A CIRCLE TO CLOSE THE YEAR

December 28, 2025 | 3 to 5pm eastern | sliding scale: $15 to $55 

In our memory bones, we know the medicine of coming together, of sharing tender spaces who can hold a vast, infinite range of heart-break and heart-make. 

Through weaving together the poetics of stillness, movement and creative practice, this intimate ceremonial gathering hopes to honor making it through.

In a true ode to ouroboros, we’ll close the year of the snake, acknowledging the skins we shed and our shifted shapes, creating generous space for a powerful new year—the year of the horse—who is heading in our direction.  

Payment (choose something on the sliding scale that is true for you) can be made via e-transfer or PayPal (friends and family option) to humaniswhatweare@gmail.com.

HUMAN IS WHAT WE ARE: WINTER TO SPRING DESERT PRACTICE

January 8, 2026 to April 12, 2026 | $88 to $388 

This virtual writing experience is designed to support all beings through the ongoing ache and wonder of earth school—it can also help implement, re-activate and/or strengthen a friendly commitment to regular writing (or creative) rituals.

By dedicating care and attention to practices that nourish our hearts (such as writing) we continue to unfurl the tense tangle of limiting beliefs, expand the wilderness of imaginational realms, open to our infinite grief, and, ultimately, reset the foundation of our love.

The twenty-seventh edition of H.I.W.W.A.* will carry us through a dark season, offering gentle invitations to intimately explore threads of death and dying through the interwoven magical web of creativity, emerging into a new knowing of ourselves. 

As the sun slowly reclaims the light, so too shall we.

What it includes:

• two x weekly one hour live sessions (Wednesdays 3p, Fridays 7:30a)

• two x weekly missives (Thursdays/Sundays)

• recordings of Friday morning live sessions

• four x two hour co-practice sessions (1/24, 2/21, 3/21, 4/12, 1-3p eastern)

Financial exchange: sliding scale, $88 to $388 CAD/USD (pay what you can, pay for what you’ll use, pay it forward)

Additionally, one-on-one sessions are available throughout our ninety-five days together for $70 CAD/USD each.

Customize this edition to suit your schedule:  receive missives only and/or opt in or out of the weekly morning live/recordings and/or cherry pick co-work sessions.

All desert beings who register by December 21st will receive access to A Circle to Close the Year, a ceremony to honour making it through, taking place on December 28th via Zoom.

Payment can be made via e-transfer or PayPal (friends and family option) to humaniswhatweare@gmail.com; registration closes on January 6th, 2026.

FIELD OF WONDER WITH TARYN DIAMOND + BRYONIE WISE

January 11, May 3, July 19, November 22 | $45 +hst each | online through Zoom

Calling in a huge, wondrous, creatively curious constellation!

As part of our commitment to our creative flow in this offering, we've developed a small playbook to draw from on how any particular session will be shaped at any given time.

For instance, one session may begin with creative calisthenics (aka writing exercises), then weaving our attention into a guided yoga nidrā practice to continue riding the creative dream-weaving wave beyond the waking, rational mind state.

Another time—as the season changes and as we do, too—we'll volley back and forth between the tabs of open wonder, keeping this shared practice (and us!) simultaneously on our toes with a sense of trusted grounding.  

You see where we're going?

We're keeping the container loose, with some structure (and a touch of mystery).

Each gathering will offer an invitation to harvest respectfully, drawing a two hour circle of fieldwork to a close by gathering any glimmers that emerge from intentional practice. 

Please note there are no prerequisites to this event: you can be anyone, anywhere—a nidrā teacher or a first-timer. 

Bring your imagination, pack a pocket of curiosity and the rest will unfold!

JOIN US IN THE FIELD

ENHANCING YOGA NIDRA WITH CREATIVE WRITING TOOLS

October 13, 20, 27 2026 | $195+tax | online via Zoom

Over three sessions and in partnership with a daily guided writing practice, we clear creative channels and activate the powerful matrix of language contained in our own hearts.

Session one: The Myth of Creativity (October 13)

Through a series of curious writing exercises, we get honest about where we are in our relationship to creativity (specifically, writing) and its interconnection to all the ways we’re able show up in the world as facilitators and human beings. From there, we tap the roots of limiting beliefs to help loosen their grip.

Session two: Lean into River, Catch Flow (October 20)

Session two is dedicated to the fine art of imitation. Mirroring offers a profound portal into cultivating a clear hum we learn to identify as our own written voice. We take a look at a few different scripts written by others and practice reworking them on pre-existing bones. ‘Read, write, repeat’ will allow us to flex the imagination and build muscles of trust.

Session Three: Dream Weaving (October 27)

Our final gathering is a culmination of the road we’ve traveled and it’s where things have the potential to get spicy. We collectively resource a list of ingredients to fold into the crafting of future nidrā scripts and investigate the orchestral scale inherent within each of us.

Included:

• access to three live sessions (and any slides or visuals used)

• accompanying recommendations for continued depth

• three weeks of guided creative practice, delivered daily into your inbox

• a downloadable pdf of writing exercises to carry with you into the future

• real-time recalibration of your imagination station 

• the opportunity to interact, play and get curious as we open creative channels 

• confidence in your own ability to craft scripts for nidrā practice

Join us on Instagram live (@taryndiamond @heart_roars) for two fifteen minute practice sessions on September 29 at 7:30am eastern and October 6 at 6:45pm eastern time.

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