Community Classes, Workshops, and Drop-Ins
Explore Meditation to Enhance Your Writing - Workshop
Your journey in writing may be new or a process you’ve been exploring for some time. Writing may come to you with inspiration or with detailed depth and research. Everyone has their unique style of approaching writing. It is an expression of yourself. The subject matter is the medium that you transmute yourself through.
Your purpose for writing is your own. You may find it to be healing and part of your self-care practice. You may come to writing to have the experience of creating something new.
There is a wealth of things that may come up while you are writing. You may come across writer’s block. You may be nervous to share your story. You may think you are not good enough. You may struggle with creating pacing for your writing practice.
In this exploratory workshop, you will explore writing in a group setting and learn meditation tools to enhance your writing experience. There will be time to write and time to be guided through meditations. We’ll also discuss writing, noting what comes up for you as you write, and how that transforms through the workshop.
All levels are welcome! This means anyone new to writing, curious about writing, wanting to expand their journaling, or folks who have been writing for years are more than welcome to join in.
Upcoming Workshop:
Sonny’s House, May 31st from 5:30-7:30pm
2504 NE Sandy BLVD, Portland, OR 97232
Queer Folks & Meditation
In this 45-minute session, you will join others in a group meditation online or in person. This session is only for queer, gender-expansive, and trans folks. This is a time to be in community and open up to what is happening within and in the world.
There will be a topic of focus for each drop-in. This is a safe space to be vulnerable, have an experience, and get in touch with yourself. Feel free to have a notebook and pen nearby to note what you observe or notice within yourself. The best time to take notes is during the small social chat breaks or simply before or after the session. The session will not be recorded. You are asked to be on video and to be in a private and quiet space where you can focus deeply. Public spaces like libraries, parks, or cars are not recommended
Upcoming Sessions:
Virtual Session Vibe: TBD
TBD - PST on Google Meets
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You have a vision for the world on a personal, political, and global level. You believe deeply that that vision is possible - and you aren’t the only one dreaming of it. Some challenges can get in the way of honoring and moving forth with your vision. This can result in a stage of grieving what you considered was happening. The thing is, you can honor your grief, rest, gather your energy, and take steps toward your vision anyway. We did this when the pandemic hit and that wasn’t even the first time of pulling ourselves together. You’ve got this. Join in community with other queer, gender expansive, and trans folk to grieve and revitalize your vision.
Online Meditation and Psychic Reading Drop-Ins
Meditation Drop-Ins
In this 45-minute session, you will join others in a group meditation online. You will be led in a meditation that brings you deeper into yourself. There will be a topic of focus for each drop-in. This is a safe space to be vulnerable, have an experience, and get in touch with yourself. Feel free to have a notebook and pen nearby to note what you observe or notice within yourself. The best time to take notes is during the small social chat breaks or simply before or after the session. The session will not be recorded. You are asked to be on video and to be in a private and quiet space where you can focus deeply. Public spaces like libraries, parks, or cars are not recommended
Psychic Readings Drop-Ins
In this hour-long session, you will have an opportunity to be guided through meditations to set your space and prep you for your psychic reading. You will receive readings from one of our many students at Art of The Seer Academy. They will take time to explore the session topic in depth. Feel free to have a notebook and pen nearby to note what you hear, observe, and notice during the session. The session will not be recorded. You are asked to be on video and to be in a private and quiet space where you can focus deeply. Public spaces like libraries, parks, or cars are not recommended
Upcoming Sessions:
Virtual Session Vibe: TBD
Psychic Readings and Guided Meditations for BIPOC and/or Queer Folks
TBD - PST on Google Meets
Creativity & Meditation
Creativity is organic, free-form, and comes directly from within you. What you create or experience may sometimes surprise you. Your creative projects are of you and deeply rooted in what is happening in your life.
In this enriched workshop, you will explore what comes up for you while you are creating. You will be guided through several mediations to get in touch with your intentions, clear energy that is in the way of your creativity, and listen deeply to your own guiding voice. There will be several breaks between to work on a project that you’ve been creating. This can be anything from writing, art making, design, knitting, etc - however you create. Bring your projects with you or a clean slate to create something new! This workshop is a two-hour workshop that is offered online and in person.
Upcoming Sessions:
In-Person Session - Day and Time: TBD
Virtual Session - Day and Time: TBD
Creativity Drop-in: Walking the Path Less Chosen
There is a part of you that has been on your side from the beginning. This part of you has helped you chart your own course through the inspiration of the things you dream of for your life. This part of you is your spirit, in a way your guiding light.
As a creative, it can be tempting to walk another’s path. Maybe you imagine the grass is greener. You may have even walked in someone else’s shoes. Sometimes it works, perhaps for a bit. Consider what happens when their grass grows weeds, or their shoes can’t support you, or that other path becomes long-winded.
Your path as a creative is likely the path less chosen - because it is your path to take. Your dreams can lead the way because they come from you.
Join me for a drop-in for creatives of all styles. There will be guided meditations and time to create. Make sure to bring something you can create with for the drop-in. There will also be a bit of journaling as well - so bring pen and paper!
To sign up, click "going" at this link to RSVP for your spot: https://members.artoftheseer.academy/posts/82226240?utm_source=manual
You must have an account to attend, but it's free. Just return to the event page to RSVP "going" after you set up your account.
HEALING FOR NEW SELVES & NEW WORLDS
In this workshop, delve into the purpose of your creativity and dismantle structures that inhibit your creativity from flowing naturally. This is the time to embrace your own rhythm and cadence as an "artist".
Being creative is embedded in our nature as humans. As a creative human, you have your own sense of timing, of vision, of method. These creative patterns are also learned from community, family, culture, and country.
Our society defines "the artist" as a particular thing distinct and separate from society. It fails to help us see the ways in which we are each artists in our everyday life creating beauty in the world around us and making in the most mundane moments. As a result, we can be completely oblivious to our natural creative talents, believing the word "artist" applies to the few who do it professionally. If we identify as "an artist", we can lose track of what feels good in being creative, trying to do what others expect we should do.
To center and honor your own rhythm and cadence as an "artist" can bring you a great sense of flow, of grounding, and improved boundaries with this world. There is something magical that happens when you own who you are and how you flow - outside of any external expectations.
All skill levels are welcome from long-timers, newbies, and everyone in between. All varieties of artists and mediums are welcome too!
This is a free workshop for BIPOC Folks!
Workshop Location and Time:
APANO, April 27th from 1:00pm-3:00pm
8188 Southeast Division Street Portland, OR 97206
Preparing for a Kink Event or Scene
Virutal - Wednesday, April 16th at 5:00pm - 6:30pm
It can be exhilarating to take the first steps toward planning your next event or scene. You might be flying high from the endorphins of your imagination and conversations you have begun to explore.
It can also be anxiety-inducing and overwhelming to manage all the details in preparing for your next scene or event. There may be a fear of not getting it right or truly understanding your needs, desires, and the vibe you’d like to be in.
In this session, you will explore ways to prepare yourself for a kinky event or scene. You will use meditation tools learned in the class alongside journaling with a variety of prompts. Meditation is like a palate cleanser, helping you to release old energy, center yourself, feel grounded, and bring in new energy that aligns with your desires.
Explore your desires
Embrace your emotional values
Understand how to set an overall tone
Discover ways to support your desires and values
The goal of this workshop is to come away with a sense of clarity, purpose, and to feel in charge of the adventure you are creating.
This session is for kinksters and leather folks of all skills. Regardless of your roles in your dynamics, this session creates the clarity to move more confidently into your kinky event or scene.
Sign up at this link: https://tinyurl.com/2mu82d85
A Google Meet link will be shared after payment.
This session is Led by Tieara. She is a queer, femme, switch that has been in the scene off-and-on for over twenty years. She was trained in Leather at the tail end of college. She finds her home in the Leather community and has remained a part of it. She has been teaching and studying mediation for over 15 years. She has begun offering journaling and creativity as a part of her classes and sessions.
About Tieara Myers
I have been teaching meditation and studying the art of meditation for over 15 years. I have taught classes in-person and virtually in Chicago, IL and in Portland, Oregon. I use the same meditation tools I teach every day for my personal life.
The style of meditation I teach is based on psychic meditation tools, making it a visual practice. The focus of the classes I teach is recentering, nurturing one's self, finding inner clarity, resting, and embracing all of one's self.
I teach classes online with the Art of the Seer Academy. I also teach additional classes virtually and in-person in Portland, OR.