Moving from the Root.
Embodying Earth. Compassion. Freedom. Justice. Interdependence.
Come re-member.
A powerful and integrative experience. A laboratory. A learning retreat. A gathering for those dedicated to body, heart, collaborative learning, relationship, and soul.
Overview
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This gathering will be a container in which to touch and witness the ways in which we sit, stand, walk, dance, and relate as bodies in community. We will be inviting each of you to explore your relationship with the intrinsic connections between somatics, justice, embodied expression, personal responsibility and community healing.
As we remain committed to the body of work we have developed over the past six years -- supporting bodies to heal, to free themselves from inner and outer binds, and to grow into the empowered beings that the world needs -- we are growing, as well. As we've matured as a community, we feel moved to widen our circle. With honor and the knowledge that we grow best together, we welcome and are dedicated to learning how best to include the experience of non-binary, gender queer and trans folx, as well as the population of women we have always oriented towards.
At the gathering, we will explore how to be in our bodies, deepen into our roots, acknowledge our lost parts, find and establish connection to our current world and its needs. For each of us, striking the balance between self-healing/attention and world-tending will look different. We will provide simple tools and practices that are designed to increase our capacity to navigate intensity with compasison and presence.
What do you want to see in the world? How is your body committed to this?
Hope you’ll join us.
HoneyRoot's Community Gathering is an annual celebration of Embodiment and Intergenerational Collaboration. It's a place to explore, expand, and truly inhabit ourselves.
Annually, we host a dynamic convergence. Through our array of potent, enlivening, deep-diving course offerings, we extend a four-day invitation to come home to your body and to the precious bond found in true connection. We bring youth an opportunity to embark upon rites of passage held in the hearts and devotion of the larger community, and we invite those dancing the dance of elderhood to bring us their playfulness, their shyness, their longing, the good medicine of their life experience, and the treasures of their hard-won wisdom. A RE-MEMBERING for all, whether you've been to the summer gathering before or not. 150 acres of natural beauty, a gorgeous creek, deliciously prepared organic food, evening rituals, live music, and S P A C E to just be.
Located on Nisenan land, just above the Yuba River, among the pines, oaks, and maples of Shady Creek Retreat Center in Nevada City, CA, HoneyRoot provides opportunities for us to open our bodies to the wisdom that lives inside.
We, organizers and facilitators, do our best to create a strong container, a courageous playground, and a loving womb for the sake of embodied realization. We look forward to welcoming you into the Hive this summer!
Our fall retreat will focus on weaving these threads from a somatic perspective
Embodying Earth
Embodying Mother
Embodying Freedom
Embodying Justice
Embodying Compassion
Opening Emotional Expression
Containing our Energy
Including and Deepening our Roots
Embodying our Intersections
Embodied Awareness in Service to Relationship and Community Healing
HoneyRoot knows that in order to have the impact that we desire on the empowerment of bodies, we must stay dedicated to creating an intersectional community.
We are dedicated to building greater awareness of our intersecting privileges and oppressions and support our participants in doing the same. We seek to amplify the voices of those who are not normally heard and support and encourage our larger community in doing the same. We honor the diversity of all beings and stand in solidarity towards ending systems of oppression.
With this dedication comes an understanding that we must release perfectionism and the need to "get it right" as we learn. Perfectionism (holding ourselves and/or others to standards that leave no room for error), in itself, is a tool used within patriarchal and (white) supremacist models. We hold compassion as an important element of learning, even as we honor the need of accountability.
Facilitators
Judy Lay Uzo Nwankpa Amber Field Devorah Bry
tayla ealom Erin Summers Odessa Perez Cris Mulvey
Laura Linsteadt Hannah Tamezoujt Margo Stebbing Misha Montoya
Tina Hylton
Supporting Artists
an invitation from 2017. (women centered language, in this one).
Tonight I see the connection between stars
Even the faintest are attached
Thin lines drawing channels of support
to and from the most delicate and the brightest lights
Oracles... Allies tying their strings together
Times long ago connecting to times unimagined and here now
Feed these lines sisters....
Tracking stardust between
Tracing the veins of all our soul's and body's lineage
with our feet and fingers...
our eyes...our heart
There is strength in this web
~Elise Anderson, HoneyRoot participant
“A (person) who has uncovered and honors her intimacy with the earth through developing a relationship with nature or through the power within (their) own body carries a wisdom of infinite mystery and potential. (They) move through life with one foot in a strange ocean, one on the solid land of her ordinary life. This is not just an idea, but a way to live. Mystics, artists, and mothers of young children know this ability to be half-absorbed in unnamable creative forces.”
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