Togethering, The Gathering is simple: gather together, play together, eat together, rest together, make the meaning we seek together.

The sisters need their brothers and the fairy god mothers need their kin…and after almost 10 years of Beana and Rootstock holding space for women inside the Moon Circle, it’s time to integrate. The first Saturday of the month is shape shifting this Summer out of the high holy day that was Moon Circle and into a co-ed, family-friendly offering called Togethering. This new container will offer a rhythmic and regular time and place to come together in conscious community.

Here’s the jist…

We are all building worlds, doing our sacred work, and serving life and our communities in unique and potent ways in our own lives. TOGETHERING is an opportunity for our community of communities to come together. It’s literally a watering hole where we can come once a month to bathe and be nourished, witness and be witnessed, inspire and be inspired, and weave ourselves into the beautiful tapestry that is humanity.

It’s a practice in showing up, connecting, revillaging, counciling, and also…chilling. This gathering wants to fill our collective cups with kindness, fun, spontaneity, authenticity, service, sweetness, and the kind of innovative time in community that can change culture, generate art, rear children, honor what’s sacred, prioritize beauty, and bring the New Earth to life.

In this time of great change, we can all benefit from a safe space to explore, reveal, and step into whatever the new world is calling on each of us to become. In this time of collapse and rebirth, proactively building new culture and new ways of connecting is the task at hand. Let’s start with getting to know one another and learning how to be together. Let’s play and feed each other. Let’s nap and sing together. Let’s grieve and pray together. As women and men and people. As families and friends and kin. As neighbors and teachers and healers and guides and lovers of life, let’s get together.

Giving & receiving ebb and flow.

Some folks just need a soft place to land for a few hours to rest and catch their breath. Others need an ear to hear about their latest revelation or an audience for their mac and cheese. Others still want to watch from the sidelines or gather dishes to wash or tools to put away and just be peripheral the gathering. Togethering welcomes you as you are. If all of us are in receiving mode one month and everybody brings pickles to the potluck, well, we’ll get to navigate that creatively and with care. More likely is that the rhythmic nature of Togethering will give us all the opportunity to both support it and receive it.

Basic set-up and break down of the bathhouse takes time, skill, and practice (especially in winter) and we’d like for more people to want to volunteer to help with baths, dishes, trash …or whatever toll our Togethering takes on Rootstock. We’d like to build a culture of care together as well as innovate ways to make the effort needed to be together worth it.

The Economics of Abundance

The sacred and casual act of simply gathering together is essential, yet the hosting and holding of people and families can be hard on a host, or home, and hill. We’re going to do it anyway. After all these years of sharing sacred containers, Rootstock knows how to do this. We know exactly how much this will ‘cost’ (money, time, energy, etc) and, we’re going to ask for donations and/or participation and lean all the way into the knowing that that ‘many hands make light work’ and this monthly invitation is worth investing our love and effort into. The potential within this way of being together for skillsharing, bartering, mutual support, and much more is piercingly obvious and, because culture building takes time, we’ll keep it simple and ask for a little money to keep the water hot, the fires burning, and the lights on…but we trust and know - and are exhilarated - to see how things will evolve with time and practice.

Suggested Sliding Scale Donation per adult/$20-$60 | Kids are free | Volunteers & Co-Crew are needed for every gathering, and will ideally rotate so everybody can enjoy holding and being held.

Meaning Making & Sacred Space

The whole gathering is rooted in conscious connection and there will be many opportunities for folks to hold space, play some music, share their stories, initiate a prayer or ritual, invite silence, invoke ancestors, and influence the gathering and the shape future gatherings…This will take time to reveal itself and best practices and culture will be born of our trying. Passing a talking stick from 2-4pm will be a starting point and, as people feel called and comfortable, more magic will emerge.

Want to share some yoga on the deck, pull some tarot cards, play some music, teach a homeschool lesson, offer somebody an herbal consult? Want to facilitate the sharing circle one month? Initiate a clothing swap? Fire up the bread oven? So much is possible. Beana’s been sponsoring *a lot* of space for community gatherings over the last decade and, though she’ll continue to lead with love and share her gifts and vision and help guide this Kin Ship - this is a new era of synarchy and co-creation and it’s time to see what else is alive in this community.