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"I was moved by how comfortable and safe I felt to be in my full expression at Sovern."
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What's on...
Navigating the Heart in 2025
On View May 29 - September 13, 2025
Opening Reception Thursday. May 29, 2025 | 7 pm - 9 pm
Upcoming programs...
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Healing Pranayama for Rest
Saturday, June 14th | 10:30 am - 11:30pm Healing Pranayama for Rest with Melissa Shah, certified yoga therapist, offers you accessible breathing practices to release physical and mental tension, support your nervous system, and build mental clarity. This practice is designed to help you build a deeper relationship with your breath, explore your relationship to rest, and ultimately connect you with your inner knowing. Register here |
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Ayurvedic Tending to our Tender Hearts
Sunday, June 8th | 10:30 AM - 1 PM Whether new to ayurveda or a seasoned practitioner, with nisha ahuja as our guide in this series, we’ll dive into the foundations of ayurvedic medicine and its approach to mental-emotional wellness and unlocking pathways to joy. We’ll explore heart-nectar (ojas) nourishing practices that we can integrate into our daily lives that allow release, recalibration, and replenishment through herbs, oils, food medicine, ayurvedic self-massage, heart massage, marma points + nadis (micro chakras + channels), and ayurvedic-based meditations, gentle kriya (yogic cleansing), and pranayam (breathwork). *This series is open to BIPOC participants. If you’re not BIPOC consider donating to sponsor another participant to attend. *The series is sequential, attend the first session to attend the rest of the series. Sign up here |
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Be in Community
Sunday, June 15th | 2 PM - 4 PM Do you have ideas about community building? Facilitated by Nordia Simmonds, the “Be in Community” workgroup meets Sundays at Sovern to sit and discuss as a community. This is an opportunity to talk through themes such as belonging, safety, and mutual aid, with a goal of creating the relationships and connections we want for our collective healing. Free programming. Sign up here |
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Media Literacy to Heal from a Propagandized Narrative
Thursday, June 19th | 7 PM - 9 PM Hosted by Marbella Calvillo Villa In collaboration with COYOTL, a radical world building VFX house, and SOVERN LA, an intersectional community center, we bring you a live six part series on Media Literacy to heal from a propagandized narrative. We will be using the fundamental skills of Media Literacy to identify the colonialist structures in film and television and by doing so unlearning these structures for the purpose of telling better more authentic stories. Register here |
