RADICAL STILLNESS
an online meditation workshop
for women
Sunday, December 13
10 am - 12 pm PST
Stillness isn’t exactly a hot topic.
In the midst of this joyful, frenetic holiday season, the idea of stillness almost seems like a joke.
Not just how, when you don’t even have time for your snowballing to-do list, but why?
Why bother with stillness?
For most of us, stillness comes through sleep (potentially medicated), collapse (illness, injury, on the couch with AppleTV), or mindless distraction (scrolling through doom / other people’s lives and ideas.)
From a cultural perspective, stillness is seen as lazy, unproductive, the opposite of striving and success.
But the truth is—and I’ve experienced this first hand—stillness has something vital and very much alive to offer us, especially as women.
Please join me for Radical Stillness, an online meditation workshop for women.
Over two hours on Zoom, we’ll explore:
Stillness as a renewable, readily available source of energy.
When we take intentional breaks from doing, our bodies move into a state of conscious rest. Natural energy stores, and the body’s natural intelligence, are renewed.
Better than a ten dollar matcha.
Stillness as capacity.
When we refrain from fixing our every discomfort, boredom, agitation, or uncertainty, we build our capacity to be with life as it is. We learn what we can handle. This builds resilience, and makes us more trustworthy— to ourselves and to others.
As we age, we call this wisdom.
Stillness as a portal to creativity, curiosity, choice.
Most of us 🙋🏻♀️ turn to some form of distraction to get a mental break from all the thinking, planning, and problem solving of our daily lives. And that’s fine.
But there is something else beyond the noise. And you don’t have to stretch or improve yourself a hundred ways to find it.
Sunday, December 13
10 am - 12 pm PST
$40
No experience required.
Bring your laptop and a notebook or paper and pen.
Come as you are!
Zoom link provided upon registration
expectations can be tricky…
STILL, YOU CAN EXPECT:
To experience the power of stillness. In other words, your own power.
An experiential, no-pressure approach. We’ll meet each other where we are. We’ll pay attention, together. We’ll keep it easy and in the body.
To write! Working with prompts, we’ll let words flow in a lighthearted way aimed at giving voice to the wisdom within.
Community. While I’ll share some teachings, I’m not really here to teach you anything. I’m interested in what happens when women show up to something new with open hearts and minds.
To leave with new appreciation for your own capacity and clarity beyond everyday busy-ness and doing.
“Listen to silence. It has so much to say.”
-Jalaluddin Rumi
Sparkly earrings at the beach: two of my favorite things
Hi, I’m Christa.
For years I’ve had the line on my copywriting website: I meditate daily and I also swear too much. I probably need a new line, but those facts remain true.
The point being: I’m a deep thinker and a big feeler, and I also try not to take myself too seriously.
At fifty-fabulous, I’m starting to make sense of the fact that I was put here to make sense of thoughts and feelings, not just for myself but for others. I do that mostly through writing and meditation, practices that ground and give shape to my life.
I recently completed meditation teacher training and am eager to share some of the most useful bits I’ve learned.
More than that, I’m excited to stretch myself and connect with you in a real and meaningful way that nourishes us both.
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