New Year’s Eve Gathering: A Conscious Threshold into the Year Ahead

 Potluck begins at 6:30 pm. Please bring a healthy food contribution to share.

 Circle begins at 7:30 pm

South Etobicoke studio. Address provided upon RSVP.

 RSVP required. Message or text to save your seat.

 All are welcome. By donation.

New Year’s Eve Gathering: A Conscious Threshold into the Year Ahead

Somatic inquiry, reflection, and community: an evening designed to land deeply and cross the year together

NYE parties are usually loud, late, and fuelled by distraction; a collective attempt to manufacture meaning at the very moment we’re crossing a threshold. This gathering offers something different: a conscious, embodied New Year’s Eve designed for people who value presence over performance, and depth over spectacle.

Rather than pushing resolutions or performing optimism, we’ll explore a more grounded relationship with desire and intention. Through guided somatic inquiry, reflection, and real conversation, you’ll be invited to slow down, listen inwardly, and allow what truly matters for the year ahead to land gently. This is not about forcing outcomes or deciding everything in advance, but about clarifying the inner signal the rest of the year can naturally organize around.

When desire is allowed to arrive softly — felt in the body rather than driven by the mind — it creates coherence. Like a pebble touching still water, a small and truthful impulse can send ripples far beyond what effort alone ever could. This evening is an invitation to find that quiet centre and notice how life begins to respond from there.

After 10:00 pm, we’ll shift from stillness into movement. Dance music will guide us into a gentle movement meditation and ecstatic dance practice, offering a way to integrate what’s emerged and let it move through the body. This portion of the evening is invitational rather than performative: you’re welcome to move freely, rest, or simply be held by the rhythm.

The evening will culminate in a shared midnight countdown, allowing us to cross into the new year together — embodied, awake, and connected.

As always, this is a Wonderful Wednesday potluck gathering. Please bring some healthy food to share and arrive on time so we can begin the reflective portion of the evening together.

🐕 Small practical note: I’m happy to stay through the midnight countdown, provided we have three volunteers willing to take my dog out for short walks during the evening. If that’s you, thank you — and please let me know in advance.

Space is limited. RSVP required.