HEALING CIRCLES
What a Healing Circle is.
You don’t drop in to a Circle. You enroll. A cohort moves through the arc together: a beginning, a middle, and an end. An intake conversation that tests fit. A closing ritual that honors what the cohort built.
The architecture
Stage 1
Apply
You tell us what is happening in your body and what you want to change. It takes ten minutes and no one is screened out for cost.
Stage 2
Intake
A 15-minute conversation with the facilitator to test fit, both directions. If another Circle serves you better, we say so.
Stage 3
Cohort arc
Six to twelve sessions with the same people, in order, building on each other. Attendance is the practice.
Stage 4
Integration and closing
The last sessions move the work off the mat and into the week. A closing ritual marks what the cohort built.
The six Circles
The Reset
Holistic education for the whole community. Breath, defense, and discipline. Open to anyone.
12 weeks · the ARC (Archwood Resource Collaborative)
The ARC, downtown Phoenix
Enrolling now
Nervous System Recovery
For the body that lives in survival mode.
8 sessions
Cohort size 8 to 15
The Hive + virtual
Opens with the next campaign
Youth Reset
For the ones learning to breathe inside a world that forgot how.
6 sessions · Ages 12 to 18
Cohort size 8 to 15
Partner sites + the Hive
Opens with the next campaign
Women's Empowerment
Embodied confidence and foundational self-defense.
10 sessions
Cohort size 8 to 15
The Hive + the Dojo
Opens with the next campaign
Senior Mobility
Breath capacity, mobility, and community for the next decade.
8 sessions · Ages 60+
Cohort size 8 to 15
The Hive + partner sites
Next cohort forming
Fatherhood & Masculinity
For the men who are already carrying it, and want a place to put some of it down.
10 sessions
Cohort size 8 to 15
The Hive + the Dojo
Opens with the next campaign
The seat is funded.
You don’t pay at the door. Most seats are donor-sponsored. Some are sliding scale. None are full-price barriers.