Oracular Readings
Jul
21
to Dec 31

Oracular Readings

Since ancient times, people from various cultures and lineages have engaged the oracles to receive divine communication and guidance. Once a month, on or around the full moon from July to December 2024, I will serve as a medium to the oracles to access answers to questions you might have about relationships, career, life path, lineage, family, and whatever it is you seek to know.

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Finding Refuge Sadhana
Aug
1
to Dec 31

Finding Refuge Sadhana

A Sadhana is a dedicated practice. Many are structured as 40-day sadhana because 40 days is said to be long enough for us to break samskaras—patterns, and create new practices and behaviors. A sadhana can be a consistent practice of meditation, mantra, movement, self-study or pranayama, or a mixture of these practices. The Finding Refuge Sadhana provides a combination of mantra, pranayama, movement, meditation and self-study through journaling prompts and reflection. 

The Finding Refuge Sadhana is designed to guide you through becoming present and exploring heartbreak, grief, resilience, connection with ancestors, and the medicine you can bring forth at this time. This Sadhana is a tool meant to support you in healing and deepening your spiritual practice and it is a resource that beckons you to present with the heart-brokenheartedness and open heartedness. 

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Dreamscape: Dream Altars, Allies, and Practices
Dec
1
to Dec 22

Dreamscape: Dream Altars, Allies, and Practices

Engaging dreams to divine our future is an old and wise practice. As we prepare for the changing season and the onset of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, I invite us to dream and bring our dreams into waking reality—to dream the dream of release and birth, the dream of creation. 

Join me for a four-part series about dreaming. Together, we will embark on a journey of dreaming, self-discovery, and transformation. We will explore four primary points, including the importance and practice of dreaming, the use of dream altars, identifying our dream allies and guides, and allowing the dream of creation to emerge and move through us and out into the world. 

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Darkness, Sweetness, Attunement: Bee Magic on the Winter Solstice
Dec
20

Darkness, Sweetness, Attunement: Bee Magic on the Winter Solstice

Join Michelle C. Johnson and Amy Burtaine for bee magic for the Winter Solstice.

Amy and Michelle are bee lovers and tenders, activists, and people who are deeply committed to healing work that supports bringing individuals, the collective, and our entire ecosystem back into balance. As fall gives way to winter, they want to share some wisdom from the honeybees and hive with you. During this 90-minute session, Michelle and Amy will share how magic can happen as we move through a period of darkness, how to attune to one another more fully and the planet, and the power of accessing and cultivating sweetness in our lives.

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Winter Solstice | Befriending the Darkness
Dec
21

Winter Solstice | Befriending the Darkness

Join Michelle C. Johnson for a special Winter Solstice Practice. The Winter Solstice is an auspicious time of year. It is a time when we experience the darkest, longest night. This time of darkness is intertwined with the returning light. During this practice, Michelle will guide you in exploring your relationship with the darkness and the polarity of the dark and light. She will guide you through movement, meditation, pranayama, and self-reflection. This is an all-levels class. Bring a journal with you and anything else that would feel supportive.

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Everything Belongs: Loving Our Grief with Tema Okun and Michelle C. Johnson 
Jan
11

Everything Belongs: Loving Our Grief with Tema Okun and Michelle C. Johnson 

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.

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Illuminating Our True Nature Course: The Five Afflictions
Jan
22
to Feb 26

Illuminating Our True Nature Course: The Five Afflictions

We all get stuck in hurtful patterns that continue to create more suffering in our lives and the collective. In yoga philosophy, these patterns are known as the five kleshas. Each klesha leads us to create tendencies and karma that move us away from realizing and remembering our true nature and seeing ourselves as separate from one another and the planet. In yogic terms, this perpetuates a constant cycle of pain for us all.

Join Michelle C. Johnson for a six-week series based on her latest book, Illuminating Our True Nature: Yogic Practices for Personal and Collective Healing, to explore patterns of suffering in your life and create pathways toward liberation individually and collectively.

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Illuminating Our True Nature at Asheville Yoga Center
Jan
25

Illuminating Our True Nature at Asheville Yoga Center

Join author, yoga and spiritual teacher, and activist Michelle Cassandra Johnson for a workshop and book reading, discussion, and signing focused on her newest book, Illuminating Our True Nature. During the workshop, Michelle will discuss and share about the five kleshas, root causes of our suffering, and infuse practices to decrease suffering, including asana, meditation, pranayama, mudras, and mantras.

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A Space For Us: An eight-week series focused on how to lead Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Affinity Groups 
Jan
27
to Mar 17

A Space For Us: An eight-week series focused on how to lead Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Affinity Groups 

Meeting in racial affinity groups is a common practice in anti-racist, social justice, diversity, and similar forms of educational endeavors. These groups provide a structured space where participants can explore how racism personally and systemically impacts them, process specific experiences of racism, receive validation and support from their peers, heal, and strategize next steps for challenging racism, white supremacy, and internalized racial oppression.

Michelle, author of A Space For Us: A Guide For Leading Affinity Groups for Black Indigenous and People of Color, and Stephanie, a contributor to A Space For Us, combined bring together over thirty-five years of experience co-leading racial equity work in community and within organizations and corporations. They are excited to offer a series focused on how to lead affinity groups for BIPOC, Bodies of Culture, and People of the Global Majority.

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Self and Collective Love Half-Day Retreat
Feb
9

Self and Collective Love Half-Day Retreat

Join Michelle C. Johnson and Alexis Overstreet for a transformative somatic experience centered on reconnecting with your body, heart, and spirit. This unique offering combines contemplative and creative practices, Trauma Release Exercises (TRE), and a specialized MELT Method Map to help you rediscover self-love, physical balance, and ecological balance through the remembrance of our interconnectedness. 

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Rest and Refuge Retreat: Restore Your Spirit With Michelle C. Johnson and Rashid Hughes
Feb
20
to Feb 23

Rest and Refuge Retreat: Restore Your Spirit With Michelle C. Johnson and Rashid Hughes

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.

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Dreaming Our Way Forward: A Collective Dreaming Retreat
Mar
28
to Mar 30

Dreaming Our Way Forward: A Collective Dreaming Retreat

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. 

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Singing Our Grief
Dec
7

Singing Our Grief

Are you grieving, too? Maybe your grief is coming from a personal experience, a loss, a change. Maybe it’s coming from bearing witness to the suffering of our beloved fellow humans. Maybe your grief is heavy in this season, coming from many places at once. One way to move with our grief is through creative expression in loving community. With this in mind and heart, Michelle C. Johnson and Becca McDaniel are joining to share Singing Our Grief, an experience focused on tending to our hearts by opening the throat and heart chakras and building community through sharing song, tears, and laughter. 

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Kirtan with Michelle Johnson and Dani Leah Strauss
Dec
6

Kirtan with Michelle Johnson and Dani Leah Strauss

Kirtan is a traditional Indian yogic chanting practice. It originated about 2500 years ago and is a form of bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion. The word "kirtan" comes from the Sanskrit root to recite, call, glorify, or praise. Join Michelle Johnson and Dani Leah Strauss for an evening of meditation, devotional call-and-response chanting, love and Prashad, something sweet, at the end of our time together. No previous experience is required.

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Protection Practices for the Holidays
Nov
23

Protection Practices for the Holidays

For some people, the holidays bring up dysfunctional family patterns, not-so-great coping skills, profound grief, anxiety, and sadness. In addition, as the days are shorter and we approach the Winter Solstice and winter season, the body wants to slow down, but so many of us are encouraged by family, toxic systems and patterns, and even friends to speed up. Some of us may feel the tug of being pulled in many different directions, sending our energy out in ways that deplete us. For these reasons, we must engage in practices to protect our energy, especially during the holiday season. Join Michelle C. Johnson for Protection Practices for the Holidays. The workshop will include somatic practices focused on centering and grounding yourself, returning to center, cultivating calm strength as you navigate the holidays, and suggestions of protective oils, herbs, archetypal energies, and natural curios to protect your energy.

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Let’s Experience: Telling the Bees with Reimagine
Nov
20

Let’s Experience: Telling the Bees with Reimagine

As part of bee folklore, there was a practice that involved bees being told of significant life events—births, marriages, deaths, and other life transitions. It is believed that this practice of telling the bees is connected with bees being psychopomps, beings who could guide souls to the afterlife and other realms. This tradition uplifts the importance of ceremony, storytelling, and ritual as it relates to engaging with the bees and natural world to support us in our mourning and grief process. In this offering, Michelle Cassandra Johnson guides you through the process and practice of telling the bees about your heartache and how you are acknowledging, honoring, digesting, and metabolizing the sorrows in the world. Using meditation to connect with a honeybee hive, Michelle invites you to share what is in your heart with them, and listen to what the honeybee might have to offer in response to you and the sorrows you are present with. This experience will include meditation, presencing ourselves to our individual and collective grief, humming, some movement, and discussion.

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Post Election Grief Ritual and Tremor Session
Nov
16

Post Election Grief Ritual and Tremor Session

Join us for a special session co-led by Alexis Overstreet, Founder of Metaspace Wellness, and Michelle C. Johnson, author, activist, and grief tender. They will guide you through a communal lamenting session followed by a TRE, Trauma Release Exercises (tremoring)—a natural, gentle shaking response in the body that releases deep tension. In the wake of political events, many of us hold stress and grief in our nervous systems, manifesting as physical, emotional, and mental strain. Through the grief ritual,  tremoring, and other somatic practices, we'll guide participants in discharging the layers of grief and anxiety that may be surfacing. Together, we'll create space for resilience and calm in challenging times.

Please wear comfortable clothing, and bring a journal and anything else that might bring comfort. 

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Illuminating Our True Nature Book Club
Nov
13
to Dec 18

Illuminating Our True Nature Book Club

Illuminating Our True Nature: Yogic Practices for Personal and Collective Healing is a guide for turning towards instead of moving away from our suffering, not only to better understand why we suffer but also to also open up pathways to freedom.

In this book club, we will read and study Illuminating Our True Nature, reflect on it, and engage with many of the concepts and practices it outlines.

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Tending Our Hearts and Healing Our Collective Grief
Nov
9
to Nov 10

Tending Our Hearts and Healing Our Collective Grief

Many of us are holding grief in our hearts in response to the collective patterns of trauma present in our world. While these patterns aren't new, the losses we have experienced—and are experiencing now—compound one another and can feel overwhelming and complicated. Having a space to come together with others who are feeling the collective weight of the world and to grieve and restore our spirits and hearts is essential.

Join spiritual teacher, social justice activist, and intuitive healer Michelle Cassandra Johnson for a gentle experiential workshop exploring care and healing for grief. Drawing upon her work in collective grief, liberation, and spiritual practices, Michelle creates a space to tend to your heart and learn how to wade through grief and move toward healing in community. This immersion includes contemplative practices such as restorative movement, journaling, exploring points of refuge available to us, ritual, pranayama, meditation, and small and large group discussions.

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Illuminating Our True Nature Gathering and Practice
Nov
6

Illuminating Our True Nature Gathering and Practice

The world is spinning fast, and in the spinning, it can feel difficult to remember the truth of who we are at times.

Join me for a practice based on my latest book, Illuminating Our True Nature: Yogic Practices for Personal and Collective Healing. The practice will include meditation, pranayama, mudra, mantra, and movement practice to come back to who you are as an individual and who we are as a collective.

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Illuminating Our True Nature at Circle Yoga
Nov
2
to Nov 3

Illuminating Our True Nature at Circle Yoga

Yoga is an ancient practice designed to support us in meeting whatever might arise, moment to moment. In this weekend immersion, we will explore how we can engage in spiritual practice to meet the personal and collective suffering we experience. We will explore the five root causes of suffering, as presented in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras:

  • avidya - a lack of clear sight

  • asmita - an overidentification with the ego

  • raga - an attachment to pleasure

  • dvesha - aversion or avoidance

  • abhinivesha - a fear of death or letting go

We will move through various practices, including asana, pranayama, meditation, mudra, and mantra, to meet ourselves and our suffering and, ultimately, to mitigate suffering and create conditions for liberation for ourselves and all beings.

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Reclamation: A Writing, Intuition, and Mindfulness Retreat - Menla
Sep
29
to Oct 2

Reclamation: A Writing, Intuition, and Mindfulness Retreat - Menla

Reclamation is a body of work focused on how intuition can guide one in trusting their voice and story and a framework to support them in bringing their writing project to fruition. This retreat is an opportunity for you to immerse yourself in nature, move through mindfulness and contemplative practices to support you in deepening your connection with your intuition and remove blocks that may have been in the way of your sharing and trusting your story in the past, and developing a devotional relationship with writing. During this retreat, you will have time to contemplate what writing project you want to begin or if you have already begun writing to continue your process and move your project forward. 

The retreat will include yoga, pranayama, shamanic practices, reflection, journaling, time for writing, meditation, somatic practices, community building, and small and large group discussions.

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Telling the Bees: A Monthly Grief Ritual
Sep
27
to Nov 22

Telling the Bees: A Monthly Grief Ritual

As part of bee folklore, there was a practice that involved telling bees about important life events—births, marriages, deaths, and other life transitions. It is believed that this practice of telling the bees is connected with bees being psychopomps, beings who could guide souls to the afterlife and other realms. This tradition uplifts the importance of ceremony, storytelling, and ritual as it relates to engaging with the bees and natural world to support us in our mourning and grief process.

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The Alchemy of Facilitation Immersion
Sep
12
to Sep 14

The Alchemy of Facilitation Immersion

We have offered The Art of Skillful Facilitation online for many years, and we are over the moon to share the news that our dream facilitation team will offer our first hybrid immersion!

We will be facilitating with those who can join us in person and provide the option for folks to join us on ZOOM to be part of the immersion as well.

The Alchemy of Facilitation Immersion will provide an opportunity for us to come together, build community, lean into our shared humanity, contemplate how to deepen our facilitation skills, and be emergent in the transformative work and practice we offer the world.

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Illuminating Our True Nature with Michelle Cassandra Johnson
Sep
10

Illuminating Our True Nature with Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Michelle Cassandra Johnson will discuss her new book (Shambhala Publications), Illuminating Our True Nature Yogic Practices for Personal and Collective Healing

Learn how to dissolve hurtful patterns and emotional hardship through the five yogic points of suffering, or kleshas. Her work includes powerful and practical meditations, mantras, asanas, reflection questions, and more, to reduce our suffering—and the suffering of others.

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Healing Grief, Healing Trauma Summit
Sep
10
to Sep 16

Healing Grief, Healing Trauma Summit

Join me for the Healing Grief, Healing Trauma, beginning September 10. It’s designed to provide a supportive and comprehensive approach to healing, helping you transform pain into resilience, and empowering you to find pathways to wholeness…

Get ready to embark on a journey of healing and transformation — and you want to experience how addressing grief, trauma or both can help improve your life. My friends Wisdom for Life have put together a remarkable group of people to guide you through this 8-day event.

Presenters include me, Eric Roberts, Sharon Salzberg and Eben Alexander MD, and many more.

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Rest and Refuge Retreat: Restore Your Spirit With Michelle C. Johnson and Rashid Hughes at Whidbey Institute
Aug
8
to Aug 12

Rest and Refuge Retreat: Restore Your Spirit With Michelle C. Johnson and Rashid Hughes at Whidbey Institute

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.

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We Heal Together Immersion at Lotus Yoga
Jul
14

We Heal Together Immersion at Lotus Yoga

We are connected to all things and the entire web of life. Every raindrop, blade of grass, bird taking flight, baby being born, ancestor transitioning, seed germinating, bear entering a cave to hibernate, whale migrating, and sea turtle resting on the shore. Even though we may know how interconnected we are to all things, we may experience periods of feeling isolated and disconnected. During these times, it is important for us to, instead of retreating into our disconnection, come back into community with one another. We must reach out, connect with compassion and openness, and practice alongside one another to heal from our past and present-day wounds and into the future.

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Illuminating Our True Nature at Neighborhood Yoga
Jun
29

Illuminating Our True Nature at Neighborhood Yoga

Join author, yoga and spiritual teacher, and activist Michelle Cassandra Johnson for a workshop and book reading, discussion, and signing focused on her newest book, Illuminating Our True Nature. During the workshop, Michelle will discuss and share about the five kleshas, root causes of our suffering, and infuse practices to decrease suffering, including asana, meditation, pranayama, mudras, and mantras.

The workshop will begin with the practices mentioned above and transition into a book reading that will include Q & A, and a signing to follow.

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Illuminating Our True Nature at Flyleaf Books
Jun
27

Illuminating Our True Nature at Flyleaf Books

Join Michelle C. Johnson, author of Illuminating Our True Nature, for a yoga practice, book reading, talk, and signing.

In this session, Michelle will draw from yoga philosophy, specifically, the kleshas, or reasons why we suffer individually and collectively. Michelle will guide and share practices from her latest book informed by the eight-limbed path of yoga to support you in identifying how the kleshas show up in your life and how to respond to them. No yoga experience necessary. There will be space for mats and chairs.

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Illuminating Our True Nature: Book Reading and Workshop at lotus Yoga
Jun
8

Illuminating Our True Nature: Book Reading and Workshop at lotus Yoga

Come celebrate Michelle C. Johnson's newest book, Illuminating Our True Nature: Yogic Practices for Individual and Collective Healing.

In this book reading and workshop, Michelle will draw from yoga philosophy, specifically, the kleshas or reasons why we suffer individually and collectively. These five reasons, according to Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, are avidya-a lack of clear sight or knowledge, asmita-an overidentification with the ego, raga-an attachment to pleasure, dvesha-aversion or avoidance, and abhinivesha-a fear of death or letting go.

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Illuminating Our True Nature: Book event at Quail ridge Books
Jun
6

Illuminating Our True Nature: Book event at Quail ridge Books

This event consist of a yoga practice, book reading, talk, and signing. In this session, Michelle will draw from yoga philosophy, specifically, the kleshas, or reasons why we suffer individually and collectively. Michelle will guide and share practices from her latest book informed by the eight-limbed path of yoga to support you in identifying how the kleshas show up in your life and how to respond to them. No yoga experience necessary. There will be space for mats and chairs.

Tickets include a signed copy of ILLUMINATING OUR TRUE NATURE, guaranteed entry to the event, and a seat in the reserved section. Michelle will sign books after the program.

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We Heal Together Immersion - Castro Valley Yoga
May
24
to May 26

We Heal Together Immersion - Castro Valley Yoga

We are connected to all things and the entire web of life. Every raindrop, blade of grass, bird taking flight, baby being born, ancestor transitioning, seed germinating, bear entering a cave to hibernate, whale migrating, and sea turtle resting on the shore. Even though we may know how interconnected we are to all things, we may experience periods of feeling isolated and disconnected. During these times, it is essential for us to resist the urge to retreat into our disconnection and come back into community with one another. We must reach out, connect with compassion and openness, and practice alongside one another to heal from our past and present-day wounds now and into the future.

Join spiritual teacher and social justice activist Michelle Cassandra Johnson for a transformative weekend immersion focused on rituals, ceremony, shamanism, and how to engage spiritual practice for personal and collective healing. The weekend will focus on Michelle’s third book, We Heal Together: Rituals and Practices For Building Community and Connection, and her path and practice of shamanism to bring about harmony on our planet.

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Reclamation: An Online Writing and Mindfulness Retreat
May
17
to May 19

Reclamation: An Online Writing and Mindfulness Retreat

Reclamation is a body of work focused on how intuition can guide one in trusting their voice and story and a framework to support you in bringing your writing project to fruition. Reclamation, an online weekend mindfulness and writing retreat, is an opportunity for you to connect more deeply with your intuition and strengthen trust in your voice so you can listen more clearly to the story that is moving through you.

This carefully designed online retreat will leave room for ease, focus, and productivity as we reclaim all the parts of who we are, including the part of us who is a storyteller and writer.

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Telling the Bees: A Grief Ritual & Workshop
Apr
24

Telling the Bees: A Grief Ritual & Workshop

As part of bee folklore, there was a practice that involved bees being told of important life events—births, marriages, deaths, and other life transitions. It is believed that this practice of telling the bees is connected with bees being psychopomps, beings who could guide souls to the afterlife and other realms. This tradition uplifts the importance of ceremony, storytelling, and ritual as it relates to engaging with the bees and natural world to support us in our mourning and grief process. In this particular offering, Michelle will guide you through the process and practice of telling the bees about your heartache and the way you are acknowledging, honoring, digesting, and metabolizing the sorrows in the world.

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We Heal Together Weekend Immersion - Sangha Studio
Apr
12
to Apr 14

We Heal Together Weekend Immersion - Sangha Studio

We are connected to all things and the entire web of life. Every raindrop, blade of grass, bird taking flight, baby being born, ancestor transitioning, seed germinating, bear entering a cave to hibernate, whale migrating, and sea turtle resting on the shore. Even though we may know how interconnected we are to all things, we may experience periods of feeling isolated and disconnected. During these times, it is essential for us to resist the urge to retreat into our disconnection and come back into community with one another. We must reach out, connect with compassion and openness, and practice alongside one another to heal from our past and present-day wounds now and into the future.

Join spiritual teacher and social justice activist Michelle Cassandra Johnson for a transformative workshop exploring communing as a spiritual practice for personal and collective healing. Understand how to connect to ourselves and all beings, past, present, and future by working with the universal truth that we all come from each other. We are kin and community, and we thrive and heal in community.

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We Heal Together Workshop
Apr
6

We Heal Together Workshop

We are connected to all things and the entire web of life. Every raindrop, blade of grass, bird taking flight, baby being born, ancestor transitioning, seed germinating, bear entering a cave to hibernate, whale migrating, and sea turtle resting on the shore. Even though we may know how interconnected we are to all things, we may experience periods of feeling isolated and disconnected. During these times, it is important for us to, instead of retreating into our disconnection, come back into community with one another. We must reach out, connect with compassion and openness, and practice alongside one another to heal from our past and present-day wounds and into the future. The We Heal Together workshop, through ritual, practice, and deepening our connection to ourselves and all beings, past, present, and future, we remind you that we all come from each other. We are kin and community, and we thrive and heal in community. This workshop will include pranayama, meditation, a community ritual, journaling, and discussion.

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We Heal Together Book Talk & Signing
Apr
6

We Heal Together Book Talk & Signing

In times of isolation, heartbreak, and brokenness, reaching out to each other, being in conversation, finding ways to connect with compassion and openness can help us heal, and thrive. This powerful, positive guide coaxes us to go beyond  our individual and collective grief, and courageously re-enter and reclaim our sense of community—which then further strengthens our spiritual practice.

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Rituals of Rebirth: A Spring Equinox Gathering with Mara Banscombe & Michelle C. Johnson
Mar
20

Rituals of Rebirth: A Spring Equinox Gathering with Mara Banscombe & Michelle C. Johnson

As the season turns, we invite you to gather with us for rituals focused on the sense of rebirth spring cultivates. Rituals of Rebirth is a workshop focused on honoring the energetics and frequencies of the rebirth of spring within and around us. This workshop is meant to move us into contemplation about the many cycles of rebirth we are moving through individually and collectively and how our lives can be altered and shifted by allowing rebirth to occur.

During this workshop, we will move through practices meant to acknowledge what has been germinating in the darkness of winter and what wants to bloom during spring and summer. The workshop will include embodied and contemplative practices such as asana, meditation, breathwork, journaling, and altar creation. This workshop will include an exploration of earth wisdom and medicine as the world comes alive in the season of spring.

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The Art of Skillful Facilitation
Mar
13
to Mar 17

The Art of Skillful Facilitation

Join Michelle C. Johnson, Stephanie Ghoston Paul, Tristan Katz, May Nicholson, and Rebby Kern for this 5-day advanced facilitation training. Holding space, facilitating, and engaging in group processes while centering justice isn’t an easy task. Many questions can emerge as one holds space in an emergent, thoughtful, and authentic way. We want to share space and wisdom with you about how to facilitate in an artful and skillful manner. This facilitation training is not a 101-level program. Prior experience facilitating conversations and working across lines of difference is required, i.e. anti-racism work, trans inclusivity work, DEI, etc. Yoga teachers dedicated to anti-oppression work are also welcome to apply.

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Rituals & Practices to Bring About Harmony in the World - Wild Lotus Yoga
Mar
8
to Mar 10

Rituals & Practices to Bring About Harmony in the World - Wild Lotus Yoga

Rituals and Practices to Bring About Harmony in the World

Join spiritual teacher and social justice activist Michelle Cassandra Johnson for a transformative weekend immersion focused on rituals, ceremony, shamanism, and how to engage spiritual practice for personal and collective healing. You can attend the entire weekend, which we recommend, or one session. The weekend will focus on Michelle’s third book, We Heal Together: Rituals and Practices For Building Community and Connection, and her path and practice of shamanism to bring about harmony on our planet.

The weekend will include various workshops focused on how to respond to the tumult in the world by engaging the body in ritual and practice for individual and collective healing. The weekend will include various spiritual teachings from yoga and shamanism. Through your participation in the full immersion or one workshop Michelle is offering during the immersion, you will deepen your spiritual practice and gain more clarity about how to show up more fully in your life and for the collective. You will learn more about your specific alchemy and how to engage it to transmute present conditions that are in the way of our collective liberation.

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The Alchemy of the Hive: Darkness, Attunement, Sweetness An online three-Part Series with Michelle C. Johnson
Mar
5
to Mar 19

The Alchemy of the Hive: Darkness, Attunement, Sweetness An online three-Part Series with Michelle C. Johnson

Michelle is a bee lover and tender, activist, and person who is deeply committed to healing work that supports bringing individuals, the collective, and our entire ecosystem back into balance. Michelle is excited to bring bee magic to you in the form of this three-part series. Darkness, Attunement, and Sweetness are all things Michelle has learned more deeply about from the wisdom shared with her by the honeybees. Each class will include meditation, community building, wisdom from the honeybees, self and community reflection practices, and a ritual. 

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BIPOC & LGBTQIA+ Scholarship Fund

This fund is for BIPOC, Queer, and Trans folks who want to participate in my retreats, immersions, long-form trainings, and workshops. Your donations will allow me to continue to hold spaces and not turn folks away. Your donations and support will allow more BIPOC, Queer, and Trans folks to access my offerings.