An embodied ritual of breath, heat, cold, rest and healing
Join Gather and Avery Dawn, local somatic and breathwork practitioner, for a deeply restorative sunset to twilight evening of breathwork + traditional sauna + nurturing beverage + community
30 mins of breathwork, 45 minutes of thermic cycles of sauna/plunge/rest, intentionally prepared refreshment and time to rehydrate and connect in community.
This Class weaves breathwork and contrast therapy into an intentional practice of moving between activation and grounding, intensity and stillness, expansion and return.
We’ll begin with a guided breathwork practice that moves between energizing and grounding breath to introduce the central theme of the experience: contrast makes sensation perceptible.
We experience warmth differently after being cold, stillness differently after movement, silence differently after sound. One state gives definition to the other, helping us experience sensations and transitions that might otherwise go unnoticed.
That same theme will carry through the sauna and cold plunge experience: heat into cold, cold into warmth, expansion into grounding.
The intention isn’t to stay comfortable the entire time. It’s to explore your edge with awareness and choice, noticing what shifts in the body and practicing how we find our way back to steadiness, at our own pace.
Expand. Meet the edge. Return.
A practice of feeling contrast, deepening awareness, and finding your way back to yourself.
Breathe and Feel with Avery
Avery is a somatic practitioner who helps people reconnect with their bodies and rebuild trust in their own knowing. Through breathwork and nervous system work, she guides you from feeling scattered and stuck in your head to living from a place of grounded, steady intuition.