This is a time of great grieving and finding our way to love and joy. Some of us are carrying personal grief that needs expression and healing in community. Our ability to grieve is a testament to our capacity to love both individually and as a community. We want to come together in community and ceremony to honor how we can most authentically learn to love our grief. We want to create space to grieve and heal together.

Everything Belongs is a day-long retreat focused on collectively learning to love our grief instead of having an adversarial relationship with it. During our retreat, we will explore what you are currently grieving, what we are collectively grieving, how we can love our grief and journey into a practice of love, and move through practices meant to support us in honoring our grief.

Many of us are being called to find places of refuge and create space for more rest in our lives. We are moving through, have weathered, and are weathering so much as we traverse uncertainty, and grief, face heartbreak, and as we try to create and be beacons of hope. The Rest and Refuge Retreat is an opportunity for us to practice deep rest, restore our spirits, and remember our points and places of refuge. During this retreat, we engage the elements of earth, air, fire, water, and the ether to inspire profound rest, ease, transformation, and healing. We will offer contemplative, mindfulness, and somatic practices, yogic teachings, and practices such as meditation, yoga nidra, pranayama, and self-reflection to move us into a place of peace, wakefulness, and harmony.

At this time on our planet, when many things seem to be on fire, literally and figuratively, we must be creative in responding to all that is burning, churning, crumbling, and being dismantled. Systems of oppression make us feel limited in our response to the magnitude of what we are up against. Yet, we have the power to dream and vision outside of systems of oppression such as white supremacy, the cishet patriarchy, capitalism, ableism, and all systems meant to further fracture us from ourselves and one another. In fact, we must learn to dream outside of the constraints of systems that thrive on upholding a hierarchy of bodies and keep us disconnected from our true nature, individually and collectively. The process of dreaming during dream time as we slumber allows us to come up with divine solutions for problems that previously seemed impenetrable, such as the systems of oppression and climate chaos we are experiencing at this time. Bringing our dreams into waking life allows us to implement these solutions. 

We are living in a time when wakefulness and compassion are essential in order to realize freedom together. Join activist, social justice warrior, and author Michelle Cassandra Johnson and meditation teacher Caverly Morgan for an on campus program that shares wisdom from their newest books, We Heal Together and The Heart of Who We Are.

As Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, many of us are searching for spaces where we can be in community with other BIPOC to experience joy and self-love, practice self and collective care, and slow down and rest. Join Michelle C. Johnson and Shakira B. Bethea for an opportunity to prioritize your well-being and the theme of what it is like to create a sanctuary within and around oneself.

Sanctuary is a day-long retreat for BIPOC to create sacred space and creatively express our authentic selves through meditation, movement, and community connection.

Join us for a soul-nourishing and fun day!