GRAND OPENING SOLA Dojo Launch Party:
Sunday, June 15th, 9:30am-3pm
906 St Francis unit B
Opening to Community:
Nurturing Connections with our Human and More than Human Kin
Join us for a celebratory opening day that includes thirty minute mini sessions and a chance to meet our practitioners and a few collaborators too! Participate in free offerings on everything from Martial Arts, Embodiment Practice, Qi Gong, Breathwork, Meditation, Tea, Human Design, Authentic Movement and more! Join us for any or all of the sessions and stay for snacks and a chance to socialize and meet the SOLA community.
Our people:
Lauren Tietz, Laurel Hayne-Miller, Sarah Belpedio, Jaye Marolla, Deirdre Morris, Rei Chou, Amber Gray, Jason Redcedar, Ryan Miller, Nico Wolf, Kelly West, Julie Travis, Veronica Sandoval with maybe a couple more practitioners joining (stay tuned).
Our schedule:
9:30-10: Opening words & invocations with Nico Wolf & Ryan Miller
Session I: 10am-12pm drop in anytime
Dojo
10-10:30: Holy Vessel Breathwork w/ Laurel Hayne Miller
10:30-11: Bathing the Bones - Intro to Continuum w/ Amber Gray
11-11:30 Authentic Movement w/ Lauren Tietz
11:30-12: Aikido w/ Ryan Miller Sensei
Sanctuary
10:30-12:00 Tea & Human Design with Sarah Belpedio
and Bodywork with Veronica Sandoval
Kids’ Corner
10:30-12:00 Crafting with Kelly
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noon - 12:30pm Midday Social: break, snacks, tea, meet & greet
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Session II: 12:30-2 pm drop in anytime
Dojo
12:30-1: The Forgotten Body Remembering w/ Deirdre Morris
1-1:30: Community Qi Gong w/ Jaye Marolla
1:30-2: Embodied Prayer w/ Nico Wolf
2-2:30: Waking the Shared Song w/ Jason Redcedar
Sanctuary
12:30-2:30 PlenTea - Abundance in Community w/ Rei Chou
& Earth Spell Sessions Laurel Hayne-Miller
Kids’ Corner
12:30-2:30 Clay with Julie Travis
2:30-3pm: Closing circle with Nico & Ryan & dance party and time to hang with friends
PRESENTERS & OPENING DAY SESSIONS
Nico Wolf
Facilitator/Practitioner/ Transdisciplinary Artist / Co-Founder
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Nico Wolf (Nicole Haciba Burke) is a healing practitioner, trans-disciplinary artist, writer, guide, regenerative farmer, beekeeper and facilitator of dreamwork, ceremony, and animistic practice. Her work incites rebellion against the status quo and invites fellow humans toward endless curiosity, courageous authenticity, compassion, and connectivity. Nico’s diverse background and multi-faceted worldview has inspired her to create spaces that elicit a deep sense of anything-goes-ness, belonging and freedom where the full palate of human expression and creative impulse comes to the surface. Through her group and private sessions, she ushers participants towards the transformation that can occur when finding oneself in unexpected and non-dual realities. Nico has over two decades of experience as a practitioner and facilitator and has co founded both Golden Well Sanctuary (a retreat and regenerative farm 2012-2020) as well as School of Liminal Arts (2020 - current).
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Embodied Prayer
Come together through somatic devotion of what is living within and without, what is seen and unseen. This mini session will ask participants to move beyond the five senses into the interstitial awareness of the All that Is. To receive and offer, building relationship with our human and more than human kin.
Ryan Miller Wolf
Facilitator/Practitioner/ Aikido Sensei
Co-Founder
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Ryan Miller Wolf has over 27 years of experience in Martial Arts, Movement therapies and healing arts. He is a committed seeker of states of freedom of body, mind and spirit.
Today Ryan’s work is devoted to the Materia of Relationships. Included in this life work is the desire to find the likeness in all things. Not in order to render all things the same, but rather recognize the beautiful warp and weft of the world and to repair and reconnect these threads within our own histories and future stories.
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Aikido and the Art of Joining
Explore the relational space between Heaven and Earth, between what lays ahead and what supports from behind, between you and your community. Through explorations of Aikido principles and forms we practice the art of reconciliation, the coming together of all things.
Sarah Belpedio
Facilitator/ Tea / Human Design
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I curate experiences that facilitate radical transformation. I serve as a guide and friend, holding your hand as you move through life’s big transitions from death to divorce, career shifts to Saturn return. I support individuals in remembering the depths of their power as they move through some of life’s darkest moments. I leverage my embodied knowledge of human design to help people release conditioning and limiting beliefs at the cellular level and learn how to regenerate their life force energy to ground their dream world into form. I am passionate about supporting people in cultivating inner resources and self-knowledge to survive and thrive in our rapidly shifting world. My process empowers people to build the trust and resiliency that is necessary to surrender to their life’s purpose.
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Tea & Human Design
Join Sarah for tea ceremony, stay for mini 1:1 Human Design readings.
Deirdre Morris
Interdisciplinary Artist / Educator / Director
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Deirdre is a human, human-ing…along the way they developed a few skills, shared them with others, lead folks on life altering artistic and healing journey’s, and performs as a site responsive movement artist, teacher, and curator around the globe. Deirdre is the former Executive Director of Earthdance Creative Living Project, Managing Director of Dancing Earth Creations, and the Artistic and Managing Director of Wise Fool New Mexico. Deirdre currently produces the LACE Symposium on Dance and Other Contemporary Practices @ImpulsTanz, as well as directs her own project, ELK, Embodied Land Knowledge.
Deirdre’s research explores the relationship between organic world & animist culture, manmade structures & ideas, and the stories & desires we place upon them. Deirdre’s current interest rests in tracking sensations within seasons, in particular the quality of light in forests, how time passes, what space feels like, and what wants to be made conscious through relational knowing.
Deirdre is interested in mobilizing audience agency - through interaction, unconventional uses of space, and by presenting work open enough for the audience to enter with their own stories. ‘My work steers away from making statements. I don’t have any answers. I ask questions, open doors, hold mirrors, create relationships. I seek to complicate, exacerbate, and occasionally offer balm.’
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https://theforgottenbody.com/ @dcbond505
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The Forgotten Body Remembering
1:1 chakra balancing sessions. A group somatic practice for regulating the nervous system, or a group somatic practice for building energetic flow.
Jaye Marolla
Somatics Facilitator/
Qi Gong / Body Work
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Somatic educator, martial artist and bodyworker, founder of YINWarriorship and YINDojo, weaving applied Daosim and Conscious Sexuality through vitality based teachings and experiential collaborative leadership.
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Qigong forms and somatic exercises to gently awaken body intelligence and deep vitality. No experience is necessary and all levels and all genders are welcome.
Lauren Tietz
Authentic Movement, Somatics, TRE
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Lauren’s attuned and sensitive approach to healing through Craniosacral Therapy, TRE and other Somatic Therapies is supported by more than twenty years of experience and specialization within the fields of embodiment, mindfulness, trauma-informed therapy, meditation, dance and movement arts.
Working one on one with clients Lauren brings a gentleness and a deep emotionally attuned presence as she assists people in the powerful and vulnerable work of sensing and feeling through our bodies, the place where healing and repair can begin and deepen.
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Authentic Movement Practice
More info coming soon
Amber Gray
Movement, Continuum, Activist
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Dr. Amber Elizabeth Lynn Gray is an award winningDr. Amber Elizabeth Lynn Gray is an award winning dance movement therapist, human rights psychotherapist, Continuum, gyrotonics and yoga teacher, who has worked for 28 years with survivors of human rights abuses, war, torture, oppression, collective and historical trauma globally. Equally artist, advocate, author, educator, mystic, poet and therapist, she, her clients and mentors co-created Survivor & Spirit centered, Polyvagal-informed approaches to Somatic & Dance/Movement Therapy for trauma that are holistic and emergent. A lover of all things wild, Amber regularly facilitates eco-somatic-dance retreats for survivors and caregivers. She consults to organizations world-wide on staff care programming, and is a fierce advocate for self-care, self-compassion and self-respect.
teacher, who has worked for 28 years with survivors of human rights abuses, war, torture, oppression, collective and historical trauma globally. Equally artist, advocate, author, educator, mystic, poet and therapist, she, her clients and mentors co-created Survivor & Spirit centered, Polyvagal-informed approaches to Somatic & Dance/Movement Therapy for trauma that are holistic and emergent. A lover of all things wild, Amber regularly facilitates eco-somatic-dance retreats for survivors and caregivers. She consults to organizations world-wide on staff care programming, and is a fierce advocate for self-care, self-compassion and self-respect.
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Bathing the Bones - Intro to Continuum
Continuum is a sonic movement practice, developed by Emilie Conrad, inspired by the fluid undulations of Haitian dance. The flow inherent in this practice inspires our body to move organically, beyond rigid and repetitive patterns of conditioned movement. This flow can ripple out into other aspects of our lives, inviting greater ease, comfort, range, rhythm, and possibility. This brief "drop" of Continuum will integrate soundscapes and a movement sequence that is suitable for every body.
Laurel Hayne-Miller
Breathwork, EarthSpell Sessions
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Immanence Breathwork
A guided group breathwork session in ceremonial space using a simple 3-part breath cycle to engage the body's own life force to catalyze release, revelation, and deep physical and psychospiritual restoration. We will start with grounding and ritual invocation and then proceed to lie down and breathe for approximately 10-15 minutes. Subject to each person's needs and consent, there will be optional essential oil and/or flower essence applications during the session. Afterward, there will be time to rest and integrate, as well as to share with the group as time allows.
Rei Chou
Feast, Tea, Abundance, Empowerment
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As Founder of The Feast I’ve convened over 10 major conferences and 600+ dinners around the world. With partners like MTV, Nike, The Whitehouse and beyond, I brought together cutting edge innovators and leaders ranging from the founders of Kickstarter and Airbnb to Arcade Fire and the JPL Mars Rover team to explore how we can create a more beautiful world. I’ve created innovation projects + leadership initiatives for NASA’s CTOs, researched opportunities for ICT across Africa with Nokia, and worked with Intel on the future of data for good.
I’ve also been attuned to 5+ non-dual, enlightenment-based energy lineages including:
Usui Reiki - a Japanese system for energy healing that channels “universal life energy” for balancing and healing
Reiki Tummo - a form or reiki that activates the kundalini
KAP - Kundalini Activation Process that awakens the kundalini and moves it through the body to create heightened states of consciousness
Asil Toksal - Channeled alignment and energies from the archangelic realms
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PlenTea - A Moment to Celebrate the Abundance Held in Community
Join the Feast for a moment of sharing and connection where we’ll connect around the abundance that we have in our lives and what we love to share with others.
The Feast has enabled over 600 dinners around the world. Founder Rei Chou will facilitate this abbreviated tea moment to surface the wealth within our community and explore how we might create spaces of abundance, fullness and enough.
Jason Redcedar
Tone Tea, Song, Ceremony, Acting
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I am a teacher, a guide, and a steward of the sacred lessons of the voice, songs, and plants. I carry deep reverence for the beautiful teachings I have received and offer what I have cultivated as tools and as medicines for living in our highest vibration. May we learn together to move with joy and love within ourselves and within our families, our communities.
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(IG) tone_tea (IG) jasonredcedar
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Waking up your Song
Together we will explore the potential of the voice, of the song and vibration we all carry. I will offer practical ways of building on a singing practice that may already be in motion and also to create new openings for those that are just beginning their exploration. Everyone with a curiosity is welcome <3
Veronica Sandoval
Bodywork, Doula and Post Partum Care
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Join Veronica for mini sessions of therapeutic massage and bodywork.
Julie Travis
Clay artist, Stoneflower Healing
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I am passionate about being a loving guide for those who are looking to find openings, benefiting resolutions, and deep transformative healing. As a shamanic practitioner I intend to create a safe and sacred space for those who are ready to commit to their own personal growth. Utilizing the most ancient forms of stone medicine and shamanism is a way that I have personally discovered a more harmonious and supportive existence. It is a great honor to be a facilitator of this sacred medicine!
Julie Ann Travis is full mesa carrier and is offering Shamanic Healing Energy Sessions, On-the-Body Stone Treatments ,and Stone Elixir Prescriptions. She has been a lover of stones for many years and now has found a deep connection to their profound healing properties. She works with the stones and their properties according to ancient Taoist text.
Julie has received her MFA from California College of the Arts. She is certified in Shamanic Energy Medicine through the Light Body School of Four Winds Society and studies Shamanic Journeying with Sandra Ingerman and Herbal Medicine for Women's Health with Aviva Romm M.D.
Along with her shamanic training she has received her stonalist certification at the Appalacia School of Holistic Herbalism draws from the 88th generation Taoist priest Jefferey C. Yuen and Sarah ThomasLAc of the Jade Purity Lineage. Stone medicine is the oldest most ancient form of Chinese Medicine.
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Clay for Kids
Kids of all ages are welcome to join in this exploration of clay making.
Kelly West
Artist, Nutrition Consultant
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Hi! Kelly West here, founder & consultant behind homebody.
For a little about me - I am a mama to my 4 year old daughter in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I am a land caretaker, creative & maker, birthday cake baker, loud laugher, late night talker, someone who cares & feels very deeply (and is finally loving this), and more, which will surely be shared in time.
I am also a certified Postpartum & Foundational Nutrition Consultant and have a BA in Family & Human Development and Anthropology, with additional studies in Studio Art and Psychology.I'm here to hold the duality that we can live in responsive, communicative bodies without judgment, and we can participate in unearthing increased well-being even still.
These diverse but deeply interwoven areas of lived experiences & studies inform a compassionate & holistic approach to my consultation offerings. I am always looking through these various perspectives around tending nourishment of body & home in an individualize and embodied way. -
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The Wild Flock
Kids of all ages are welcome to join in creating 3d bird art mobiles from paper, feathers, paint and other decorative materials. Kids will have the option to make a piece to include in SOLA’s Wild Flock installation.