Holding space
Holding space
A Nature-based Healing Series
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 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, FEBRUARY 23, 2025 | 12 - 3 PM
📿 Meditative Jewelry Making | 1 - 3 PM - Provided by AuTree
🧘🏻♀️ Balancing Emotions | 12 - 12:30 PM - Led by Sifu Yunuen Rhi
🎶 Sound & Nature Healing - Offered by Arlington Garden’s nature ecosystem & YD Nature
📍 Arlington Garden, Pasadena, CA Sunday, Feb. 23 | 12 - 3 PM
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.
Meditative Beading: A Practice of Remembrance & Renewal
Curated by AuTree, This is an open, intentional space—a ritual of reflection and intention-setting through the art of beading. We invite you to remember, release, and reimagine—to weave your prayers, memories, and visions into a tangible piece of wearable energy.
Balancing Emotions led by Sifu Yunuen Rhi
Baguazhang Martial Arts Still Postures and the 88 form helps to unite the mind spirit and body through a circular movement training for elevated self-healing. This activation of the Traditional Chinese Medicine meridians unblocks Qi and blood flow thus balancing mental and emotional health.
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
In Partnership with:
A climate-appropriate habitat garden offering learning, inspiration, and enjoyment for all.
Healthy Homies
An initiative focused on uplifting Black, Indigenous, and all people of color through healing, connection, and community care. We provide safe, creative spaces, rooted in nature, for spiritual well-being and collective growth.
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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.