TODAY 10/26, 6:30pm, PSH, Yarrow (white) building
The Somatics Lab with Little River Somatic Healing

We are living in a moment of intersecting crises. The future seems less clear, often less hopeful, than ever. And somehow we still have to figure out how to collaborate, parent, love, grieve, rest, fight, forgive, and grow.

As the world around us unravels, who do we choose to be?

Despite our beautiful visions and professed values, under pressure, our bodies take over and run the “software” we downloaded as children — individualism and perfectionism, seeking control and comfort, shaming ourselves and others. We slide into feeling powerless, alone, numbed out, or hypervigilant.

The Somatics Lab offers a space to practice being the person we want to become. In the spirit of a dojo, we practice letting go of our automatic behaviors and replacing them with new embodied choices. Through practice we build our capacities for being mature, loving, responsible humans.

Reminder: the Becoming Good Ancestors series has been canceled.

UPDATE: This series has unfortunately been discontinued for the rest of the year 🙁 You can catch Little River on Monday for one last somatic space.

Saturday, October 24th, 10am. People's Solidarity Hub, Yarrow (white) building.
Somatic practices and rituals for men — and AMAB, and male-socialized people — who want to clean up the mess we inherited and make fertile ground for ourselves and future generations.

Series Announcement! Thursdays from 11/19 to 12/3, 6:30-8:30pm at PSH, Yarrow House (White building)
with Karen Tarkulich and Isabel Walsh

Who This Is For:
Are you at a loss for how to show up in this moment of social injustice?
Do you want to build towards a better future, but feel drained by the news?
Do you like being creative and having a little fun with serious topics?
Do you want to build community by grappling with these challenges alongside others?
Does our world feel really heavy? Are you over it?
Join this workshop!

This workshop’s purpose:
Visioning for a more hopeful future involves learning to let go of comfortable, familiar structures and composting them in order to grow something better.
But how do we actually learn the skills to do this?
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In this 3-part workshop series, Karen and Isabel will lead you through an arc that begins with getting to know each other, shifts into learning to let go of harmful but comforting systems, and culminates in transforming our fear of collapse, endings and death into enthusiasm for building something new.
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It’s daunting to look at systems that can feel safe (even when they are not safe for all) and choose to do something different. This becomes easier when we gather to share our struggles and connect with our inspiration.

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Workshop time will include a mix of conversation, journaling, art making activities, and collaboratively visioning for something new. RSVP at the link in the "Upcoming" highlight

Friday, October 23rd. 7pm. PSH, Yarrow (White) building.
By Group Shake Durham
Group Shake is one hour of movement to music, without pressure to perform or socialize. You are invited to focus on the somatic experience of movement and play, at your own speed and scale.

Unfortunately, the October 23rd Film Screening for "Theory of Change" has been canceled.

Please stay tuned for a reschedule date.

TODAY 10/19, 6:30pm, PSH, Yarrow (white) building
The Somatics Lab with Little River Somatic Healing

The Somatic Lab returns 10/26!

We are living in a moment of intersecting crises. The future seems less clear, often less hopeful, than ever. And somehow we still have to figure out how to collaborate, parent, love, grieve, rest, fight, forgive, and grow.

As the world around us unravels, who do we choose to be?

Despite our beautiful visions and professed values, under pressure, our bodies take over and run the “software” we downloaded as children — individualism and perfectionism, seeking control and comfort, shaming ourselves and others. We slide into feeling powerless, alone, numbed out, or hypervigilant.

The Somatics Lab offers a space to practice being the person we want to become. In the spirit of a dojo, we practice letting go of our automatic behaviors and replacing them with new embodied choices. Through practice we build our capacities for being mature, loving, responsible humans.

TODAY at NOON! PSH, Sassafras (teal) building.
Iced Tea Bar & Queer Joy Yoga with Rosie! 10/18

About us: Queer Joy Yoga is a donation-based, community-oriented yoga class which follows bell hooks’ definition of queer: “Being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.”

QJY is a gathering for all those imagining and working towards reinvention and dismantling different systems of oppression (regardless of sexual and/or gender identity). The monthly class involves discussion of themes such as identity, resistance, solidarity, and interpersonal relationships along with a physical and mindfulness practice. Open to all levels of experience with yoga. After class, you’re invited to stay for a casual group social hour to continue the conversation, connecting and build community together.

TODAY 10/15 7pm. PSH Sassafras (teal) building
Permission to Play! Improv for Mental Health Therapists with Katie Blasko LMFT and Shannon Lomasney LCSW

2 hours of improv comedy-based games and programming to allow for authentic connection between people!
We want to offer community-building, in person connection for therapists in the area. This is NOT a networking event, this is a space for therapists to find movement, creativity, and play outside of the heavy work they do on the day-to-day basis.

Saturday, October 31st Destiny Hemphill Presents "Healer, How Come They Call You Hummingbird" Reading.

Destiny Hemphill will be reading her debut short story "Healer, How Come They Call You Hummingbird?,"which recently won Kweli Journal's inaugural DeLana R.A. Dameron Prize in Fiction. Join the celebration! Doors open at 4:30 pm. Reading will begin around 5 pm.

The event will take place in the Yarrow Building of the People's Solidarity Hub campus. The Yarrow building is the white building.

Accessibility: The main entrance of the Yarrow building is at the back, closest to parking. Ramp access is available at this entrance.

Link to RSVP in Highlights