Introverts Unite!

Let's get together in community for Intro to Tai Chi!! This slow mindful meditative movement is great for beginners. Your instructor will guide you through a series of gentle meditative movements. Each workshop will focus on one key area of Tai chi: balance, memory, strength, mobility, flexibility, overall wellbeing, chi. You do not need to know the poses in advance, come with a beginner's mind!

Tai Chi Instructor and Certified Meditation Instructor Rebecca Cooley guides you through a slow Tai Chi practice with poses to help you become more at ease in your body, breath, and mind through. This wonderful exercise helps you to cultivate flexibility in your mind and body as you experience the benefits of moving chi (energy).

Note: This is not a progressive class focused on memorizing and learning Tai Chi movements. Instead, this one-hour offering focuses on practicing and experiencing Tai Chi by following the instructor's lead and guidance. You receive the benefits of Tai Chi just by moving in this releaxing way :)

Includes:

• Opening Centering Meditation
• Tai Chi Warm-up exercises
• Beginner level Tai Chi
• Closing Intregration Meditation

Donations are welcome.

Advance completed pre-registration is required by noon the day of the event.

Let's get together in community for relaxation and meditation during this Guided Meditation experience.

Meditation Instructor Rebecca Cooley guides you through a meditation to relax at all levels, helping you become more at ease in your body, breath, and mind helping you access greater intuition, joy, and peace.

Program:

• a deeply relaxing guided meditation focused on stress-relief

For those who are new to Yoga Nidra meditation and wondering what exactly happens during our time together in this guided meditation ..

• If you've taken yoga, you know the amazing final pose in yoga after all the faster paced yoga poses? Called shavasana where you get to just rest and relax your body and mind
• It’s like that – and instead of 5 minutes- you are giving yourself an hour to rest along with the benefits of deep rest!
• It’s essentially guided shavasana. It’s Guided meditation for deep relaxation and stress-relief.
• Also known as Yoga Nidra or “yogic sleep”
• Yoga literally translates to the union between the mind and the body
• Yoga Nidra is a guided process. Layer by layer we move through and relax the body, breath, and mind to arrive at those deeper more subtle parts of self. Your intuition, your bliss, and your true nature
• Connecting with your true nature and recalibrating yourself to your own rhythm
• Through quiet and stillness, you feel grounded and centered
• Allowing the cares of the day, and stress to melt away
• Allowing your breath to move you to deeper more relaxed states of mind
• The process allows the mind to move into those theta and delta states where intuition and creativity is easily accessed
• An hour in guided meditation ~in community~ is deeply restorative generating much needed inner peace and connection to self.
• This path of giving time to self, connecting with self, growing closer and closer to self is a LIFE LONG journey.
• It is the path of the mind-body connection. It can help us feel grounded, centered, peaceful.

FREE
Donations Welcome

Looking to connect with other introverts?

You've found us. Join us in a low key atmosphere to talk about life as an introvert and the personal and professional challenges that sometimes come with it. We get together to do what introverts do best have deep meaningful conversation about things that matter. We share our thoughts, stories, ideas and most importantly we share our support for our fellow introverts in the Triangle.

Topics may include:
• relationships
• work
• "networking"
• socializing
• communication
• hobbies and interests
• spirituality
• activism and politics
• good reads
• advantages of being an introvert
• personal stories about life as an introvert

Login to the meeting using the link provided ...

You are welcome to keep your video off during the meeting, honor your introvert self :)

Please read the event guidelines before RSVPing:
• Do all that we can to honor eachother with love, kindness, and compassion
• Please ONLY RSVP if you will come (that way it doesn't take away
from someone who does want to join but can't because of a no-show)
• Update your RSVP as soon as you know you cannot attend (Please do this at least a day in advance ~if you can~ so those on the waitlist have enough time to arrange their schedules and attend)

Very important: Creating and Maintaining a Safe Space in our Meetings

• Prior to the meeting, please check that your audio is working before attending the meeting and that you have familiarized yourself with the chat function in case your audio is not working so that you can respond via chat. This may include knowing where the chat button is on your screen.
• Please know that the attendees at our Introvert meetings are brave in attending and sharing. Because of this we ask that all attendees participate in creating a safe space for all in attendance. We do this by arriving on time to the meeting, introducing ourselves, where we're calling from and answering the initial prompt. After this you are welcome to pass (and observe) for the remainder of the meeting. Because of the atmosphere of safety we create in these meetings, only listening and not participating during the introduction is not an option. We establish a safe space when we all are in it together, having all participated in the introductions - this sets us up for a very beautiful meeting with lots of heart-felt sharing.
• Please arrive on time to the meeting. The meeting will be closed prior to the introductions to create our safe space (about 7:31 pm). If you call in after the start of the meeting, you will be declined from entering the call. This is to help with the facilitation of the meeting and so that the logistical announcements only have to be shared one time. Please do not continue to attempt to log into the call if you have arrived late and have been declined access to the call.
• **If you have issues with your audio, our group organizer will invite you to respond in the chat and she will read your response on your behalf to the group. You will have about 5 minutes to respond via chat if you are having audio issues, after this you will be removed from the group. Please do not log back on if you have been removed as this is distracting and detracts from the meeting. If you do attempt to log back in after you have been removed from the group, you will be blocked from the call so as not to interrupt the organizer's ability to facilitate the meeting. This does not mean you have been blocked from the group. It is not personal and you are more than welcome to join us for the next call the following month. Thank you for understanding and helping to create and maintain this Safe Space, and for helping our meetings go as smoothly as possible.

(this is a private meeting for Introverts Unite members only)

Introverts Unite: Where pretense, small talk, and fakery are left at the door.

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Our Meetup Organizer is Certified Master Coach Rebecca Cooley. Rebecca offers Executive Coaching and Corporate Training. Her transformational whole-person coaching addresses overcoming: introversion, shyness, social anxiety, negative self-talk, fears, imposter syndrome, limiting mindsets, communication anxiety, lack of confidence, trust issues, conflictual relationships with colleagues.

Specialties: Public speaking | Interpersonal Communication | Leadership development | Interviews for introverts | Stress-reduction | Mindfulness | Changing Careers | Work-life Balance

• Over 18 years as an Executive Coach and Trainer for leaders in Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, Top-tier Universities, Government, NGOs, Small Businesses helping executives and leaders achieve their communication and career goals
• 2000+ hours of formal training in stress-reduction, mindfulness, and communication strategies
• Certified Meditation Instructor
• MPA in Managerial Leadership
• Named one of the Top Coaches in Raleigh NC

Looking for a personable, heart-felt, caring coach to partner with you and help you achieve your personal and professional goals?

Think of it as TLC for your nervous system. Let's get together in community for this gently guided somatic release experience to relieve and release stress.

• Release Emotional Tension
• Soothe Your Nervous System
• Regulate Emotions

Our wellbeing is impacted by accumulated stress. Stress impacts our relationship and connection with ourselves and others. It interrupts our creative flow, our joy, our peace, and sense of freedom. When left unattended, it creates tension and a state of constant alertness. Time for some Tender Loving Care for ourselves and our nervous system.
In a gentle community, we gather to hold space for the a nervous system reset. Together, we create a safe space for each other to let go of the tension we've been holding. We show up for each other to hold space for the emotions that arise. To get there we honor each other, we allow space, and we breathe collectively so that healing can begin. This is a time for the flowing of emotions. Shares are not required but holding space for the emotions of others is needed to create a beautifully honoring Sacred Space for all.

Shaman, Meditation Instructor and Certified Master Coach Rebecca Cooley guides you through a self-connecting gentle somatic release experience. Each workshop we will explore various somatic release and stress-relief techniques.

Stay after to enjoy fellowship during our Community Potluck! Bring a dish to share.

INCLUDES:

• Opening Meditation
• Somatic Release & Stress-relief techniques
• Moving Meditation
• Peaceful Integration
• Closing Meditation
• Potluck to follow the event!

BRING:

• anything you’d like to place on your sacred altar that represents what you are releasing
• pillow, blankets, mat, eye mask
• your journal & pen
• water
• (optional) encouraging words to share in the group supporting others on their self-care journey
• a dish to share for our potluck

Location: Raleigh, NC (exact meeting location is found on Eventbrite confirmation page)

Sliding Scale Amounts:
Suggested $25
Minimum $15

7 spots left!