A Winter Solstice Breathwork & Movement Journey
with Erin Rose Ward & Lihi Benisty
December 22 • 4:30–6pm PST • Online

As the year exhales into its darkest night, we are invited inward—toward the depths beneath winter’s skin, where the quiet brightness lives.

Winter Solstice is not only a turning of the earth, but a turning of our own inner seasons. It beckons us to slow down, listen closer, and slip beneath the surface of what we show the world. There, in the tender undercurrents, something honest waits to be felt.

Join Erin Rose and Lihi for an immersive virtual breathwork and dance journey woven with poetry, presence, and music that plucks the strings of the soul. Together we’ll explore the landscapes within—what’s ready to loosen, what wants to be tended, what ember is still glowing beneath the cold.

Lihi will guide a breath journey that unravels tension, softens the edges, and opens an inner clearing. Erin will lead us into movement and dance that shakes the dust, liberates expression, and illuminates the quiet fire at the center of the body.

This is a space for depth.
For realness.
For communal warmth in the heart of winter.
For meeting yourself without the weight of performance.
For remembering the light that lives inside the dark.

And honoring the dark as fertile, necessary ground.

Bring your whole self—your softness, your tiredness, your longing.
Bring the parts you’ve tucked away for safekeeping.

Come to feel what pulses beneath winter skin.
Come to step into the turning of the season, together.

Into the Holy Dark: A solstice celebration
Friday Dec 19th at 6pm
at Light + Space in Ojai

On the threshold of the longest night, we invite you to come home to your body, your breath, your primal aliveness.

Join Erin Rose Ward and Adriana Rizzolo for Into the Holy Dark — a somatic solstice ceremony where we gather in ritual, movement, chant, poetry, and fire.

We honor the dark not as absence — but as fertile ground for transformation, release, longing, and rebirth. Expect embodied movement and trance-dance to awaken the body’s wild wisdom; chanting and song to call forth the sacred in and around us; poetry and prayer to hold the heartbreak and the longing; fire to burn what no longer serves, and ashes to fertilize what wants to emerge.

We sit together in the tension between grief and longing, surrender and rising.
This ceremony is for those who feel the call to reconnect — to their bodies, their hearts, and the deeper rhythms of earth and spirit.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve never danced before, or if you come with trembling or rage or grief — all is welcome. Come as you are.

$40-60

Join Chelsea Didier and Erin Rose for two hours on Saturday Dec 7th.
This virtual gathering will be a resource for you as you navigate this holiday season.

Harness the power of your body, breath and mythic imagination. Create stability, ease, and a joy that is not contingent on halls being decked or family members aligning with your point of view.

Come as you are and leave feeling fully resourced and ready to dance through this season with ease.

$40

Join Erin Rose Ward and Andrew Griffes for an evening of deepening connection. Whether you and your partner have just begun dating or you have bene together for decades, this guided experience will create the conditions for more trust, vulnerability, and intimacy. An alternative to dinner and a movie, this Date Night will be a gift that keeps on giving.

Join us in-person in Ojai, CA or virtually via livestream.

$50/couple

Join me for a community practice that will include pranayama (breath practice), guided movement, and systematic relaxation. 

Come as you are and place your opinions, preferences, and predictions aside in favor of a shared place to move your energy through the body and arrive in your center - steady and awake come what may. 

All are welcome to this space, whether you live in the US or not. We are all impacted by the reality of our global political climate. There will be extra time after our 90 minute practice for those who wish to share and connect in community. 

 Let's set our nervous system's up well so that during election week we can be the humans who hold the center, who prioritize kindness, and who can see through the illusion of separateness to the humanity that threads us all together.

 Sunday November 3rd
11am - 12:30pm pst
$30