The Center for Arts + Healing

04/06/2026

Join us for a free intro session of Roots of Resilience™.

✨ No experience needed
🗓 Thurs April 9th @ 6:30 PM CST
💻 Online via Zoom
🎟 Free (registration link in bio)

• somatic practice
• breathwork + sound
• reflection + community connection

✨This is a free intro and PREVIEW to a special upcoming 10-week Roots of Resilience community learning circle container with special guests✨ preview in slides✨

Whether you’re a parent, a nurse, a tía/ tio, a mental health therapist, or someone carrying a lot right now, this hour is yours 🙌🏽

No experience necessary. No cost for this session. 🌿RSVP link in Bio🌿

Join Crystal L Peña & learn all about Roots of Resilience™. It’s her first time sharing this offering completely open to the public.

✨Register even if you cannot attend live to receive the recording. ✨Link in Bio ✨

12/18/2025

✨ Tomorrow ✨

Come join the circle and let us tell you a story.

Come Let Us Tell You a Story... - https://mailchi.mp/e76a6725d098/summer-groups-events-12850741

12/17/2025

✨ You’re invited: A very special Winter Solstice ritual + storytelling circle ✨

You are welcome to bring your creative voice through song, movement, spoken word, visual arts or any combination…. or come be a witness as the stories unfold.

🔥 Dec 20, 2025 🔥
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM CST

📍DAWA HQ
916 Springdale Rd Bld 4, Ste 109,
Austin, TX 78702, USA

🎫 ticket link in bio

12/05/2025

Join us for a Winter Solstice Ritual & Storytelling Circle. You are welcome to bring a song, poem, story, dance/movement or anything else you’d like to share. 🤍

Winter Solstice and New Year's Offerings - https://mailchi.mp/0cf10fb8b701/summer-groups-events-12850615

10/28/2025

🌿 Self-Limpia Circle 🌿
~ Día de los Mu***os edition ~
An intimate ceremonial gathering

On this sacred day of remembrance and renewal, we gather in ceremony with cacao, water, fire, and plants to cleanse and restore balance.

This circle is a living ritual to release what’s ready, while being held by the love and memory of those who continue to guide you.

All materials provided. Each participant will also receive a small take-home cleansing kit to continue the ritual at home.

✨ A ceremony of remembrance, gratitude, and gentle renewal✨

📅 Date: Friday Nov 1
🕯️ Location: South Austin
✨ 8 spots only ✨

🔆Message to Register
✨Once you register, you’ll receive address and preparation details.

10/08/2025

04/22/2025

04/17/2025

Join me for this labor of love ~ bringing together 17 years as a mental health therapist in acute crisis settings, 10+ years of study with indigenous elders and holistic and embodied approaches to healing. This is an intro to a longer training offered to groups and organizations that want to create inclusive and resilient spaces that consider the mental health of those they serve and employ.

Whether you are:
In need of a restorative experience? Want to see if our daylong workshop would be a good fit for your org? Are Interested in decolonized approaches to mental health and healing? Want to feel more empowered on your healing journey?

Join us this Saturday 🌿. ✨✨11am - 1 pm ✨✨

⭐️ Ticket link in bio ⭐️

Join me for a 2 hour online session designed to gently guide you back to the strength and wisdom within you.

We’ll explore:
✨ Somatic practices from Trauma First Aid*
✨ Practices from the traditions of Mexico & the Andes
✨ Ancestral resiliency reconnection practices

You’ll receive:
🌿Tools to support and regulate your nervous system
🌿 Practices to help prevent long-term trauma
🌿 Strategies you can use in your workplace or at home when supporting others

You’ll leave feeling grounded, resourced, and more at ease in your body.

Tickets available now ~ link in bio!

Accessible pricing available. Message for scholarship or accommodation support. ✨🌿✨

Instructor:

Crystal L. Peña is a visionary in holistic well-being and community building through cultural arts practices. Based in Austin, TX, she is an experienced psychotherapist and trauma-informed somatic arts facilitator. Crystal creates transformative healing experiences. Crystal also consults and trains locally and internationally. A graduate of the Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine and Health Justice, she is currently pursuing a PhD focused on culturally responsive integrative mental health and wellness.

04/17/2025

🌿 Join us this Saturday 🌿 ✨✨11am - 1 pm ✨✨

⭐️ Ticket link in bio ⭐️

Join me for a 2 hour online session designed to gently guide you back to the strength and wisdom within you.

We’ll explore:
✨ Somatic practices from Trauma First Aid
✨ Wisdom from the traditions of Mexico & the Andes
✨ Ancestral resiliency reconnection practices

You’ll receive:
🌿Tools to support and regulate your nervous system
🌿 Practices to help prevent long-term trauma
🌿 Strategies you can use in your workplace or at home when supporting others

You’ll leave feeling grounded, resourced, and more at ease in your body.

Tickets available now ~ link in bio!

Accessible pricing available. Message for scholarship or accommodation support. ✨🌿✨

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