Events

Polyvagal Theory & Massage Thearpy – A Continuing Education Class

This course connects the body’s trauma response with therapeutic touch. You’ll explore Polyvagal Theory, how the nervous system reacts to stress, and how this understanding can support your practice and well-being. Learn to spot non-verbal signals, use targeted massage thechniques, create a calm space, and stay grounded to prevent burnout.

Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026

11:00AM-3:00PM

with instructor Deb Frank, MSW, BCTMB

Deb Frank has over 25 years of experience as an integrative massage therapist, Reiki master, coach and teacher. She also holds a master’s degree in clinical social work. Her strength-based, holistic approach supports trauma, mental health, chronic pain, and whole-person healing.

The Alliance for Integrative Education is handling the ticketing for this event. Sign up before September 30th for an early bird discount!

Room for Grief

Grief, Gratitude, and Belonging

Grief is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be witnessed. Grief, when shared, becomes a bridge that connects us rather than a burden that isolates us; and offers an opportunity for finding authentic healing. We will speak from personal experience, listen with curiosity, and honor different ways of responding to grief.

We will ground ourselves, share what brings us to the space, as well as what we are taking with us as we leave. As our monthly gatherings evolve, participants and community members will be invited to share the particular gifts and skills they have to offer this collective experience of grief. This may include singing, movement, breath work, and other embodied practices.

Participants are welcome to bring something to add to the altar that represents their experience of grief.

Paula Williams will hold the space for these peer-led gatherings. Paula is a long-time member of the Northland community having first come to the area in the late 90’s to live and work with the Loaves and Fishes community, then moving to a nearby farm in 2000 where she tried her hand as a flower farmer and hosted gatherings in the big red dairy barn. Motherhood settled her in to life in the country, until she moved back to Duluth in 2024. Paula has worked as a life coach for over 20 years, pivoting to therapy in May. She has been imagining this kind of monthly grief gathering for years and is grateful to Halcyon House for the opportunity to gather in its unique space.

Saturday – November 14th & December 12th

10AM – 11:30AM

Free!

Sign up ahead of time, please. We are not able to allow drop-ins for this event.

Note: This is a community grief-witnessing gathering, not therapy, counseling, or clinical care. If you’re in crisis or need mental health support, contact a licensed provider or call or text 988.

Songfield

Songfield is a gathering space for singing rooted in relational presence. We connect through song, embodiment, and relational mindfulness practices, inviting a more conscious music making experience to deepen our aliveness as we play and create in the group field.

We learn simple songs together, including folk, traditional, spiritual, chant, and we allow space for organic musical expression. We explore how becoming more present and attuned to our bodies and with one another can enhance our singing with more truthful expression, love, passion, and a fuller spectrum of our humanness.

While we practice together, we also focus on the quality of connection between us, drawing closer to what matters as we cultivate and nourish the ground of relationship from which our singing arises.

What a Songfield Gathering Includes

·        Warming up our voices and bodies.

·        Learning and singing songs together.

·        Relational Fielding practices supporting attunement, authenticity, connection, and coherence.

·        More singing!

·        Guided healing integration when processes arise organically

·        Group reflections.

Songfield is facilitated by Adam Sippola, with a flexible structure that leaves room for inspiration and improvisation.

Why Singing Together Matters

There is a profound beauty and magic that can emerge when we sing together – a meeting of matter and spirit, where vibration carries the soul’s impulse from emanation to manifestation in a poetic offering of collective heart and voice. When the atmosphere of our artistry is infused with relational presence, music has the potential to become a healing transmission, remembering us into greater wholeness.

You are invited to come as you are. All experience levels are welcome. Our focus is honest expression and presence over performance and entertainment. Come play, explore, grow, and sing together!

*You do not need to know how to read music to participate

November 14th

2PM – 4:30PM

Doors open at 1:45PM.

This is a Choose your ticket price kind of event. Choose the ticket price that works for you. We don’t want to turn anyone away due to lack of funds. It’s important for everyone to come together and enjoy community!

Community Sound Bath

Featuring Vanessa Joy

“Alchemy Within”

November 8th

Pre-register or drop in!

Master Your Energy with Play: A Mid-Month Reset

A fun class that will teach you how to clean and clear your personal space. 

Use your imagination and have fun playing with movement of your own life force energy with awareness and intention. Learn how to clear your energy field and have fun doing it. Play with creating energetic flow, understand your own energy, and creating healthy energitic spaces. Beginner class in understanding, feeling, and playing with your energy field. Learn how to differentiate energies and harmonize with other people. 

Class topic will depend on who is in the class that week. 

Wednesdays – November 18th, …

$10 – pre-register or drop in!

Tea Talks

Presence: Gateway to Healing and Awakening

Presence is the conscious devotion to be with the movements of life. Where inner presence is the cultivation of awareness, living stillness, and flow within the body, in relational presence we commit to a moment-by-moment conscious relationship with the forces of creation alive and moving within us, between us, and among us in the shared group field.

We will explore the relationship between presence and the healing of trauma – our unintegrated past, and how inner and relational presence practices can support our embodiment (incarnation), as well as our awakening (transcendence).

In this interactive discussion and experience, Adam will lead the group in relational presence practices including meditation, interoception, embodiment, attunement, and relational mindfulness, and he may guide an integration process if anyone present feels called to participate.

Friday November 13th

5:30PM-7:00PM

$5

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Trades of Hope

Empowering women out of poverty and sex trafficking.

We partner with women all around the world. And through the sale of their handmade, fair trade goods, we help them earn a sustainable income.Laura has travelled to Haiti and Guatemala to meet some of these artisans. Come to hear her story.

Trades of Hope was founded by 2 friends in Florida and their daughters in 2008. Since then, we have empowered countless women and families out of poverty and sex trafficking through the sales of their fair trade, handmade goods. Laura will share her experiences of travelling to Haiti and Guatemala to meet some of the artisans that Trades of Hope partners with. You will hear how the purchase of a bracelet or coffee mug can make a meaningful difference in someone’s life. 

Welcome to Tea Talks, interesting talks by interesting people about topics they are passionate about, in a cozy and informal space. We provide the talks and tea, bring your curiosity!

Friday November 20th

5:30PM-7:00PM

$5

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Human Design is a benevolent system that blends ancient wisdom with modern insights, offering practical tools to better understand ourselves and others. It helps us make aligned decisions, navigate relationships with greater awareness, honor the way our energy is naturally designed to function, and live with more ease, purpose, and authenticity. In this workshop learn your type, authority, and strategy that will support how you make decisions and navigate the world, all from an embodied perspective.

Friday December 11th

5:30PM-7:00PM

$5

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Come hear from members of your community about topics they are knowledgeable and passionate about. Discussion is encouraged. Bring your curiosity; we’ll provide the tea!

Select Fridays this Fall at 5:30PM – check back for specific dates and topics.

$5 – pre-register or drop in!

Scheduling Presenters Now for Fall/Winter 2026