The Wild Within – Spiritual Exploration & Connection

Transformational Breathwork (or Conscious Connected Breathwork) is a healing modality where we intentionally work with our breath to enter a deep state of consciousness to access physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual healing and activation.

This practice helps us to deepen our inner connection, improve our physical vitality, elevate mental and emotional clarity, and awaken our spiritual connection.

It works by helping you to bypass the conscious mind and move into the subtle body to access the deeper layers of emotion, while gently supporting the nervous system. It’s a faster way to move stuck energy and tap into a deeply intuitive state while remaining grounded in the body!

We'll begin with setting intentions in a connection circle before practicing a few somatic tools to warm up the breath and activate the emotional centers in the body.

We will then enter into our Conscious Connected Breathwork journey, a physical, emotional, and often spiritual journey working with the breath or prana to enter deep healing states in the body.

📍 Where: Opening to Life Center (located in Hawthorne Wellness Center)
3942 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Portland, OR 97214

🕓 When: Tuesday, November 19
6:00 - 8:00pm

For many, the breath utilized in this way can help to release stored emotional energy that has been keeping them blocked and stagnated for years. And for many others, it is a portal to their innate wisdom and medicine within, an activation of their true essence and gifts.

Our journey will conclude with a group integration, with time for journaling and sharing insights and further support for one another.

Together we will co-create a healing afternoon of somatic release, heart-centered expression, and deepening of your relationship with yourself and the love that you are.

Note: If you tend towards elevated blood pressure or have any heart issues, please contact me before the session so we can determine if this particular form of breathwork will be appropriate for you.

Suggested contribution of $25-35, but feel free to contribute what feels right for you! No one will be turned away.

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I will be available for integration support after this experience should you find yourself needing it, as a breathwork journey can initiate deep emotional healing and clearing.

Authentic Relating is the art and practice of exploring the aliveness of human connection in the present moment. Through this practice, we learn how to cultivate deeper relationships, understand our own patterns and emotions, and connect to ourselves and others with empathy, curiosity, and somatic awareness.

(Want to learn some fun relational games to play at Thanksgiving with your family or get through those awkward conversations with Aunt Sally? This is the place!! 😋)

We’ll play connection games that help us practice relational skills, deepen existing bonds, and create new ones. Perfect for both extroverts and introverts, AR games invite you to come as you are and enjoy authentic experiences with others!

Bring simply an open mind and heart, and a playful attitude ready to dive into your relationship to yourself and others in a safe and lighthearted environment, to expand your comfort zone, and build a relational toolkit to use in all areas of your life. ✨

Results may include new friendships, tears and laughter, and a remembrance of the simple joys and deep medicine of human connection! 😄

Tuesday, Nov. 26 @ 6:00 - 8:00pm

Where: Opening to Life Center
3942 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Portland, OR 97211

(This is the correct address; the map below pulls it up as Hawthorne Wellness Center but it is the same place.)

Contact: Kristen (360) 556-0415

Please arrive on time!

Contribution: $25

This special event is an invitation for witchy and spiritually curious women to come together and embrace the shifting seasons, both within and around us. As we move from fall into winter, we enter a time for honoring the darkness—a sacred period for reflection, release, and gentle re-seeding. 🍂❄️

I heard this term recently and absolutely loved it - Endarkenment. As our spiritual communities so often seem to value the concept of "enlightenment", I think that the magic and medicine of the darkness is so often overlooked. Hence, this circle was inspired :)

So in this potent new moon energy, we gather to explore the practice of endarkenment —delving into our shadows, finding what needs releasing, and setting intentions as we prepare to nurture new visions in an upcoming season of great transition, both personally and collectively.

We will journey and explore with ritual and intentional practices, shadow work, oracle decks and journaling, active imagination, somatic and energetic practices, and an authentic sharing space to tune into our inner wisdom. We'll prepare a special herbal infusion to support our energy work (and quite possibly even a bit of cacao!)

As women have gathered in circle space for millennia, we will co-create a rich and safe space for spiritual sisterhood, supporting one other’s journey into the depths of our own hearts with grace and power. 🌘🌑🌒

Here, we enter the darkness and the mystery as allies, embracing its gifts, integrating our own shadows parts, and learning to create and cultivate our powerful light within. ✨

When: Sunday, December 1 @ 5:00 - 7:00pm

We will cap the circle at 12 women to keep the space intimate.
This circle will be co-hosted by Kristen Yates (somatic guide and breathwork facilitator) and Whitney Hawkins (herbal medicine and spiritual practitioner)

Location: This event will be held at a private residence; please be in contact with me directly (Kristen) if you would like to join, and I will send you the location. >> (360) 556-0415.

Look forward to sharing sacred space with you ☾♡

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