august EVENTS
Self Realization Fellowship: Monthly Community Meditation
Sunday, August 2nd | 9:00am-10:30am | True Nature Meditation Room
Free to attend, No registration just come as you are!
All are welcome to attend. The monthly SRF Community Meditation offering is based on the teachings of 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.
“Reform yourself, and you will reform thousands.” — Paramahansa Yogananda
The benefits of the scientific methods of yoga he taught do not depend on belief, but arise from direct personal experience of the Divine.
Weekly Zen Meditation with Billy Wynne and Roaring Fork Zen
Every Monday | 8am-9am | True Nature Kiva
Free Community Offering
Roaring Fork Zen (RFZ) is a Zen meditation community based in Carbondale, Colorado. We offer free authentic Zen instruction and practice to the Roaring Fork Valley from Glenwood Springs to Aspen.
Roaring Fork Zen gathers for weekly Zen meditation sessions, typically two, 25-minute rounds of zazen (seated meditation) with a brief round of kinhin (walking meditation) in between. We open and close with brief, optional recitations from the Zen tradition.
Concentric Recovery Monthly Meetings
Monday, August 3rd | 5:30 PM - 6:45 PM | True Nature Kiva
Community Offering - Free to attend
A multi-dimensional recovery community to support you in moving beyond addiction, in all its many forms.
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. Concentric Recovery is a community-based, holistic recovery program with Psychological, Biological, Social, & Spiritual aspects.
Supported by an integrative framework which takes into account recent advancements in neurobiology, Concentric Recovery has a particular focus on the Social and Spiritual dimensions of addiction and recovery.
No prior experience necessary. All bodies and levels are welcome.
Introduction to Plant Baths and Aspersions: Building Spiritual Immunity with Sondra Hamilton
Wednesday, August 5th | 5 PM - 7 PM | True Nature Peace Garden
Sliding Scale: $30-$50
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.
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.
Cosmic Sound Journey with Danielle Klein
Thursday, August 6th | 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM | True Nature Kiva
Early Access $45 through August 3rd
Standard Rate $55
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!
Zen Meditation Retreat: A Half-Day of Silence and Stillness with Billy Wynne
Saturday, August 8th | 9 am - 2 pm | True Nature Kiva
Suggested Donation: $40-$60
This half-day Zen meditation retreat offers a rare opportunity for deep immersion in silence and stillness that can be illuminating, rejuvenating, and transformative.
We invite you to join Zen Buddhist and certified meditation teacher Billy Wynne for this unique experience. The program will explore traditional Zen elements and adaptive techniques to provide personalized support for your experience. Every aspect of the retreat is honed to support the calming of your body and awakening of your mind.
The Empowered Creator with Erin McElroy
Sunday, August 9th | 10 AM - 6 PM | True Nature Kiva
Community: $95
Standard: $120
Generosity: $150
Transform Your Life; For Purpose, On Purpose
Do you desire to make a change in your life or to consciously bring a dream or vision into reality? Would you like to see change in the world around you? To create positive change in any circumstance, we have to start within.
This workshop will move you through a full process of how to consciously change, rooted in a model that is inclusive of the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of your life. This is a creative, depth process, fueled by heart-centered intention.
Monday, August 10th, 2026 | 7 PM - 8:30 PM | True Nature Kiva
Sliding Scale $25-$55
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.
We talk about identity, integrity, legacy, self-leadership, relationships, fatherhood… the stuff most men don’t get to say out loud.
Thursday, August 13th | 6:30pm - 7:30pm | True Nature Kiva
Early Bird: $15 through Aug. 6th
Community: $18 | Standard: $32 | Generosity: $40
Move with Purpose. Dance with Heart. Give with Joy.
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.
Sound Journey with Dr. Zachary + Krista Cashin
Friday, August 14th | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM | True Nature Kiva
Early Access $50 through August 7th or until gone!
Standard Rate $60
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!
Community and Family Yoga in the Spiral with Kerrie Martin
Sunday, August 16th | 10:30am - 11:30am | True Nature Peace Garden
Free Community Offering - Donations Appreciated
Join the lovely Kerrie Martin and her daughters for a joyful outdoor yoga practice in the yoga spiral—where all ages are welcome to move, breathe, and connect.
This uplifting class weaves together simple yoga poses, breathwork, mindfulness, and relaxation. No experience is needed—just bring your mat, your loved ones, and your whole heart. It’s a perfect way to nurture well-being and connection before the school year begins.
All community members are welcome!
Community Recovery & Resilience Clinic with The Lotus Way
Sunday, August 16th | 11 AM - 2 PM | True Nature Kiva
Suggested donation $28-55
Experience the Five-Point Auricular Therapy Protocol
Join The Lotus Way for a drop-in experience designed to support nervous system regulation, deep restoration, and whole-person wellbeing. Five tiny needles, one deep exhale. This five-point ear acupuncture protocol is 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.
Thursday, August 20th | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | True Nature Kiva
Registration Required
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 Taryn Giroux. This is a guided, music-driven journey using conscious connected breath.
No experience necessary. No proof of caregiving. Just bring yourself. Registration is required and space is limited in order to hold this circle with real intimacy.
Sponsored with love by Lead with Love, CASA of the Ninth, and Connection is the Medicine Foundation
Financial Awakening: Conscious Wealth Reset
Saturday, August 22nd | 9am - 12pm | True Nature Kiva
Free, Registration Required
Most financial stress isn’t a math problem—it’s a relationship problem. Numbers only matter insofar as they support your dreams and values. Many people lack clarity about what truly matters and often reconnect with their priorities only during moments of crisis or major life transitions. Financial Awakening helps you gain clarity from within while offering practical, fiduciary-grade strategies to transform your relationship with money.
This workshop teaches you how to make conscious, values-based financial decisions—especially when emotion, noise, and life changes might otherwise derail your judgment. You’ll learn how to turn thoughtful decisions into a repeatable system that supports what matters most in your life.
BUILT TO MOVE with Carolyn Williams
Assess Your Mobility. Improve Your Movement. Move Through Life with Confidence.
Sunday, August 23rd | 3 pm - 5 pm | True Nature Kiva
Standard Rate: $75
Mobility isn't about being flexible—it's about moving well. Whether you love hiking, skiing, running, lifting, gardening, or simply want to move through everyday life with less stiffness and more confidence, healthy movement is the foundation.
In this interactive workshop, you'll learn how to evaluate your own movement, identify your biggest mobility limitations, and practice simple techniques that can improve how you feel and perform.
Frontiers of Knowledge: INTEGRATION
Monday, August 24th | 2pm - 7:30pm | True Nature Kiva + Peace Garden
Frontiers of Knowledge Participants Only: $75
We invite you to please purchase your Frontiers of Knowledge symposium ticket here.
INTEGRATION is where the Symposium's ideas come alive: conversations around consciousness, intelligence, and the living world move out of theory and into direct experience, and Symposium participants meet again. 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?
Experience the Music of Garth Stevenson
Monday, August 24th | 6 pm - 7:30 pm | True Nature Kiva
General Admission: $33
This is more than just a concert.
Garth Stevenson’s ethereal music is praised to "offer the aural equivalent of effortlessly swimming underwater without ever needing to come up for air."
We are thrilled to bring this invitation to pause, breathe, and reconnect through an unforgettable evening of intimate music in the Kiva at True Nature.
This offering is presented in partnership with the Frontiers of Knowledge Symposium.
jueves, 27 de agosto | 6:30 PM - 8:15 PM | True Nature Kiva
Free Community Offering: This class will be taught entirely in Spanish.
En esta clase, apta para todos los niveles. Activaremos, estiraremos y fortaleceremos con ejercicios de nivel medio a moderado, finalizando con un ritmo lento y relajante, usando aceite esencial para profundizar la relajación.
Esta clase se impartirá completamente en español. Último jueves de cada mes comenzando el jueves 26 de Marzo hasta el jueves 22 de octubre. Esta clase se presenta en colaboración con:
This offering is sponsored by Stepping Stones in partnership with Connection is the Medicine Foundation, located at the True Nature campus.
EVENTS + PROGRAMING
Through Connection is the Medicine Foundation and the True Nature campus - we are proud to host a variety of workshops, seminars, and retreats focused on inspiration, connection, and self-discovery. We welcome teachers and teachings from varied disciplines as well as students with diverse interests and needs.
Our deepest intention is to create a supportive environment where both teachers and students can reach their potential. What is the essence of this potential? Coming to know our life purpose and courageously and ardently sharing these gifts and passions with the world.
We take great pride in offerings that nurture authentic connection. The unique teachings add meaningful threads to the tapestry of belonging we cultivate here, and we are grateful for the opportunity to collaboratively serve our community.
INTERESTED IN FACILITATING
Each year, we are honored to welcome new and returning facilitators into our diverse calendar of offerings. As part of our intentional curation, we partner with a limited number of guest facilitators, and applications are reviewed in batches. Because we book programs six months to a year in advance, please plan ahead. We appreciate your patience as we carefully review each proposal.
If you are interested in facilitating events or programming, please fill out this application for the 2026 calendar year.
INTERESTED IN RENTING
If you are interested in renting any of our campus facilities, please reach out to nicole@truenaturehealingarts.com or fill out this inquiry form.
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