**Inner Space KC needs your support to deepen our roots and sustain our vision of holistic community care in the heart of the midwest!**

Donate to our campaign — every dollar will help keep this community alive, thriving, and growing.
Share our story — please send this link out as widely as you can across every network. Make sure to share why this vision moves you: the more personal, specific and heart-felt, the better! Use this link to access a sample email you can use or modify to share with your folks.
Hold our vision in your heart — please make a small offering from your heart at an altar or natural space with prayers and intentions for the growth, foundation and deep resourcing of Inner Space.

Want to learn more? Read on!

Photo by Tia Daubas

For over 10 years Inner Space has been a gathering place for thousands of students across every walk of life, offering home and hearth for artists, healers, practitioners, parents, caregivers, creators, business leaders. Our classes are uniquely tailored to the needs of everyone who shows up, from beginners to seasoned experts.

The way we see it?

We’re a living, breathing community hub.
A sanctuary for bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits to gather, connect, and replenish.
A place where movement flows, hearts open, and futures are reimagined.
A project powered by love, sweat, and the belief that everyone deserves a space to rest and root, because taking care of ourselves and each other is how we create community.
And community is how we create the more peaceful, earth-honoring, human-supporting world our hearts so dearly want.

We are also the home campus for a diverse collective of 12+ local businesses, all LGBTQ, BIPOC and/or woman-owned, which makes us a radical experiment in what it means to do business differently, in a way that creates and sustains community.

Under the stewardship of Community Movement LLC, a queer and POC-owned organization with a vision for regenerative, land-based economies, we are planting the seeds for a future where community care is the bottom line.

Now, we’re asking for your support to raise $60,000 so Inner Space can thrive for many generations to come.

Photos by Nick Lombardo

This summer, we're asking for $60,000 to help us strengthen our foundation, empower our stewardship and support the continued flourishing of our growing community of healing, learning and practice. This campaign is about so much more than money — it's about the sacred responsibility to this magical space. You can invest in this gathering place, launchpad, and refuge for those pushed to the margins. You can support the vision of a QT/POC-led team committed to reimagining movement, business, and community in ways that sustain our bodies, relationships, and the planet.

And, your investment makes you a part of our growing community!

Why Your Gift Matters

This isn’t just about keeping the lights on or paying our rent. This is about transforming how we grow together.

Every dollar will go directly towards stabilizing our financial foundation, restructuring our current debt, reinforcing the infrastructure that holds our community together, creating room to grow without compromising our principles of fair and equitable pay or risking burnout.

This is the groundwork for a future where community-owned spaces can thrive beyond survival.

Your contributions will support us in:

Restructuring our debt to give Inner Space room to breathe and build sustainably
Protecting the space we hold for LGBTQ and BIPOC-affirming wisdom and wellness practices
Cultivating collective leadership by facilitating support circles, ongoing trainings, retreats and community events for our teachers, students and staff
Empowering 12+ local businesses under our roof — from herbalists to energy healers, aestheticians to protective braiding experts
Investing in a regenerative business model that prioritizes people over profit
Stewarding our land and space for the benefit of community and planet

Who We Are

Founded by senior teacher Laura Frank, in 2013, Inner Space KC was purchased in 2023 by Community Movement LLC, a QT/POC-owned and operated collective co-stewarded by Briar Rose Penney and Eric Kobesak, dedicated to radically reimagining what community care can look like.

We're rooted in authentic animism and earth-based wisdom, community organizing, land-based stewardship and regenerative economics. Every class, every gathering, every breath inside Inner Space is a regenerative act to replenish and restore ourselves, not just for individuals, but for our neighborhoods, our relationships, and the planet.

Your Community Gathers Here!

With the support of our growing community, we host:

Daily yoga, martial arts, and holistic movement classes
Continuing education, trainings, and practitioner meet-ups
Local artist markets, pop-ups, and workshops
Small businesses owned by Kansas City’s dreamers and doers
Mutual aid efforts and community healing events

And this is just the beginning!

With your support, we'll be able to:

Sustain and expand access to restorative practices for underserved communities
Support our growing collective of LGBTQ,BIPOC & women-led small businesses
Continue growing as a container for radical, inclusive, and empowering gatherings
Deepen our commitment to the Earth through regenerative stewardship
Share from our transformation and triumphs as an act of economic justice

Rooted in Purpose

As lineage keepers for a microcosm of ancient wisdom traditions, we understand that money is energy. We’re not just asking you to open your wallets, but your hearts, to invest in the dream and the reality of healing and transformation as a communal process. When you support our campaign, you invest in a sanctuary where people are safe to show up fully and authentically themselves — in grief and joy, in movement and stillness.

We believe in radical inclusion, economic justice, and disrupting the systems that keep us sick, divesting from the culture of domination to invest in one that heals the rifts between hearts and minds, bodies and planet.

When we come together in united purpose, we weave legacies of care for all of our descendants.

We know you get it. Now, we need you to act.

Support Inner Space: Three Ways to Back Our Vision

Donate to our campaign — every dollar will help keep this community alive, thriving, and growing.
Share our story — please send this link out as widely as you can across every network.
Hold our vision in your heart — please make a small offering from your heart at an altar or natural space with prayers and intentions for the growth, foundation and deep resourcing of Inner Space.

Photos by Nick Lombardo

Support Tiers

1. Community Supporter — $100+

Complimentary 5 Class Package
A heartfelt thank-you from our team
A gratitude offering made at our community altar on your behalf
Your name listed on our digital “Wall of Gratitude” on our website
Early access to select special classes and events

2. Movement Maker — $300+

All Community Supporter benefits, plus:
Complimentary 20 Class Package
A limited-edition Inner Space movement playlist curated by our teachers
Invitation to an exclusive virtual gathering with the QT/POC leadership team
A 10% discount on all workshops for one year

3. Vision Keeper — $1,000+

All Movement Maker benefits, plus:
Complimentary 1 Year Unlimited Membership
Your name (or business name) prominently featured in our annual printed directory
1 x 90 min Private movement session or small group class with a senior teacher
A handcrafted gift inspired by our community values
Invitation to a special backer appreciation event

Become a Steward of the Future

If you've ever needed time, space, care, community, meaning, movement, beauty, breath, then you already understand the value of Inner Space (and other spaces like us!). Together, we make space for transformation. With your support, we can feed the growing movement that moves us all.

Let’s build a future together where healing is accessible, business is regenerative, and community is sacred.

Give in all the ways you can. Share if it moves you. Be a part of the future we’re growing. Help protect this sacred space for generations to come. Thank you for being a part of this movement.

Thank you for moving with us!

With deep gratitude,

The Inner Space KC & Community Movement Family

Briar, Eric (& Rio)

Photo by Tia Daubas

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