The Center for Arts + Healing

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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04/13/2025

03/18/2025

02/22/2025

Today! 🪘✨

02/14/2025

✨SELF LOVE SATURDAY ✨

💕Saturday February 15 💕
3PM - 7PM

3-5pm
TEA + HERBAL SELF-LOVE KIT MAKING by

5-7pm
GUIDED DANCE JAM
By

THE CENTER
10202 Wommack Rd
(Studio across from Buddha Hall)

✨ Snacks + tea included ✨

REGISTRATION + INFO:::::
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🌿 ЗРM - 5PM
TEA, TALK + SELF-LOVE KIT MAKING (herbal bath, flower essence, energy clearing) + sound meditation✨🌿💕SUPPLIES INCLUDED✨by ($15-$25 sliding scale)

🕺🏻5PM - 7PM
GUIDED IMPROVISATION
INTO DANCE JAM by
($10-$15 sliding scale)

$20 - $35 for both!!! SLIDING SCALE FOR BOTH CLASSES.

Venmo to register!
(Link in Bio)
Venmo and comment:
💕self love kit
🕺🏻 dance
✨or both

🌼Please message us if this is cost prohibitive in any way. We want to spread the love💕

02/11/2025

It’s back!!!

01/25/2025

Call for Submissions: Toma Mi Corazón 2025

We’re excited to invite local artists to participate in Toma Mi Corazón, our annual community art exhibit and fundraiser!

To feature your artwork in the exhibit, please complete the Intent to Participate form in our website to confirm your interest and secure your spot.

Celebrate creativity and community with us while supporting La Peña’s educational programs!

01/06/2025

✨💜✨

Our 1st Women's Circle w/ The Center for Arts + Healing 🫶🏽

12/18/2024

🔥Awakening the inner fire🔥
A Winter Solstice Ceremony
SATURDAY, 12/21
6pm-7:30pm
Somatic movement + the healing resonance of sound + a Winter Solstice Despacho Ceremony. An opportunity to reconnect, restore and awaken your inner fire, transmuting what is ready to release and releasing what is ready to transform w/

The Center ATX
10202 Wommack Rd.
Austin, TX 78748

SATURDAY, 12/21
6pm-7:30pm

✨Ticket link in bio✨