🌿☀️ Resonance & Renewal: Summer Solstice Embodied Healing Retreat ☀️🌿
☀️ Resonance & Renewal: Summer Solstice Embodied Healing Retreat ☀️
Sunday, June 14 | 4:00–6:00 PM
Skyline Sanctuary, 12540 Skyline Blvd, Oakland, CA
The Summer Solstice is the longest, brightest day of the year — a moment of peak light, growth, and possibility. It’s an invitation to step more fully into who you’re becoming, to release what’s heavy, and to remember your own inner sun.
Join us for a two‑hour, trauma‑informed mini retreat in the Skyline sanctuary: an evening of grounded yoga, somatic healing, sound, and contemplative rest. Together we’ll move, breathe, and listen for what the season of light is asking of us now — in our bodies, our relationships, and our wider world.
You’ll be guided through:
A warm, accessible yoga practice with Rondy to awaken strength, ease, and joy in your body.
Diana’s somatic and breathwork journey to help your nervous system settle, release stored tension, and integrate what’s rising in this solstice “peak light” moment
Laurie’s gentle spiritual reflection and closing ritual, weaving what you’ve felt in your body with meaning, justice, everyday life.
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YOUR FACILITATORS
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Diana Bitting is a somatic practitioner, trauma researcher, and certified yoga teacher — as well as founder of Catbird Heal/th (catbirdclub.com), a AI-powered holistic healing ecosystem. Her practice is grounded in polyvagal theory, TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises), and the neuroscience of the mind-body connection.
Laurie Manning holds advanced degrees from Harvard (Human Development & Psychology), the University of Michigan (MBA), and Columbia/Union Theological Seminary. She has spent 25+ years accompanying people through grief, burnout, and major life transitions — as an interfaith chaplain, executive consultant, and community minister. Her work is for people who respect science and still care about meaning. (slide-deck-design--revlauriemannin.replit.app/personal-v2)
Rondy Isaac (https://chocolatebuddhayoga.com) is a yoga teacher, community wellness advocate, and founder of Chocolate Buddha Yoga and the BIPOC Barbershop Yoga movement, dedicated to making mindfulness, movement, and healing practices accessible to communities that have historically been left out of traditional wellness spaces. Through classes, workshops, and community partnerships, he brings yoga, meditation, and culturally grounded wellness experiences into everyday environments like barbershops, creating welcoming spaces for connection, stress relief, and personal growth. His work blends physical practice with community building, helping people cultivate strength, balance, and mental wellbeing while expanding access to holistic health.
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DETAILS
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📍 SCC campus — ample free parking onsite
👕 Wear comfortable, layered clothing you can move and rest in, as well as stay warm
🧘 Please bring your own mat.
🌤️ Held indoors; outdoor elements weather permitting
💛 Suggested offering: $25 (in advance) $30 at the door: https://buy.stripe.com/eVqfZgcHGcCC5qh0TK0Fi00
Scholarships and work‑trade spots available — (Note June 14 event)
🎟️ Space is limited; please register in advance to reserve your spot.
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POST EVENT RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
Join your hosts for a casual dinner nearby following the event if you wish.