Summer Solstice Paddle Celebration

June 21st 10am -2pm Estacada Lake - Milo McIver State Park

Celebrate the longest day of the year with a community paddle boarding event designed for deep joy, presence, and renewal. Paddle through calming waters, soak in the sun’s golden energy, and explore radical rest as a ritual of self-care and resistance. With rejuvenating movement through water, guided meditation, and moments of stillness, this event invites you to reconnect with nature, your body, and the rhythms of the season. No paddling experience needed—we’ll provide the equipment and instruction, you bring a desire to connect with community, nature, and your inner radiance.

Your Guides -

Theresa Q. Tran is a life-long student of the natural world. Born in Vietnam, she has since traveled all seven continents including science support deployments to Antarctica. She has served as an outdoor experiential educator for over a decade including work with Outward Bound’s Sea School, the Institute of Arctic Biology, and Wild Diversity. In addition to her current work as a Youth Programs Associate with Literary Arts, Theresa is a certified astrologer, MFA-trained poet, mom, storyteller, and facilitator. Honored and excited to make magic in community, Theresa seeks to co-create spaces for sharing wisdom traditions, healing arts, and outdoor joy.

Turtle Farahat is a bodyworker, acupuncturist, and facilitator. Turtle strives to listen for the voice of the sacred, and to cultivate curiosity, emotional agility, openness, attunement, and availability for connection, even when the external swirl propagates mayhem. Turtle enjoys sharing time with their beloveds, practicing qigong, singing with Portland's Threshold Singers, participating in the SWANA community, reading YA fiction, and connecting with the natural world as much as possible. Turtle is grateful to have had three seasons of paddle guiding with Wild Diversity and is delighted to share their love of water with the Radical Rest community. 

Miro Jooyoung Oh is part of a queer Korean Diaspora residing in Portland, OR. Miro writes and performs in the liminal space to reconcile her love, anger, and grief in a time of extreme polarity and oppression of vulnerable communities. She leads community engagement events and offers Process Work therapy for collective healing. She is an enthusiastic forager, hiker, and kayaker. She often combines her love of the outdoors with somatic healing for her Process Work Therapy practice and Korean Shamanism.