Meditation and community with Dahlia
10 weeks
Pricing variable, see details below
Scholarships, equity pricing, and payment plans are available
Free Review/Preview Gathering June 14. 8-9:30am Pacific. Zoom link
Energy work is powerful stuff. I have a passion for normalizing it because it IS normal – everyone is doing it all the time! We charge ourselves up for a big event or slough off the lingering murk of a heavy experience. We lay a hand on a tender place to soothe strong sensations or emotions. We focus like a laser with fervor or emanate joy like sunlight shining all around us. It's natural for us to calibrate ourselves. Exploring how to do this with deliberate skill can be transformative.
Practicing a conscious relationship with ourselves on an energetic level can mean shifting the emotional tone of our being, adjusting level of our vitality, or inviting healing. Words like "center" and "ground" have new meaning when we can perform them at will any time we need to. I adore making this work accessible to all people, whatever they believe about existence. We discuss these practices as emotional wisdom, as neurological finesse, as collaboration with whatever-you-believe in. I love to help you find ways to make it feel right for you.
"I really love this practice. I love the feeling of home, safety and comfort exploring the field. I feel nourished and replenished. I like how I feel afterwards. I like how I can escape from life around me for a little while, but still be within myself. I like how I'm getting to know myself better. I like that I have more trust in myself to handle thoughts, feelings, situations. I like that I am better able to sit with the impermanence of life, both for the good and the bad." - Amelia Urban Romaine, MA, ATR-BC, LPC, Grief and Traumatic Loss Therapist
"We took a hike with more uphill than we’ve ever done last weekend and I was so worn out. We stopped for a bit and my husband was like, “Oh, you could meditate!” My immediate reaction was, “Nope, I’ll cry.” And if I had done my usual meditation, I would have—I was just really exhausted. But then I felt the sun on me and remembered the Field of Being. I filled myself up with light and energy and I felt so much better afterwards. The next time we stopped there was a very long uphill in front of me and I was even more worn out. In the space of about a minute, maybe even 30 seconds, I quickly filled myself up with energy and then I added armor to make me stronger. I felt strengthened and was ready to get on with it." - Wendy
In the first round of this workshop we explored a practice I call The Field of Being for attending to ourselves emotionally, physically, and energetically. In this set of practices we center, ground, clarify, nourish, and boundary ourselves. We'll begin the next round with a free review/preview session of this practice which is open to anyone. Drop by; I'd love to share this with you! Moving onward, we'll explore how to use this framework to shift the charge of emotional states, gather energy for healing, invite the release of physical and emotional pain, create protection – and for the first time I'll be teaching in a group format how to clarify boundaries and remove undesired tethering/cording in relationships, a practice which is of great support in turning emotional corners.
All of my courses are designed so that you can participate at whatever time works for you. In summer I take care to make the teaching modular rather than linear so that it is easier to weave with your travel plans. You get to choose from three levels of participation. This year I changed the name of these offerings from Home Meditation Courses to Workshops for Living because they have come over the years to encompass so much more than meditation. These workshops offer community, refuge, and the potential for transformation. They aim, all of them, at helping us to live as best we can during this precious time we have in human form. During the first Workshop for Living I typo'd it as Workshop for Loving and was encouraged to roll with this. I'm taking the plunge!
"If deep spiritual connection, profound transformation, and warm healing love, all within a very fun and joyful space is what you are looking for, I wouldn't hesitate to sign up to work with Dahlia.”- Lizzy Wilmarth
Teaching & Community: Weekly Gatherings
Teaching, meditation, and conversation are shared most weeks from 8-9am Pacific on Saturday mornings. You can join live or watch later. The meditation portion is shared as an audio file to use throughout the course and keep afterward. Zoom recordings will be available until September 8th. The trust and understanding we build in our practice create a loving, thoughtful container. Schedule:
- Free, Open-to-All Review/Preview Gathering: June 14. 8-9:30am Pacific, with lingering for conversation possible. Zoom link.
- Gathering: June 21, 28
- Integration (no gathering): July 5, 12
- Gathering: July 19, 26
- Integration (no gathering): August 2
- Gathering August 9, 16
If you've studied with me since autumn 2024 (Love in Action or Energetic Integrity), you can jump to registration details! For folks who studied with me before that, I invite a careful read of the description as the structures here underwent a lot of creative evolution from one course to the next during the last couple of years. New? Welcome! I'd love to work with you!
1:1 Support
Connecting with me in private conversation brings greater intimacy and immediacy to your experience. Most people choose to engage in conversation about how the seeds of practice are taking root in their personal lives; we share counsel, coaching, or healing work. Sometimes we create a personalized meditation recording. Depending upon the Weave you choose, you get one or two 1-hour private sessions with me.
"The gifts Dahlia brings in the form of intuition, empathic listening, resourcing and encouragement are a testament to her deep knowledge of spirituality, meditation, mind/body medicine and relationships. Our work together reminds me of who I am and how I want my life to be." - Anonymous
"When my heart breaks and I look for a voice of compassion for myself, Dahlia’s is the voice I hear." - Anna D.
Sharing Circles
Every week there is a written conversation. We take turns sharing to keep the volume of reading enjoyable and feasible. Folks might speak about how our practice is blossoming in their living or what's going on in their lives. They may pose questions or seek advice. I reply to each share with a personal letter full of encouragement, support, teaching, and advice. These can be profound conversations. Here someone asked me about the nature of existence. Here someone asked how to make a healthful compartmentalization of feelings about their child's life-threatening illness in the child's presence. Everyone who joins the Deep or Core Weave gets to read all of the Sharing Circle posts and my replies to them. Folks who join the Deep Weave share twice, Core Weave once. The Light Weave does not participate in the Sharing Circle.
"The kindness and love you put out so consistently, and the acceptance of where we all might be - it is consistently remarkable and I feel it deeply and it gives me something beautiful to strive towards. Thank you again." - Jessie Raeder
Optional Touchstone Pods
Quick, love-drenched, daily conversations by text in small peer groups; I aim for pods of 3. It's astonishing how transformational a few minutes of daily connection can be! This little reminder of the values and practices we are working with along with loving witness and social support threads into our living like honey, like stardust. Folks often choose to continue these relationships beyond the workshop.
Participation Options & Pricing
- Deep Weave: All Gatherings, two Sharing Circle posts & responses, reading access to all Sharing Circles, two private hours with Dahlia, optional Touchstone pod.
$595 – 795 - Core Weave: All Gatherings, one Sharing Circle post & response, reading access to all Sharing Circles, one private hour with Dahlia, optional Touchstone pod.
$395 – 595 - Light Weave: All Gatherings, no Sharing Circle, one private hour with Dahlia
$250 – 450
The Light Weave omits the weekly Sharing Circle and Touchstone pods. This may be just right for you when time is tight or energy is low! It is a significantly different experience.
Your spot is reserved when you register with your $200 deposit. Balance is due by June 20th. Payment plans, scholarships, and equity pricing are available. Contributions toward scholarship are warmly received and will be granted to someone in the current workshop. Want to discuss cost or payment? Not sure which weave is right for you? Wondering if this can work for you? I'd truly love to hear from you; this is how I understand what folks need as I create my work. Drop me a line to dahlia@beloved.org.
