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🏝 Nine Steps: On the Island

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🏝 Nine Steps: On the Island

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Elk Rock Island | 12–3pm | Days Vary | Milwaukie, OR

🌀 Step away from the noise. Cross the bridge. Wander into something real.

Nine Steps: On the Island is a free, recurring gathering held on the sacred shores of Elk Rock Island—a wild and beautiful spot tucked just south of Portland, where we explore what it means to be human together.

There’s no script. No dogma. Just an open circle beneath the trees.

Whether you’re healing, growing, questioning, or simply craving connection, this is a place to land. Together we’ll share conversation, laughter, silence, sunlight, and soul-level musings. Each gathering is lightly guided by the Nine Steps to Home—our signature path of personal development through self-care, connection, ambition, identity, knowledge, alignment, freedom, sovereignty, and wholeness.

But you don’t need to know anything to show up. Just bring your humanity.

🌿 What to Expect

• An easygoing 3-hour gathering in nature
• Open conversation with kind, curious people
• Occasional practices like walking, meditation, stretching, journaling, or breathwork
• Reflections guided by the Nine Steps to Home framework
• Deep talks, good vibes, and total permission to be yourself

Some bring snacks, some bring instruments, some just bring their presence. All are welcome. We usually sit or walk together in a shaded clearing not far from the footbridge.

🌎 Who It’s For

• Newcomers as well as seasoned practitioners of personal growth & spiritual practice
• Those tired of performative spaces and hungry for something real
• Anyone who wants to spend time outside with other open-hearted humans
• Neurodivergent, queer, or otherwise unconventional folk
• Weird, special love-aliens seeking their people

Come solo, bring a friend, or just show up on a whim. We keep it simple and sacred.

🕯️ Hosted by Devid Sword

You’ll be welcomed by Devid—creator of Nine Steps to Home, longtime mystic and seeker, part-time pizza-slinger, full-time human. He’ll hold space, guide conversation, and help newcomers feel right at home.

✨ Ready to join us?

RSVP for the next date. We meet on different days each week or two, depending on weather and schedule.

Bring water, sun protection, and whatever makes you feel cozy outdoors. Wear shoes you can walk the trail in. And come as you are—messy, radiant, or somewhere in between.

We’ll be there on the island, waiting. 🏝

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