Sound Bath with Melody
Get cozy at OM Shala! Carrie will make sure you’re tucked in a comfy while Melody Klemin bathes you in the sweet sounds of crystal bowls.
$33
7-8:30pm
Cannabis & Collaging
Join Carrie for an evening of connecting through cannabis & collaging. This fun, creative process will allow you to feel into the wisdom that is forever spiraling within as you. After sharing some plant medicine and a guided meditation that has you sensing into the all the layers of you, we’ll learn how to create oracle cards.
Cannabis & Collaging
Join Carrie for an evening of connecting through cannabis & collaging. This fun, creative process will allow you to feel into the wisdom that is forever spiraling within as you. After sharing some plant medicine and a guided meditation that has you sensing into the all the layers of you, we’ll learn how to create oracle cards.
Deepening into the Layers: A Yin Yoga Training
There’s so many ways to deepen our yoga practices and this weekend will be spent exploring the deeper, denser tissues in the body. As we explore the foundations of yin yoga, we’ll learn about the bones, the breath, and get to know yourself on a deeper level to be able to pass long teachings to your students.
Full Moon Gathering: Mindful Practices and Community Connection
The full moon is a powerful time to set intentions for releasing, culmination, or achieving emotional clarity. Celebrating full moons is a great way to honor our own fullness and wholeness while we receive the wisdom for what is yet to unfold.
Sacred Kin: Exhale Into Fall
Can you feel the energy of fall as you breathe out? The releasing, the softening, a coming home. Join us for an evening of moving, breathing, and resting to reinforce a tapestry of support to carry us through this season. We will reflect on and connect with that which is precious within us and around us as we create some art to keep with you as a reminder of the gifts of this magical season.
Cannabis & Collaging
Join Carrie for an evening of connecting through cannabis & collaging. This fun, creative process will allow you to feel into the wisdom that is forever spiraling within as you. After sharing some plant medicine and a guided meditation that has you sensing into the all the layers of you, we’ll learn how to create oracle cards.
Fall In Love with Yourself: Self-Care Day Retreat
Come gather for an afternoon to celebrate the fall season. Let’s allow some time and space to welcome the fresh crisp fall air into our lungs. We’ll explore gentle movement, breathwork, Restorative Yoga, art, and other self-care rituals centered around loving ourselves. When we pour more love into ourselves, it can spill out into our families and communities! Seasonal snacks will be provided along with an assortment of tasty teas to enjoy.
Full Moon Gathering: Mindful Practices and Community Connection
The full moon is a powerful time to set intentions for releasing, culmination, or achieving emotional clarity. Celebrating full moons is a great way to honor our own fullness and wholeness while we receive the wisdom for what is yet to unfold.
Softening into Stillness: A Restorative Yoga Training
This teacher training will provide the tools you need to teach Restorative Yoga poses with confidence in a group setting and to one-on-one clients. Training includes a copy of a Restorative Yoga Teacher Training Manual. If you're registered with Yoga Alliance, you can earn 14 CEUs.
Cannabis & Collaging
Join Carrie for an evening of connecting through cannabis & collaging. This fun, creative process will allow you to feel into the wisdom that is forever spiraling within as you. After sharing some plant medicine and a guided meditation that has you sensing into the all the layers of you, we’ll learn how to create oracle cards.
Rest & Play Yoga Retreat
Unplug under the canopy of trees, swinging in the hammock with the summer breeze. Take a dip in the Potomac River or hike along the C&O Canal. Make a new friend at game night or take some spacious self-care time. Retreaters may enjoy as much play or rest as desired.
Full Moon Gathering: Mindful Practices and Community Connection
The full moon is a powerful time to set intentions for releasing, culmination, or achieving emotional clarity. Celebrating full moons is a great way to honor our own fullness and wholeness while we receive the wisdom for what is yet to unfold.
Cannabis & Collaging - SOLD OUT!
Join Carrie for an evening of connecting through cannabis & collaging. This fun, creative process will allow you to feel into the wisdom that is forever spiraling within as you. After sharing some plant medicine and a guided meditation that has you sensing into the all the layers of you, we’ll learn how to create oracle cards.
Rooted in Stillness: An Experiential Meditation Training
This training day is ideal for anyone with a beginner’s mind. Together, we’ll explore meditation through the lens of historical yoga texts, while understanding its benefits from a modern perspective. We’ll cover several techniques to help you discover styles of meditation that best support your unique needs. The goal being to leave with ‘tools’ that can help you build a consistent meditation practice.
Cannabis & Collaging
Join Carrie for an evening of connecting through cannabis & collaging. This fun, creative process will allow you to feel into the wisdom that is forever spiraling within as you. After sharing some plant medicine and a guided meditation that has you sensing into the all the layers of you, we’ll learn how to create oracle cards. Through this process of meditation, intuitive image gathering, and allowing our wisdom to be witnessed - you’ll leave feeling inspired and locked in to your inner knowing. There is space for only 8 participants, so be sure to pre-register to reserve your spot. I have cannabis to share or you can bring your own or you can also opt out of the cannabis.
$30
Venmo Carrie to save your spot @CarrieADennison - put the date and your email and phone number please so I know how to contact you.
Full Moon Gathering: Mindful Practices and Community Connection
The full moon is a powerful time to set intentions for releasing, culmination, or achieving emotional clarity. Celebrating full moons is a great way to honor our own fullness and wholeness while we receive the wisdom for what is yet to unfold.
Breathing for Life: Deepening into Pranayama
Whether you're stepping onto the mat for the first time or have years of practice behind you, this immersive experience invites you to slow down, go deeper, and reconnect with the foundations of breath and subtle body awareness. Together, we’ll explore the history of pranayama (breath liberation) through its roots in ancient yogic texts while also looking at modern scientific studies and anatomical insights into the breath, bridging old and new with curiosity and clarity.
Cannabis & Collaging
Join Carrie for an evening of connecting through cannabis & collaging. This fun, creative process will allow you to feel into the wisdom that is forever spiraling within as you. After a guided meditation that has you sensing into the layers of you that surround your soul. We’ll learn how to create oracle cards through this process of meditation, intuitive image gathering, and allowing our wisdom to be witnessed. There is space for only 8 participants, so be sure to pre-register to reserve your spot.
$30
Venmo Carrie to save your spot @CarrieADennison
Summer Self-Care Retreat
Come gather together for an afternoon to celebrate the season of summer and its spirit of joy and abundance! Balance summer’s heat with cooling practices through gentle movement, meditation, Restorative Yoga, and self-care. Express the beauty and power of nature by creating a flower mandala for meditation practice. Seasonal snacks will be provided along with an assortment of tasty teas to enjoy.
Sacred Kin: Prioritize Play
Prioritizing time for play in our lives in an act of rebellion and also it is super fun! Join us for an evening of exploring the power of play to feel our aliveness. Making time for play fuels our imaginations, creativity, problem solving abilities, and emotional well-being. We will share our own experiences with play, do some funny improv games and other silly shenanigans to create a container of rejuvenating joy.
Full Moon Gathering: Mindful Practices and Community Connection
The full moon is a powerful time to set intentions for releasing, culmination, or achieving emotional clarity. Celebrating full moons is a great way to honor our own fullness and wholeness while we receive the wisdom for what is yet to unfold.
Nourish & Restore w. Carrie & Brandon
Join Carrie & Brandon for an extended heart-centered, blended practice of movement and stillness that will leave you feeling balanced and refreshed. This special offering weaves breath, somatics, Yin, and Restorative postures into a magical experience led by two experienced teachers and friends! Grab your bestie or come make a new friend!
Sacred Kin: Ancestral Remembrance
Join us in reciprocity with our ancestors. Ancestors give support, guidance, strength, belonging, and come in many forms - blood ancestors, chosen ancestors, nature ancestors. Remembrance gives back to ancestors, keeping them strong and available. Through ritual, meditation, song, and shares, we will acknowledge and release harms and cycles to be broken. We will remember and receive what the ancestors have to give us.
Experience Breath & Pranayama
Together, we’ll explore the history of pranayama (breath liberation) through its roots of the ancient yogic texts while also looking at modern science and anatomical insights into the breath, bridging old and new with curiosity and clarity.
Sacred Kin: Conflict as Ceremony
We live inside a story of separation - between nations, each other, the self we present and the self exiled. This is a practice, an inquiry, a posture that asks what becomes possible when we stop managing conflict and meet it as a teacher. Through guided empathy exchange, a self-empathy practice, and movement that meets tension with joy, we explore the wars outside us and the wars within. Come as you are, carrying whatever you're carrying.
Sacred Kin: Tending the Waters
Join us for an elemental evening devoted to tending our relationship with water. In our modern world, it can be easy to take for granted the sacredness of this element. Our ancestors knew water intimately — in springs, wells, rivers, and creeks — honoring it as a source of life, wisdom, and renewal. Together we’ll remember this connection. Let's gather to honor, listen and offer our gratitude through song, art, movement, and ritual.
Experience Breathwork & Pranayama
Together, we’ll explore the history of pranayama (breath liberation) through its roots of the ancient yogic texts while also looking at modern science and anatomical insights into the breath, bridging old and new with curiosity and clarity.
Sacred Kin: Unraveling Stuckness
Shame, fear, and comparison keep us stuck. When we come together in community, we create space around this constriction by shining light on what we're holding in our jaws, shoulders, and sacrums. Join us for a co-created ritual of movement & breath, conversation & meditation, art & journaling,. It is when we are with our stuckness and witnessed with layers of support that the patterns shift and space opens.
Full Moon Gathering: Mindful Practices and Community Connection
The full moon is a powerful time to set intentions for releasing, culmination, or achieving emotional clarity. Celebrating full moons is a great way to honor our own fullness and wholeness while we receive the wisdom for what is yet to unfold.
Springtime Day Retreat
The season of Spring invites the spirit of growth and renewal! This mini day retreat will help us emerge from winter hibernation feeling refreshed and relaxed. Carrie will guide you through inspirational activities (all optional!) and may include art/craft projects, meditations, and relaxing, low-intensity yoga sessions. Tasty snacks and tea are included in the admission price. Dress comfortably in cozy layers. These practices require the ability to get up and down off the floor, but otherwise are open to all experience levels.
Sacred Kin: Spring Equinox
Sacred Kin: A Women & Queer Inclusive Circle.
In Chinese Medicine, Wood rises into vision, boundaries, and growth. At the threshold of the Fire Horse and Spring, we root before we ignite. Join us for movement, drumming, song, art and FIRE to clear stagnation, explore boundaries, claim direction and kindle steady flame. *We will gather around the fire pit and burn some shit so dress accordingly.
Full Moon Gathering: Mindful Practices and Community Connection
The full moon is a powerful time to set intentions for releasing, culmination, or achieving emotional clarity. Celebrating full moons is a great way to honor our own fullness and wholeness while we receive the wisdom for what is yet to unfold.
Sacred Kin: Community Dreamweaving
Sacred Kin: A Women & Queer Inclusive Circle.
Together we will unwind from the daily stress of life and create a nourishing container for our hearts, imaginations, and souls to access and express our dreams. Dreams may be personal, for our closest community, or for the larger collective. What is the life and world you dream of? Through meditation, movement, art, rest, and ritual we will plant our dream seeds to grow in the larger web of creation.