Magick Moon Circle: Corn Moon Edition

Join us each month for a sacred Full Moon Circle, where we honor the unique
energies of the lunar cycle through tea, rituals, and restorative practices. This circle
is designed to nurture your mind, body, and spirit with a blend of magickal activities
and community connection.

What to Expect:

Herbal Tea & Wisdom: Sip on moon-inspired herbal teas while learning about
their magickal properties.
Moon Ritual: Engage in a themed ritual to release, manifest, or deepen your
spiritual connection with the current full moon.
Yoga: Slow flow, Yin, or restorative yoga to ground, relax, and release
tension.
Meditation with Reiki: Experience a soothing group Reiki session to restore
and heal your energy.
Oracle & Tarot: Receive intuitive guidance through card pulls for personal
insight.
Magickal Take-Home Item: Take home a sacred item for your altar.
Snacks & Socializing: Enjoy light bites and connect with like-minded souls in
a supportive, nurturing space.

Each circle offers a transformative experience, leaving you feeling renewed, inspired,
and aligned with the energy of the full moon.

What to bring:
A journal and pen for journaling & reflecting
Comfortable clothing for yoga and relaxation
An open heart and mind
Any personal ritual tools or items you’d like to bring to be charged at our
community altar (optional)

Sliding Scale $35/$45/$55

September 5th, 6:30 - 9:00pm

at Abide West Lakewood

About Farrah and Jen:

Farrah Matlock (She/They), C.Y.T. 300, Reiki Master Level
Farrah is a Yoga & Meditation Instructor, Reiki Practitioner, Green Witch
and Moon Circle facilitator, creating sacred spaces for reflection and connection.
With a deep understanding of energy anatomy, she helps students cultivate self-
awareness and empathy. Guided by her Taurus Sun, Leo Moon, and Sagittarius
Rising, Farrah uses self-study to cultivate gentleness and confidence, helping others
to navigate a world that increasingly demands balance and self-regulation.

Jen Garry (She/Her), Reiki Level 1, Permaculture Designer, Herbalism and
Gardening Aficionado
Jen is a Reiki level 1 practitioner, certified in Permaculture Design, and has
over five years of herbalism study. A passionate gardener, she grows vegetables,
fruits, and native wildflowers while co-facilitating Magick circles to inspire spiritual
growth and connection. Guided by her Virgo Sun, Libra Moon, and Leo Rising, Jen
empowers others to heal, grow, and deepen their connection to nature.

Casey Lewis @caseylynnlewis & Stacey Pickering @we_are_vibrational_energy have been co-creating Sound Bath + Reiki offerings together for quite some time, as well as engaging in their own vocal sounding practices individually & in small groups. Both regularly experience supportive, transformative healing through their explorations with vocalizing - humming, toning, groaning, growling!, or whatever arises. As their collaborative Sound + Reiki offerings have evolved, they feel guided to not only share their vibrational support with folks for the time that we are gathered, but to help (re)connect participants with the medicine that those of us with breath & voice carry within and can almost always access.

Sounding it Out is about empowering ourselves to remember & reclaim our voices to support our own healing & liberation. In this practice we slow down, listen within, and notice what is asking for attention. We will bring care to the parts of us that need it through breath & vocalization (whatever arises! - maybe even a simple song / chant invitation). This can be done sitting, lying down, moving as needed, and even silently, in stillness, if desired.

Then, we'll release the practice & nestle in with blankets and bolsters to receive the restorative vibrations of crystal & Tibetan singing bowls, bells, chimes, gong, shruti box, rain stick, guda drum, & voice, and group hands-off (& possibly, optionally 1:1 hands-on) nurturing Reiki.

We'll take some time to process silently, with the option of journaling or artistic expression - bring supplies if you desire! -
then close our gathering, with an invitation to share.

Of course, vocal sounding is optional, as are all parts of these gatherings. Silence can surely be medicine too. But if there is something in us that fears being heard, perhaps a supportive container of nonjudgement is the perfect place to lean in with curiosity & compassion, and explore what happens when we give ourselves permission to have a voice.

Saturday, September 6th, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
At Abide West at Willow Room, 15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood

Sliding Scale $35 / 40 / 45

You are invited to join Holistic Wellness Practitioner Stacey Pickering for a restorative sound bath, including crystal singing bowls, intuitive vocalization & other vibrationally healing instrumentation.

Crystal singing bowls, made of quartz and other gemstones, are used in ceremony, meditation, and various transformative experiences. They produce strong, clear, true tones that resonate deeply in our bodies & energetic systems. The vibrations that ring out from the bowls create clear pathways in us for opening, release, connection, balance & stillness. Their powerful sounds can help us feel grounded, energized, peaceful, uplifted and whole.

Sound vibrations have the power to clear mental clutter & allow space for new neural pathways, helping to catalyze the creation of what we want to be & see more of in our lives & in the world.

Join Stacey to reset, rebalance, and reconnect with yourself.

Saturday, September 13th, 7 PM

Sliding Scale $20 / $25 / $30

At Abide on Larchmere

This year feels different – heavy, terrifying, enraging, yes – but instead of retreating, self-isolating and mourning, we are hungry for connection and community. We are taking stock of our resources. Some are limited, like our time on earth; others are boundless, like our capacity for giving and receiving love. How do we maximize and nurture goodness in the time we have right now?

Our 2025 Murmurations books are meant to guide us toward what matters, and help us recognize the quiet, mobilizing power of love in all its forms.

September 19th: Briefly Perfectly Human by Alua Arthur

About the book:

For her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country's leading death doula, she's spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death--whether imminent or not--will breathe wild, new potential into your life.

Warm, generous, and funny AF, Alua supports and helps manage end-of-life care on many levels. The business matters, medical directives, memorial planning; but also honoring the quiet moments, when monitors are beeping and loved ones have stepped out to get some air--or maybe not shown up at all--and her clients become deeply contemplative and want to talk. Aching, unfinished business often emerges. Alua has been present for thousands of these sacred moments--when regrets, fears, secret joys, hidden affairs, and dim realities are finally said aloud. When this happens, Alua focuses her attention at the pulsing center of her clients' anguish and creates space for them, and sometimes their loved ones, to find peace.

This has had a profound effect on Alua, who was already no stranger to death's periphery. Her family fled a murderous coup d'état in Ghana in the 1980s. She has suffered major, debilitating depressions. And her dear friend and brother-in-law died of lymphoma. Advocating for him in his final months is what led Alua to her life's calling. She knows firsthand the power of bearing witness and telling the truth about life's painful complexities, because they do not disappear when you look the other way. They wait for you.

Briefly Perfectly Human is a life-changing, soul-gathering debut, by a writer whose empathy, tenderness, and wisdom shimmers on the page. Alua Arthur combines intimate storytelling with a passionate appeal for loving, courageous end-of-life care--what she calls “death embrace.” Hers is a powerful testament to getting in touch with something deeper in our lives, by embracing the fact of our own mortality. “Hold that truth in your mind,” Alua says, “and wondrous things will begin to grow around it.”

Friday, September 19th at Abide West at Willow Room Collective

15810 Detroit Ave, Lakewood

Sliding Scale: Pay What you Wish $5 - $30

Bring a snack or drink to share!