Rest & Reflect Among The Trees
Saturday, July 26 - 11am - 3:30pm PDT
Connection to Land is connection to self
Rest & Reflect Among The Trees, immersive nature experience for BIPOC community members to foster rest, reflection, and connection. Each session includes a two-hour guided Forest Bathing walk to foster connection with the natural world, a nourishing lunch celebrating local farmers, and Love Letter to Future You, a reflective letter-writing practice that cultivates self-compassion. Held at Oxbow Regional Park, just 40 minutes from downtown, this program creates a dedicated space for BIPOC participants to connect with nature and one another in ways that support mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical well-being. Together, we cultivate interconnection, reciprocity, and joy—a much-needed pause from the heaviness of the world.
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Village Lab Salon
Radical Return Immersion Retreats
Somatic Liberation Community Partnerships
OUR PROGRAMS
A village is an interdependent community gathered around care, witnessing, reciprocal support, skill sharing, spiritual vibrancy and communal economic resilience.
The Village Lab Salon provides somatic experiential workshop for BIPOC folks to reimagine communal care and redefine health justice as centered in belonging and safety. All workshops are led by BIPOC facilitators.
We define communal care as RELATIONSHIPS that fosters the seven elements of sustainable wellness: meaningful connection, nourishing food, healthy physical movement, purpose-driven activity, emotional integrity, environmental integrity, and, of course, restorative rest.
Radical Return encourages reconnection with self, village and the natural world for BIPOC folks through immersive retreats in outdoor settings
Retreats feature healing, spiritual, and community care practices as well as opportunities to work 1x1 with BIPOC holistic wellness providers and, of course, RADICAL REST.
Because our individual bodily wellness is a microcosm of planetary wellness, Radical Return Retreats also feature opportunities for learning ecological connection and stewardship practices.
Somatic Liberation is the result of a healing progression that starts with building intimacy with one's own body-mind-spirit and evolves toward the development of an empowered and sovereign community comprised of vital, resilient individuals.
In the community partnerships program, Radical Rest partners with organizations that serve the BIPOC community to offer somatic, trauma-informed healing justice programming facilitated by BIPOC facilitators who hold communal care at the center of wellness practices.
All programming is tailored to the needs of the community partner and the BIPOC populations they serve.
Resilience is best understood as a characteristic of communities rather than of individuals.
— Daniel Aldrich