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!
Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series
Crafting and Nourishing Our Way into Summer with Lara Pacheco, Paige Common & Kate Coulton
Join herbalists Lara Pacheco and Kate Coulton as we craft with natural dyeing and nourish with some seasonal medicine making to bring us into the warmer and expansive months of the year. Lunch will be provided by Chef, Paige Common from Eatin’ Alive. Each participant will learn some basic steps of dyeing with plants and will be able to personalize their own dye bath. Folks will take home a tea blend that we will make as well. When registering for the class please specify if you would like to dye a cotton scarf or a skein of wool yarn. (If signing up 4 days or less before the workshop you will dye yarn.) Join us Friday evening May 24th from 6:30-7:30pm if you want to learn how to prepare your fibers for the dye process.
Kate Coulton of Pinon Botanicals and Lara Pacheco of Seed and Thistle Apothecary offer customized experiences around connecting folks to plant medicine, body and land. They do this through education and herbal crafting. Lara also offers a 11 month herbal apprenticeship program that delves deeper into these connections and supports folks in tapping into their ancestral medicine. More information can be found at www.seedandthistle.com
Paige Common started preparing plant-based foods in her Portland kitchen giving life to Eatin’ Alive in 2010. Detroit born and bred, soulful living inspires this gal: healthy diets, hearty laughter and active lifestyle. She believes that a rainbow a day will keep the doctor away. Paige is available for one-on-one health coaching, recipe development, pre/post-natal consultations, small event catering, speaking engagements and classes.
COST: $40 plus a $20 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.)
BRING: All supplies provided in addition to a catered lunch. Coffee and tea provided. Please wear clothes & shoes that are ok to get dye on. Please bring a notebook, pen/pencil, and a little bag to gather some of your crafted items at the end.
Optional lesson on how to prepare your fiber/wool for dye on Friday May 24th from 6:30pm-7:30pm at the Sou’wester.
All skill levels welcome. 20 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542 between 9am-9pm. (When registering for the class please specify if you would like to dye a cotton scarf or a skein of wool yarn. Instructors need at least 4 days notice in order to provide students with this choice.)
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
Elisabeth Pixley-Fink is a Portland-based singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and band leader, born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan by a family of music-makers. Her blend of heartbreaking, heart-making folk songs and bratty garage rock hits you in the chest and mouth, with guts, trust and hunger.
“She has a campfire personality. You see her perform and you can’t turn away…you just stay there observing the fire, hypnotized.” -Luis Alberto González Arenas, rip.mx
Photo by John Hanson, Adam Levy
This event is free and open to the public!!
Art Exhibit
Forget Me Not Taxidermy
by artist Lindsay Bones
June 9 through August 4, 2019
A new art exhibit in a vintage travel trailer turned into a permanent art gallery, at The Sou’wester Lodge
‘Forget Me Not Taxidermy’ is a sculptural exhibition using taxidermy with road kill, bringing back animals in a new light. So they are remembered forever and not forgotten as victims of the road.
OPENING RECEPTION on Sunday June 9, 6pm-9pm.
OPEN: Fri/Sat/Sun 9am-9pm (and by request: visit the lodge front desk and we’ll open the gallery for you)
Art Gallery & Opening Reception free and open to the public.
Lindsay Bones
Raised in Astoria, and resides there now. Finished taxidermy school in Thompson falls Montana the summer of 2016. After having her housemates complain of having no room for ice-cream in the freezer from her collection of roadkill. Working on only animals that have died of natural causes/roadkill/pets. Dressing up squirrels, rats, mink, and mice. With inspiration from books like red wall & wind in the willows. She aspires to one day have her own boutique of oddities and taxidermy in her home town.
This trailer is a 1960’s Aloha made in Aloha, Oregon. It was rescued from a neglected RV park in the northern part of the Long Beach Peninsula. Now repaired and transformed into an art space, this art gallery is part of our Artist Residency Program and our non-profit organization, Sou’wester Arts.
Summer 2019 Wellness Retreat Series
Unleash Your Spiritual Super Powers
with Aimee Ward and Garnet Griebel
This retreat will provide you with an array of practical spiritual tools that will dramatically support your ability to live your highest and purest expression as an Infinite Being. You will tap into the Source of Creation to tune into your Higher Self and illuminate the path towards your greatest manifestations. Come prepared to have breakthroughs and epiphanies, understand your divine worth, meet your Spirit Guides and see everyday life from a heightened perspective.
- Create personal awareness with how your body, brain, emotions, words, and Spirit can be activated to manifest the highest version of our reality
- Use crystal energetics, spirit guide activation, psychic awareness, and energy field dynamics
- Meditation and journaling will assist you to connect deeper
Aimee Ward is an intuitive and clairvoyant energy healer who works directly with Spirit to create personalized and effective healing protocols. Her tools range from working with guides and angels to using oracle cards, Pranic healing techniques, crystal programming and more.
She began her study of the esoteric arts at the age of 15 after experiencing a deep connection to the spirit realm during her childhood years attending church. It was there that she first met her spirit guides. In 2016, after taking an immersive Lightworker Training Course with Portland based lightworker Tatiana Sakurai, she began practicing and sharing energy healing, using aspects of Pranic Healing and Light Work. Working with clients, as well as a continued self-practice, has led her to creating the intuitive system she now uses. She is continually building her spiritual tool box to help herself and others peel back the layers, unfolding onto higher planes together with grace and joy.
Garnet Griebel is a Reiki certified crystal energy healer and jewelry designer. She has been working with stones through making jewelry for over 20 years and has been immersing herself in the energy healing properties of gemstones for the past 6 years. Garnet is passionate about awakening, empowering and uplifting people to heal themselves by giving them the metaphysical knowledge, tools of ascension and confidence they need to go forth on their individual healing journey.
She has developed her own unique style of energy work, which combines gemstone chakra alignment followed by gemstone therapy, Reiki and talk therapy. Garnet has treated numerous clients using crystal energy healing while continually growing her healing and teaching services. “The great healer lies within us all, so as a teacher, I aim to empower and uplift people to heal themselves by giving them the metaphysical knowledge, tools of ascension and confidence they need to go forth on their individual healing journey.”
Monday: 4-7pm :: Accessing Your Super Powers
- Meditation and Intention
- Introductions and check-ins
- Understanding how our bodies, brain, emotions, words, and Spirit can be activated to manifest the highest version of our reality.
- Guided journaling homework
Tuesday: 10am-1pm :: Meeting Your Celestial Team.
- Deep guided meditation for bringing forward guides, meeting them and your team and receiving gifts
- Who are your guides? What are the different types of spiritual entities on your team? How can they help you in life? How can you communicate with them? How they communicate with you
- Q and A and open discussion
LUNCH BREAK
3-6pm :: Using Oracles
- Intention
- Overview of many types of oracles and the art of seeing signs in everyday life, listening to your intuition and honing your psychic abilities
- Brief Tarot reading and creation of your own personal intuited oracle card
- Journaling homework
Wednesday: 10am-1pm :: Crystal Energy Healing and Crystal Pendulum Use with guest instructor Garnet Griebel Booth
- Introduction to crystals and pendulum work, uses, history of dousing
- Gemstones and chakra healing, crystals and their properties, chakra 101
- Hands on crystal chakra alignment, example and one on one practice
- Journaling and Q and A
- Crystal clearing and programming – a quick lesson with Aimee
LUNCH BREAK
3-6pm :: Basic Energy Hygiene
- Meditation and intention
- Learn the basics of energy hygiene, chakra cleansing, scanning, cord cutting, toroidal fields, grounding, and shielding
- One on one practice and Q and A
- Guided journaling homework
Thursday: 9-11am :: You Are Your Perfect Healer
- Meditation and intention
- Check-in, Q and A, One on one practice time
- Gratitude and Farewells
BEGINS: Monday at 5pm
ENDS: Thursday at 12pm
COST: $215, plus lodging ($200 deposit reserves your space, and is credited towards your total)
BRING: A journal, pen, yoga mat or small blanket, meditation pillow if desired, and a shawl for warmth
This workshop is best for students age 14 and up. 4 student minimum, 10 students max.
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*For SHARED LODGING OPTIONS please contact souwesterwellness@gmail.com
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Summer 2019 Wellness Retreat Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome.
Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/wellness/retreats to see the full schedule of retreats.
Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series
Radiant Fearlessness: Embracing Your Best YOU with the Tools of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation
with instructor Laurel Clohessy
This 4 hour workshop is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the joy, transformation, and rejuvenation of Kundalini Yoga, sacred chant, and creativity as you re-discover and return to your true self. Whether you are an experienced yogi, or this is your first time practicing Kundalini Yoga, you can benefit from this practice. Kundalini Yoga and meditation, as taught by Yogi Bhajan is for anyone and everyone. Just breathe, and lean in the right direction and you too will benefit! The best way to know it, is by doing it-so we will experience basic pranayam or breathwork, kriyas or yogic sets, meditations, and mantras that can become a part of your own daily toolbox. Tools to release stress, to unlock creativity, and be your best YOU. Kundalini yoga is often called “the yoga of awareness,” as it is a journey of self-mastery and one that activates all the systems of the body. We will enjoy the blessings of community-in a few group meditations and excercises, as well as the natural world-taking time by the ocean to practice a walking meditation. There will be a couple of brief writing and art meduims explored post-yoga sets. Kundalini Yoga is a tool to experience your birthright to happiness and greatness as the human being that you are. “Great challenges come to Great people.” -YB
I hope to see you there! Sat Nam
Laurel Clohessy (Deshpal Kaur) grew up with Kundalini Yoga sprinkled throughout her early childhood. She returned to the arms of this practice following the birth of her oldest son. In 2005 Laurel studied with Gurmukh to become a certified Khalsa Way Prenatal teacher. In 2007, she completed the Radiant Child teacher training with Shakta Kaur, and in 2014 Laurel completed her Level 1 KYTT with Sevak Singh Khalsa. Laurel often incorporates poetry and dance movement into her all-levels classes. It is her joy to share these teachings with others, and she sees the powerful practice of Kundalini Yoga as a compass that can always point us forward, as well as return us to the happiest, truest Self. Laurel teaches currently in Portland, Oregon and is a transplant from Flagstaff, AZ.
COST: $45-$25 sliding scale, please pay what you can within this range
BRING: Dress comfortably to move, bring a water bottle, a cushion or blanket, and yoga mat if you have one. Please bring a sack lunch (hot tea and coffee provided). Sitting together blessing our food, and sharing a mealtime is a great thing for any community. Bring a sunhat, light jacket, and shoes to walk to the shore (a very short walk). We will experience some meditation and breathwork by the ocean.
This workshop is best for students age 14 and up. 12 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542 between 9am-9pm
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.
The Best Intentions’ are Ani Banani and Pete Irving playing a repertoire that encompasses jazz standards, old blues, contemporary diamonds in the rough, and a surprising amount of classic-sounding original music.
This event is free, all ages, and open to the public!
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Come celebrate July 4th with us!!
Western Female is a New York-based performance piece, led by front-woman and songwriter Melanie Beth Curran. Through channels of honky-tonk, rock n’ roll, old-time, early jazz, croon, poetry, and secular sermon, Western Female takes audiences on musical tours of Western spaces. By inhabiting a variety of musical genres, Western Female combines theatrical performance with sound to evoke inquiry into the role of women on stage, in song, and within the mythological framework of The West.
“… her work is new Hollywood cinema, Italian realism, and French new wave on a country record. She’s Vargas, Fellini, Lou Reed, Cindy Sherman, and Hank Williams all at once. In the future, genre, cynicism, strictures of the patriarchy, cannot hold down the Western Female.”
– American Standard Time
This event is free, all ages, and open to the public!
Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series
The Art of Wandering: A Walking and Writing Workshop with Erica Trabold
Where does the mind wander when you wander? This workshop encourages you to roam, embodying your writing practice and rooting your nonfiction in the physical world. Students will take a walk—on the beach, to town, or through the Sou’Wester property—to ground themselves in place and write about the experience. We’ll warm up the imagination with model essays and short prompts. Then, it’s feet to pavement and pen to the page.
Erica Trabold is the author of Five Plots (Seneca Review Books, 2018), selected by John D’Agata as the winner of the inaugural Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize. Her essays appear in The Rumpus, Passages North, The Collagist, South Dakota Review, Seneca Review, Essay Daily, and elsewhere. A graduate of Oregon State University’s MFA program and the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Erica writes and teaches in Portland, Oregon.
photo credit Kimberly Dovi Photography
COST: $30
BRING: notebook, pen or pencil, shoes & anything else to keep you comfortable while walking
Please bring a sack lunch and/or snack (coffee and hot tea provided).
20 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542 between 9am-9pm
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
Tal·i·a Keys
noun
a genre crossing multi-instrumental musical force of performing art, bringing you her brand of Soul-Funk-Rock n’ Roll.
“This Salt Lake City “musical powerhouse” is known for sourcing energies largely compared to the bluesy rawness of Janis Joplin and the fire of Jimi Hendrix. Synergizing that old soul vibe with new school sounds, best described by Katie Bain as “blistering.” Having been “struck by her talent, stage presence and refreshing candor.”
– Insomniac: 2014 Best of Electric Forest
Photo by Stefan Poulos
This event is free, all ages, and open to the public!!
Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series
Channeling the Creative Self Through Tarot and Magic with Coleman Stevenson
This workshop will introduce a range of spontaneous and magical methods for accessing creative impulses. We will find “the muse” in unexpected places and practice allowing it to come through without restriction. Prompts will use methods such as divination, magical writing, spontaneous mark-making, and severe constraints. We will also examine the work of artists and writers who have employed such methods in their own creations. This class is designed for artists and writers who want to broaden or recharge their practices, or for anyone seeking a greater connection with their creative self. Materials for all exercises will be provided as part of the registration fee.
photo credit Sierra Bittinger
Coleman Stevenson is an artist, writer and tarot practitioner based in Portland, OR. She is the creator of the Dark Exact Tarot Deck, the Vitriolic Tarot, the Personal Oracle, and the East O’ the Sun Oracle. Books by Stevenson include Breakfast: 43 Poems (Reprobate/GobQ Books, 2015) and The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609 (bedouin books, 2012) and The Dark Exact Tarot Guide. Her poems have appeared in a variety of publications such as Paper Darts, Seattle Review, Gramma, E-ratio, Louisiana Literature, Mid-American Review, and the anthology Motionless from the Iron Bridge. She has has been a guest curator at various gallery spaces in Portland and has taught a variety of subjects at institutions in the area including creative writing, literature, folklore, culture & design, and image & text interaction. Her visual work has been shown at galleries around the Pacific Northwest.
photo credit Zoe Cope
COST: $30 plus a $10 material fee (Please pay material fee directly to the instructor.) There will be a variety of tarot decks (new and vintage) available for purchase at the workshop as well.
BRING:
- a copy of a tarot deck if you have one you’d like to use, though decks will be available to borrow or purchase at the workshop
- a printed copy of one of your poems, short prose pieces, or images that you feel is stuck, “unsuccessful,” or otherwise incomplete
- a notebook and preferred writing instrument for notes
- a sack lunch and/or snack (hot tea and coffee provided)
12 students max.
RSVP: souwesterfrontdesk@gmail.com or 360-642-2542 between 9am-9pm
The Sou’wester Lodge at 3728 J Place, Seaview, WA 98644
This class is part of the Spring/Summer 2019 Workshop Series. All classes are open to the public and all skill levels welcome. Visit www.souwesterlodge.com/art/workshops to see the full schedule of artist-led workshops.