Awarehouse Excursion: Cold, Nature & the Elements
This isn’t just a hike. It’s a ritual.
The purpose of this Awarehouse Excursion is to deepen your relationship with cold, with nature, and with the part of yourself that comes alive when structure falls away and the elements take the lead.
This is a chance to bring your practice off the mat, out of the plunge, and into the wild. To feel the earth beneath your feet. The water around your skin. To remember how much clarity lives in contrast.
Location: Difficult Run Stream Valley Trail | McLean, VA
8801 Georgetown Pike
🌲 What to Expect:
We’ll meet at the trailhead.
There will be hugs, laughter, and a shared breath to set our intentions.
From there, we hike in together—an easy, mindful trail winding through forest and alongside the water.
Once we arrive at the spot, we’ll ground and prep for cold exposure:
→ Breath.
→ Presence.
→ Patience.
You’ll enter the water gently. You’ll breathe with the river. You’ll let your system rise and soften.
Then you’ll emerge. You’ll rewarm. You’ll feel it: that electric, primal, peaceful reset.
We'll hike back slowly, sip something warm, laugh some more, and return to our cars by 11 AM—changed.
🔥 Notes for the Journey:
Bring water shoes—there are slippery rocks and your feet will thank you.
Pack a towel, warm layers, and a way to change post-dip.
Feel free to bring snacks or a warm thermos for after.
No dogs, no kids—this space is for you.
The hike is easy terrain: less than a mile in, just over two miles out—with gorgeous views of the run and the Potomac throughout.
Water temps will be brisk—mid to high 30s—but your breath is your anchor.
I’ll guide the journey, hold the group, and keep the container clear.
I won’t be getting in the water—but I’ll be right there, holding you in it.
Hosted by Bob Soulliere, Wim Hof Method Level 2 Instructor
Event is offered freely, as part of our shared practice.
Insight + Ice
THE COLD AS TEACHER
This isn’t about conquering the cold. It’s about learning to meet it.
What does the cold have to reveal to you? What happens when you engage with it—not as punishment, but as presence? How do you prepare your nervous system to step in… and how do you return to yourself afterward?
In this session, we explore cold as a practice of awareness, regulation, and expansion.
You’ll learn how to breathe through the resistance, listen to your body’s cues, and stay in right relationship with discomfort—not to override it, but to grow with it.
The cold isn’t here to shock. It’s here to awaken. To open the heart. To build strength from the inside out.
This is not a competition. You’re always in control.
We’ll guide you with intention, care, and lived experience—whether it’s your first time or your fiftieth.
✨ Appropriate for both cold-curious and seasoned plungers.
✨ Come ready to learn, feel, regulate, and rise.
Offered at our standard class rate—drop in, use your pack, or come as a member.
Connection as a Practice - Consent and Platonic Touch
CONNECTION AS A PRACTICE
In a world that often rushes, true connection requires a different pace.
One rooted in presence, trust, and nervous system attunement.
We long to feel close—yet so many of us haven’t been taught how to be with touch, boundaries, and intimacy in a way that feels safe in the body.
This workshop is all about consent and platonic intimacy—how we give and receive connection with clarity and care. Through a mix of journaling, self-reflection, movement, touch, and group discussion, we’ll practice attuning to our own needs while respecting the boundaries of others. You’ll leave with practical skills to communicate with confidence, build deeper relationships, and create meaningful connections in a way that feels good for everyone involved.
✍🏽 Please bring:
A journal and pen
Comfortable clothing for gentle movement
🫖 We’ll provide:
Tea, water, cacao
A space that honors your yes, your no, and your in-between
💛 About Touch:
We will explore consensual, platonic touch as one of many tools for connection.
We honor that touch can open, heal, or stir deep emotion.
If you have past trauma related to touch, please ensure you have support in place (therapist, counselor, etc.) to help process anything that may arise.
This is an opt-in space. You’ll never be asked to participate beyond what feels true for you.
Join us as we practice what it means to feel safe with each other—
and what becomes possible when we do.
Allison Tilluma
Allison has been a leader in holistic health for over 20 years, helping people connect mind, body, and spirit in meaningful ways. With a passion for mindful exploration and play, she curates transformative experiences that invite curiosity, deepen self-awareness, and turn limits into possibilities. Whether through movement, connection, or creative expression, Allison empowers others to embrace well-being with intention and joy.
Jonathan Forney
Jonathan is a self-inquiry coach, dancer, rock-climber, musician, and yoga teacher. His mission is to cultivate authenticity and deep presence in himself and others. Jonathan spent a decade of his life evaluating aid programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Now he’s focused on coaching people to love themselves, to find purpose in stillness, and to give their gifts fully to the world through compassionate living. Jonathan is currently training to become a marriage and family therapist and has dedicated the past four years to an immersive study of group facilitation, trauma healing, and breakthrough life-coaching.
Held: A Women's Embodiment Circle
This is a space where your whole self is welcome.
Held is a women’s embodiment circle designed for softness, truth, and connection.
It’s not about fixing or performing.
It’s about coming home—to your body, your breath, your voice, and each other.
Through guided movement, stillness, journaling, and shared reflection, we explore what it means to be deeply felt and fully seen.
We practice slowing down. Listening in. Speaking without apology.
And most of all—we remember that no one does it all alone.
Expect a space that’s gentle but powerful.
Structured but intuitive.
And rooted in the belief that your body is not a project—it’s a portal.
✨ Open to all women and femme-identifying beings
✨ Come as you are. Leave more of yourself.
🖤 Free community offering, held every other week.
Prana Power Breath
For experienced breathworkers ready to go deeper.
Journey inward. Awaken your prana.
This is a portal into presence—a breath-led descent beneath the surface noise, where the body speaks in signals, and your awareness becomes sensation.
We move through a dynamic arc:
stillness → power → perception → drive → return.
Each breath opens space. Each pause reveals something true.
Here, prana—your life force—doesn’t just flow. It guides.
Interoception sharpens. Awareness expands.
And you land back in a grounded, embodied self—clear, awake, and connected.
Optional cold plunge and/or sauna are available before or after class to support integration and deepen the shift.
This experience is for seasoned breathworkers ready to explore altered states, inner terrain, and the intelligence of the body through breath.
Offered at our standard class rate—drop in, use your pack, or come as a member.
Cannabis Meditation
Explore the wisdom and healing power of this sacred flower medicine.
Cannabis has been a sacred tool for healing, insight, and connection for centuries. In this meditation, we honor it as a plant ally–one that supports deep introspection, emotional release, and expanded states of awareness. This practice is not about escape but about deepening your relationship with yourself, your body, and the present moment.
Cannabis Meditation is an energy practice. Sometimes it’s deeply restful, sometimes activating or emotional, sometimes psychedelic or mystical, but always transformative.
We begin by preparing the body with gentle movement and grounding breathwork, creating an intentional container for the experience. Before we consume, we will offer a blessing over the medicine and space, inviting you to do the same in a way that resonates with you. Once we consume, we'll breathe a little more and then you'll lie down comfortably to be guided through a body scan meditation. This is your time to relax, surrender, and allow the medicine to flow through your system.
To close, we’ll offer space for you to integrate and share any insights of the experience.
This is an energy practice so it is normal–and to be expected–to have any of the following:
crying or emotional release
shaking, twitching or buzzing of the limbs and body
spiritual or supernatural experiences
deep states of rest, relaxation/meditation
You will be guided through the entire experience. Please come with an open mind and a curious heart.
You are welcome to arrive 30 minutes early to relax in the sauna prior to meditation.
Members - $25
Non-members - $45
Alchemy in Motion
Dance as emotional alchemy. Movement as medicine.
This is not choreography. It’s transformation.
Alchemy in Motion is a guided movement journey designed to move what words can’t.
Blending somatic movement, modern dance, and partner mirroring, this class invites you to explore your inner landscape through breath, rhythm, and raw expression.
No steps to follow. No right way to move.
Just the invitation to listen to your body—and let it speak.
Through intuitive prompts, spacious music, and connection with others, we’ll move through layers of tension, emotion, and sensation.
From grief to joy. From stuck to free. From surface to soul.
Expect moments of stillness, intensity, connection, and release.
Expect to be moved—literally and energetically.
This is a space for anyone craving deeper embodiment, emotional clarity, and the kind of movement that brings you back to yourself.
🖤 No dance experience necessary.
🖤 Open to all genders. Come as you are.
Offered at our standard class rate—drop in, use your pack, or come as a member.
Held: A Women's Embodiment Circle
This is a space where your whole self is welcome.
Held is a women’s embodiment circle designed for softness, truth, and connection.
It’s not about fixing or performing.
It’s about coming home—to your body, your breath, your voice, and each other.
Through guided movement, stillness, journaling, and shared reflection, we explore what it means to be deeply felt and fully seen.
We practice slowing down. Listening in. Speaking without apology.
And most of all—we remember that no one does it all alone.
Expect a space that’s gentle but powerful.
Structured but intuitive.
And rooted in the belief that your body is not a project—it’s a portal.
✨ Open to all women and femme-identifying beings
✨ Come as you are. Leave more of yourself.
🖤 Free community offering, held every other week.
Held: A Women's Embodiment Circle
This is a space where your whole self is welcome.
Held is a women’s embodiment circle designed for softness, truth, and connection.
It’s not about fixing or performing.
It’s about coming home—to your body, your breath, your voice, and each other.
Through guided movement, stillness, journaling, and shared reflection, we explore what it means to be deeply felt and fully seen.
We practice slowing down. Listening in. Speaking without apology.
And most of all—we remember that no one does it all alone.
Expect a space that’s gentle but powerful.
Structured but intuitive.
And rooted in the belief that your body is not a project—it’s a portal.
✨ Open to all women and femme-identifying beings
✨ Come as you are. Leave more of yourself.
🖤 Free community offering, held every other week.
Cannabis Meditation
Explore the wisdom and healing power of this sacred flower medicine.
Cannabis has been a sacred tool for healing, insight, and connection for centuries. In this meditation, we honor it as a plant ally–one that supports deep introspection, emotional release, and expanded states of awareness. This practice is not about escape but about deepening your relationship with yourself, your body, and the present moment.
Cannabis Meditation is an energy practice. Sometimes it’s deeply restful, sometimes activating or emotional, sometimes psychedelic or mystical, but always transformative.
We begin by preparing the body with gentle movement and grounding breathwork, creating an intentional container for the experience. Before we consume, we will offer a blessing over the medicine and space, inviting you to do the same in a way that resonates with you. Once we consume, we'll breathe a little more and then you'll lie down comfortably to be guided through a body scan meditation. This is your time to relax, surrender, and allow the medicine to flow through your system.
To close, we’ll offer space for you to integrate and share any insights of the experience.
This is an energy practice so it is normal–and to be expected–to have any of the following:
crying or emotional release
shaking, twitching or buzzing of the limbs and body
spiritual or supernatural experiences
deep states of rest, relaxation/meditation
You will be guided through the entire experience. Please come with an open mind and a curious heart.
You are welcome to arrive 30 minutes early to relax in the sauna prior to meditation.
Members - $25
Non-members - $45
Rumble x Recovery
Join us for a Rumble x Recovery event on March 18th at 8pm and enjoy a workout followed by learning the benefits of recovery all while stepping into a sauna and dipping into a cold plunge!
Juliana from Rumble Boxing will lead you through a 30min high-intensity session featuring a dynamic warm-up and shadow boxing with bodyweight strength training exercises to challenge your entire body. For the next 30min, continue to sweat it out, but unwind as you discover the benefits of recovery through relaxing in the sauna and immersing yourself in a cold plunge!
Two time slots available - 7pm and 8pm. Register for class on schedule tab.
Regular drop-in cost - $45
Members - Free
Rumble x Recovery
Join us for a Rumble x Recovery event on March 18th at 7pm and enjoy a workout followed by learning the benefits of recovery all while stepping into a sauna and dipping into a cold plunge!
Juliana from Rumble Boxing will lead you through a 30min high-intensity session featuring a dynamic warm-up and shadow boxing with bodyweight strength training exercises to challenge your entire body. For the next 30min, continue to sweat it out, but unwind as you discover the benefits of recovery through relaxing in the sauna and immersing yourself in a cold plunge!
Two time slots available - 7pm and 8pm. Register for class on schedule tab.
Regular drop-in cost - $45
Members - Free
Rhythms & Resilience: A woman's guide to cycle-safe cold plunging
Honor your womb. Sync with your cycle. Choose resilience over burnout.
Cold therapy is a powerful tool for resilience, but the key is working with your body—not against it. Rhythms & Resilience is a two-hour guided workshop designed to help you harness the benefits of cold water therapy in a way that honors your menstrual cycle, supports your nervous system, and strengthens your connection to your body’s innate wisdom.
Through eastern-medicine philosophy, breathwork, and a guided cold plunge (or drizzle) experience, you’ll learn how to:
• Align cold exposure with your cycle for energy, recovery, and balance
• Use breath to connect with your womb to honor and build sacred trust
• Develop resilience without depletion—knowing when to push and when to rest
• Create a safe and intentional practice before, during and after your plunge
You’ll leave feeling powerful, restored, and deeply attuned to your body—ready to integrate cold therapy in a way that nourishes your feminine rhythm.
Join us for this unique experience and discover the power of cycle-smart cold exposure.
Workshop Cost - $55
Unlimited and 8x/month Members receive 20% off.
Members20
Evening Social
Imagine an evening where the weight of the day melts away—replaced by deep connection, rhythmic beats, and a space to fully unwind. That’s the essence of our Evening Social. ✨
This month, we’re bringing something new into the mix—a drumming session. Whether you’re here to play, move, or simply soak in the rhythm, this is your invitation to drop in and feel the pulse.
And that’s just the beginning. Ambient soundscapes set the mood while the sauna and cold plunge offer a full-body reset. Come breathe, move, and connect in a space designed to leave you lighter, grounded, and inspired.
Friday, March 14, 2025 | 6:00–8:00
$45 Drop-in | Free for Members
soundbath + cacao ceremony
Immerse yourself in a heart-opening journey of sound and ritual. This workshop blends the grounding power of ceremonial cacao with the deeply restorative experience of a soundbath. Begin with a warm cup of cacao, setting intentions and opening the heart. Then, surrender to soothing vibrations as crystal bowls, gongs, and chimes guide you into deep relaxation.
Come early to enjoy the sauna and cold plunge, preparing your body and mind for deeper presence and renewal. This is a space for reflection, release, and expansion—where sound, spirit, and community come together to support your healing.
Cost for full experience - $55
Unlimited and 8x/month Members receive 20% off
Members20
Cannabis Meditation
Explore the wisdom and healing power of this sacred flower medicine.
Cannabis has been a sacred tool for healing, insight, and connection for centuries. In this meditation, we honor it as a plant ally–one that supports deep introspection, emotional release, and expanded states of awareness. This practice is not about escape but about deepening your relationship with yourself, your body, and the present moment.
Cannabis Meditation is an energy practice. Sometimes it’s deeply restful, sometimes activating or emotional, sometimes psychedelic or mystical, but always transformative.
We begin by preparing the body with gentle movement and grounding breathwork, creating an intentional container for the experience. Before we consume, we will offer a blessing over the medicine and space, inviting you to do the same in a way that resonates with you. Once we consume, we'll breathe a little more and then you'll lie down comfortably to be guided through a body scan meditation. This is your time to relax, surrender, and allow the medicine to flow through your system.
To close, we'll offer space for you to integrate and share any insights of the experience.
This is an energy practice so it is normal–and to be expected–to have any of the following:
crying or emotional release
shaking, twitching or buzzing of the limbs and body
spiritual or supernatural experiences
deep states of rest, relaxation/meditation
You will be guided through the entire experience. Please come with an open mind and a curious heart.
You are welcome to arrive 30 minutes early to relax in the sauna prior to meditation.
Regular drop-in cost - $45
Members - $25
Inner Bloom Women’s Mini-Retreat
Step into an afternoon of deep healing, connection, and self-discovery.
Inner Bloom is a sacred invitation to nurture yourself first—because when we tend to our inner world with care, our relationships and connections flourish naturally. Through gentle movement, reflection, and sisterhood, we’ll explore what it means to cultivate self-love, honor our own rhythms, and bloom into the fullness of who we are.
We’ll begin with a heart-opening cacao ceremony, inviting intention, self-inquiry, and gentle reflection. Through guided meditation, sound healing, and breathwork, you’ll release tension, attune to your inner rhythms, and cultivate presence.
From here, we move into the powerful contrast of sauna and cold plunge therapy—an embodied practice of surrender and resilience. Detox in the gentle warmth of the infrared sauna, then awaken your senses with an invigorating cold plunge, teaching your body the art of flow, trust, and renewal.
Throughout our time together, we’ll weave in journaling and circle sharing, creating space for self-expression, deep listening, and collective healing.
This retreat is an invitation to slow down, reconnect—with yourself, your breath, and a supportive community—and emerge feeling refreshed, grounded, and deeply nourished.
Come as you are and leave feeling deeply rooted, open-hearted, and in full bloom.
Sacred Flower Meditation
Explore the wisdom and healing power of sacred flower medicine.
This flower has been a sacred tool for healing, insight, and connection for centuries. In this meditation, we honor it as a plant ally–one that supports deep introspection, emotional release, and expanded states of awareness. This practice is not about escape but about deepening your relationship with yourself, your body, and the present moment.
Sacred Flower Meditation is an energy practice. Sometimes it’s deeply restful, sometimes activating or emotional, sometimes psychedelic or mystical, but always transformative.
We begin by preparing the body with gentle movement and grounding breathwork, creating an intentional container for the experience. Before we consume, I will offer a blessing over the medicine and space, inviting you to do the same in a way that resonates with you. Once we consume, we'll breathe a little more and then you'll lie down comfortably to be guided through a body scan meditation. This is your time to relax, surrender, and allow the medicine to flow through your system.
To close, we’ll offer space for you to integrate and share any insights from your experience.
This is an energy practice so it is normal–and to be expected–to have any of the following:
crying or emotional release
shaking, twitching or buzzing of the limbs and body
spiritual or supernatural experiences
deep states of rest, relaxation/meditation
You will be guided through the entire experience. Please come with an open mind and a curious heart. Class will be followed by optional sauna to relax, incorporate and embody the experience.
Wim Hof Method Fundamentals
Put yourself in the expert hands of Bob Soulliere, a Level 2, Certified Wim Hof Method Instructor, to learn the 3 pillars of the Wim Hof Method: Breathing Technique, Cold Exposure and Commitment.
Whether you are looking to improve mental or physical performance, relieve symptoms related to an illness, or are just curious to find out what the Wim Hof Method is all about— a WHM workshop offers something for everyone.
The workshop will begin with an introduction to the Wim Hof Method. The Method will teach you how you can utilize oxygen and cold exposure to optimize body and mind, both in daily use, as well as for optimal athletic performance. You will learn the underlying physiology to the mechanics of breath and how exactly the breath and cold exposure can reduce inflammation, speed up the metabolism, and alter the pH of the blood to an alkaline state. You will embody how to activate and commit to a mindset, and empower yourself to take these tools out of the workshop and into your life.
In addition to the knowledge gained through instruction, you’ll get to experience a full Wim Hof Method breathing session and be guided through a cold plunge (not required, but encouraged!). At the end there is ample room for reflection, integration and additional information about how to incorporate these techniques into your daily goals.
Self as Sanctuary - a Microdosing Workshop
Local psychedelic community leaders Kat Hargreaves and Elizabeth Tuten of Sanctuary will join us for an afternoon of microdose education and inner exploration. An initiated medicine woman, Kat will share about the energy of the mushroom as a being with its own consciousness – its unique gifts and teachings, as well as the mushroom’s powerful potential for spiritual transformation. Elizabeth will speak to the neurological and behavioral impacts of microdosing, the dominant theories of how to do so most effectively, and how to determine dosing.
Kat will then lead the group through a life mapping exercise designed to identify what aspect of one’s being would be most supported by an intentional microdose protocol. We’ll share what came up for each of us in small groups, while each participant takes a turn speaking with Elizabeth to use applied kinesiology to determine their ideal strain and most supportive dose.
Future You Vivid Vision Workshop
A 3-Hour Group Journey for Transformative Awareness and Intention Setting
✨ Your Future You is waiting to be manifested at Awarehouse. ✨
The most successful people share one powerful habit: they start with a vision. They know that clarity and focus on the life they want to create are the first steps toward making it a physical reality. But often, this vision of the “future you” that is waiting to be manifested—is blocked by the noise of daily life, self-doubt, and old patterns.
This workshop is your invitation and opportunity to boldly step into the New Year with clarity, confidence, and purpose. The Future You Vivid Vision Workshop is your opportunity to leverage the grounded energy of Capricorn—its focus, discipline, and ambition—to design the life you want to live in 2025.
Imagine a life by your design - not through the default of what you’ve already known.
Through visualization, reflection, breathwork, and intention-setting, you’ll connect with your higher SELF, align with your inner wisdom, and create a plan to step boldly into the future.
When you get clear on your vision, the wisdom of your body and the universe co-conspire and become your greatest allies.
What You’ll Experience:
✨ Visualization Meditation
Begin by connecting with your “Future You.”
✨ Life Reflection
Explore your current reality in detail.
✨ Breathwork Session
Release the tension and any emotional weight of the past year to create the capacity of your future SELF.
✨ Intention Setting
From a grounded and centered energy in your body, you are now ready to align your vision and create a clear plan for 2025, rooted in purpose, joy, and discipline.
Ready to meet the best version of you? Join us at Awarehouse for this inclusive, transformative workshop.
The gift of presence: finding calm amid the holiday chaos
Join us in giving thanks with Awarehouse through integrating 2 powerful self-care practices. A journey to center yourself and embrace the present moment during a busy season. Through breathwork and sound healing we align our energy to ground, connect and move through the holiday season with true, calm presence.
Taurus Full Moon Breathwork Journey
Taurus Full Moon Breathwork Journey: Illuminating Shadows, Releasing Blocks, and Realigning with Your Core Values
Join us at Awarehouse for a transformative breathwork journey designed to bring clarity, healing, and release.
Taurus energy calls us to embody patience, persistence, beauty, and our core values, while the intensity of the Scorpio Sun shines a light on our shadows — the hidden blocks in our unconscious that block our embodiment.
Through this breathwork journey, you will be guided to:
• Ground into Taurus’ steady energy, cultivating patience and reconnecting with your core values.
• Illuminate the shadows bringing to light emotional and energetic blocks that keep you from experiencing life’s full beauty.
• Release what no longer serves, using breathwork as a gentle yet powerful tool to surface the unconscious patterns standing in the way of your growth.
• Align with the Full Moon’s intense light, harnessing this energy to create space for clarity, integration, and transformation.
Under the powerful illumination of the Taurus Full Moon during the intense energy of Scorpio season, allow breathwork to guide you through this potent time for healing, integration, and renewal.
$60 - Members $75- Non-members
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