Community Calendar

(free and open to the public)
12:30 Meet & Greet

Meeting 1:00-2:30 

 Seed Topic Discussion 2:45-3:15 

For January our guest speaker is:

 Lindsey McNabb

Topic: Herbs 

In this engaging presentation, you'll explore a variety of techniques for growing herbs that enhance both your culinary creations and overall wellness. You’ll learn practical tips for cultivating, harvesting, and using the herbs you grow, while also discovering how many herbs serve as powerful companion plants in the garden. Plus, enjoy a hands-on opportunity to create your own herbal concoctions to take home.

Refreshments and business meeting to follow.

Third Saturday, January 17th 2:30-4:00PM

Are you seeking support, direction and/or feedback with your artistic journey and a supportive space for sharing your work, ideas, goals, and aspirations?

Join us for our Artist’s Sharing Circle:

Discussions will include style, materials, current trends, presentation, framing, displaying, marketing, personal growth, etc
Artists helping artists in their common bond of being creatives
Encouragement in moving forward, and fostering confidence in your creative efforts
Share personal experience, knowledge, overcoming obstacles, and how it feels to be in a positive flow
Artists in all media and skill levels are welcome!

Registration required, $8

Register at www.art-presence.org > education > third Saturdays

“Main Street” retail has come under a lot of pressure nationwide from online commerce and big-box stores, and the pandemic put additional strain on in-person bricks-and-mortar shopping. But local independent businesses haven’t disappeared, and some are even thriving. How do they do it? Travis Marshall of Funagain Games and Megan Isser of Bloomsbury Books will join The Jefferson Center to consider what makes Ashland a good (or difficult) place to do business. How are these businesses engaged in the community, beyond just selling things? How might the future of downtown shape the enterprises there? What stake do we have in supporting local businesses, and how can we best do that?
This event is part of the Salon series of The Jefferson Center (www.thejeffcenter.org), a Rogue Valley non-profit focused on critical thinking using secular humanist values to understand and engage with issues important to our community.

Yoga classes for beginners and 50+
Stretching and breathwork

Learning to navigate decisions about senior living begins with some simple questions. Get your questions answered and begin your journey!

Join facilitator Marla Estes to watch fascinating and insightful videos carefully selected to explore ways to depolarize and then engage in a facilitated discussion to help integrate new perspectives. In a time when conversations so often fracture along lines of “us versus them,” we’ll explore curiosity, collaboration, and connection.

The Southern Oregon Living and Dying Alliance invites the community to attend Community Death Care Workshop on Sunday January 25th from 1:30-4:30 at the Center for Spiritual Living in Grants Pass. Presentations will focus on advanced care planning and preparations for end-of-life decisions like wills, trusts, funeral logistics and Oregon-specific documents such as Advance Directives and POLST forms. Presenters will also introduce the concept and role of a Death Doula, as well as an overview of local resources. A donation of $20 is requested.

To learn more and register for the workshop visit www.solada.org, email soladaoregon@gmail.com, or call Tim at 541-450-4922

Yoga classes for beginners and 50+
Stretching and breathwork

Dr. Ian Luepker is a naturopathic physician, holistic healer and classical homeopath, in private practice for 24 years. He worked on psychiatric units for 12 years and approaches health and well-being from a holistic perspective by recognizing the complex interplay between mental, emotional, physical, social and spiritual suffering. By listening to his patients with compassion, care and respect, he takes a collaborative, preventive and integrative approach to supporting their self-led innate healing capacity.

Entheogenic experiences can widen circles that reach out across the world, into ourselves, our ancestral past, the future and beyond. They point toward what is meaningful in life and to that which we give ourselves. Through a holistic lens using case examples, I will explore the psycho-spiritual healing and meaning-making generated from these life-changing experiences.

Yoga classes for beginners and 50+
Stretching and breathwork