Neighborhood Sites
- Sunnyside Piazza
- Awakening
- Buckman Neighborhood Compost Project
- MACE Center - Village Green Gardens
- Mt. Scott High School
- Creative Science School
- Food Front Cooperative Grocery
- Freda's Tree
- Madison High School
- PSU: Look Up and See Garden
- Rigler School
- Central Street Community Project
- Share It Square
- Beyond Portland
Awakening
Location 1016 SE 12th Avenue
Site Host Jim Davis
Contact (503) 544-3838 jim@AwakeningsWellnessCenter.com
More Info http://www.awakeningswellnesscenter.com
Schedule
Wednesday, 1-5, June 10 Heart of Now Introduction Workshop
Description Awakenings was founded by a community of massage therapists and counselors in 1998. Today, Awakenings Wellness Center is a peaceful place where folks explore and benefit from a variety of healing arts, including acupuncture, chiropractic medicine, counseling, massage, naturopathic medicine, Qigong, Reiki, spiritual and life coaching, Shamanic healing, yoga, and much more. Awakenings hosts weekly meditation and movement classes, including dance, qigong, yoga and a variety of workshops. Awakenings is also home to several schools of healing, including Kundalini Yoga Northwest (www.kynw.com)
During VBC6, Awakenings completed several projects to beautify our surroundings. We finished retaining walls with lime plaster and mosaic, painted a 20’ by 60’ mural, created a cob bench with living roof, and planted creative and edible landscaping, including healing herbs! We also put in bike racks, installed a solar powered sign and community announcement board and hosted several VBC workshops. During VBC7 and VBC8, we hosted more workshops, constructed a beautiful pebble mosaic walk and installed a waterfall fountain with the help of PSU grad students. All these projects were envisioned to engage the artistic culture of our Buckman neighbors in helping to beautify our grounds and bring the sense of the sacred that exists within our wellness center into the larger community.
This year at VBC9, Awakenings is working with the VBC site maintenance team and again inviting neighborhood partners to help with several maintenance projects, such as cleaning and sealing the plaster wall and pebble mosaic walk; and playing in our lovely urban garden. Awakenings has also offered to host workshops again this year, so check the workshop schedule to see what’s available.
