Collective FEST Workshop Sign-Up (Saturday, June 7th)
Many of our workshops have a capacity limit. Please use this form to sign-up in advance for all workshops you plan on attending on Saturday, June 7th at the Common Street Spiritual Center in Natick to secure your spot.
Sign up form link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeg22rh3dehvpE4zGqWjLsJshinHKIQ1dabzX77T7pRyfEx0g/viewform
All of our facilitators are volunteering their time, love, and energy. Workshops are free, with appreciated donations (you can donate in person day of with cash or QR codes from facilitators).
From 12:30-1:30pm, we will have a lunch & drop-in service hour to participate in collectively and give back to the Natick & Greater Boston community. Join Brandon Teixeira of Mental Health Declassified for an interactive opportunity to help destigmatize and improve mental health of individuals and communities in the Greater Boston area.
We will also be hosting a Natick Center clean-up and food drive to contribute to Common Street’s free mini-pantry.
No food will be served, but there are plenty of restaurants to visit in Natick, see here: https://www.natickreport.com/where-to-eat-in-natick-mass/
Rideshare from Boston/Camberville area is available, please sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/hfs6uw92
Workshops from 10am-6pm on Saturday, June 7th
The Faces of Change: The Creator, The Sustainer, & The Destroyer
Tim Lewandowski
10am-11am
Moon Room
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Creation. Sustenance. Destruction. These aren’t just events—they’re archetypal forces, always at play in the cycles of your life. In this immersive workshop, we’ll explore the triad of The Creator, The Sustainer, and The Destroyer as essential patterns that shape how things begin, how they endure, and how they end. Through guided meditation, gentle movement, and intimate conversation, you’ll begin to recognize these forces not as external events, but as living energies within you. Which one is active in your story right now? Which one are you resisting? And what might happen if you embraced all three? Come with your questions, your weariness, your sparks—and leave with a deeper sense of your own unfolding. This workshop is a doorway into Unwritten: An Archetype Quest, a larger journey into the mythic patterns that shape our lives. Come discover your story.
BIO:
Tim Lewandowski has been many things—professor, musician, software engineer, dancer—but it was a month alone in the New Mexico desert that truly changed his life. There, he began seeing his experiences through the lens of archetypes, discovering not just clarity, but wonder—and now he helps others do the same, transforming fear into curiosity through the power of their own unfolding story.
Kriya & Holy Fire Reiki Healing Experience
Daniel Montoya
10am-11am
Sanctuary
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Awaken your inner light with a gentle chakra-balancing kriya, then surrender to a guided meditation to help you receive and channel Reiki’s restorative flow.
BIO:
Daniel Montoya is a Reiki Master Teacher and filmmaker devoted to the path of light. For fifteen years, I’ve offered Reiki as a path to deep rest, healing, and spiritual connection. My sessions support relaxation, transformation, and Kundalini empowerment.
Through compassion and intuition, I hold space for those seeking to reconnect with their essence. As a filmmaker, I tell stories of resilience, activism, and awakening—honoring the spirit that rises in all of us.
Earth Reciprocity Ceremony
Jack Findlen
11am-12pm
Natick Common
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A container where we discuss how we can cultivate a lifestyle based off of a relationship with Mother Earth on a day to day basis, with intention. Accompanied by a ceremony with offerings to Mother Earth & the Great Spirit.
Partner Stretching and Thai Yoga Massage
Lee Ann Song & Chris Jones
11am-12:30pm
Sanctuary
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With a partner, we will work through a series incorporating Thai massage, PNF Resistance Stretching, and feel-good touch. We will focus on connection, consent, and clear communication as we move through sequences of full body movement & massage in a variety of seated and reclined poses.
No experience required, no partner required! Please arrive in clean and comfy clothes.
The Echoes of “I”: Self as a Fractal Experience
Drew Grossmann
1:30-2:30pm
Moon Room
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Echoes of “I” is a 60–75 minute eye-gazing and somatic regulation experience designed to dissolve the illusion of separation. Through individual and optionally paired partner work, participants engage in deep, conscious breathwork and sustained eye contact, allowing themselves to regulate their nervous systems while gently softening the mental constructs that create distance between “self” and “other.”
This journey invites you to use the gaze as a periscope—seeing not just the other, but the common Self contained between. Participants are guided to recognize how their perceptions of the other are shaped by projected thoughts and internal narratives. As the container deepens, a sense of inner spaciousness emerges, making room for the profound truth: that what we see in another is, ultimately, a mirror of what we allow ourselves to feel, believe, and become.
BIO:
Drew Grossmann is a clairsentient channel, channeling on topics such as consciousness, alignment, and intuition. A clairsentient since childhood, he has a lifelong dedication to the exploration of the fractal nature of Self, Spirit, and Source. Drew creates experiential spaces that reconnect attendees to themselves—and each other—through presence, perception, and poetic disruption.
Drew has written extensively on the nature of reality, bridging the gap between the spiritual and physical for both the experienced and newly-curious spiritual explorers. His newest title, The Universe Doesn’t Speak English, explores the link between the Mind-Body-Soul channel in relation to manifestation and digital manipulation of the external world.
Flow with Flora: A Plant-Inspired Dance Workshop
Halle Katz
1:30pm-2:30pm
Natick Common → Sanctuary
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Inviting nature to nurture your creativity! Trees and plant life will be our muses for this immersive dance composition workshop, where the world around us inspires the one within. No previous experience needed– just you & your creative body!
Listening Techniques I Learned Volunteering at a Crisis Hotline
Bo Chuang
2:30pm-3:30pm
Moon Room
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Learn the listening techniques that most changed my life and improved my personal relationships based on my experience volunteering at a crisis hotline.
Collective Joy Parade
Dani Bentz
2:30-3:30pm
Natick Common
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Join us as we spread radical joy by singing songs and dancing ’round the Natick neighborhood! Bring your shakers and music makers- we will have some handheld instruments available! We will assemble at the entrance of Common Street Spiritual Center at 2pm and will have songbooks available to let our collective voices radiate love, peace and belonging through the streets! 🙂
Kirtan, Chanting and Meditation
Ever In Bloom
3-4:15pm
Natick Common
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Call and response style chanting and music from various spiritual traditions and practices (Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.). Join us in sharing invocations, prayers, affirmations, and meditations in interactive song form.
Intuitive Oracle Circle
Dani Bentz
4pm-5pm
Meeting Room
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Join this intuitive trust circle to connect with your own inner knowing using oracle cards! We will begin with information about reading the cards and listening to your intuition. Then we will set intentions as a group based on clarity we are looking for in our lives and intuitively select cards together. We will then interpret the cards on our own and help each other receive the oracle messages that present wisdom to us.
Soul Dance – A Journey Into Tantra
Shün
4:30-6pm
Fellowship Hall
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This dynamic experience weaves together mindful asana, breath-awakening pranayam, powerful energy sublimation, intuitive somatic movement, and the liberating expression of ecstatic dance, all carried by the rhythm of high-vibration music. The journey gracefully culminates in a deeply immersive guided meditation, yielding a pathway into expanded consciousness. This is an invitation to connect with your inner vitality, move with mindful freedom, and discover a deeper sense of presence, peace, and love within your entire being ?
BIO:
From the beautiful beaches of San Diego to the heart of the Mayic Matrix, New York City, Shün is a yogi and Lightworker deeply devoted to the path of truth and service to others. He passionately crafts conscious music experiences that are dynamically interwoven with profound Tantric practices and techniques.
Seeding Bonds
Vijay Malhotra
5pm-6pm
Meeting Room
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Activities to plant the seeds for new relationships, grow trust, and to bring renewed energy and joy.
Somatic Grief Ritual & Sound Bath
Gabbi Fiedor, Becca Phillips, & Abby Frechette
7:30pm-10pm
Sanctuary
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Grief can feel isolating and overwhelming, but it is also deeply human—something our bodies are wired to move through together. In a world that has forgotten how to grieve in community, this gathering is a return to ritual, to connection, and to the possibility that grief, while painful, can also be a teacher—tender, transformative, even generative.
This ritual is an invitation to experience the power of moving through grief in community. We’ll spend time in stillness and sound, with nature and with each other. There will be gentle invitations for movement, a co-created altar of natural objects, and shared music to hold what words can’t. Personal and collective losses are welcome here.