Curious about your pelvic floor? Taint misbeahavin'? Having symptoms that make you believe you might have some dysfunction down there? Join Dr. Jessica Jenkins, Pelvic Floor Therapist, and Hope Hamling, teacher at Abide Yoga, for an evening of information and exploration. We'll learn about our anatomy, then practice shapes and movement patterns to help create a more supple, strong pelvic floor. And because this is happening during the dinner hour, we'll also have a vegan, gluten free, nut free meal.
All genders and expressions welcome. Everyone has a pelvic floor!
About Dr. Jessica Jenkins:
Our expert, Jessica Jenkins, is dedicated to helping you achieve optimal health and wellness. She received her Doctor of Physical Therapy from Duke University and her B.S. in Biology/Chemistry from Denison University. She has more than a decade of experience treating patients from all walks of life in Northeast Ohio. Her specialties include pelvic floor dysfunction, infertility, peripartum issues, the LGBTQIA+ population, lymphedema, TMJ disorders, and chronic pain. She is an adjunct professor at Walsh University teaching Introduction to Pelvic Health and the Women's Health elective. Dr. Jenkins has co-created continuing education courses on treating pregnant and postpartum women as well as TMJ dysfunction. She is certified in lymphedema therapy as well as the Wim Hof Method. She is a trauma-informed practitioner. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her 4 children, partner, and extended family, photography, going to concerts, Wim Hoffing, and yoga.
Dr. Jenkins believes in a holistic, multifaceted approach to healing and strives to provide personalized care tailored to your unique needs.
Would you take a peek a these amazing humans?
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!
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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, June 8th . 6 - 7:30 pm
At Abide West at Willow Room
Sliding Scale $20 . $25 . $30
Link in bio to sign up!
Embodied Astrology is a monthly offering from Anna Barr and Nicole Born Crow.
For curious and communicative Gemini during the month of Pride, we will be exploring play, self expression and how to embody our authentic voices.
Sunday, June 9th 1 - 2:30 pm
Abide West - Lakewood
Sliding Scale $15 / $25 / $35
Fifteen and a half hours of continuous daylight, Summer Solstice is on its way! A couple of years ago, Stacey and I gathered together in the Great Meadow in Forest Hill Park along with about 30 people, to greet the turning of the season. We watched the wind blow through the tops of the trees, the curious young deer wander nearby, the sun slowly descend down into the lake. We spread out blankets and sheets and laid down in the tall grass together. Fireflies and flowers and all of us breathing, moving, and resting together. It was a magical evening I won't soon forget, and I'm excited to enjoy more time honoring the change.
Join us for an evening of qigong, yin yoga, meditation, a sound bath, and rest. Let's soak in the beauty of nature in this season, and prepare for the harvest ahead.
Friday, June 21st, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Rain date Saturday, June 22nd, 6:30 - 8:00pm
at the Great Meadow
Forest Hill Park, Cleveland Heights
Detailed directions to our meeting place provided upon enrollment.
Sliding scale $15 / $25 / $35
In this era of unpredictability, chaos, violence, and loss, as we contend with white supremacist culture, toxic capitalism, patriarchy and the stripping of our rights, our bodies absorb shock after shock on our behalf. How might we metabolize all we’ve taken in? The Moving Forward Immersion provides the container within which we can identify and honor the constriction, the survival patterns, and the shapes we’ve developed to keep us alive and begin to gently move through them to access a version of ourselves that feels a little more free. As we explore balance, build strength, get playful, and tap into our inherent dignity, we expand our capacity to stay with and stay in the work of our collective liberation.
Because the body keeps far more than just the score.
This is a practice born out of the world's drastic changes; a practice continued because reality is asking something different from us all now. A practice sustained so that we can stay open to what's possible moving forward. Whether you arrive with a very personal purpose or are driven by the practitioner in you, join us. Learn how to co-harmonize your body with other bodies, inviting in a greater sense of togetherness.
For the burned out, for the parents, and caregivers, for the uninspired practitioners, for the first responders, the teachers, for those offering their therapies within four walls, for the curious, for the hopeful, for the organizers. For those who are deep in the work of healing. This practice is for us.
You’ll be guided by Cassandra Sirl, birth/death/body worker, Jenny King, professor and co-director of the Center for Trauma and Adversity at Case Western Reserve University, and Hope Hamling, founder and teacher at Abide Yoga in Cleveland.