cultivating healthy connection to the world and our own indigenous souls
Here's our Community Calendar with Village-positive events happening in and around Paonia, Colorado:
Gathering Around the Fire
Heart of the Village Paonia is a home for ancestral technologies of tending connection and purpose, including dancing, singing, storytelling, dream sharing, game playing, deep listening, grief tending, connecting with nature & ancestors, creating rituals, and gathering around a campfire.
Amber Xanthy Darkriver Van Cleave
I am a collaborative experiential artist, ritualist and facilitator. I created this space to invite others to show up and play. It is meant to be a collaboration, because it takes a village... to make a Village.
My mission statement: "I am available to co-create a joyful, meaningful experience of Village Life with you!"
Heart of the Village Paonia Events
Ancestral Soul-Tending Technologies
New weekly offering at Opaloka Orchards! Monday evenings 6-8 PM
When we gather with the intention of Village, the Village springs to life through us. Come tend your sense of connection and purpose with a weekly rotating theme. Please arrive 10-15 minutes early. Tuition is $20 per session (contact for info about monthly membership to Opaloka Orchards.)
Contact: Amber (970) 623-6272 text or leave a message
Event Pages on Facebook:
First Mondays: Dance & Chakra Journey (connect with body wisdom)
Second Mondays: Ash Circle (conflict resolution ritual with African roots)
Third Mondays: Dream Sharing (explore night/sleep dream wisdom)
Fourth Mondays: Weavers Council (mutual support for cultural evolutionaries)
Fifth Mondays: Wildcard TBA by the week preceding the date
Sing to the River
This came about in response to a part of our watershed being slated to be piped, and the feeling that the land was grieving the loss of that water to the ecosystem. I heard the river asking to "gather people to sing to the river."
Meet at noon Mondays through the end of April, 2025 at The Hearth 138 Grand Ave, Paonia, to walk together to Paonia River Park; you are welcome to join in along the way. We will sing by the water near the boat ramp, on the "beach" directly down form the east end of the parking lot.
Just for fun, wear something blue!
Sunday Morning Dance
Come get your groove on at The Studio at the Paonia Laundromat,
604 2nd Street, 10 to noon Third Sundays (except June).
All humans are welcome! Age 12 and under please bring an adult with you. 16 and under no charge.
$5-$20 requested donation. (Aim for the middle: 10-15 regular, 16-20 supporting, 5-9 low income)
Facilitated by Amber.
See also Ecstatic Paonia for live DJ dances facilitated by Tanya on 2nd and 4th Saturdays
7-9 PM at the Blue Sage Center for the Arts.
