Thrive Network / Thrive East Bay

05/03/2026

TODAY at 12pm PT / 3pm ET on Zoom.

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Hosted by Thrive Network & Rooting in the Sacred

04/09/2026

Registration EXTENDED to this FRIDAY, April 10th!
https://www.thrivenetwork.org/sacred

This is not a course,
It is a crossing.

A return to the places within you
that remember how to listen
to the hush beneath the noise,
to the pulse beneath the doing,
to the sacred moving through your breath,
your body, your becoming.

Sign up before the end of this Friday, April 10th to be part of the journey!

LINK in bio!

https://www.thrivenetwork.org/sacred

04/03/2026

Sunday, May 3rd @ 12pm PT / 3pm ET on Zoom

Join us for “Radical Reverence: Practicing Kinship with Earth and Each Other” - a Rooting in the Sacred wisdom conversation with beloved writer, scholar and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs (author of Undrowned and Survival is a Promise) and celebrated conservationist, writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams (author of Refuge and The Glorians).

In a time when so much is uncertain and unraveling, we are being called to remember something ancient and essential: we belong to a living world. Beneath the noise of our age, the Earth is still speaking—through trees, wind, mountains, mammals, and winged-ones—inviting us to listen more deeply, to soften into relationship, and to rediscover our place within the great web of life. What might it mean to cultivate a practice of radical reverence—a way of being rooted in care, humility, and kinship with the more-than-human world?

Drawing on decades of writing, activism, and spiritual imagination, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Terry Tempest Williams invite us to explore the wisdom of oceans, deserts, animals and wild landscapes as teachers for this moment in history. Together, we will reflect on how deep attention to the living world can awaken courage, restore hope, and nurture the relational practices that cultivate love, healing, justice, and renewal.

This conversation is an invitation to slow down and listen—to the Earth, to one another, and to the quiet knowing within us that another way of being is possible. In the presence of these two luminous voices, we will discover how reverence can become a living practice: a way of remembering our belonging and nurturing the relationships that make life possible.

“What would it mean to go deep with each other? What are the scales of intimacy and the actual practices that would teach us how to care for each other?” - Alexis Pauline Gumbs

“I believe the Earth is dreaming us into a new way of seeing, a new way of being, if we will favor our senses and receive what is coming to us through heartbreak and love.” - Terry Tempest Williams

LINK in bio to learn more & RSVP!

03/18/2026

Register by March 31st!
Rooting in the Sacred: A Journey of Reverence & Reimagining
www.thrivenetwork.org/sacred

“Our generation must walk the spiritual path that is available to us only in this time, with its own unique combination of wisdom and creation.” -adrienne maree brown

“Worlds are cracking open. It’s time to make new gods.” -Bayo Akomolafe

Rooting in the Sacred is a yearlong course designed to guide seekers, dreamers and changemakers on a deeply personal and collective journey into the emerging future of spirituality. Together, we explore how wisdom traditions, contemporary practices, and our unique connection to the sacred can transform our lives and inspire social change.

Guest teachers include some of the leading visionaries, spiritual teachers and practitioners of our time: Bayo Akomolafe, Lalah Delia, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Terry Tempest Williams, Lama Rod Owens, angel Kyodo williams, Joshua Michael Schrei, Orland Bishop, Mirabai Starr, Omid Safi, Patty Krawec, Liza Rankow, Kazu Haga, Yuria Celidwen, James McCrae, and Alixa Garcia.

Check out the full details at the LINK in our bio!

https://www.thrivenetwork.org/sacred

03/12/2026

“When you begin to imagine and act as if you are living in the world you want to live in, you will have company.” -Bernice Johnson Reagon

Join us for Rooting in the Sacred starting this month.

LINK in bio!

https://www.thrivenetwork.org/sacred

03/11/2026

“The spiritual imperative at this time … is a call, or perhaps a scream or plea being bellowed from deep in the earth, from above and below worlds, from the oceans, the mountains, the desert, and cosmos for us to engage in practices … that will bring us back to our hearts and the truth of who we are, to the remembrance of how deeply connected we are to all things everywhere.” -Michelle C. Johnson

LINK in bio to learn about Rooting in the Sacred: A Journey of Reverence & Reimagining.

03/10/2026

Guest Teacher Spotlight | Rooting in the Sacred
https://www.thrivenetwork.org/sacred

angel Kyodo williams is an American writer, activist, ordained Zen priest and the author of Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace, and the co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation. Known for her willingness to sit with and speak uncomfortable truths with love. Rev. angel reminds us that, “Love and Justice are not two. Without inner change, there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.”

Lama Rod Owens is a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. Considered one of the leaders of the next generation of Dharma teachers, he brings a focus on the intersection of social change, identity, and spiritual practice. Author of The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors and Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Angerand co-author of Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation, his teachings center on freedom, self-expression, and radical self-care.

LINK in bio to sign up for “Rooting in the Sacred” and to learn from angel & Lama Rod along with some of the leading visionaries, spiritual teachers and practitioners of our time.

Rooting in the Sacred: A Journey of Reverence & Reimagining
Starting in March 2026
www.thrivenetwork.org/sacred

Rooting in the Sacred is a yearlong virtual & hybrid course designed to guide seekers, dreamers, and changemakers on a deeply personal and collective journey into the emerging future of spirituality. Together, we explore how wisdom traditions, contemporary practices, and our unique connection to the sacred can transform our lives and inspire social change.

Guest teachers include some of the leading visionaries, spiritual teachers and practitioners of our time: Bayo Akomolafe, Lalah Delia, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Terry Tempest Williams, Lama Rod Owens, angel Kyodo williams, Joshua Michael Schrei, Orland Bishop, Mirabai Starr, Omid Safi, Patty Krawec, Liza Rankow, Kazu Haga, Yuria Celidwen, James McCrae, and Alixa Garcia.

LINK in bio:

03/09/2026

Rooting in the Sacred: A Journey of Reverence & Reimagining
Starting in March 2026
www.thrivenetwork.org/sacred

This is a time that demands depth.

Surface spirituality will not sustain us.
Isolation will not heal us.
Speed will not transform us.

Join us for a yearlong journey into embodied spirituality, sacred activism, deep relationship, healing and transformation.

LINK in bio or learn more at: https://www.thrivenetwork.org/sacred

03/06/2026

“Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

Register today for our next year of Rooting in the Sacred: A Journey of Reverence & Reimagining.

LINK in bio!

https://www.thrivenetwork.org/sacred

03/03/2026

Guest Teacher Spotlight | Rooting in the Sacred
https://www.thrivenetwork.org/sacred

Alixa García is a Colombian-born, globally-raised, multidisciplinary artist, movement organizer, and decolonial and creative somatic facilitator. She is a published author, exhibited visual artist, music producer, and cultural creator committed to just and thriving worlds. Garcia is an award-winning poet, climate organizer,and filmmaker who has presented at hundreds of universities, conferences, and festivals including Harvard, the United Nations, and T.E.D.: Ideas Worth Spreading. Her latest offering, a Course on the Imaginal: Cultivating the Visionary Self, uses what she calls Creative Somatics and attention-intensive practices to help move trauma and grief through and out of the body so that we may begin to unearth the visionary within.

LINK in bio at to sign up for “Rooting in the Sacred” and to learn from Alixa Garcia and some of the leading visionaries, spiritual teachers and practitioners of our time.

Rooting in the Sacred: A Journey of Reverence & Reimagining
Starting in March 2026
www.thrivenetwork.org/sacred

“Our generation must walk the spiritual path that is available to us only in this time, with its own unique combination of wisdom and creation.” -adrienne maree brown

“Worlds are cracking open. It’s time to make new gods.” -Bayo Akomolafe

Rooting in the Sacred is a yearlong virtual & hybrid course designed to guide seekers, dreamers, and changemakers on a deeply personal and collective journey into the emerging future of spirituality. Together, we explore how wisdom traditions, contemporary practices, and our unique connection to the sacred can transform our lives and inspire social change.

Guest teachers include some of the leading visionaries, spiritual teachers and practitioners of our time: Bayo Akomolafe, Lalah Delia, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Terry Tempest Williams, Lama Rod Owens, angel Kyodo williams, Joshua Michael Schrei, Orland Bishop, Mirabai Starr, Omid Safi, Patty Krawec, Liza Rankow, Kazu Haga, Yuria Celidwen, James McCrae and Alixa Garcia.

LINK in bio!