Upcoming Classes, Groups, & Trainings
Embodied. Connected. Empowered.
heARTful wellness workshop
You are invited to experience a calming, mindful, and creativity infused time to give yourself the gift of pause and connection. Our 90 minutes together is co-created as a safer space for you to turn down the noise of daily life and center yourself using a variety of art materials. A mindfulness intention will be provided as a way to guide our time exploring and playing with art materials. Renée will provide support and inspiration as needed. There will be moments to connect with yourself as well as moments to connect with the other participants as we practice creative mindfulness together.
Subtle Strength
Start the weekend with a focus on subtle strength and stabilization of the physical and emotional bodies. Classes will progress through an arc of breath, group check-ins, journaling, visualization, supported physical engagement, and dialogue. Expect each student will explore the physical practice in different ways, including as completely internalized practices.
Dynamic Movement
Build on your solid foundation with playful and expressive exploration. Students will improvise movements in response to one another, percussion, music, maybe even poetry. A little dance, a little theater, a little asana.
Restorative Yoga: Rest & Reset
This gentle and rejuvenating yoga class is designed to help you unwind, de-stress, and restore balance in both your body and mind. Through a series of supported poses, deep breathing, and mindful relaxation, you'll experience a calming practice that encourages deep rest and healing. Perfect for all levels, this class focuses on soothing the nervous system, enhancing flexibility, and resetting your energy. Whether you're recovering from a busy day or simply seeking a peaceful escape, "Restorative Yoga: Rest & Reset" offers the perfect opportunity to relax, recharge, and reconnect with yourself.
Restorative Yoga for Healing
This nurturing and therapeutic yoga class is designed to support physical, emotional, and mental healing. Through gentle, fully supported postures and mindful breathing, you’ll be guided into deep relaxation, allowing your body and mind to release tension and stress. Whether you're recovering from an injury, managing chronic pain, or simply seeking a space for self-care, "Restorative Yoga for Healing" provides a compassionate environment to promote inner peace and restoration. Suitable for all levels, this class offers a sanctuary for healing and renewal, helping you reconnect with your body's natural ability to heal itself.
Earth Body Care
A group class created for people who want to engage in a practice that doesn’t push them past their limits.If you experience chronic pain, limited movement, and/or are recovering from an injury, this class was designed with you in mind. Pay what you can - donation based class
Uplifting Chair Yoga for Seniors
No mat required! This gentle chair-supported yoga class is designed to help relieve stress, build strength, and improve flexibility, all while staying seated or using the chair for balance. We begin each session with a soothing warm-up, bringing your awareness to the present moment through mindful breathing and light movements to gently warm the body. In this class, everyone is encouraged to come as they are. Every movement is an invitation, not an expectation—take what feels good, and leave the rest. Guided by your breath, you’ll flow through gentle stretches and energizing movements that promote both strength and relaxation, creating a mindful, calming, and invigorating experience. Accompanied by soft music, each session weaves in elements of yogic philosophy to nurture both the body and the mind.
Supportive Touch: partner massage class
This event invites couples, partners, friends and/or family members to engage in guided bodywork within a group setting. Join this class with one other person you feel comfortable connecting closely with, and learn some tips and tricks in sharing supportive touch. You and your partner will both be guided through exercises aimed at connection, massage, and breathwork that are simple enough to take home to enhance your care practice.
Earth Body Care
A group class created for people who want to engage in a practice that doesn’t push them past their limits.If you experience chronic pain, limited movement, and/or are recovering from an injury, this class was designed with you in mind. Pay what you can - donation based class
heARTful wellness workshop
You are invited to experience a calming, mindful, and creativity infused time to give yourself the gift of pause and connection. Our 90 minutes together is co-created as a safer space for you to turn down the noise of daily life and center yourself using a variety of art materials. A mindfulness intention will be provided as a way to guide our time exploring and playing with art materials. Renée will provide support and inspiration as needed. There will be moments to connect with yourself as well as moments to connect with the other participants as we practice creative mindfulness together.
Earth Body Care
A group class created for people who want to engage in a practice that doesn’t push them past their limits.If you experience chronic pain, limited movement, and/or are recovering from an injury, this class was designed with you in mind. Pay what you can - donation based class
Earth Body Care
A group class created for people who want to engage in a practice that doesn’t push them past their limits.If you experience chronic pain, limited movement, and/or are recovering from an injury, this class was designed with you in mind. Pay what you can - donation based class
Healing Through Connection: Softening the Impact of Sexual Trauma Together
A 6-week group therapy series designed to explore and address the impacts of sexual trauma. This series offers a supportive environment for participants to deepen their understanding of intimacy and soothe trauma wounds through both cognitive and embodied healing practices. With community care at the heart of the work, participants will share insights and learn practical tools designed to support our shared journey toward softening the symptoms of trauma and reclaiming our right to pleasure.
Restorative Yoga for Healing
This nurturing and therapeutic yoga class is designed to support physical, emotional, and mental healing. Through gentle, fully supported postures and mindful breathing, you’ll be guided into deep relaxation, allowing your body and mind to release tension and stress. Whether you're recovering from an injury, managing chronic pain, or simply seeking a space for self-care, "Restorative Yoga for Healing" provides a compassionate environment to promote inner peace and restoration. Suitable for all levels, this class offers a sanctuary for healing and renewal, helping you reconnect with your body's natural ability to heal itself.
Restorative Yoga: Rest & Reset
This gentle and rejuvenating yoga class is designed to help you unwind, de-stress, and restore balance in both your body and mind. Through a series of supported poses, deep breathing, and mindful relaxation, you'll experience a calming practice that encourages deep rest and healing. Perfect for all levels, this class focuses on soothing the nervous system, enhancing flexibility, and resetting your energy. Whether you're recovering from a busy day or simply seeking a peaceful escape, "Restorative Yoga: Rest & Reset" offers the perfect opportunity to relax, recharge, and reconnect with yourself.
Empowered Spaces Community Garden Work Day
Planting Connections, Growing Communities
Join us from 9:00 - 11:00AM for our next Community Garden Workday.
This is a project that—at it’s roots — is meant to be created and led together. Our “food forest” is currently made up of 6 raised beds, and an orchard of 37 fruit and nut trees.
The majority of the produce we grow is donated to the expectant families of color served through Jamaa Birth Village’s comprehensive Equal Access Midwifery Clinic (EAMC)
We invite you to join our garden co-op, and in our mission to create more of the world we want to see!
Restorative Yoga for Healing
This nurturing and therapeutic yoga class is designed to support physical, emotional, and mental healing. Through gentle, fully supported postures and mindful breathing, you’ll be guided into deep relaxation, allowing your body and mind to release tension and stress. Whether you're recovering from an injury, managing chronic pain, or simply seeking a space for self-care, "Restorative Yoga for Healing" provides a compassionate environment to promote inner peace and restoration. Suitable for all levels, this class offers a sanctuary for healing and renewal, helping you reconnect with your body's natural ability to heal itself.
Restorative Yoga: Rest & Reset
This gentle and rejuvenating yoga class is designed to help you unwind, de-stress, and restore balance in both your body and mind. Through a series of supported poses, deep breathing, and mindful relaxation, you'll experience a calming practice that encourages deep rest and healing. Perfect for all levels, this class focuses on soothing the nervous system, enhancing flexibility, and resetting your energy. Whether you're recovering from a busy day or simply seeking a peaceful escape, "Restorative Yoga: Rest & Reset" offers the perfect opportunity to relax, recharge, and reconnect with yourself.
Restorative Yoga for Healing
This nurturing and therapeutic yoga class is designed to support physical, emotional, and mental healing. Through gentle, fully supported postures and mindful breathing, you’ll be guided into deep relaxation, allowing your body and mind to release tension and stress. Whether you're recovering from an injury, managing chronic pain, or simply seeking a space for self-care, "Restorative Yoga for Healing" provides a compassionate environment to promote inner peace and restoration. Suitable for all levels, this class offers a sanctuary for healing and renewal, helping you reconnect with your body's natural ability to heal itself.
Restorative Yoga: Rest & Reset
This gentle and rejuvenating yoga class is designed to help you unwind, de-stress, and restore balance in both your body and mind. Through a series of supported poses, deep breathing, and mindful relaxation, you'll experience a calming practice that encourages deep rest and healing. Perfect for all levels, this class focuses on soothing the nervous system, enhancing flexibility, and resetting your energy. Whether you're recovering from a busy day or simply seeking a peaceful escape, "Restorative Yoga: Rest & Reset" offers the perfect opportunity to relax, recharge, and reconnect with yourself.
Empowered Spaces Community Garden Work Day
Planting Connections, Growing Communities
Join us from 9:00 - 11:00AM for our next Community Garden Workday.
This is a project that—at it’s roots — is meant to be created and led together. Our “food forest” is currently made up of 6 raised beds, and an orchard of 37 fruit and nut trees.
The majority of the produce we grow is donated to the expectant families of color served through Jamaa Birth Village’s comprehensive Equal Access Midwifery Clinic (EAMC)
We invite you to join our garden co-op, and in our mission to create more of the world we want to see!
Restorative Yoga for Healing
This nurturing and therapeutic yoga class is designed to support physical, emotional, and mental healing. Through gentle, fully supported postures and mindful breathing, you’ll be guided into deep relaxation, allowing your body and mind to release tension and stress. Whether you're recovering from an injury, managing chronic pain, or simply seeking a space for self-care, "Restorative Yoga for Healing" provides a compassionate environment to promote inner peace and restoration. Suitable for all levels, this class offers a sanctuary for healing and renewal, helping you reconnect with your body's natural ability to heal itself.
Restorative Yoga: Rest & Reset
This gentle and rejuvenating yoga class is designed to help you unwind, de-stress, and restore balance in both your body and mind. Through a series of supported poses, deep breathing, and mindful relaxation, you'll experience a calming practice that encourages deep rest and healing. Perfect for all levels, this class focuses on soothing the nervous system, enhancing flexibility, and resetting your energy. Whether you're recovering from a busy day or simply seeking a peaceful escape, "Restorative Yoga: Rest & Reset" offers the perfect opportunity to relax, recharge, and reconnect with yourself.
heARTful wellness workshop
You are invited to experience a calming, mindful, and creativity infused time to give yourself the gift of pause and connection. Our 90 minutes together is co-created as a safer space for you to turn down the noise of daily life and center yourself using a variety of art materials. A mindfulness intention will be provided as a way to guide our time exploring and playing with art materials. Renée will provide support and inspiration as needed. There will be moments to connect with yourself as well as moments to connect with the other participants as we practice creative mindfulness together.
Quieting the Storm
Quieting the Storm is a 12-week therapeutic empowerment group for teen girls in high school (an inclusive space for all teen girls). Since 2009, these sacred spaces have offered support and comfort that invites each individual to explore and reconnect with her most authentic selves as she learns valuable tools to help navigate her world. Individuals find connection with one another while working on building self-compassion, confidence, self-awareness, healthy coping strategies, and skills to develop healthy relationships.
Botanical Meditations: building relationship with plant allies through somatic experience
In The Garden are a series of workshops in the Empowered Spaces Community Garden that explore integrative justice driven approaches to embodiment, mental health, and wellness, both individually and collectively. Join us for Botanical Meditations: building relationship with plant allies through somatic experience on September 22, 9:00-11:00am with Brea Youngblood (she/her). From 9:00 - 10:30 am you are welcome to join us for gardening in the Empowered Spaces Community Garden, and then the workshop will begin at 10:30am. Join Empowered Spaces community members Rachel Tate and Brea Youngblood for this two part In The Garden Workshop. Both of these teachers will provide their own version of class with opportunity to engage with aromatics in thoughtful ways. In each 30 minute class, you will have the opportunity take in sensation with one or all plants including mint, garden sage, rosemary, or basil.
Empowered Spaces Community Garden Work Day
Planting Connections, Growing Communities
Join us from 9:00 - 11:00AM for our next Community Garden Workday.
This is a project that—at it’s roots — is meant to be created and led together. Our “food forest” is currently made up of 6 raised beds, and an orchard of 37 fruit and nut trees.
The majority of the produce we grow is donated to the expectant families of color served through Jamaa Birth Village’s comprehensive Equal Access Midwifery Clinic (EAMC)
We invite you to join our garden co-op, and in our mission to create more of the world we want to see!
Earth Body Care
A group class created for people who want to engage in a practice that doesn’t push them past their limits.If you experience chronic pain, limited movement, and/or are recovering from an injury, this class was designed with you in mind. Pay what you can - donation based class
Empowered Spaces Community Garden Work Day
Planting Connections, Growing Communities
Join us from 9:00 - 11:00AM for our next Community Garden Workday.
This is a project that—at it’s roots — is meant to be created and led together. Our “food forest” is currently made up of 6 raised beds, and an orchard of 37 fruit and nut trees.
The majority of the produce we grow is donated to the expectant families of color served through Jamaa Birth Village’s comprehensive Equal Access Midwifery Clinic (EAMC)
We invite you to join our garden co-op, and in our mission to create more of the world we want to see!
Painting Connection
In The Garden are a series of workshops in the Empowered Spaces Community Garden that explore integrative justice driven approaches to embodiment, mental health, and wellness, both individually and collectively. Join us for Painting Connection on July 13, 9:00-11:00am with Renee Tate (she/they). From 9:00 - 10:00 am you are welcome to join us for gardening in the Empowered Spaces Community Garden, and then the workshop Painting Connection will begin at 10am. Join us to cultivate connection through community artmaking, and invest in yourself and our community while engaging in creativity and present moment awareness, aspects of being well at a heART level. Genuine wellness is a practice. Let's practice together!
heARTful wellness workshop
You are invited to experience a calming, mindful, and creativity infused time to give yourself the gift of pause and connection. Our 90 minutes together is co-created as a safer space for you to turn down the noise of daily life and center yourself using a variety of art materials. A mindfulness intention will be provided as a way to guide our time exploring and playing with art materials. Renée will provide support and inspiration as needed. There will be moments to connect with yourself as well as moments to connect with the other participants as we practice creative mindfulness together.
Note To Self: Be Brave Enough to Love Myself
This Angel Band Project Workshop is a free music therapy group for survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence. No musical experience necessary. Our music therapy small group workshop will meet weekly for 8 weeks, and will focus on the recognition and importance of self-love. Together, we’ll focus on creating a sense of community through music and talk therapy.
Embodied Rawthenticity - 10 Week Workshop
A 10-week workshop to transform rawthentically from cage to container. Learn the tools & hone the techniques to release limiting beliefs & paradigms, define conscious choice, speak & act from agency, and live into grounded, awakened, pleasure & purpose. There is no “one way fits all” approach to restorative healing, because there is no “one way fits all” way to live life. Embodied Rawthenticity provides relatable tools to meet you where you are, no matter your circumstances, background, challenges or intersecting identities.
Earth Body Care
A group class created for people who want to engage in a practice that doesn’t push them past their limits.If you experience chronic pain, limited movement, and/or are recovering from an injury, this class was designed with you in mind. Pay what you can - donation based class
Embodied Rawthenticity - 10 Week Workshop
A 10-week workshop to transform rawthentically from cage to container. Learn the tools & hone the techniques to release limiting beliefs & paradigms, define conscious choice, speak & act from agency, and live into grounded, awakened, pleasure & purpose. There is no “one way fits all” approach to restorative healing, because there is no “one way fits all” way to live life. Embodied Rawthenticity provides relatable tools to meet you where you are, no matter your circumstances, background, challenges or intersecting identities.
Empowered Spaces Community Garden Work Day
Planting Connections, Growing Communities
Join us from 9:00 - 11:00AM for our next Community Garden Workday.
This is a project that—at it’s roots — is meant to be created and led together. Our “food forest” is currently made up of 6 raised beds, and an orchard of 37 fruit and nut trees.
The majority of the produce we grow is donated to the expectant families of color served through Jamaa Birth Village’s comprehensive Equal Access Midwifery Clinic (EAMC)
We invite you to join our garden co-op, and in our mission to create more of the world we want to see!
Embodied Rawthenticity - 10 Week Workshop
A 10-week workshop to transform rawthentically from cage to container. Learn the tools & hone the techniques to release limiting beliefs & paradigms, define conscious choice, speak & act from agency, and live into grounded, awakened, pleasure & purpose. There is no “one way fits all” approach to restorative healing, because there is no “one way fits all” way to live life. Embodied Rawthenticity provides relatable tools to meet you where you are, no matter your circumstances, background, challenges or intersecting identities.
Quieting the Storm
Quieting the Storm is a 12-week therapeutic empowerment group for teen girls in high school (an inclusive space for all teen girls). Since 2009, these sacred spaces have offered support and comfort that invites each individual to explore and reconnect with her most authentic selves as she learns valuable tools to help navigate her world. Individuals find connection with one another while working on building self-compassion, confidence, self-awareness, healthy coping strategies, and skills to develop healthy relationships.
Empowered Spaces Community Garden Work Day
Planting Connections, Growing Communities
Join us from 9:00 - 11:00AM for our next Community Garden Workday.
This is a project that—at it’s roots — is meant to be created and led together. Our “food forest” is currently made up of 6 raised beds, and an orchard of 37 fruit and nut trees.
The majority of the produce we grow is donated to the expectant families of color served through Jamaa Birth Village’s comprehensive Equal Access Midwifery Clinic (EAMC)
We invite you to join our garden co-op, and in our mission to create more of the world we want to see!
Quieting the Storm
Quieting the Storm is a 12-week therapeutic empowerment group for teen girls in high school (an inclusive space for all teen girls). Since 2009, these sacred spaces have offered support and comfort that invites each individual to explore and reconnect with her most authentic selves as she learns valuable tools to help navigate her world. Individuals find connection with one another while working on building self-compassion, confidence, self-awareness, healthy coping strategies, and skills to develop healthy relationships.
Empowered Spaces Community Garden Work Day
Planting Connections, Growing Communities
Join us from 9:00 - 11:00AM for our next Community Garden Workday.
This is a project that—at it’s roots — is meant to be created and led together. Our “food forest” is currently made up of 6 raised beds, and an orchard of 37 fruit and nut trees.
The majority of the produce we grow is donated to the expectant families of color served through Jamaa Birth Village’s comprehensive Equal Access Midwifery Clinic (EAMC)
We invite you to join our garden co-op, and in our mission to create more of the world we want to see!
Embodied Rawthenticity - 10 Week Workshop
A 10-week workshop to transform rawthentically from cage to container. Learn the tools & hone the techniques to release limiting beliefs & paradigms, define conscious choice, speak & act from agency, and live into grounded, awakened, pleasure & purpose. There is no “one way fits all” approach to restorative healing, because there is no “one way fits all” way to live life. Embodied Rawthenticity provides relatable tools to meet you where you are, no matter your circumstances, background, challenges or intersecting identities.
Quieting the Storm
Quieting the Storm is a 12-week therapeutic empowerment group for teen girls in high school (an inclusive space for all teen girls). Since 2009, these sacred spaces have offered support and comfort that invites each individual to explore and reconnect with her most authentic selves as she learns valuable tools to help navigate her world. Individuals find connection with one another while working on building self-compassion, confidence, self-awareness, healthy coping strategies, and skills to develop healthy relationships.