PRACTICE
PRACTICE is our signature class—simple, grounding, and deeply effective. Each session begins with gentle, accessible movement, flows into breathwork (often guided by drum), and ends with a guided-to-silence, open meditation.
The hour you spend at Practice will touch every other hour of your week.
Our Practice class is a 90 minute moving meditation steeped in science-based Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) practices. It’s a space to reclaim your focus and reset your nervous system, with the support of a group, tucked away in a secluded setting, where Nature & your comfort have been prioritized. We provide all the prop you need, and will help you find ease in your seat.
Please note, we use sound bowls, aromatherapy, and percussion in this class and on occasion, our mindfulness mascot OooNa, the giant baby house bunny, will join us to Practice.
What is Practice?
Mindful Movement
The first part of the hour is mindful movement (think slow, easy, stretching) that is accessible for every BODY— ALL ages, shapes, sizes, and mobilities.
Breathwork
Then, we move into breathing exercises, guided by drum
(4-7-8 is popular one around here).
Meditation
The class concludes with 20 minutes of guided-to-silence, open awareness meditation.
Come Practice with us!
There are several opportunities every week to join us for Practice. This deceptively simple Practice, done on a semi regular basis, has the potential to change your life in every way.
Doors to open 30 minutes before Practice and you’re invited to stay up to an hour after class to roam, spend time with the animals, and help yourself to the free tea and adaptogen bar.
Dara is the owner, program director and lead guide at Zoetic. She has been practicing meditation, mindful movement, breathing exercises, silent and guided meditation for twenty years and teaching for five.
Dara’s classes incorporate movement and stillness and focus on cueing breath with movements to seamlessly connect mind and body. Known for the accessibility of her teaching, she invites students with or without mindfulness experience to meet the challenge with a Beginners Mind.
Dara also has a passion for the science and philosophy of meditation, and peppers her classes with useful information about HOW and WHY the mind/body connection is the key to well being and true freedom.
Meet Your Guide
PRIVATE PRACTICE
If you prefer to receive private one on one instruction to familiarize yourself with meditation, or If you would like to Practice at Zoetic with a teacher to guide you in a more in depth way, please reach out to schedule a Private Practice. We will meet one on one to discuss expectations and anything else you may want to discuss on the topic of meditation and then practice together. After you are welcome to enjoy the animals, art, and nature for as long as you like.
COUPLES PRACTICE
At the beginning of the pandemic my husband and I embarked upon the adventure of practicing meditating together. I had 20 years experience practicing and teaching meditation, my husband had zero experience, and was highly skeptical. The results were undeniable and profound. If you and your partner can commit to sitting together 3 min a day together, the instructions for couples practice has the potential to expand your relationship, and eliminate co dependency. The experience of connecting on the level of consciousness with another human being will reveal wisdom it is impossible to learn through just a solitary practice. There are some mysteries that can only be unlocked with another person. You may have already tried counseling, or reading relationship books, this is different. This is a new way of connection, Non Verbal, and it’s simple to learn.