Spring Equinox Community Gathering – A Morning of Ritual and Renewal
Saturday, March 21st | 9:00am - 11:30am | True Nature Kiva
Celebrate SPRING with a guided nature art workshop and labyrinth walk, grounding and setting intentions in harmony with the turning season.
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At the bright turning between winter and summer, we gather in celebration - of light returning, of earth awakening, of the quiet joy of being alive together. Join us to celebrate the Spring Equinox!
This is a morning of earth, art, and shared ritual - just like spring, the experience will be bright, gentle, spacious, and quietly alive.
We begin in circle, arriving fully. We'll intentionally step onto the land with open senses and a spirit of curiosity. Guided by a Morning Altars–inspired practice, we wander, notice, gather, and create - allowing the natural world to surprise us. There is something playful and reverent in the experience, something that feels both ancient and entirely fresh!
With simple materials offered by the season, we will shape something impermanent and meaningful. No artistic skill is needed, only presence. What unfolds is personal, beautiful, and often unexpectedly moving. We hold it lightly. We celebrate it. And when the moment is right, we let it go.
From this place of connection and creativity, we will enter the labyrinth together. Walking its winding path becomes a living threshold - an embodied honoring of what has carried us through the darker months and an opening to the warmth and possibility ahead.
Your presence - the gift.
And the magic belongs to the moment.
What we can promise is this: a morning that feels like a mini-retreat! A shared crossing. A celebration of season and spirit. An invitation to step into spring with clarity, gratitude, and a quiet kind of joy.
We would be honored to celebrate this turning with you.
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Meet your guides:
Laura Kirk is enjoying the freedom of a new chapter as a strategic consultant and mentor. Throughout her career, she has focused on empowering people to be the best versions of themselves, charting their own path. Laura draws on her experience as DHM Design’s first woman President and Managing Partner, and Co-Founder of DHM’s Carbondale office where she was committed to nurturing personal growth. Laura was the lead landscape architect for the True Nature Peace Garden and is a trained labyrinth facilitator using the labyrinth as a tool to awaken our voices, as a place for exploration of challenging issues and questions. Laura has lived in Carbondale since 1998 with her husband and two grown sons.
Amy Fairbanks is an educator and artist of several mediums including pen and ink, fiber arts and nature art in Carbondale, Colorado. She is also a certified Morning Altars Teacher. Her vision is to weave together nature art, fiber arts, and earth-based ritual in Colorado mountain towns. With a background in education and arts, Amy has designed workshops, installations, and gatherings that invite people of all ages into mindful, build relationships with the land—from Morning Altars-inspired practices to collaborative outdoor art experiences. Living and working near Carbondale, Colorado, Amy is passionate about making creative, spiritual, and nature-based experiences accessible to everyday people, not just retreat- goers—offering down-to-earth spaces for slowing down, tending grief and transition, and remembering our connection to Place.
PRICING
Sliding Scale | Collective Care
This gathering is made possible through a web of generosity - our facilitators Laura and Amy, our donors, the Connection is the Medicine Foundation, and each person who chooses to participate. Together, we create a model where care, presence, and access are shared.
Community Rate: $8 – Offered with the understanding that everyone deserves a place in the circle
Sustaining Rate: $18 – Helps hold this gathering within a subsidized ecosystem
Generosity Rate: $35 – Offered in the spirit of shared abundance, helping ensure these gatherings remain accessible to all
Your presence matters. We do not want cost to be prohibitive. If none of these options feel accessible, please reach out to megan@connectionisthemedicine.com for scholarship.
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At True Nature and Connection is the Medicine Foundation, we strive to create intentional, nourishing spaces and experiences for community connection and personal growth. To support a respectful and easeful experience for all, please view our Etiquette and Refund Policies, also listed below.
If you have any questions, you may contact Megan Miller, Director of Education and Programming at megan@connectionisthemedicine.com
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This programming is brought to you through the Connection is the Medicine Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to co-creating 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.