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  • Bright Shadow Book Club

    The Bright Shadow Book Club is a space for people who don’t usually join book clubs - and who may be curious about how we navigate cycles of light and dark, risk and rest, love and loss, especially as they show up in relationship with the natural world.

    We alternate between online and in-person. Check the link below for free tickets to the next meet-up.

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  • Bright Shadow Yoga

    An opportunity to tend the nervous system through healthy stress, mindful pauses, and deepening our ability to understand the body’s language. Each class flows like a river's unfolding, contracting with effort (flow) and expanding into rest (yin). Our community rate is $10.

    Our next Yoga Pop-Up is July 21, 2026 7-8pm at the West Asheville Yoga studio.

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Bright Shadow has a face. To those of us who’ve spent our lives on the water, the heron is a familiar presence. You round the river bend, and there it is, fishing in the shallows, and then lifting off and gliding downstream. You catch up, and
She keeps going. #EarthDay
❄️ Winter is nothing if not shadow and light. In the depth of cold, ice, and snow, our inner landscapes can sometimes feel just as stark. Sommerville wrote the blog post, “Solstice Shadows” on the winter solstice, but its invitation - to
As this year winds down, we’re sitting with a tremendous amount of gratitude. Grateful for those who trusted Bright Shadow with their stories. For donors who believed in the work before it was polished. For collaborators who showed up with ope
It all comes back to Resources. This photo is from our last Headwaters Retreat, where our community explored the tools that help us move through the heavy seasons in life: internal center, external support, and the spiritual / transpersonal groundin
This is is what a Bright Shadow Headwaters Retreat looks like!! We are feeling infinite gratitude for: 🍁 Nine amazing participants showing up heart and soul. 🍁 @campgrier setting a beautiful and welcoming stage. 🍁 @saunahouseasheville deepening
Beauty is everywhere. In decay In fungus In the turn from long summer days into autumn’s edge In the anniversary of loss, and new depths found Bright Shadow Council is a space set aside to honor it all, to speak authentically and listen emphat