Workshops and Support Groups
Body Movement
Gentle, beginner-friendly practices that connect body and breath.
Movement Meditation Workshop
Release stress and find stillness through simple movements connecting body and breath. A meditation class designed for beginners, inspiring basic, tangible tools to effectively manage stress on your own starting with breath practice, followed by repetitive small movements, and eventually arriving to a guided meditation.
Women’s Energy Wellness: Supporting the Menopausal Transition
Menopause is more than the end of fertility—it is a natural life transition that invites us to care for ourselves in new ways. While change can be challenging, it also offers an opportunity to cultivate greater balance, resilience, and vitality. This three-part experiential workshop introduces participants to the Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective on menopause while exploring simple, practical strategies to support energy and overall wellbeing. Each session includes a brief educational discussion followed by a gentle qigong practice designed to promote circulation, reduce stress, cultivate vitality, and support the body’s natural capacity for balance.
Appropriate for women in perimenopause, menopause, post-menopause, or those experiencing medically induced menopause. Caregivers, family members, and other women interested in learning supportive self-care practices are also welcome. No prior qigong experience is necessary.
Creative Expression
Explore new ways to process, express, and connect through art and communication.
Coping with Change Through Art
As life presents us with continual change, this workshop will explore coping strategies using art therapy techniques to navigate these challenges. This workshop will incorporate basic items around the house including paper, pencil and/or colored pencils!
Holding Space with Warmth and Care: Practicing Resonant Language in Challenging Times
When someone we love is going through a difficult time, it can be hard to know how to best communicate. We often reach for our go-to strategies—offering advice, reassurance, comparisons, or a silver lining—hoping to ease their pain. Yet these well-intended responses don’t always create the sense of being truly met.
In this experiential workshop, participants will explore resonant language, a gentle and grounding approach that supports us in “being with” what is present rather than trying to fix it. Through guided exercises and partner practice, you’ll begin to recognize your habitual communication patterns and experiment with new ways of joining a loved one with warmth and care.
Together, we’ll practice how to deepen connection in hard moments—and how to advocate for this kind of accompaniment in our own lives. You’ll leave with practical skills, embodied experience, and a clearer sense of how to create safety, resonance, and meaningful connection in times of challenge.
Stress Reduction
Meditation, Reiki, sound, and relaxation practices to calm the mind and restore balance.
New Year’s Gratitude
“Enough is a feast.” – Buddhist adage
End the year with the simple and powerful practice of opening your heart giving thanks for the gift of this life. The workshop consists of a brief talk, a guided period of lovingkindness meditation, and group dialogue. No previous experience is required.
Led by Joe Raiola, longtime Artistic Director of Theatre Within and meditation practitioner.
Reiki Live!
A delicious hour of relaxation and renewal to support your healing journey – live now at Red Door! Facilitated by Pamela Bloom, this one-hour group session combines guided meditation, Reiki, and restful music to help you find your inner balance on all levels. Used frequently in hospitals today to help patients reduce stress, Reiki is an energy transmitted through the hands; to honor Red Door’s policy for social distancing, however, no physical touch will be involved.
1-Minute Relief from Stress
Learn easy 1-minute self-help techniques to support you in letting go of your stressful thoughts, relaxing rapidly, and proactively preventing stress. Increase your positive attitude, your optimism, and your positive expectancy. Experience soothing guided relaxation & calming imagery in this relaxing workshop.
Activate Your Inner Healer
Whether you’re dealing with a cancer diagnosis or involved in caregiving, we all face physical and emotional stresses that call out for healing and renewal. In this workshop, we combine relaxation and stress-reducing techniques with Reiki, guided visualization, and music to cultivate inner balance and activate our natural ability to self-heal. Facilitated by Reiki Master Pamela Bloom, this ongoing weekly workshop is a continuation of her former class “Calm Through Crisis,” with an added emphasis on self-empowerment and group support. Described by one participant as “the most refreshing I’ve felt in 50 years”. This safe and restful haven requires no special meditation background and is essentially effortless. Participants can either remain seated or lie down during the session to best enjoy the healing vibes. Because we like the group to start together, please try your best to come on time.
Healing Sound Meditation and Sonic Attunement Workshop
We are all vibrational beings; the universe itself is vibrating and through the intentional use of sound we can attune ourselves to be in greater harmony. Join us to experience the subtle, yet profound, positive effects of intentional sound and harmonic overtones in the body. This will be a relaxing workshop to help align with wellness and self-healing.
Home Within: Reiki & Hypnosis for Body, Mind, and Spirit
When the conscious mind rests, the subconscious awakens with possibilities. In this session, you’ll experience a gentle blend of hypnosis and Reiki—a practice for your body, mind, and spirit—to reconnect with your inner knowing and find deep relaxation. You’ll release tension, ease discomfort, and anchor inner resources like calm, connection, and confidence. Step into a nurturing space to rest, restore, and support your emotional balance and resilience.
Members are encouraged to bring a yoga mat if they wish to lie down during the session. Participation can also take place while seated, based on individual comfort and preference.
Meditation for Radical Change
What does it mean to create radical change? …change in one’s body mind and spirit? Where to begin? What does it look like? How will this effect my life …with family and friends? Finding the stillness and awareness in meditation, opens the mind and heart to compassion for one self and others. Having a dialogue with others helps bring to light the peace that meditation brings to our lives. As we become more greatly aware of the shifts and opening of our hearts, we get to share with others our journey. Sometimes the journey can be as calm as mountain brook or as turbulent as the ocean ways. Either way, meditation practice will calm the mind and allow us to surf the waves and face our life’s journey with compassionate awareness.