Welcome to LOVE LANGUAGE, a community workshop that aims to cultivate a deep understanding and practice of self-love and self-care. It incorporates shadow work, breath work, and Indigenous spiritual practices, particularly focusing on the concept of Asé, an African philosophical and spiritual principle signifying life force, power, and authority.

What's shadow work? In Jung's psychology, the shadow represents the negative (dark) side of the ego. In other words, it represents the ethical aspects which are rejected by the ego and which are projected in other persons as belonging to them. The assimilation of the shadow means the acknowledgment of these moral deficiencies as being part of our own personality. The shadow can appear in dreams in the form of close people - friends, relatives, and work colleagues - who exhibit immoral behavior traits from our point of view. For example, a person with alcoholic or misanthropic inclinations can incarnate our own inclinations of this type and show up in our dream as a known character - friend or a relative. His presence in our dream makes us uncomfortable and we automatically reject him/her as undesirable.

Programming will include physical activity such as breath work and other movement. It is recommended you wear comfortable and flexible clothing. If you have a yoga mat, please bring one. If you do not have a mat, one will be rented out to you for the duration of the workshop. Street parking available. Do not park in the back parking lot.

If you want to participate, please sign a waiver here. Waiver for minors (under 18) here. Space is determined on a first come, first serve basis. *RSVP does not guarantee entry.

When: Saturday September 21st, 1:00-5:00PM

Where: The WalkGood Yard (4019 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90036)

What to expect: shadow work, group discussion and sharing, journaling, breath work, meditation.

About United Against Hate Week

United Against Hate Week is a call for local civic action to stop the hate, discrimination and implicit biases that negatively impact our diverse communities, neighborhoods and cities.

This year, United Against Hate Week (UAHW) will take place in LA County and across California between September 21 and 27, where residents, community organizations and government agencies from across the state band together and take action to stop the hate that threatens our communities.

https://www.lavshate.org/uahw

9/21: Love Language

a donation-based workshop on the practice of self-love and self-care, presented by Rob McGowan, LA vs. Hate, & WalkGood LA