Holding space
Holding space
A Nature-based Healing Series
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2025 | 12 - 3 PM
ARLINGTON GARDEN | PASADENA, CA
Holding Space is a free/donation-based monthly gathering focused on rest, renewal, and collective healing in partnership with nature, following the wildfires.
Through intentional activations—ranging from movement and meditation to creative expression—we hold space for individuals to pause and reconnect within. We prioritize people of color and culture, honoring the richness and diversity that reflect a wide array of cultures, stories, and experiences.
Each Holding Space is an invitation to be present—with yourself, with others, and with the land. It is rooted in the understanding that community care and a connection with the natural world are essential to our collective liberation.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2025 | 12 - 3 PM
📍 Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA
This free wellness pop-up is part of ongoing wildfire wellness support efforts, centering our community impacted by the recent fires. Through creativity, collective care, and connection to nature, we hold space for grief, renewal, and resilience.
Free and open to all
Join us for a special Holding Space gathering dedicated to Land Healing—a community-centered collaboration led by Soul Force Project, in partnership with Hands in the Soil (HITS).
This introductory session marks the first public Land Healing offering, opening a larger series of ceremonies that will continue privately with Altadena residents who lost their homes in the Eaton Fire. Together, we’ll honor the people, the land, and the spirit of Altadena through music, meditation, and ritual.
The afternoon will feature a soundscape by YD Nature, guiding participants into deep listening and reflection, and Raga Meditation for positive energy and peace led by Paul and Alma Livingstone of Soul Force Project.
As part of the ceremony, guests are invited to bring flowers, fruit, and coins (especially from other parts of the world) as offerings for the Earth-healing ritual led by Alma Livingstone—a collective prayer for renewal of the lands affected by the Eaton and Palisades fires.
This is a space for remembrance, reverence, and regeneration—where music and intention meet in service of healing the Earth and all who belong to it.
Soundscape by YD Nature
Raga Meditation & Ceremony by Paul and Alma Livingstone (Soul Force Project)
In collaboration with Hands in the Soil (HITS)
Donations are welcome to sustain future Hands in the Soil community wellness initiatives.
Organized by Hands in the Soil (HITS) | Supported by the Healthy Homies Initiative
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The Soul Force Project is a Altadena-based nonprofit that promotes social justice through global music and the arts. We present live events and community activations around themes of nonviolent action.
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(hōl·ding spās) – verb
1. To create a sacred container for rest, healing, and transformation. A practice of deep presence, care, and nonjudgment, where individuals and communities—especially BIPOC healers, scholars, organizers, and leaders—can release, renew, and reconnect with themselves, each other, and the land.
2. To honor the unseen and unspoken. Ancestrally rooted in traditions of communal care, holding space means standing as a witness, offering support without imposing, and allowing emotions, stories, and energies to move freely within a safe and intentional environment.