Nature Crafting
June 6 9:00am - noon
Join fellow member, Sara, to explore the wonders of the woods and get crafty! Join us for an afternoon of outdoor exploration where we will collect fallen treasures and turn them into beautiful wreaths and woodland art.
Reconnect with nature, peaceful reflection, and explore your creative mind.
Free for Members of Harvest Preserve, $5 day pass required for non-members.
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New Moon Intentions - Astrology & Conversation
June 15 5:30 - 7:30pm $25
The New Moon is the optimal time to lovingly plant the seeds of our intentions, so that with our subsequent care and attention, our intentions can grow and flourish along with the light of the Moon as it grows brighter throughout the lunar cycle.
At this New Moon Intentions event, we will discuss how to work with the current new Moon in the sign of the Zodiac that it is occurring (this time in Gemini), based on the astrology of the time, and what house (or area of life) the new Moon occurs in your personal natal chart.
If you already have a copy of your natal horoscope, feel free to bring that to the event so that we can determine in which Zodiacal house this new Moon is occurring for you. Alternatively, feel free to reach out to me at chitchatastrology@gmail.com prior to the event, and I will email your natal chart to you, or you can look up your own natal chart at www.astro.com. Also, please bring your curiosity and a journal or notebook so that you can begin to put your ideas down on the page, the first step toward bringing those intentions into form. Knowing your birthday, time and location is very helpful.
Light snacks and refreshments will be served.
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Nature Spirits: Yoga & Sacred Ceremony
June 17 6:15pm - 7:30pm and June 26 8:30pm - 10pm
Nature Spirits: Yoga & Sacred Ceremony is a 7-week outdoor series held at the breathtaking Harvest Preserve in Iowa City. Each gathering is a doorway into a different element of the natural world, woven together through yoga, meditation, and sacred ceremony.
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No two sessions are alike. Some will call you out under the cover of night as we greet the Spirit of the Buck Moon; others will greet you at first light with the Spirit of the Rising Sun. We will connect with the Nature Spirits throughout various areas in the living landscape of Harvest Preserve — Spirit of the Trees in the forest, Spirit of the Water at the pond, Spirit of the Stones at the sacred stone circle.
At the heart of this series is an animist understanding of the world — the ancient, cross-cultural recognition that all of nature is alive, ensouled, and in relationship with us. The trees, the stars, the stones — each carries their own presence, their own wisdom, their own spirit. This series is an invitation to create connection & conversation with the living world.
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Our practice is open to all levels — whether you are new to yoga or a seasoned practitioner, whether you have attended ceremonies before or are simply curious. What matters is a willingness to show up, be present, and connect — with nature, with community, and with yourself.
Seven Unique Gatherings
We will meet at the parking lot before proceeding together to each individual practice site.
Spirit of the Trees Wednesday, June 17 · 6:15 – 7:30 pm
Spirit of the Fire Friday, June 26 · 8:30 – 9:45 pm
Spirit of the Water Wednesday, July 8 · 6:15 – 7:30 pm
Spirit of the Stars Saturday, July 18 · 8:30 – 10:00 pm
Spirit of the Rising Sun Saturday, July 25 · 5:45 – 7:00 am
Spirit of the Buck Moon Wednesday, July 29 · 8:15 – 9:45 pm
Spirit of the Stones Saturday, August 8 · 8:15 – 9:30 am
INVESTMENT
$133 for the full 7-week series
$25 drop-in per class
10% discount to Harvest Preserve Members for the Nature Spirits series
Solstice Floral Forest Gathering - Canceled
June 21 1:00 - 4:00pm $40
Celebrate the summer solstice by slowing down and communing with the natural world. The afternoon of the solstice we will engage in the practice of forest bathing and create floral folk crowns.
We will explore the meanings of the solstice as part of a cycle of our natural world and how these themes might present themselves in our own lives.
We will discuss a brief history of the purpose of floral headdresses and provide step-by-step directions for making one of your own. We will also review best ways to preserve your flower crown as decorative adornment or ritualistic use.
We will then bring these creative pieces into the forest to offer presence to self and the more-than-human-world through experiential nature and forest therapy practices.
This is an offering of recalibration and regulation for your own internal ecosystem, you are invited.
THINGS TO BRING
Weather friendly clothing. A notebook and a pen/pencil for writing and drawing (optional)
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The Stonekeeper's Sound Healing Series
June 24 7:00pm - 8:30pm $25​
Gatherings at the Sacred Standing Stones
Series Description:
The Stonekeeper’s Sound Healing Series offers gentle, earth‑honoring gatherings held within the circle of sacred standing stones at Harvest Preserve. Through crystal bowls, drum, gongs, and voice, each session invites participants into quiet ceremony, deep listening, and connection with land, lineage, and the enduring presence of stone.
Honoring the Ancestors of the Land
This sound healing gathering acknowledges the Indigenous stewards and the living spirit of Iowa’s earth. Participants are invited into a grounded, reverent experience of listening to the land through sound and stillness, honoring the presence and history held in the landscape.
THINGS TO BRING
Comfort items: yoga mat, blanket, chair, eye mask, bug spray
DESIRED DRESS CODE
Please dress for the weather.
Tranquility Summer Series - A Meditation and Sound Refresh
June 25 7:15 --8:00pm $25
Your invitation to step into a refreshing meditation carried on a summer soundscape in tune with nature’s night music.
June's energy beckons us to enjoy the freshening in the outer world. With deft hand and attuned ear, Tina McCoy provides an integrative meditation and sound- journey flow to match May’s magic. You will find that with a rested body, the heart & spirit are ready to embrace the joys of summer’s promises.
Gift yourself with this grounded, soothing sound meditation to welcome in your season of light & play.
This is an outdoor event on a hard surface. Please arrive 15 minutes early to create your comfort space (e.g., personal yoga mat, gravity chair, blankets, pillows, bug spray etc.) to support and deepen your experience. Chairs are provided.
Two Roads Merged: A Yoga & Poetry Workshop for Initiates June 27 1:00 - 3:00pm
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Enjoy this serene *outdoor* workshop wherein yoga and poetry merge in Iowa City’s beautiful Harvest Preserve. Adaptable for all levels and abilities, this workshop combines a gentle yoga flow with the sublime nature of poetry, forging a new “road taken” together.
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If you are a curious soul seeking a more poetic approach to life (whether you think you like poetry or not), come explore with us this “road not (yet) taken” together. Perhaps, to paraphrase Frost, it could make “all the difference.”
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THINGS TO BRING:
Water bottle, bug spray, yoga mat and an open heart and mind
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DESIRED DRESS CODE:
Comfortable clothes you can move in.
Meet your instructors:
Noelle resides in Iowa City and has been teaching yoga for over 20 years. She believes yoga is for everybody — and every body. Noelle was inspired to create this event after leading an Addiction Recovery yoga class where upon reading a poem to those struggling with substance abuse (many of whom had served time in relation to it), she looked up and saw all the men had tears in their eyes. That’s when the “power of poetry” truly hit her and she excitedly called her friend.
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Marc currently resides in West Des Moines upon making his “Hero’s Journey” back home after a long, long dream in West Hollywood, California. Marc is a poet, actor, theater critic, and educator who has helped train medical students (and other health professionals) at some of the top schools in Southern California. He has responded to Noelle’s call for a yoga-poetry collaboration with his own — as Walt Whitman calls it — “barbaric yawp.”