education & community programming

Events & Workshops

featured events

  • Walk-n-Talk with larry Smith and Anne White

    Walk-n-Talk

    with Larry Smith and Anne White

    Tuesday, July 28th
    12pm - 1pm
    True Nature Peace Garden

    Walk-n-Talk is our open invitation to the community — a casual walk through the Peace Garden and surrounding grounds with True Nature's CEO Larry Smith and Foundation Executive Director Anne White. No registration required, no formal program. Just movement and honest conversation with the people building this campus and this mission.

    The 2nd & 4th Tuesday of every month
    Meet at the True Nature Peace Garden

  • Yoga en Español con Alejandra Rico

    Yoga en Español

    con Alejandra Rico

    jueves, 30 de julio
    6:30pm-8:15pm
    True Nature Kiva

    Esta clase mensual continua se impartirá completamente en español.

    Agradecemos poder ofrecerla en colaboraciĂłn con Stepping Stones.

    (This ongoing monthly class will be taught entirely in Spanish. We are grateful to offer it in partnership with Stepping Stones.)

    En esta clase, apta para todos los niveles.

  • Introduction to Plant Baths and Aspersions: Building Spiritual Immunity with Sondra Hamilton

    Introduction to Plant Baths and Aspersions

    Building Spiritual Immunity
    with Sondra Hamilton

    Wednesday, August 5th
    5 PM - 7 PM
    True Nature Kiva

    The spiritual baths and aspersions from the Yucatec Maya lineage work with the living elements of plants, water, sunlight, and prayer to support cleansing, protection and clear heavy energy from our field. In this experiential workshop, we work with the wisdom of plant allies to learn the spiritual uses of specific herbs, how to prepare herbal aspersions with clear intention, and how to consciously magnetize the life and energy we are calling in.

Upcoming Events In carbondale, CO

Search for upcoming events through the calendar or by searching by month below.

True Nature + Connection is the Medicine Foundation are proud to host a variety of events, workshops and retreats which nurture authentic connection. We welcome teachers and teachings from varied disciplines as well as students with diverse interests and needs.

We create opportunities for people to connect – with self, community, and the natural world – so they can discover meaning, purpose, and happiness in service of our shared consciousness. We envision a world where connection is embodied as a core value that nurtures wholeness within and between us all.

EMPLOYMENT + FACILITATION OPPORTUNITIES

If you are interested in facilitating events or programming, you may fill out this application for the 2027 calendar year. Please email megan@connectionisthemedicine.com with interest.

Yoga en Español
Jul
30

Yoga en Español

Esta clase mensual continua se impartirá completamente en español. Agradecemos poder ofrecerla en colaboración con Stepping Stones.

Abierta a todos los niveles, está diseñada para aumentar la circulación en las articulaciones y mejorar la flexibilidad de los tejidos conectivos. Comenzaremos con activación y calentamiento de la columna, junto con estiramientos y fortalecimiento de piernas y brazos. En la segunda mitad, practicaremos posturas restaurativas y relajación profunda—un excelente antídoto contra el estrés—donde la quietud se convierte en una poderosa herramienta. Cerraremos con la aplicación de aceite esencial y terapia de sonido para profundizar la relajación.

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Self-Realization Fellowship Community Meditation
Aug
2

Self-Realization Fellowship Community Meditation

All are welcome to attend this community meditation circle!

This offering is based on the teachings of the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) Guru, Paramahansa Yogananda. Through the steady practice of yoga meditation, it is possible to experience a deepening sense of peace, love, compassion, and joy. As inner transformation unfolds, its positive influence naturally extends outward—first to family and community, and eventually to the world at large.

This is a donation based offering held on the first Sunday of every month in the Meditation Room.

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Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN
Aug
3

Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN

Every week on Monday mornings
8am-9am | True Nature Kiva

At Roaring Fork Zen, you will find:

  • Authentic Zen practice

  • Warm, inclusive community with clear, encouraging guidance

  • Supportive space for silent meditation

  • Open-hearted, dogma-free inquiry

  • Cultivation of equanimity, clarity, and compassion

Roaring Fork Zen (RFZ) is a Zen meditation community based in Carbondale, Colorado. We offer free authentic Zen instruction and practice.

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Concentric Recovery Monthly Meetings
Aug
3

Concentric Recovery Monthly Meetings

Community Offering - Free to attend

Join us in community as we combine physical practice with prompt-based discussion and connection around the central questions of addiction and recovery, with a focus on its social and spiritual dimensions. 

No prior experience necessary. All bodies and levels are welcome.

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INTRODUCTION TO PLANT BATHS AND ASPERSIONS: Building spiritual immunity with Sondra Hamilton
Aug
5

INTRODUCTION TO PLANT BATHS AND ASPERSIONS: Building spiritual immunity with Sondra Hamilton

Plants have always known how to cleanse what words cannot reach.

Rooted in Yucatec Maya wisdom, this hands-on outdoor workshop guides you through the spiritual uses of herbs for cleansing, protection, and energetic renewal. You'll prepare herbal aspersions with clear intention, work with plant allies, and give and receive a spiritual bath in a sacred, supportive container.

No prior experience needed - only open heart and a willingness to be tended. This workshop is for you if you feel called to work with plants as spiritual allies and ritual as a living practice.

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COSMIC Sound Journey with Danielle Klein
Aug
6

COSMIC Sound Journey with Danielle Klein

Join us for a deeply healing sound journey that soothes your nervous system, calms your mind and restores balance within. Through the vibrations of various sound healing instruments, you will be brought into a theta brainwave state, which activates your parasympathetic nervous system—your body’s natural ability to repair, restore and heal itself.

These often sell out, so be sure and secure your spot today!

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zen meditation retreat: A Half-Day of Silence and Stillness with Billy Wynne
Aug
8

zen meditation retreat: A Half-Day of Silence and Stillness with Billy Wynne

This half-day Zen meditation retreat offers a rare opportunity for deep immersion in silence and stillness that can be illuminating, rejuvenating, and transformative.

Zen Buddhist and certified meditation teacher Billy Wynne will guide you through an exploration traditional Zen elements and adaptive techniques to provide personalized support for your experience. The program will include:

  • Several rounds of silent, seated meditation

  • Kinhin, or walking meditation

  • Opening and closing recitation rituals in the Zen tradition

  • Encouragement talk referencing classical Zen texts

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The Empowered Creator with Erin McElroy
Aug
9

The Empowered Creator with Erin McElroy

In this workshop, we will explore the process of conscious change as empowered creators:

KNOW: Explore belief systems, intention crafting, and vision clarity through self-awareness
DO: Engage in embodiment practices for aligned & inspired action
FEEL: Experience the impact of emotions, energy, and state of being in conscious creation
BECOME: Integrate, celebrate & continue momentum into your life

We will use journaling, interactive conversation, active breathwork, and yoga nidra to support our journey through the Empowered Creator process.

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Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN
Aug
10

Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN

Every week on Monday mornings
8am-9am | True Nature Kiva

At Roaring Fork Zen, you will find:

  • Authentic Zen practice

  • Warm, inclusive community with clear, encouraging guidance

  • Supportive space for silent meditation

  • Open-hearted, dogma-free inquiry

  • Cultivation of equanimity, clarity, and compassion

Roaring Fork Zen (RFZ) is a Zen meditation community based in Carbondale, Colorado. We offer free authentic Zen instruction and practice.

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Bija Beat with Tracy Straus
Aug
13

Bija Beat with Tracy Straus

Join us for Bija Beat: A high-energy, all-levels dance experience designed to wake up your body, open your heart, and set the tone for a beautiful weekend ahead.

The one-hour Bija Beat, feel-good dance class with live music fuses high-energy dance, music, cardio, creativity, and philanthropy into an experience that uplifts your body, mind, and spirit - and gives back with every beat.

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Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin
Aug
14

Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin

Sound Journeys offer a deeply restorative, embodied experience - supporting both inner awareness and nervous system health. The vibrational frequencies gently engage the parasympathetic nervous system, helping to lower stress hormones and invite profound relaxation and deep presence. This is an opportunity to slow down, listen deeply, and experience sound as a pathway to balance, clarity, and renewed vitality.

These offerings tend to fill quickly—reserve your spot today!

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Family Yoga in the Spiral with Kerrie Martin
Aug
16

Family Yoga in the Spiral with Kerrie Martin

Join the lovely Kerrie Martin and her daughters for a joyful outdoor community and family yoga practice in the yoga spiral—where all ages are welcome to move, breathe, and connect.

  • Connect as a family through movement and mindfulness

  • Build presence, balance, and calm together in a peaceful outdoor setting

  • Leave feeling grounded, refreshed, and more connected

Come move, breathe, and grow together—it’s a beautiful way to welcome the season ahead!

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Community Recovery & Resilience Clinic with The Lotus Way
Aug
16

Community Recovery & Resilience Clinic with The Lotus Way

Five tiny needles, one deep exhale. Drop in for the five-point ear acupuncture protocol used around the world for trauma recovery, addiction support, and calming an overloaded nervous system. Arrive anytime during clinic hours and settle into the treatment for 30-45 minutes to let your system remember how to rest.

No experience needed, just a willingness to slow down.

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Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN
Aug
17

Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN

Every week on Monday mornings
8am-9am | True Nature Kiva

At Roaring Fork Zen, you will find:

  • Authentic Zen practice

  • Warm, inclusive community with clear, encouraging guidance

  • Supportive space for silent meditation

  • Open-hearted, dogma-free inquiry

  • Cultivation of equanimity, clarity, and compassion

Roaring Fork Zen (RFZ) is a Zen meditation community based in Carbondale, Colorado. We offer free authentic Zen instruction and practice.

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CARE FOR CAREGIVERS
Aug
20

CARE FOR CAREGIVERS

If you're feeling depleted, longing for a pause, or simply ready to receive, come join us in the Kiva. This month, we'll connect together through a beautiful breathwork ceremony held by the fabulous Taryn Giroux.

No experience necessary. No proof of caregiving. Just bring yourself. Registration is required and space is limited to 20, so we can hold this circle with real intimacy.

Come release. Come receive. Leave lighter, clearer, and a little more you.

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Financial Awakening: Conscious Wealth Reset
Aug
22

Financial Awakening: Conscious Wealth Reset

What if your financial life could feel clear, purposeful, and aligned with what truly matters to you?

This experience will help transform your relationship with money and align your finances with what truly matters. This interactive workshop combines mindful reflection with practical, fiduciary-grade tools to help you make clear, confident, values-based financial decisions.

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Built to move: Assess Your Mobility with Carolyn Williams
Aug
23

Built to move: Assess Your Mobility with Carolyn Williams

Join Carolyn Williams, founder of NEVE, for an interactive mobility workshop where you'll assess your own movement and learn practical techniques to improve how your body feels and performs. You'll learn:

• Simple mobility self-assessments

• Where your body may be compensating

• Effective drills for hips, ankles, shoulders, and spine

• How mobility supports strength, balance, and everyday movement

• A personalized plan you can continue at home

Perfect for anyone who wants to move with more freedom, reduce stiffness, and stay active for years to come. This workshop is appropriate for all fitness levels. No previous experience is necessary.

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Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN
Aug
24

Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN

Every week on Monday mornings
8am-9am | True Nature Kiva

At Roaring Fork Zen, you will find:

  • Authentic Zen practice

  • Warm, inclusive community with clear, encouraging guidance

  • Supportive space for silent meditation

  • Open-hearted, dogma-free inquiry

  • Cultivation of equanimity, clarity, and compassion

Roaring Fork Zen (RFZ) is a Zen meditation community based in Carbondale, Colorado. We offer free authentic Zen instruction and practice.

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Frontiers of Knowledge: INTEGRATION
Aug
24

Frontiers of Knowledge: INTEGRATION

After a full day of mind-expanding ideas and perspective shifts at the Frontiers of Knowledge Symposium in Aspen on Sunday, August 23rd, the question becomes: where do we go from here?

The answer: INTEGRATION

Join us after the symposium where ideas come alive! Through movement, sound, real discussion, and shared experience, we stay with the big questions: what does it mean to be human in a world of many intelligences? How do we respond, relate, and create from that understanding?

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Experience the Music of Garth Stevenson
Aug
24

Experience the Music of Garth Stevenson

This is more than just a concert.

We are thrilled to offer this invitation to pause, breathe, and reconnect through an unforgettable evening of intimate music in the Kiva at True Nature.

This is presented in partnership with the Frontiers of Knowledge Symposium. Get your tickets to the full experience HERE!

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Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN
Aug
31

Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN

Every week on Monday mornings
8am-9am | True Nature Kiva

At Roaring Fork Zen, you will find:

  • Authentic Zen practice

  • Warm, inclusive community with clear, encouraging guidance

  • Supportive space for silent meditation

  • Open-hearted, dogma-free inquiry

  • Cultivation of equanimity, clarity, and compassion

Roaring Fork Zen (RFZ) is a Zen meditation community based in Carbondale, Colorado. We offer free authentic Zen instruction and practice.

View Event →
COSMIC Sound Journey with Danielle Klein
Sep
3

COSMIC Sound Journey with Danielle Klein

Join us for a deeply healing sound journey that soothes your nervous system, calms your mind and restores balance within. Through the vibrations of various sound healing instruments, you will be brought into a theta brainwave state, which activates your parasympathetic nervous system—your body’s natural ability to repair, restore and heal itself.

These often sell out, so be sure and secure your spot today!

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CARE FOR CAREGIVERS
Sep
10

CARE FOR CAREGIVERS

If you’re feeling depleted, longing for a pause, or simply ready to receive, join us this month in the Kiva for a nurturing 90 minutes of light movement, meditation, breathing and facilitated sharing.

Allow yourself this opportunity to rest, release, and renew.

No experience necessary. No proof of caregiving.

Registration is required and space is limited to 20.

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The Vibrant Mom: Revive & Renewal Retreat with Cara Maiolo and Nicole Lindstrom
Sep
13

The Vibrant Mom: Revive & Renewal Retreat with Cara Maiolo and Nicole Lindstrom

What if one afternoon could change how you relate to your inner world and leave you feeling truly replenished from the inside out?

Cara Maiolo, licensed counselor and women's health specialist, and Nicole Lindstrom, yoga instructor and sound healer, have crafted an afternoon that revives your body, renews your spirit, and equips your emotional world.

Through grounding yoga, restorative sound healing, guided self reflection, and expert wellness education, you'll leave with more than a good feeling, you'll leave with real tools, renewed clarity, and a deeper connection to yourself.

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The Four Paths of Soulful Transformation with Robyn Hubbard
Sep
13
to Sep 19

The Four Paths of Soulful Transformation with Robyn Hubbard

  • True Nature Healing Arts (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

A weeklong intensive for practitioners, coaches, and creatives ready to work more confidently with difficult emotions and grief. Using the Four Paths of Soulful Transformation framework, participants gain hands-on tools for holding space through emotional depth and guiding clients toward lasting change.

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Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin
Sep
18

Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin

Sound Journeys offer a deeply restorative, embodied experience - supporting both inner awareness and nervous system health. The vibrational frequencies gently engage the parasympathetic nervous system, helping to lower stress hormones and invite profound relaxation and deep presence. This is an opportunity to slow down, listen deeply, and experience sound as a pathway to balance, clarity, and renewed vitality.

These offerings tend to fill quickly—reserve your spot today!

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Born Ready: A Complete Childbirth Preparation Series with KLR Collective
Sep
23

Born Ready: A Complete Childbirth Preparation Series with KLR Collective

This comprehensive childbirth class prepares you for every stage of the birth journey.

We’ll explore how your body works during labor, the physiology of birth, and how to support yourself through each step. You’ll learn practical tools for coping, understand medical options, and build a postpartum plan that supports a smoother transition after baby arrives.

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The Elemental Breath: Transformational Breathwork, Attunement & Journaling with Adam Hutchison and Molly Armour-Carter
Sep
25

The Elemental Breath: Transformational Breathwork, Attunement & Journaling with Adam Hutchison and Molly Armour-Carter

As we attune to the shifting energies of the natural world, we begin to recognize these same movements within ourselves—cycles of growth, expression, release, rest, and renewal.

The Elemental Breath is a breathwork and journaling series rooted in Chinese medicine, Daoist 5-Element wisdom, and the living rhythm of the seasons. Each gathering is a guided descent into breath, body, and spirit—woven through intentional breathing, gentle movement, sound, and reflective journaling.

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COSMIC Sound Journey with Danielle Klein
Oct
8

COSMIC Sound Journey with Danielle Klein

Join us for a deeply healing sound journey that soothes your nervous system, calms your mind and restores balance within. Through the vibrations of various sound healing instruments, you will be brought into a theta brainwave state, which activates your parasympathetic nervous system—your body’s natural ability to repair, restore and heal itself.

These often sell out, so be sure and secure your spot today!

View Event →
Financial Awakening: Conscious Wealth Reset
Oct
10

Financial Awakening: Conscious Wealth Reset

What if your financial life could feel clear, purposeful, and aligned with what truly matters to you?

This experience will help transform your relationship with money and align your finances with what truly matters. This interactive workshop combines mindful reflection with practical, fiduciary-grade tools to help you make clear, confident, values-based financial decisions.

View Event →
Heart-led: A Cacao Ritual with Nicole Lindstrom
Oct
11

Heart-led: A Cacao Ritual with Nicole Lindstrom

A monthly cacao ritual designed to open the heart, quiet the mind, and restore connection to inner guidance.

This practice uses breath, movement, and intentional stillness to prepare the body and nervous system to receive cacao. The work is steady and deliberate—clearing stagnation, opening energetic pathways, and creating the conditions for the heart to be felt and heard.

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CARE FOR CAREGIVERS
Oct
15

CARE FOR CAREGIVERS

If you’re feeling depleted, longing for a pause, or simply ready to receive, join us this month in the Kiva for a nurturing 90 minutes of light movement, meditation, breathing and facilitated sharing.

Allow yourself this opportunity to rest, release, and renew.

No experience necessary. No proof of caregiving.

Registration is required and space is limited to 20.

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Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin
Oct
16

Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin

Sound Journeys offer a deeply restorative, embodied experience - supporting both inner awareness and nervous system health. The vibrational frequencies gently engage the parasympathetic nervous system, helping to lower stress hormones and invite profound relaxation and deep presence. This is an opportunity to slow down, listen deeply, and experience sound as a pathway to balance, clarity, and renewed vitality.

These offerings tend to fill quickly—reserve your spot today!

View Event →
Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin
Nov
13

Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin

Sound Journeys offer a deeply restorative, embodied experience - supporting both inner awareness and nervous system health. The vibrational frequencies gently engage the parasympathetic nervous system, helping to lower stress hormones and invite profound relaxation and deep presence. This is an opportunity to slow down, listen deeply, and experience sound as a pathway to balance, clarity, and renewed vitality.

These offerings tend to fill quickly—reserve your spot today!

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Altered States to Altar-ed States with Erin McElroy
Nov
14

Altered States to Altar-ed States with Erin McElroy

What happens when we treat our life as ceremony, living with intention, awareness, and gratitude? And how can the immersive experience of exploring states of consciousness guide us towards an expanded capacity for an intentional, fulfilling life?

This is the territory that we will explore in this half-day retreat, which will be an extended ceremony itself. In this ceremonial experience, we will:

  • Initiate an altar to center us and connect us to each other

  • Explore principles of crafting and aligning to intentions

  • Generate an altered state of consciousness through active breathwork

  • Amplify our intentions through changing our state of being on purpose, to expand our capacity and awareness

  • Integrate the experience into meaningful change

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Heart-led: A Cacao Ritual with Nicole Lindstrom
Nov
15

Heart-led: A Cacao Ritual with Nicole Lindstrom

A monthly cacao ritual designed to open the heart, quiet the mind, and restore connection to inner guidance.

This practice uses breath, movement, and intentional stillness to prepare the body and nervous system to receive cacao. The work is steady and deliberate—clearing stagnation, opening energetic pathways, and creating the conditions for the heart to be felt and heard.

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CARE FOR CAREGIVERS
Nov
19

CARE FOR CAREGIVERS

If you’re feeling depleted, longing for a pause, or simply ready to receive, join us this month in the Kiva for a nurturing 90 minutes of light movement, meditation, breathing and facilitated sharing.

Allow yourself this opportunity to rest, release, and renew.

No experience necessary. No proof of caregiving.

Registration is required and space is limited to 20.

View Event →
COSMIC Sound Journey with Danielle Klein
Nov
20

COSMIC Sound Journey with Danielle Klein

Join us for a deeply healing sound journey that soothes your nervous system, calms your mind and restores balance within. Through the vibrations of various sound healing instruments, you will be brought into a theta brainwave state, which activates your parasympathetic nervous system—your body’s natural ability to repair, restore and heal itself.

These often sell out, so be sure and secure your spot today!

View Event →
Pathfinders Breathwork
Nov
22

Pathfinders Breathwork

All are invited to join community breathwork experience offered in partnership with Pathfinders and facilitated by Allison Alexander. This offering is intended to create space for the purification of the heart through a trauma-aware breathwork meditation journey designed to support renewal, deepen connection and healing. 

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The Elemental Breath: Transformational Breathwork, Attunement & Journaling with Adam Hutchison and Molly Armour-Carter
Dec
4

The Elemental Breath: Transformational Breathwork, Attunement & Journaling with Adam Hutchison and Molly Armour-Carter

As we attune to the shifting energies of the natural world, we begin to recognize these same movements within ourselves—cycles of growth, expression, release, rest, and renewal.

The Elemental Breath is a breathwork and journaling series rooted in Chinese medicine, Daoist 5-Element wisdom, and the living rhythm of the seasons. Each gathering is a guided descent into breath, body, and spirit—woven through intentional breathing, gentle movement, sound, and reflective journaling.

View Event →
Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin
Dec
11

Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin

Sound Journeys offer a deeply restorative, embodied experience - supporting both inner awareness and nervous system health. The vibrational frequencies gently engage the parasympathetic nervous system, helping to lower stress hormones and invite profound relaxation and deep presence. This is an opportunity to slow down, listen deeply, and experience sound as a pathway to balance, clarity, and renewed vitality.

These offerings tend to fill quickly—reserve your spot today!

View Event →
Heart-led: A Cacao Ritual with Nicole Lindstrom
Dec
13

Heart-led: A Cacao Ritual with Nicole Lindstrom

A monthly cacao ritual designed to open the heart, quiet the mind, and restore connection to inner guidance.

This practice uses breath, movement, and intentional stillness to prepare the body and nervous system to receive cacao. The work is steady and deliberate—clearing stagnation, opening energetic pathways, and creating the conditions for the heart to be felt and heard.

View Event →
CARE FOR CAREGIVERS
Dec
17

CARE FOR CAREGIVERS

If you’re feeling depleted, longing for a pause, or simply ready to receive, join us this month in the Kiva for a nurturing 90 minutes of light movement, meditation, breathing and facilitated sharing.

Allow yourself this opportunity to rest, release, and renew.

No experience necessary. No proof of caregiving.

Registration is required and space is limited to 20.

View Event →
Pathfinders Breathwork
Dec
20

Pathfinders Breathwork

All are invited to join community breathwork experience offered in partnership with Pathfinders and facilitated by Allison Alexander. This offering is intended to create space for the purification of the heart through a trauma-aware breathwork meditation journey designed to support renewal, deepen connection and healing. 

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The Human Medicine Ceremony with Jill Jordan
Feb
11

The Human Medicine Ceremony with Jill Jordan

Through breathwork, somatic therapy, intentional activation activities and deep connection with others, you’ll journey inward to access the natural intelligence and healing capacity within.

This is an opportunity to explore altered states of awareness through presence rather than plants, to meet yourself with reverence, and to remember that the medicine you seek is within.  You are your own healer and collectively we are the vessels to heal one another.

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Walk-n-Talk with larry Smith and Anne White
Jul
28

Walk-n-Talk with larry Smith and Anne White

Walk-n-Talk is our open invitation to the community — a casual walk through the Peace Garden and surrounding grounds with True Nature's CEO Larry Smith and Foundation Executive Director Anne White.

Bring a friend, bring your questions, bring your dog.

We'd love to walk with you!

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Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN
Jul
27

Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN

Every week on Monday mornings
8am-9am | True Nature Kiva

At Roaring Fork Zen, you will find:

  • Authentic Zen practice

  • Warm, inclusive community with clear, encouraging guidance

  • Supportive space for silent meditation

  • Open-hearted, dogma-free inquiry

  • Cultivation of equanimity, clarity, and compassion

Roaring Fork Zen (RFZ) is a Zen meditation community based in Carbondale, Colorado. We offer free authentic Zen instruction and practice.

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Cosmic Sound Journey with Danielle Klein: MOUNTAIN FAIR EDITION!
Jul
23

Cosmic Sound Journey with Danielle Klein: MOUNTAIN FAIR EDITION!

Your Mountain Fair weekend starts Thursday night! Join us for a deeply healing Cosmic Sound Journey designed to shake off the week, recharge your energy, and fill you up from the inside out - ready to soak up every single moment of the weekend ahead!

Soothe your nervous system, calm your mind, and restore inner balance.

These often sell out, so be sure and secure your spot today!

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Exhausted? Shamanic Journey for Deep Rest & Replenishment with Meghan Gilroy
Jul
22

Exhausted? Shamanic Journey for Deep Rest & Replenishment with Meghan Gilroy

Step out of the bright sun and activity of summer into the coolness of the Kiva and drop into a shamanic journey (without plant medicine, no experience needed) that will quench your soul, relax your body & give you a few gentle ways to restore energy and clarity in your life.

Make the time to listen deeply to yourself through imagery, sensation, intuition, symbolism, and inner vision so an ease and way forward can emerge.

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Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN
Jul
20

Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN

Every week on Monday mornings
8am-9am | True Nature Kiva

At Roaring Fork Zen, you will find:

  • Authentic Zen practice

  • Warm, inclusive community with clear, encouraging guidance

  • Supportive space for silent meditation

  • Open-hearted, dogma-free inquiry

  • Cultivation of equanimity, clarity, and compassion

Roaring Fork Zen (RFZ) is a Zen meditation community based in Carbondale, Colorado. We offer free authentic Zen instruction and practice.

View Event →
Pathfinders Breathwork
Jul
19

Pathfinders Breathwork

All are invited to join community breathwork experience offered in partnership with Pathfinders and facilitated by Allison Alexander. This offering is intended to create space for the purification of the heart through a trauma-aware breathwork meditation journey designed to support renewal, deepen connection and healing. 

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INTUITION & INSIGHT: SoulCollage® & IFS Self-Discovery with Sayle Hutchison
Jul
19

INTUITION & INSIGHT: SoulCollage® & IFS Self-Discovery with Sayle Hutchison

This experiential workshop introduces the foundations of Internal Family Systems (IFS), a model for understanding the different “parts” that shape how we think, feel, and relate. We each contain many parts - inner voices, emotions, strategies, and patterns - and through IFS, these parts can be understood with curiosity and care.

Participants will leave with a basic understanding of IFS, greater self-awareness, and a map of their inner world.

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Medicinal Plant Walk with Sondra Hamilton
Jul
18

Medicinal Plant Walk with Sondra Hamilton

Join us in the Peace Garden and discover the wild medicine growing right under your feet!

This donation-based, hands-on class invites you to step into the garden for a much deeper perspective. We’ll learn plant identification, basic botany, and explore the medicinal uses tucked inside the leaves and roots!

We’ll explore basics of how to prepare them into effective, at-home medicinal remedies. Leave this walk with the confidence to treat your family with the weeds and wild plants growing all around you.

This is a wonderful opportunity to identify plants and empower you to build your home apothecary!

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CARE FOR CAREGIVERS
Jul
16

CARE FOR CAREGIVERS

If you’re feeling depleted, longing for a pause, or simply ready to receive, join us this month in the Kiva for a nurturing 90 minutes of light movement, meditation, breathing and facilitated sharing.

Allow yourself this opportunity to rest, release, and renew.

No experience necessary. No proof of caregiving.

Registration is required and space is limited to 20.

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Psychedelics & the Future of Human Consciousness (part 4) with Skippy Mesirow
Jul
15

Psychedelics & the Future of Human Consciousness (part 4) with Skippy Mesirow

Psychedelics are moving from the margins into the center of modern conversations around healing, leadership, consciousness, and human transformation. This four-part series explores the history, science, legal landscape, and future of these medicines. Each session is designed to be evidence-based and accessible to newcomers and experienced participants alike.

Join us for one session or the entire series!

Part 4
Leadership: Psychedelics and Human the Transformation of Human Consciousness

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Walk-n-Talk with Larry Smith and Anne White
Jul
14

Walk-n-Talk with Larry Smith and Anne White

Walk-n-Talk is our open invitation to the community — a casual walk through the Peace Garden and surrounding grounds with True Nature's CEO Larry Smith and Foundation Executive Director Anne White.

Bring a friend, bring your questions, bring your dog.

We'd love to walk with you!

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Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN
Jul
13

Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN

Every week on Monday mornings
8am-9am | True Nature Kiva

At Roaring Fork Zen, you will find:

  • Authentic Zen practice

  • Warm, inclusive community with clear, encouraging guidance

  • Supportive space for silent meditation

  • Open-hearted, dogma-free inquiry

  • Cultivation of equanimity, clarity, and compassion

Roaring Fork Zen (RFZ) is a Zen meditation community based in Carbondale, Colorado. We offer free authentic Zen instruction and practice.

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Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin
Jul
10

Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin

Sound Journeys offer a deeply restorative, embodied experience - supporting both inner awareness and nervous system health. The vibrational frequencies gently engage the parasympathetic nervous system, helping to lower stress hormones and invite profound relaxation and deep presence. This is an opportunity to slow down, listen deeply, and experience sound as a pathway to balance, clarity, and renewed vitality.

These offerings tend to fill quickly—reserve your spot today!

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Psychedelics & the Future of Human Consciousness (part 3) with Skippy Mesirow
Jul
8

Psychedelics & the Future of Human Consciousness (part 3) with Skippy Mesirow

Psychedelics are moving from the margins into the center of modern conversations around healing, leadership, consciousness, and human transformation. This four-part series explores the history, science, legal landscape, and future of these medicines. Each session is designed to be evidence-based and accessible to newcomers and experienced participants alike.

Join us for one session or the entire series!

Part 3
Policy: The Legal Landscape of Psychedelics in Colorado + Beyond

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Concentric Recovery Monthly Meetings
Jul
6

Concentric Recovery Monthly Meetings

Community Offering - Free to attend

Join us in community as we combine physical practice with prompt-based discussion and connection around the central questions of addiction and recovery, with a focus on its social and spiritual dimensions. 

No prior experience necessary. All bodies and levels are welcome.

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Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN
Jul
6

Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork ZeN

Every week on Monday mornings
8am-9am | True Nature Kiva

At Roaring Fork Zen, you will find:

  • Authentic Zen practice

  • Warm, inclusive community with clear, encouraging guidance

  • Supportive space for silent meditation

  • Open-hearted, dogma-free inquiry

  • Cultivation of equanimity, clarity, and compassion

Roaring Fork Zen (RFZ) is a Zen meditation community based in Carbondale, Colorado. We offer free authentic Zen instruction and practice.

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Self-Realization Fellowship Community Meditation
Jul
5

Self-Realization Fellowship Community Meditation

All are welcome to attend this community meditation circle!

This offering is based on the teachings of the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF) Guru, Paramahansa Yogananda. Through the steady practice of yoga meditation, it is possible to experience a deepening sense of peace, love, compassion, and joy. As inner transformation unfolds, its positive influence naturally extends outward—first to family and community, and eventually to the world at large.

This is a donation based offering held on the first Sunday of every month in the Meditation Room.

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Psychedelics & the Future of Human Consciousness (part 2) with Skippy Mesirow
Jul
1

Psychedelics & the Future of Human Consciousness (part 2) with Skippy Mesirow

Psychedelics are moving from the margins into the center of modern conversations around healing, leadership, consciousness, and human transformation. This four-part series explores the history, science, legal landscape, and future of these medicines. Each session is designed to be evidence-based and accessible to newcomers and experienced participants alike.

Join us for one session or the entire series!

Part Two
Research: The Western Scientific Understanding of Psychedelics

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Empowered Wellbeing: Breathe Your Way to Peace & Vitality with Erin McElroy
Jun
28

Empowered Wellbeing: Breathe Your Way to Peace & Vitality with Erin McElroy

The most abundant resource we have is our own breath and there are all sorts of techniques we can work with to generate a sense of wellbeing, empowered from within. We have the opportunity to consciously work with our breath to change our state of being and in turn, create lasting and meaningful change in our lives.

In this workshop, we will:

  • Explore the spectrum of gifts that our own breath offers us

  • Practice breath exercises for calming your nervous system and becoming clear and coherent

  • Experience an activating breathwork journey to explore subconscious and transcendental states, exploring non-ordinary consciousness

  • Work with journaling exercises for intention crafting and integrating the experience

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Yoga en Español
Jun
25

Yoga en Español

Esta clase mensual continua se impartirá completamente en español. Agradecemos poder ofrecerla en colaboración con Stepping Stones.

Abierta a todos los niveles, está diseñada para aumentar la circulación en las articulaciones y mejorar la flexibilidad de los tejidos conectivos. Comenzaremos con activación y calentamiento de la columna, junto con estiramientos y fortalecimiento de piernas y brazos. En la segunda mitad, practicaremos posturas restaurativas y relajación profunda—un excelente antídoto contra el estrés—donde la quietud se convierte en una poderosa herramienta. Cerraremos con la aplicación de aceite esencial y terapia de sonido para profundizar la relajación.

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Psychedelics & the Future of Human Consciousness (part 1) with Skippy Mesirow
Jun
24

Psychedelics & the Future of Human Consciousness (part 1) with Skippy Mesirow

Psychedelics are moving from the margins into the center of modern conversations around healing, leadership, consciousness, and human transformation. This four-part series explores the history, science, legal landscape, and future of these medicines. Each session is designed to be evidence-based and accessible to newcomers and experienced participants alike.

Join us for one session or the entire series!

Part One
History: 10,000 Years of Psychedelic Use

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When the Sun Stands Still: A Summer Solstice Ceremony with Kate Mulheron
Jun
21

When the Sun Stands Still: A Summer Solstice Ceremony with Kate Mulheron

Join Kate Mulheron in community as we gather to celebrate the ABUNDANT LIGHT of SUMMER SOLSTICE!

This day signifies light, personal power, and divine action. It is an opportunity to step further into your power, to embody all that you have cultivated, and to bring intentions into physical form.

During the ceremony we will honor the 7 Directions. There will be space to revisit intentions, seek clarity on what is needed to bring them to fruition, and though a powerful community fire ceremony - release that which no longer serves and we are ready to let go of.

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Summer Solstice Kirtan: Awaken the Heart Through Song
Jun
21

Summer Solstice Kirtan: Awaken the Heart Through Song

Celebrate the Summer Solstice with an uplifting evening of kirtan (devotional chanting).

This offering honors both the rising, expressive energy of Shakti and the grounding, steady presence of Shiva—creating a balanced experience of movement and stillness, sound and silence.

• Call-and-response chanting (Sanskrit + English)

• Live music + community connection

• A blend of Shakti (expression) and Shiva (stillness)

• Open your heart, voice, and energy

No experience needed—come as you are! Sing, listen, and be moved—this is music as meditation and connection in community.

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CARE FOR CAREGIVERS
Jun
18

CARE FOR CAREGIVERS

If you’re feeling depleted, longing for a pause, or simply ready to receive, join us this month in the Kiva for a nurturing 90 minutes of light movement, meditation, breathing and facilitated sharing.

Allow yourself this opportunity to rest, release, and renew.

No experience necessary. No proof of caregiving.

Registration is required and space is limited to 20.

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The Vibrant Mom: Revive & Renewal Retreat with Cara Maiolo and Nicole Lindstrom
Jun
13

The Vibrant Mom: Revive & Renewal Retreat with Cara Maiolo and Nicole Lindstrom

What if one afternoon could change how you relate to your inner world and leave you feeling truly replenished from the inside out?

Cara Maiolo, licensed counselor and women's health specialist, and Nicole Lindstrom, yoga instructor and sound healer, have crafted an afternoon that revives your body, renews your spirit, and equips your emotional world.

Through grounding yoga, restorative sound healing, guided self reflection, and expert wellness education, you'll leave with more than a good feeling, you'll leave with real tools, renewed clarity, and a deeper connection to yourself.

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Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin
Jun
12

Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin

Sound Journeys offer a deeply restorative, embodied experience - supporting both inner awareness and nervous system health. The vibrational frequencies gently engage the parasympathetic nervous system, helping to lower stress hormones and invite profound relaxation and deep presence. This is an opportunity to slow down, listen deeply, and experience sound as a pathway to balance, clarity, and renewed vitality.

These offerings tend to fill quickly—reserve your spot today!

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