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.

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.

Sacred Brotherhood Conversations are open meetings for heart-centered men committed to self-leadership and fulfillment. The goal is to empower men in the Roaring Fork Valley with intentional connection, compassionate communication, emotional resilience, and a sense of fulfillment.

A mindful, all-levels prenatal and postpartum yoga class rooted in Anusara-inspired alignment, breath, and the connection of body, mind, and spirit.

Designed to support the changing body through pregnancy and the transition into postpartum, each class weaves together intentional movement, strength, stability, nervous system awareness, and space to slow down and connect within.

Come as you are. Connect with your body and baby. Leave feeling grounded, strong, supported, and empowered.

Gather for a heart-centered evening of remembrance, connection, and support. Through candle lighting, spirit messages, and gentle sharing, you’ll honor your loved one and the bond you still carry.

Explore grief with compassion—how it lives in the body, mind, and heart—while recognizing the wisdom within your own journey. You’ll take part in a reflective group experience that honors the wisdom within your grief, with an opportunity to both share and receive meaningful support.

A space where your grief, your connection, and your voice truly matter.

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!

Join us for a morning of movement, connection, and community as we gather to support the Connection is the Medicine Foundation.

Whether you're an experienced runner or simply want to enjoy a walk with friends and family, everyone is welcome!

Enjoy morning refreshments provided by True Nature Café. Every participant will have the chance to win prizes and raffle giveaways.

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.

Join together in community as we gather to celebrate the SACRED BALANCE of the Autumn Equinox. The day and night stand in perfect balance, a rare pause point in the wheel of the year. It is the moment of harvest, when all you have been cultivating since the growing season begins comes to fruition. Pausing in ritual to honor this sacred shift is so profound, come celebrate in community!

A mindful, all-levels prenatal and postpartum yoga class rooted in Anusara-inspired alignment, breath, and the connection of body, mind, and spirit.

Designed to support the changing body through pregnancy and the transition into postpartum, each class weaves together intentional movement, strength, stability, nervous system awareness, and space to slow down and connect within.

Come as you are. Connect with your body and baby. Leave feeling grounded, strong, supported, and empowered.

Celebrate the Autumn Equinox 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.

No experience needed—come as you are!

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.

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.

A 6-week small group series on the nervous system, and how it shapes the way we experience ourselves and the world.

Stress, overwhelm, and shutdown can feel personal or confusing, until you understand what's happening underneath. This series offers a grounded lens for making sense of those patterns, so you can respond with more choice instead of getting swept into automatic reactions.

Each week: guided reflection, simple practices, and optional small group sharing.

You'll leave with:

• A working understanding of your nervous system

• A personalized map of your own patterns

• Tools to return to when stress arises

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.

A mindful, all-levels prenatal and postpartum yoga class rooted in Anusara-inspired alignment, breath, and the connection of body, mind, and spirit.

Designed to support the changing body through pregnancy and the transition into postpartum, each class weaves together intentional movement, strength, stability, nervous system awareness, and space to slow down and connect within.

Come as you are. Connect with your body and baby. Leave feeling grounded, strong, supported, and empowered.

Monthly women’s circle weaving meditation, ritual, and conversation—honoring life’s seasons, feminine wisdom, and intergenerational bonds.

This session of the Weaving Wisdom circle will take place over 9 months, held in the True Nature Kiva from September through May and hosted by Sarah Uhl and Laura Kirk. Unlike an open gathering, this circle is intentionally limited to twelve women, allowing trust, vulnerability, and genuine friendship to deepen over time.

A community gathering to empower our voices together

Five singers from a Threshold Choir bring their practiced harmonies into the ceremonial heart of the Kiva.

Songs that have been sung at bedsides, at birth, at grief circles, and at celebrations of life.

Songs that know how to hold what words cannot.

We are thrilled to welcome back The ReMemberers, a ritual theatre and storytelling trio! Join us for a day-long immersion into myth, folklore, storytelling, and song, and discover what makes these cultural elements so essential to our wellbeing.

Three part immersion: workshop, performance, integration.

• An afternoon workshop explores the five layers of Mayan storytelling and how a folk tale becomes medicine.

• THE FIREBIRD, a thousand-year-old Russian folktale performed as living ceremony through ancestral voice, world percussion, and instruments from the edges of the earth.

• As night falls, we gather around the fire

An evening that will remain with you like an old friend returning home.

We are thrilled to welcome back The ReMemberers, a ritual theatre and storytelling trio!

Join us for a magical evening and a mythical performance, carried along on a river of sound: THE FIREBIRD, a thousand-year-old Russian folktale performed as living ceremony through ancestral voice, world percussion, and instruments from the edges of the earth.

This is not just a performance, it’s an honoring of oral tradition, sharing a tale of adventure, serenity, and deep knowing.

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.

Have you been circling a question, decision, or change in your life? Does life feel blurry or full?

Step out of the noise and give yourself the space to hear what you already know. Bring a real question or area of your life where you’re seeking clarity.

YOU’LL EXPERIENCE:

• A guided shamanic soul journey

• Space to receive & interpret your own inner guidance

• Reflection & mentoring to clarify what you truly want

• Support discerning what is ready to be chosen, changed, or released

• A closing ritual to turn insight into a grounded next step

Come home to the place within you that knows.

A 6-week small group series on the nervous system, and how it shapes the way we experience ourselves and the world.

This is a cohort-based series, not drop-in. All 6 sessions build on each other to create a shared container of trust and connection, so registration is for the entire series, beginning Sept. 27th

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

A 6-week small group series on the nervous system, and how it shapes the way we experience ourselves and the world.

This is a cohort-based series, not drop-in. All 6 sessions build on each other to create a shared container of trust and connection, so registration is for the entire series, beginning Sept. 27th

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.

Sacred Brotherhood Conversations are open meetings for heart-centered men committed to self-leadership and fulfillment. The goal is to empower men in the Roaring Fork Valley with intentional connection, compassionate communication, emotional resilience, and a sense of fulfillment.

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.

A 6-week small group series on the nervous system, and how it shapes the way we experience ourselves and the world.

This is a cohort-based series, not drop-in. All 6 sessions build on each other to create a shared container of trust and connection, so registration is for the entire series, beginning Sept. 27th

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.

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!

Release old stories about your body, restore your connection to your physical self, and feel empowered in your body, no matter what.

From a very young age, women are told how their bodies should look, and what they should do and be in order to achieve that physical state. As a result, the connection to our intuition, the way we take care of ourselves, and the ability to offer our bodies acceptance and unconditional love has been muted.

A 6-week small group series on the nervous system, and how it shapes the way we experience ourselves and the world.

This is a cohort-based series, not drop-in. All 6 sessions build on each other to create a shared container of trust and connection, so registration is for the entire series, beginning Sept. 27th

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.

A 6-week small group series on the nervous system, and how it shapes the way we experience ourselves and the world.

This is a cohort-based series, not drop-in. All 6 sessions build on each other to create a shared container of trust and connection, so registration is for the entire series, beginning Sept. 27th

There comes a time in every young man’s life when he begins to ask: What kind of man do I want to become?

Wisdom of the Pack is a small-group gathering for boys ages 12-14, navigating this threshold. It isn’t a class about how to be a man, nor is it therapy. It’s a space to experience brotherhood, deepen self-awareness, find your voice, and explore what it means to grow into manhood.

Fatherhood asks us to grow even as we guide. To find patience, presence, and flexibility, even when we're tired, overwhelmed, or unsure. Dad Dharma is a space for men stepping into and moving through fatherhood to pause, reflect, and connect. Together, we'll explore:

• Building secure connections with our children

• Discovering who we're becoming as fathers & partners

• Caring for ourselves, our children, and partners

• Knowing we don't have to do this alone

We’ll create space for the weight and the wonder through honest conversation, poetry, breath, movement, and laughter.

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.

Join us for an intimate evening of meditative banjo and geologically inspired songs from a train-traveling folk musician - Benny Bleu!

An award-winning banjo player and scientifically minded songwriter, Benny presents music that speaks to the child inside you - the one that wants to play in muddy creeks and bring home too many rocks.

He performs instrumental clawhammer banjo tunes that will ground and focus, as well as original songs that inspire contemplation.

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

Root in Presence. Reclaim Your Voice. Lead with Love.

Join Mindy Arbuckle for a half-day retreat exploring leadership beyond pressure, performance, and force. Through movement, breath, mantra, meditation, reflection, and sacred connection, we’ll explore common myths of leadership, how they shape the way we show up, and how to return to a more embodied truth.

Sacred Brotherhood Conversations are open meetings for heart-centered men committed to self-leadership and fulfillment. The goal is to empower men in the Roaring Fork Valley with intentional connection, compassionate communication, emotional resilience, and a sense of fulfillment.

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!

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

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.

Join us for this drop in community gathering of the Weaving Wisdom circle in the True Nature Kiva. This is an open circle for anyone to drop into and get a taste of what an intergenerational gathering of women can offer.

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.

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!

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. 

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.

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.

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!

Sacred Brotherhood Conversations are open meetings for heart-centered men committed to self-leadership and fulfillment. The goal is to empower men in the Roaring Fork Valley with intentional connection, compassionate communication, emotional resilience, and a sense of fulfillment.

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.

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.

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. 

This ceremony is designed to clear space for new beginnings, leaving you refreshed and aligned with your higher purpose as you step into the new year with clarity and excitement.

Start of 2027 with energy embodiment movement and breathwork to ground yourself into this sacred moment of connection with your inner self. Followed by cacao and sound, this journey is sure to provide closure for 2026, and open the new year fresh!

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.