Upcoming Programs
Move with the cycle of the seasons. Find yourself in good community. Stay engaged and inspired all year long.
We are taking a well deserved break in August. Enjoy the summer! See you back in September.
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Place-based folk arts and folk wisdom programs rooted in living practice, seasonal rhythm, and shared experience. Register for what calls you, or try out something new!
The Steeping Pot
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Imagine a room where the world fades away. The air hums with the energy of pens gliding, keyboards tapping, and hearts opening.
The Steeping Pot invites you to step into this sanctuary of creativity and community—where we write, connect, and share the alchemy of stories that only you can bring to life.
Your seat at the table is waiting.
- We will begin with an invitation... for all to shed the weight of the outside world and step fully into the moment.
- Then a gentle facilitation consisting of exercises and prompts...a way to slip into the rhythm of the group and release judgement and wake up our creative genius.
- Then we write... there’s a magic in the silent communion of people writing together. Each person absorbed in their own world, yet buoyed by the shared energy of the space.
- Then for those who wish we share... a reciprocal act as we give of ourselves and in return are met with listening, encouragement, and perhaps even inspiration sparked in another’s heart.
Your writing may take shape as the spark of website or social media content, it may sing as poetry, dance as lyrics, whisper as journaling, unfurl as stories, flow like letters, shape worlds through fiction or cast light on truth in non fiction.
May you leave feeling nourished, not only inspired but deeply seen and connected.
About the Facilitator ~ Jennifer Laale
Jennifer Laale is a facilitator, writer, and lifelong explorer of practice, play, and presence. For more than 25 years, she has worked as an improv-based team-building facilitator, helping individuals, organizations and teams cultivate trust, stay present, and navigate change with greater ease and authenticity.
Known for making deep work feel welcoming, human, and alive, Jennifer serves as a Practice Champion—guiding people to reimagine practice not as something rigid or demanding, but as a supportive bridge between who they are, who they are becoming, and what matters most. Her workshops weave together reflective writing, creativity, gentle embodiment, and improvisation to quiet self-judgment and reconnect participants with their inner wisdom.
Through all her work, including her Letters From The Divine articles in In Cycle magazine, Jennifer invites people to soften, listen, and trust that the words and guidance they seek are already within them.
The Dreaming Body
$300.00 CAD
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Seasonal mystery journeys through conscious rest
The Dreaming Body is a seasonal sound journey rooted in the eight stages of conscious relaxation. This is Yoga Nidra with a mystery twist. Nidra as ritual. Nidra as dreaming practice, woven with earth-based, shamanic, and cycle wisdom.
Each journey invites you to remain receptive while engaging imagination, sensation, and subtle awareness. Sound supports the body in resting, while spoken guidance carries you through mythic, symbolic, and seasonal landscapes
These are not simply restful experiences.
They invite active dreaming — engaging sensation, image, and awareness while the body rests deeply.
Mabon to Samhain — 9-Week Series
From Harvest to Descent
This autumn series invites a deeper inward turning. As light wanes and the world thins, the Dreaming Body becomes a companion for descent, into memory, shadow, grief, and wisdom.
Across nine weeks, we explore letting go, composting experience, and listening beneath identity. Sound carries the body safely through thresholds, supporting rest as layers fall away.
This is not about fixing or resolving.
It is about making space, and trusting what emerges when we do.
About the Facilitator ~ Kristine Karpinski
Guiding body, spirit and creative projects into wellbeing. Kristine Karpinski (Kris), hosts a variety of offerings here at Ninth Wave Arts, Sound Nidra, Whispers from the Well, Mystery in Motion, Wellbody Temple Retreats, etc. She is also our lead teacher for the MiddleWorld Mysteries program. A massage therapist, sound, energy and somatic practitioner, teacher, mentor, creative, she believes our body holds deep bio-intelligence, the map of all knowing, waiting to remember itself.
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