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Chrysalis recognizes the importance of our interconnectedness. We’re proud to be doing the inner work and deep introspection that gives clarity about what matters most and allows us to live intentionally.

Please search deeply inside and consider how much Chrysalis is needed in our world today. Your gift makes it possible for us to create a wiser and more compassionate Richmond TOGETHER.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Programs
Winter Solstice Labyrinth Walk
Dec 21
Winter Solstice Labyrinth Walk

An ancient mystical tool, the labyrinth is used by many cultures and religious traditions. Unlike a maze, the labyrinth has a single pathway in and out. There are no tricks or wrong turns, and you can’t get lost finding your way in and out again. A walk through the labyrinth has come to symbolize our spiritual journey.

Soulful Time Management Retreat
Jan 19
Soulful Time Management Retreat

The quality and substance of our lives is determined by our everyday choices about how we spend our time, attention, and energy. This retreat will help you create a vision for your life in the coming year so you can set clear intentions about how you wish to invest YOUR precious resources!

Feb 16
The Soul Work of Making Mandalas

More than just geometric patterns, mandalas have been used for centuries for focusing attention, meditation, and enlightened transformation. Using music and movement to drop into a light, non-ordinary state of consciousness, we’ll design mandalas using oil pastels.

Feb 23
Self-Compassion Essentials

Slow down and put yourself first for a change...and learn why that’s so important! Learn tips for better self-care and mindfulness techniques to help you practice self-compassion.

Meditation Retreat: Cultivating Wisdom and Compassion
Mar 1
Meditation Retreat: Cultivating Wisdom and Compassion

Imagine a weekend of silence, space, and stillness away from the noise, overwhelm, and busy-ness of life. At Richmond’s beautiful Roslyn Retreat Center, this meditation retreat offers time in reflective silence and as well as gentle guidance from some of RVA’s most respected mindfulness teachers.

Mar 9
Mindfulness Essentials

You read about mindfulness in magazines and have a meditation app on your smartphone, but what is it, what are its proven benefits, and how can you integrate it into your everyday life? Our experienced facilitators will help you better understand the basics of mindfulness and establish a practice that effectively fits your life.

Mar 12
Mindful Self-Compassion

When you’re struggling, do you treat yourself as well as you’d treat a friend? If not, what would it take to give yourself the same caring attention? An empirically-supported course taught in 20+ countries, MSC shares powerful tools for healing, building inner strength, and increasing confidence and self-respect.

Mar 14
Promote From Within: Hire Your Best Self

Everything you say and do influences other people -- at work, at home, and everywhere in between. Do your words and actions reflect who you are? Mindfulness reduces the gap between who you are and what you do.

Mar 24
Writing Yourself: Journaling for Well-Being

Through a mashup of writing techniques and prompts based in ancient wisdom traditions and positive psychology, we’ll explore five interlinked dimensions of the Self: Body, Heart, Mind, Soul, and Spirit. You’ll walk away from this workshop not only with tools for your future journaling practice, but with a deeper sense of joy and peace.

Mar 28
Book Club: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Join us as we read Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and discuss his provocative investigation of our modern tangle of political, technological, and existential challenges.

Drop-in classes

Photo: Cheyenne Varner

Photo: Cheyenne Varner

 

 

Join us for the following
donation-based drop-in classes.

No need to register…just show up!

Featured
People of Color Mindfulness Community Group
Oct 2
People of Color Mindfulness Community Group

The POC Mindfulness Community Group is a drop in group and open to anyone who self-identifies as a person of color. Whether you have an established mindfulness/meditation practice or have never practiced before this group is intended to be a safe space to honor, celebrate, and share our experiences. This practice is to support the collective well-being of each other through mindfulness, self-compassion and dialogue.

Nia
Nov 12
Nia

Nia is a sensory-based movement practice that draws from martial arts, dance arts and healing arts. Nia empowers people of all shapes and sizes by connecting the body, mind, emotions and spirit.

Richmond Shamanic Drum Circle
Dec 21
Richmond Shamanic Drum Circle

Recognizing Shamanism as a 30,000-year-old cross-cultural spiritual practice and way of being in respectful awareness, the world is sacred and interdependent. We invite you to celebrate the seasons and life with us with drums, rattles, and shamanic journeying. 

Reiki Exchange
Dec 23
Reiki Exchange

Reiki is a Japanese healing practice in which practitioners place their hands lightly on or just above a person receiving treatment to facilitate the person’s own healing process. The Reiki Exchange is open to all who have had a class in Reiki or other similar energy work.

Mindful Monday Meditation
Jan 7
Mindful Monday Meditation

A perfect opportunity for busy people to drop-in and experience 30 minutes of silence to begin your week with clarity. Create a silent intention and meditate in community. 

Let Your Soul Speak - Journaling
Feb 6
Let Your Soul Speak - Journaling

For new journal keepers and experienced writers alike, this monthly evening of reflection includes a time for centering, a writing warm-up activity, a period for more in-depth journaling, a brief time for optional sharing and reflection, and a closing ritual.

Let Your Soul Speak - Journaling
Mar 6
Let Your Soul Speak - Journaling

For new journal keepers and experienced writers alike, this monthly evening of reflection includes a time for centering, a writing warm-up activity, a period for more in-depth journaling, a brief time for optional sharing and reflection, and a closing ritual.

Let Your Soul Speak - Journaling
Apr 10
Let Your Soul Speak - Journaling

For new journal keepers and experienced writers alike, this monthly evening of reflection includes a time for centering, a writing warm-up activity, a period for more in-depth journaling, a brief time for optional sharing and reflection, and a closing ritual.

Let Your Soul Speak - Journaling
May 1
Let Your Soul Speak - Journaling

For new journal keepers and experienced writers alike, this monthly evening of reflection includes a time for centering, a writing warm-up activity, a period for more in-depth journaling, a brief time for optional sharing and reflection, and a closing ritual.

Let Your Soul Speak - Journaling
Jun 5
Let Your Soul Speak - Journaling

For new journal keepers and experienced writers alike, this monthly evening of reflection includes a time for centering, a writing warm-up activity, a period for more in-depth journaling, a brief time for optional sharing and reflection, and a closing ritual.

Chrysalis programs are paused between Dec 20 and Jan 3. See you in 2019!
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