This Valentine’s Day, spread love, win chocolate, and celebrate pollinators!
A Special Valentine’s Day Loving-Kindness Moving Meditation + Chocolate!
Pollinators are the lovers of the earth. The bee ambling from one flower to the next contributes to the hive and ensures another year of flowers. A pollinator’s work is reciprocal and life affirming, a true expression of big love!
Inspired by the bee and tapping into our own sense of work as love and love as action, we’ll flow through yoga forms and repeat the Buddhist metta prayer: “May you be safe. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you live with ease,” offering these words first to ourselves, then expanding to the people in our lives and beyond.
Research suggests that the loving-kindness meditation done regularly can increase feelings of connection, satisfaction in relationships, and joy! So grab a person you love (or two or three), and spread goodwill to all beings, everywhere.
To send you a little extra love, we’ve joined up with Honeymoon Chocolates, a St. Louis-based, fair-trade chocolate company that sweetens their bars with raw honey. They’ve generously donated their bean-to-bar chocolate, and anyone who signs up for the class will be entered to win a chocolate giveaway! One lucky person will receive a sampler with Honeymoon’s full line of chocolate bars and chocolate tea, and five more will win a 70% Peruvian Dark Raspberry Chocolate Bar.
All proceeds from the event will go to the Pollinator Partnership, an international leader in pollinator science, management, and conservation. Through research and policy, this organization strives to protect the lives of pollinators and make sure they can do their work of loving the world (and keeping us humans fed in the process).
Suggested donation $10. Give what you can, knowing that your presence is enough.
Facilitator: Jessie Kissinger
Location: Online (Follow the link below to receive the ZOOM password)
Cost: Donation