SOU’WESTER EVENTS!
Discover what’s happening during your next stay or plan a visit around our free live music, workshops, wellness offerings and more!
Grief Retreat with The Portland Grief house
Two night retreat with guided meditations and sound healing
Who/How much: w/Julia Francis and Laura Green of The Portland Grief House $498-807 includes lodging
What: We will spend the weekend in conversation with the non-human world; asking what medicine we can offer and what we can take. Except for grief spills and vocalizing during sound healing, we will keep conversation with humans to a bare minimum. We’ll use guided sound work, yoga practice and meditation to let spoken language shift away from the center of our attention. We’ll listen deeply, and talk sincerely with the world around us, and believe what we hear and learn. Retreat pricing includes various Sou’Wester lodging options. Full event details and itinerary found here: https://www.
Email: info@griefhouse.org
1:1 Wellness / Acupuncture Sessions
w/ Celestial Window Restorative Arts
$150 / 90 Minute Sessions
December 18, 2023 by Appointment | Text: 971-282-3891 to Book
My work is focused in the lineage of Worsley Five Element Acupuncture, however, in my 8 years of clinical training I studied many modalities and can offer a variety of treatment strategies. Acupuncture is a beautiful craft with techniques for bringing flow to stuck places, and fostering a deeper harmonization within the body. It is based on philosophy that sees the human being as whole, with the full potential for healing as innate. Acupuncture uses a network of physical connections to activate the body’s own healing potential and is supportive for all aspects of life, from pain management, fertility support, digestive disorders, to finding creative expansion and self actualization.
Solstice at Sou’wester
Tea “As Gentle Hospitality” Service
(by appointment) in the Tea Trailer | December 20, 2023
Hosted by Celestial Window Restorative Arts as part of their Creative Wellness Residency
Sessions by Appointment | $33 / Person for 75 Minute Sessions
Text 971-282-3891 to Book
Solstice at Sou’wester
Acupuncture + Sound Bath
“Sound Dérive (Drift)”
An Embodied-Listening-Acupuncture-Sound Bathing-Fluxus-Art-Exercise with Unity Garnish x Feast of The Epiphany
Wednesday, Dec 20, 2023 | 6-7:30pm
For this unique group “sound bathing” experience we are invoking the 1960s French Fluxus Art Exercise of the “Dérive (Drift)”, which in essence describes a meditation through which one is invited to “get lost on purpose”, in order to facilitate an embodied state of inspiration and wellbeing crafted through the blending of multiple creative mediums. Utilizing sound, visual art and the option of gentle acupuncture, participants will be guided to reset and renew into an evolution of self. In the vein of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, individuals will leave with a one of a kind art object to carry the experience with them into life and the remainder of their time at the Sou’Wester.
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Quadraphonic Acupuncture & Sound Bath
With Star Child x Sonic Ceremonies
Winter Solstice | Thursday, December 21st | 3-4:30pm
Collective Release Fire
Outside in the trailer court in front of the lodge, we will gather into an expanded moment of presence with the weight of the world, a time of reverence through lively celebration of the complexity of existence in togetherness, where whatever wishes to unfold may do so naturally through the intentional lighting of a fire. There will be pieces of paper and pens on which to write and reflect and then offer the writings into the fire, instruments with which we can play, and an invitation to donate whatever resources are available, financial or otherwise, to Source Food and Goods, a group offering community aid to the local Palestinian community in Portland, OR .
*No drinks in public. Quiet hours after 10p.
Contemplative Rest Retreat
Contemplative Rest: Our Basic Peace Work
A weekend-long retreat with M Freeman
Fri, Feb 9 @ 7:00pm – Sun, Feb11 @ 11am
In-person only at:
The Sou’wester Lodge
3728 J Place
Seaview, Wa 98644
The Brief
Explore, savor, and rest in the numinous through this weekend-long retreat with contemplative guide, media artist, and writer, M Freeman. Inspired by decades of heart-centered contemplative practices and by Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh’s mindfulness teaching that rest is our most basic peace work, Freeman’s Contemplative Rest cultivates engagement in the mystical realm and nurtures awe as a profoundly fortifying resource.
We’ve all had unforgettable experiences of awe. Maybe it was on a hike, or holding a newborn, or watching a flock of birds. Maybe it was in moonlight, or with your cat, or in a hospital room. This spacious weekend features practice sessions in which Freeman will lead participants through exploring and honoring recollected moments, and will then guide folks into reverent, somatic, contemplative rest. Participants will be invited into reflective writing, to share reflections and insights, and to enjoy lots of solo relaxation time. All this wonder happens along the stunning Washington State coast at the Sou’wester Lodge and Vintage Travel Trailer Resort.
How much: Retreat fee is sliding scale, starting at $325 – Tickets
Lodging is additional. The Sou’wester has set aside select lodging options for retreat participants. Book lodging directly here with the Sou’wester.
Event details at marilynfreeman.com
About M Freeman
Media artist, writer, contemplative, spiritual director, and independent scholar, M Freeman works at the intersections of reckoning and resiliency, queerness and film, and contemplative, creative and social art practices. Author of The Illuminated Space: A Personal Theory and Contemplative Practice of Media Art (The 3rd Thing, 2020/winner of the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Creativity & Innovation) and creator of Cinema Divina (short films for contemplative practice), Freeman is the founder of Contemplative Rest: Exploring, Savoring & Resting in the Numinous; and co-curator of Good Symptom: A Serial Anthology of Time-based Disturbances. Their text and media arts essays have been published in or at The Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, TriQuarterly, Blackbird, Rolling Stone, Abbey of the Arts, and Good Symptom. Their films are screened on PBS and in galleries, spirituality centers and festivals worldwide. marilynfreeman.com.
M Freeman photo by Anne de Marcken
Community Acupuncture at the Sou’wester with lara pacheco
Come rest, relax, and heal in the coastal forest with others in the pavilion space at the Sou’wester in Seaview, Washington on Friday, June 14th, 10-2pm with lara pacheco. $25-$55 sliding scale.
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This in-person event will take place at the beautiful Sou’wester Historic Lodge. lara pacheco, a licensed acupuncturist, will be providing community acupuncture as a way of making acupuncture more accessible. Community acupuncture is also a way that multiple people are able to relax in a communal space and share in the wide array of benefits that this ancient medicine provides. Acupuncture can treat anything from depression, anxiety, any kind of pain, digestion, sleep issues, and chronic conditions to also providing overall support for general well being. People can expect to rest anywhere from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours depending on what your body needs and what you are comfortable with. Come experience this simple, yet powerful medicine with community and as an addition to being surrounded by the coast and forest.
Please bring a whatever you need to relax (blanket, mat, cushions). Please dress in comfortable layers and be prepared to roll up pants up to knees and long sleeves that roll up to the elbow and to remove socks and shoes for treatment.
- How does this work? Sign up for a time slot. Tickets will be available in 15 minute slots. You’ll sign up for some short paper work, then find a spot, roll up sleeves and pant legs if that is comfortable for you and lara will start treatment.
- How long do I stay? Depends. At least 30 minutes is recommended but listening to your body’s needs is most important. Sometimes people fall asleep and sometimes they don’t, but what is most important is that they relax.
Community Acupuncture at the Sou’wester
Come rest, relax, and heal in the coastal forest with others in the pavilion space at the Sou’wester on Friday, November 22nd, 4pm-7pm and Saturday the 23rd, 10am-1pm. $25 – $55 sliding scale.
Acupuncture supports recovery, sleep, immunity, digestion and reduces stress, pain, anxiety and lifts depression. Acupuncture regulates the nervous system, reduce inflammation, &speeds up healing. $25-$55 is a sliding scale pay what you can model making this care accessible to
Community Acupuncture at the Sou’wester
Come rest, relax, and heal in the coastal forest with others in the pavilion space at the Sou’wester on Friday, November 22nd, 4pm-7pm and Saturday the 23rd, 10am-1pm. $25 – $55 sliding scale.
Acupuncture supports recovery, sleep, immunity, digestion and reduces stress, pain, anxiety and lifts depression. Acupuncture regulates the nervous system, reduce inflammation, &speeds up healing. $25-$55 is a sliding scale pay what you can model making this care accessible to