Creative, Joyful Mondays for residents of Givens Great Laurels Apartments is a heART Healing Circle Workshop that uses creativity, poetry, and art-making to foster Healing, Exploration, Awakening, Renewal, and Transformation. We gather in community to offer our hearts a sacred sanctuary for wholeness, healing, and well-being. No art skills are needed to attend. Free of charge.

Discover our sanctuary for wellness, creativity, and compassionate community connection. Join us for two Open House Days filled with healing arts experiences and soul-nourishing connections.

Discover our sanctuary for wellness, creativity, and compassionate community connection. Join us for two Open House Days filled with healing arts experiences and soul-nourishing connections.

Join a gentle, tai-chi-like flowing mind-body practice for all ages and abilities, seated or standing. Cultivates calm, balance, and inner peace. No experience needed. Come as you are!

This isn’t just a dance class—it’s a soulful invitation to reconnect with your whole self. Soulpower Dance blends expressive movement and meaningful choreography to awaken joy, release emotional tension, and restore inner harmony. Come as you are. Move as you feel. Reclaim your joy.

This isn’t just a dance class—it’s a soulful invitation to reconnect with your whole self. Soulpower Dance blends expressive movement and meaningful choreography to awaken joy, release emotional tension, and restore inner harmony. Come as you are. Move as you feel. Reclaim your joy.

THE RETREAT IS FULL. Please email Marga at margacfripp@gmail.com if you're interested in participating in future art healing experiences. 

Grief is not just an ending—it is also a doorway. A portal to love, transformation, and renewal. This retreat offers a sacred space for those walking the tender path of loss, inviting self-kindness, creative healing, and compassionate community connection as we move through grief into love. Free of charge. No art experience needed—just an open heart and a willingness to explore.

Join The Pollinators at the 2nd Annual Pride Parade on Main—and we want YOU to join us! The Pollinators Foundation will have a vendor booth and we’ll be marching in the parade to celebrate love, inclusion, and the beautiful diversity of our community.

Join our bi-weekly heART Healing Circle Workshop, a program that uses creativity, poetry, and art-making to foster individual and community Healing, Exploration, Awakening, Renewal, and Transformation. We gather in community to offer our hearts a sacred sanctuary for wholeness, healing, and well-being.

June 26, 11:00 am-1:00 pm. No art skills are needed to attend.

Soulpower Dance is an empowering and exhilarating dance class incorporating meaningful and cathartic choreography to align our emotional expression with our embodied awareness. This class is an opportunity to have joyful fun while digging deeper into wholeness, healing, and the illuminating spirit within. No dance or movement experience is required!

Celebrate the International Day of Yoga with us at the Smoky Mountain Yoga & Wellness Festival—a vibrant day of movement, mindfulness, creativity, and community connection in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. Join Marga at 12 pm at the Festival on the grass to experience a refreshing Qigong practice that supports emotional balance, inner peace, and whole-body vitality.

Express yourself with free-flow movements and light choreography, largely Qigong movement, to intentional, spiritual music. This slower-paced musical journey begins with a grounding meditation and moves into creative dance expression. No dance or movement experience is required!

Jake Gilmore of Axis Yoga will lead us through restorative yoga poses using comfortable props like cushioned bolsters and blankets while playing guitar, crystal singing bowls, buffalo drum, shruti box, and ocean drum. Speaking meditations and breathing prompts for the outcome of feeling centered and in the moment.   

Boost energy, reduce stress, and enhance mental and emotional wellbeing! Learn simple, effective energy medicine techniques based on teachings by Donna Eden to revitalize your health.

Experience the deeply soothing and restorative power of Reiki & Songbath, a unique healing practice that blends Reiki with gentle, affirming songs and chants to amplify energy and create a lullaby for the Soul. Tea Reception & Light Snacks.

Step into a magical, candlelit space and embark on a transformative journey where meditative movement and vibrational healing unite. Experience the gentle flow of Qigong combined with the celestial tones of a live Sound Bath, featuring singing bowls, the grounding power of gongs, the soft chime of bells, and other sacred instruments.

Join us to express yourself with free-flow movements and light choreography, largely Qi Gong movement, to intentional, spiritual music. This slower-paced musical journey begins with a grounding meditation and moves into creative dance expression. No dance or movement experience is required!

Join us in conversation with Justin Elledge, Medical Intuitive & Spiritual Teacher, for a transformative conversation on the deep connection between gut health, brain function, and emotional well-being. We’ll also discuss the role of social healing and social medicine—how connection and community help regulate our nervous system, reduce stress, and sustain joy.

In this experiential workshop with Betsy Orsini, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and Marga Fripp, Trauma-informed Expressive Art Therapist, we’ll explore how neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to rewire itself— and community connection can support healing from stress, trauma, and emotional pain.

This is our 31 Days of Wellness Kick-off Event for May Mental Health Awareness Month. May 3 is also World Labyrinth Day. Come for a meditative walk followed by a creative reflection with chalk on the stone walkway outside the Labyrinth.

Soulpower Dance is an empowering and exhilarating dance class incorporating meaningful and cathartic choreography to align our emotional expression with our embodied awareness. This class is an opportunity to have joyful fun while digging deeper into wholeness, healing, and the illuminating spirit within. No dance or movement experience is required!

Join us, once a month, on Thursday to express yourself with free-flow movements and light choreography, largely Qi Gong movement, to intentional, spiritual music. This slower-paced musical journey begins with a grounding meditation and moves into creative dance expression. No dance or movement experience is required!