to looking back, honoring what we’ve survived, and laying 2024 to rest properly. We’ll begin with a guided creative reflection exercise called “Rollercoaster Year-in-Review”, which is well-loved by the Collective Rest community. In closing, we’ll lie down for a nourishing yoga nidra (yogic sleep) practice.
In consumption-driven capitalistic culture, there is little interest in the past or the present moment. The emphasis is always on consuming more, chasing the next thing, and keeping it moving. As a result, the idea of pausing to reflect is viewed as a "waste of time" to our detriment.
Our perception of the past informs how we experience the present, which in turn gives shape and direction to what the future could be. Without reflection, we tend to set goals or make plans that are unrealistic because we’re missing crucial information. Reflection helps us process the events of our lives and how they’ve shaped us. There is wisdom waiting to be discovered that, once integrated into your story, will give you a fuller, more accurate picture of where you are and what you have to work with right now.
Revelatory Reflections
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.
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