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The Interwoven Institute, Brewster, MA (2025)

09/22/2025

Craft in community is powerful. It’s a way to amplify the joy of making with our hands. ✨

Contemplative craft in community builds on this joy and helps us to deepen our connection to ourselves, each other, and our making practice through gentle guided practice.

We are thrilled to be offering what we hope to be an ongoing monthly Mindful Knitting Series at The Center for the Spiritual Journey in Chatham, MA.

Through this gathering, you will not only walk away with ideas about how to incorporate mindfulness into your own knitting, you will also have a unique opportunity to experience what it feels like to practice and connect through knitting in community. Please bring any yarn and any needles you have.
You will best enjoy this gathering if you possess the basic knitting skills of cast-on, knit stitch, purl stitch, and casting off. No previous experience with mindfulness or meditation is required. Tea will be served.

Suggested Donation: $25 🙏

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Upcoming Circles:

🧶 Wed Oct 22nd 6:30-8pm
🧶 Wed Nov 19th 6:30-8pm

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09/15/2025

This is a journey to reclaim connection to ourselves, each other, and the earth through the exploration and practice of mindfulness and craft.

Part travel, part retreat, part creative journey - this trip invites you into the world of Mexican heritage craft in a new way.

On this small, intimate trip, we will visit artisan groups and see craft in context of land, culture, and process by integrating the practices of being at once deeply rooted to where we are, and allowing ourselves the creative freedom to explore new worlds with openness and awe.

✨ If you long to wander -
✨ If you’re looking for community -
✨ If you’re curious about mindfulness -

Then consider joining us this February.
$250 discount if you register by Fri. 9/15!

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09/04/2025

Looking for a weekend stay-cation, Cape Cod?

Our first retreat is coming up in a few weeks. We are so thrilled to be offering this creative contemplative experience in partnership with Nicole Cormier, RD, LDN of who will be preparing delicious meals made fresh with local ingredients.

Rooms are now sold out, but limited commuter spots are still available.

Link to register in bio.

✨And YES you will learn how to weave your very own quahog during this retreat!✨

BE with yourself.
BE with place.
BE with your creativity.

BE with October 2-5

09/01/2025

Fall is in the air, along with all the quintessential imagery and reflections of change, transition, and quieting.

Starting a sweater project just as the earth begins to tilt away from the sun and the smell and sounds of fall permeate the day is… well, it is as central a ritual as any one can imagine as a fiber artist.

Knitting can be a very very slow that spans multiple seasons. Today, we are practicing with what it feels like to reduce complexity so that a project can be contained to this period of transition.

✨ What might it feel like to say, “I’m complete”?

✨ How can we offer ourselves permission to go smaller, simpler?

✨ How might the container of one project allow us to track the loose energy that seems to always be swirling about?

Stay tuned.

Yarn: Franca - hule 100% merino by

Pattern: Augustins no. 4 by .dk

Landscape: Brewster, MA on Wampanoag land

Maker: Sarah

Commuter space is still available for:

Creative BEing: A Contemplative Craft Retreat
Oct 2-5 | Wellfleet, MA

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08/25/2025

✨Craft can save the world (it’s true!)✨

In a world where we have become terribly disconnected from ourselves, each other, and the earth - making physical material things with our own two hands is a powerful pathway for reconnection, healing, and joy.

✨Making things is a part of our human experience.
✨It’s how we craft relationship to the world around us.

No matter what it is you make, your practice is a powerful pathway leading us back into understanding ourselves as deeply interdependent with each other and the landscapes we occupy.

Want to learn more? is dedicated to exploring and sharing how craft can reweave ourselves back into the fabric of this world.

Our Offerings:

🌱 Mindful Craft Workshops
🌱 Creative Contemplative Retreats
🌱 Slow Travel Experiences
🌱 Craft-based Inquiry & Research

Visit our website (www.theinterwoveninstitute.org) for upcoming retreats, trips and workshops.

08/21/2025

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” Anita Desai

Experience a way to travel that honors *the time it takes to do things deeply**. That allows for people and places to take root in you…

This winter, join on a retreat-travel-making adventure to the Valley where we will experience the intersection of heritage craft, mindfulness practice, and connection to place in a 5-night, 6-day small-group experience.

We will particularly focus on artisanal textiles and pottery - and how both are profoundly intertwined with history, culture, and landscape.

The Experience:

🌱Artisan workshop visits
🌱Daily mindfulness practice
🌱Beautiful sustainable lodging
🌱Delicious Local Food
🌱Small Group of Travellers (8 max)

Full Trip Details & Costs at our website (link in bio)

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$250 Early Registration Discount until Sept. 19
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08/17/2025

There are spaces and places where the material world becomes entwined with the spiritual; where aliveness and creativity are kin. In this space, the boundaries between things are softened and possibilities are illuminated. This space is the landscape of , our chosen biosphere where craft and contemplation germinate ideas for new futures where flourishing can be possible.

Learn more about our mission to reclaim connection through craft and contemplative practice at our website (link in bio).

Commuter spots still remain for Creative Being Contemplative Craft retreat in Wellfleet, MA Oct. 2-5. We’d love for you to join is.

08/12/2025

Since launching last week, a number of newcomers have joined this growing community so I thought I’d (re)introduce myself!

I’m Sarah, founder and director of TII. I am born and raised on where I had the privilege of growing up in close relationship to beach, forest, and marsh.

I have always loved making things with my hands from the world around me, and like many, it was my grandmother who taught me to knit. Early on, I delighted in the connection between sheep and sweater 🐑.

I lived in Africa for many years working on the back end of artisanal and ethical supply chains for fashion brands include in . I fell in love with textiles, but felt dissatisfied with the way brands were navigating the environmental impacts of the industry. It seemed to me that MUCH more needed to be done than simply change how things are made. This sparked a journey for me between the relationship with our clothes and the way we wish to live in the world - and what that could mean for producing things.

I am also a dedicated mindfulness practitioner in the Plum Village tradition of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, and was ordained into the Order of Interbeing in 2023. This relationship to practice, alongside an MA from in Nature-Culture Sustainability Studies ignited a passion in me for the intersection of craft, spiritual practice, and our ecological reconnection.

After many years away, I’m thrilled to be back home in and living in an antique house built in 1795 with my fiancé, dog, and ALL of our Chinese wisteria (ugh). I am looking forward to this journey as a chance to share, learn, and expand my relationship to this work ❤️

08/05/2025

Registration is now OPEN for our first public retreat.

This October, join us as we explore the relationship between making things with our hands, mindfulness/meditation practice, and the beauty of the natural world.

An all-inclusive experience:

🌱 4 days and 3 nights
🌱 Lodging in a beachfront historic Wellfleet house
🌱 Wonderful local food by
🌱 Workshop on mindful/contemplative craft
🌱 Guided mindfulness & meditation practices
🌱 Connection and community with others

This retreat is meant for anyone who finds joy and inspiration in art, presence, and nature.

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✨$100 early bird discount until 8/15✨
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☝️Learn more and register via link in bio☝️

Questions? Reach out to us. Info@theinterwoveninstitite.org

08/04/2025

We are thrilled to introduce The Interwoven Insitute, a fledgling nonprofit dedicated to mending the profound disconnection with the material world, our own bodies, each other, and our planet.

We believe making things with our hands is a power (re)membering intervention and a pathway to personal and spiritual healing.

Located on Cape Cod, we offer:

🌱 Contemplative Craft Workshops & Classes

🌱 Retreats & Travel to explore mindfulness & craft

🌱 Craft-based research and inquiry projects

our VISION is to live in a world where interdependence is understood as the foundation of our human experience, and mutual flourishing is embraced as the guiding practice of our lives.

Follow us for announcements of upcoming retreats, programs, and collaboration opportunities.

08/01/2025

What a wonderful event. Southeastern New England Fibershed is building a landscape of healthy fiber systems - and creating joyful community along the way. Proud to be a member!

07/27/2025

Still smiling from the morning we spent visiting and taking a walk through the woods with their delightful Finn sheep flock.

So inspired by the way Sam and Matt are dedicated to stewarding this small farm in a way that blends such clear love of place, beings, and community.

Also - BONUS that we got to purchase some of their amazing Cape Cod Sea Salt AND local honey. Fills me with joy to get to connect with other Cape Codders who are modeling the possibilities that exist for us all to reconnect to place.

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