What we’re about
For at least a few months, Denver’s Radically Open Connection meetup (Formerly Radically Open Embodied Relating) is shifting to a new format: Joy.Academy. Come get a little better at generating joy for yourself and others! Find deeper connection, new friends, and new insights about what makes you and others tick.
Meetups will include small group sessions, discussion, and somatic experiencing practices, as we become each other's teachers and students at Joy.Academy.
If you've come before, we'll be doing similar shit, but different ;)
Upcoming events
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•OnlineGrief Workshop: Memory Weaving (Virtual)
OnlineA guided grief workshop that blends science, imagination, and ritual. You’ll explore how grief lives in the body and use visualization to create “memories that could have been” — reconnecting with love, not just loss.
About the Workshop
When we lose someone we love, the mind often clings to pain while the body shuts the door on joy. This 90 minute session offers a gentle way to reopen that door — through memory, imagination, and shared ritual.
Together we’ll explore how the brain and body hold grief, and how imagination can help us access love that’s been overshadowed by trauma or illness. You’ll be guided to “weave” both real and imagined memories — tender, ordinary moments that never happened but could have — as valid containers of love and healing.You’ll Experience:
- A guided grounding to settle the body and invite safety
- Journaling exercises for naming what’s missed and what’s still felt
- A visualization practice to imagine “memories that could have been”
- A bridging process to reconnect with real joyful memories
Why It Matters:
Research in grief neuroscience shows that imagining connection can activate the same neural pathways as memory itself. By allowing the body to feel love again, we help rewire the brain’s attachment maps and soften the ache of absence.
Come as you are — whether your loss is fresh or many years old. You don’t need to “be ready.” Just willing.We’ll end together in circle, weaving what’s been remembered and imagined into something whole. You’ll be invited to name one thread you’re carrying forward — not to move on, but to move with.
Join Virtually:
https://meet.google.com/ipj-wzax-ymc6 attendees- $1,500.00
7-Day Radical Honesty Retreat in Costa Rica
Cascada Elysiana, Pérez Zeledón, Sa, CRJoin us for a 7-day Retreat at Cascada Elysiana in idyllic Costa Rica.
Price ranges from $1,500 to $3,200 depending on accommodations. All options include 3 meals/day and workshop sessions.
FOR MEMBERS OF THIS MEETUP: Anyone traveling from Denver who registers by Sept 9 will get free flight and transportation from Denver, including transportation from SJO to Cascada Elysiana on Nov 8, and one free extra night at Cascada Elysiana on the evening of the 8th. (This does not include flights or transportation home, and only applies to the direct 1:50pm SWA flight on Nov 8, where you'll be flying together with the facilitators).
Led by Tony Shawcross and Lindsay StAntoine, this workshop has 7 days of exercises aimed at improving your ability to:
- Get in touch with your body, better understand what it’s telling you, and use it to help guide your choices
- Recognize and interrupt people-pleasing or co-dependent patterns
- Work on being with, digesting, and integrating past experiences so you’re able to live more fully in the present
- Let go of “shoulds” and start acting from what actually matters to you
- Identify the habits that keep you stuck, and start shifting them
- And you’ll leave with powerful tools and insights to approach your life with more honesty, acceptance, and clarity. You’ll likely feel a new sort of comfort in your own skin, a growing confidence in your ability to be with challenging experiences, and a deeper sense of freedom to express yourself, just as you are in any moment.
Register or get more information here.
or message Tony for more information.3 attendees
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