Supports flexibility, strength, and rest.

This 12 week class blends breath‑led, gentle flow with slow, supported deep stretches. Designed for all levels, offering variations so you can move with confidence, strengthen your foundation and meet yourself where you are.

Class begins with breathwork to invite awareness, slow gentle deep stretches and gradually builds up to soft, flowing sequence where each movement is guided by breath then settling into longer-held, resting poses. 

Led by Karla Vallecillo, Buscando Vida Wellness

The Soil of our Self
Led by Kamakshi Duvvuru

Hand in hand with 𝐙𝐨𝐫𝐚 𝐍𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧, we’ll follow ourselves down to the root, re-language ourselves in the soil of our self, finding words for what already lives within us.

We turn toward what exists beyond any external gaze, and toward what is felt before it can be named. Drawing from Hurston’s writing, particularly Their Eyes Were Watching God, and the ways her character Janie comes to recognize her innermost desires, we move closer to the root of our own inner language.

What is the soil of our self, the most root and granular language of our inside? Shall we string and adorn ourselves with it—“gleam it around” on the outside?

Join us for this Third Sunday Service offering as we gather in reflection, inquiry, and shared space.

Supports flexibility, strength, and rest.

This 12 week class blends breath‑led, gentle flow with slow, supported deep stretches. Designed for all levels, offering variations so you can move with confidence, strengthen your foundation and meet yourself where you are.

Class begins with breathwork to invite awareness, slow gentle deep stretches and gradually builds up to soft, flowing sequence where each movement is guided by breath then settling into longer-held, resting poses. 

Led by Karla Vallecillo, Buscando Vida Wellness

Sound in Me Now is a multi-media exhibition by Shin-Yiing Yeung (she/her) exploring sound, movement, and attention as lived, embodied practices.

Join us for the final public viewing hours of the exhibition. During this time, visitors are invited to move through the space at their own pace and spend time with the work in an open, self-guided environment before the exhibition closes.

Bring headphones to experience select works with sound.

Step into Shin-Yiing Yeung’s (she/her) practice through a guided workshop centered on drawing as a response to sound within her exhibition, Sound in Me Now.

Working with vinyl records, participants will create intuitive, gestural drawings shaped by listening, movement, and attention.

Drawing from Yeung’s use of jazz and spiritual jazz, as well as references to Earthrise and the Artemis II voyage, the workshop opens reflection on perspective, scale, and our place within a changing world.

This workshop is part of NorthStar’s 2026 Spotlight Exhibition Series.

All materials provided. Limited spots available.

RSVP here.

Sound in Me Now is a multi-media exhibition by Shin-Yiing Yeung (she/her) exploring sound, movement, and attention as lived, embodied practices.

During these open gallery hours, the church is available for visitors to move through the exhibition at their own pace and spend time with the work outside of a formal program.

Viewing Hours:
Friday, 6:30–8:30 PM
Sunday, 12–3 PM

Bring headphones to experience select works with sound.

Sound in Me Now is a multi-media exhibition by Shin-Yiing Yeung (she/her) exploring sound, movement, and attention as lived, embodied practices.

During these open gallery hours, the church is available for visitors to move through the exhibition at their own pace and spend time with the work outside of a formal program.

Viewing Hours:
Tuesday + Friday, 6:30–8:30 PM
Sunday, 12–3 PM

Bring headphones to experience select works with sound.

Supports flexibility, strength, and rest.

This 12 week class blends breath‑led, gentle flow with slow, supported deep stretches. Designed for all levels, offering variations so you can move with confidence, strengthen your foundation and meet yourself where you are.

Class begins with breathwork to invite awareness, slow gentle deep stretches and gradually builds up to soft, flowing sequence where each movement is guided by breath then settling into longer-held, resting poses. 

Led by Karla Vallecillo, Buscando Vida Wellness

Dive deeper into Sound in Me Now, Shin-Yiing Yeung’s (she/her) current exhibition, through a guided workshop exploring sound, listening, and embodied experience.

Participants will engage in Deep Listening, working with sound as vibration, sensation, and presence within a shared environment.

Held within NorthStar Church of the Arts, a former church for the deaf, the workshop also opens reflection on accessibility, perception, and the sensory possibilities of sound beyond hearing.

This workshop is part of NorthStar’s 2026 Spotlight Exhibition Series.

All materials provided. Limited spots available.

RSVP here.

Led by Ifasina Clear of Get Embodied Soul Movement

May’s First Sunday Service honors Zora Neale Hurston and the intellectual traditions embedded in folklore, conjure, and Black Southern cosmology.

Together we’ll reflect on the archives carried in memory, voice, and ritual and the wisdom our communities have preserved for generations.

Join us as we gather around the spirit of story.

Join us for the opening reception of Sound in Me Now, a solo exhibition by Shin-Yiing Yeung (she/her), presented as part of NorthStar’s 2026 Spotlight Exhibition Series.

The evening offers a first experience of the exhibition’s immersive installation, paintings, photographic works, and sculpture. Select works incorporate sound—bring headphones to engage with the full listening experience.

Come early to spend time with the work and enjoy food by culinary chef Hadassah Patterson.

RSVP here.

Led by People’s Kitchen Collective and rooted in Octavia E. Butler’s Parables series, the legacy of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and the diaspora of the global south, EARTH SEED centers a pilgrimage through California from present-day Los Angeles to Mendocino Woodlands, visiting people and places building models for survival and our collective future.

Enjoy a meal from Pure Soul Vegan with us as we screen the film and host a community conversation with local food justice orgs on lessons to take with us. Free to attend with RSVP, masks required and provided.

RSVP: https://www.paperlesspost.com/go/yzvWaEVSbdP4EmhxNBjGm

Learn more about PKC: peopleskitchencollective.com/earth-seed

In our final Sunday Service, we turn toward the visionary brilliance of Octavia E. Butler: speculative fiction writer, Afrofuturist oracle, and architect of imagined worlds rooted in transformation. Her Earthseed series taught us that “God is Change,” and that adaptation, vision, and community are our greatest tools in shaping the future.

This gathering invites us to close the year with reflection, ritual, and radical hope. Together, we’ll explore the power of imagining beyond the limits of the present—planting new seeds for the worlds we are building. With readings, grounding practices, and shared conversation, we’ll honor Butler’s legacy as a prophet of possibility and draw on her wisdom to guide us into a new chapter.

Come rest, imagine, and remember:
“All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you.”

Supports flexibility, strength, and rest.

This 12 week class blends breath‑led, gentle flow with slow, supported deep stretches. Designed for all levels, offering variations so you can move with confidence, strengthen your foundation and meet yourself where you are.

Class begins with breathwork to invite awareness, slow gentle deep stretches and gradually builds up to soft, flowing sequence where each movement is guided by breath then settling into longer-held, resting poses. 

Led by Karla Vallecillo, Buscando Vida Wellness

Supports flexibility, strength, and rest.

This 12 week class blends breath‑led, gentle flow with slow, supported deep stretches. Designed for all levels, offering variations so you can move with confidence, strengthen your foundation and meet yourself where you are.

Class begins with breathwork to invite awareness, slow gentle deep stretches and gradually builds up to soft, flowing sequence where each movement is guided by breath then settling into longer-held, resting poses. 

Led by Karla Vallecillo, Buscando Vida Wellness

Supports flexibility, strength, and rest.

This 12 week class blends breath‑led, gentle flow with slow, supported deep stretches. Designed for all levels, offering variations so you can move with confidence, strengthen your foundation and meet yourself where you are.

Class begins with breathwork to invite awareness, slow gentle deep stretches and gradually builds up to soft, flowing sequence where each movement is guided by breath then settling into longer-held, resting poses. 

Led by Karla Vallecillo, Buscando Vida Wellness

Supports flexibility, strength, and rest.

This 12 week class blends breath‑led, gentle flow with slow, supported deep stretches. Designed for all levels, offering variations so you can move with confidence, strengthen your foundation and meet yourself where you are.

Class begins with breathwork to invite awareness, slow gentle deep stretches and gradually builds up to soft, flowing sequence where each movement is guided by breath then settling into longer-held, resting poses. 

Led by Karla Vallecillo, Buscando Vida Wellness

This month, Sunday Service honors the life, legacy, and living wisdom of Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray: poet, priest, lawyer, and architect of liberation. In collaboration with the Pauli Murray Center, we invite you into a sacred reflection on Murray’s lifelong commitment to justice, and their powerful refusal to be defined by the constraints of the world they inherited.

Born in Durham, Pauli Murray spent a lifetime challenging the systems that sought to erase them. From pioneering legal strategies that laid the groundwork for civil rights victories to becoming the first Black person assigned female at birth to be ordained in the Episcopal Church, Murray’s journey is one of prophetic courage, complexity, and devotion to truth.

Together, we will explore the theme of naming - how we name ourselves, our struggles, and the futures we long for. Through storytelling, spiritual grounding, and collective honoring, we will trace the ripple effects of Pauli’s work and reflect on how we too can be visionaries of a freer world.

Join us in lifting up a hometown ancestor whose life continues to shape what is possible.

Supports flexibility, strength, and rest.

This 12 week class blends breath‑led, gentle flow with slow, supported deep stretches. Designed for all levels, offering variations so you can move with confidence, strengthen your foundation and meet yourself where you are.

Class begins with breathwork to invite awareness, slow gentle deep stretches and gradually builds up to soft, flowing sequence where each movement is guided by breath then settling into longer-held, resting poses. 

Led by Karla Vallecillo, Buscando Vida Wellness

Supports flexibility, strength, and rest.

This 12 week class blends breath‑led, gentle flow with slow, supported deep stretches. Designed for all levels, offering variations so you can move with confidence, strengthen your foundation and meet yourself where you are.

Class begins with breathwork to invite awareness, slow gentle deep stretches and gradually builds up to soft, flowing sequence where each movement is guided by breath then settling into longer-held, resting poses. 

Led by Karla Vallecillo, Buscando Vida Wellness