✊ What Do We Stand For?
Your guide to rooting deeper, growing truer, and blossoming wider in our PNW community.
A new season of summer is nearly here. And we’d love to be writing today to simply encourage you to enjoy the sunshine and life this time of year brings, but this is a moment in our country’s modern history that needs to be tended to.
These are times that feel like potential futures are balancing on a pinpoint, potentially going one way or another depending on how we show up.
What is happening in LA right now is a prelude to what will spread throughout the country. Empire is built on violent force. And what we value and stand for will be tested.
One of the local grassroots organizations we see as deeply showing up for what is needed to confront the reality of this political moment is Super Familia. From @m.art.ten—
“ICE IS KIDNAPPING OUR NEIGHBORS AT THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE REGULARLY. ICE has made daily kidnappings the norm at the immigration court in Seattle. So far a small group of people are there to document and observe. But MORE PEOPLE ARE NEEDED. The building opens at 8:00AM and the immigration courts on floors 6, 7, and 8. ICE runs back and forth between these floors looking for people to kidnap. People who’s cases were dismissed and people they believe to be there alone are at huge risk. Even just observing silently stops the kidnappings sometimes for now, but not always. This is an ongoing need and situation so there is no one-time rally, the ask is to go the federal building between 8-5 and coordinate with people also as the building that day. A singular rally is not what is needed, sustained resistance is. Talk to your friends and make a place and follow @superfamilia_kc for more updates.”
Welcome to this edition of Seeding Community.
Tending To Community
Support Black Star Farmers’ Hearth Center—Dakota Place
Join Black Star Farmers at Dakota Place, our new hearth center, for one of our three collective visioning sessions next week: Wednesday June 11 from 6-8PM; Saturday June 14 from 4-6PM; and Sunday June 15 from 11AM-1PM. At our sessions, we will reflect on how our site can serve the needs of community. Through collective site analysis and spatial programming, we will inform the design of the land and the soon-to-be remodeled house. RSVP here.
They also have been hosting weekly work days at Dakota Place on Sundays. If folks are interested in coming out to support, we are especially looking for people who have experience with carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and/or design, or general experience working with tools to help develop the site! Support their work here.
Workshops, Retreats, & Rituals For Healing
Climate Circle at Heron’s Nest: Grief, Grounding, and Remembering Together
Every third Sunday in the summer, from 11am–3pm, we gather at Heron’s Nest — a once-wounded 3.5-acre stretch of land now on the path to being rematriated to the Duwamish people — for a Climate Circle: a space to slow down, feel deeply, and be held in community and nurture communal mental health & wellbeing. The circle starts at 11:00 am, and lasts about an hour and a half. If you like, you can stay and we'll make art together until around 3:00 pm.
Climate Circles are spaces to name where one’s mental health is and what aches — grief, rage, fear, numbness, even fleeting hope — and to let those feelings breathe in the company of others. Rooted in deep listening and collective care, this practice reminds us we are not alone, and that feeling fully is part of learning to relate differently. Learn more and register here.
MANifest: A Transformative Gathering of Dudes in Nature
On July 10th-13th, join MANifest and come explore your physical, emotional and spiritual edges among cedar and stone. Through heartfelt connections, invigorating challenges and hearty celebration, we’ll co-create an empowering container for personal growth and collective liberation, weaving our unique gifts into a vibrant and lasting community. (All men are welcome!)
Join for brotherhood, stay for the — Workshops | Music | Food | Sauna | Teahouse | Bonfires | Rest. Workshops include:
Dark & Tender: Breaking Barriers to Closeness by Aaron Johnson
Longing & Belonging: An Ecosomatic Inquiry by Elia Serras
Swíķe (Male) Protectors of the Sacred by Paul Chiyotkin
Grounded Fatherhood: A Lifelong Practice by Finn Liengaard
Alchemizing Sexual Shadow into Soul Force by Tyson Adams
The Sacred Hunt: An Ancestral Inheritance by Colin Lounsbrough & Nick Canino
4 Days of deep communion that includes breakfasts, lunches & dinners and camping at the beautiful Village Seed eco-village. 5% of net profits donated to local indigenous and women-led efforts. Learn more and register here.
Threshold to Essential Relating
On June 13th-15th, reveal authentic connection & bring your relationships alive. This weekend is a very deep (initial) dive into how you hold the story about your experiences of shame, dignity and individual authority, which is to say how you discern when is the right time and what is the right thing to say, while interacting with someone who is upset or emotionally dysregulated.
This journey is a way back to your own inherent guide as the native connection to your own true emotional arousal or erotic intelligence – the source of your capacity to experience true freedom and full expression of power, not just for yourself, but as a valuable contributor in any environment that calls you to it. Learn more and register here.
Gathering to Embody What’s Possible
BloomDance: Luminous Together
On June 21st, join BloomDance’s Luminous Together micro-fest—a celebration of light, community, and collective vision. Dance, connect, and share your light for the future.
We're celebrating the radiant energy within each of us. This solstice-inspired gathering is an invitation to dance in the shared light of community, as we honor the sun’s peak and the warmth it brings. Together, we'll create space for individual and collective expression, where every dancer’s energy adds to the brilliance of the evening. Come dance, share your light, and be part of a transformative experience that transcends time. Learn more and register here.
Snow Raven at Washington Hall
On June 27th, step into the primal pulse of the Arctic with Snow Raven's groundbreaking new live looping set, "Arctic Beats." Fusing ancient Sakha vocal techniques with deep bass, hypnotic rhythms, and immersive live looping, Snow Raven crafts an unparalleled sonic journey for the dance floor. Get your tickets here!
Experience the raw power of shamanic Arctic sounds, featuring:
🔥 The khomus (Sakha mouth harp) – a rhythmic, trance-inducing vibration.
🐺 Birds & Animal calls that awaken your wild essence.
❄️ Ethereal shamanic singing that bridges worlds.
🔊 Heavy bass and Arctic-inspired beats to move your body and soul.
This is more than music—it’s a sonic ritual, an invitation to awaken your primal energy and lose yourself in the pulse of the Arctic through the vision of Snow Raven.
Community Happenings
This Week
🌲 Tend & heal our land at Heron’s Nest’s volunteering day (Monday, 6/9)
🎶 Dance it out at this queer ecstatic dance and song circle (Tuesday, 6/10)
✊ Help envision Black Star Farmers’ new Dakota Place Hearth (Wednesday, 6/11)
💃 Learn and practice Contact Improv at Om Culture (Wednesday, 6/11)
🙌 Join this healers retreat for survivors of child sexual trauma (Thursday, 6/12)
💃 Get your ecstatic dance on to this live set by Ancient Fusion (Thursday, 6/12)
This Weekend
💧 Go deep into our collective healing at Grieving White Supremacy (Friday, 6/13)
🎉 Indulge in dancing, kink, & art at Ambrosia: A Space Oddity Affair (Friday, 6/13)
🙌 Learn to live your life’s devotion at this Essential Relating retreat (Friday, 6/13)
💗 Practice listening as love in this weekend relationship workshop (Saturday, 6/14)
🌲 Connect with the sacred art of firetending at this workshop (Saturday, 6/14)
🎶 Sing with Andy Fischer-Price & Rebecca Elatiki at this concert (Saturday, 6/14)
Next Week
🌲 Tend & heal our land at Heron’s Nest’s volunteering day (Monday, 6/16)
💗 Get your touch, snuggle, & cuddle fix at Happy Hunanimals (Wednesday, 6/18)
🎉 Go full festival mode at Cascadia NW Arts & Music Fest (Thursday, 6/19)
🎉 Celebrate light, community, & more at BloomDance (Saturday, 6/21)
💃 Dance/Movement | 🎶 Music/Song | 🎤 Performance | 🎨 Arts/Crafts | 🙌 Spiritual/Healing | 💗 Sexuality/Sensuality | 🍄 Plants/Medicine | 🌲 Nature/Land | 💧 Grief Work | ✊ Social Justice/Community | 🎉 Celebration/Festival | 🌈 Queer/LBGTQIA | 🍲 Food | 😎 Other
Planning Your Seasons Ahead
📅 To keep you up to date on all the upcoming big gatherings, retreats, and festivals.
July 2-6 — Deep Rest Meditation Retreat
July 10-13 — MANifest
July 13-18 — Resilience, Resistance, Regeneration: Standing Strong in a Time of Stress
July 18-20 — Rising Moon Festival
August 10-14 — Re-Storying Justice Jam (in CA)
August 11-15 — The Temple of Belonging Women’s Gathering
August 14-27 — ROPJ’s Adult Mountain Quest
August 17-22 — HOME (Healing Our Movement Ecosystem) Jam (in CA)
August 30-September 1 — Grieving Man
September 5-7 — Imagine Music and Arts Festival
October 2-5 — Conscious Growth Convergence
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Seeding Community — Aloysious and Jordan