Inner Field Trip®: Poetry with Lelania Avila and Shir Kehila

Description

Inner Field Trip®: Poetry with Lelania Avila and Shir Kehila Sunday, May 11, 9 AM - 12 PM in the Dance Studio Each month participate in a Guided Adventure that includes meditation, reflection, art, movement and sound current healing: Inner Field Trip®. This is a longer version of the weekly Relax, Reflect, Recharge class, focused on our monthly theme. (Attendance at the weekly Relax, Reflect, Recharge class is not required.) During this three-hour session you will be guided through an experience of art, meditation and movement, with an emphasis on poetry. This month we work with the energies of shame. Together we will explore compassionate acceptance, strengthening our relationships with our inner selves. This workshop concludes with sound current healing.

About the Instructors: Lelania Avila is a multi-media process artist who works in the media of animation/video production, block printing, calligraphy, collage, poetry and puppetry. Lelania (she, we, tributary) playfully approaches challenges, embracing emotions as a guide to inner wisdom. She builds community through the healing arts: Art of Listening, Art of Slowing Down, Art of Interruptions!, and the Art of Simply Being. With gratitude to get to live, work and play in the homeland of the Wabanaki Confederacy, she is dedicated to becoming a better ancestor and global citizen. She is currently working on a multi-media project called "The Ism-Schism from the Inside Out". Shir Kehila is a freelance writer, editor, and translator. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the anthology Here for All the Reasons (Turner Publishing, 2026), Kiaros Rivista, The Boiler Journal, and others. She holds an MFA from Columbia, and received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Tin House Summer Workshop, and the Monson Arts Residency.