rest is resistance because it lets us create the space to imagine something better. we seize and own our eros, our passion, our life force. we harness and pour them into the world we want to see.
thank you to everyone who contributed and squished together at melt, this dreamy sensory cocoon for collective rest and imagining. watching us all merge together was the most natural and beautiful thing.
Melt happened on August 7, 2025 at Process PDX
MELT is an experimental, sensory rave-spa experience. This will be a cushy, cuddly, melty space for guests to rest, connect, regulate and dream routes to a better world — together.
Imagine a room full of softness, restorative movement, hypnotic sound, and care-filled presence. This event will take place mostly on floor cushions and rugs. Over the course of the night we’ll move gently into deeper restful practices. Please bring what you need to feel supported and cozy (blanket, pillows, eye masks, layers to regulate temperature).
Space is limited. We encourage you to come for the entire event for the full arc of experience, but you can also come and go into the music space between activities. Doors to the music space will close during activities to avoid disruption.
As a gesture to community and land, please also bring a small natural object—a rock, a stick, a flower, something meaningful to you—to use in our first activity “Touched” and then lend to our shared altar for the evening. This is an alcohol-free event.
EXPECT
Ambient music with Warm Canopy (Freddi Wyss), Andy Warren and Murphy Welch
“Touched” yin yoga experience with Sunny Love Healing Connective breathwork with Liminal Grounds (Abbie Mullen)
Yoga Nidra (yogic sleep) with Jake Ferriero
Paid massage with Luigi Meraz and Beth Buslach
Lights with Murphy Welch
Flowers by James
Produced by Leah Lavelle
what if instead of taking control, we need more safe spaces to surrender?
we hosted this workshop that offered ways to step into our bodies and from there, explore what transitions feel like.
using breath, movement, noise-making and journaling, we dropped in to explore how the edge of summer and other times of change stir our thoughts and feelings. then, we swapped mats for canvas and poured out in mark making with paints.
at ripe summer fruit, hosted at woo-woo in portland, ashlee zlatna and i provided the space, and we left with so much wisdom from the group.
a favorite part of the workshop for the group was a surprise exercise of detachment, where – without warning – we asked them to let go, and trust. it felt rude and uncomfortable, but then it was okay and even delightful. we experienced resilience in real time.
if you like dance, breath, shaking, hiking, singing, yelling, humming, somersaulting, storytelling, laughing, art making – we’ll be finding and offering more of these spaces.
‘late summer fruit’ embodied painting workshop, hosted with @ashlee zlatna september ‘24 at @woowoo