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Shiné: mind/body/spirit Yoga & somatic practices for centering, with Katy Hawkins at Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting Live classes: katyhawkins.com
Recorded classes: movingpoetics.com

Gather in the potent dark of the year for an evening of somatic movement, communal song, and nature-based ritual as we h...
10/17/2026

Gather in the potent dark of the year for an evening of somatic movement, communal song, and nature-based ritual as we honor Samhain—the ancient Celtic turning of the wheel where the veil between worlds grows thin.

Sara Jolena’s teaching and writing orbits around eco-spirituality, with an emphasis on decolonization. We’ve long been eyeballing one another’s work, and she recently reached out to say she’d be in town over this powerful, auspicious Halloween weekend! Please come join a gathering with these two animist Quakers.

We will circle up to connect deeply with the living earth, the shifting seasons, and the unseen forces that support us. Together, we will drop out of our busy minds and into our bodies, using breath, song, and fluid movement to metabolize the year’s harvest and make peace with the coming dark.

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Sound & Sense: A Mini-RetreatNovember 8th, 3:30-6:30pmAn exploration of early Quaker body-based practices with Katy Hawk...
10/17/2026

Sound & Sense: A Mini-Retreat
November 8th, 3:30-6:30pm

An exploration of early Quaker body-based practices with Katy Hawkins – includes a sunset viewing of James Turrell’s Skyspace* at Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting, with live crystal singing bowl sound bath by Anne Johnson.

This experiential workshop offers a taste of early forms of Quaker embodied practice that have long been suppressed within its tradition, but are beginning to re-emerge in contemporary contexts. Together, we will explore how our unique bodies want to open to greater liberty of Spirit in connecting to the Divine.

Through individual, paired, and group practices, offerings at The Center experiment with embodied ways of preparing for worship, listening for guidance, offering spiritual nurture, and faithfully sharing messages. This mini-retreat will explore the body-based practices of early Friends, in movement, Quaker chanting, and delivering messages through sound.
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*”Greet the Light” is a mesmerizing 50-minute installation designed by Quaker light artist James Turrell, which challenges our perception of light, color, and space with cove lighting timed to correlate to the changing colors of the sky, perceived through an aperture in the ceiling.

Registration info at https://www.centerforcentering.org

Classes are on tomorrow!9:30 flow11 gentle
10/11/2026

Classes are on tomorrow!
9:30 flow
11 gentle

Photos by Adam Ginsberg - stay tuned for the forthcoming video about what we’re up to, in this magical space.C u guys to...
10/08/2026

Photos by Adam Ginsberg - stay tuned for the forthcoming video about what we’re up to, in this magical space.
C u guys tomorrow - doors open to this gorgeous weather!
9:30 flow, 11 gentle ☀️

See you on Labor Day!Also: RESTORATIVE & HANDS-ON HEALINGA few spots remain for our Wednesday evening series, from 9/30-...
09/06/2026

See you on Labor Day!
Also: RESTORATIVE & HANDS-ON HEALING
A few spots remain for our Wednesday evening series, from 9/30-10/28, 5:30-7pm.

Circle up to enjoy 90 minutes of soothing restorative postures, with lots of touch. Relaxing poses - supine, seated, and belly-down - are held for 3-10 minutes, supported by props like squishy bolsters, blankets and yoga blocks. You'll receive hands-on TLC from Katy - a combo of reiki, massage, and yoga assists. Weather dependent, the doors will be open. Birds! Crickets! Zephyrs!
Git em while they last - spots limited to give you aaaaall the touch.

Registration info:
https://www.katyhawkins.com/upcoming-workshops.html

In this weeks newsletter:Wednesday evening restorative & massage series-9/27 Seeds & Flowerings of Embodied Quakerism wo...
09/04/2026

In this weeks newsletter:

Wednesday evening restorative & massage series
-9/27 Seeds & Flowerings of Embodied Quakerism workshop
-$45/unlimited month for newbies & the prodigally absent
-poems, thoughts & somatic practices
-Labor Day classes

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“Stop Thinking & End Your Problems” - Elisa Gabbert
I met a woman with a tumor in her language center. She would think about what she wanted to say, then hear her thought in the voice of the person she was talking to, so it felt like they were reading her mind.

I think there is a name for this, but can’t remember what it is.

I think “clarity” is kind of a poorly defined idea.

I think it would still work with more distance.

I think I pray a lot now; prayer just isn’t what I thought it was.

Whether or not I believe in God (I don’t), “God” is so useful, as language. I can’t think without the word God.

I think we expect too much of people, who are mostly suffering and confused.

I think we make the mistake of thinking that “history” is truer than experience is true.

I think “grateful to be alive” is a feeling you can maintain for one or two days, tops.

I think every well-meaning critique-of-war film will eventually turn into “explosions look beautiful.”

I think if you read a poem, then forget you’ve read it, and then much later you read it again, it really does get better.

I think maybe sadness and happiness are alike, but unhappiness is different.

I think pleasure is a basic human need, but eating isn’t resistance, we just need to eat.

If you order hot tea in a restaurant, I automatically think you’re not very fun.

Crying must release endorphins or something. I wish I could cry for longer.

I think panic is a decent strategy.

I think of it as a very dramatic form of giving up.

I think it’s hard not to experience your life as a thing that happens to you.

I think it’s fooling yourself into thinking you’re thinking.

I do all this mental preparing to the point I think it already happened.

I think it’s largely unconscious, feels like a collective decision, not a chain of events.

I think it’s philosophical and physical and have not gotten a good answer.

Everything reminds me of it, but I don’t know what “it” is.

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From the poem we explored in class on Monday, “How to Be Alone”It all begins with knowingnothing lasts forever,so you mi...
08/27/2026

From the poem we explored in class on Monday, “How to Be Alone”

It all begins with knowing
nothing lasts forever,
so you might as well start packing now.
In the meantime,
practice being alive.

There will be a party
where you’ll feel like
nobody’s paying you attention.
And there will be a party
where attention’s all you’ll get.
What you need to do
is to remember
to talk to yourself
between these parties.

And,
again,
there will be a day,
— a decade —
where you won’t
fit in with your body
even though you’re in
the only body you’re in.

You need to control
your habit of forgetting
to breathe.

Remember when you were younger
and you practiced kissing on your arm?
You were on to something then.
Sometimes harm knows its own healing
Comfort knows its own intelligence.
Kindness too.
It needs no reason.

There is a you
telling you another story of you.
Listen to her.

Where do you feel
anxiety in your body?
The chest? The fist? The dream before waking?
The head that feels like it’s at the top of the swing
or the clutch of gut like falling
& falling & falling and falling
It knows something: you’re dying.
Try to stay alive.

For now, touch yourself.
I’m serious.

Touch your
self.
Take your hand
and place your hand
some place
upon your body.
And listen
to the community of madness
that
you are.
You are
such an
interesting conversation.

You belong
here.
-Padraig o Tuama

Last week was the eclipse bardo and we practiced umbilical tunneling in classes, exploring this poem:“Prayer should be a...
08/23/2026

Last week was the eclipse bardo and we practiced umbilical tunneling in classes, exploring this poem:

“Prayer should be a tunnel” - Jessica Jacobs
my Hebrew teacher says, and I’m a pigtailed kid again,
descending from a blazing Florida day to the murky depths
of SeaWorld’s Tunnel of Terror: a massive glass

passage through a seawater tank. Sharks glided by,
fins foxed and furrowed as the edges of old treasure maps.
Far above, the inaccessible surface

rippled with a chainmail of light. Prayer should be
a tunnel, she says again, making an O
of her hands and pushing it out before her—my teacher,

also a dancer, uses her body to create structures
in the air. It should take you there, she says. English
is not her first language, but by there, I know

she means God. By tunnel, I think
she means conduit, a direct channel in. A sign
in line had shown a whale teetering atop

one of the tunnel’s glass blocks to demonstrate
its fortitude, to tell me not to be afraid. But I was,
each shark with its hacksaw teeth was clearly meant

for me, and it was only a matter of time before one
gnawed its way through, bringing all the water
rushing in. And what would happen first—

drowning or being devoured? For those, like me, rooted
in terror, a moving sidewalk kept us in motion, easing us
through the eerie underpass, acting

just like time, which moves us without the need for us
to move, which moves us whether or not we want it to.
Prayer should be a tunnel, she says, but what words,

what melody, would let me make with my body
such grand architecture in the air, let me stand
in one place and travel both out and in, let me sink

and not drown, let me wander unafraid
into the open mouth and emerge
unscathed yet changed?

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