<![CDATA[Compassion Arts PDX - Advanced Myofascial Bodywork and Massage Therapy in Milwaukie and Portland, Oregon - Events]]>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:52:29 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[Embracing the Beloved ~ A Valentine's Day Celebration of the Sacred Heart • February 14th at the Yoga Space NW]]>Thu, 21 Jan 2016 05:36:32 GMThttp://www.compassionartspdx.com/events/embracing-the-beloved-a-valentines-day-celebration-of-the-sacred-heart-o-february-14th-at-the-yoga-space-nwPicture
Join Sarah Grumbling, Hamid Shibata Bennett and the Down Home Community Kirtan Band for the second annual Valentine's Day Kirtan at The Yoga Space Northwest. In a celebration of the many faces of Love, this Valentine's Day will be an uplifting evening of chanting, nourishing food, and connecting with community through the healing power of music. And there will be glitter!!!

Kirtan is the devotional yoga practice of connecting to your heart, voice and spirit through call and response chanting. If you have attended a Taking Care Portland event, you may have heard a small sampling of these heart-opening chants as offered during the group sound therapy and bodywork sessions.

In kirtan, all participants are invited to sing together, no experience needed! You can sing, hum, whistle along, move, dance, shake, or simply rest in the space and feel the vibrationally charged mantras move through your body. This is a celebration of the Divine in its myriad expressions of Love!

Minal Rajan and the Taking Care Food Tribe will be bringing our community a beautiful prasad, an offering of treats and sweets that traditionally follows kirtan.

The Down Home Community Kirtan Band is an ever evolving and shifting group comprised of musicians, seekers, devotees, mystics, and artists who share in the expression of love, awareness and connection through music and chanting. Creating the devotional soundscape of the evening:

Sarah Grumbling
Hamid Shibata Bennett
Johanna Beekman
Kalen Garr
Liz Hart
Matthew Hunsinger

Join us in the cultivation of community and connection -- in opening the voice we move from our head, to our heart, to our source.

Sunday, February 14th, 7:30-9:30pm
The Yoga Space NW
210 NW 17th Ave, Portland, OR 97209

The evening's donations will benefit Taking Care Portland.
Suggested donation: $10-$20

Taking Care Portland is a local 501c3 non-profit creating community supported integrative cancer survivorship in Portland, Oregon. Donation Based Volunteer Driven. To learn more about grassroots nurturing, go to www.TakingCarePortland.com

]]><![CDATA[Breath is Life: Breath Workshop - Sunday, January 24, 2016 at RAMA - Rainbow Arts Medicine Alliance]]>Thu, 07 Jan 2016 15:46:10 GMThttp://www.compassionartspdx.com/events/breath-is-life-breath-workshop-sunday-january-24-2016-at-rama-rainbow-arts-medicine-alliance
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Breath is Life: Breath Workshop

Do you ever feel like you can't take in a full breath? Learn mindful breathing mechanics to find more expansiveness and ease within your own breath in a fun, interactive workshop. Hamid offers guided breathing meditations, infusing movement, toning, sound, and quiet time to help you connect with your breathing. Awaken your awareness with simple practices designed to take into your daily life. No previous breathing experience necessary!

Time: Sunday, January 24th, 2016 from 12pm - 1:30pm
Location: RAMA - Rainbow Arts Medicine Alliance
3701 SE Belmont Street • Portland, Oregon 97214
Cost: $10-20 suggested donation

Hamid Shibata Bennett, LMT, CAMT (OBMT #301) is a licensed massage therapist specializing in advanced myofascial techniques, oncology massage and cancer survivorship, trauma release, gait function, injury recovery, chronic pain management, and sound therapy. He is president and co-founder of Taking Care Portland, a local 501c3 creating beautiful, meaningful experiences for cancer survivors, caregivers, friends, and family.

www.CompassionArtsPDX.com • www.TakingCarePortland.com
]]><![CDATA[Stoking the Fire, Stringing the Harp - Saturday, January 9th at MUSE Collective]]>Wed, 06 Jan 2016 18:30:23 GMThttp://www.compassionartspdx.com/events/stoking-the-fire-stringing-the-harp
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Dear friends… this Saturday, I will be accompanying my dear friend, Brian Rohr at a wonderful storytelling event at MUSE Collective. I will be bringing my dranyen and longneck dulcimer and providing musical backing. Keep the oral tradition alive in Portland! Hope to see you there! ~Hamid

Saturday, January 9, 2016
6:00pm, Doors open at 5:45pm
$15 Suggested Donation, no one turned away.
More if you can, less if you cannot.
MUSE COLLECTIVE: 400 NE 62nd Avenue, Portland, OR

Please join MUSE COLLECTIVE in presenting Storyteller/Mythteller Brian Rohr as we engage in one of the oldest acts known to humans: listening to the old stories as a community shared in the ways of the oral tradition. 

In his performance, Stoking the Fire, Stringing the Harp, Brian invites the listener to dance with the themes of feeling lost, appropriate anger, unexpected compassion, artistry and renewal. By doing this through story and in community, we recognize and find meaning in the commonality and uniqueness of our human condition. In this way we become more than just audience, we become participants in this ancient act, feeding our soul with the nourishment gifted by our ancestors.

About Brian:
“Sharing the ancient art of storytelling as a way to educate, entertain and offer healing to individuals, communities and the living world.”

Brian Rohr is a Storyteller/Mythteller who resides here in the Pacific Northwest.

In 2007 he began his mentorship in the art and magic of performative mythology and storytelling with mythologist and master storyteller Daniel Deardorff.

Since this time, Rohr has toured as a featured teller for national audiences, taught and performed at major conferences, festivals, high schools, universities, synagogues and libraries. The list includes: Northwest Folklife Festival in Seattle; Illinois State University; Trickster Tales Storytelling Festival in Washington State; Tapestry of Jewish Learning in Austin, TX, the Mankind Project, The Sacred Storytelling Series in Portland, OR and more.

As a storyteller, Brian focuses on the old stories – the myths, folktales and fairy tales – from many different cultures, knowing that these old stories are alive, vital and can inform us on how to live our lives as authentic human beings, helping to make sense and meaning of the living world we are a part of. 

Rohr is a member of the National Storytelling Network, the Healing Story Alliance, the Portland Storytellers Guild and the Jewish Storytelling Coalition.
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