At the Threshold: A Spring Sound Journey of Becoming
The Spring Equinox arrives as a sacred pause, a moment of balance where light and dark meet, and the earth quietly exhales into renewal. This offering is an invitation to slow, soften, and listen for what is tenderly asking to take shape within you.
Held in restorative sound, we’ll settle the nervous system and create space for rest, remembering, and inner listening. Through intuitive collage journaling, you’ll follow what draws you, images, textures, and symbols guiding you toward what you are ready to nurture, and what can be gently released and returned to the soil to support new growth.
After the journey, we’ll share warm tea and time together, allowing space to integrate and if it feels right, speak aloud what was felt, seen, or remembered. This is a space of care, curiosity, and quiet connection, where each person’s unfolding is met with kindness.
Collage materials and supplies will be provided, but please feel free to bring anything else that you would like to include in your collage like a magazine(s), images, etc. No experience is needed. Come exactly as you are, and meet yourself and one another with tenderness in community.
Join us for a special restorative evening with live cello & singing by Karen Laura Peters. This workshop will focus on nourishing and calming our minds and bodies. We will ease into our practice with a gentle moving flow and then come into an hour of restorative yoga poses. We will build about 7 restorative postures and rest for 5-10 minutes in each while receiving the soothing medicine of live cello and singing.
Space is limited and fill quickly, please preregister.
Cost: $25
Visit Karen's Music Page: KarenLauraPeters.com
Yoga is best known for the mind-body connection experienced on our mats but the most transformative gifts of yoga are found in the profound philosophy behind the physical practice.
Whether new, or familiar, the exploration of the fundamentals of yoga philosophy during this six-week series will deepen your practice, and you will find the teachings of the ancient sages to be both fascinating and highly relevant to modern-day life.
No previous knowledge, experience or physical capacity is necessary, all are welcome.
Loving Kindness Meditation
A 5-week series with Source Community Member Chris Lee-Thompson
Loving-kindness (or Metta) is an ancient meditation first taught by the Buddha more than 2600 years ago. It is now practiced by Buddhists, people of different faiths, and people of no faith whatsoever. Loving-kindness sends wishes for safety, health and happiness to all beings, beginning with oneself. It can be done by anyone, including children, and has many benefits, including fostering positive connections, building resilience, and lowering anxiety.
Each session will begin with a guided loving-kindness meditation. Then, we will focus on a different step in the meditation: ourselves, a beloved person, a neutral person, a difficult person, and then all beings everywhere. As a focus for discussion, we will use various resources: “St. Francis and the Sow,” by Galway Kinnel; “Be Cool to the Pizza Dude,” by Sarah Adams; “Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House,” by Billy Collins; and the Metta Sutra, the original teaching on loving-kindness by the Buddha. Finally, as time allows, we will finish with another, shorter meditation.
This series will be held online only and preregistration is required. 5:30-7pm PST
Chris Lee-Thompson (N. Dawa Norbu) is an ordained Buddhist who has practiced and taught Loving-kindness meditation for many years. Chris has also completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training at Eugene Yoga and has been a student at Source Yoga since 2021. Along with his wife, Sylvia, he is the author of the children’s book, “A Day of Loving-kindness.”