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SomaSpace Events
InDark Blindfold Contact Improv Jam hosted by Jacqueline Rubinstein
Monday, November 2 & 30
7:00 – 9:30pm
$15~25, sliding scale
Blindfolds provided or bring your own. Doors open at 7:00pm (enter quietly due to class beforehand). Opening circle at 7:30pm, doors locked to hold the container
Jam will end at 9:30pm.
Going under the blindfold allows for a whole new experience of contact improv. The stories our visual mind creates fall away. Preconceptions of others and the dance drop off. A sensory rich experience that offers a new score of freedom and play emerges. The blindfold is a powerful tool to bring a fresh sensory experience to your dance. And find new ways of connecting to yourself and others in awareness and movement!
For more information contact Jacqueline: jacqueline@somaspace.us
Open House
Saturday, November 14
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Come experience fun & free taster classes at the SomaSpace Open House! We will highlight our unique blend of classes, teachers, and practitioners at this special bi-annual event. This is your opportunity to sample a variety of our classes. Each taster class is 15 minutes. And there is a free raffle in between the classes!
No pressure, no judgment ~ the goal is for you to try something new, have fun, connect, and celebrate life! Stop by for a single class or a whole day of taster-classes, raffle prizes, snacks, mini healing sessions, and community!
Cost:
Free
Registration:
No registration required. Please email contact@somaspace.us with any questions.
DanceLab with Roxanna
Repeats Mondays
5:45 – 7:00 pm
In the realm of conscious dance practices, DanceLab is body-centered exploration of sensation, creativity, and relational awareness. Somatic movement emerges through improvisation—shaped by the lived experience and expressed through the body in relationship with music, space, and others. This is a self-guided dance experience where you are welcome to participate through movement, stillness, observation, reflection, or rest.
DanceLab is an experience in embodied discovery, personal expression, sensory modulation, and relational connection. Participants are supported in free-form movement at their own pace and intensity through somatic interaction, play, rest, and multi-modal integration.
Cost:
$10~20, sliding scale
Registration:
https://www.roxannagates.com/dancelab
Experienced Contact Improv Jam with Jacqueline
Repeats Tuesdays
7:00 – 9:00 pm
SomaSpace’s Tuesday Contact Improv jam collaborates with local musicians for live music co-creations of movement and soundscape. The ephemeral nature of improvisation is enhanced with the energy of the group and sounds of the music to inspire and delight. Please arrive before opening circle if you are new to the group.
The intention of this contact improv jam is to be a laboratory for folks that already have a basic understanding of contact improv. This is a laboratory for contact improv principles and artistic emotional physical expression.
This jam is hosted by the director/owner of SomaSpace, Jacqueline Rubinstein. It is her special joy to share in this creative endeavor with you. She looks forward to seeing you on the dance floor.
Cost:
$15~25, sliding scale
Registration:
Please email jacqueline@somaspace.us
Saying Yes! Improvisation with Carlton
Repeats Wednesdays
7:30 – 9:00 pm
This weekly workshop is for those seeking to build creative, performance, and life skills from a totally original perspective. This form of improvisation has provided inspiration to hundreds of people seeking more creativity and presence in their work and life.
THIS is NOT traditional theater improvisation. You have no responsibility to be creative, interesting, funny, graceful, or talented. You need not be skilled in movement, sound, or speech. No experience necessary! The less experience you have, the more you will discover.
Cost:
$10
Registration:
Please email riffline@yahoo.com to RSVP.
CDP + CI Lab with Carolyn
Repeats Fridays
9:15 am – 11:45 pm
Contemplative Dance Practice (CDP) is a structured discipline that gives us time and space to explore and evolve our personal awareness of body[mind] together with others.” -Barbara Dilley. We come together to observe and research; to practice. This is held as creative space for all abilities and experience levels. There is no formal instruction in Contact Improv (CI) but tips are available upon request!
Doors open at 9:00. Meditation begins promptly at 9:15 am. Come for CDP and/or the CI Lab. If you’d like to only attend the lab, please be at the door at 10:30 am.
Facilitated by Carolyn Stuart (any).
Cost:
$15 ~ 25, sliding scale
Registration:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1641130500292264/1641130503625597
Conscious Connected Breathwork with Holly
Repeats 1st Thursdays
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Conscious Connected Breathwork is an active, guided breathing practice that can support nervous system regulation, greater self-awareness, and a deeper connection with yourself. Using a continuous, intentional breathing pattern, it creates the conditions for stress, trauma, and unresolved emotions to be processed, released and integrated. This breathing pattern temporarily shifts your brainwave state and physiology, allowing you to enter a non-ordinary state of consciousness. In this state, the breath creates a bridge between your conscious mind and your nervous system, bringing awareness to sensations, emotions, and unconscious patterns that aren’t always accessible through thinking alone.
Each session begins with an overview of the experience, including the breathing technique, what to expect, and space for any questions, followed by intention setting and approximately 50 minutes of guided breathwork. We’ll close out the session with time for grounding, integration, and optional sharing. Sessions are intentionally kept small to create a space where participants can feel supported, receive individualized guidance, and move through the experience at their own pace. Every session is guided with a trauma-informed approach that emphasizes safety, choice, and honoring each person’s unique experience.
Cost:
$55
(sliding scale available)
Registration:
https://theawakenedbreath.com/offerings/somaspace-group-sessions/
Universe Somatic with Jogen
Repeats 1st Sundays
1:00 – 3:00pm
Universe Somatic is a practice that integrates and alternates sitting meditation, movement and the imaginal with a spirit of experimentation and playfulness. We open our bodies, spirits and minds, blending thoroughgoing embodiment and sky wide awareness with the juiciness of curious exploration. Seated periods of meditation emphasizing great openness alternate with a variety of movement explorations off the cushion. Through this we bring lively energy from presence into movement and from movement into presence. No prior meditation or movement experience required, a beginner’s mind is a boon!
Cost:
$20~45, sliding scale
Registration:
Register and pay for the class by Venmo @jogen-salzberg or Paypal (friends and family, please!) jogen.salzberg@gmail.com
Plant Wisdom Circle with Amy
Repeats 2nd Fridays
6:00pm – 8:00pm
This space allows us to find embodied connection with a different plant teacher each month in hopes that the wisdom of the plant lives within you, not just from what you read about their medicine. This provides the pivotal practice of trusting our intuitive inklings, and receiving validation of them within a community setting. Being in intentional space to honor and listen to the plants is an ancestral practice that helps us remember how to be in relationship with the forces of nature. It is a practice that is greatly appreciated by the plants, and it feeds our deep, soul-selves.
Cost:
$25~45, sliding scale
Registration:
https://www.groundwaterhealing.com/goldenstone
Naked in Motion with Willow
Repeats 2nd Sundays
1:30pm – 3:00pm
*ASL-Friendly! Willow has learned to sign along with her teaching to accommodate Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing students. Everyone MUST be an active, willing participant and at least 18 years old. Please bring a valid photo ID for age verification. You will be required to enter an accurate date of birth upon registration.
Cost:
$33
*financial assistance available*
Registration:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/portland-naked-yoga-and-pilates-tickets-1994312559551?aff=SomaSpace
Rest & Restore with Mussirio
Repeats 3rd Thursdays
7:00pm – 9:00pm
We’d like to welcome you to an immersive evening of sound, breathwork, microdosing, and somatic healing! Paired with dynamic sound and the frequency of an (optional) fungi microdose, we will journey through inner emotional landscapes and release stuck emotions, expanding consciousness and returning to the body.
During this session you’ll be guided through The Elemental Rhythm Flow Experience. This breathwork experience combines movement (shaking), along with several rounds of guided breathing and extended exhalations set to a cadence of music. This yin/downregulating activation will calm you down, help you unwind, and bring you to the present moment. Sound healing often leaves people feeling grounded, balanced, and deeply replenished as the vibrations help restore a natural sense of peace and flow.
Cost:
$50
Registration:
https://checkout.square.site/merchant/ML9P18QF73K2Z/checkout/E7LXM5A2KGWAH5IDE2BG3PSL
SomaSpace’s Community Circle
Repeats 3rd Fridays
The SomaSpace Community Circle is guided by the belief that gathering together with other heart-centered folks is essential for optimum health, growth, and empowerment. We have the opportunity to join together and help guide the world back into harmony.
Each circle holds the value that all people are wisdom-keepers with unique talents, perspectives, and richness to share. When you take the time to sit in circle with feminine energy and share with an open heart, getting real and raw, it renews your strength and power. Together we will explore new realms of thinking and being, and engage your autonomy and agency to be the best version of yourself!
The flow of new members and monthly regulars at this circle creates a unique blend of energy, with emphasis on empathy and deepening experiences together. Each unique group shares the vulnerable truth of being alive in this moment and together we strengthen our capacity to be present and hold open, non-judgmental, loving space for others. Facilitation will be grounded and consent based, encouraging you to be present in your body.
Come however you are, regardless of where you find yourself to be ~ bright, gloomy, tired, energized, struggling, peaceful or celebrating ~ the space for you is here! People across the vast gender and race/ethnicity spectrum welcome! Queer friendly space. 18+ or must be accompanied by a parental figure.
Cost:
$10 ~ 20, sliding scale
Registration:
No pre-registration needed, pay at door.
Tergar Meditation of Oregon
Repeats 3rd Sundays
1:00pm – 3:00pm
We sit together in silence for three 25-minute sessions with walking meditation in-between. Our sitting period will open and close with a short aspiration and dedication, but otherwise there will be no teaching involved. Following our meditation practice, we’ll come together in the reception area for tea and have an opportunity to enjoy each other’s company.
To ensure a safe and healthy environment for everyone, please do not attend if you’re not feeling well. Thank you for honoring our request.
Cost:
$10
Registration:
The Thinning Veil Crystal Bowl Sound Bath: An Honoring of Ancestors with Laura
Repeats last Thursdays
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Honoring the dead is an age-old and cross-cultural practice. This time of year is when the veil is said to be thinnest between the walking/waking world and the Spirit world. It is a time to pay tribute to, call upon, give thanks, and remember our Ancestors. In some traditions it is believed the Spirits of the dead are not able to move on from this world and find peace unless they are remembered. Join in community and honor our ancestors together.
Cost:
$30 ~ 40, sliding scale
Registration:
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