Wheel Throwing Pottery Class
An introduction to wheel throwing
March 26
5-6:30pm
or
7-8:30pm
taught by Monika Denise
hosted by Bellingham Creative Clay
Join us for this 90 miute class and lear to center, raise, and manipulate clay to create your very own pottery.
Your masterpiece will be available to pick up around 2 weeks after class, glazing of your choice and firing services plus tools and supplies (for one piece) included in the class fee.
TO SIGN UP:
$75
Location:
Bellingham Creative Clay
2499 Mount Baker Highway (at Mission Road)
Bellingham Creative Clay
BCC is a chummy space for beginners to “get their hands dirty” in a fresh clay experience. A cozy ceramic studio located just outside of town, on Mt Baker Hwy, the barn setting — surrounded by open fields and old gardens — is the perfect inspiration for a calm and natural venue. Our ‘wabi-sabi’ philosophy of clay is playful and forgiving: mistakes will happen; you can find inspiration in them and use them to make your work stronger. Let us introduce you to the meditative, soothing, and creative processes of hand-building , wheel throwing, or slip mold casting.
https://bellinghamcreativeclay.com/
@bcreativeclay
Shapes of Grief
An introduction to embodied grief
Thursday April 17 & June 26 (come to one or both!)
6-9pm, doors close at 6:05 pm
guided by Monika Denise & Kelsey Maloney
Grief can take so many shapes.
In Shapes of Grief, we’ll explore embodiment & song practices as stepping stones to express & metabolize what the body holds. Leaning into grief can feel clunky, foreign, or sometimes, terrifying. Let’s practice taking it slow as we make visible what’s moving on the inside.
Our time will include guided meditation, song, movement, & sharing from the heart. We’ll practice finding ground & exploring the shapes, sizes, & speeds of our grief. Through it all, the essential ingredient is us: being together, breathing into the places it hurts to go alone.
You are welcome here–Whether grieving in community is new or familiar, whether your grief is raw or tucked somewhere below the surface with smoother edges. Join us at Shapes of Grief: An introduction to embodied grief on April 17 and June 26 from 6-9pm. Come to one or both.
TO SIGN UP:
$35-$85/sliding scale
No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please reach out to us here if you’d like to attend, but cannot afford the full fee.
Kelsey Maloney
At the root of it all, Kelsey values deep and meaningful connection. She teaches in a style of receptive response to what is emerging in the moment. Through simple offerings, she invites students to deepen their self-learning, expand their capacity for connection, and practice re-humanizing our relationships. Kelsey Maloney is a certified Open Floor International movement teacher. She has completed two years of immersive study with Lisa Iversen in Systemic Family Constellations, studied Authentic Movement, improv theater, ecology and sociology. Kelsey has over 15 years of experience integrating writing, art, and play into personal and professional life. She has volunteered with a bicycle-touring theater (Otesha Project, Australia), worked at environmental education centers and camps in the US and Australia, and self-published a book, Cloak Woman Vs Man, in 2017. She has cycled over 15,000 miles across four continents.
Werito
a co-created outdoor grief ritual space*
guided by Monika Denise & Kelsey Maloney
Werito**–earth. Noibo Werito–sacred earth.
Leaning into grief ritual together: You know this ground where we grieve. Where your rage, tears, numbness, sorrow, confusion and love are welcome.
Barefoot to the community altar, we practice again and again to honor our grief. To press our burdens into the soil, letting it both compost and fertilize. We’ll share from the heart, tend an altar, and invite ritual to meet us as we are.
We invite you to drop into Werito–a co-created outdoor grief ritual space on private land in Whatcom County. Each gathering will be a little different as we practice listening to what wants to emerge, following our impulses for movement, and allowing ourselves to be held by something bigger than any one of us. We may lean into a whole group ritual and/or more personalized micro-rituals. Come raw and/or come ready to be present to the pulse of community grief.
We will meet outside unless there is inclement weather. In which case, we’ll meet at an indoor location. Location to be shared upon registration. Group size is limited.
**protoceltic for “earth”
*These gatherings are intended for people who’ve previously attended an embodied grief ritual or workshop with Kelsey and Monika Denise. Please reach out if you are interested and have experience in other grief ritual containers.
Dates:
Wednesday April 30
Tuesday June 3
Wednesday July 16
Wednesday August 13
5:30-8:30pm
To Sign up:
$44/gathering
$144 if signing up for all 4
No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Please reach out to us here if you’d like to attend, but cannot afford the full fee.
Kelsey Maloney
At the root of it all, Kelsey values deep and meaningful connection. She teaches in a style of receptive response to what is emerging in the moment. Through simple offerings, she invites students to deepen their self-learning, expand their capacity for connection, and practice re-humanizing our relationships. Kelsey Maloney is a certified Open Floor International movement teacher. She has completed two years of immersive study with Lisa Iversen in Systemic Family Constellations, studied Authentic Movement, improv theater, ecology and sociology. Kelsey has over 15 years of experience integrating writing, art, and play into personal and professional life. She has volunteered with a bicycle-touring theater (Otesha Project, Australia), worked at environmental education centers and camps in the US and Australia, and self-published a book, Cloak Woman Vs Man, in 2017. She has cycled over 15,000 miles across four continents.
Comic & Soul
An Open Floor workshop weaving dance, art, story & song.
guided by Kelsey Maloney & Monika Denise
May 16-18, 2025
Inside out. Upside down.
Tension is high. People aren’t sure what to do.
Even the sun herself has taken to hiding in her cave…
Enter: Comic & Soul
It feels good to inhabit your aliveness--to dig deep, explore the cracks, & not jump out of the mess too soon!
An antidote to the heaviness of these times, art & movement provide pathways to humor, play & grit. You don’t have to know where it leads. As we remember how to have fun & revel in the magic that is possible, grief and joy have space to dance together. We may even find a third way through.
Bring yourself with all your facets & sides.
Heck, bring 10 friends, too!
TO SIGN UP:
$325 if paid IN FULL by Mar. 28
$375 if paid IN FULL by Apr. 18
$425 after Apr. 18
(Meals and housing are not included in workshop ticket price.)
LOCATION:
Presence Studio, 1412 Cornwall Ave. Bellingham, WA 98225.
Kelsey Maloney
At the root of it all, Kelsey values deep and meaningful connection. She teaches in a style of receptive response to what is emerging in the moment. Through simple offerings, she invites students to deepen their self-learning, expand their capacity for connection, and practice re-humanizing our relationships. Kelsey Maloney is a certified Open Floor International movement teacher. She has completed two years of immersive study with Lisa Iversen in Systemic Family Constellations, studied Authentic Movement, improv theater, ecology and sociology. Kelsey has over 15 years of experience integrating writing, art, and play into personal and professional life. She has volunteered with a bicycle-touring theater (Otesha Project, Australia), worked at environmental education centers and camps in the US and Australia, and self-published a book, Cloak Woman Vs Man, in 2017. She has cycled over 15,000 miles across four continents.
The Way Knows: Sing the unfolding journey
Soulful Canoe Retreat on the Green River with Lyndsey Scott
The Way Knows: Sing the unfolding journey
with Lyndsey Scott
What does the river teach us about how to Be?
What do rocks teach us about Time?
What does the wind teach us about how to Sing?
What do we teach each other about the face of the Divine?
What wants to be released in you to flow on downstream?
What wants to be nourished in you to allow for Soul to lead?
Loose the hold of goals, screens, and modern cacophony to sense the soul tugs underneath and in between. Relax into the currents of emergence to notice and bless how life wants to move as You! Let kinship help molt any scripts that keep you separate. Refresh your mother tongue: fluency in the sensual world.
Become part of the One Song that is always singing.
What note is mine to hold in this great chorus of interbeing?
Guided by these inquiries, in song and silence, in story-sharing and sacred witness, in the wise company of the more-than-human world, and with the fun of brand new friends…..we’ll travel the river together as a ritual of Remembrance.
May 23-30, 2025
7 days, 45 miles of canoeing
20 participants max.
Facilitator: Lyndsey Scott
Guides: Monika Denise, Lauren Bond, and The RIver's Path
Pricing: $2895
The River's Path
OUR VISION:
We support those longing to re-connect to the land to find a profound sense of belonging to the river and all of her inhabitants. By reconnecting with the river, those we guide find their center, their purpose, and their desire to have a positive impact in their community, both human and more-than-human.
OUR MISSION:
We offer canoeing journeys for deep
connection and personal transformation.
Rehumanizing Grief: Beneath the Lens of Mental Health
part of the Grief Conversations series for Wild Heart
Dismantle the mental health stereotypes in grief and embrace your broken heart as sacred and human – not a problem to be fixed.
Dominant culture says that grief is a problem. Society tells us that Mental Illness is an issue and that if your heart is broken for too long you have a disorder. If someone died or a relationship is broken from factors related to mental illness, we are told to sweep it into the closet, because “that is not normal or ok”.
Sometimes, the mental health world’s attempt to understand and label the human experience winds up making us feel so much less human. Additionally, spiritual communities often bypass the depth of our pain with platitudes about transcending death. As a result, there are few settings that welcome expressions of grief as a sacred human and healthy reality. No wonder many of us feel stuck, ashamed, or forgotten in our sorrow. Or, we might feel terrified to open the door to our broken hearts, fearing complete collapse.
As a board-certified art therapist, an embodied grief tender, intuitive somatic practitioner and devotee of the sacred, Monika Denise sets a periscope beneath the lens of mental health and spirituality to a space where every part of us, including our grief, are welcomed home as [w]holy human. She explores how embodiment, earth reverence and community ritual offer soulful practices of remembering our humanness, widening our capacity to be with, honor and metabolize grief. The secret of it is, your grief is not a problem, and we aren’t meant to do this all alone.
Join Monika Denise and Willow Brook on January 12 from 5-6:15pm Pacific by registering here.
Wild Heart
In this Wild Heart Space, we are reclaiming the vast landscape of everyday life as sacred. Founded by best-selling author and international teacher Mirabai Starr and interspiritual practitioner, facilitator and artist Willow Brook, Wild Heart offers a tender refuge and a guiding hand as you courageously engage in dismantling false belief structures and embrace a more conscious life, expanding your capacity to be transformed by the inevitable losses life brings.
Through teachings from the mystics of all traditions, with an emphasis on the sacred feminine, we weave a basket of poetry and song, writing and silence, to hold us as ordinary beings on an extraordinary journey of awakening our own wild hearts and stepping into service to all creation.
Winter Wellspring
A 6-week Open Floor Movement Lab and Residential Workshop
We remember. Before masks. Before gathering spaces were closed down. Before screens and zoom rooms.
We remember that once, we gathered at wells where nourishment and connectivity flowed along with the stream of water. When our ancestors were connected to the old ways. When our skin fit true and that was enough for belonging.
In these times of heightened disconnection, mystery, and grief, we show up together in the heart of winter to shed the restrictive stories keeping us out of alignment. We return home to our true skin—celebrating our naked selves as an essential thread in the tapestry of life.
Join us for a 4-day Open Floor workshop of movement, art, song, and story. On the magical grounds of Aldermarsh, we’ll lean in, resource and receive the nourishment times of darkness can bring.
Guided by Kelsey Maloney and Monika Denise.
Kelsey Maloney
At the root of it all, Kelsey values deep and meaningful connection. She teaches in a style of receptive response to what is emerging in the moment. Through simple offerings, she invites students to deepen their self-learning, expand their capacity for connection, and practice re-humanizing our relationships. Kelsey Maloney is a certified Open Floor International movement teacher. She has completed two years of immersive study with Lisa Iversen in Systemic Family Constellations, studied Authentic Movement, improv theater, ecology and sociology. Kelsey has over 15 years of experience integrating writing, art, and play into personal and professional life. She has volunteered with a bicycle-touring theater (Otesha Project, Australia), worked at environmental education centers and camps in the US and Australia, and self-published a book, Cloak Woman Vs Man, in 2017. She has cycled over 15,000 miles across four continents.
Soul Medicine Through the Seasons
Yule: What is surrendering in me?
Join Monika Denise for a virtual ceremony and visual journal workshop
December 21
ZOOM: 9-11am PST // 12-2pm EST
IN-PERSON: 1-3:30 PM at the Chuckanut Center (Bellingham, WA)
OR
THE WORKSHOP:
Monika Denise will offer a short ceremony: we will light candles, sing a song or two, and engage in a nature-based meditation.
Monika Denise will share a prompt for a visual journal practice to listen to What is surrendering in me?
There will be an optional sharing.
TO SIGN UP:
$15-$40 suggested donation
Email Monika Denise connect@monikadenise.com with questions
The Workshop Series
I am offering you a soulful creative process that I have engaged with the last 10 years to support my own journey.
In this virtual workshop series, Soul Medicine through the Seasons, I will share how to develop your own visual journal practice, which is a sort of mashup between a mindful and expressive art process with creative journaling.
We will enter into our time together as a space of ceremony. I will guide us in song/chant as we gather. We will have a brief introduction to the season, followed by a guided meditation that will invite you to connect with the more-than-human ones as a part of your process. Following the time for you to work in your visual journal, there will be a time of optional sharing.
Give your soul some medicine around the Wheel of the Year to honor the season in ceremony and listen to your inner wisdom!
Medicine For Our Times Embodied Grief Circle
setting a place for our grief and gratitude for the world
November 22, 6-9pm
guided by Monika Denise & Kelsey Maloney
setting a place for our grief and gratitude for the world
In this embodied grief circle, we’ll name what is present in our hearts and practice giving expression to our grief and gratitude through movement and song. While we are tending a space for our sorrows of the world to be shared and witnessed, all grief is welcome. Our time will include guided meditation, song, small group sharing, and embodied ritual practice. This grief circle is a standalone event as well as part of Grieving Ground, a 5-part grief intensive centered around practicing embodied ritual, witnessing, somatic listening and art making–resources to navigate the grieving terrain. Participants in Grieving Ground will be in attendance at this circle.
Guided by Kelsey Maloney and Monika Denise
Presence Studio / 1412 Cornwall Ave.
$50-$90/circle, sliding scale
Kelsey Maloney
At the root of it all, Kelsey values deep and meaningful connection. She teaches in a style of receptive response to what is emerging in the moment. Through simple offerings, she invites students to deepen their self-learning, expand their capacity for connection, and practice re-humanizing our relationships. Kelsey Maloney is a certified Open Floor International movement teacher. She has completed two years of immersive study with Lisa Iversen in Systemic Family Constellations, studied Authentic Movement, improv theater, ecology and sociology. Kelsey has over 15 years of experience integrating writing, art, and play into personal and professional life. She has volunteered with a bicycle-touring theater (Otesha Project, Australia), worked at environmental education centers and camps in the US and Australia, and self-published a book, Cloak Woman Vs Man, in 2017. She has cycled over 15,000 miles across four continents.
Grieving Ground: Medicine for Our Times
A 5-part grief intensive for anyone longing to shift the story of grieving alone. Together, we bui
sept. 15 & oct. 27: 130-8pm
nov. 22: 6-9pm
dec. 15 & jan. 19: 130-8pm
guided by Kelsey Maloney & Monika Denise
GRIEVING GROUND is as it sounds–a ground to be with your grief.
A ground where you can go slow and breathe into the places it hurts to go alone.
You don’t need to hold it together here.
With the medicine of meeting ourselves and each other as we are, we’ll follow the wisdom of the body’s process. We’ll lean into embodied ritual, witnessing, somatic listening and art making–resources to navigate the terrain.
Between each gathering, we’ll stay connected by sharing resources,
checking in together, and exploring creative projects.
Guided by Kelsey Maloney and Monika Denise.
TO SIGN UP:
$475-$600, sliding scale
3-part payment plan available for $200/payment.
Kelsey Maloney
At the root of it all, Kelsey values deep and meaningful connection. She teaches in a style of receptive response to what is emerging in the moment. Through simple offerings, she invites students to deepen their self-learning, expand their capacity for connection, and practice re-humanizing our relationships. Kelsey Maloney is a certified Open Floor International movement teacher. She has completed two years of immersive study with Lisa Iversen in Systemic Family Constellations, studied Authentic Movement, improv theater, ecology and sociology. Kelsey has over 15 years of experience integrating writing, art, and play into personal and professional life. She has volunteered with a bicycle-touring theater (Otesha Project, Australia), worked at environmental education centers and camps in the US and Australia, and self-published a book, Cloak Woman Vs Man, in 2017. She has cycled over 15,000 miles across four continents.
MORE-THAN-A-HEALER
Soulful Canoe Retreat on the Green River
More-Than-A-Healer
Paddle. Song. Create. Ritual. Connection.
Do you ache to remember who you are, in addition to space holder, nurturer, motherer, tender, healer? Do you remember what it feels like to be in your own skin, the voice of your inner 4 year-old, the wonder that unfolds a path of whimsy without the weight of responsibility? Do you long to breathe into your full size and colorful expression without filtering for the role you’re in? Do you just need time and space to feed the thrum of connection that brings you alive?
Let the canyon return you to Source. Allow the descent through her blood-red walls unravel every honorable burden of being one who nurtures. Shows up. Holds space. Cares. Let the river carry you in generous reciprocity. Let the desert free your wild child who has inspired every shiver of delight in you.
You will encounter the uncomfortable. Flirt with the feral. Step outside the box you could map in your sleep. Surrender to the unexpected. Discover the empowerment of thriving in the desert and experience the relief and homecoming found in resting into the web of interbeing. Come sing yourself home.
Return to more of who you are, where you remember you are only a healer because you are more-than-a-healer.
September 28-October 5, 2024
7 days, 45 miles of canoeing
For femmes and thems who identify as a woman and resonate with being a healer
delicious food, 16 participants max.
Facilitator: Monika Denise
Guides: Lauren Bond, and The RIver's Path
EARLY BIRD Pricing: $2495 by August 1
Pricing: $2695
payment plans upon request
The River's Path
OUR VISION:
We support those longing to re-connect to the land to find a profound sense of belonging to the river and all of her inhabitants. By reconnecting with the river, those we guide find their center, their purpose, and their desire to have a positive impact in their community, both human and more-than-human.
OUR MISSION:
We offer canoeing journeys for deep
connection and personal transformation.
Wild Kin
a council of all beings ritual
august 2, 6-9pm
august 3, 10am-4pm
guided by Kelsey Maloney & Monika Denise
“We imagine that other beings, other life forms apart from humans, seek to be heard at our council.”
-Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy & Molly Brown
slowing down to listen,
opening our ears to hear,
giving voice to someone beyond ourselves,
we set down our human identities
to nurture “a sense of solidarity with all life.”
join kelsey maloney and monika denise
for 1.5 days of mask making,
forest exploring, singing,
and sitting in council.
DATES, TIMES & LOCATIONS:
August 2, 6-9pm at The Chuckanut Center (1013 Chuckanut Dr. N)—We will meet inside the red house.
August 3, 10am-4pm at The 100 Acre Woods—Location details will be provided when registered.
PAYMENT DETAILS:
$155-$230, sliding scale.
Payment is due at registration.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
If you need to cancel before July 1, you will receive a refund minus a $55 administrative fee. After July 1, there are no refunds. If you are unable to attend, you are welcome to transfer your “ticket” to another person. Please inform Kelsey if you are unable to attend and plan to have someone come in your place.
Kelsey Maloney
At the root of it all, Kelsey values deep and meaningful connection. She teaches in a style of receptive response to what is emerging in the moment. Through simple offerings, she invites students to deepen their self-learning, expand their capacity for connection, and practice re-humanizing our relationships. Kelsey Maloney is a certified Open Floor International movement teacher. She has completed two years of immersive study with Lisa Iversen in Systemic Family Constellations, studied Authentic Movement, improv theater, ecology and sociology. Kelsey has over 15 years of experience integrating writing, art, and play into personal and professional life. She has volunteered with a bicycle-touring theater (Otesha Project, Australia), worked at environmental education centers and camps in the US and Australia, and self-published a book, Cloak Woman Vs Man, in 2017. She has cycled over 15,000 miles across four continents.
Embodied Grief Circle
Medicine For Our Times
July 12, 6-9pm
guided by Kelsey Maloney & Monika Denise
In this embodied grief circle, we’ll name what is present in our hearts and practice giving expression to our grief and praise through movement and song. All types of grief are welcome. Our time will include guided meditation, song, small group sharing, and embodied ritual practice.
Join us in remembering how to grieve together.
Guided by Kelsey Maloney and Monika Denise
Presence Studio / 1412 Cornwall Ave.
$50-$90/circle, sliding scale
Kelsey Maloney
At the root of it all, Kelsey values deep and meaningful connection. She teaches in a style of receptive response to what is emerging in the moment. Through simple offerings, she invites students to deepen their self-learning, expand their capacity for connection, and practice re-humanizing our relationships. Kelsey Maloney is a certified Open Floor International movement teacher. She has completed two years of immersive study with Lisa Iversen in Systemic Family Constellations, studied Authentic Movement, improv theater, ecology and sociology. Kelsey has over 15 years of experience integrating writing, art, and play into personal and professional life. She has volunteered with a bicycle-touring theater (Otesha Project, Australia), worked at environmental education centers and camps in the US and Australia, and self-published a book, Cloak Woman Vs Man, in 2017. She has cycled over 15,000 miles across four continents.
Deepening Into the World of Sorrow
a three-part grief intensive
March 14, 2024, Thursday 6—9pm
April 7, 2024, Sunday 10:30am—5pm
May 9, Thursday 6—9pm
guided by Kelsey Maloney & Monika Denise
Sometimes we don’t know quite what we are grieving. Sometimes we catch a glimpse and then it wisps away as we move closer to it. Sometimes we know exactly what we are grieving and that which we can name is also a taproot to a broader sorrow, too wide to articulate, but felt in the collective. In places we’ve felt helpless or alone, in places that are difficult to fully access on our own, in places asking for witnessing and holding, we remember the wisdom of grieving together. How can we practice deepening into our sorrow, building trust with ourselves and each other as we go, so we can more fully inhabit our experience of being human?
Join Kelsey Maloney and Monika Denise for a three-part intensive exploring both personal and global grief. Our time will include guided meditation, song, small and full group sharing, embodied ritual practice, between session art invitations and readings/listenings, and a nature-based Council of All Beings (as developed by Joanna Macy). Group size is limited.
TO SIGN UP:
$180-$360 sliding scale
Kelsey Maloney
At the root of it all, Kelsey values deep and meaningful connection. She teaches in a style of receptive response to what is emerging in the moment. Through simple offerings, she invites students to deepen their self-learning, expand their capacity for connection, and practice re-humanizing our relationships. Kelsey Maloney is a certified Open Floor International movement teacher. She has completed two years of immersive study with Lisa Iversen in Systemic Family Constellations, studied Authentic Movement, improv theater, ecology and sociology. Kelsey has over 15 years of experience integrating writing, art, and play into personal and professional life. She has volunteered with a bicycle-touring theater (Otesha Project, Australia), worked at environmental education centers and camps in the US and Australia, and self-published a book, Cloak Woman Vs Man, in 2017. She has cycled over 15,000 miles across four continents.
LEAP
An art and dance extravaganza
A once in a four year opportunity-let's go for it--with big breath, curiosity, laughter, and a splash of color! Let's take a risk in exploring where our story may have constricted, and widen our way into a third possibility. Join Monika Denise and Kelsey Maloney in an embodied creative process that includes movement and splatter paint as we leap towards spring!
For more info & to register: www.fireandmoss.com/LEAP
Kelsey Maloney
At the root of it all, Kelsey values deep and meaningful connection. She teaches in a style of receptive response to what is emerging in the moment. Through simple offerings, she invites students to deepen their self-learning, expand their capacity for connection, and practice re-humanizing our relationships. Kelsey Maloney is a certified Open Floor International movement teacher. She has completed two years of immersive study with Lisa Iversen in Systemic Family Constellations, studied Authentic Movement, improv theater, ecology and sociology. Kelsey has over 15 years of experience integrating writing, art, and play into personal and professional life. She has volunteered with a bicycle-touring theater (Otesha Project, Australia), worked at environmental education centers and camps in the US and Australia, and self-published a book, Cloak Woman Vs Man, in 2017. She has cycled over 15,000 miles across four continents.
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Winter Wellspring 2024
We remember. Before masks. Before gathering spaces were closed down. Before screens and zoom rooms. We remember that once, we gathered at wells where nourishment and connectivity flowed along with the stream of water. When our ancestors were connected to the old ways. In these times of heightened disconnection, uncertainty, and grief, we show up together in the heart of winter to lean in, resource, and receive the nourishment times of darkness can bring. Through the simple (though not always easy) practice of meeting ourselves and each other just as we are, we give ourselves space to expand and contract as necessary, metabolize grief and emotion, and listen to the wellspring of wisdom emerging.
Join us for a 6-week Open Floor Movement Lab and/or a residential weekend workshop at Aldermarsh.
Lab, Thursdays January 18-February 22, 2024 6:15-8:45pm: Facilitated by Kelsey Maloney and supported by Monika Denise
Workshop, January 11-14, 2024: Facilitated by Kelsey Maloney and Monika Denise
Embodied Grief Ritual
In this embodied grief circle, we will name what is present in our hearts and practice giving expression to our grief and gratitude through movement and song. While we are tending a space for our sorrows of the world to be shared and witnessed, all shades of grief are welcome.
Join us in stepping into the circle.
FRIDAY November 24, 2023
5-8:30pm, doors close at 5:05 pm
guided by Monika Denise and Kelsey Maloney
Set the Dam Waters Free: A night of story & song
Once upon a time, people gathered to sing songs and tell stories. Once upon a time, in some places, people still do this. On December 10, we will gather together for an evening of song, story, and ancestral honoring. Monika and Taber weave something magical and resourceful with their voices and instruments. Kelsey will be telling a story that she wrote some of, though most of it wrote her, while she was studying in England last spring.
Set the Dam Waters Free is an evening of remembering, letting ourselves be right sized, and setting a ghost free.
December 10, 2023, 4:15-6:15pm
Story by Kelsey Maloney; Song by Monika Denise & Taber Darland
Closer: A 10-week Open Floor Movement Lab
Facilitated by Kelsey Maloney, supported by Monika Denise
What are you longing to move closer to?
What is courting you–asking for your attention and presence?
Thursdays October 5—December 14, 2023: 6:30-9pm
& Saturday November 11, 2023: 12:30-8pm*
Thursday Night Embodiment Collective:
June 22nd 6:30-8:30: Inner Alchemy Series: Water
Summer Starr, Monika Denise
June 8th 6:30-8:30: Grief and Joy: embodied and expressed
Monika Denise, Christina Greené, Taber Darland
May 11th 6:30-8:30: Inner Alchemy Series: Earth
Summer Starr, Monika Denise
April 20th 6:30-8:30: Inner Alchemy Series: Fire
Summer Starr, Monika Denise
March 16 6:30-8:30: Exploring Breath Through Song and Movement
Monika Denise, Taber Darland, Ren Skolnick
Winter Wellspring: A 5-week Open Floor Movement Lab and Residential Workshop
THE MOVEMENT LAB:
Held in an open circle ritual, we will build our capacity to hold ourselves and each other, layer by layer.
Thursdays January 12-February 9, 20236:30-9pm Presence Studio, Bellingham, WA
Facilitated by Kelsey Maloney, supported by Monika Denise and Summer Starr
THE RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP: Held by movement, art, and song, we invite you into a deep exploration of the wellspring in you, and the connectivity that flows between us.
February 10-12, 2023
Facilitated by Kelsey Maloney and Monika Denise, supported by Olympia Open Floor Teacher Duncan Green
WYRD: an embodied exploration ofc onsciousness, wisdom, and seeing deeply for the new year
SATURDAY, January 21st, 12-6pm 2023
Presence Studio: 1412 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham, WA 98225
$75
Guided by Summer Starr with support from Kelsey Maloney, Monika Denise and Rebecca deGraw
Wild Card: An open floor movement lab
Thursdays Nov. 3 - Dec. 15, 6:30-9pm 2022
Saturday Dec. 3, 2-9pm
At Presence Studio
With Kelsey Maloney, Monika Denise, and Summer Starr
